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Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: 2011
Caption: St. Michael's Church, Major General Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
Additional Description: Headstone Reads :
Underneath
This stone
are deposited
the earthly remains of
Charles Cotesworth
Pinckney
Son of
Charles Pinckney,
and Elizi Lucis,
Born 25th February 1746
Died 16th August 1825

To The Memory Of
General Charles Cotesworth Pickney
One of the founders of
the American Republic
In war
He was the companion in arms
and the friend of Washington
In Peace
He enjoyed his unchanging confidence
and maintained with enlightened zeal
the principals of his administration
and the Constitution.
As a statesman he bequeathed to his country the sentiment,
millions for defence
not a cent for tribute.
As a lawyer,
His learning was various and profound
His principals pure his practice liberal
with all the accomplishments
Of the gentleman
He combined the virtues of the patriot
and the piety of the Christian
His name
Is recorded in the history of his country
inscribed on the charter of her liberties
and cherished in the affections of her citizens
Obeit XVI August MDCCCXXV
Aetatis, LXXIX

Placed by
his Descendants
The Society of the Cincinnati of the State of South Carolina
The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of South Carolina
The William Moultrie Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution
2010
Submitted: September 29, 2011, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p174440
File Size: 0.126 Megabytes

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