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Children of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau (1): John Ewing and Floride Bonneau

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Portrait of Floride Bonneau Colhoun Calhoun by Belgian artist Eugène François de Block hanging in master bedroom of Fort Hill, Clemson, Pickens County, South Carolina, from “Floride Bonneau Colhoun Calhoun,” at website of Clemson University.

Or, Subtitled: “Tradition recounts that she sometimes locked up ‘every closet, store-room, and smokehouse on the plantation and drove off with the keys’”

As the previous posting states, three of the children of John Ewing Colhoun and wife Floride Bonneau died in infancy and are buried beside their father in the Colhoun family cemetery at his Keowee Heights plantation in Pendleton District, South Carolina, a cemetery now in ruins and located on land of the experimental forest of Clemson University.[1] The posting transcribes the inscription on the tombstone that Floride had placed on John’s grave within the year after his death on 26 October 1802, and which states,

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Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: John Ewing Colhoun (1749 [or 1752] – 1802)

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Portrait of John Ewing Colhoun, from U.S. Senate Historical Office, at Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, “Colhoun, John Ewing, 1749-1802”

Or, Subtitled: “In the confidence of his Country, he filled at the time of his death the high Station of Senator of the United States”

John E. Colhoun’s Birth and Early Life

John Ewing Colhoun, son of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean or Jane Ewing, was born in 1749 or 1752. His tombstone in his Keowee Heights family cemetery now located on land owned by Clemson University’s Experimental Forest gives the 1752 birthdate: the inscription on the tombstone (which will be given in full later in my posting(s) about John), reads,[1]

He was born in the year 1752 and died on the 26th of October 1802.

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Children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: Margaret (Bowie) and Andrew

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Portrait of Andrew Pickens with the sword awarded to his father General Andrew Pickens by U.S. Congress, from unidentified source, at J.D. Lewis, “Andrew Pickens, Jr.,” Carolana

Or, Subtitled: “I am most mortified that you did not write to Colonel Pickens, do write to him”

This post continues a discussion that began with this previous posting of the children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun of Abbeville County and Pendleton District, South Carolina. The posting I’ve just linked discusses Andrew and Rebecca’s first six children Mary, Ezekiel, Ann, a son who died in infancy, and two daughters named Jane.

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Notes on a Benjamin Green (abt. 1766 – after 1805) Who May Be a Brother of John Green (1768-1837)

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Signature of Benjamin Green in 24 February 1802 letter to John Ewing Colhoun, in “John Ewing Colhoun Papers, 1774-1961,” Wilson Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, collection no. 130; the letter is available digitally at the website for this collection

Or, Subtitled: News of the selling of Tom Paine — a horse — and of rice plantations in the South Carolina lowcountry

In my previous posting, I told you that a Benjamin Green who begins appearing in Abbeville County and Pendleton District, South Carolina, records by the late 1780s and early 1790s and who is designated in almost all of these records as Benjamin Green Jr. can be proven to have been a son of the older Benjamin Green discussed in the posting I’ve just linked. I also strongly suspect Benjamin Jr. is a brother of the John Green (1768-1837) whose ancestry I’m trying to figure out.

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John Green (1768-1837): Pendleton District, South Carolina Records to 1799

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Tombstone of John Green, Tannehill Historical State Park, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, my photo

Or, Subtitled: “Tell her I have got 5 guns all sure fire and when danger is approaching myself and jane will Each of us shoulder a few of them and march up the hill as a Reinforcement”

John Green’s Birth and Marriage

John Green was born 21 January 1768. This date is recorded on his tombstone, whose inscription reads,[1]

Sacred to the memory of JOHN GREEN, ESQ., who was born January 21st 1768, and departed this life March 18th 1837, aged 69 years 1 month & 28 days.

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