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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 163606, member: 56&quot;]I think you would be justified in withdrawing that letter if the following is true:</p><p><br /></p><p>The letter may reference J.J. (John Julius) Pringle Smith (1816-94):</p><p><a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=12445553" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=12445553" rel="nofollow">http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&amp;GRid=12445553</a></p><p><br /></p><p><i>The son of Robert Smith and Elizabeth Pringle, he came from a prominent Charleston family and was educated at the College of Charleston. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1838, but focused his time primarily in planting and became very successful, and was also <b>a signer of the Ordinance of Secession</b>.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>A namesake was responsible for the restoration of Middleton Place plantation.&nbsp; If the biography above is correct, it seems likely that the J.J. Pringle Smith named on the document married into the Middleton family.&nbsp; But that’s just conjecture.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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