From American Battlefield Trust.
(September 13, 1739 to August 11, 1817)
The son of Scots-Irish immigrants, Andrew Pickens was born September 13, 1739, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. When he was a teenager, his family moved to the Waxhaws region of South Carolina.
From 1760-61, Pickens fought in the Cherokee War, serving as an officer in a provincial regiment. In 1764, he moved to Abbeville, South Carolina, where, a year later, he married Rebecca Calhoun, the aunt of future pro-slavery politician John C. Calhoun.
When rebellion against Britain broke out in 1775, Pickens was made a captain of militia. That autumn he took part in a campaign against Loyalists in the South Carolina backcountry and fought in the Siege of Ninety Six, the first major engagement of the revolution outside of New England.
In the autumn 1776, Pickens served in an expedition that destroyed dozens of Cherokee towns.
--Cooter
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