was reelected to a third, but died before he could take his
seat, having contracted a fever while on duty as a boundary commissioner among the
Creeks, being then in his seventy-first year. Fur more than forty years he had been
continuously in the service of his country, and no man of his state was ever mure
loved and respected. In the prime of his manhood he was reputed the handsomest
man and the best Indian fighter in Tennessee.
(25) Hopewell, Sen tii Carolina (p. 61): This place, designated in early treaties
and also in Hawkins's manuscript journal as "Hopewell on the Keowee, " was the
plantation seat of I reneral Andrew Pickens, who resided there from the close of the
Revolution until his death in 1S17. It was situated on the northern edge of the
present Andersoncounty, on the east side of Keowee river, opposite and a short
distance helots the entrance of Little river, and about three miles from the present
Pendleton. In sight of it, on the opposite side of Keowee, was the old Cherokee
town of Seneca, destroyed liv the Americans ill 1 77H. Important treaties were made
here with the Cherokee in 17S5, and with the Chickasaw in 1786.
(26) Colonel Benjamin Hawkins (p. 61): This distinguished soldier, statesman,
and author, was horn in Warren county. North Carolina, in 1754, and died al llaw-
kinsville, Georgia, in 1816. His father. Colonel Philemon Hawkins, organized and
commanded a regiment in the Revolutionary war, and was a member of the conven-
tion that ratified the national constitution. At the outbreak of the Revolution young
Hawkins was a student at Princeton, hut offered