General Notes

1733 - came to PA from Ireland - settled Lancaster Co., PA.
1741 - her husbanddies - estate settled in Lancaster Co., P
A.
1746 - approx.; moves to AugustaCo., VA with married childr
en (lands
fall into today's Wythe Co, VA). Settledon Crab and Reed Cr
eeks.
1755 - Indian problems in VA cause families to fleeto the C
arolinas,
stopping at the Waxhaw settlements, where they met PICKENSf
amilies, then
moved on to the Long Cane Creek area in SC.
1756 - Calhoun Settlement established in Long Cane region o
f SC.
1760 - killed by indians as the family was fleeing to Augus
ta GA for
safety.
Came from Ireland to US 1733- first to PA, then settled i
n Albemarle Co
VA. After death of her husband, she took her children to Ab
beville Dist
SC in 1755.
JOSEPH HABERSHAM HISTORICAL COLLECTION [I believe this is V
ol. I - tmc]
p. 97-98. "CALHOUN Settlement -Hon. J. C. CALHOUN writes No
v. 21, 1847,
Fort Hill, to Chas. H. ALLEN:
"Myfather (Patrick CALHOUN) with his three brothers and hi
s sister with
her husband arrived in this district (Abbeville), Februar
y 1756, and
settled in a group in what is now known as CALHOUN's Settle
ment, at the
fort [sic] of the twostreams of that name. The names of hi
s brothers
were James, the oldest, Ezekiel, the next, William, the thi
rd, my father
being the youngest. The sister had married Mr. NOBLE...
"... Our family... were the pioneers, and my impression is
, came alone.
My father kept a journal of their emigration from Wythe Cou
nty, as it is
now called, in Virginia...
"...In Feb 1760 the Cherokees madea sudden inroad on CALHOU
N and the
other settlements...The inhabitants fled,but were overtake
n by the
Indians mounted on horseback...they made a desparate strugg
le [but half
were killed] and among them James CALHOUN, the oldest broth
er, who
commanded the party...
"Those...who escaped fled to Augusta [Co VA]...
"The battle was fought on the East Side of Long Cane, nea
r where the old
road from CALHOUN's Settlement to Charleston, called the Ri
dge Road,
crossed it, at a place near to where PATTERSON's bridge cro
sses it. A
tombstone erected by my father to the memory of his mothe
r [Catherine
(MONTGOMERY) CALHOUN], who was among the killed (an old wom
an of
seventy-six years of ages) marks the spot."