Some years back, I found a similar document in the John C. Calhoun papers at Duke University’s Rubenstein library, and I shared digital images of that list in this previous posting. That list was compiled in 1791 for taxation purposes in 1792, so perhaps this 1789 list was compiled for the same reason. The 1791 list also lists the numbers of enslaved persons John E. Colhoun held on each tract of land that was being used as a plantation.
This 1789 landholding list is very fragile. I suspect that John C. Calhoun ended up with these documents because he married John E. Colhoun’s daughter Floride Bonneau Colhoun. John Caldwell Calhoun and John Ewing Colhoun were first cousins.
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BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS 
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