Tag: Keowee River South Carolina

John Green (1768-1837): New Information Added to Previous Posting

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Original deed of Robert and Jean Anderson to Levi Peirce, 24 December 1790, in “Lawrence Family Papers,” Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, box 1, mss 114

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 that Robert Anderson, who was the original grantee of the 148 acres, sold to Levi Peirce on 24 December 1790. In the “Lawrence Family Papers” of the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson University’s Library, I found the original deed by Robert Anderson and wife Jean to Levi Peirce for this tract of 148 acres. I’ve now added the following to the posting linked at the head of this paragraph:

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John Green and Wife Jane Kerr: New Information Added to Previous Postings (2)

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Jane Kerr Green’s original renunciation of dower for sale of land by John and Jane Green in May 1818 to Thomas Gates, in “Lawrence Family Papers, Clemson University Library, Special Collections and Archives, box 1, mss. 114

In a posting I just uploaded, I told readers of this blog that I recently found the original plat for John Green’s survey of 838 acres on the Keowee River in Pendleton District, South Carolina, in 1793. That plat is in the Lawrence Family Papers in Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives (box 1, mss 114). The posting I linked at the start of this paragraph explains the process of transmission that, I think, caused the original plat issued to John Green in 1793 to end up in the hands of the Lawrence family who lived next to John and Jane Green in Pendleton District.

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John Green and Wife Jane Kerr: New Information Added to Previous Postings (1)

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Original plat issued to John Green for his 1 January 1793 survey of 838 acres on the Keowee in Pendleton District, in “Lawrence Family Papers,” Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, box 1, mss 114

As my previous posting states, I recently made a research trip to Clemson University in South Carolina and spent a day in the Special Collections and Archives of Clemson’s Library, where the archival staff could not have been more courteous and helpful. I found a large amount of very valuable information and documents that I am in the process of sorting through and, when that information or those documents add to or correct postings I’ve made here in the past, I’m adding the new information/documents to previous postings. And I want to notify readers of this, in case you have read those previous postings and want now to see the new information (or corrections) found in them.

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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: Rebecca (Noble), Catherine (Hunter), and Joseph

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Said to be a photo of Joseph Pickens, from an unknown source, uploaded by Ancestry user lamarstyle to “D L S Family Tree,” with a note that the photo is found at John Dickinson’s website Southern Anthology: Families on the Frontiers of the Old South, which says the photo is from Ancestry

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.

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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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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 — 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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