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.
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.
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.
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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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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