Robert Pringle (1702-1776)
Merchant & Assistant Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, of Charleston, S.C.
He was born in Scotland to a wealthy father and began his mercantile career in London apprenticed to Humphrey Hill, a well-to-do merchant in the West Indian Trade. He was in Charleston by at least 1725 as a factor for London and New England merchants in the Carolina trade, and went n to make his fortune trading in dry goods and more so, rice. He was later appointed Assistant Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1774 he built his home at 70 Tradd Street (see images) in Charleston that was afterwards inherited by his son, John.
