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A Selective Bibliography on the Revolutionary Era Pinckney Statesmen

and the World in Which They Lived

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | Thomas Pinckney | Charles Pinckney

The World in Which They Lived

 

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. 38 vols. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1832–61. [Foreign Relations, vol. 2.]

DeConde, Alexander. The Quasi-War: The Politics and Diplomacy of the Undeclared War with France, 1797–1801. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1966.

The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Edited by Merrill Jensen. 22 vols. to date. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976– . [Vols. 10, 13, 18, 21, and 27.]

Extracts from the Journals of the Provincial Congresses of South Carolina, 1775–1776. Edited by William Edwin Hemphill. Columbia: South Carolina Archives Department, 1960.

The First Federal Elections, 1788–1790. Edited by Merrill Jensen and Robert A. Becker. 4 vols. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976–89. [Vols. 1 and 4.]

Graebner, Norman A. “Foreign Affairs and the U.S. Constitution, 1787–1788.” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 3d ser., 98 (1986): 1–20.

Journals of the General Assembly and House of Representatives, 1776–1780. Edited by William Edwin Hemphill, Wylma Anne Wates, and R. Nicholas Olsberg. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press for the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1970.

Journals of the House of Representatives, [1783–1790]. Edited by Theodora J. Thompson and Rosa S. Lumpkin. 6 vols. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press for the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1977–88. [Vols. 1–4.]

Lander, Ernest M. Jr. “The South Carolinians at the Philadelphia Convention, 1787.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 57, no. 3 (July 1956): 134–55.

Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789. Edited by Paul H. Smith. 26 vols. Washington: Library of Congress, 1976–2000. [Vols. 1 and 18.]

Letter-book of Mary Stead Pinckney, November 14th, 1796 to August 29th, 1797. Edited by Charles F. McCombs. New York: Grolier Club, 1946.

Lokke, Carl Ludwig. “The Trumbull Episode: A Prelude to the ‘X Y Z’ Affair.” New England Quarterly 7, no. 1 (March 1934): 100–14.

The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. Edited by Harold C. Syrett. 27 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961–87. [Vols. 9–12, 18, 20, and 22–26.]

The Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry Digital Edition. Edited by Constance B. Schulz. Charlottesville: Rotunda, University of Virginia Press, 2012–14. http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/PinckneyHorry/.

The Papers of George Washington. Edited by W. W. Abbot. 56 vols. to date. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1985– . [Confederation Series, vols. 1 and 6; Presidential Series, vols. 3, 5, 8, and 15; Retirement Series, vols. 1 and 3–4.]

The Papers of John Marshall. Edited by Herbert A. Johnson. 12 vols. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1974–2006. [Vols. 3 and 6–7.]

The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. 1937 rev. ed. Edited by Max Farrand. 4 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966–67.

Hunter, Thomas Rogers. “Hastening the Demise of Federalism in the Low Country: South Carolina’s Congressional Gerrymander of 1802.” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 113, no. 3 (July 2012): 221–56.

Stinchcombe, William. The XYZ Affair. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1980.

Supplement to Max Farrand’s The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Edited by James H. Hutson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Ulmer, Shirley Sidney. “The South Carolina Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787: An Analytical Study.” Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1956.

______. “Some Eighteenth Century South Carolinians and the Duel.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 60, no. 1 (January 1959): 1–9.

Williams, Frances Leigh. A Founding Family: The Pinckneys of South Carolina. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.

Zahniser, Marvin R. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney: Founding Father. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1967.

 

Thomas Pinckney

American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. 38 vols. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1832–61. [Foreign Relations, vol. 1.]

Annals of the Congress of the United States: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States. 42 vols. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1834–56. [Vols. 7–10.]

Bemis, Samuel Flagg. “The London Mission of Thomas Pinckney, 1792–1796.” American Historical Review 28, no. 2 (January 1923): 228–47.

______. Pinckney’s Treaty: America’s Advantage from Europe’s Distress, 1783–1800. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1926.

Cross, Jack L. London Mission: The First Critical Years. [East Lansing]: Michigan State University Press, 1968.

Davis, Robert Scott, Jr., Thomas Pinckney, and William Johnson. “Thomas Pinckney and the Last Campaign of Horatio Gates.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 86, no. 2 (April 1985): 75–99.

The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Edited by Merrill Jensen. 22 vols. to date. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976– . [Vol. 27.]

The First Federal Elections, 1788–1790. Edited by Merrill Jensen and Robert A. Becker. 4 vols. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976–89. [Vol. 1.]

Journals of the General Assembly and House of Representatives, 1776–1780. Edited by William Edwin Hemphill, Wylma Anne Wates, and R. Nicholas Olsberg. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press for the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1970.

Journal of the House of Representatives of South Carolina, January 8, 1782–February 26, 1782. Edited by A. S. Salley, Jr. Columbia: Historical Commission of South Carolina, 1916.

Journals of the House of Representatives, [1783–1794]. Edited by Theodora J. Thompson and Rosa S. Lumpkin. 6 vols. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press for the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1977–88. [Vols. 1–5.]

Journals of the Privy Council, 1783–1789. Edited by Adele Stanton Edwards. University of South Carolina Press for the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1971.

Lee, Christopher F. “The Transformation of the Executive in Post-Revolutionary South Carolina.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 93, no. 2 (April 1992): 85–100.

Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789. Edited by Paul H. Smith. 26 vols. Washington: Library of Congress, 1996–2000. [Vols. 24–25.]

The Papers of Alexander Hamilton. Edited by Harold C. Syrett. 27 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961–87. [Vols. 12–17.]

The Papers of Andrew Jackson. Edited by Sam B. Smith and Harriet Chappell Owsley. 9 vols. to date. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1980– . [Vols. 2–3 and 6.]

The Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry Digital Edition. Edited by Constance B. Schulz. Charlottesville: Rotunda, University of Virginia Press, 2012–14. http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/PinckneyHorry/.

The Papers of James Monroe. Edited by Daniel Preston. 5 vols. to date. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2003– .

The Papers of George Washington. Edited by W. W. Abbot. 56 vols. to date. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1985– . [Presidential Series, vols., 4, 9–10, 12, and 14; Retirement Series, vols. 1–3.]

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Julian P. Boyd. 46 vols. to date. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950– . [Main Series, vols. 22–28.]

Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth. Life of General Thomas Pinckney, by his Grandson. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1895.

Ritcheson, Charles R. “Thomas Pinckney’s London Mission, 1792–1796, and the Impressment Issue.” International History Review 2, no. 4 (October 1980): 523–41.

Rogers, Thomas. “Hastening the Demise of Federalism in the Low Country: South Carolina’s Congressional Gerrymander of 1802.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 113, no. 3 (July 2012): 221–56.

Scherr, Arthur. “The Significance of Thomas Pinckney’s Candidacy in the Election of 1796.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 76, no. 2 (April 1975): 51–59.

The Selected Papers of John Jay. Edited by Elizabeth M. Nuxoll. 3 vols to date. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010– .

Whitaker, Arthur P. “Godoy’s Knowledge of the Terms of Jay’s Treaty.” American Historical Review 35, no. 4 (July 1930): 804–10.

______. “New Light on the Treaty of San Lorenzo: An Essay in Historical Criticism.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 15, no. 4 (March 1929): 435–54.

Williams, Frances Leigh. A Founding Family: The Pinckneys of South Carolina. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.

Young, Raymond A. “Pinckney’s Treaty—A New Perspective.” Hispanic American Historical Review 43, no. 4 (November 1963): 526–35.

 

Charles Pinckney

American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. 38 vols. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1832–61. [Foreign Relations, vol. 2.]

Annals of the Congress of the United States: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States. 42 vols. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1834–56. [Vols. 9–10 and 35–37.]

Bethea, Andrew J. The Contribution of Charles Pinckney to the Formation of the American Union. Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1937.

Collier, Christopher, and James Lincoln Collier. “The Puzzle of Charles Pinckney.” In Decision at Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787, 87–101. New York: Ballantine, 1986.

The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. Edited by Merrill Jensen. 22 vols. to date. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976– . [Vols. 1 and 27.]

The First Federal Elections, 1788–1790. Edited by Merrill Jensen and Robert A. Becker. 4 vols. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1976–89. [Vol. 1.]

Graebner, Norman A. “Foreign Affairs and the U.S. Constitution, 1787–1788.” Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society 3d ser., 98 (1986): 1–20.

Jameson, J. Franklin. “Portions of Charles Pinckney’s Plan for a Constitution, 1787.” American Historical Review 8, no. 3 (April 1903): 509–11.

______. “The Text of the Pinckney Plan.” In “Studies in the History of the Federal Convention of 1787,” Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1902, 2 vols., 1:111–32. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1903.

Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789. Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. 34 vols. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1904–37. [Vols. 27–32.]

Journals of the General Assembly and House of Representatives, 1776–1780. Edited by William Edwin Hemphill, Wylma Anne Wates, and R. Nicholas Olsberg. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press for the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1970.

Journals of the House of Representatives, [1783–1794]. Edited by Theodora J. Thompson and Rosa S. Lumpkin. 6 vols. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press for the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1977–1988. [Vols. 1, 3–4, and 6.]

Journals of the Privy Council, 1783–1789. Edited by Adele Stanton Edwards. University of South Carolina Press for the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1971.

Kaplanoff, Mark D. “Charles Pinckney and the American Republican Tradition.” Chap. 3 in Intellectual Life in Antebellum Charleson, edited by Michael O’Brien and David Moltke-Hansen, 85–122. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986.

Lander, Ernest M. Jr. “The South Carolinians at the Philadelphia Convention, 1787.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 57, no. 3 (July 1956): 134–55.

Letters of Delegates to Congress, 1774–1789. Edited by Paul H. Smith. 26 vols. Washington: Library of Congress, 1994–98. [Vols. 21–25.]

Matthews, Marty D. Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004.

[McLaughlin, Andrew C.] “Sketch of Pinckney’s Plan for a Constitution, 1787.” American Historical Review 9, no. 4 (July 1904): 735–47.

Nott, Charles C. The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught. New York: Century, 1908.

The Papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry Digital Edition. Edited by Constance B. Schulz. Charlottesville: Rotunda, University of Virginia Press, 2012–14. http://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/PinckneyHorry/.

The Papers of George Washington. Edited by W. W. Abbot. 56 vols. to date. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1985– . [Presidential Series, vols. 4 and 6–9.]

The Papers of James Madison. Edited by William T. Hutchinson and William M. E. Rachal. 33 vols. to date. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1962– . [Congressional Series, vols. 11–14 and 17; Secretary of State Series, vols. 1–9; Presidential Series, vols. 1–2 and 4–5.]

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Edited by Julian P. Boyd. 46 vols. to date. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950– . [Main Series, vols. 15, 23, 31–35, and 37; Retirement Series, vols. 1 and 4.]

“The Pinckney Plan.” In The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, edited by Max Farrand, 3 vols., 3:595–609. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911.

The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. 1937 rev. ed. Edited by Max Farrand. 4 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966–67.

Rogers, George C., Jr. “South Carolina Federalists and the Origins of the Nullification Movement.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 71, no. 1 (January 1970): 17–32.

Rogers, Thomas. “Hastening the Demise of Federalism in the Low Country: South Carolina’s Congressional Gerrymander of 1802.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 113, no. 3 (July 2012): 221–56.

Supplement to Max Farrand’s The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787. Edited by James H. Hutson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Ulmer, Shirley Sidney. “The South Carolina Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787: An Analytical Study.” Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1956.

______. “James Madison and the Pinckney Plan.” South Carolina Law Quarterly 9 (Spring 1957): 415–44.

______. “Charles Pinckney: Father of the Constitution?” South Carolina Law Quarterly 10 (Winter 1958): 225–47.

Williams, Frances Leigh. A Founding Family: The Pinckneys of South Carolina. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.

 

The World in Which They Lived

Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives, [1692–1828]. Edited by Walter B. Edgar. 5 vols. Vols. 1–4, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1974–84; vol. 5, Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives & History, 1992.

Biographical Directory of the South Carolina Senate, 1776–1985. Edited by N. Louise Bailey, Mary L. Morgan, and Carolyn R. Taylor. 3 vols. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1986.

Borick, Carl P. A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.

Bradford, M. E. “Preserving the Birthright: The Intention of South Carolina in Adopting the U.S. Constitution.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 89, no. 2 (April 1988): 90–101.

Broussard, James H. The Southern Federalists, 1800–1816. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1978.

Edelson, S. Max. Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.

Fraser, Andrea. Red, White, and Black Make Blue: Indigo in the Fabric of Colonial South Carolina Life. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013.

Gordon, John W. South Carolina and the American Revolution: A Battlefield History. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003.

Haw, James. “A Broken Compact: Insecurity, Union, and the Proposed Surrender of Charleston, 1779.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 96, no. 1 (January 1995): 30–53.

Kaplanoff, Mark D. “How Federalist was South Carolina in 1787–88?” Chap. 5 in The Meaning of South Carolina History: Essays in Honor of George C. Rogers, Jr., edited by David R. Chesnutt and Clyde N. Wilson, 67–103. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1991.

Klein, Rachel N. Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760–1808. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1990.

Linder, Suzanne Cameron. Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of the ACE River Basin—1860. Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History for the Archives and History Foundation, Ducks Unlimited, and The Nature Conservancy, 1995.

______, Marta Leslie Thacker, and Agnes Leland Baldwin. Historical Atlas of the Rice Plantations of Georgetown County and the Santee River. Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History for the Historic Ricefields Association, [2001].

McCrady, Edward. The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, [1775–1780]. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan, 1901–1902.

Mercantini, Jonathan. Who Shall Rule at Home? The Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748–1776. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007.

Mills, Robert. Atlas of the State of South Carolina, Made under the Authority of the Legislature. Baltimore: F. Lucas, Jr., 1825; reprint ed., Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1980.

Nadelhaft, Jerome J. The Disorders of War: The Revolution in South Carolina. Orono: University of Maine at Orono Press, 1981.

Pancake, John S. This Destructive War: The British Campaign in the Carolinas, 1780–1782. [Tuscaloosa]: University of Alabama Press, 1985.

Piecuch, Jim. Three Peoples, One King: Loyalists, Indians, and Slaves in the Revolutionary South, 1775–1782. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008.

Ramsay, David. The History of South-Carolina, from Its First Settlement in 1670, to the Year 1808. 2 vols. Charleston: David Longworth, 1809.

Rogers, George C., Jr. Charleston in the Age of the Pinckneys. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1980.

Rose, Lisle A. Prologue to Democracy: The Federalists in the South, 1789–1800. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1968.

The South Carolina Encyclopedia. Edited by Walter Edgar. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006.

Starr, Rebecca. A School for Politics: Commercial Lobbying and Political Culture in Early South Carolina. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Weir, Robert M. Colonial South Carolina: A History. New York: KTO, 1983.

______. “South Carolinians and the Adoption of the United States Constitution.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 89, no. 2 (April 1988): 73–89.

Wilson, David K. The Southern Strategy: Britain’s Conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, 1775–1780. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2005.


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