[st. Michael’s Church]
Inscription
Here in the churchyard of/St. Michael's lie buried/two Signers of the/U. S. Constitution/CHARLES COTESWORTH/PINCKNEY/(1746-1825)/Lawyer and Legislator/Major General, U. S. Army/Minister to France/Presidential candidate-/JOHN RUTLEDGE/(1739-1800)/Lawyer and Statesman/Governor of South Carolina/Chief Justice of the U. S./Their years of public/service, 1762-1825, saw/both State and Nation well/on the road to greatness.
Erected by the Society Daughters of Colonial Wars in the State of South Carolina,
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