Rev. Thomas McCalmont

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Husband Rev. Thomas McCalmont ^{1 2}

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1 M Thomas McCalmont ¹

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         Spouse: Susan Wallace (      -      ) 1
           Marr: County Leitrim, Ireland

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2 M James McCalmont ¹

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           Born: 1707 1
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         Spouse: Hannah Blair (      -      ) 1

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3 M John McCalmont ¹

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           Born: 1 May 1709 1
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         Spouse: [Unk] Latimer (      -      ) 1

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4 M Robert McCalmont ¹

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5 M Hugh McCalmont ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. Thomas McCalmont

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He was a Covenanter minister who was persecuted for his faith in the reign of Charles II, and made his escape by crossing in a fishing boat from Scotland to Ireland, where he settled at Cairn Castle, in County Antrim. [CAB, 453]

The McCalmonts, though long considered a Scotch family, were originally Irish, being descended from Fiack, son of Niall, the one hundred and twenty-sixth monarch of Ireland. There were nineteen generations from Fiack to Calma (in Irish "brave"), from whom came the ancestors of the Scotch clan of MacCalma or McCalmont. The family arms in Scotland were: A lion rampant between three dexter hands coupled at wrist gules. Crest: A greyhound stantant azure. Motto: Semper patriae servire presto. At Dumfries, Scotland, the name is preserved on a pane of glass in the home of James McCalmont, upon which in July, 1793, Robert Burns inscribed the following lines:
Blest be McCalmont to his latest day;
No envious clouds o'ercast his evening ray;
No wrinkle furrowed by the hand of care,
Nor ever sorrow add one silver hair.
O may no son the father's honor stain,
Nor ever daughter give a mother pain. [CAB, 452]

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 453, 587.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 257.

3 Emma Siggins White, Genealogical Gleanings of Siggins and Other Pennsylvania Families (Kansas City, MO: Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., 1918), Pg 337.