Calhoun and Bonneau information I have on file can be found below.
Because of the family's political connections and economic successes there
is much information on file, especially in SC and at libraries and historic
societies. You can do a web search on Floride Bonneau and actually come up
with quite a bit of information. Just remember to check the sources for
authentication and "proof."
For more info:
1. Mary JERMAN was born 1726, and died 1791. She married Samuel BONNEAU
1759, son of Capt. Anthony BONNEAU and Jeanne Elizabeth VIDEAU. He was born
1725 in <London, England>, and died 1788.
Children of Mary JERMAN and Samuel BONNEAU are:
2 i. Elizabeth BONNEAU was born Abt 1751.
+ 3 ii. Floride BONNEAU was born Abt 1750 in <Charleston, South Carolina>.
Generation No. 2
3. Floride BONNEAU (Mary JERMAN1) was born Abt 1750 in <Charleston, South
Carolina>. She married John Ewing CALHOUN 8 Oct 1786 in Charleston, South
Carolina, son of Ezekiel CALHOUN and Jane EWING. He was born 1749 in
<Charleston, South Carolina>, and died 26 Oct 1802.
Children of Floride BONNEAU and John Ewing CALHOUN are:
4 i. Benjamin COLHOUN was born Abt 1788 in <Charleston, South Carolina>.
+ 5 ii. Floride Bonneau CALHOUN was born 15 Feb 1792 in <Charleston, South
Carolina>, and died 25 Jul 1866.
6 iii. Caroline COLHOUN was born Abt 1790 in <Charleston, South
Carolina>.
+ 7 iv. John Ewing COLHOUN was born 1791 in Charleston, South Carolina.
8 v. James Edward COLHOUN was born 4 Jul 1798 in <Charleston, South
Carolina>.
9 vi. William Sheridan COLHOUN was born Abt 1800 in <Charleston, South
Carolina>.
General:
John Ewing Colhoun (1750 - October 26, 1802) was a United States senator and
lawyer from South Carolina.
Early life
Colhoun was born in Staunton, Virginia, he attended the common schools and
graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1774.
He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1778 to
1800. He studied to be a lawyer and was admitted to the bar in 1783,
commencing practice in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a farmer and was
elected a member of the privy council and was also a commissioner of
confiscated estates in 1785.
Family
The Colhoun family were originally from Dumbartonshire in Scotland. Colhoun
married Floride Bonneau. They had three children, John Ewing Colhoun, Jr. ,
who became a planter, James Edward Colhoun (1798-1889 later changed last
name to Calhoun), who would become an officer in the U.S. Navy in the 1820s
and, too, was a planter, and Floride Bonneau Colhoun (1792-1866) who married
her father's first cousin John Caldwell Calhoun making him also be Colhoun's
son-in-law. She became Second Lady of the United States in 1825. Colhoun was
also a first cousin of Joseph Calhoun, and the brother-in-law of Andrew
Pickens.
Senator
In 1801, Colhoun was a member of the South Carolina Senate and was a member
of the committee which was instructed to report a modification of the
judiciary system of the United States. He was elected as a
Democratic-Republican to the 7th United States Congress as a senator,
serving from March 4, 1801 until his death on October 26, 1802 in Pendleton,
South Carolina. He was interned in the family cemetery in the Old Pendleton
District (now Pickens County, South Carolina).
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John Ewing Colhoun Papers, 1774-1961,
Abbeville, Charleston, and Pendleton Districts, South Carolina
Description of the Collection
John Ewing Colhoun (1750-1802) was a planter, lawyer, South Carolina
legislator, and United States senator. The bulk of this collection consists
of correspondence and financial and legal papers pertaining to the
plantations of John Ewing Colhoun, with scattered papers and correspondence
also appearing on Colhoun's law business. The papers do not provide any
information on Colhoun's political career. The collection also includes a
few papers related to plantations owned by James Edward Calhoun, several
letters addressed to William Moultrie Reid, and a few miscellaneous items.
Financial and legal papers include plantation accounts, slave lists,
overseer contracts, warrants, bonds, indentures, affidavits, deeds, estate
papers, and clippings. The collection is arranged as follows: Series 1.
Correspondence--Subseries 1.1. 1789-1802, Subseries 1.2. 1803-1810,
Subseries 1.3. 1816-1824, Subseries 1.4. Undated (ca. 1792-1824); Series 2.
Financial and Legal Papers; Series 3. Other Papers--Subseries 3.1.
Clippings, Subseries 3.2. Miscellaneous Items; and Series 4. Pictures.
Biographical Note
John Ewing Colhoun (1750-1802) was born in Staunton, Virginia. He attended
Princeton College, and graduated in 1774. After studying law and being
admitted to the bar in 1783, he set up practice in Charleston, South
Carolina, working mostly in estate settlements and personal injury suits.
Colhoun later acquired several plantations across the state, including his
Santee Plantation in St. Stephen's Parish, his Keowee and 12 Mile
plantations in the Pendleton District, and his Pimlico and Bonneau's Ferry
plantations in St. John's Parish. Another plantation he owned, the location
of which is unclear, was called Mount Prospect. Colhoun grew mostly indigo,
rice, oats, and vegetables on his plantations. He also raised cattle and
bred horses. From 1778 to 1800 Colhoun served in the South Carolina House of
Representatives; in 1801 he served in the state Senate; and from March 4,
1801, until his death on October 26, 1802, he served as a Democrat in the
United States Senate.
Colhoun married Floride Bonneau, a member of a prominent South Carolina
Huguenot family, and they had at least three children.
John Ewing Colhoun, Jr., was a planter in Pendleton, South Carolina, and
another son, James Edward Calhoun (he changed the spelling of the surname),
served as an officer in the U.S. Navy in the 1820s, and later became a
planter as well. He owned Midway and Millwood plantations, located in
Abbeville District. Their daughter, Floride, married John C. Calhoun
(1782-1850) in 1811. (John C. Calhoun's father, Patrick Calhoun, was a
cousin of John Ewing Colhoun.) After John Ewing Colhoun's death, his wife,
Floride, seems to have had little to do with managing his properties. She
spent her summers in Newport, Rhode Island, staying in South Carolina only
during the winter months.
William Moultrie Reid, for whom several letters appear in the collection,
lived in Charleston from 1816 to 1820 and served as a member of the
Charleston Riflemen in 1819, but nothing beyond that is known about him.
Letters written to him address him as William Moultrie Reid, Esq., so he may
have been a lawyer.
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And, one generation down:
Floride Calhoun (February 15, 1792 - July 25, 1866) was the wife of
prominent U.S. politician John C. Calhoun.
She was born Floride Bonneau Colhoun to U.S. Senator John Ewing Colhoun and
Floride Bonneau. She married John C. Calhoun, her first-cousin-once-removed
(her father's first cousin) on January 8, 1811. Soon after their marriage,
her husband was elected to Congress, leaving his wife in charge of his
plantation, "Fort Hill", in Clemson, South Carolina. Within the next
eighteen years, she gave birth to ten children, including five sons and five
daughters, although three daughters died in infancy.
In 1817, she accompanied her husband to Washington upon his appointment as
Secretary of War. Eight years later, She became Second Lady of the United
States, with her husband's election as Vice President, serving in that role
from 1825 to 1832. During her tenure as Second Lady, she became embroiled in
a social scandal involving Peggy Eaton, the wife of Secretary of War John
Eaton, in what became known as the Petticoat Affair. Floride had organized a
coalition among the wives of Jackson cabinet members against Peggy Eaton,
whom Floride discovered had committed adultery with Eaton while still
married to her first husband John B. Timberlake. The affair allegedly drove
Timberlake to suicide after he discovered the affair. The coalition resulted
in the resignation of Jackson's Cabinet, except Secretary of State Martin
Van Buren, who was a widower. The social ostracism of Mrs. Eaton by Mrs.
Calhoun further damaged already-strained relations between Vice President
Calhoun and President Andrew Jackson.
Following her husband's resignation as Vice President and election to the
United States Senate, she returned to "Fort Hill", resuming her former
status as a plantation mistress. Following the death of her husband in 1850,
she sold the plantation to one of her sons and moved to a smaller house in
Pendleton, South Carolina, which she dubbed "Mi Casa". Over the next fifteen
years, she endured the deaths of six of her seven surviving children. She
regained control of the "Fort Hill" plantation upon the death of her sole
surviving son in 1865, and died at the plantation the following year, aged
74.
More info on the daughter here with portraits:
http://www.clemson.edu/about/historicalfigures/floridecalhoun.html
... A portrait of the beautiful 18-year-old bride, fashionably dressed in an
empire gown, hangs over the dining room mantel at Fort Hill. On another
romantic note, also exhibited at Fort Hill is one delicate lace sleeve from
Floride's wedding dress.
Shortly after her marriage, Floride was thrust into political life as the
wife of a U.S. representative. She also faced setting up a new home near
Bath, S.C., purchased by Calhoun so that he could establish himself as a
planter. Before the age of 25, Floride had given birth to four children:
Andrew Pickens (1811-1865), Floride Pure (1814-1815), Jane (1816-1816) and
Anna Maria (1817-1875).
... She bore 10 children during Calhoun's assent to power. Her six youngest
children were Elizabeth (1819-1820), Patrick (1821-1858), John Jr.
(1823-1855), Martha Cornelia (1824-1857), James Edward (1826-1861) and
William Lowndes (1829-1858).
ALSO NOTE:
Two of Floride's lifelong interests were music and religion. She was an
accomplished pianist, and her small pianoforte is on view in the parlor. As
a teenager, Floride proved herself a talented musician and played the organ
at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Newport, R.I. In gratitude, the
congregation presented her a Prayer Book and a silver baptismal bowl.
Floride was a devout Episcopalian and was instrumental in raising money for
a pump organ, which is still played in St. Paul's Church of Pendleton.
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Ken, Thanks for the info. Robert Ewing married Jane Bonneau in Sep 1785. Do
you know if Jane and Floride were related? Do you know what nationality
were the Bonneau's, when/where they came to America?
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