Tag: Andrew Pickens

Catherine, Wife of Patrick Colhoun, Immigrant Ancestor of the South Carolina Long Cane Calhoun Family: Notes on Her Reputed Montgomery Ancestry

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Tombstone of Catherine Calhoun, Long Cane massacre site in McCormick County, South Carolina, near Troy in Greenwood County, photo by David Gillespie

I began my recent posting about Patrick Colhoun, Catherine Montgomery’s husband and immigrant progenitor of the Calhoun family that settled in the Long Cane region of South Carolina in February 1756, by stating that not a great deal is known with certainty about Patrick. In that posting, I tried to pinpoint what is known with certainty, and to sort fact from the abundant fiction that has passed down in accounts of the early days of this family in America, including the claim that his name was James or James Patrick, when it was, in fact, plain Patrick.

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Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: An Old Stone Church Photographic Essay

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On the recent research trip that took me to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, I also spent time at Old Stone Church near the Clemson campus, and the Old Stone Church cemetery in which Andrew Pickens and his wife Rebecca Calhoun are buried. As a previous posting has noted, when Andrew and Rebecca Calhoun Pickens moved over to Pendleton District, South Carolina, in 1786 from the part of Ninety-Six District that would eventually be Abbeville County, the Pickens family probably initially attended the Twenty-Three Mile or Richmond-Carmel Presbyterian church on the plantation of Andrew’s uncle Robert Pickens.

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John Harris (1725-1791): New Information Added to Previous Posting

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Patrick Calhoun’s survey book, 1784-1792, in “John C. Calhoun Papers,” Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives (mss 200)

Here’s more material I’ve added to a previous posting here, following my recent trip to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives. In the “John C. Calhoun Papers” of the archives, I found a little survey book kept by Patrick Calhoun, John C. Calhoun’s father, between 1784 and 1792. In that survey book, I found much valuable material, including the following about Reverend John Harris, whose son John Harris married Mary Pickens, daughter of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun:

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Ezekiel Pickens and Wife Elizabeth Bonneau: New Material Added to Previous Posting

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On my recent research trip to the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson University’s Library, I found interesting new information about the burial place of Ezekiel Pickens, son of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun, and of Ezekiel’s wife Elizabeh Bonneau, who was a sister of Floride Bonneau, who married Rebecca’s brother John Ewing Colhoun. In a posting I previously made about Ezekiel Pickens and wift Elizabeth Bonneau, I stated that Ezekiel’s burial place is unknown.

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Joseph Pickens, Son of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting

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I continue adding information to postings I’ve previously made here, after my recent research trip to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives brought me much new information and some new documents. I have now added to a previous posting about Joseph Pickens, son of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun, information from the will that Andrew Pickens made on 22 June 1809 at his Tamassee plantation in what’s now Oconee County, South Carolina. This posting now notes that, after Andrew Pickens’ will made provision for his widow Rebecca, he left Tamassee to their youngest son Joseph, stating,

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Floride Bonneau, Wife of John Ewing Colhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting

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“Art of the Month in the Atlanta Art Association Galleries,” Atlanta, Georgia, May 1957, in “Calhoun, Mrs. Floride,” Mary Stevenson Collection, Clemson University Special Collections and Archives, box 15, folder 3, mss 353

As I continue to add material to previous postings here after my recent research trip to the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson University’s Library, I have added an interesting new document to a previous posting discussing Floride Bonneau, wife of John Ewing Colhoun. When I first published the posting I’ve just linked, I included in it a digital image of a portrait of Floride regarding whose provenance and present whereabouts I had a number of clues that I had been unable to verify. I thought that the portrait is in the holdings of the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, but had not been able to verify that information when I made my posting including an image of this portrait.

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Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Patrick Calhoun (1752/5 – 1827)

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Tombstone of Eleanor Pickens Calhoun, photo by genielady2012 – see Find a Grave memorial page of Ellen B. Pickens Calhoun, Oak Grove cemetery, Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, created by Trey Thompson

Or, Subtitled: “Here is my account of how and why all those folks went to Livingston Co. Ky.”

As I begin this posting, I have to be candid and say that working on the last three children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean or Jane Ewing has proven very difficult, and I’m by no means sure that I have a reasonably full snapshot of their lives. The information I can find about them is sparse, and much that is stated about them in articles and trees published conventionally and online is totally undocumented and often, in my view, woefully incorrect.

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Children of Alexander Noble and Catherine Calhoun (2): Alexander, Patrick, and Joseph

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Portrait of Patrick Noble at Wikimedia Commons, from South Carolina Information Highway (SCIWAY) website, which notes that the original is at South Caroliniana Library

Or, Subtitled: “Here lie the bones of an honest man”

This posting is a continuation of the previous posting discussing the children of Alexander Noble and Catherine Calhoun of Abbeville County, South Carolina. The previous posting discussed Alexander and Catherine’s first four children John, Ezekiel, William, and Jane. This posting discusses the last three children Alexander, Patrick, and Joseph.

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Children of Alexander Noble and Catherine Calhoun (1): John, Ezekiel, William, and Jane

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Caroline Howard Gilman, Record of Inscriptions in the Cemetery and Building of the Unitarian, Formerly Denominated the Independent Church, Archdale Street, Charleston, S.C., from 1777-1860 (Charleston: Walker, Evans & Co., 1860), p. 29

Or, Subtitled: “It is needless to enlarge on his professional talent, his urbanity of manners, and unblemished honor and integrity”

The first four children of Catherine Calhoun and Alexander Noble were as follows (a subsequent posting will provide information about the couple’s other children):

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Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Catherine Calhoun (abt. 1751 – 1803) and Husband Alexander Noble

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18 December 1779 letter of Major Alexander Noble to General William Moultrie, in Preston Davie Collection, 1560-1903, collection 3406, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, available digitally

Or, Subtitled: “I am your Obedient Hbl Servt. Alexdr. Noble Majr”

Establishing Catherine’s Birthdate

As a previous posting notes, the will that Catherine Calhoun’s father Ezekiel Calhoun made on 3 September 1759 in Granville (later Abbeville) County, South Carolina, appears to name his sons and daughters by their order of birth, with the sons listed separately from the daughters.[1] Ezekiel’s will lists Catherine after her sisters Mary and Rebecca. Rebecca’s date of birth, 18 November 1745, appears on her tombstone in Old Stone Church cemetery at Clemson in Pickens County, South Carolina.[2] The next child in the family of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean or Jane Ewing is thought to have been their son John Ewing Colhoun, who was born in either 1749 or 1752, as we’ve seen.

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