biography
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Pinckney, Elizabeth Lucas
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (c.1722–93)
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| biography:
| Colonial planter, probably born in Antigua. Her British father was the lieutenant-governor of Antigua, and after an education in England she arrived with her family in South Carolina (1738). In her father's absence she managed three family plantations and successfully planted indigo seeds, the first such in North America (1741–4). In 1744 she married a lawyer, Charles Pinckney, and upon his death (1758) she again managed plantations on her own and also imported cocoons and raised silk worms. She had a strong influence upon the careers of her sons, Thomas and Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. |
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