Joseph P Long, Jr.

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William Calhoun (1.James1) b. ca. 1718, Donegal Co., Ireland, m. 18 Oct 1749, in Abbeville Dist., SC, Agnes Long, (daughter of Joseph Long and Ann). He was in the Massacre of the Indians at Long Creek, SC, and lost one child and 2 of his daughters were captured by the Indians and held in captivity for many years. He was Justice of the Peace for Granville County and later for Ninety-Six District, SC under the Provisional Government. Agnes: Long is a common English name and families of le Long came to Ireland very soon after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1172. Longs settled in Ireland from time to time since then, the great majority of Irish Longs are not of planter stock, but descendants of one of several Gaelic-Irish septs. First there was Ó Longaigh, for which Long is the only anglicized form extant, the earlier O'Longy is obsolete. The O'Longs of Cannaway were a considerable sept in Co. Cork, holding lands from the see of Cork including Garrane I Long in the parish of Moviddy. They lost their properties in the upheavals of the seventeenth century, but remained in their homeland in a reduced position and have been numerous in Co. Cork and other parts of up to now. The Longs of Killoran, who acquired the Everard estate there and assumed that name, though remaining Papists, lost it later through the machinations of the Dublin banker, Alderman Dawson.

The Dawson family of Ulster came to Ireland at the time of the Elizabethan wars and settled in Co. Monaghan becoming barons of Cremorne and Dartrey. Another Dawson family acquired large estates around Portarlington; and a third got possession of the Glen of Aherlow in Co. Tipperary from where the the name Dawson's Table in connexion with the mountain Galtee More. Another patronymic for which Long has been used as the anglicized equivalent is Ó Longáin which is properly made Longan or Langan in English. This is the name of two distinct septs: the Langans of Co. Mayo, where that name is mainly found today, are said to be a branch of the Ulster sept of Co. Armagh, now rare in its original habitat but several times mentioned in the Register of John Swayne, Archbishop of Armagh (1418-1439); the family of Ó Longón, who were erenaghs of Ardpatrick, Co. Limerick, and Patrician stewards of Munster (one of whom was Bishop of Cloyne in the thirteenth century), are now called Long, but in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the O'Longan family of Co. Cork were well known as scribes and poets, the most notable of them being Michael O'Longan (c. 1765-1837), the poet of the United Irishmen. His father was Michael O'Longan (d. 1770) of the well known Croom poetic circle, and his sons Peter, Paul and Joseph were all engaged as Irish scribes.

One other surname remaines to be noted in connexion with Long, Fodha. This is simply the Irish word fada, meaning long or tall, written phonetically; it occured in the modern Co. Waterford birth registrations and is a surname of the adjectival type like Bane, Crone, Lawder, etc., where an epithet has superseded a regular Mac or 0 name.