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Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, ca. 1745-1825
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ca. 1745-1825
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PINCKNEY, CHARLES COTESWORTH, elder son of Col. Charles Pinckney, Charleston, South Carolina, North America, Commissioner Colony of Carolina in London, and his second wife Eliza, eldest dau. of Lieut. -Col. George Lucas, Governor of Antigua; b. 25 Feb 1745/6; at school under Markham (H. H. Ravenel, Eliza Pinckney, 1896, 209-12); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 19 Jan 1764; adm. Middle Temple 24 Jan 1764, called to bar 27 Jan 1769; returned to Charleston 1769; took part in political agitation against British rule and elected to Provincial Congress; Capt., 1st Regt. Carolina troops in revolutionary army on outbreak of rebellion; ADC to Washington 1777; served under General Hare 1778; in command Fort Moultrie during siege of Charleston 1780, and became prisoner of war on its capitulation; delegate to Convention which framed constitution of the USA, to the State Convention that ratified it and to the State Constitutional Convention 1790; declined seat on US Supreme Court and Cabinet office under Washington; US Minister to France 1796; on his return, elected to Congress as Federalist; defeated candidate for Vice-Presidency of US 1800 and for Presidency 1804; held rank of Maj. -Gen. in US Army; m. 1st, 28 Sep 1773 Sarah, sister of Arthur Middleton (qv); m. 2nd, 23 Jun 1786 Mary, dau. of Benjamin Stead; d. 26 Aug 1825.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.