Person:Jane Ewing (5)

CHAPTER XXII EWING / FRAZIER / GILLESPIE / PORTER FAMILIES INTRODUCTION TO A CLUSTER OF EWING/FRAZIER/GILLESPIE/PORTER FAMILIES ALONG THE BORDER OF LITTLE BRITAIN TWP. LANCASTER CO. PA AND OCTORARO HUNDRED, CECIL CO. MD (1729-1742)

Jean/Jane Ewing married ca 1743/4 Ezekiel Calhoun in Chestnut Level, Little Britain twp. Lancaster Co., PA. One of their descendants insists that Jane/Jean was born in PA tho others say Ireland and N.J. Ezekiel Calhoun is proven to have been the son of Patrick Calhoun and Catherine Montgomery. There is little doubt as to the mother, Catherine, being with her son and his family for she was scalped in 1761 while some of them watched, horrified. It occurred in Abbeville Co., S.C. Jean/Jane Ewing and Ezekiel Calhoun went from Chestnut Level in Lancaster Co., PA to Virginia with Ezekiel’s three brothers, Patrick (Jr.) Calhoun, James Calhoun and Will. Calhoun. On Jan 24, 1755 they witnessed the sale in Lunenberg Co., Va. of land of Robert and Mary (Baker) Ewing i.e.,160 acres on Glade creek of Roanoke River, to Benjamin Sterrett. Augusta Co., Va. Deed Book 7,182-7 (I have a copy.) Robert was granted a Patent 15 Dec 1749. Robert received £35 for it and Mary released her Dower Right. Robert and Charles Ewing went with Cecil Co. Ewings to Virginia.