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name: Andrew Pickens
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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.