Patrick Calhoun

DAR Ancestor # A018304

• from Find A Grave Memorial# 28792935

Early South Carolina Pioneer

The history of the upstate of South Carolina would not be complete without mentioning Patrick Calhoun. Born in Ireland and immigrated to Pennsylvania, he came to South Carolina after Braddock's defeat, around 1755.

He became captain of the South Carolina Rangers June 5, 1764. He was a member of the South Carolina assembly 1769-1772, & 1775-1776. He was a member of the South Carolina and Provincial Congress from 1776-1796, and also a member of the South Carolina legislature. He married twice, first to a Ms. Craighead, who died in 1766, and then to Martha Caldwell, who was the mother of US Vice President John C. Calhoun.

Patrick, John C. Calhoun's father, also was a fierce Indian fighter as noted in the Battle at Long Canes SC that began the French & Indian war in SC on Feb 1, 1760. Many of the settlement was killed in that battle including Patrick Calhoun's aged mother of 76. Patrick Calhoun had Andrew McComb a local millwright to carve a stone to the memory of Catherine Calhoun & the other 22 slain, about twenty years later, which still stands.

Patrick bacame a deputy Surveyor for the Ninety Six Distict and laid out many of the tracts of his close neighbors. Patrick surveyed almost up to his death.

His son John C. Calhoun had a marker erected for him around 1840 that was cut in Washington D.C.

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1. Clan Colquhoun Lewin Dwinell McPherson, A.B., A.M., author of CALHOUN, HAMILTON, BASKIN AND RELATED FAMILIES, traces the genealogy out of Patrick Calhoun of Ulster, North of Ireland. All information on these pages was abstracted from said source.

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Birth: Jun. 11, 1727 County Donegal, Ireland Death: Jan. 15, 1796 Calhoun Falls Abbeville County South Carolina, USA

Early SC Pioneer. The history of the upstate of South Carolina would not be complete without mentioning Patrick Calhoun. Born in Ireland and immagrated to Pennsylvania, he came to South Carolina after Braddock's defeat, around 1755. He became captain of the South Carolina Rangers June 5, 1764. He was a member of the South Carolina assembly 1769-1772, & 1775-1776. He was a member of the South Carolina and Provincial Congress from 1776-1796, and also a member of the South Carolina legislature. He married twice, first to a Ms. Craighead, who died in 1766, and then to Martha Caldwell, who was the mother of US Vice President John C. Calhoun. Patrick, John C. Calhoun's father, also was a fierce Indian fighter as noted in the Battle at Long Canes SC that began the French & Indian war in SC on Feb 1, 1760. Many of the settlement was killed in that battle including Patrick Calhoun's aged mother of 76. Patrick Calhoun had Andrew McComb a local millwright to carve a stone to the memory of Catherine Calhoun & the other 22 slain, about twenty years later, which still stands. Patrick bacame a deputy Surveyor for the Ninety Six Distict and laid out many of the tracts of his close neighbors. Patrick surveyed almost up to his death. His son John C. Calhoun had a marker erected for him around 1840 that was cut in Washington D.C.

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Parents:

 James Patrick Calhoun (1688 - 1741)

 Catherine Montgomery Calhoun (1684 - 1760)

Spouses:

 Jane Craighead Calhoun (1742 - 1766)*

 Martha Caldwell Calhoun (1750 - 1802)*

Children:

 Catherine Calhoun Waddel (1775 - 1796)*

 William Caldwell Calhoun (1776 - 1840)*

 James Calhoun (1779 - 1843)*

 John C. Calhoun (1782 - 1850)*

 John Caldwell Calhoun (1782 - 1850)*

 Patrick Calhoun (1784 - 1840)*

Siblings:

 Mary Catherine Calhoun Noble (1713 - 1756)*

 James Calhoun (1716 - 1760)*

 William Caldwell Calhoun (1723 - 1790)*

 Patrick Calhoun (1727 - 1796)

 Ezekiel Colhoun (1729 - ____)**

*Calculated relationship

• *Half-sibling

Inscription: Patrick Calhoun the father of Catherine, William, James, John Caldwell, and Patrick Calhoun, Jr. Born in the County of Donegal, Ireland June 11,1727, and died January 15, 1796 in his 69th year.

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Burial: Calhoun Cemetery Abbeville County South Carolina, USA

Created by: David Gillespie Record added: Aug 05, 2008 Find A Grave Memorial# 28792935

References

1. http://www.next1000.com/family/EC/LongCane.massacre.html
2. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Patrick_Calhoun_(3)
3. 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.
4. 28792935 , in Find A Grave includes headstone photo, last accessed Dec 2022.
5. Augusta chronicle and gazette of the state (Augusta, Georgia) 27 Feb 1796.
6. 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.
7. 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. ...
8. 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.
9. Salley, A. S. (Alexander Samuel). The Calhoun Family of South Carolina. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1979) # 9.
10. 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).]