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The Calhoun family is a diverse group of people.  Within this family are stories worth telling; of ships and slaves and the ill repute of statesmen.  Some of these stories will be told here.  But, while I share a name with the Great Nullifier, John Caldwell Calhoun, genetics say we are not “close kin”.  So, most of the stories will be about what I’ve learned of my own line.

Typical of many early Scots-Irish settlers, my family arrived at Philadelphia before 1730 and moved west to the Susquehanna river near Harrisburg, PA. The image above is the account book of the Rev. John Roan with whom we have ties by marriage.  In hard years Geo. Calhoon paid his subscription to the church with a bushel of salt.

After Braddock’s defeat they went South, first working on the Great Wagon Road near Roanoke, VA and then settling near Charlotte, NC. It appears they received a military land grant through service in the Revolutionary War and took land near Lebanon, TN. From there they moved farther west to St. Cloud, MN as missionaries to the Winnebago. Now we are spread from the East to the West Coast.

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