Eliza Lucas
Eliza Lucas Pinckney
(c.
1722
-
1793
) was the daughter of Lieut.-Colonel
George Lucas
of the British army, who about
1738
removed from
Antigua
to
South Carolina
, where he acquired several
plantations
. He was almost immediately recalled to Antigua, and his daughter undertook the management of the plantations with conspicuous success. She is said to have been the first to introduce into South Carolina (and into continental
North America
) the cultivation and manufacture of
indigo
, and she also imported
silkworms
. In
1753
she presented to the
Princess of Wales
a dress made of
silk
from her plantations. She was married to
Charles Pinckney
in
1744
. She is the mother of
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
.
adapted from 1911 encyclopedia
Lucas, Eliza Lucas, Eliza
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