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:

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