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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: Mary (Harris), Ezekiel, Ann (Simpson), and Jane (Miller)

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Transcript of a bible register listing children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun, published by Edward A. Claypool in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 63,2 (April 1909), pp. 196-7

Or, Subtitled: Presbyterian ministers and Princeton graduates at every turn in the Pickens-Calhoun family tree

In this posting and a subsequent one, I will share information about the children of Andrew Pickens (1739-1817) and Rebecca Calhoun (1745-1814) of Abbeville County and Pendleton District, South Carolina. This posting will discuss Andrew and Rebecca’s first six children Mary, Ezekiel, Ann, an unnamed son who died in infancy, and Jane, a name given to two daughters in a row after the first Jane died in infancy.

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This is NOT Rebecca Calhoun Pickens: A Footnote

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A miniature portrait of Floride Bonneau Colhoun, wife of John Caldwell Calhoun, by Charles Fraser, original at Fort Hill, Pickens County, South Carolina

As a footnote and addendum to my previous posting about Rebecca Calhoun, wife of Andrew Pickens, I would like to reiterate several points — because there is simply so much misinformation “out there” in family trees and at sites online about Rebecca Calhoun, daughter of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing:

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Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Rebecca Calhoun (1745-1814) and Husband Andrew Pickens

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Tombstone of Rebecca Calhoun Pickens, photo by Deleted User — see Find a Grave memorial page of Rebecca Calhoun Pickens, Old Stone Church cemetery, Clemson, Pickens County, South Carolina, created by Jimmy Gilstrap, maintained by C. LATTA

Or, Subtitled: “She was through life religious & charitable, died humbly relying on the mercy of her Redeemer”

In the two previous postings (here and here), I shared information about Ezekiel Calhoun, who was born about 1720 in County Donegal, Ireland, came with his parents Patrick Colhoun and Catherine Montgomery to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1733, and then moved with his siblings and their widowed mother before October 1745 to Augusta County, Virginia. As the linked postings state, about 1742 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Ezekiel married Jean (also called Jane) Ewing, who was, Margaret Ewing Fife thinks, the daughter of Patrick and Mary Ewing of County Donegal, Ireland, and Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.[1]

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Children of Mary Calhoun (abt. 1743-1805) and Samuel Kerr of Abbeville County, South Carolina — Catherine Kerr (Married Hugh Macklin) and Ruth Kerr (Married William Oliver)

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George Howe, History of the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina, vol. 1 (Columbia: Duffie and Chapman, 1870), p. 554

Or, Subtitled: “While engaged in pastoral work he was stricken with fever and died, and his grave is with us until this day”

As my previous posting about Mary Calhoun (abt. 1743-1805), daughter of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jane/Jean Ewing, notes, Mary and husband Samuel Kerr had the following children, whom Mary names in her 21 January 1805 will in Abbeville County, South Carolina: John Kerr, Jane Kerr Green, Catherine Kerr McLain, and Ruth Kerr.[1] In my last posting, I told you what I know about Mary and Samuel’s first-born child, their son John, who was born about 1766. In previous postings, I’ve shared abundant information about Mary and Samuel’s second child, their daughter Jane, who married John Green, who was born 8 October 1768. In what follows, I’ll focus on Mary and Samuel’s last two children, their daughters Catherine and Ruth.

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Children of Mary Calhoun (abt. 1743-1805) and Samuel Kerr of Abbeville County, South Carolina — John Kerr (abt. 1766 – aft. 1819)

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14 Tradd Street, Charleston, South Carolina, photo by ProfReader at Wikimedia Commons (2014)

Or, Subtitled: “A relatively prosperous merchant, variously listed as a hatter, general merchant, and even grain inspector”

As the previous posting discussing Mary Calhoun (abt. 1743-1805), daughter of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jane/Jean Ewing and wife of Samuel Kerr, states, the will that Mary made in Abbeville County, South Carolina, on 21 January 1805 names the following children: John Kerr, Jane Kerr Green, Catherine Kerr McLain, and Ruth Kerr.[1] I am naming these children in what I think was their order of birth, not the order in which their mother Mary names them in her will.  

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Mary Calhoun (abt. 1743-1805), Wife of Samuel Kerr of Abbeville County, South Carolina

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Signature of Mary Calhoun Kerr to her will, 21 January 1805, Abbeville County, South Carolina, Probate Files, box 52, pack 1231

Or, Subtitled: “We are at best but Strangers and pilgrames as all our fathers have been”

Now that I have completed a series of postings tracking family lines descending from John Green (1768-1837) of Abbeville and Pendleton District, South Carolina, and Bibb County, Alabama, a series that began with this posting, I’m going to begin a series tracking the Calhoun ancestry of John Green’s wife Jane Kerr, who was the daughter of Samuel Kerr and Mary Calhoun of the Long Cane settlement in what became Abbeville County, South Carolina, in 1785. The posting that follows will focus on Jane’s mother Mary Calhoun Kerr.

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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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Jane Kerr (1768-1855), Wife of John Green of Pendleton District, South Carolina, and Bibb County, Alabama

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Portrait of Jane Kerr Green made about 1850 at the Green house, Bibb County, Alabama, in possession of a descendant in Virginia

Or, Subtitled: “In Memory of Jane Green born in Abbeville District S.C. Oct. 8th 1768. Departed this life Nov. 2nd 1855”

As a previous posting has indicated, the tombstone of Jane Kerr Green, wife of John Green, which formerly marked her grave in the family cemetery on the Green plantation near Woodstock in Bibb County, Alabama, but is now in Tannehill Historical State Park in Tuscaloosa County, states that Jane was born 8 October 1768 in Abbeville District, South Carolina, and that she died 2 November 1855.[1] The posting I’ve just linked contains a photo of the tombstone and transcribes its inscription, which reads,

In Memory of Jane Green born in Abbeville District S.C. Oct. 8th 1768. Departed this life Nov. 2nd 1855

As the linked posting also explains, at the time John Green and Jane Kerr were born in 1768 in what would become Abbeville County or District in 1785, this area, then called Granville County, would shortly after their births become Ninety-Six District until Abbeville District/County was created.

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John Green (1768-1837): Pendleton District, South Carolina Records, 1800-1818

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Pendleton District, South Carolina, Deed Bk. O, pp. 136-8

Or, Subtitled: “He left Pendleton for the Alabama a week before John E. got up and expects to return in about two months”

1800-1810

As my last posting tells you as it examines Pendleton District, South Carolina, records for John Green from the 1790 federal census, which suggests that he and wife Jane were living on and managing the Keowee Heights plantation of her uncle John Ewing Colhoun, to 21 December 1798, when he had a plat for 500 acres east of the Keowee in addition to the 838 acres he acquired in 1793, there were a number of men named John Green living in Pendleton District or found in its records in the 1790s. The 1800 federal census for Pendleton District presents us with yet another challenge of sorting John Greens.

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