Andrew Pickens
" Andrew Pickens commenced his earthly existence in Bucks County, Pennsylvania on the 13th of September 1739. When Andrew was a child his father removed to Augusta County, Virginia, and then to Waxhaw, in South Carolina. Andrew commenced a brilliant military career in the French war,served with Marion and Moultrie in 1761 in the sanguinary expedition against the Cherokees under Lieut. Colonel Grant and became a hardy frontier warrior. When mother Britain became insolent and oppressive he was as ready to fight as he had been to serve her. He became a terror to the refugees alias Tories. At Kettle Creek he pounced upon an Army of them under Colonel Boyd of double his force and flogged them so severely that they were quiet until the British Army afterwards spread over the south. At the Cowpens he commanded the militia and inspired them with the courage of veteran regulars. Congress voted him a sword for his gallantry on that occasion. At Eutaw he commanded the Carolina militia in conjunction with Marion. He was severely wounded in the breast by a musket ball early in the action and but for the buckle of his sword belt would have been shot through. When Charleston surrendered he was obliged to flee before the enemy to North Carolina and was among the first to rally under the indomitable Greene. In 1781 he commanded the last expedition against the Cherokees and laid the foundations of the peace that has never since been broken. Through the entire course of his military career he stood approved by his superiors and beloved by those under his command. He rose to the rank of brigadier-general in the regular Army and was made major-general of militia in 1794. At the close of the war he filled several civil offices and aided essentially in consummating the treaty of Hopewell with the Cherokees to which place he removed soon after. He was a member of the convention that formed the Constitution of his State, a member of the legislature and in 1794 was elected to Congress. In 1797 he was returned to the legislature of his State where he remained fourteen consecutive years. He was a commissioner in all the treaties with the southern Indians. In this department Washington considered him the most useful man of that time. He took a deep interest in the war of 1812 and was that year governor of his State. He then retired to private life full of honors and years with a fame that will grow richer as it shall be rehearsed by each succeeding generation. His private character was as spotless as his public life was brilliant. He died at his residence on the 11th of October 1817."Source: The Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by L. Carroll Judson
Quoted from Hero Implants by Jeannette Holland Austin:
" General Andrew Pickens was born Paxton township, Pennsylvania on September 17, 1739. In 1752, his Irish parents had immigrated to Pennsylvania and taken the Wilderness trail across Cumberland Gap and the Appalachian Mountains into the far reaches of western Virginia to Augusta County. The Pickens family, among others, had to endure the Indian troubles of the far west, so at some point they went back East and settled in South Carolina, in the Waxhaws. General Pickens was actively engaged in the Indian wars and the Revolution. He was most conspicious for his valor at the Cowpens, Haw River, Augusta (Georgia) and the battle of Eutaw, South Carolina."