Charles Cotesworth Pinckney letters and other material

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unitid

{"value"=>"4579", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"MssCol 4579", "type"=>"local_call"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1774-1824", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1774/1824"}

date_inclusive_start

1774

date_inclusive_end

1824

keydate

1774

unittitle

{"value"=>"Charles Cotesworth Pinckney letters and other material"}

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repository

{"id"=>"MSS", "value"=>"Manuscripts and Archives Division"}

abstract

{"value"=>"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.\""}

prefercite

{"value"=>"<p>Charles Cotesworth Pinckney letters and other material, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}

origination

{"value"=>"Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 1746-1825", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"creator"}

custodhist

{"value"=>"<p>Some material was originally received as part of the Thomas Addis Emmet and Ford collections.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>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.\"</p>"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Donated by John S. Kennedy, 1896; John Pierpont Morgan, 1899; Saul Mindlin, 1952; with additional purchase in 1942.</p>"}

processinfo

{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p>Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Kit Messick</span>, <span class=\"date\">2014</span></p>"}

extent_statement

.1 linear feet (1 folder)

date_start

1774

date_end

1824

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