Person:Eliza Lucas (2)

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Elizabeth "Eliza" Lucas Pinckney (December 28, 1722 May 27, 1793) transformed agriculture in colonial South Carolina, where she developed indigo as one of its most important cash crops. Its cultivation and processing as dye produced one-third the total value of the colony's exports before the Revolutionary War. Manager of three plantations, Pinckney had a major influence on the colonial economy.

In the 20th century, Eliza Pinckney was the first woman to be inducted into South Carolina's Business Hall of Fame.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Eliza Lucas, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2.   Find A Grave.

   Eliza Lucas Pinckney
   Birth 27 Dec 1722
   Barbuda, Antigua And Barbuda
   Death 26 May 1793 (aged 70)
   Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
   Burial: Saint Peter's Episcopal Churchyard
   Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
   
   Eldest daughter of Lieutenant Colonel George Lucas of Dalzell's Regiment of Foot in the British Army and Ann Lucas. Eliza had two brothers, Thomas and George, and a younger sister Mary (known to family as Polly). They were all sent to London for schooling. Eliza's favorite subject was botany.
   
   In about 1738 the family moved from Antiqua to South Carolina where Col. Lucas had inherited three plantations from his father. In 1739, Col. Lucas had to return to his post in Antigua. Her mother lived until 1742 or later, but Eliza was managing the Bluff Plantation and its 20 slaves at the age of 16. She was also supervising the overseers at two other Lucas plantations, one which was inland and produced tar and timber, and the other which was a 3000 acre rice plantation on the Waccamaw River. During this same period Eliza oversaw her two younger siblings and as was customary then, she recorded her decisions and experiments in a letter book.
   
   The following information submitted by Find A Grave member, Shawn Page Larimore, member #47833931. Facts:
   Eliza married Charles Pinckney on May 25, 1744. She was 20 years old at the time. Eliza was the second wife of Charles Pinckney, and he was a planter on a neighboring plantation at the time.
   
   Eliza soon gave birth to three sons and a daughter: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
   George Lucas Pinckney died in infancy ( her father's namesake died soon after birth in June 1747.)
   Thomas Pinckney
   Harriott Pinckney Horry (born third)
   
   In 1753 the family moved to London for five years.
   
   Shortly after their return in 1758 to South Carolina, Charles Pinckney contracted malaria and died.
   The surviving Pinckney sons became influential leaders.
   Widowed, Eliza continued to manage their extensive plantations, in addition to the Lucas holdings. Most of her agricultural experiments took place before this time.
   
   Eliza Lucas Pinckney died of cancer in Philadelphia in 1793. She is buried there. President George Washington was a pall bearer at her funeral.
   
   Eliza wrote 3 volumes of letter books during her lifetime.
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28036633/eliza-pinckney