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126. His father, Robert (1702-'?6), came from Scotland to South Carolina about 1730, became a merchant in Charleston, and in l?60-'9 was a jus- tice of the court of common pleas. The son was graduated at the College of Philadelphia in 1771. and read law with John Rutledge and in England, where his published articles in defence of colonial rights attracted attention. At the beginning of the American Revolution he went to Prance, and in 1778 he became secretary to Ralph Izard, U. S. commissioner in Tuscany. Returning home by way of Holland and the West Indies, he was ad- mitted to the bar in 1781, and attained high rank in his profession. In 1787-'9 he was speaker of the state assembly, and in the latter year he served for a short time as U. S. district attorney, by special request of Gen. Washington. In 1800 Thomas Jefferson, then secretary of state, appointed him to report on any infractions of the treaty with Great Britain that might occur in his state, and from 1792 till 1808 he served as attorney-general of South Carolina. In 1805 President JehVrs, M tendered him the attorney-generalship of the United States, but family reasons induced him to decline. Mr. Pringle was for four years president of the trustees of the College of Charleston.

PRINTZ, Johan, colonial governor, b. in Bottneryd, Sweden, about 1600; d. in 1663. He was the third governor of the Swedish colony on Delaware river that had been projected by Gustavus Adolphus and established by his daughter, Christina, in 1638. (See .) Printz had been a lieutenant-colonel of artillery in the Swedish army in Germany, and was deprived of his rank for surrendering the Saxon town of Chemnitz, but was afterward restored to favor. He was governor from 1641 to 1654. During these thirteen years he maintained, with little assistance from home, the supremacy of the Swedish crown on the Delaware against the Dutch, against the New Haven emigrants under Lamberton, and against the followers of Sir Edmund Plowden, the so-called lord of New Albion. He established forts at New Castle, at Wilmington, at Tinicum (a short distance above the present town of Chester, where he resided), at the mouth of the Schuylkill, and on the eastern shore of the Delaware. He thus secured a monopoly of trade with the Indians that inhabited both sides of the bay and river as far north as Trenton. During his tenure of office seven expeditions, containing more than 300 emigrants, sailed from Sweden. They were excellent farmers, devoted to the Lutheran church, and extremely just in their dealings with the Indians, whom they prepared, by their kind treatment, to receive William Penn and his followers in a friendly manner. In 1654 Printz, dissatisfied with the condition and prospects of the colony, returned. In the next year the Dutch captured Fort Christina, and the Swedish domination was soon at an end. Little is known of Printz after his return to Sweden, but it is recorded that he was made a general and became governor of Jönköping in 1658. &mdash; His daughter, Armagot, accompanied her father to this country, and in 1644 married Lieut. John Pappegoya, who was in temporary charge of the province after Printz's departure till the arrival of the new governor. Pappegoya returned to Sweden in 1654, but his wife remained in the province, where she lived secluded in the mansion built by her father on Tinicum island. The royal government made large grants of land to father and daughter, but none of their descendants became inhabitants of the colony. See &ldquo;Songs of New Sweden,&rdquo; by Arthur Peterson (Philadelphia, 1887).

'''PRIOLEAU. Samuel''', jurist, b. in Charleston, S. C., 4 Sept.. 1784 : d. in Pendleton, S. C., 10 Aug., 1840. His ancestors, who were French Huguenots, emigrated to this country immediately after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Samuel was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, but was not graduated, was admitted to" the bar of Charleston in 1808, and established a reputation as a lawyer. He was a member of the legislature for many years, chairman of the judiciary committee for several terms, and was active in '1820 in the preparation of the acts to "revise and amend the judiciary system of the state." The next year he made a report in favor of the constitutionality of internal improvements by the United States. "He became intendant of Charleston in 1824, and re- corder in 1S25. and held office until 1836. He aided in establishing the Medical college of South Carolina, was one of its trustees, and was an or- ganizer of the Charleston literary dull.

PRIVAT D'ANGLEMONT, Alexandra, West Indian author, b. in St. Rose, Guadeloupe, in 1815; d. in Paris, France, 18 July, 1859. He was a mu- latto, and, after receiving his early education in Basse Terre. went to Paris to study medicine, but abandoned it for literature. In 1846 he published a volume on the Prado palace, which showed wit, elegance, and simplicity. Soon afterward he made a voyage to Guadeloupe, and, in a sojourn of three days. settled all his interests there, and, carrying his small fortune in a bag, returned to Paris, where he became a contributor to magazines. It was his custom to wander at night through the streets, studying the habits of the poorest classes, and he discovered some extraordinary trades. Midi as those of killer of cats and dealer in the tongues of rats and mice, which he revealed to the world in a volume that caused a great sensation, "Paris Anecdote" (Paris, 1854). After his death from consumption, Alfred Delvau collected his articles and published them under the title "Paris in- connu " (isr.ii.

PROCTOR, Edna Dean, poet. b. in Ilenniker, N. H., 10 Oct., 1838. She received her early edu- cation in ( 'oncord, N. II., and subsequently removed to Brooklyn, N. Y., where she has since resided. She has travelled extensively abroad, and con- tributed largely to magazine literature. She has edited " Extracts from Henry Ward Beecher's Sermons" (New York, 1858). and has published ' Poems " ( Boston. 1866) and " A Russian Journey " (1872). and is now (189.H) compiling a genealogy'of the Storrs family. Her best-known poems are " 1 lenu's" and " By the Shenandoah."

PROCTOR, Henry A., British soldier, b. in Wales in 1787; d. in Liverpool. England, in 1859. At the beginning of the war between Great Britain and the United States he came to Canada as colonel of the 42d regiment. He was despatched by Gen. Sir Isaac Brock to Amherstbtirg to prevent the landing of Gen. William Hull, whom he drove back, and subsequently gained the victory of Brownston, which exploits contributed much to the fall of Detroit and the capitulation of Hull. He opened the campaign of 1813 by defeating < ien. James Winchester near Frenchtown, on River liai-in. for which service he was promoted a brigadier-general, lie was repelled from Fort Mdg- by Gen. William Henry Harrison (q. r.) in May. isi:>, from Fort Stephenson (Lower Sandusky, Ohio), by Maj. Croghan on 2 Aug., ami was defeated by Harrison at the battle- of the Thame-. 5 Oct.. isi;:. He was tried and sentenced to be suspended from rank and pay for six months. He was reinstated, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-general.