Andrew Erwin (businessman)

According to the Chronology of North Carolina, "The firm of Patton and Erwin continued to exist for many years, and branches of it were established in various southern and western villages.

Shortly after he moved to Georgia, as the War of 1812 "was closing...he was designated by Governor Hawkins to command a regiment of militia, ordered into service for the defence of our maritime frontiers.

"[2] Beginning with his move to Augusta, Erwin became "the leading partner in mercantile firms in Savannah, Charleston, Nashville, New Orleans, and many other towns.

"[2] Patton wrote of his brother-in-law, "Col. Andrew Erwin was a man of a clear head and a good heart, but too credulous and too easily imposed upon by bad men.

Robert Leftwich and Andrew Erwin carried the petition to Mexico, where they arrived about the end of April, just as Austin reached the capital seeking confirmation of his own grant.

"[8] The committee produced a document promising to "cultivate and bring to a rich fruition this great land so valiantly wrested from the miserable Spanish Crown by the noble liberty-loving Mexicanos but a year before (1821).

[11] As part of Jackson's feud with Secretary of the Treasury William H. Crawford he wrote a letter to President James Monroe suggesting an investigation of Crawford's ties to Georgia governor David Brydie Mitchell, who was accused of illegally smuggling slaves from foreign ports to the United States via Amelia Island off Spanish East Florida.

Among other things, Jackson wrote to Monroe, "That by calling on Colo. Gideon Morgan of the Cherokee Nation and Colo. Andrew Erwin; now of this state and who is now a candidate for the Marshalls office for West Tennessee, will prove positively that Genl.

Mitchell did purchase by his agent who he had furnished with funds for that purpose a large number of African Negroes at amelia Iland, which were brought through the Indian Country to the Agency.

My informant states that care must be taken, in putting the Interrogatories so that the witnesses Colo. Morgan and Erwin may not object, as the answers might implicate themselves, they both being engaged in the purchase of Africans at Amelia Island at or about that time, Mr Gross was the partner of Colo. Erwin; about that time and it was to this same Mr Gross that the agent Genl Mitchell gave the passport under which he proceeded to carry his Negroes through the Creek Nation to the Allabama Territory.

"[12] As told through the testimony of Captain William Bowen, "With $25,000 in letters of credit from Stoutenburgh and Thorn and the house of Erwin & Co., he proceeded to Amelia Island in mid-October, where he found the price of the goods was too high.

Henry Clay, and brother of J. P. Erwin, formerly postmaster, and late mayor of the city of Nashville, laid the foundation of a princely fortune in the slave-trade, carried on from the Northern Slave States to the Planting South.