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  • Castle Pinckney is situated on the southern extremity of

    Illustrations of the War in America 1863

  • Castle Pinckney is located on the southern extremity of a narrow slip of marsh land, which extends in a northerly direction to Hog Island Channel.

    Forts in Charleston Harbour 1861

  • Hell Mi actually and went to school in Pinckney. .are you anywhere near there?

    If It’s Sunday, It Must Be Jane 2008

  • It was the anger which brings with it perfect recklessness, akin to that which had seized her the day in Ireland when in her rage over Rafferty's dismissal she had called Pinckney a Beast.

    The Ghost Girl 1907

  • A curious anecdote is related of this original Pinckney, which is about all that is now known of him.

    Revolutionary Heroes, and Other Historical Papers James Parton 1856

  • The vegetables and products for the CSA will be grown on a 155-acre tract, called Pinckney's Produce.

    unknown title 2009

  • "Why," says I, "mostly Wall Street men, with a sprinklin 'of afternoon tea Johnnies, such as Pinckney here."

    Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907

  • Keep history in mindSo the next time newly elected tea party proponents talk about freezing the debt ceiling in order to "starve the beast" of national government, keep the arguments of Federalists such as Pinckney in mind.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Keep history in mindSo the next time newly elected tea party proponents talk about freezing the debt ceiling in order to "starve the beast" of national government, keep the arguments of Federalists such as Pinckney in mind.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • "Pinckney," says I, as we was puttin 'up in Newport, "you know all sorts of crackerjacks.

    Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

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