This set of dueling pistols were most likely taken from Loyalist Captain John Hamilton at the Siege of Robert Carr’s Fort on February 10th, 1779. They are currently on display at the Pickens County Museum of Art and History.
Andrew Pickens
Pension application of Hezekiah Posey S14192
That he was drafted, or enlisted about the first day of July 1776 under the command of Captain Andrew Pickens in the Regiment of Colonel Hammond [LeRoy Hammond] (a militia man who was specially appointed to command that Regiment for that trip in the Division of General Williamson [Andrew Williamson]) for the term of 3 months to perform a tour of duty against the Cherokee Indians who made an attack upon the whites near the frontier and was marched, under the command of the above named officers to the Cherokee Nation to an Indian town called Senaker [Seneca]
Pension application of John McCutchen S32406
I then retired to the up country Seneka [Seneca] River where I enlisted under Captain Benjamin Tutt, Williamson’s Regiment and was employed in building Fort Rutledge, was ordered to Savannah joined General Lincoln [Benjamin Lincoln] between Charleston & Savannah and was at Savannah during the Siege by General Lincoln & the Count De Estaing.
Pension application of Andrew Pickens S3697
That he entered the service the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated. That he entered the service as a volunteer Militia man under General Andrew Williamson, who commanded on the Expedition; his Captain’s name was Robert Anderson, & William Riley was his Lieutenant. That he entered the service on or about the 15th of July, 1776, and marched into the Cherokee Nation, in what was called the Cherokee Expedition
Pension application of James McNees (McNeese) R6802
That he volunteered in Lawrence County [Laurens County] South Carolina under Capt John Rogers as a first Lieutenant under the Command of Col. James Williams, & Genl. Andrew Pickens against the Tories and Indians year not recollected but continued in that Service until the tre
Pension application of Absalom Thompson (Thomson) S21533
“In the Spring of the year following, being about the year 1782, this deponent volunteered in an expedition under Genl Andrew Pickens & served in company with Captain John Gowan, Lemuel Earles and Major James Hamilton as Indians spies, in which expedition he started from wher