The Corner Table

The first known individual of the Colquhoun line to come to what is now the United States was 18 year old William Cahoone, one of 150 Scottish prisoners deported from Liverpool on November 11, 1650, as punishment for their service in the Royalist Army during the English Civil War of 1650. Cahoone arrived in Boston Harbor in chains on the ship Unity in January, 1651, where his indenture was sold to Becx and Company (Jashua Foot and John Becx), for their Saugus Iron Works.

Cahoone probably worked in Baintree, Massachusetts. It is known that he learned the trade of brickmaking, and possibly developed some skills in shipbuilding as well. He was one of the first white men sent to settle on Block Island, boarding the barque (ship) at Taunton,

His descandants founded both Cahoon and Calhoun lines.