PICKENS, ANDREW, 1739-1817; b. Paxton Penn.; of Huguenot ancestry; removed with his parents to the Waxhaw settlement, S. C. 1752. He fought in the Cherokee war as a volunteer April, 1761, under col. Grant, and on his return went to the Long Cane settlement. At the beginning of the revolutionary war be was capt. of a militia company, rising to the rank of brig.gen. In Feb., 1779, with 400 men under his com mand, he defeated col. Boyd, with 700 tories at Kettle creek. His horse was shot under hint at the battle of Stone, 1779. In the same year he defeated the Cherokees at Tomas see. He commanded the militia at the battle of Cowpens, twice rallying them after they had been driven t back; and was presented with a sword by congress. In June he captured Augusta. Ga., and while commanding the Carolina militia at the battle of Eutaw, was saved from a fatal wound, by the glancing of the bullet off the buckle of his sword-belt. He conducted another expedition against the Cherokees in 1782, and
gained possession of a large portion of the territory included in the state of Georgia. Soon after the close of the war he was elected to the South Carolina legislature, and represented his district there until 1794; was member of the state constitutional con vention, promoted to maj.gen, of militia 1795, member of the legislature 1801 and 1812. He was commissioner on many occasions to treat with the Indians of the south; securing Pendleton and Greenville, S. C. by the treaty of Hopewell; and soon afterward took up his residence at that place. He was prudent, simple in manners, and of great decision of character. He married Rebecca Calhoun, aunt of John C. Calhoun, in 1765. His son Andrew, a lawyer, gov. of South Carolina 1816-18, d. Miss., 1838.