Alexander COLQUHOUN



HUSBAND:
[F8832]. (Sir) Alexander COLQUHOUN. Lord of Tullichewan Colquhoun
Born (in 1593-S7)(1599-S8,S14)(about 1599-S10)(about 1603) in Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; son of Alexander COLQUHOUN [F17664] and Margaret Helen BUCHANAN [F17665]..

He inherited the property of Tillyquhoun (Tullichewan, Tulliechewan), where his descendants resided.

He married Marion STIRLING [F8833] (about 1630-S7)(in SEP 1631-S8,S10) in Scotland.

The following record is found in the Canongate Register of Marriages 1600-1631: COLQUHOUN (CALHOUNE, CAHOUN), Mr. Alexander, brother germane to the Laird of Luss, and Marioun, dochter lawfull to Robert STIRLING of Lotter, and dochter ot Jeane GOWTRIE, who was dochter to Mr. Alexander GOUTRIE, commendator clerk of Edinburgh, mar. in our Kirk Chapell of Holyrudhous be Mr. Johne TENNENT, parsone of Calder Saturday, 30 July 1631. {S14}.

He died in Tullichewan, Scotland and was buried in Dunbarton, Scotland.

He died on 18 June 1632 at Tulliechewan, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; about age 33. {S13,S14}. NOTE: This means that he probably did not have sons John and William.



WIFE:
[F8833]. Marion STIRLING (STERLING).
She married (Sir) Alexander COLQUHOUN [F8832] (about 1630-S7)(in SEP 1631) in Scotland. {S1,S4}. What happened to her after the death of her husband in 1632?

CHILDREN of (Sir) Alexander COLQUHOUN [F8832] and Marion STIRLING [F8833]:
  1. Jean Colquhoun. Born about 1632. Christened in 1632.
  2. [F4416]. (Sir) John COLQUHOUN. Born in 1632 in Tullichewan, Scotland. He and his brother William were taken prisoners in the battle of Dunbar; were shipped as indentured servants to America on the ship Unity. He is confused with his uncle, the first Baronet of Nova Scotia, Canada. He is said to have died in Canada in 1647, but is also said to have died on the way to America in 1650. There was another John Colquhoun who was captured 3 September 1651 at the Battle of Worcester, England; and shipped aboard the John & Sarah from Gravesend, Kent, England on either 8 or 11 November 1651, arriving in February 1652 in Boston, Massachusetts. On the ship's records, his name is misspelled as John Coehon, but is corrected by the receivers in Boston to Colquhoun. List of Servants (Scottish prisoners) sent to Thomas Kemble of Charles Town, New England, on the John & Sara of London. Registered at the Search office, Gravesend, on November 8, 1651. Letters to Mr. Thomas Kemble and Capt. John Greene dated November 11, 1651, consign prisoners and freight to be disposed of by Thomas Kemble in New England or, by further consignment along with "provisions & such other things as are in N. E. fit for the West Jndies", by Mr. Charles Rich in Barbados, from Jo: Beex, Robert Rich, and William Greene. Letters entered and recorded by Edward Rawson recorder, on May 13, 1652, at the request of Thomas Kemble. Statement of goods entered and recorded by Edward Rawson, recorder, on May 14, 1652, also at the request of Thomas Kemble. On 31 March 1656 he married Rebecca Short, widow of Richard Man. Between his arrival in Boston and his marriage to Rebecca, he worked on the prison ship between Boston and the Barbados for the four years, transporting prisoners. When he settled in Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts he seems to have taken the name COWEN but his children and grandchildren seem often to have preferred the spelling COWING.
  3. William Cahoone/Colquhoun. Born in 1633 in Tullichewan, Scotland. Some say this is the William who married Deliverance (Dependence-S14) Peck in 1662 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. {S8}. This seems rather late in his life, about 12 years after arriving in the new world. This needs more proof/disproof. S13 Says: William Colquhoun/Cahoon was sent as an indentured servant to America after he and his brother John became prisoners in the battle of Dunbar. He was the son of Alexander Colquhoun the 17th of Colquhoun and 19th of Luss (the younger brother of John Colquhoun who was exiled to Italy because he ran off with his wife's sister.) William's older brother John was killed en route to America, but William lived and had sons. He arrived (about 1651-S14) on the ship Unity, having been shipped by Cromwell after the Battle of Dunbar, to serve for seven years in the bog iron mines at Saugus and Taunton. He was killed in the King Philip's War, on 22 June 1675 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts.


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