On my recent trip to the Special Collections and Archives at Clemson University, I visited Fort Hill, the historic house on the Clemson campus that was once the home of John Caldwell Calhoun and wife Floride Bonneau Colhoun, then of their daughter Anna Maria and husband Thomas Green Clemson. Here are some photos I took, … More Fort Hill, Clemson, South Carolina: A Photographic Essay
With new information I found on my recent research trip to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, I have added the following information to a previous posting discussing Rachel Lindsey, daughter of William Lindsey and Rachel Earnest, who married William Anson Halbert, son of William Halbert of Virginia and Pendleton District, South Carolina:
As a previous posting has noted, when John and Jane Kerr Green sold their 1,345 acres in Pendleton District to Thomas Gates on 4 May 1818, as they made their move to Alabama, Gates then resold that land to John and Jane’s neighbors the Lawrences. In the “Lawrence Family Papers” at Clemson University Library’s Special … More John Green (1768-1837): New Information Added to Previous Posting
As a previous posting here had indicated, on 22 July 1794, as John Green continued adding to his initial land acquisition of 838 acres in Pendleton District in May 1793, he bought from Levi Peirce 148 acres bordered by the Keowee River and Six Mile Creek. This land adjoined his 838-acre tract, and was land … More John Green (1768-1837): New Information Added to Previous Posting
As my last posting notes, on my recent research trip to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, I found in the archives’ “John C. Calhoun Papers” a little survey book kept by John’s father Patrick Calhoun in the period 1784-1792. This survey book is full of information about families with roots in Ninety-Six District … More John Kerr, Son of Samuel Kerr and Mary Calhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting
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 … More John Harris (1725-1791): New Information Added to Previous Posting
As I continue adding to previous postings here new information I found on my recent trip to the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson University’s Library, I’ve added some additional material to a previous posting about John Ewing Colhoun. In the Mary Stevenson Collection at Clemson’s archives, I found a clipping of a 3 August … More John Ewing Colhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting
One of the interesting documents I found on my recent visit to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives was a list of the South Carolina landholdings of John Ewing Colhoun in 1789. This list was compiled and written by John E. Colhoun himself, though the document doesn’t say for what purpose he drew up … More John Ewing Colhoun (1749 – 1802): List of Landholdings in South Carolina, 1789
I’ve now added the following new material to this previous posting about John Ewing Colhoun:
I’ve added the following notes to this previous posting about John Green:
BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS 