BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS

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.