Benjamin Begins Acquiring Abbeville County Land, 1784
The posting linked at the head of this posting states that Benjamin Green Jr. had a plat on 11 October 1784 in Ninety-Six District (this was in what became Abbeville County the next year).[1] The plat for 192 acres, drawn by Patrick Calhoun, shows Benjamin’s land adjoining land of Benjamin Green Sr. and designates Benjamin as Jr. As the posting linked above states, Benjamin Jr. appears to have come of age by 1784, and this suggests that he was born by or before 1766 — and, again, that birthdate presents a problem if we are going to claim he is a son of Benjamin Green Sr., since, when Benjamin Sr. received an initial grant of 150 acres in June 1768 on Sawney’s Creek in what became Abbeville County, his household seems to have been comprised of only himself (100 acres) and one other person, probably his wife (50 acres).
The posting linked at the head of this posting also discusses (and has a digital image from) a survey book kept by Patrick Calhoun in the period 1784-1792 in which Patrick noted, as he surveyed adjoining tracts on 11 October 1784 for Benjamin Green Sr. and Jr., that these two men were father and son.
The plat for 192 acres that Patrick Calhoun drew for Benjamin Green Jr. on 11 October 1784 shows Joseph Coffer (Cofer in other documents) as a neighbor, and on 11 October 1784, Patrick Calhoun surveyed 250 acres for Coffer between the northwest fork of Long Cane and the Savannah River, with the plat showing that the tract joined Benjamin Green Jr., John Biggam, and Robert Morrison.[2] With Benjamin Green Jr.’s plat adjoining his father’s land on Sawney’s Creek on the southwest, these plats show a process of westward settlement or land acquisition beyond Sawney’s Creek, where Benjamin Sr. lived in the western part of Abbeville County (today McCormick), toward the Savannah River.
The 11 October 1784 plat for Benjamin Green Jr.’s 192 acres is also filed in both Abbeville County’s Plat Book A and South Carolina Land Plats Book 11Q. Both of these plats show that Benjamin Jr.’s land was bounded northeast by lands surveyed for Benjamin Green Sr., northwest by William Adams, and southwest by lands surveyed for Joseph Cofer.[3] This copy shows Robert Anderson (see the previous posting for mention of him) recording this plat on 14 October 1784.
A plat made by James Harris on 10 April 1797 in Abbeville County for Jacob Clark Jr. shows the 162 acres in Abbeville County on waters of the Savannah River he had surveyed for Clark bordered on the southwest by Joseph Coffer (the name is Copher here) and Benjamin Green.[4] The plat was recorded 21 November 1797.
As the previous posting also states, on 19 October 1784 Benjamin Green Sr. had a survey by Patrick Calhoun in Ninety-Six District in what would soon be Abbeville County.[5] This tract was 300 acres on Sawney’s Creek, where Benjamin had first obtained a land grant in June 1768, and was bounded by Benjamin Green Jr. on the south, William Adams to the southwest and James Keown to the west, and Mary Wilson and John Cappock to the north. This plat tells us that Benjamin Green Jr.’s 192 acres were also on the waters of Sawney’s Creek but to the westward side of the creek in the direction of the Savannah River.
Benjamin Begins Obtaining Land in Pendleton District, 1791
By 23 April 1791, Benjamin Green Jr. began acquiring land in Pendleton District, where John Green (1768-1837), whom I take to be Benjamin Jr.’s brother, had settled after marrying Jane Kerr in Abbeville County about 1788. On 29 April 1791, Benjamin Green Jr. had a survey for 259 acres on waters of Little Generostee Creek in Ninety-Six District, Pendleton County.[6] The plat drawn by Samuel H. Dickson was filed 16 August 1793 and shows Henry Lusk bordering the tract on the southeast. The plat does not use the designation Sr. or Jr. It’s clear, though, that this plat was for Benjamin Jr., who had another tract of 443½ acres surveyed on Little Generostee in Pendleton District shortly after this survey was made.
In addition, when Benjamin Green sold the 259 acres on Little Generostee on 1 April 1795 to William Nicholson of Pendleton District, the deed states that it was Benjamin Green Jr. who was selling this land.[7] The deed states that Benjamin Green Jr. lived in Abbeville County, and that the tract (its acreage in the deed is 250 acres) had been granted to him on 2 September 1793. George Crawford and Samuel McGill witnessed as Benjamin signed, with McGill proving the deed on 19 March 1800. The grant for the land on 6 May 1793 according to South Carolina Land Grants Book 35.[8] William Nicholson and wife Margaret sold this land on 24 March 1800 to Alexander Sherrard, whose heir William Sherrard then sold it on 1 June 1822 to Samuel Mitchell, the deed noting that the land had been patented by Benjamin Green on 2 September 1793, who sold it on 1 April 1795.[9] Mitchell then deeded the land for love and affection to Mary S. Mitchell on 26 April 1830.[10]
As the last posting also indicates, on 10 May 1791, Benjamin Green Jr. had a survey for 443½ acres on Little Generostee Creek in Pendleton District, with the plat for this land being recorded 16 August 1794.[11] Though the plat record does not state that this is Benjamin Green Jr., when he sold this tract on 21 February 1797 to James Alger of Chatham County, Georgia, the deed stated that Benjamin Green Jr. of Abbeville County was selling the land.[12] This land on the Little Generostee was in the far southwest of Pendleton District on the Abbeville County border and bordered by the Savannah.[13]
As the posting linked in the preceding paragraph states, the very next plat in South Carolina Land Plats Bk. 29Q after Benjamin Green’s plat for this 443½ tract on Little Generostee is John Green’s plat for his initial acquisition of land in Pendleton District, 838 acres on the Keowee. In my view, what we see here are two brothers from Abbeville County, both having come of age not long prior to 1790, beginning to acquire land in Pendleton District by the early 1790s.
The fact that both John Green and Benjamin Green Jr. began acquiring land in Pendleton District just after 1790 tends to strengthen the deduction that these two men were brothers who had recently come of age, John marrying in Abbeville County about 1788 and Benjamin Jr.’s land records stating that he was living in Abbeville County while buying land in Pendleton District. John had moved with wife Jane Kerr from Abbeville to Pendleton by 1790. Benjamin remained in Abbeville, evidently living with his father, while buying land in Pendleton, seemingly as a speculator, since he sold the tracts he acquired in Pendleton not long after he had acquired them.
As another previous posting notes, on 7 November 1791, the John Green who I believe to be Benjamin’s brother had a grant of 150 acres that had been surveyed for John Colhoun on Big Generostee in Pendleton District.[14] The John Colhoun for whom this land was surveyed was clearly John Ewing Colhoun, uncle of John Green’s wife Jane Kerr — the same John Ewing Colhoun for whom both John and Benjamin Green Jr. worked.
After Benjamin Green Jr. sold William Nicholson his 259 acres on Little Generostee on 1 April 1795 and his 443½ acres on Little Generostee to James Alfer on 21 February 1797, I continue to see references to land held by Benjamin in Pendleton District in plats in the latter part of the 1790s. I do not know if this means that Benjamin had continued owning Pendleton land after 1797 or if these plats are referring to land surveyed by Benjamin Green Jr. but no longer owned by him. For instance, a plat John McMahen made for John Scot on 14 June 1799 for 712 acres on Wilson’s Creek, waters of the Big and Little Generostee, shows Benjamin Green as a neighbor to the south.[15] And a plat McMahen made for John Stuart Young for 471 acres on a branch of Little Generostee on 24 August 1799 shows Benjamin Green’s land bordering the survey on the north.[16]
I find no Benjamin Green in either Abbeville County or Pendleton District on the 1800 federal census. A Benj. Green is enumerated in Georgetown district of Winyaw County, South Carolina, on this census, but I have no reason to think this Benjamin is Benjamin Green Jr. As a previous posting notes, though some researchers think that both Benjamin and John Green had gone to the South Carolina lowcountry by this time, both working for John Green’s wife Jane Kerr’s uncle John Ewing Colhoun, I am inclined to think that John Green with wife Jane Kerr remained in Pendleton District at this time, and I suspect that Benjamin Green Jr. continued living with his father in Abbeville County, and for some reason, the 1800 federal census missed this household. The 1800 federal census lists John Ewing Colhoun’s family, in fact, in Pendleton District with a household of eleven persons that includes only one male of mature age, John himself, and with 103 enslaved persons.[17] Though Benjamin Green Jr. seems to have begun working for John Ewing Colhoun not long after 1800, he was not living in John’s household in 1800.
A 7 March 1800 deed of Griffen Brown to Christopher Vickery for 198 acres on the waters of Little River in Pendleton District was witnessed by B. Green Junr. and William Hayes.[18] As a previous posting notes, when William Hays deeded 320 acres on Six Mile Creek of the Keowee to Benjamin Armstrong on 16 September 1805, the deed noted that the land had been surveyed for John Green on 1 January 1793, and that it was part of a grant of 838 acres to John Green from Governor William Moultrie.[19] This is John Green with wife Jane Kerr. John Green and his son Samuel Kerr Green witnessed Hays’ deed and John Green proved it on 7 March 1806.
A 23 February 1801 plat that John McMahen made for himself (he was the surveyor) for 534 acres on branches of both Big and Little Generostee in Pendleton District shows McMahen’s land bordered on the south by Benjamin Green.[20] As I note above, I don’t know if these plats tell us that Benjamin continued owning land in Pendleton District after 1797 or if these plats are referencing land surveyed for Benjamin Green Jr. but no longer owned by him.
Benjamin Begins Working for John Ewing Colhoun, 1801
By October 1801, evidence begins to appear of Benjamin Green Jr.’s direct connection to John Ewing Colhoun, for whom John Green and wife Jane Kerr were working in Pendleton District and who was Jane’s uncle: on 16 October 1801, B. Green and Hardy Mathews witnessed the sale by John Ewing Colhoun of Pendleton District of 154 acres on the Saluda River in Edgefield County to William Hardy.[21] On the same day, B. Green and Hardy Matthews also witnessed John Ewing Colhoun’s sale of 229 acres on the Little Saluda of Walnut Neck in Edgefield to Daniel Coleman.[22] John E. Colhoun’s nephew Ezekiel Pickens acted in both cases as the court official verifying the proof of these deeds and receiving Floride Bonneau Colhoun’s relinquishment of her dower interest in the land.
The following month on 2 November 1801, B. Green (along with William Anderson) witnessed the sale by James Millwee to John Ewing Calhoun of 50 acres on 26 Mile Creek in Pendleton.[23] Benjamin’s signature as B. Green does not use the Jr. designation, and I would take that to mean that the older Benjamin Green in Abbeville County had died by this date, but, as I noted in my last posting, when John Ewing Colhoun made a codicil to his will on 21 October 1802 and Benjamin Green witnessed the codicil, he used the Jr. as he signed his name.
By 15 January 1802, Benjamin Green was definitely in John Ewing Colhoun’s employ. A letter that Benjamin Green sent John E. Colhoun on that date is extant and is preserved in the John Ewing Colhoun Papers at the South Caroliniana Library of the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Benjamin Green wrote this letter from Charleston to John E. Colhoun in Washington, D.C., addressing him as “Senator in Congress.” The letter states that Benjamin Green had stayed at Twelve Mile (i.e., at John E. Colhoun’s plantation at the juncture of Twelve Mile and Keowee Rivers in Pendleton District) until 12 December, and all appeared to be in order. A matter of unfinished business that remained as Benjamin left Twelve Mile was the sale of a horse named Tom Paine. Mr. Gillison, to whom John E. Colhoun wanted to sell the horse, was away, and Benjamin had left the papers for the sale with Andrew Pickens, John’s brother-in-law, to conclude the business.
As Benjamin traveled from Pendleton District to Charleston, leaving on 12 December and arriving on the 22nd, it appears John E. Colhoun’s wife Floride Bonneau Colhoun traveled with him, since the letter says that the journey had left her very fatigued and, in fact, very ill for some time. This accounted for why she had not written her husband but would write on receipt of a letter from him. A Mr. Pickens who is evidently Ezekiel, nephew of John E. Colhoun, had accompanied the travelers from Columbia to Charleston and had also been quite sick.
The letter sends news of the crops on John E. Colhoun’s rice plantations, which had been good, and of the removal of a Mr. Reid from the ferry (this is likely John’s Bonneau Ferry plantation in Berkeley County) and Mrs. Calhoun’s replacement of Reid by a brother of Mr. Debusk. The letter notes as well that Benjamin Green had been dividing his time between John E. Colhoun’s “upper and lower settlements” (i.e., the plantations in both the upcountry and lowcountry).
This January 1802 letter also lets us know that Benjamin Green was by that date tutoring John Ewing Colhoun’s children: it states,
This Sir is all I know at present, respecting your planting busineſs in this part of the country —your children are all well & John, & Floride, are makeing I think visible progreſs in their studies.
My reading of this letter: John Green with wife Jane Kerr had managed her uncle John E. Colhoun’s Pendleton District plantation through the 1790s but by 1800, John and Jane seem to have shifted their focus to developing the land they had begun acquiring in Pendleton District and Benjamin Green had replaced them as an assistant to John E. Colhoun. Benjamin’s primary assignment seems to have been to tutor John E. Colhoun’s children John and Floride (and, in time, the youngest living son James Edward). But it appears from this letter and another I’ll discuss in a moment that John E. Colhoun was also relying on Benjamin Green to report to him how things were faring both with his wife and children and on John E. Colhoun’s plantations in the lowcountry and upcountry.
It’s clear to me that Benjamin was living with the Colhoun family by this point, mainly in the lowcountry, as he tutored the children. I have found no indications that Benjamin Green had a wife or children of his own. Archived in the John Ewing Colhoun Papers is a 10 December 1802 receipt showing Benjamin Green paid by John E. Colhoun’s estate, through John’s nephew Ezekiel Pickens, for “teaching school at Mr Colhoun, for one year ending Decr 1st 1802 and for travelling expences to the low Country, a former receipt given for the same having been mislaid.” The receipt is signed B. Green.[24]
Mary Stevenson, a librarian at Clemson University for many years who did extensive research on the history of families connected to the university and whose papers are now in Clemson Library’s Special Collections and Archives, made notes on Benjamin Green’s 15 January 1802 letter to John Ewing Colhoun. The notes are filed in the Mary Stevenson Collection at Clemson’s archives, in a folder entitled “Pickens, Colhoun, Calhoun” (ms 353, box 9, folder 25). They indicate that Stevenson was puzzled about who Benjamin Green was and why he interacted with John Ewing Colhoun. After summarizing the contents of his letter to Colhoun, Mary Stevenson wrote, “J. Green? See letter from John Green overseer at Keowee plantation.” In other words, since she was certain of the name of the Green man who managed Keowee Heights as it got underway – though she apparently did not know that John Green was the husband of John E. Colhoun’s niece Jane Kerr – Stevenson wondered if the 15 January 1802 letter to John E. Colhoun by a Green man was actually from John Green, and if the initial B. by which Benjamin Green signed that letter was a mistake.
The collection entitled “John Ewing Colhoun Papers, 1774-1961” at Wilson Library of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, has a 24 February 1802 letter that Benjamin Green sent to John E. Colhoun, addressed to John as a senator in Congress.[25] The letter gives no indication of where Benjamin was when he sent it. Statements in the letter suggest he was writing from one of John’s lowcountry rice plantations; the letter provides news of the state of the crops on John’s rice plantations and states that Benjamin had not had word of the plantation on the Seneca. The letter, parts of which are torn away, but which is fairly legible nonetheless, states,
Dr. Sir —
I only write to tell you that Mrs. Colhoun & family are well — I am sorry it is not in my power at present to give you more general information relative to your domestic concerns, haveing heard no perticular account from the plantation on Seneca since we left it, Mr. Pickens recd. a few lines from his brother Andw. dated 20th of Jan.y, which states that his father had not returned from his western tour, nor any account from him — He said nothing respecting your affairs at the 12 mile plantation, from which we conjecture there was nothing amiſs — on both your rice plantations here agreeable to the season, busineſs is in great forwardneſs for the next crop, forage plenty & stock of every kind, horses & all in good order — corn was a little short at the ferry, of which Mrs. Colhoun has thought proper, to get a small supply.
They are a little backward in getting the rice ground out, which may be attributed to Mrs. Colhouns being unwell, that no arrangement(s) were made, till the machines were so mu[ch?] crowded, that it could not be immediate[ly] taken in. — Mrs. C. is somewhat reluctant about writeing, until she hears from you as she is apprehensive that both her letters & yours, are by some means intercepted. She has never recd. only two they were dated the 27th Decr. & 1st of Jan.y & none since — I cannot complain, of your son & daughters prog[ress] we at least ke[ep] busy — James is frequently now my bedfellow [but?] I cannot yet prevail on him to make any [li]terary advances — —
The approaching season, Sir, will increase my anxiety for your return, until which time I remain devotedly Yours &c.
B. Green
24th Febr.y 1802
Unless I’m mistaken, Mr. Pickens with brother Andrew is Ezekiel Pickens (1768-1813), and his brother is Andrew (1779-1838), sons of Andrew Pickens (1739-1817) and Rebecca Calhoun, John E. Colhoun’s sister. If I’m correct in identifying the Pickens men named in the letter in this way, then the letter would seem to tell us that the elder Andrew Pickens had taken a “western tour” prior to January 1802 at the advanced age of 62, something I can’t recall having read about in his biographies. His sons Ezekiel, Andrew, and Joseph to Alabama did go to Alabama not many years down the road, Ezekiel then returning to South Carolina.
The son and daughter of John E. Colhoun on whose scholarly progress Benjamin Green reports were John Ewing Colhoun Jr. (1791-1847) and Floride Bonneau Colhoun (1792-1866). Floride would marry her cousin John Caldwell Calhoun in 1811. James Edward was John E. and Floride’s younger brother (1798-1899). James would have been not quite four years old when Benjamin Green wrote this letter, and I take it that the reference to his not yet having made “literary” advances is a reference to the fact that Benjamin was trying to teach James to read, and James was dilatory about doing learning.
The two letters of Benjamin Green Jr. to John Ewing Colhoun suggest that Benjamin was a man of sound educational background who used the English language correctly and with facility. A man of John E. Colhoun’s social standing and ambition would not have engaged a tutor for his children who was less than well-educated and competent. If Benjamin was the son of Benjamin Green Sr., who appears not to have been literate when he signed a permission note regarding his pay receipt in his Revolutionary audited account on 30 July 1785, then I wonder where Benjamin (and the John Green who I think was Benjamin’s brother, whose letters to John E. Colhoun also show him to have been fairly well-educated) got their schooling.
In his study of John E. Colhoun entitled Our Honoured Relation, James Lee Green cites a 3 June 1802 letter of John’s nephew Ezekiel Noble to his uncle from the Ferry plantation, in which Ezekiel was reporting to his uncle John on goods transported to the Keowee plantation by Benjamin Green, including iron, cloth, and bandanas.[26]
As I noted above, after making his will in St. John parish, Charleston District in Berkeley County on 20 May 1802, John E. Colhoun made a codicil to the will on 21 October 1802, naming his nephew Ezekiel Pickens an executor to the will in addition to other executors he had previously named.[27] Benjamin Green witnessed this codicil, signing himself as Benjamin Green Jr. John E. Colhoun then died on 26 October 1802 at his Keowee Heights plantation in Pendleton District, where he was buried in a family cemetery.
In addition to Benjamin Green and John Simpson Jr., Robert Anderson witnessed John E. Colhoun’s codicil — the same Robert Anderson in whose unit militia Benjamin Green Sr. served and who witnessed a 30 July 1785 note by Benjamin about his payment for militia service; the same Robert Anderson who was a neighbor of John Green (1768-1837) in Pendleton District (here and here) and a close friend of Andrew Pickens, Jane Kerr Green’s uncle and John E. Colhoun’s brother-in-law….
After John E. Colhoun’s Death in 1802, What Became of Benjamin?
On 18 September 1805, Benjamin Green witnessed the deed of William McGuffin of Pendleton District to Ezekiel Pickens of St. Thomas Parish, South Carolina, of 543 acres on waters of Eighteen Mile Creek in Pendleton District.[28] The tract that McGuffin sold was bordered by Ezekiel Pickens himself and Ezekiel’s brother Andrew, who witnessed this deed along with Benjamin Green. I’m fairly confident Benjamin Green Sr. had died by this point, since Benjamin Jr. signed this and a November 1806 deed he also witnessed without giving the Jr. tag: on 14 November 1806, he witnessed a sale of land by Ezekiel Pickens to Edward Landers of 105 acres on a branch of the Generostee in Pendleton District, signing as B. Green.[29]
From this point forward, I’m not confident that Benjamin Greens I spot in Pendleton District/Anderson County records are Benjamin Green Jr. The 1810 federal census for Pendleton District enumerates two households headed by a man Benjamin Green, but neither appears to me to fit what I know about Benjamin Green Sr.[30]
On 25 May 1812, a man named as Benjamin Green had a survey for 85 acres on Beaverdam Creek in Pendleton District, which was referenced when this land was platted for John Nichols on 26 November 1816.[31] John H. Harrison was the surveyor. The plat gives the name of the man for whom the tract was surveyed in May 1812 as Benjamin Green, but adjoining the tract on the north is land belonging to Burwell Green and this makes me wonder if it was actually Burwell Green who had orginally had a survey for these 85 acres.
Pendleton District deed books in the period 1813-6 show a B. Green acting as a j.p. in Pendleton District. As I go through Pendleton District/Anderson County deed records for the period 1805-1820, I find that the man listed in those records a number of time as B. Green is Burwell and not Benjamin Green. I think the B. Green who was j.p. in 1813-6 was Burwell. I don’t find mention of Benjamin in Pendleton District/Anderson County deed books after 20 December 1816, except in references to land he had patented, which was later resold.
I have not found a death or burial record or estate records for Benjamin Green Jr. Though he bought and sold land in Pendleton District, it’s not clear to me that he ever actually lived there. I find Benjamin buying or selling no land in Pendleton District other than the two tracts for which he had surveys in April and May 1791, which are discussed above. Benjamin seems to have been in Abbeville County, probably living with Benjamin Green Sr., as he engaged in those two land transactions. In the period in which he worked for John Ewing Colhoun, he was, per the testimony of his letters and other documents, traveling back and forth between John’s Keowee Heights plantation and John’s plantations in the lowcountry, while evidently residing much of the time with John’s family in the lowcountry as he tutored John’s children.
After John E. Colhoun died on 26 October 1802, it’s not entirely clear to me what became of Benjamin Green Jr. — except I’m fairly confident he was the Benjamin Green witnessing William McGuffin’s September 1805 deed to Ezekiel Pickens, the last certain record I’ve found for Benjamin. My readings of Benjamin’s references to John’s wife Floride Bonneau Colhoun in the two letters he sent to John E. Colhoun suggest to me that he and Floride — who is known to have been a notoriously difficult person: read her letters to her son James Edward — may not have always been on the most cordial terms, and I suspect Floride would not have kept Benjamin on as her children’s tutor when John E. Colhoun died.
How and where Benjamin’s life ended is a mystery to me.
[1] South Carolina Plats, Charleston Series Bk. 11, p. 356.
[2] Ibid., Bk. 9, p. 391.
[3] Abbeville County, South Carolina, Plat Bk. A, p. 126; South Carolina Land Plats Bk. 11Q, p. 356.
[4] South Carolina Plats, Charleston Series Bk. 36, p. 140.
[5] Ibid., Bk. 1, p. 194.
[6] South Carolina Plats, Charleston Series Bk. 29, p. 222.
[7] Pendleton District, South Carolina, Deed Bk. E, pp. 209-211.
[8] South Carolina Land Grants Bk. 35, p. 166.
[9] Pendleton District, South Carolina, Deed Bk S, p. 275.
[10] Ibid., p. 608.
[11] South Carolina Land Plats Bk. 29Q, p. 278. The grant for this tract was made 2 September 1793: South Carolina Land Grants Bk. 32, p. 243.
[12] Pendleton District, South Carolina, Deed Bk. C, p. 316.
[13] When Thomas White sold Samuel McCarley 347 acres on Little Generostee in Pendleton on 10 October 1798, the deed mentioned that this land joined Henry Lusk on the east Benjamin Green and Robert Sawyers on the west: Pendleton District, South Carolina, Deed Bk. I-J, p. 517). A plat John McMahen made for Thomas Wells for 500 acres on the Little Generostee on 10 August 1795 shows Lusk and Peter Sawyer as adjoining landowners: South Carolina Plats, Charleston Series Bk. 32, p. 449.
[14] South Carolina Land Grants Bk. 30, p. 71.
[15] South Carolina Plats, Charleston Series Bk. 37, p. 294.
[16] Ibid., p. 355.
[17] 1800 federal census, Pendleton District, South Carolina, p. 121B.
[18] Pendleton District, South Carolina, Deed Bk. G, p. 81.
[19] Ibid., Bk. H, pp. 342-3.
[20] South Carolina Plats, Charleston Series Bk. 38, p. 250.
[21] Edgefield County, South Carolina, Deed Bk. 22, pp. 245-6.
[22] Ibid., pp. 247-9.
[23] Pendleton District, South Carolina, Deed Bk. G, pp. 94-95. The same deed is recorded in Bk. F, p. 395.
[24] If I have a digital copy or photocopy of this document, I’m embarrassed to say I cannot locate it as I upload this posting. Nor am I entirely sure whether it’s in the collection of John E. Colhoun’s papers at South Caroliniana library or at Wilson Library at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
[25] Wilson Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “John Ewing Colhoun Papers, 1774-1961,” collection no. 130. The letter is available digitally at the website for this collection.
[26] James Lee Green, Our Honoured Relation (Greenville, South Carolina: Southern Hist. Press, 2009), p. 162. James L. Green indicates that the letter is in John Ewing Colhoun’s Papers; this is evideently the collection at South Caroliniana Library, since I see no mention of this letter in the online guide to the John Ewing Colhoun Papers at Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
[27] John E. Colhoun’s will is recorded in Charleston District, South Carolina, Will Bk. D, p. 361f, and Anderson County, South Carolina, Will Bk. 1, p. 22f. Unless I’m mistaken, a loose-papers estate file in Anderson County has the original or a copy of the original made at the time John E. Colhoun made his will in 1802.
[28] Pendleton District, South Carolina, Deed Bk. H, pp. 524-5.
[29] Ibid., pp. 453-4.
[30] 1810 federal census, Pendleton District, South Carolina, pp. 148A, 153A.
[31] South Carolina Plats, Charleston Series Bk. 44, p. 285.
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