Robert Pringle letterbook, 1737-1745.

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Robert Pringle letterbook, 1737-1745.

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Letterbook containing the business letters of Robert Pringle to individuals and companies in London (England), Amsterdam, Lisbon, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Newport (R.I.), Savannah (Ga.), Antigua, St. Kitts, Kingston (Jamaica), Barbados, and other locations in North Carolina and elsewhere. Topics include credit, bonds, and the shipment of rice and other goods including pitch, tobacco, rum, brandy, wine, sugar, cloth, and guns on various ships. Pringle discusses his experiments in gardening (planting orange and olive trees), trade in Charleston, planters' attempts to increase the price of rice by holding back their market crops, the sale and the education of slaves, the Stono Rebellion (1739), the smallpox epidemic in Charleston (1738), Oglethorpe's ill-fated expedition against St. Augustine (1741), and other local and international events.

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Pringle, Robert, 1702-1776

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Charleston, South Carolina merchant. Born in Scotland, Robert Pringle went to London and apprenticed himself to West Indian merchant Humphrey Hill. By 1725 Pringle had settled in Charleston, South Carolina where he established himself as a factor for London and New England merchants in the Carolina trade. Pringle married Jane Allen (d. 1746) in 1734, and after her death married Judith Mayrant Bull in 1751. Pringle withdrew from trade to pursue political interests, serving in the Commons House of...