4Gentleman’s Magazine 36 (1766), 582.

5 Mackenzie, History of Galloway, I, 236.

6 Leyburn, The Scotch-Irish: A Social History, 148.

7 Arthur W. Calhoun, The American Family, the Colonial Period (rpt. New York, 1960), 207.

8 A. S. Salley, “The Grandfather of John C. Calhoun,” SCHGM 39 (1938), 50.