This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5gC.2ACE/750 Message Board Post: I'm not related. I just recently purchased an old copy of National Genealogical Society Quarterly, June 1965, Vol. 53, Pt. 1, Number 2. One article by Wm. H. Dumont lists records of the various amounts of money Gov. Pickens paid out from the Governor's Contingent Fund to various individuals and business concerns. For example: "No. 6, 27 March 1817. To O. B. Trimmier, $500, for contingent expenses in surveying into Tracts the Land ceded by the Cherokee Indians to the State of S.C., as Commissioner appointed for that purpose."