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  Eliza Lucas Pinckney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Eliza Lucas Pinckney was born on the British island colony of Antigua in December 1722.
Eliza spent a few years in an English girls’ school, which encouraged her to be quite an intellectual.
Eliza became known as the “epitome of the cosmopolitan British Empire.” She was the mother of American patriots, a famous agricultural innovator, an intellectual, a moralist, and an industrious widow.
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 eliza orlins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Born on the Island of Antigua, and educated in England, Eliza Lucas came with her parents to Carolina in 1739.
Lucas knew that rice, though a long-standing profitable commodity in Carolina, had to be grown in swamplands and watered from an embanked reserve.
Lucas' idea and dream came to fruition when few years later she was able to report that the annual export of indigo from Carolina amounted to 107,660 pounds.
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 FOURTH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Eliza HENDRICKS was born on 27 Sep 1814 in, Jefferson, VA. She died on 28 Aug 1877.
Mary Virginia LUCAS was born on 12 Jun 1839 in Shepherdstown, Jefferson, VA.
Emley Catharine LUCAS was born on 29 Dec 1847 in Shepherdstown, Jefferson, VA.
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 Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts from HarperCollins Publishers
Though Wappoo Plantation, the Lucas home, was only six miles from the city by water, seventeen by land, Eliza was far too busy, and far too interested in her agricultural experiments, to enjoy the luxuries of the city during the planting months.
Eliza seemed to know that her legal activities were a bit over the line, as she told a friend: "If you will not laugh immoderately at me I'll trust you with a secret.
Eliza loved "the vegetable world," as she put it, and experimented with different kinds of crops, always with a mind toward commerce.
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Eliza Lucas, born Dec 21, 1842; died Nov 06, 1914.
Eliza3 Lucas (Elizabeth2 Kreger, Henry (Sr)1) was born Dec 21, 1842, and died Nov 06, 1914.
Child of Eliza Lucas and Jeremiah Schultz is: + 55 i.
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 Lucas Tavern Haunted House - HauntedHouses.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Lucas Tavern is a building with a main tavern room, a kitchen, an eating area and bedrooms, that was fully restored by 1979, when the group of historical buildings it is apart of were all revitalized and returned to their original condition.
The spirit of Eliza Lucas became active in 1980, after the renovations of the Tavern was complete, and the living had moved into the offices, located in the old bedrooms.
When he developed the film taken of Eliza Lukas inside the school, the pictures were blank, except for the bright golden light, which was seen in the place where Eliza was standing in each picture, which varied, according to how the photographer had framed his shot.
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 Eliza Lucas Pinckney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Eliza Lucas Pinckney, probably the first important agriculturalist of the United States, was born in Antigua in the West Indies in 1722.
By age sixteen, Eliza was left to take care of her siblings and run three plantations when her father, a British military officer, had to return to the Caribbean.
She realized that the growing textile industry was creating world markets for new dyes, so starting in 1739, she began cultivating and creating improved strains of the indigo plant from which a blue dye can be obtained.
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 Enterprising Women   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
ELIZA LUCAS PINCKNEY (1722-1793) was a colonial planter who helped introduce the cultivation of indigo, a valuable blue dye used for fabric, to South Carolina.
Eliza Lucas Pinckney oversaw a large workforce of male slaves, who performed all the hard labor.
For Eliza Lucas Pinckneyís correspondence, see Elise Pinckney, ed., The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739‚1762 (Columbia, S.C.: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1997); and Harriott Horry Ravenel, Eliza Pinckney (New York: Scribnerís, 1896).
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 Pinckney, Eliza Lucas
Eliza Lucas was born about December 28, 1722, in Antigua, West Indies.
While still in her teens, she managed her father's three plantations in South Carolina when he was called to military duty in Antigua in 1739.
In 1744 she married Charles Pinckney, Carolina's first native lawyer, and on his Charleston plantation she revived the cultivation of silkworms and the manufacture of silk.
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 HARPER COLLINS BEST SELLERS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Today Eliza Lucas Pinckney would be the subject of talkshow gabfests and made-for-TV movies, a child prodigy turned into a celebrity.
Because she reported to her father onher management decisions and developed the habit of copying herletters, Eliza's writings are some of the few from colonial women thathave survived.
Eliza loved "the vegetable world," as she put it, and experimentedwith different kinds of crops, always with a mind towardcommerce.
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 Eliza Lucas - TheBestLinks.com - George Lucas, Indigo, North America, South Carolina, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Eliza Lucas, George Lucas, Indigo, North America, South Carolina, 1793, 1753...
1722-1793) was the daughter of Lieut.-Colonel George Lucas of the British army, who about 1738 removed from Antigua to South Carolina, where he acquired several plantations.
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 Stephanie Dispatch for KIDS!
Eliza ran the whole plantation and she did a great job.
Eliza did eventually marry and her sons became governors, Revolutionary War generals, and signers of the U.S. Constitution.
Eliza died of cancer at age 70, and President George Washington served as one of her pallbearers.
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Eliza (or Elizabeth, as she was also known) was born on December 28, 1722 in the West Indies to George and Anne Lucas.
Eliza Lucas was educated at a finishing school in England, where she enjoyed studying botany.
At the young age of sixteen, Eliza became the manager of three of her father's plantations when he was ordered to return to duty by the British army.
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 Southern Quarterly: "You Would Think Me Far Gone in Romance": Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Fictions of Female ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
BORN IN THE WEST INDIES on 28 December 1722, Eliza Lucas Pinckney is perhaps best remembered as the first cultivator of indigo in the American colonies.1 She grew up in Antigua but was educated in England before moving with her family to their plantation at Wappoo in South Carolina, near Charleston.
Lucas sent indigo seeds to his daughter, encouraging her to experiment with the crop.
With her father's approval, Pinckney introduced indigo to South Carolina, thereby invigorating South Carolina's economy because, as Henry C. Dethloff notes in his entry on agriculture in The Encyclopedia of Southern History, indigo was one of tobacco's "strong rivals" as an agricultural export.
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 The Sleep Lady
Because Eliza tends to wake up when Lucas does, and Lucas sometimes wakes up when Eliza goes to bed, West asks whether it would be possible for them to sleep in different rooms.
Lucas is so quiet that I actually forget about him until 7:30.
Eliza's cozy in her new pink bedroom, and we're now a family that plans outings around naptime so that Lucas gets two solid siestas per day.
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 South Carolina Women of the American Revolution
They raised food for the armies, made clothes and bandages for the soldiers, and nursed the sick and wounded, while their hearts were sad and anxious for the safety of husbands, sons, brothers, and other relatives and friends.
Eliza did not agree with this and was not discouraged.
Eliza Lucas married Charles Pinckney and was the mother of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.
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 Eliza Lucas Pinckney
When Eliza was 16, her father had to return to the West Indies, and she assumed the management of his three plantations.
When she was 22, she married Charles Pinckney, a judge who traveled frequently, leaving Eliza to run his plantations.
In 1793 Eliza died in Philadelphia, where she had gone for medical treatment.
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 137. First Lady of Blues - August 21, 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Eliza Lucas Pinckney was certainly a sole mate of the two men.
But Eliza hadn't slowed down, even after the death of her husband in 1758.
He could read by the time he was two and a few years later, when Eliza would return home from church with Charles and newer arrivals Harriott and Thomas, she'd send the children scurrying off to the Bible to locate that day's sermon text in it.
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 Winners of the 2002 Heroines in History Essay Contest for Youth, 13 to 15 age category
Her name was Eliza Lucas and she was the well-educated daughter of the respected British colonel and sugar plantation owner, George Lucas.
This kept Eliza so busy she avoided marrying until she was the rip old age of twenty-two, years after her contemporaries were already married and having families.
The reason I believe that Eliza Lucas Pinkney was one of the greatest unsung heroines is because of her bold determination and enthusiastic personality that was so uncharacteristic of her day.
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 Porter-Gaud School | 1998 Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
1998/3 The mind of Eliza Pinckney: An eighteenth-century woman's construction of herself.
1998/3 Eliza Lucas Pinckney's family in Antigua, 1668-1747.
1998/3 Eliza Lucas and her family: before the Letterbook.
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 Stephanie Dispatch
Then came the day that Eliza's father, a colonel in the British Army, was called off to war in Antigua.
Eliza managed to grow a few indigo shoots in her first attempt, but they perished in the frost.
In her letters, Eliza wrote: "I have been robbed and deserted by my slaves, my property pulled to pieces, burned and destroyed, my money of no value, my children sick and prisoners." Eliza died of cancer at age 70, and President George Washington served as one of her pallbearers.
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Pinckney, Eliza Lucas, 1722-1793, Letter from Eliza Lucas Pinckney to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, June 04, 1741 in Journal and Letters of Eliza Lucas.
Pinckney, Eliza Lucas, 1722-1793, Letter from Eliza Lucas Pinckney to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, 1741 in Journal and Letters of Eliza Lucas.
Pinckney, Eliza Lucas, 1722-1793, Letter from Eliza Lucas Pinckney to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Febuary 06, 1742 in Journal and Letters of Eliza Lucas.
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 Eliza Lucas Pinckney
  These “thriving plantations” were in the Lucas family due to John Lucas, Eliza’s grandfather.
  Due to Eliza’s effort, along with her neighbors, and slaves, the experiment succeeded.
  Eliza’s sons grew to have loyalty to the patriot cause, and her eldest “sat in the state legislature.”  This mother of American patriots, a society belle, devout Christian, devoted mother and wife” died on May 26, 1793.
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 Mix Family History Page - Lucas Family Descendants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
1799 in Parish & inner Borough of Southwark, London, England 2 Joseph George Lucas __________ b: February 14, 1803 in Parish & inner Borough of Southwark, London, England +Sarah Green Jones __________ b: 1808 in GA 3 Amanda A. Lucas __________ b: Bet.
3 Angeline Sarah Lucas __________ b: 1832 in Shelby Co., IN +Francis M. Glascock __________ b: Abt.
1847 in Van Buren Twp., Fountain Co., IN 3 Harriet A. Lucas __________ b: 1848 in Van Buren Twp., Fountain Co., IN +Unknown Thompson __________ b: Abt.
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 CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
1758),2 by his second wife, the celebrated girl planter, Eliza Lucas.
When a child he was sent to England, like his brother Thomas after him, to be educated.
See Harriott H. Ravenel, Eliza Pinckney (New York, 1896), in the Women of Colonial and Revolutionary Times series.
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 ROLEPLAY: ELiza Lucas Pickney
The student will become aware of the role of Eliza Lucas Pinckney in colonial history as an example of a woman who had influence in that time period.
born Elizabeth "Eliza" Lucas to an officer in the British army and his wife on the British-ruled island of Antigua in the West Indies in 1722
Eliza advised, however: Avoid "'Sloth and Idleness....and be neither luxurious or extravagant.'"(Jaher)
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Lucas, 1857, Arbon, Russel Lucas, 1857, Bowden, Mary Lucas, 1857, Bowden, Richard Lucas, 1857, Bowden, William Lucas, 1857, Burton, Amelia Christiana Lucas, 1857, Burton, Ann Lucas, 1857, Burton, Clara Jane Lucas, 1857, Burton, James Lucas, 1857, Cadd, Ann Lucas, 1857, Cadd, Ann Jr.
Lucas, 1857, Cadd, Heber Lucas, 1857, Cadd, Joseph Lucas, 1857, Cadd, Joseph Jr.
Lucas, 1857, Cadd, Sophia Elizabeth Lucas, 1857, Cochrane, Charles Lucas, 1857, Cochrane, Robert Lucas, 1857, Cochrane, Robert John Lucas, 1857, Cochrane, Theresa Lucas, 1857, Cochrane, Theresa Jr.
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 Eliza Lucas Pinckney
Daughter of a British army officer, Eliza Lucas grew up on the Caribbean island of
Eliza also began producing flax, hemp, silk, and figs.
The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739-1762.(Brief Article) (Journal of Women's History)
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