The Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen of South Carolina, A Digital Documentary Edition: Phase 3

FAIN: RQ-255751-17

University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC 29208-0001)
Constance B. Schulz (Project Director: December 2016 to present)

Preparation for digital publication of the personal and public papers of three South Carolina statesmen: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746-1825), Thomas Pinckney (1750-1828), and Charles Pinckney (1757-1824). (36 months)

This “born-digital” edition will focus on three Pinckney men who participated as military, political, diplomatic, and economic leaders in South Carolina and the nation during and after the American Revolution: brothers Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746 – 1825 ), Thomas Pinckney (1750 – 1828), and their cousin Charles Pinckney (1757- 1824). The edition, to be published by the University of Virginia Press, will identify, collect, transcribe, verify, annotate and publish in a selective digital scholarly edition transcriptions, not digital facsimiles, of approximately 3,000 documents of the three men's personal and public papers created between 1750 and 1828. We request funding for three years of the third phase of a projected eight-year project, to be completed by 2021. The project will be housed within the History Department of the University of South Carolina. It will use a DocTracker/FileMaker Pro database system to manage the editorial process and prepare content for digital publication.

Associated Products

The Revoluntionary Era Pinckney Statesman of South Carolina (Web Resource)
Title: The Revoluntionary Era Pinckney Statesman of South Carolina
Author: Constance Schultz
Abstract: Charles Cotesworth "C. C." Pinckney (February 25, 1746 – August 16, 1825) was an early American statesman of South Carolina, Revolutionary War veteran, and delegate to the Constitutional Convention
Year: 2017
Primary URL: http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/hist/pinckney-papers-projects

The Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen, volume 2 (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: The Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen, volume 2
Author: Robert Karachuk, Associate Editor
Author: Constance B. Schulz, Senior Editor
Author: Mary Sherrer, Associate Editor
Author: Marty Matthews, Associate Editor
Abstract: Volume 2 of the Pinckney Statesmen digital edition covers the period Jun2 1792 through December 1798. Consisting of 1550 fully edited documents and an additional 2500 documents calendared with full location citation information provided, the volume covers the diplomatic careers of Thomas Pinckney as minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain 1792-1795 and his special mission to Spain and negotiation of the Pinckney Treaty, and of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney as minister plenipotentiary to France 1796-1798, expulsion by the French Directory and relocation to Amsterdam, and actions as head of the abortive "XYZ Affair" negotiations for a new treaty with France. The volume also includes documents related to Charles Pinckney's 2nd term as governor of South Carolina. The documents include a significant number of letters describing the experiences of Mary Stead Pinckney during her husband's service in France and Amsterdam.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/PNKY.html
Primary URL Description: part of the University of Virginia Press Rotunda American Founding Era Collection.
Access Model: part of the Rotunda American Founding Era collection, but with provisions for free guest access.

The Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen , Volume 3 (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: The Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen , Volume 3
Author: Constance B. Schulz, Senior Editor
Abstract: 550 documents 1799-1811 of the writings of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Thomas Pinckney and Charles Pinckney. Person, diplomatic, military, and political correspondence.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/PNKY.html
Access Model: subscription only with opportunity for guest access

Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen, Vol. 4 (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: Papers of the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen, Vol. 4
Author: Constance B. Schulz, Senior Editor and Project Director
Abstract: 750 documents covering the Pinckney Statesmen 1812-1828, 500 of which cover the War of 1812.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: http://https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/PNKY.html
Access Model: subscription only

People Enslaved by the Pinckneys (Database/Archive/Digital Edition)
Title: People Enslaved by the Pinckneys
Author: Constance B. Schulz
Author: Zoie Horecny
Author: Mary Sherrer
Abstract: A web site incorporating data bases of people enslaved by the extended Pinckney families from 1700-1860, drawn from data within the Pinckney Statesmen and Pinckney/Horry editions of the Pinckney Papers projects, with sample documents and biographical sketches of enslaved people in the data bases.
Year: 2021
Primary URL: http://exhibits.library.sc.edu/peopleenslavedbythepinckneys/
Access Model: open access

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