Pat Sayko
Chapter Regent

The Eliza Lucas Pinckney Chapter, NSDAR is one of the newest chapters in South Carolina and was organized October 8, 2005.

The Chapter was named for Eliza Lucas Pinckney.  She was running three of her father's lowcountry plantations at the age of 17.  She was extremely successful in her cultivation of Indigo.  Eliza married Charles Pinckney, Chief Justice of the Province.  They had three living children.  One son passed away.  The children were Charles Cotesworth, Thomas, and Harriet.  After her marriage, Eliza continued her experiments with hemp and flax and revived the silk culture in the lowcountry.  After her husband's death, she managed several plantations and Charles Towne properties.  Both of her sons became national figures.  Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, who was a general in the Revolutionary War and a signer of the U.S. Constitution, and Thomas Pinckney, also a Revolutionary War officer, later a general, and the U.S. Minister to Spain and Great Britain.  Eliza died in 1793 in Philadelphia, where she was taken for treatment and is buried there.  At his own request, George Washington was a pallbearer at Eliza's funeral.  Eliza was inducted into the S.C. Business Hall of Fame in 1989.  She was the first woman so honored.