Tag: John Ewing Colhoun

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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Patrick Colhoun of County Donegal, Ireland (Died 1740/1, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania): Immigrant Progenitor of the South Carolina Long Cane Calhoun Family

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Close-up of Patrick Colhoun’s signature in John Tillotson, The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury (London, 1727), held by South Carolina Department of Archives and History

About Patrick Colhoun, the immigrant ancestor and father of Ezekiel Calhoun and his siblings Mary (Noble), James, William, and Patrick Calhoun, not a great deal is known with certainty. What researchers have thought they’ve known over the years has often turned out to be wrong, as such scant documentary evidence as we now have about Patrick has emerged. A case in point is the longstanding tradition that this immigrant ancestor was named James Calhoun and not Patrick. As Brian Anton explains in an excellent must-read article at his Genealogy of the Calhoun Family site, for quite some time there was confusion due to a persistent tradition, including among some members of the Calhoun family itself, that the given name of the immigrant ancestor was James – when the sparse documentation that has survived for this immigrant progenitor now shows he was named Patrick.[1]

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Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Ezekiel Colhoun and Jane Calhoun Stedman

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The Statutes at Large of South Carolina: Containing the acts from 1786, exclusive, to 1814, inclusive, arranged chronologically (Columbia: Johnson, 1839), p. 495

In a previous posting, I discussed the difficulties I encounter as I try to pinpoint when the last three children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing were born. As I note in that posting and previous ones linked in that same posting, I am confident that Ezekiel’s will names his sons and daughters – in separate lists, sons in one list, daughters in another – by order of birth. Ezekiel’s son Ezekiel is named following Patrick and would have been Ezekiel Calhoun’s last son, and Jean/Jane is named after her sister Catherine and would have been Ezekiel Calhoun’s last daughter.

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Fort Hill, Clemson, South Carolina: A Photographic Essay

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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, focusing on portraits of family members found at Fort Hill:

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John Ewing Colhoun (1791-1847): New Information 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 did research in the “Lander Papers” at Clemson’s archives. This is a collection of material compiled by Ernest McPherson Lander Jr., who was for many years a professor of history at Clemson, and author of the book The Calhoun Family and Thomas Green Clemson: The Decline of a Southern Patriarchy (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1983). The “Lander Papers” contain Lander’s handwritten manuscript of this book. I copied a number of pages from the manuscript, and then compared these to the published book. I’ve now added the following information from Lander’s book to this previous posting about John Ewing Colhoun (1791-1847), son of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau, who inherited his father’s Keowee Heights plantation:

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John Ewing Colhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting

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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 1961 newspaper article by Alice Watson entitled “Cold Spring and Keowee Once Upstate Homes of the Colhouns,” which has information about the burning of John E. Colhoun’s Keowee Heights house, and about the vandalism of his family cemetery at Keowee Heights. I’ve added the following to the posting linked above:

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John Ewing Colhoun (1749 – 1802): List of Landholdings in South Carolina, 1789

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1789 list of South Carolina landholdings of John Ewing Colhoun in “John C. Calhoun Papers,” Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives (mss 200, folder 440)

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 this list. It’s filed in the “John C. Calhoun” papers in Clemson’s archives (mss 200, folder 440). I’m sharing digital images of this list as a new freestanding posting and not adding this material to previous postings I’ve made about John E. Colhoun, though I’ll add a link in previous postings to point to this new material

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