Dr. John Colhoun and Ruhamah Chambers

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Husband Dr. John Colhoun ¹

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            AKA: Dr. John Calhoon 2
           Born: 1740 - Chambersburg, Franklin Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 22 Dec 1782 3
         Buried:  - Falling Spring Cemetery

       Marriage: 

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Wife Ruhamah Chambers ⁴

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           Born: 1750 - Chamber's Mills, Franklin Co, PA 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 19 Apr 1826 3
         Buried:  - Falling Spring Cemetery

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         Father: Col. Benjamin Chambers (Abt 1708-1788) 5 6
         Mother: Jane Williams (1725-1795) 7

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Children

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1 M Benjamin Colhoun ⁸

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           Born: 
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2 F Elizabeth Calhoun ^{9 10}

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            AKA: Elizabeth Colhoun 8
           Born: 
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           Died: 1846 - New Orleans, LA 8 10 11
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Parker Campbell (1768-1824) 8 10 12 13

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3 F Rebecca Colhoun ¹⁴

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           Born: 1777 15
     Christened: 
           Died: 21 May 1839 15
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         Spouse: Edward Crawford (1757-1833) 16 17

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. John Colhoun

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He was the first physician that settled at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. In the Revolution he was an earnest patriot; he was a member of the Cumberland County Committee of Observation, in 1774, and a delegate to the Carpenters' Hall Convention of 1776. Dr. Colhoun lived at the north-east corner of Main and King streets. At the time of his death he was engaged in building a fine stone mansion north of the Falling Spring Presbyterian Church, that was for many years the home of his widow, and in which Col. Benjamin Chambers died while on a visit to his daughter.

1 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 4.

2 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 272.

3 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 6.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 4, 6.

5 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 272, 625.

6 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 181.

7 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 625.

8 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 7.

9 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 582.

10 William Henry Egle, Historical Register: Notes and Queries, Historical and Genealogical (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1894), Pg 386.

11 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 592.

12 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 251.

13 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 394, 582.

14 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 7, 402.

15 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 402.

16 —, History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warner, Beers & Co., 1887), Pg 772.

17 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 7, 401.