His grandfather, Janes Cathe bis family who at are in 1733, and settled in Pennylators, for whines be removed The new home being broken up on the defeat of the aufortauste enddock, retrove; and he established himself in South Carolina, in a district which the Calhoun Settlement. In this place he experienced the rape fu Indians, and after a desperate struggle with them, in which his wife, bis veral other members of the family were massacred, he abandoned the settlement, it until after the establishment of pane. Patrick Calhoun, a son of the her of the subject of this sketch, displayed the most indomitable persever the struggle with the Cherokees, and the services was appointed to the f provincial rangers, raised for the defence of the froutler. He was a toan ud active ebaracter, and not only served with one sná renown against rares, bet, later in life, during the wave of the holote, rendered signal bosuđivaland modal role ed the profession Alpage we wond shadst of the turmoil ty and becane well versed in the South Aarolina provincial the State aegislature for y at it look away the aereignty