Tag: Patrick Calhoun

John Kerr, Son of Samuel Kerr and Mary Calhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting

May 11, 2024

As my last posting notes, on my recent research trip to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, I found in the archives’ “John C. Calhoun Papers” a little survey book kept by John’s father Patrick Calhoun in the period 1784-1792. This survey book is full of information about families with roots in Ninety-Six District … More John Kerr, Son of Samuel Kerr and Mary Calhoun: New Information Added to Previous Posting

John Harris (1725-1791): New Information Added to Previous Posting

May 11, 2024

Here’s more material I’ve added to a previous posting here, following my recent trip to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives. In the “John C. Calhoun Papers” of the archives, I found a little survey book kept by Patrick Calhoun, John C. Calhoun’s father, between 1784 and 1792. In that survey book, I found … More John Harris (1725-1791): New Information Added to Previous Posting

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

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

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)

Children of Alexander Noble and Catherine Calhoun (1): John, Ezekiel, William, and Jane

April 9, 2024

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 Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Catherine Calhoun (abt. 1751 – 1803) and Husband Alexander Noble

April 4, 2024

Or, Subtitled: “I am your Obedient Hbl Servt. Alexdr. Noble Majr” Establishing Catherine’s Birthdate As a previous posting notes, the will that Catherine Calhoun’s father Ezekiel Calhoun made on 3 September 1759 in Granville (later Abbeville) County, South Carolina, appears to name his sons and daughters by their order of birth, with the sons listed … More Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Catherine Calhoun (abt. 1751 – 1803) and Husband Alexander Noble

Children of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau (2): James Edward

March 28, 2024

Or, Subtitled: “The eccentric, & wicked, but highly gifted James Edward Calhoun” 3. James Edward Calhoun, the third child of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau who lived to adulthood, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on 4 July 1798. This date of birth is recorded on his tombstone in Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church cemetery … More Children of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau (2): James Edward

Children of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau (1): John Ewing and Floride Bonneau

March 22, 2024

Or, Subtitled: “Tradition recounts that she sometimes locked up ‘every closet, store-room, and smokehouse on the plantation and drove off with the keys’” As the previous posting states, three of the children of John Ewing Colhoun and wife Floride Bonneau died in infancy and are buried beside their father in the Colhoun family cemetery at … More Children of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau (1): John Ewing and Floride Bonneau

Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: John Ewing Colhoun (1749 [or 1752] – 1802)

March 13, 2024

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 … More Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: John Ewing Colhoun (1749 [or 1752] – 1802)