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Persoonlijke gegevens James Patrick Calhoun 

• Hij is geboren op 23 december 1688 in Newton Stewart, Tyrone, Ireland.Bron 1
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1741 in Chestnut Level, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, hij was toen 52 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Alexander Calhoun en Judith Hamilton

Gezin van James Patrick Calhoun

Hij is getrouwd met Catherine Montgomery.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1713, hij was toen 24 jaar oud.Bron 1

Kind(eren):

1. Mary Catherine Calhoun  1714-1756
2. James Calhoun  1716-1760
3. Ezekiel Calhoun  1720-1762 
4. William Caldwell Calhoun  1724-1790 
5. Thomas Patrick Calhoun  1727-1796 

Notities over James Patrick Calhoun

Following the death of Alexander, Catherine remarried in 1713, County Donegal, Ireland to James Patrick Calhoun (1688 Crosh House, Newtown-Stewart, County Tyrone, Ireland- 1741 Chestnut Level, Lancaster Co,. PA.), son of Rev. Alexander Calhoun and Lady Judith Hamilton. In Ireland the Calhoun's spelled their name Colhoun (Colquhoun in some records) before moving to the states. Patrick and Catherine took their children to America, in 1733, after her Stewart children were grown. They landed either in New York or Philadelphia and moved to Lancaster Co, PA, where they settled in the Chestnut Level Area. Around 1748, sometime after Patrick's death, Catherine moved her family to some new lands that were opening up in Augusta Co, Virginia. In 1755 the Indians became more active and Catherine moved again to the Long Cane Creek Area of Abbeville, South Carolina. They moved in the middle of winter and got there in Feb. 1756. The place for a while was called North & South Forks of Calhoun Creek, where it joined the little river. They were 16 miles from the nearest Indian settlement. They thought that they would be safe there. The morning of January 31, 1760 a messenger came through the little settlement and told them that the Indians were on the warpath and moving toward their area. The afternoon of January 31st and the morning of February 1st were spent loading wagons and getting provisions ready to move out. About noon on February 1st, some 200 to 250 settlers moved out for Augusta, GA a larger town about 40 miles southeast of their location. They had only gone about 10 miles when in crossing the Long Canes Creek several wagons got stuck. By the time they had all the wagons across the creek it was dark so they camped for the night. Soon after dark they were attacked by a band of Cherokee Indians. Some of the settlers escaped by horseback, some on foot, but most of them scattered finding shelter in the trees or where ever they could hide. Mostly women and children were killed as 23 settlers were left dead at the sight of the massacre. The Indians had burned all the wagons and nearly all the goods had been stolen. In the group that were killed, Catherine Montgomery Stewart Calhoun was also murdered by these Cherokee Indians. She was 76 years of age at her death. A monument to these people with her name on it was erected there in the 1790's by Catherine's son Patrick Calhoun. Two small girls ages 3 and 5 of the Calhoun's were abducted by the Indians, one eventually got back to her folks, but one was never heard from again.
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