Mary Eleanor Pinckney

Mary Eleanor Pinckney (Laurens)
Birthdate:	circa April 27, 1770
Birthplace:	South Carolina, United States
Death:	October 1794 (20-28) Charleston, South Carolina
Place of Burial:	Moncks Corner, Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States of America
Immediate Family:	Daughter of Henry Laurens, 5th President of the Continental Congress and Eleanor Delamere Laurens Wife of Charles Pinckney, Jr., Gov., Sen., Signer of the Constitution Mother of Frances Henrietta Hayne; Mary Eleanor Ramsay and Henry L. Pinckney Sister of Col. John Laurens, Continental Army; Martha Ramsey; Henry Laurens, Jr. and Eleanor Henry Ramsay

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Mary "Polly" Eleanor Laurens (Apr. 27, 1770 -Oct. 6, 1794),

She was the daughter of a wealthy and politically powerful South Carolina merchant Henry Laurens, the 5th President of the Continental Congress and Eleanor Delamere Ball Laurens.
Husband: Charles Pinckney of South Carolina
Married on April 27, 1788
Less than a month after her birth in Charleston, her mother died, and when she was one-and-a-half years old, her father, focusing on the education of his sons, placed her and her sister in the care of his brother and sister-in-law, James and Mary Laurens.
- In 1775 when her uncle and aunt sailed for England, she went with them, and in 1777 when they moved to the village of Vignon in the south of France, she again accompanied them.
- After her uncle’s death there in 1785, she returned to South Carolina with her aunt and her sister, but having grown up in France, she was by then more French than American.
Her European manners and good looks as well as her father’s wealth and prominence captured the attention of Charles Pinckney (1757–1824).
- They married on 27 April 1788.
  - Together they had three children who survived to adulthood:
    - Frances Henrietta (1790–1816), who married Robert Young Hayne;
    - Mary Eleanor (b. 1792), who married David Ramsay; and
    - Henry Laurens (1794–1863).
Polly Laurens Pinckney, Charles Pinckney’s “little French girl,” died less than a month after the birth of her son.
She died in 1794, leaving Pinckney a widower.

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1770	April 27, 1770	Birth of Mary Eleanor Pinckney South Carolina, United States
1790	1790	Birth of Frances Henrietta Hayne Charleston, South Carolina
1792	November 12, 1792	Birth of Mary Eleanor Ramsay
1794	September 24, 1794	Birth of Henry L. Pinckney Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
	October 1794 Age 24	Death of Mary Eleanor Pinckney at Charleston, South ... Charleston, South Carolina
????		Burial of Mary Eleanor Pinckney Moncks Corner, Berkeley County, South Carolina, United States of America

Mary Eleanor Pinckney (Laurens)