Person:Patrick Calhoun (3)

m. Abt 1715
  1. Mary CalhounAbt 1715 -
  2. James Calhoun1716 - 1760
  3. Jean CalhounEst 1718 -
  4. Ezekiel Calhoun1720 - Abt 1762
  5. William Calhoun1725 - Bef 1794
  6. Patrick Calhoun1726/27 - 1796
m.
m. 2 Jun 1770
  1. James Calhoun1771 -
  2. William Calhoun1775 -
  3. Catherine Calhoun1775 - 1796
  4. Patrick Calhoun1777 -
  5. John Caldwell Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States1782 - 1850
Facts and Events
Name Patrick Calhoun
Gender Male
Birth? 11 Jan 1726/27 County Donegal, Ireland
Marriage [1st wife]
to Jane Craighead
Marriage 2 Jun 1770 to Martha Caldwell
Residence? Ninety-Six, South Carolina, United States
Death[3] 15 Jan 1796 Long Cane Creek, Abbeville, South Carolina, United States
Burial[2] Calhoun Cemetery, Abbeville, South Carolina, United States
Reference Number? Q7146195?
Reference Number? Q19019698?

Working notes

  • 1733 - emigrated to Pennsylvania with his parents
  • Abt 1755 - moved to Long Cane Settlement in South Carolina after Braddock's defeat
  • 1760 - settlement attacked by Cherokees in the Long Cane Massacre ; 23 settlers were killed in a bloody massacre, including Patrick's mother, Catherine Calhoun ; Patrick later commissioned a memorial stone for all of those killed
  • 1764 - captain of SC Rangers, 5 Jun 1764
  • 1766 - 1st wife Jane (Craighead) Calhoun died
  • 1769 to 1772 - member of SC assembly
  • 1770 - married 2nd Martha Caldwell
  • 1775 to 1776 - member of SC assembly
  • 1776 to 1796 - member of SC and Provincial Congress
  • deputy Surveyor for Ninety-Six District ; laid out many of the tracts of his neighbors
  • Abt 1840 - son John C. Calhoun had a memorial stone erected for him that was cut in Washington D.C.
References
  1.   Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. (Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Historical Society)
    247.

    On October 16, 1765, Patrick Calhoun of the Province of South Carolina and County of Granville, and settlement of Long Cane (Creek) of the one part, and Hugh Montgomery of the other part, conveyed 610 acres of land situated on Reed Creek and a branch thereof. Deed Book 14, p. 1.

    These conveyances show that Patrick Calhoun, the great grandfather of John C. Calhoun, removed from Augusta County, Virginia to South Carolina, in the year 1765.

  2. 28792935 , in Find A Grave
    includes headstone photo, last accessed Dec 2022.
  3. Augusta chronicle and gazette of the state (Augusta, Georgia)
    27 Feb 1796.

    DIED. On Monday the 15th instant, at his seat in Abbeville county, South Carolina, in the 69th year of his age, the honorable Patric Calhoun, lamented by a numerous train of relations and acquaintances. Few men have served their country in as many different capacities as he did, with more general approbation.

  4.   Patrick Calhoun (immigrant), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
    last accessed Dec 2022.

    Patrick Calhoun (11 June 1727– 15 January 1796), was born in County Donegal, Ireland, but emigrated to Virginia with his parents in 1733, and from there the family made their way to South Carolina. ...

  5.   Cannon, Margaret H, and South Carolina Historical Society. South Carolina genealogies: articles from the South Carolina historical (and genealogical) magazine. (Spartanburg, South Carolina: Published in association with the South Carolina Historical Society by Reprint Company, 1983)
    1:251, 257.
  6.   Salley, A. S. (Alexander Samuel). The Calhoun Family of South Carolina. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1979)
    9.
  7.   The Dictionary of national biography. (London: Oxford University Press, 1912-)
    8:253.

    CALHOUN, PATRICK (1727–1796), American settler, was born in Ireland in 1727. His father emigrated in 1733 to Pennsylvania, and several years afterwards to the western part of Virginia. When that settlement, after the defeat of Braddock, was broken up by the Indians, the family removed to Long Cane, Abbeville, in the interior of South Carolina, on the confines of the Cherokee Indians. In the war of 1759 half of the settlement was destroyed, and the remnant retired to the older settlements, but on the conclusion of peace in 1763 Calhoun and others returned. Calhoun was appointed to the command of a body of rangers for the defence of the frontiers, in which he displayed great intrepidity and skill. He was the first member of the provincial legislature elected from the upper county of the state, and was afterwards elected to the state legislature, of which, with the intermission of a single term, he remained a member till his death. In the revolutionary war he took an active part on the patriot side. He died in 1796. By his wife, a Miss Caldwell, of Charlotte county, Va., he had several children, one of whom, John Caldwell Calhoun, became vice-president of the United States.

    [Allen's American Biographical Dictionary; Von Holst's Life of John C. Calhoun (1882).]