Tag: John Ewing Colhoun

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

May 11, 2024

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

James Edward Calhoun, Son of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau: New Material Added to Previous Posting

May 10, 2024

Following my recent research trip to the Special Collections and Archives at Clemson University’s Library, I’ve now added some new information to this previous posting about James Edward Calhoun, son of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau. In the the Ernest McPherson Lander Papers at Clemson’s archives (box 3, mss 280), I found a transcribed … More James Edward Calhoun, Son of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau: New Material Added to Previous Posting

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

May 9, 2024

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

Benjamin Green (abt. 1766 – after 1805): New Information Added to Previous Posting

May 9, 2024

I have now added new information to a previous posting about Benjamin Green Jr., son of Benjamin Green Sr. of Abbeville County, South Carolina, and, in my view, a likely brother of John Green, who married Jane Kerr, daughter of Samuel Kerr and Mary Calhoun of Abbeville County. This new information discusses notes of Mary … More Benjamin Green (abt. 1766 – after 1805): New Information Added to Previous Posting

Benjamin Green Sr. and Jr.: New Information Added to Previous Postings

May 8, 2024

Here’s more new information I’ve now added to some previous postings following my recent research trip to the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson University’s Library: previously, I have made a number of postings about a Benjamin Green who appears in records of the Long Cane settlement in Granville County, South Carolina (later Abbeville County) … More Benjamin Green Sr. and Jr.: New Information Added to Previous Postings

John Ewing Colhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting

May 8, 2024

This posting continues a series of short postings I began yesterday with a posting noting that I did research at Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, and found valuable information and documents that add to and correct postings I have made on this blog in the past. As the posting I’ve just linked said, … More John Ewing Colhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting

Floride Bonneau Colhoun Calhoun: New Information Added to Previous Postings

May 7, 2024

I haven’t posted here in some days because I recently took a research trip to Tuscaloosa, Alabama (I have deep roots there: my mother’s father was born there, with his families’ roots going back to the first days of that county) and to Clemson, South Carolina. I spent a day doing research at the West … More Floride Bonneau Colhoun Calhoun: New Information Added to Previous Postings

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

April 25, 2024

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