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Andrew Pickens.
Revolutionary War militia general in South Carolina (1739-1817)
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About Andrew Pickens
Andrew Pickens was a militia leader in the American Revolution. A planter and slaveowner, he developed his Hopewell plantation on the east side of the Keowee River across from the Cherokee town of Isunigu (Seneca) in western South Carolina. He was elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives from western South Carolina. Several treaties with the Cherokee were negotiated and signed at his plantation of Hopewell.
Everything about Andrew Pickens →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- United States representative
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 13, 1739
- Died
- August 11, 1817