BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS

Or, Subtitled: “All my right of dower to the lands I got by Samuel Kerr”

My initial posting in this new series following my Kerr family line back from Samuel Kerr who married Mary, daughter of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jane/Jean Ewing, about 1764 in the Long Cane settlement in Granville (later Abbeville) County, South Carolina, ends by noting that there are a number of problem areas that make the Kerr family line a challenge to put together. One of these is the matter of establishing the identity of the Samuel Kerr whom, as we can definitely prove, Mary Calhoun married. (To read the continuation of this posting, please click the numeral 2 below.)