named after General Thomas Pinckney, after he traveled through the area. That town no longer exists, as its residents left to found the nearby Norcross. Pinckneyville is the name of a Middle School in Norcross. Pinckney, New York, was named after him. Pinckney was portrayed by Hugh O'Gorman in the miniseries John Adams, though he is erroneously portrayed as a United States Senator instead of Ambassador to Great Britain during the George Washington administration Family His father, Charles Pinckney, was Chief Justice of South Carolina. His mother, Eliza Lucas, was prominent for introducing the cultivation of indigo to the colonies. His brother Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and his cousin Charles Pinckney were signers of the United States Constitution. Pinckney first married Elizabeth Motte in 1779, a daughter of Jacob and Rebecca Brewton Motte, a planter and merchant family. After her death, he married in 1797 her younger sister, Frances, the widow of John Middleton. (He was a cousin of Arthur Middleton.) The Mottes were patriots in the Revolution. Pinckney's elder son, Colonel Thomas, Jr.[1780-1842], married Elizabeth Izard [1781-1862], a cousin twice removed of South Carolina Congressman Ralph Izard. His younger son, named Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1789–1865) after his brother, married Phoebe Caroline Elliott, a daughter of a South Carolina State Representative, William Elliott, and Phoebe Waight. That son served as Lt. Governor of South Carolina between 1832 and 1834. The Pinckneys' daughter Elizabeth married William Lowndes, son of Revolutionary War-era South Carolina Governor Rawlins Lowndes. He became a leading Republican voice in the House of Representatives from 1812 until his death in 1822. Lowndes's connection to the Pinckneys, despite their contrasting political affiliation, helped gain the younger man's election to Congress in 1811. References Bibliography External links Congressional biography of Thomas Pinckney SCIway Biography of Thomas Pinckney NGA Biography of Thomas Pinckney Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Pinckney family papers, 1823-1864 |- |- |- |- 1750 births 1828 deaths American slave owners Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Ambassadors of the United States to Great Britain American Revolutionary War prisoners of war held by Great Britain Continental Army officers from South Carolina Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina Federalist Party state governors of the United States Governors of South Carolina Members of the American Antiquarian Society People educated at Westminster School, London Pinckney family Politicians from Charleston, South Carolina