I have now added the following to this previous posting about James Edward Calhoun, son of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau:
John Ewing Colhoun (1791-1847): New Information Added to Previous Posting
On my recent research trip to the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson University’s Library, I did research in the “Lander Papers” at Clemson’s archives. This is a collection of material compiled by Ernest McPherson Lander Jr., who was for many years a professor of history at Clemson, and author of the book The Calhoun Family and Thomas Green Clemson: The Decline of a Southern Patriarchy (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1983). The “Lander Papers” contain Lander’s handwritten manuscript of this book. I copied a number of pages from the manuscript, and then compared these to the published book. I’ve now added the following information from Lander’s book to this previous posting about John Ewing Colhoun (1791-1847), son of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau, who inherited his father’s Keowee Heights plantation:
William Halbert (1744-1808): New Information Added to Previous Posting
With new information I found on my recent research trip to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, I have added the following information to a previous posting discussing Rachel Lindsey, daughter of William Lindsey and Rachel Earnest, who married William Anson Halbert, son of William Halbert of Virginia and Pendleton District, South Carolina:
John Green (1768-1837): New Information Added to Previous Posting
As a previous posting has noted, when John and Jane Kerr Green sold their 1,345 acres in Pendleton District to Thomas Gates on 4 May 1818, as they made their move to Alabama, Gates then resold that land to John and Jane’s neighbors the Lawrences. In the “Lawrence Family Papers” at Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, original documents having to do with John and Jane Green’s landholdings in Pendleton District have been preserved. Those documents appear to have passed from the Greens to Thomas Gates and from Gates to the Lawrence family when he sold the Green land to the Lawrences.
John Green (1768-1837): New Information Added to Previous Posting
As a previous posting here had indicated, on 22 July 1794, as John Green continued adding to his initial land acquisition of 838 acres in Pendleton District in May 1793, he bought from Levi Peirce 148 acres bordered by the Keowee River and Six Mile Creek. This land adjoined his 838-acre tract, and was land that Robert Anderson, who was the original grantee of the 148 acres, sold to Levi Peirce on 24 December 1790. In the “Lawrence Family Papers” of the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson University’s Library, I found the original deed by Robert Anderson and wife Jean to Levi Peirce for this tract of 148 acres. I’ve now added the following to the posting linked at the head of this paragraph:
John Kerr, Son of Samuel Kerr and Mary Calhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting
As my last posting notes, on my recent research trip to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, I found in the archives’ “John C. Calhoun Papers” a little survey book kept by John’s father Patrick Calhoun in the period 1784-1792. This survey book is full of information about families with roots in Ninety-Six District (later Abbeville County), many of whom were buying tracts of land in Pendleton District in the period in question. Almost every page of the survey book was full of names I know, many of them part of the Calhoun kinship network.
John Harris (1725-1791): New Information Added to Previous Posting
Here’s more material I’ve added to a previous posting here, following my recent trip to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives. In the “John C. Calhoun Papers” of the archives, I found a little survey book kept by Patrick Calhoun, John C. Calhoun’s father, between 1784 and 1792. In that survey book, I found much valuable material, including the following about Reverend John Harris, whose son John Harris married Mary Pickens, daughter of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun:
John Ewing Colhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting
As I continue adding to previous postings here new information I found on my recent trip to the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson University’s Library, I’ve added some additional material to a previous posting about John Ewing Colhoun. In the Mary Stevenson Collection at Clemson’s archives, I found a clipping of a 3 August 1961 newspaper article by Alice Watson entitled “Cold Spring and Keowee Once Upstate Homes of the Colhouns,” which has information about the burning of John E. Colhoun’s Keowee Heights house, and about the vandalism of his family cemetery at Keowee Heights. I’ve added the following to the posting linked above:
John Ewing Colhoun (1749 – 1802): List of Landholdings in South Carolina, 1789
One of the interesting documents I found on my recent visit to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives was a list of the South Carolina landholdings of John Ewing Colhoun in 1789. This list was compiled and written by John E. Colhoun himself, though the document doesn’t say for what purpose he drew up this list. It’s filed in the “John C. Calhoun” papers in Clemson’s archives (mss 200, folder 440). I’m sharing digital images of this list as a new freestanding posting and not adding this material to previous postings I’ve made about John E. Colhoun, though I’ll add a link in previous postings to point to this new material
John Ewing Colhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting
I’ve now added the following new material to this previous posting about John Ewing Colhoun:
Begats and Bequeathals 