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- Jessica Fletcher: I know why Sam sent that watch on. He wanted it to keep time until he got his own justice. It doesn't have to mark time anymore. Samuel Pinckney, you're finally free.
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- Cassandra Hawkins: Samuel Pinckney was accused of killing a white plantation owner. Some of what you've been taught about the American South before the Civil War is true, some is not. Sam was condemned without a trial and killed for crimes that my research suggests he did not commit. He had lived peaceably on a plantation in Culpeper, Virginia, owned by one Sarah McCullough. Unfortunately, we may never know the whole story regarding Samuel Pinckney, and this is both a sad fact of history, and for me, a personal tragedy because... Samuel Pinckney was my distant grandfather.