Sxcrion Il., 1902 [121] Trans. R. S. C. 
V.— Family Memoirs of ‘the McCollom Family, U. E. Loyalists. 
By W. A. McCottom, Tilsonburg. 
(Communicated by Sir John Bourinot, and read May 27, 1902.) 
Incidents and record of family of James McCollom, who came 
from Argyleshire, Scotland, about the year 1765, and first located in 
New Jersey where he obtained lands, and was married to Miss Sarah 
Campbell, who had two children, and died soon after the birth of the 
second child. 
Several years afterward he was again married to Miss Eunice 
French, 'and as travelling westward appears to have been popular 
even at that early date, he disposed of his property in New Jersey and, 
with other pioneers, followed up the beautiful Hudson River to a 
place called Cherry Valley in New York State, and again obtained 
land, upon which he resided with his family during the period of the 
Revolutionary War. Other property in vicinity of Albany was many 
years ago reported to be of fabulous value, as a portion of the city 
is located upon it. 
Mrs. Folwell, an aged lady of Toronto, whose mother was for- 
merly Mary McCollom, a daughter of James and Eunice McCollom, 
states that her grandfather was well brought up and educated, and a 
man of rank in Scotland. He had not been brought up to work and 
was not inclined to undertake it, but was a great Mason and Presby- 
terian, and was disposed to share occasionally in convivial habits that 
were popular in those days. He was also a staunch adherent to the 
cause of Royalty and to the British Empire, with her substantial 
forms of Government and her ‘established laws and progress in arts, 
science, literature and religion, and with a firm belief in ability of her 
noble statesmen to rectify by constitutional methods the oppressive 
legislation enacted by British parliament, and assented to by King 
George III., to compel Colonists to pay a portion of the enormous 
war debt incurred very largely in their behalf during the Seven Years’ 
War. Also to amend the laws limiting exports to British channels 
only, limiting amount of colonial manufactures, and of shipping, ship- 
ments, etc. He firmly declined to give up adherence to a substantial 
Imperial form of government for what he deemed a shadowy repub- 
lican system which he, with many thousands of the most eminent and 
cultured men in the country, considered a very hazardous chaotic 
experiment liable to result in disaster, internicine strife and disin- 
tegration of the territory, or that it might become absorbed by one 
