Genealogy Thomas » Thomas Pinckney (1750-1828)

Persoonlijke gegevens Thomas Pinckney 

• Hij is geboren op 23 oktober 1750 in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina.Bron 2
• Titel: General
• Hij is overleden op 2 november 1828 in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, hij was toen 78 jaar oud.
• Alternatief: Hij is overleden op 6 november 1828 in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, hij was toen 78 jaar oud.
• Hij is begraven in Saint Philip's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina.
• Een kind van Charles Pinckney en Eliza Lucas

Gezin van Thomas Pinckney

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Francis Motte.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 19 oktober 1797 te Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, hij was toen 46 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Edward Rutledge Pinckney  1800-1832
2. Mary Pinckney  1804-1822

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth Motte.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 22 juli 1779, hij was toen 28 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Thomas Pinckney  1780-1842 
2. Edward Rutledge Pinckney  1782-1785
3. Harriot Lucas M. Pinckney  ± 1784-1824 
4. Elizabeth Brewton Pinckney  ± 1786-1857 
5. Rebecca Motte Pinckney  1788-1797
6. Charles Cortesworth Pinckney  1789-1865 
7. Mary Pinckney  ± 1790-1792

Notities over Thomas Pinckney

He was minister to the court of St. James' in England when his wife, Elizabeth Motte, died in 1794.

He was left in school in England when his parents returned to South Carolina in 1758. Late in 1774 he returned to South Carolina and was admitted to the South Carolina Bar. Upon organization of the First South Carolina Regiment, he was chosen a captain. He was steadily concerned with military affairs and engagements during the whole period of the Revolution and was severely wounded at the Battle of Camden, Aug. 8, 1780, and captured. Later he was sent North to Philadelphia and was there exchanged. On Feb. 20, 1787, he was elected governor, served one term of two years. He was president of the State Convention of 1788, which ratified the Federal Constitution. In 1789 he Declined Washington's offer of appointment as US district judge for South Carolina In 1791 Washington offered him the appointment of minister to Great Britain and the nomination was confirmed in Jan. 1792. In April 1795, he was appointed special Commissioner to Spain to negotiate a treaty concerning boundaries between the US and Spanish territory, and navigation of the Mississippi which was finally settled Oct. 27, 1795. He returned to South Carolina in Sept. 1796 and was the Federal candidate for the vice presidency in 1796 but was betrayed by his own party when some of its electors voted for Jefferson of the Democratic party. He was elected to Congress in 1797 and served through that critical period until Mar. 3, 1801.

He was constantly in public service in state and national affairs; was commissioned major general in command of the district from North Carolina to Mississippi in the War of 1812; served in the Indian war with the Creeks and negotiated the treaty which concluded peace.

He was a scientific planter; had a number of plantations, and wrote a number of agricultural articles.

Among his estates were Fairfield, Fannymead Plantation on Toxaway, Pendleton County; Eldorado , Auckland, Cedar Island and others.
RIN: MH:N183

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