Andrew Pickens, South Carolina land grant with State Seal (1779-1838) to Henry Chipman, granting 1,000 acres of surveyed land, dated December 7, 1818, with signature and State Seal, H13" W15 3/4" (Good condition); fragment with State Seal, H5 1/2" W4" (Chipped and yellowed); fragment with signature, H5 1/2" W4" (With foxing). *Biography: Andrew Pickens, Jr. was an American military and political leader who served as the Democratic-Republican Governor of SC from 1816 until 1818. Pickens was the son of the well-known American Revolutionary general Andrew Pickens (1739-1817). He was born on his father's plantation on the Savannah River in Horse Creek Valley in Edgefield County, South Carolina. He was raised a Presbyterian and educated at the College of New Jersey. Pickens served as a lieutenant-colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812, and returned home to establish a plantation, Oatlands, in Edgefield County, where he practiced law. He also established a residence, Halcyon Grove, in the village of Edgefield. On December 5, 1816, the SC General Assembly elected Pickens as Governor by secret ballot. During his term of office, fellow SC politician John C. Calhoun was named U.S. Secretary of War. A program of internal improvements was begun using public funds. Pickens championed the construction of roads and canals. The price of cotton rose to a high point that was not exceeded at any other time in SC during the antebellum period. After leaving office, Pickens moved to Alabama and helped negotiate a treaty with the Creek Indians of Georgia. For a period of time around 1829, he lived in Augusta. Pickens died July 1, 1838, in Pontotock, Mississippi, and was interred at Old Stone Churchyard in Pendleton, SC.