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pid: LJLZ-R5B imageURL: https://tree-portraits-pgp.familysearchcdn.org/uig2a/thumb200s.jpg url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Pickens_(congressman) name: Andrew Pickens gender: Male desc: >- Pickens was born in 1739 in Bucks County in the Province of Pennsylvania. He was the son of Scots-Irish immigrants, Presbyterians of primarily Scottish ancestry from Carrickfergus in County Antrim, Ireland (in what is today Northern Ireland.) His parents were Andrew Pickens Sr. and Anne (née Davis). But his paternal great-grandparents were ethnic French Huguenots: Robert Andrew Pickens (Robert André Picon) had migrated to England and Northern Ireland; his wife Esther-Jeanne, widow Bonneau, was from La Rochelle, France and had settled in South Carolina along with other Huguenot refugees fleeing religious persecution as Protestants.