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 Pickens,
ANDREW, military officer; born in Paxton, Bucks co.,
Pennsylvania, September
19, 1739. His parents, who were of
Huguenot descent, went to
South Carolina in 1752.
Andrew served in the Cherokee War in 1761, and at the beginning of
the Revolutionary War was made a captain of militia and soon rose to
the rank of brigadier-general. He, with
Marion and
Sumter, by their zeal and boldness,
kept alive the spirit of resistance in the South when
Cornwallis
overran South Carolina. He performed excellent service in the field
during the war, and for his conduct at the
battle of the Cowpens
Congress voted him a sword. He led the Carolina militia in the
battle of Eutaw Springs,
and, in 1782, a successful expedition against the Cherokees. From
the close of the war till 1793 he was in the South Carolina
legislature, and was in Congress from 1793 to 1795. In the latter
year he was made major-general of militia, and was in the
legislature from 1801 to 1812. A treaty made by him with the
Cherokees obtained from the latter the region of South Carolina now
known as Pendleton and Greenville districts, and he settled in the
former district, where he died August 17, 1817. |
