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- H. Elder John PrinceCal 1611 - 1676
- W. Ann HubbardEst 1618 -
m. Aft 1 Jan 1668/69
Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Elder John Prince |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
Cal 1611 |
East Shefford, Berkshire, England (probably) |
| Emigration[1] |
1634 |
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| Residence[1] |
1634 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Other[1] |
4 Mar 1634/35 |
Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay. |
| Residence[1] |
1637 |
Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States |
| Marriage |
Bef 1638 |
to Alice Honor |
| Residence[1] |
1642 |
Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States |
| Marriage |
Aft 1 Jan 1668/69 |
After death of her first husband.
to Ann Hubbard |
| Will[1] |
9 May 1676 |
Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupation[1] |
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Fisherman. |
| Death[1][2] |
16 Aug 1676 |
Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States |
| Estate Inventory[1] |
Aft 16 Aug 1676 |
Undated, totalled £315 1s. 6d., of which £140 was real estate. |
| Probate[1] |
18 Oct 1676 |
Will proved. |
Educated at Oxford University, but who, in consequence of his non-conformist principles, did not receive a degree, waa the progenitor of all in America who bear the name Prince. After completeing his education he needed to escape the persecutions of Archbishop Laud, his idea of church goverment and some of his writings offended the dignitary and he was obliged to flee, being conveyed secretly in a pannier on board a ship bound for New England in 1633. He lived first at Watertown, MA and there he married his first wife. John was made freeman in Watertown, March 4, 1635, which proves beyond doubt that he did not come over, as some affirm in 1638. Leaving Watertown, he spent a short time at Hingham (Nantasket 1638) but finally settled on Limestone Island, Hull, MA. John Prince was a prominent man in Hull, where he was ruling elder for a long series of years, and where he died universally respected. He was empowered to solemnize marriages in Hull in May, 1670. In 1890 a memorial stone was erected to his memory and that of his first wife in the old cemetery at Hull. All of Elder Prince's seven sons "took to the sea". Noyes Family Genealogy
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 John Prince, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
5:527-32.
ORIGIN: East Shefford, Berkshire.
MIGRATION: 1634 (based on grant of land at Cambridge on 4 August 1634 [CaTR 9]).
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Cambridge church prior to 4 March 1634/5 implied by freemanship. Probably transferred his membership to Hingham, as all his children were baptized there. Ruling Elder at Hull [NEHGR 5:378].
FREEMAN: 4 March 1634/5 (sixteenth in a sequence of twenty Cambridge men [MBCR 3:170].
BIRTH: About 1611 ("in the 66th year of his age" at death [NEHGR 5:379]), son of Rev. John Prince of East Shefford, Berkshire [NEHGR 5:378].
- ↑ Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Hull, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1911)
72.
John (Prince), eldest s. of Rev. John, Aug. 16, 1676, in his 66th y. Rector of Little Shefford, Berks, Eng. Came to New England in 1633. One of original planters of Hull.
First Ruling Elder of the Church until his death (grave record).
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