Our Ancestor...

William Colquhoun (Pronounced Ca-hoon) was perhaps the first Cahoon to come to the colonies. He was from Dunbartonshire, Scotland. His descendant live all across the US. They have variations on the surname with the most common being, Cahoon, Calhoun, Cahoone, Cohoon, Colhoon, Colquhoun and Calhoun.

Inscription of the plaque above:

Near this spot stood
The Cahoon Brickworks
from 1673-1675,
founded and operated by
William Cahoone (Colquhoun)
of Luss, Scotland, and Swansea, Massachusetts.
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-taken prisoner in Dunbar, Scotland, during the Cromwellian Wars (1650)
-shipped as indentured servant to Braintree, Massachusetts (1651)
-freeman at Block Island, Rhode Island (1664)
-one of founders of Swansea, Massachusetts  (1669)
-killed by Indians on eve of King Philip's War while striving to get a doctor for the wounded of Swansea (June 24, 1675)
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Presented by his descendants, June 24, 2000

This plaque marks the site of William's Brickworks in Swansea, Massachusetts and
is mounted on a boulder by the Swansea Luther Museum which houses what is believed to be one of the actual bricks from this operation. The script is the notice of William as the official brick maker for the town.