As a previous posting has noted, when John and Jane Kerr Green sold their 1,345 acres in Pendleton District to Thomas Gates on 4 May 1818, as they made their move to Alabama, Gates then resold that land to John and Jane’s neighbors the Lawrences. In the “Lawrence Family Papers” at Clemson University Library’s Special … More John Green (1768-1837): New Information Added to Previous Posting
After my recent research trip to Clemson University Library’s Special Collections and Archives, I have added another new piece of information to a previous posting about John Green (1768-1837). This new information is from biographical information about John Green’s Pendleton District neighbor Benjamin Lawrence that I found in the Lawrence Family Papers at Clemson’s archives. … More John Green (1768-1837): New Information Added to Previous Posting
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
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, … More John Green and Wife Jane Kerr: New Information Added to Previous Postings (2)
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 … More John Green and Wife Jane Kerr: New Information Added to Previous Postings (1)
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)
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
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)
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 … More Children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: Rebecca (Noble), Catherine (Hunter), and Joseph
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 … More Children of Andrew Pickens and Rebecca Calhoun: Margaret (Bowie) and Andrew
BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS 