I’ve added the following notes to this previous posting about John Green:
Tag: Twelve Mile River Pendleton Dist. South Carolina
Children of John Ewing Colhoun and Floride Bonneau (1): John Ewing and Floride Bonneau
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 his Keowee Heights plantation in Pendleton District, South Carolina, a cemetery now in ruins and located on land of the experimental forest of Clemson University.[1] The posting transcribes the inscription on the tombstone that Floride had placed on John’s grave within the year after his death on 26 October 1802, and which states,
Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: John Ewing Colhoun (1749 [or 1752] – 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.
Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Rebecca Calhoun (1745-1814) and Husband Andrew Pickens
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]
Children of Mary Calhoun (abt. 1743-1805) and Samuel Kerr of Abbeville County, South Carolina — John Kerr (abt. 1766 – aft. 1819)
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.
Mary Calhoun (abt. 1743-1805), Wife of Samuel Kerr of Abbeville County, South Carolina
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.
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): 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.
John Green (1768-1837): Pendleton District, South Carolina Records to 1799
Or, Subtitled: “Tell her I have got 5 guns all sure fire and when danger is approaching myself and jane will Each of us shoulder a few of them and march up the hill as a Reinforcement”
John Green’s Birth and Marriage
John Green was born 21 January 1768. This date is recorded on his tombstone, whose inscription reads,[1]
Sacred to the memory of JOHN GREEN, ESQ., who was born January 21st 1768, and departed this life March 18th 1837, aged 69 years 1 month & 28 days.
Begats and Bequeathals 