Thomas Pinckney, fragments of three South Carolina land grants (1750-1828) to Thomas Charlton, one hundred fifty acres, dated 23 August 1775, H5 1/8" W13 1/4" (upper portion only, torn and stained); to John Marshall, two thousand fourteen acres, dated fifth day of March, 1787, H6" W12" (mounted on vellum, with signature); to William Johnston, six hundred acres, dated 27th day of March, 1787, H5 5/8" W12" (Discolored, chipped and torn, with signature). *Biography: Thomas Pinckney was born October 23, 1750 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was an American soldier, politician, and the diplomat who negotiated Pinckney's Treaty (Oct. 27, 1795) with Spain. After military service in the American Revolutionary War, Pinckney, a younger brother of the diplomat Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, turned to law and politics. He served as governor of South Carolina (1787-89) and as president of the state convention that ratified the U.S. Constitution. As U.S. minister to Great Britain (1792-96) and envoy extraordinary to Spain in 1795, he negotiated the Treaty of San Lorenzo, or Pinckney's Treaty. Pinckney was the unsuccessful Federalist candidate for vice president in 1796. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1797-1801) and a major general in the War of 1812. Upon retiring from public life, he practiced law and was a frequent contributor to the Southern Agriculturist. He died November 2, 1828 and is interred in St. Philip's Episcopal churchyard in Charleston.