Charles Pinckney - St. Philip's Cemetery - Charleston, SC. - American Revolutionary War Veteran Graves on Waymarking.com

Text of the grave capstone:

Charles Pinckney
October 26, 1757 - October 29, 1824
He was a delegate to
the Continental Congress
1784 - 5 1785 - 6, 1786 - 7.
He was a delegate to the
Federal Convention in 1787,
and on May 29, 1787,
submitted thereto a plan
for a Constitution and at least
twenty-five provisions were incorporated
into the Constitution of the United States.
Governor of South Carolina
1789 - 1791
1791 - 1792
1796 - 1798
1806 - 1808
United States Senator
December 6, 1798 - December 3, 1801
Minister to Spain 1801 -1805
Member of the
House of Representatives
of the United States
March 4, 1819 - March 3, 1821

Erected one hundred and twenty-five years
after his death as a memorial of his
excellence and patriotism by Thornwell Jacobs.

Charles Pinckney (October 26, 1757 – October 29, 1824) was an American politician who was a signer of the United States Constitution, the 37th Governor of South Carolina, a Senator and a member of the House of Representatives. He was first cousin once removed of fellow signer Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.

Pinckney was an ancestor of seven future South Carolina governors, a few of which have prominent South Carolinian names, including the Maybank and Rhett families.

Pinckney was elected to the Continental Congress (1777–78). He started to practice law in Charleston in 1779 at the age of 21. About that time, well after the War for Independence had begun, young Pinckney enlisted in the militia (though his father demonstrated ambivalence about the Revolution). He became a lieutenant, and served at the siege of Savannah (September–October 1779). When Charleston fell to the British the next year, the young Pinckney was captured and held as a prisoner until June 1781.

- Charles Pinckney Wikipedia Entry

Location type: Single Grave Date of Birth: 10/26/1757 Date of Death: 10/29/1824 Cause of death: Died Later Grave Marker Text: Please see long description. The capstone does not reflect his Revolutionary War Service, but his service after the War. Ranks: Lieutenant in the South Carolina Militia. Captured after the Siege of Charleston

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