Pursuant to a call signed by nearly a hundred representative persons of the South, the Southern History Association was organized at the Columbian University, Washington, D. C., on the evening of April 24, 1896, for the purpose of studying the history of the Southern States. In carrying out this aim an annual meeting is held, and a Bi-monthly Publication issued. The Association also desires contributions of journals, letters, manuscripts and other material towards the beginning of a collection of historical sources. It will gladly accept papers based on research and documents on all subjects touching the South. All persons, as well as libraries, interested in the work are eligible for membership, without initiation fee; annual dues $3.00, life dues $30.00. There is no other expense to members, who receive all current publications of the Association free of charge. The publications alone can be had, postpaid, at $3.00 per volume, unbound, or $1.00 per number. All communications should be addressed to P. O. Box 65. COLYER MERIWETHER, Secretary. William Calhoun was one of four Calhoun brothers who came to South Carolina from Augusta County, Virginia, in 1756, and settled on Long Cane Creek in what is now Abbeville County. He was for some years a justice of the peace, and this little journal, which has his name written in lead pencil across the outside cover and bears conclusive internal evidence of having been his, contains a mixture of accounts, personal notes, official records and family records. It covers no particular period, the accounts and personal notes coming between 1760 and 1770, some family records earlier and some later. It contains references to many of the early settlers of the Up-Country of South Carolina and a few records that will be of great value to many families of that section, for it is to such contemporary records in private hands that we must turn for genealogical data about Up-Country families, as in none of the old districts of South Carolina, save Charleston District, were probate court and mesne conveyance records kept prior to 1785, and most of the districts were not established until 1798. And, moreover, the Presbyterians of the Up-Country kept no such excellent vital records as did the church people of the Low-Country, so that very little is to be gathered about the families of that section from public sources. The little book is now in the hands of Miss Eliza Calhoun, who lives at the Louise Home on Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D. C. It is six inches long by three and a half wide, containing sixty-two pages, of which thirty are entirely blank. The cover of the book is apparently of heavy tough brown paper, double sheets, stitched together around the edges. The ink has slightly faded but is perfectly clear except in a very few places. The handwriting is very cramped and the exact spelling of some of the proper names cannot be guaranteed. The accounts were presumably all settled as all were marked off-with crosses mostly, and with a line drawn up and down in other places. & also 2 quarts of Liquir Remains yet-0-9 dew to Jo" Breezeal 0-3-31 1762. Set from home ye 20th of December and came to hard Labour ye 21 to abranch of Little River ye 22 over Broad River ye 23 to Rock Rocky Creek where I stayed till ye 25 ye 26 My Horse died the 28 to ye Cataba River ye 29 to Archabald Crockettes ye 30 to Moses Davies ye 31 to 12 Mile Creek and so on to Virginia and arrived home again at Longe-Cane the 29th day of March 1763.3 1 Crawford. 2 Hard Labor Creek. Before settling on Long Cane Creek, in what is now Abbeville County, South Carolina, in 1756, the Calhoun family had lived in Augusta County, Virginia, and had lands there which necessitated occasional trips to Virginia by members of the family. Will Hampton to I Dito Jon Bole to-1 Dito Jas Turnbull to I Dito Alex Mc Calpen to lb. 8 pork Jas Thomson to lb. 13 Alex McCalpen I bushal flour Ebenezer Wastcot I pint of Rum Andrew Pickens I pint of Rum quart of Rum |