Elizabeth Motte Pinckney
(1762-1794)
BIRTH
1762
PLACE
Charleston, South Carolina
NAME
Elizabeth Motte
DEATH
1794
PLACE
England
FAMILY
FATHER
Jacob Motte
(1701-1770)
HUSBAND
Thomas Pinckney
(1750-1828)
CHILDREN
Elizabeth Brewton Pinckney Lowndes
(1781-1857)
CHILDREN
Harriott Lucas Pinckney Huger
(1783-1824)
HOMES
NICKNAMES
Betsey
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth “Betsey” Motte Pinckney (1762–1794) was the eldest daughter of Rebecca Brewton and Jacob Motte Jr. She grew up in Charleston and on the family’s South Carolina plantations. In 1779 she married officer Thomas Pinckney and later nursed him after his wounding at Camden. The war took the family to Philadelphia; she subsequently accompanied him to London during his diplomatic service. University of South Carolina research confirms her death year as 1794.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Elizabeth Motte Pinckney’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Motte Pinckney is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth Motte Pinckney died in 1794, in England. Elizabeth “Betsey” Motte Pinckney was the eldest daughter of Rebecca Brewton and Jacob Motte Jr. She grew up in Charleston and on the family’s South Carolina plantations. In 1779 she married officer Thomas Pinckney and later nursed him after his wounding at Camden. The war took the family to Philadelphia; she subsequently accompanied him to London during his diplomatic service. University of South Carolina research confirms her death year as 1794. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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