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!MARRIAGE-CHILD: Mabel Phillips; ; post on Genforum, dated 1 Dec 1998; ; copy in
possession of Terry McLean, Anaheim CA; FILE: Enc #P-441.
CHILD: named in this source is Patrick.
DEATH: died in the Long Cane Cherokee uprising in 1760 along with his mother and
others.UPDATE: 1995-11-18
!BIRTH-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-DEATH-CHILDREN: Lois K. Nix and Mary Kay Snell, THOMAS
BOONE PICKENS - HIS ANCESTORS; ; Wolfe City Texas, Hemington Publishing Company,
1989; pp 230-235; copy in possession of Terry McLean, Anaheim CA.--------------------------------------------------------------
* - 1716 - born in Ireland
* - 1736 - md Susannah Long in PA.
* - 1746-56 - approx; lived Augusta Co., VA. Purchased land on Reed's Creek from
James Patton. Title to this land was highly disputed - many court records.
1756 - approx; moved to Long Cane SC.
* - 1760 - died in Indian attack at Long Cane.---------------------------------------------------------------
JOSEPH HABERSHAM HISTORICAL COLLECTION [I believe this is Vol. I - tmc]
p. 97-98. "CALHOUN Settlement - Hon. J. C. CALHOUN writes Nov. 21, 1847, Fort
Hill, to Chas. H. ALLEN:
"My father (Patrick CALHOUN) with his three brothers and his sister with her
husband arrived in this district (Abbeville), February 1756, and settled in a
group in what is now known as CALHOUN's Settlement, at the fort [sic] of the two
streams of that name. The names of his brothers were James, the oldest,
Ezekiel, the next, William, the third, my father being the youngest. The sister
had married Mr. NOBLE...
...[James] settled on a placed afterwards owned by my brother James, and now
owned by Mrs. PARKER.
"I am not certain who accompanied them, or who immediately followed them and
settled in the neighborhood. But among their very early neighbors were NORRIS,
a family of the name of MERCER and one of the name of HOUSTON... Our family,
however, were the pioneers, and my impression is, came alone. My father kept a
journal of their emigration from Wythe County, as it is now called, in
Virginia...
"...In Feb 1760 the Cherokees made a sudden inroad on CALHOUN and the other
settlements...The inhabitants fled, but were overtaken by the Indians mounted on
horseback...they made a desparate struggle [but half were killed] and among them
James CALHOUN, the oldest brother, who commanded the party..."n.
UPDATE: 1999-09-20
!MARRIAGE-CHILD: Mabel Phillips; ; post on Genforum, dated 1 Dec 1998; ; copy in
possession of Terry McLean, Anaheim CA; FILE: Enc #P-441.
CHILD: named in this source is Patrick.UPDATE: 1995-11-18
!NAME-PARENTS-MARRIAGE-CHILDREN: Lois K. Nix and Mary Kay Snell, THOMAS BOONE
PICKENS- HIS ANCESTORS; ; Wolfe City Texas, Hemington Publishing Company, 1989;
pp 232, 234, 236; copy in possession of Terry McLean, Anaheim CA.
UPDATE: 1995-11-18
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1723 - born in Ireland
1733 - sailed to America with parents and siblings. Settled in Lancaster Co, PA
at Chestnut Level.
1746 - approx; moved with extended family to Augusta Co., VA.
1749 - md in Augusta Co., VA
1755 - approx; moved with extended family to Long Cane SC.
1765 - performed mg. of his niece Rebecca Floride CALHOUN to Gen. Andrew
PICKENS.
1789 - d. Abbeville Dist., SC.JOSEPH HABERSHAM HISTORICAL COLLECTION [I believe this is Vol. I - tmc]
p. 97-98. "CALHOUN Settlement - Hon. J. C. CALHOUN writes Nov. 21, 1847,
Fort Hill, to Chas. H. ALLEN:
"My father (Patrick CALHOUN) with his three brothers and his sister with her
husband arrived in this district (Abbeville), February 1756, and settled in a
group in what is now known as CALHOUN's Settlement, at the fort [sic] of the
two streams of that name. The names of his brothers were James, the oldest,
Ezekiel, the next, William, the third, my father being the youngest. The
sister had married Mr. NOBLE...
William [settled] in the fork of CALHOUN's Creek and Little River
"I am not certain who accompanied them, or who immediately followed them and
settled in the neighborhood. But among their very early neighbors were
NORRIS, a family of the name of MERCER and one of the name of HOUSTON...
Our family...were the pioneers, and my impression is, came alone. My father
kept a journal of their emigration from Wythe County, as it is now called, in
Virginia..."Nix and Snell, THOMAS BOONE PICKENS - HIS ANCESTORS:
p. 253-257. William CALHOUN [s/o James Patrick] was born about 1723 in
Donegal, Ireland. He came to America in 1733 with his parents and followed the
family migration from Pennsylvania to Virginia and on to South Carolina.
William and his brothers lived as neighbors in all these locations.
William married Agnes LONG in Augusta County, Virginia on 19 March 1749. She
was the daughter of Joseph and Ann LONG of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
Her sister, Susannah 'Nancy' LONG had married William's brother, James, twelve
years previously while the families were still in Pennsylvania.
In South Carolina, William served the colonial government as Justice of the
Peace and while serving in this post he kept a journal of accounts, notes,
fines, and the marriages he solemnized, including the date of his own marriage
and other family records. It contained many accounts of customers who bought
things on credit from him while he operated a store from 1762 to 1776. He
owned a plantation of 400 acres on a branch of the Savannah River called the
Northwest Fork of Long Cane Creek.
William and his family suffered heavily in the massacre of 1 February 1760.
His daughter, Catherine, age seven, was killed; Mary, less than three years
old, and Anne, age five, were carried off by the Indians. The fate of these
girls was not known for several years. Mary probably died soon after capture,
but Anne lived and was allowed to return to her family when she was in her
early teens. Agnes CALHOUN, the mother, was expecting her fifth child and
somehow managed to escape being killed. Her child was born only eighteen days
after this tragedy. A few weeks later William was shot in the hand when
Cherokees attacked a small company of militia led by Ulric TOBLER. TOBLER was
scalped, but William and three others escaped.
When the family left Virginia, William owned land on Meadow Run, a branch of
Reed's Creek. In 1762 he returned to Virginia alone, on horseback, to sell his
land and settle unfinished business there. He kept a log of this journey which
took three months and nine days for the roundtrip... [he began his journey 20
Dec 1762, mentioned going to Catawba River the 28th, then to Archibal
CROCKETTs the 29th; to Moses DAVIS' the 30th, to Twelve Mile Creek 31st...
arrived home again to Long Cane 29 Mar 1763]...
William CALHOUN was captured near his home, Calhoun Mills, South Carolina by
the British during the Revolutionary War... [he was carried about 2 miles
away, where he was to be hanged, but colonists rescued him]...
William [in addition to his own familial responsiblities, took care also for
the] well-being of his widowed sister's family, Mary NOBEL, and his deceased
brother James' widow and family. He died in 1789. The first census was taken
in 1790, and shows his wife, Agnes CALHOUN, as head of family, with five
children and three slaves. [brief biographies of children follow]."
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Abbeville SC genweb queries page:
http://members.aol.com/scgenweb/abbeqa-k.htm
CALHOUN - I have been reading your page for a while with great interest. My
family ties are also in Abbeville. I am descended from Patrick CALHOUN, father
of John C. CALHOUN --through the line of John C.'s brother Patrick. My
grandfather Patrick Noble CALHOUN came to Savannah, GA in 1931, my dad was
raised here & I was born here. Any assistance on CALHOUN family genealogy, I
have a great deal in my database and would be happy to share.
Andrew Pickens Calhoun, Jr. : ANDYCJR@aol.com Posted : 10/31/1997
DIRECT LINE OF: Wm. L. Bell.
DIRECT LINE OF: Wm. L. Bell.
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DIRECT LINE OF: Wm. L. Bell.