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Pinckney Family
Pinckney may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Pinckney (surname) * Pinckney (given name) Places in the United States * Pinckney, Michigan, a village * Pinckney, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Pinckney, New York, a town * Pinckney State Recreation Area, a protected area in Michigan Ships * USS ''Pinckney'', a US Navy destroyer See also * Castle Pinckney, a US fortification in South Carolina * The Community Learning Center at Pinckney, an alternative middle and high school in Carthage, North Carolina * Pinckney's Treaty Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed on October 27, 1795, by the United States and Spain. It defined the border between the United States and Spanish Florida, and guaranteed the United S ... (1795–1796), between Spain and the US * * Pinkney (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinckney (surname)
Pinckney is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Pinckney political family of South Carolina * Charles Pinckney (South Carolina chief justice) (1699–1758), South Carolina politician, father of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Thomas Pinckney, and uncle of Colonel Charles Pinckney * Colonel Charles Pinckney (1731–1782), South Carolina politician, British Loyalist during Revolutionary War, father of the Governor Charles Pinckney * Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746–1825), Revolutionary War general and Federalist Party presidential candidate * Charles Pinckney (governor) (1757–1824), drafter of the United States Constitution, father of Henry Laurens Pinckney, and second cousin of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney * Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722–1793), South Carolina planter * Thomas Pinckney (1750–1828), South Carolina governor, ambassador to Britain, diplomat who arranged Pinckney's Treaty, and a brother of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney * Henry L. Pinckne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinckney (given Name)
Pinckney is a masculine given name. It may include: * Pinckney Benedict (born 1964), American short story writer * Pinckney Downie Bowles (1835–1910), American Confederate general * Pinckney Warren Russell (1864–1941), American classics scholar, pastor, educator * Pinckney R. Tully (1824–1903), American businessman and politician * Pinckney Wilkinson (c. 1693–1784), British merchant and politician See also * Green Pinckney Russell (1861–1939), American school administrator and teacher {{given name English-language masculine given names Masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinckney, Michigan
Pinckney is a Administrative divisions of Michigan#Villages, village in Putnam Township, Michigan, Putnam Township, Livingston County, Michigan, Livingston County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,415 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Among the first American pioneers in the area around Pinckney were William Kirkland and his family, who moved from New York (state), New York in the late 1820s. Kirkland named the community after his brother, Charles Pinckney Kirkland. Platted in 1837, Pinckney was incorporated as a village in 1883. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 2,427 people, 869 households, and 648 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 927 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 97.9% White (U.S. Census), White, 0.1% African A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinckney, Missouri
Pinckney is an unincorporated community in Warren County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. History Pinckney was plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...ted in 1819, and named after Atossa Pinckney Sharp, the daughter of a county official. A post office called Pinckney was established in 1833, and remained in operation until 1905. A variant name was "Kruegerville". References Unincorporated communities in Warren County, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{WarrenCountyMO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinckney, New York
Pinckney is a town in Lewis County, New York, United States. The population was 313 at the 2020 census. The town is named after Thomas Pinckney of South Carolina. The town is on the western border of the county and is southeast of Watertown. History The community was first settled ''circa'' 1804. The town of Pinckney was formed in 1808 from the towns of Harrisburgh and Rodman (then called "Harrison" in Jefferson County). Early settlers were mostly farmers, who later changed to dairy and cheese production due to the snowy climate. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which are land and , or 0.34%, are water. The western part of the town is surrounded on three sides by Jefferson County. New York State Route 177 is an east–west highway in the town. The Deer River flows northward through the southeastern part of Pinckney. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 319 people, 120 households, and 81 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinckney State Recreation Area
Pinckney State Recreation Area is a Michigan state recreation area in Dexter, Sylvan and Lyndon Townships, Washtenaw County and Putnam and Unadilla Townships, Livingston County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The park is and sits at an elevation of . The park is connected to the nearby Waterloo State Recreation Area by the Waterloo–Pinckney Trail. Pinckney State Recreation Area is open for year-round recreation including hiking, fishing, swimming, hunting and a variety of winter sports. History Pinckney State Recreation Area comprises several connected, but scattered parcels of land that surround private lands and land owned by the State of Michigan. The village of Pinckney is the largest settlement in the area, lying just to the east of the northeast corner of the park. Hell lies within the park and is the center of recreation at Pinckney State Recreation Area. Hell grew up around a sawmill, gristmill, distillery and tavern. All three were operated by George Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Pinckney
USS ''Pinckney'' (DDG-91) is an ''Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, Arleigh Burke-class'' (Arleigh Burke-class destroyer#Characteristics, Flight IIA) Aegis combat system, Aegis guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named for African American Culinary specialist (United States Navy), Ship's Cook Petty officer first class, First Class William Pinckney (1915–1976), who received the Navy Cross (United States), Navy Cross for his courageous rescue of a fellow crewmember on board the aircraft carrier during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, Battle of Santa Cruz. ''Pinckney'' was Keel laying, laid down on 16 July 2001 by Ingalls Shipbuilding, at Pascagoula, Mississippi; Ship naming and launching, launched on 26 June 2002; and ship commissioning, commissioned on 29 May 2004 at Naval Construction Battalion Center Port Hueneme. She is the first ''Arleigh Burke''-class destroyer to be equipped with the AN/SPY-1D(V) Littoral Warfare Radar upgrade, which was fitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Pinckney
Castle Pinckney is a small masonry fortification constructed by the United States government, in the Charleston Harbor, harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1810. It was used very briefly as a prisoner-of-war camp (six weeks) and artillery position during the American Civil War. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. Early history Located on Shutes Folly, a small island about one mile off the Charleston shore in the harbor, the fort was built over the ruins of an older fortification called "Fort Pinckney". The original log and earthen fort, named after the American Revolution, Revolutionary War hero Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, was built beginning in 1797 and was intended to protect the city from a possible naval attack when war with France seemed imminent. Completed in 1804, it saw no hostilities and was virtually destroyed by 1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane, a severe hurricane in September of that year. A replacement brick-and-mortar structure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Community Learning Center At Pinckney
Pinckney Academy is an alternative Middle School and High School in Carthage, North Carolina. It is a part of the Moore County public schools system. Previously, the school was different from the other traditional schools in the county. Up until the 2009–2010 school year, it offered high school A secondary school, high school, or senior school, is an institution that provides secondary education. Some secondary schools provide both ''lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) and ''upper secondary education'' (ages 14 to 18), i.e., ... students only to seek credit hours under independent study. This meant that a student could get credit for a course as soon as he/she is finished with the two packets per course the instructor provides for the student. In addition, there is no lecture for the student as he or she is self-teaching the subject on their own. Inside the packet has assignments that the student would have to complete by reading the textbook first then answer the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinckney's Treaty
Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed on October 27, 1795, by the United States and Spain. It defined the border between the United States and Spanish Florida, and guaranteed the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River. With this agreement, the first phase of the ongoing border dispute between the two nations in this region, commonly called the West Florida Controversy, came to a close. Thomas Pinckney negotiated the treaty for the United States and Don Manuel de Godoy represented Spain. It was presented to the United States Senate on February 26, 1796, and, after debate, was ratified on March 7, 1796. It was ratified by Spain on April 25, 1796, and ratifications were exchanged on that date. The treaty was proclaimed on August 2, 1796. Background In 1763, Great Britain established two colonies, East Florida and West Florida, out of territory along the northern Gulf of Mexico coast ceded from France a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
