Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Letter
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0177
The letter in this collection is a typed copy made by Mary Stevenson of the original letter in the Charleston Library Society--Manuscript Collection #59. The letter is written by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to General Andrew Pickens from Charleston on December 1, 1809. In the letter General Cotesworth is acknowledging the receipt of rent from property belonging to him. He also discusses the state of his health and politics.
Permission to copy must be obtained from the Charleston Library Society.
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney was born in 1746, the son of Chief Justice Charles Pinckney and Eliza Lucas. He served in the Revolutionary War and was discharged as a brigadier general. Pinckney served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and in 1790, along with other prominent South Carolina men, helped draw up a new state constitution for South Carolina. He also helped organize the South Carolina College which later became the University of South Carolina. Pinckney died in 1825.
1 item(s)
English
Mary Pasco Conrad Stevenson,1968.
Manuscript Collection #59, Charleston Library Collection, 164 King Street, Charleston, SC 29401, 843-723-9912.
Formerly accessioned as 68-7.
Typed copy, Charleston, SC., Clemson University Libraries, February 23, 1968.
Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository