Found 2 collections related to South Carolina -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865

Four letters of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, a South Carolina statesman, Revolutionary War veteran, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Three of the letters, dating 1815, 1822, and 1824 are addressed to cotton trader Francois-Didier Petit de Villers of Savannah, and concern the latter's claim against Colonel Joseph Habersham, the death of Pinckney's niece, and a request by Pinckney for information on various local matters. Also present are several autographs, a receipt, related ephemera, and a portion of an opinion written by Pinckney in 1783 on the plundering of a house by a party "attached to the British interest." less

Jacob Read (1752-1816) was an American lawyer and politician from Charleston, South Carolina, who represented that state in both the Continental Congress and the United States Senate. Correspondence concerns legal, legislative, and other official business; and local matters in Charleston. Correspondents include Patrick and Joseph Calhoun, as well as other prominent South Carolina lawyers and politicians. Family news is discussed in letters with his brother, William Read. less