General Notes

THE SCOTCH-IRISH or THE SCOT IN NORTH BRITAIN, NORTH IRELAN
D, & NORTH
AMERICAby Charles A. Hanna, Vol II, published by Genealogic
al Publishing
Co., Inc.1985: In the year 1756 Patrick Calhoun, with fou
r families of
his friends, settled on Long Cane in Abbeville. On his arri
val, there
were only two familiesof white settlers, one named Gowdy, t
he other
Edwards, in that south-westernextremity of the upper countr
y. The
progress of settlement which commenced in or about 1750 wa
s so very slow,
for five years, that in the beginning of 1756, the whole nu
mber of
families scarcely exceeded twenty. In that and the three fo
llowing years,
there was a great influx of inhabitants from the middleprov
inces.
ARTICLE BY LOWE HAYDN BIBBY, JR. (4th great-grandson of Jam
es Patrick
Calhoun) 1967:Patrick Calhoun, Esquire, of SC, participate
d with his
parents, his sister Mary Catherine and her husband John Nob
le, and with
his three brothers, James, Ezekiel and William, in emigrati
ng in 1733
from County Donegal, Ireland to Chesnut Level in Lancaste
r Co.,
Pennsylvania, having firstlanded in Philadelphia.
After the death of the father, in 1741 in Lancaster Co., th
e family moved
in 1746 to Augusta (now Wythe) County, Virginia and finall
y in Jan. and
Feb. of 1756 to the Long Cane Creek area of Prince Willia
m Parish,
Granville (now Abbeville) Co., SC. All the brothers,their m
other and
their sister's family moved together in each change of loca
tion.
Soon after their arrival in SC, Patrick was commissioned b
y Egerton Leigh
(Surveyor-General of the Colony of SC) as a Deputy Surveyor
. As such he
proceeded to lay outat Long Cane Creek much acreage as home
steads for
all the Calhoun families and others. He was appointed by th
e SC Assembly
on June 5, 1764 as Captain ofa company of Rangers to protec
t the Long
Cane Settlement against incursions by Indians. He was mad
e Justice of the
Peace for Granville Co. and after 1769for Ninety Six Distri
ct. At the
election of March 7 & 8, 1769 he was electedto the Common
s House of
Assembly from Prince William Parish, Ninety Six District (f
ormerly
Granville Co.). He served until the next election in 1772 a
s the first
Representative from the "up country" of SC. He practiced la
w in SC.
At the commencement of the Revolutionary struggle in SC h
e was sent as a
Deputy to the First Provincial Congress, from Jan. 11 to No
v. 1, 1775,
when he was re-elected to the Second Provincial Congress. A
s a member of
that body, hebecame a member of the First General Assembl
y (March 26-Oct
21, 1776) of theState of SC when the Provincial Congress ad
opted an
independent constitutionon March 26, 1776 and resolved itse
lf into a
Gen. Assembly. He subsequently served in almost every Gen
. Assembly until
his death, being a Senator at thattime. He was elected by t
he Gen.
Assembly in 1791 to be one of three Judges of the Co. Cour
t of Abbeville
(formerly Ninety Six) District, SC.
Patrick Calhoun, Esquire is recorded in the U.S. Census o
f 1790 for
Abbeville Dist., SC,as head of family composed of three mal
es over 16
years, four under 16, three females, and 31 slaves.He buil
t near Calhoun
Mills, SC, in 1790, the firstframe house in Abbeville Distr
ict, sending
to England for papering for its inner walls which were prin
ted with
English hunting scenes. He named his new home there "ROSSDH
U" for the
Calhoun ancestral seat in Scotland.
TWENTIETH CENTURY BIOGRAPHICAL DIRCTIONARY OF NOTABLE AMERI
CANS, Vol. II,
page 95
Patrickcame to America with his father, James Calhoun, whe
n 6 years old.
They leftIreland in 1731, located in Pennsylvania, moved t
o the banks of
the Kanawa inVirginia and after Braddock's defeat (after be
ing driven
out by the Indians), he with his sons settled in SC in 175
6 and
established Calhoun settlement in what became Abbeville dis
trict.
HOPEWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
A marker in the McCormick Co.