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  Thomas Pinckney - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
THOMAS PINCKNEY (1750-1828), American statesman and diplomat, was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on the 23rd of October 1750, a younger brother of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.
In 17 9 6 Pinckney was the Federalist candidate for vice-president, and in1797-1801he was a Federalist representative in Congress.
Men of Pinckney's type were not in sympathy with the progressive democratic spirit of America, and they began to withdraw from politics after about 1800.
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 Thomas Pinckney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Pinckney (1750–1828), was an American soldier, politician, and diplomat.
Pinckney was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and was educated in Great Britain (at Westminster) and France.
Pinckney was governor of South Carolina from 1787 to 1789 and became the U.S. ambassador to Britain in 1792.
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 Josephine Lyons Scott Pinckney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pinckney played a key role in the literary revival that swept through the South after World War I. She worked closely with Dubose Heyward, Hervey Allen, and John Bennett in founding the Poetry Society of South Carolina in 1920.
Pinckney participated in other aspects of the “Charleston Renaissance” through her dedicated involvement in local cultural institutions, such as the Carolina Art Association, the Charleston Museum, and the Dock Street Theatre.
Although Pinckney traveled widely, she always maintained a home in Charleston and her family plantation on the Santee River, “El Dorado.” Josephine Pinckney died October 4, 1957 and was buried in Magnolia Cemetery.
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 CHARLES PINCKNEY
Pinckney's father, a rich planter and lawyer with an extensive practice in Charleston, rose to the rank of colonel in the state militia and was a prominent leader within the colonial assembly.
Pinckney was in the heart of the doomed attack and witnessed the heavy casualties that resulted.
Pinckney's service in the postwar Continental Congress served to reinforce the lessons he had learned as a militiaman during the Revolution-that the problems facing America were too large to be met by the states individually but demanded the close cooperation of all the states if they were to be overcome.
www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/RevWar/ss/pinckneyc.htm   (1779 words)

  
 Charles Pinckney
The American statesman Charles Pinckney was born on the 26th of October 1757 at Charleston, South Carolina; he was the son of Charles Pinckney (1731-1784), first president of the first South Carolina Provincial Congress (January to June 1775), and a cousin of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney.
Pinckney was president of the State Convention of 1790 that framed a new constitution for South Carolina, was Governor of the state from 1789 to 1792, a member of the state House of Representatives in 1792-1796, and again Governor from 1796 to 1798.
His son, Henry Laurens Pinckney (1794-1863), was a member of the state House of Representatives in 1816-1832, founded in 1819 and edited for fifteen years the Charleston Mercury, the great exponent of state's rights principles, and was a member of the National House of Representatives in 1833-1837.
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 Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
PINCKNEY, CHARLES COTESWORTH [Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth] 1746-1825, American political leader and diplomat, b.
Charleston, S.C.; brother of Thomas Pinckney and cousin of Charles Pinckney.
The next year he was joined by Elbridge Gerry and John Marshall in the mission that led to the notorious XYZ Affair ; Pinckney refused to bribe French officials as a prerequisite for opening negotiations with them.
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 PINCKNEY, CHARLES (175... - Online Information article about PINCKNEY, CHARLES (175...
Virginia plan, Pinckney presented a draft of a constitution which is known as the Pinckney plan.
Wilson, a member of the committee of detail, one of which papers is believed to be an outline of the Pinckney plan.
LAURENS PINCKNEY (1794-1863), was a member of the state House of Representatives in 1816–1832, founded in 1819 and edited for fifteen years the Charleston See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /PIG_POL/PINCKNEY_CHARLES_17571824_.html   (1353 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online:
PINCKNEY, JOHN M. John McPherson Pinckney, United States congressman, the son of Carolene (Finney) and Thomas Shulrick Pinckney, was born on May 4, 1845, near Fields Store in what was then Grimes County but is now Waller County.
Pinckney fought at the battles of Eltham's Landing, Gaines' Mill, Second Manassas, Antietam, Wilderness, Chickamauga, and Gettysburg and was present at the Confederate surrender at Appomattox in 1865.
After admission to the bar in 1875, Pinckney moved to the county seat, Hempstead, where he was district attorney for the Twenty-third Judicial District of Texas from 1890 until 1900.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/PP/fpi24.html   (397 words)

  
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Thomas Jefferson - - 68 Thomas Pinckney - - 59 Aaron Burr - - 30 1800.
Thomas Jefferson - - - 73 Aaron Burr - - - - 73 John Adams - - - - 64 Thomas Pinckney - - - 63 The equality of the votes for Mr.
The decorum with which the whole was conducted, and the ready and peaceable acquiescence of the minority, evince both the sound texture of the Constitution, and the true character of the American people.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Pinckney, Charles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pinckney, Charles PINCKNEY, CHARLES [Pinckney, Charles] 1757-1824, American statesman, governor of South Carolina (1789-92, 1796-98, 1806-8), b.
Castle Pinckney CASTLE PINCKNEY [Castle Pinckney] fortification at the harbor entrance of Charleston, S.C.; built in 1797, when war with France seemed imminent; named for the American diplomat Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.
Pinckney, Thomas PINCKNEY, THOMAS [Pinckney, Thomas] 1750-1828, American political leader and diplomat, b.
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 AllRefer.com - Thomas Pinckney (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Charleston, S.C.; brother of C. Pinckney and cousin of Charles Pinckney.
At the outbreak of the American Revolution he joined the militia; he saw action in Florida, took part in the defense of Charleston (1780), and was wounded and captured at Camden in the Carolina campaign.
In the War of 1812 Pinckney was a major general.
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Thomas Pinckney, Jr., in miniatures by Edward Malbone, the noted early 19th century Charleston portrait artist, painted around the time of their marriage in 1803.
She was born Eliza Izard (1784-1862), the daughter of one of the great landed families of the colonial period (see image 78 in "Portraits of Noted Carolinians").
(1780-1842), was born at the Motte family plantation of his mother while his father, General Thomas Pinckney (see image 120 in "Portraits of Noted Carolinians"), was away fighting in the Revolutionary War, and spent much of his childhood abroad while his father was ambassador in London.
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 Biographies : BRIGADIER GENERAL THOMAS C. PINCKNEY JR.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
General Pinckney was born in Charleston, S.C., in 1930.
After completion of training in the F-4C in June 1968, General Pinckney was assigned to the 366th Tactical Fighter Wing at Da Nang Air Base, Republic of Vietnam, where he served as operations officer for the 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron, and later as wing executive officer.
General Pinckney returned to Washington, D.C., in July 1969, and was assigned to the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, where during the following year he wrote speeches, articles, and congressional statements for Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr.
www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=6767   (667 words)

  
 Thomas Pinckney — Infoplease.com
Thomas PINCKNEY - PINCKNEY, Thomas (1750—1828) PINCKNEY, Thomas, a Representative from South Carolina; born in...
Charles Pinckney - Pinckney, Charles, 1757–1824, American statesman, governor of South Carolina (1789–92,...
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney - Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 1746–1825, American political leader and diplomat, b.
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 Charles Pinckney — FactMonster.com
Pinckney, Charles, 1757–1824, American statesman, governor of South Carolina (1789–92, 1796–98, 1806–8), b.
In 1798 he became a U.S. Senator, and his services in forwarding Thomas Jefferson's presidential candidacy were rewarded by his appointment (1801) as minister to Spain.
Thomas Pinckney - Pinckney, Thomas, 1750–1828, American political leader and diplomat, b.
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 Fort Mose Historic Site
51 Thomas Adam Smith was born in Essex County, Va., in 1781, the family later removing to Wilkes County, Ga. He was appointed from Georgia; promoted to second lieutenant in 1803; advanced through the grades to lieutenant-colonel in 1810, and promoted to colonel while on duty in Florida.
Thomas Pinckney, General of the United States troops.
Morris, your two letters, of the 16th and 18th of the present month, in which you have been pleased to do me the honor of communicating to me your orders relative to the evacuation of the troops of your.
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 From Revolution to Reconstruction: Presidents: Thomas Jefferson: Letters: PEACE AND COMMERCE
I am told that the French government had taken up an unhappy idea, that Monroe was recalled for the candor of his conduct in what related to the British treaty, & Gen'l.
Pinckney was sent as having other dispositions towards them.
Pinckney's dispositions, so well known to have been just towards them; & I sincerely hope, not only that he may be employed as envoy extraordinary to them, but that their minds will be better prepared to receive him.
odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl120.htm   (742 words)

  
 Thomas Pinckney Lowndes Cain : Memory Hold The Door | USC School of Law
Thomas Cain was born in Columbia, South Carolina, the son of Elias Horlbeck and Harriet Lowndes Cain.
At the age of 16, he was employed with the firm of Thomas and Lumpkin as an office boy and clerk associate.
He served as general counsel and Director of the Standard Building and Loan, as a member of the American Judicature Society, the American Law Institute, and was a member of the American Bar Association House of Delegates.
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 LowcountryNOW - Carolina Morning News on the Web - local daily newspaper of Beaufort, Bluffton, Hilton Head Island
Pinckney and Thomas have called a press conference for 11:30 a.m.
Now is the time, Thomas and Pinckney said Tuesday, for the SPA either to join Jasper County in the proposed terminal project or get out of the way.
Pinckney and Thomas said they have the backing of dozens of state senators and representatives to get the SPA and Jasper County working together.
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 PINCKNEY, THOMAS (1750... - Online Information article about PINCKNEY, THOMAS (1750...
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Men of Pinckney's type were not in sympathy with the progressive democratic spirit of See also:
America, and they began to withdraw from politics after about 1800.
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 The Age of Mozart :: printable calendar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Thomas Jeremiah, free fl man and harbor pilot, is executed for stockpiling guns for a slave rebellion and perhaps to aid the British.
Four young Charlestonians are among the signers: Edward Rutledge (age 26, lawyer), Thomas Heyward (age 29, lawyer and judge), Thomas Lynch (age 26, lawyer), and Arthur Middleton (age 34, planter and legislator).
Thomas Jefferson is Secretary of State, and Alexander Hamilton is Secretary of the Treasury.
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 Huger History
He was the son of Francis Kinloch Huger and Harriott Lucas Pinckney, the daughter of Gen. Thomas Pinckney and Elizabeth Motte.
His agent, Thomas C. Perrin, wrote to Huger, 19 November 1845, Ft. Monroe, Va., discussing terms by which the property might be sold and suggesting that "the negroes may be sold to advantage in families and at public auction." Efforts to sell the property continued in 1846.
In 1856 and 1857 Huger was involved as trustee for Thomas Pinckney, Benjamin, and himself in the sale of a plantation owned by Charles Alston, Jr.
www.ricehope.com /history/ClelandKinlochHugerPapers.htm   (2099 words)

  
 Internet Public Library: POTUS
Thomas Jefferson -- from The Presidents of the United States of America
Thomas Jefferson, Son of Virginia -- from Colonial Williamsburg
Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village: The Lawn at the University of Virginia
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 The Letterbook of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, 1739-1762   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
One of the most distinguished women of colonial America, Eliza Lucas Pinckney pioneered large-scale cultivation of indigo in South Carolina, managed her father's extensive plantation holdings, and raised two sons—Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney—who would become celebrated patriots of the new nation.
Pinckney's lively letters reveal insightful details about an eventful life, including her myriad interests, changing politics, innovative ideas about slave education, voracious reading habits, and unusually happy marriage.
A direct descendant of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, Elise Pinckney is the author of Thomas and Elizabeth Lamboll, Early Charleston Gardeners and a former editor of the South Carolina Historical Magazine.
www.sc.edu /uscpress/1997/3186.html   (229 words)

  
 American Federal Officials in 1803:
Thomas Jefferson is born April 13 on his father's plantation Shadwell in Goochland (now Albemarle) County on the western fringe of settlement in colonial Virginia.
Thomas Pinckney is born in Charleston, S. He is educated in England at he Westminster School, Oxford and the Middle Temle.
Pickney is the federalist candidate for vice president but loses to Thomas Jefferson who gets the second highest vote count to John Adams.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Pinckney
Henry Laurens; cousin of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney; father-in-law of
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth (1746-1825) — of South Carolina.
Pinckney, Henry Laurens (1794-1863) — of South Carolina.
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 Pinckney's Treaty
Thomas Pinckney, U.S. minister to Britain, was dispatched to Spain and won two highly desirable concessions:
Pinckney had been born into the Charleston elite, as the son of a wealthy planter and attorney.
Memorabilia related to Pinckney's Treaty is at auction on eBay.
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 Louisiana Documents: Pinckney's Treaty
His Catholic Majesty and the United States of America desiring to consolidate on a permanent basis the Friendship and good correspondence which happily prevails between the two Parties, have determined to establish by a convention several points, the settlement whereof will be productive of general advantage and reciprocal utility to both Nations.
and the President of the United States with the advice and consent of their Senate has appointed Thomas Pinckney a Citizen of the United States, and their Envoy Extraordinary to his Catholic Majesty.
This restricted grant is far less than Pinckney wanted since Article VIII, the Treaty of 1783 and Article III of Jay's Treaty had included navigation to the sea on the Mississippi and the wording makes the Spanish King the sole party to the excluding clause.
www.enlou.com /documents/pinckneystreaty.htm   (1815 words)

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