I continue adding information to postings I’ve previously made here, after my recent research trip to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives brought me much new information and some new documents. I have now added to a previous posting about Joseph Pickens, son of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun, information from the will that Andrew Pickens made on 22 June 1809 at his Tamassee plantation in what’s now Oconee County, South Carolina. This posting now notes that, after Andrew Pickens’ will made provision for his widow Rebecca, he left Tamassee to their youngest son Joseph, stating,
Tag: Joseph Pickens
Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Patrick Calhoun (1752/5 – 1827)
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 that I have a reasonably full snapshot of their lives. The information I can find about them is sparse, and much that is stated about them in articles and trees published conventionally and online is totally undocumented and often, in my view, woefully incorrect.
Children of Alexander Noble and Catherine Calhoun (1): John, Ezekiel, William, and Jane
Or, Subtitled: “It is needless to enlarge on his professional talent, his urbanity of manners, and unblemished honor and integrity”
The first four children of Catherine Calhoun and Alexander Noble were as follows (a subsequent posting will provide information about the couple’s other children):
Children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: Rebecca (Noble), Catherine (Hunter), and Joseph
Or, Subtitled: “Mrs. Hunter seems mortified at the asperity shown by Mr. Hillhouse, in consequence of his furnishing the ball-supper”
This posting is the last installment in a series of postings discussing the children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun of Abbeville County and Pendleton District, South Carolina. This series began with a posting about Andrew and Rebecca’s first six children, which was followed with a posting about their next three children.
Children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: Margaret (Bowie) and Andrew
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.
Children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: Mary (Harris), Ezekiel, Ann (Simpson), and Jane (Miller)
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.
Notes on a Benjamin Green (abt. 1766 – after 1805) Who May Be a Brother of John Green (1768-1837)
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.
John Green (1768-1837): Bibb County, Alabama, Records, 1823-1839
Or, Subtitled: “On the Elyton road, the [stagecoach] change, usually considered necessary every fifteen miles, is said to have occurred regularly near Woodstock at the old Green house, called Halfway House”
As the previous posting states, when Jane Kerr Green relinquished her dower rights to the 1,345 acres she and husband John Green sold in Pendleton District, South Carolina, on 4 May 1818 — Jane released dower on 28 October 1818 — it appears to me that John and Jane were making preparations for the immediate move of their family to Alabama. I think it’s likely that the family left for Alabama not long after Jane’s dower release. Since, as will be shown below, when John and his sons Benjamin and Joscelin had certificates for federal land in Bibb County, Alabama, in June 1823, with the certificates stating that the Green men were living in Tuscaloosa County, I think the Green family initially settled in Tuscaloosa County before moving to the contiguous county of Bibb, where they settled in the northwest corner of Bibb not far from the Tuscaloosa County line.
John Green (1768-1837): Pendleton District, South Carolina Records, 1800-1818
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.
Begats and Bequeathals 