Signer of the US Constitution from South Carolina and a South Carolina governor, senator, and representative (1746-1825). ALS, signed "Charles Cotesworth Pinckney," one page both sides, 7.75 x 9.75, May 4, 1803. Written from Charleston, a letter to John Cheswith Esqr., in full: "I recollect very well the delivering you about a year ago the rough draught of an intended Bill in Chancery drawn several years before in my office at the desire of Mr. Averson and yourself to compell the Executors of Mr. Aaron Locock one of your deceased solvent partners to pay his proportion of the debt for which a verdict in the federal court had been recovered against you as surviving Co-partners at the suit of Greenwood & Higginson. The impression on my mind is that the suit was stopped by Mr. Clarkson's telling me that there was no occasion to put the parties to the expense of proceeding as he would pay Mr. Locock's proportion as assets should come into his hands. I do not know any thing else that could have prevented the engrossing & filing the Bill. At the same time in such an old transaction & amidst the multiplicity of business in which I was then engaged, it cannot be expected, nor would l undertake to swear positively that the fact was so." In very good to fine condition, with dampstaining affecting appearance but not readability. Accompanied by an engraved portrait bearing a preprinted facsimile signature.
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