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CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY

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CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY
(1746 - 1825) American diplomat and general, an aide to Washington at Brandwine and Germantown, member of the Constitutional Convention and first to report the inflammatory "XYZ Affair". A.L.S. 2pp. 4to., Charleston, May 4, 1803 to John Cheswith, writing, in part: "I recollect very well the delivering you about a year ago a rough draught of an intended Bill in Chancery drawn several years before in my office at the desire of Mr. Aveson[?] & yourself to compell [sic] the Executors of Mr. Aaron Locock one o f you deceased solvent partners to pay his proportion of the debt for which a verdict in the federal court had been recovered against you as surviving co-partners a the suit of Greenwood and Higginson. The impression on my mind is that the suit was stopped by Mr. Clarkson's telling me that there was no occasion to put the parties to the expense of proceeding as he would pay Mr. Lockock's proportion as the assets should come into his hand. I do not know anything else that could have prevented the engrossing & filing the Bill...." With integral transmittal leaf addressed in his hand. Usual folds, moderate to heavy dampstains, else very good.