Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1732/03/07 Ruth Brewton Pinckney, wife of William Pinckney, gives birth to a son, Charles Pinckney, at Charles Town in the Province of South Carolina. Variously sources list his birth year as 1731, 1732 or 1733. Born
1753/01/02 Frances Brewton, daughter of Robert Brewton and Mary Griffith Brewton, marries her first cousin, Charles Pinckney. The union will produce eight children, but two dying in infancy. Groom Marriage of Frances Brewton and Charles Pinckney
1754/00/00 Charles Pinckney buys a plantation from John Savage in Christ Church Parish, northeast of Charles Town, across the Cooper River. Owner Charles Pinckney National Historic Site Mount Pleasant, SC
1782/09/22 Colonel Charles Pinckney dies at his county seat. Mr Pinckney was able to pass on a sizable estate to his family. His will directs that 60 of "the worst of my plantation slaves" should be sold to pay debts. Died Charles Pinckney National Historic Site Mount Pleasant, SC
1782/09/25 Contemporary accounts provide that Col Charles was buried at St Andrew's Church in West Ashley, while Pinckney's will directs that he is to be buried in town at St Philips Church. In Memoriam St Andrews Episcopal Church Charleston, SC
1782/10/00 Colonel Charles Pinckney is probably buried, or at least reinterred, at Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston. In Memoriam St Philip's Episcopal Church Charleston, SC
1820/00/00 When Snee Farm is sold out of the family in the mid-C19th, a memorial stone to Col Charles Pinckney is moved to Christ Church. The marker was purchased by his son Charles but was erected at Snee Farm due to an error in the birth inscription. In Memoriam Christ Church Mount Pleasant, SC
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