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THOMAS PINCKNEY (1750-1828)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 617 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:PINCKNEY (1750-1828)  , See also:American statesman and diplomat, was See also:born in See also:Charleston, See also:South Carolina, on the 23rd of See also:October 1750, a younger See also:brother of See also:Charles Cotesworth See also:Pinckney (q.v.) . Educated in See also:England, he returned to Charles-ton in 1773, and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1774 . During the See also:War of See also:Independence his See also:early training at the See also:French military See also:college at See also:Caen enabled him to render effective service to See also:General See also:Benjamin See also:Lincoln in 1778–1779, to See also:Count d'See also:Estaing (1779), to General Lincoln in the See also:defence of Charleston and afterwards to General Horatio See also:Gates . In the See also:battle of See also:Camden he was badly wounded and captured, remaining a prisoner for more than a See also:year . Subsequently he was See also:governor of South Carolina in 1787–1789; presided over the See also:state See also:convention which ratified the Federal constitution in 1788; was a member of the state legislature in 1i91; and was See also:United States See also:minister to See also:Great See also:Britain in 1992–1796 . During See also:part of this See also:time (1794–1795) he was also See also:envoy extraordinary to See also:Spain, and in this capacity negotiated (1795) the important Treaty of See also:San Lorenzo el Real; by that treaty the boundary between the United States and See also:East and W'r'est See also:Florida and between the United States and " See also:Louisiana " was settled (Spain relinquishing all claims east of the See also:Mississippi above 310 N. See also:lat.), and the United States secured the freedom of See also:navigation of the Mississippi to its mouth with the right of See also:deposit at New See also:Orleans for three years, after which the United States was to have the same right either at New Orleans or at some other See also:place on the Mississippi to be designated by Spain . In 1796 Pinckney was the Federalist See also:candidate for See also:vice-See also:president, and in 1797-1801 he was a Federalist representative in See also:Congress . During the War of 1812 he was a See also:major-general . In 1825 he succeeded his brother as president-general of the Society of the See also:Cincinnati . He died in Charleston on the 2nd of See also:November 1828 . Pinckney, like many other South Carolina revolutionary leaders, was of aristocratic See also:birth and politics, closely connected with England by ties of See also:blood, See also:education and business relations . This renders the more remarkable their attitude in the War of Independence, for which they made great sacrifices .

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 . See C . C . Pinckney, See also:Life of General See also:Thomas Pinckney (See also:Boston, 1895) .

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