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James Walter Colquhoun (c. 1767–c. 1816)

Role

Colquhoun served as an agent in at least one mercantile transaction involving Bushrod Washington. 

Description

James Walter Colquhoun was a factor (mercantile agent) in Dumfries, Prince William County, Virginia. He and his wife Letitia Scott had three children.

Citations

W.S. Colquhoun to Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, 23 December 1842, Slavery and the Abolition of the Slave Trade Collection, 17001925, New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts, New York City.

James C. Pearson, The Further Chronicles of Clan Colquhoun, Volume 1, Number 1 (Winter 2014).   

Alexandria Herald (VA), 12 June 1816, page 4, column 2 (Newspaper Archive).

William Scott Colquhoun at WikiTree.

James W. Colquhoun at Find a Grave.