... Mr. Ewing traces his ancestry back to the historic Scotch-Irish. During the turbulent times of the American Revolution, in the summer of 1777, just before the crowning event to American arms - the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga - Patrick Ewing, with his family, came to America and settled in Cecil county, Maryland, near Lord Baltimore's town. An incident that occurred at this time is related, which illustrates a trait of the Ewings, familiar to all who know them. While they are slow to forget an injury, real or imaginary, they are mindful of a favor or friendly service, and will even go out of the way to pay it back. This is characteristic of the family, and if not too far fetched, the trait may be proved to be hereditary, by this incident. Upon the arrival of the family in America, General Israel Putnam had extended some courtesy, whereupon the elder Ewing named a baby boy that had been born on the water, during the voyage, Putnam, and the name has descended to the present generation, and the kindness of General Putnam, the hero of the continental fame, has never been forgotten in this family. This namesake of the noted general, Putnam Ewing, married Jennie McLellan, near Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1806, removed to Bourbon county, Kentucky, where he died in 1848, aged seventy-one years. ...
