Pringle family papers, 1745-1897.

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Pringle family papers, 1745-1897.

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Papers consist of correspondence, legal documents, estate records, plantation papers, property and financial records, slave records, and other items. Included are the papers of James Reid Pringle (1782-1840) and William Alston Pringle (1822-1895), and the papers of two members of the related Mitchell family, Thomas Rothmahler Mitchell (1783-1837) and Nelson Mitchell. Letters (1840-1856) of U.S. Navy midshipman John Julius Pringle (1824-1901) to his parents William Bull Pringle and Mary Motte Alston Pringle, and his brother William Alston Pringle, are written from Norfolk (Va.), Boston (Mass.), Brazil, and Uruguay. Letters discuss navy life, drunken sailors, Montevideo, Rio de Janeiro, the slave trade in Bahia (Brazil) and Portuguese Mozambique, the wreck of the U.S.S. Concord in 1843, and family and personal matters. Papers of Mary Motte Alston Pringle (1803-1884) include letters to her from from her niece Sarah M. Middleton at Crowfield Plantation (S.C.) regarding family matters and the plantations of her husband John Izard Middleton; letters from Jane Pringle at Greenfield Plantation (S.C.) regarding family matters and social life; and letters from Mary Pringle Mitchell and her husband Donald Mitchell at Edgewood Farm (Connecticut), Paris (France), and elsewhere regarding travel and other matters. There are also two school notebooks, one belonging to John McPherson Pringle, containing essays and notes on European and American history.

1.75 linear ft.

South Carolina Historical Society

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South Carolina Historical Society

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Middleton, John Izard, 1800-1877.

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South Carolina plantation owner and politician. From the description of Mortgage and assignment of plantations, 1835. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 36866153 ...

Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908

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Donald Grant Mitchell, essayist and novelist, was born in Norwich, Connecticut, graduated from Yale College in 1841 and, after serving abroad briefly as U.S. consul in Venice, Italy, from 1853 to 1854, settled near New Haven, Connecticut. Mitchell wrote literary criticism, travel literature, and volumes of essays on rural themes, including Reveries of a Bachelor (1850), My Farm of Edgewood: A Country Book (1863), and Rural Studies (1867). Other works include the novel Doctor Johns (1866), About ...

United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

Pringle family.

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South Carolina family descended from Robert Pringle (1702-1776), a native of Scotland. His sons included Robert Pringle (1755-1811) and John Julius Pringle (1753-1843). Robert Pringle (1755-1811) was the father of James Reid Pringle (1782-1840), who married Elizabeth Mary McPherson. John Julius Pringle (1753-1843) was the father of William Bull Pringle (1800-1881). William Bull Pringle, a plantation owner of Charleston (S.C.) and Prince George Parish (S.C.) and a South Carolina state representat...

Pringle, John Julius, 1824-1901.

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Mitchell, Mary Frances Pringle, 1831-1901.

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Mitchell family.

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Pringle, Mary Motte Alston, 1803-1884

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Wife of William Bull Pringle (1800-1881). She lived at 27 King Street in Charleston, South Carolina. From the description of Letter, 1871 Nov. 15. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 37521998 ...

Pringle, Jane Lynch, 1811-1896.

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Jane Lynch (1811-1896) of New York married John Julius Izard Pringle (1808-1864), a plantation owner of Georgetown County, S.C. He was the son of John Julius Pringle (1784-1807) and Mary Izard Pringle. Mary Izard Pringle's second husband was Joel R. Poinsett (1779-1851). The children of Jane Lynch Pringle and John Julius Izard Pringle were Dominck Lynch Pringle (1846-1919), Mary Pringle, who married the Conte Ivan des Francs, Joel Roberts Poinsett Pringle (b. ca. 1845), and John Julius Pringle (...

Pringle, William Bull, 1800-1881.

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Pringle, W. Alston (William Alston), 1822-1895

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Charleston, S.C. attorney. He was the son of William Bull Pringle (1800-1881) and Mary Motte Alston (1803-1884). William Alston Pringle was admitted to the bar in 1843, and was Recorder for the City of Charleston from 1858 to 1895. He married Emma Clara Pringle Smith in 1845. From the description of William Alston Pringle papers, 1844-1897. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 35953401 ...

Pringle, John McPherson, 1811-1837.

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Middleton, Sarah McPherson, d. 1878.

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