In Hugh Calhoun’s loose-papers estate file in Abbeville County, I find documents that, in my view, are documents referencing Ezekiel Colhoun, son of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing. I’ve added digital images of those documents (an order to inventory Hugh Calhoun’s estate, the inventory itself, and the return of the inventory to court) to my previous posting about Ezekiel Colhoun, with the following notes:
The first set of these documents showing Ezekiel signing himself as Ezekiel Colhoun are in the loose-papers estate file of Hugh Calhoun in Abbeville County (box 18, pkg. 287). Hugh Calhoun died testate in Abbeville County prior to 25 March 1799, when an order was given for the inventory of his estate; his will is dated 25 August 1794, and the original is in the estate file. The order to inventory appoints Ezekiel Calhoun Junr among others to appraise the estate. The inventory was done on 3 May 1799 and signed by Peter Brown, Ezekiel Colhoun, and William White. The same three men signed a return of the inventory to court on the same day.
The signature of Ezekiel Colhoun on these 1799 documents is the same signature as the Ezekiel Colhoun signing a number of documents I’ll discuss below. And the fact that the order to inventory Hugh Calhoun’s estate calls this Ezekiel Junr enables us to identify this Ezekiel Colhoun as the Ezekiel Colhoun designated as Ezekiel Colhoun Junr on the 1810 federal census in Abbeville County. Note, too, the names Joseph Calhoun and Peter Brown in these estate records in which Ezekiel Colhoun is mentioned: they will recur in documents cited below. I am assuming, without having proven this, that Ezekiel Colhoun, son of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing, is called junior in Abbeville County documents of this period because the Ezekiel Calhoun who was son of Hugh Calhoun and is named in Hugh’s will was older than the son of Ezekiel and Jean Ewing Calhoun.
BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS 