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8 unusual facts about Charles Cotesworth Pinckney


Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

Relations with the French First Republic was then at a low ebb: the Jay Treaty between the US and Great Britain had angered members of the ruling French Directory, and they had ordered the French Navy to step up seizures of American merchant vessels found to be trading with Britain, with whom France was at war.

The expedition ended due to severe logistical difficulties and a British victory in the Battle of Alligator Bridge.

Pinckney Island National Wildlife Refuge, a national wildlife refuge on the site of the Pinckney family's plantation, is named after Charles Cotesworth Pinckney.

Charles Pinckney

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825), U.S. vice presidential candidate (1800), U.S. presidential candidate (1804 and 1808)

Franklin Prophecy

The speech was purportedly transcribed by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, but was unknown before its appearance in 1934 in the pages of William Dudley Pelley's Silver Legion pro-Nazi weekly magazine Liberation.

The setting for the purported speech is a dinner table discussion recorded by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney during the convention of the Continental Congress.

Tench Coxe

Coxe then turned Democratic-Republican, and in the canvass of 1800 published Adams's famous letter to him regarding Pinckney.

Washington Street United Methodist Church

In 1829 at the urging of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a prominent planter, Capers founded the Methodist Episcopal Church’s mission to slaves and served as the mission’s first superintendent.


1798 State of the Union Address

In 1796 the French Directory rejected Charles Cotesworth Pinckney as the United States Minister Plenipotentiary to France.


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