37  The Pickens Family ANDREW - Chapter Four Pioneer Andrew and His Descendants (A.) COL. ANDREW PICKENS, SR. -----The firt time we have located the name of ANDREW PICKENS in American records is in Bucks County, Pennsylvania about 1727, when his name appears as plaintiff in civil cases in the Court of common Pleas. About 1739, he moved to Augusta County, Va. -----On October 1st, 1751, ANDREW PICKENS was allowed a grant of land consisting of eight hundred acres. The deed was recorded n Anson County, N.C., but it appears that the land was in South Carolina. About fifty other grants were made on the same date, which indicates that the matter of making these grants had been in process of preparation for some time. Therefore, we believe that the statement usually made that ANDREW PICKENS moved to the Waxhaw Colony in 1749 is about correct. -----ANDREW PICKENS was Captain of a Company of Militia in Mecklenburg District in 1755 and 1756, which was about the time of the French and Indian War. In a report concerning his Company, he gives the names of his men, and among them appears the names of ANDREW PICKENS, private, and married, JOHN PICKENS, WILLIAM PICKENS and JOSEPH PICKENS, all single men. -----North Carolina State and Colonial Records show that "Andrew Pickens was one of the first building commissioners of Anson County, he living in the territory of the county before its formation. He had two brothers, ISRAEL PICKENS and JOHN PICKENS and probably others. JOHN lived in what was once known as Craven County, N.C. now extinct." -----The name of ANDRER PICKENS appears often in connection with the history of Waxhaw Presbyterian Church. His daughter, Jean (Jane) and her husband, Rev. Robert Miller, gave the lot in which the cemetery and church are located. -----There is a will on file in Raleigh, N.C., made by ANDREW PICKENS, the only date it bears being November 4th, 1756. He

38  The Pickens Family left his plantation to his sons, JOSEPH, ANDREW and JOHN, and a saddle horse to his daughter, JEAN. He appointed his wife, executrix and the witnesses to the will were Robert McClenachon and JOHN PICKENS. The lapse of time makes it appear that the will was made by the pioneer ANDREW PICKENS, who came from Ireland. -----North Carolina Colonial Records show that "ANN PICKENS, widow of COL. ANDREW PICKENS, Sr., and Maj. William Davis presented an inventory of the estate of Col. PICKENS for record in the office of the Clerk of Court of Anson County in 1757, Col. PICKENS owned eight hundred acres of land along what is now the line between the two Carolinas." -----"Inventory of the Estate of ANDREW PICKENS, Anson County Court House, Wadesboro, North Carolina, Register of Deeds Office, Anson County, N.C., Book B No. 1, page 294. -----"Horses and mares and colts in all 12-10 cows and calves - and ten head of other dry cattle - about twenty or fifteen head of hogs - and a still and vessels and a cart and a plow and tacklin and pair of plow irons - 3 weeding hoes - 2 mattocks - mail rings - and wedges, - 2 axes - 2 pair of chanes - three iron forks - one loom and tacklin with quid wheel - one flax and bi wheel - augus - 3 beds and furniture and bed steads - two chists and a trunk and a dresser with pewter and wooden ware - four pots and kettle - one pair of stilliards - three sickles and 2 sithes - a small quantity of books and of notes ten pounds ten shillings and eight pence and a book of account eighty nine pounds seven shillings and three pence." -----ANN PICKENS, William Davis. -----A. ANDREW and ANN PICKENS had the following children: -----B. Katherine Pickens, -----B. Joseph Pickens -----B. Andrew Pickens -----B. Jonathan or John Pickens -----B. Jane Pickens, -----B. James Pickens -----Ramsey's History of South Carolina mentions a severe whirlwind in 1761, which formed near King's Mountain, North Carolina, moved in a Southeasterly direction, passing through the Waxhaw Settlement doing much damage in its path. A house of a Mrs. Pickens was so completely destroyed that hardly a shingle was ever

39  The Pickens Family found. (The history says Mrs. Pickens and not Mr. Pickens, which possibly indicates that ANDREW PICKENS had passed away at that time.) Note: (This story was handed down in a family tradition for more than a hundred years, and was related to the writer of this account in his boyhood days, but had been forgotten until the record was found in Ramsey's history. It is said that the house was torn off the pillars and completely demolished. None of the several women in the house were badly inured, although one or two of them were very aged. The house is said to have been located in about two miles of where ROBERT PICKENS was living.) -----B. KATHERINE PICKENS daughter of Col. ANDREW PICKENS married Maj. William Davis. -----Children: -----C Robin Davis, -----C James Davis, -----C Thomas Davis -----C. Martha Davis. -----C ROBIN DAVIS, son of Maj. William and Katherine Pickens Davis married Nancy Pickens, daughter of Israel Pickens. -----They had two children: -----D Rufus Davis, -----D Maggie Davis. -----C JAMES DAVIS, son of Maj. William and Katherine Pickens Davis married Elizabeth Walkup. We do not know the date of his birth, but his will is dated April 22nd, 1815. It shows the names of the following sons: -----D William Davis, -----D James Davis, -----D John Davis, -----D Robert Davis, -----D Henry Davis -----B. JOSEPH PICKENS, a son of the pioneer Andrew Pickens, must have been considerably older than his brother General Andrew Pickens, as north Carolina Colonial Records show that he was a member of a company of militia in Mecklenburg district, North Carolina during the years 1755 and 1756,which was during the French and Indian war. -----He was in the Revolutionary War and was a captain of a company of militia in the American army under General Andrew Pickens, and rendered valuable service in this capacity. -----He was killed at the siege of Ninety Six, in June 1781.