Brig. General Andrew PICKENS, Jr. the “Wizard Owl”

1739 - 1817  (77 years)

• Name	Andrew PICKENS  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
  Prefix	Brig. General
  Suffix	Jr. the “Wizard Owl”
  Birth	13/19 Sep 1739	Paxton Township, Buck County, Pennsylvania   [4, 6]
  Gender	Male
  HIST	His ancestors left France after the Edict of Nantes. They went first to Scotland, then to Ireland and then to America. The family then removed to Augusta County, Virginia, and soon after to the Waxhaws in South Carolina before he had attained the age of manhood. While residing at Hopewell, he with General Robert Anderson, built the first Presbyterian Church near where the old Stone Church now stands. When Pendleton District, (South Carolina), was formed he was one of the county judges, and held the first court ever held therein. About what time he removed to his beautiful and valuable farm, Tomassee, now in Oconee County, (South Carolina),is not known, but he was evidently residing there when the War of 1812 broke out. In this emergency he was again pressed into public service. He accepted a seat in the Legislature and was pressed to accept the office of Governor at this eventful crisis, which he declined because he thought the office should be left to more youthful hands. He moved to his beautiful and valuable farm, Tamassee, now in Oconee County, South Carolina before the War of 1812 broke out.  [6, 7, 8]
  MILI	In 1761 he served as a volunteer with Moultrie and Marion, in a bloody but successful expedition under Colonel Grant against the Cherokees. After the termination of that war he removed to Long Cane settlement in Abbeville, South Carolina. At an early period he took a positive stand against Great Britain, and at the commencement of the war was appointed captain of militia; rose to Major, Colonel and Brigadier General. In the most despondent period of the war with such leaders as Sumter and Marion he kept up the spirit of resistance against the British, Tories and Indians. In 1781 he commanded in chief the expedition against the Cherokees in the northwest corner of the State and such was his success in a short time he so subdued the spirit of that then powerful nation that a peace so permanent was effected that it since has not been disturbed. He fought at Cowpens, Eutaw, King’s Mountain, and in many minor engagements both with British and Indians. In fact he stood as a power of strength, and was the great protector of all the Whig settlers in upper South Carolina. He was appointed Major General of militia. the “Wizard Owl” of the Piedmont and Uplands General in Revolution he has a full cousin, named Andrew Pickens, who has a pension application (S3697)- is that Andrew the son of Robert or Gabriel? jkh  [2, 4, 6, 7]
  Occupation	He served in the State Convention, in the Legislature and in Congress  [7]
  Religion	he with General Robert Anderson built the 1st Presbyterian Church near where the Old Stone Church now stands  [8, 9]
  _UID	FA309B6D1CF64538AF96153CA6D29346A8B5
  Death	11 Aug 1817	at his home near Walhalla, Pendleton District, South Carolina   [4, 8, 10]
  Burial	Old Stone Church Cemetery, near Pendleton, Anderson County, (old Pendleton District) South Carolina   [7]
  Person ID	I178760	Singleton and Related Families
  Last Modified	25 Jul 2007

  
  

  Father	Andrew PICKENS, Sr.,   b. 1699, Ireland d. 1757, Anson County, North Carolina (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Ann (Nancy) DAVIS,   b. Ireland d. 1776, Long Cane, South Carolina
  Marriage	Abt 1728  [4]
  _UID	A1CDEB67E61F49F09E7D656EE8D722B7848E
  _UID	A1CDEB67E61F49F09E7D656EE8D722B7848E
  Family ID	F122300	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rebecca Ewing CALHOUN,   b. 18 Mar/Nov/Dec 1745, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania d. 9/19 Dec 1814, Long Cane, South Carolina (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	19 Mar 1765  [4, 7, 8]
  _UID	2D40A6D966314CA599B108FBDD19E1942C1C
  _UID	2D40A6D966314CA599B108FBDD19E1942C1C
  Children	1. Mary PICKENS,   b. 19 Feb 1766, Waxhaw, South Carolina d. 27 May 1836, Tamassee, South Carolina (Age 70 years)   2. Ezekiel PICKENS, I,   b. 30 Mar 1768   d. May 1813 (Age 45 years)   3. Ann PICKENS,   b. 12 Apr 1770   d. 20 Mar 1846, Pensacola, Florida (Age 75 years)   4. son PICKENS,   b. 12 Feb 1772   d. in infancy   5. Jane Bonneau PICKENS,   b. 9 Nov 1774   d. 28 Mar 1848, Pontotock, Mississippi (Age 73 years)   6. Daughter - Jean PICKENS,   b. Mar 1775/3   d. 27 Oct 1778   7. Margaret PICKENS,   b. 13 Jul 1777   d. 4 Dec 1830 (Age 53 years)   8. Governor Andrew PICKENS, III,   b. 13 Nov 1779, Edgefield County, South Carolina d. 24 Jun/Jul 1838, Pontotock, Mississippi (Age 58 years)   9. son PICKENS,   b. 13 Nov 1782   d. in infancy   10. Rebecca PICKENS,   b. 3 Jan 1784   d. Abbeville District, South Carolina   11. Catherine PICKENS,   b. 9 Jun 1785   d. 18 May 1871, Salatu (Age 85 years)   12. Joseph PICKENS,   b. 30 Mar 1791   d. 3 Feb, Eutaw, Green County, Alabama
  Family ID	F121492	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Jul 2007

  
  

• Notes

  Pease being restored he served his country continuously in some public office until 1801. He made a treaty with the Cherokees by which that territory embraced in the counties of Greenville, Anderson, Pickens, and Oconee was ceded to the State. This treaty was made at Hopewell on the banks of the Seneca River nearby Cherry’s Crossing on the Blue Ridge Railroad. Soon after this treaty he removed to Hopewell and erected a dwelling on the hill a short distance from the tree under which the treaty was made. He owned a large body of land on Seneca River, the lower part of which he subsequently gave to his son, Ezekiel Pickens. The best source of data on the early Pickens family is the letter written by General Andrew Pickens from Pendleton District, S. C., Aug. 28, 1811 (State Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin) [4, 11]

  
  

• Sources

  [S6828] R. W. Simpson, (Southern Historical Press % The Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr. - P.O. Bos 738 - Easley, South Carolina 29640), page 178, 189. [S6901] Beth Ann Klosky, (Sandlapper Press, Inc., Columbia, South Carolina), page 13. [S6903] . [S8911] . [S602] (Somerset Publishers, Inc.), page 250. [S6828] R. W. Simpson, (Southern Historical Press % The Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr. - P.O. Bos 738 - Easley, South Carolina 29640), page 189. [S6828] R. W. Simpson, (Southern Historical Press % The Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr. - P.O. Bos 738 - Easley, South Carolina 29640), page 190. [S8914] . [S8913] . [S8915] . [S6828] R. W. Simpson, (Southern Historical Press % The Rev. S. Emmett Lucas, Jr. - P.O. Bos 738 - Easley, South Carolina 29640).