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 1610 - 1676 (66 years)
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| Name |
PRINCE John |
| Prefix |
Elder |
| Birth |
1610 |
East Shefford, Berkshire, England  [3, 4] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Will |
9 May 1676 [2, 5] |
- (It being the divine appointment off the most High good and souveraign God that all men must dye, and yet that none shall know the time when, therefore have I John Prince Senior of Hull in the Massachusetts Colony in New England being now in my perfect sense and having the perfect use of my reason though but weak in body made this my last will and testament this ninth day of May in the year of our lord one thousand six hundred and seventy six, and therefore after the solom committence of my soul into the hands of God who gave it and my body to bee decently intered, conserning that small portion of outward estate the Lord hath given me thus to dispose off it.
First that all my lawful debts be paid.
Secondly that for this year sixty six and in the year sixty seven [he intended to make these dates '76 and '77] the whole proffits off my whole estate by sea and land bee to and for the use and benefitt of my dearly beloved wife for her mayntaynance and my youngest son Thomas being yet under age; and because that Isaac Prince will be of age to be for himself this year seventy six that his mother my dearly belovedd wife having as aforesaid the profitts of the whole estate because she may and my will is she should, and that he be clothed out of the profitts of my estate as the rest of his bretheren have been by me, and that he then when he goith for himself he shall have a years dyett washing and lodging out of the income of my estate and the profits of his employ to and for his own behoof or profit as his other bretheren have had. Furthermore my will is concerning my youngest son Thomas Prince yet under age that he live with his mother until the end of the year seventy eight and then in that year the other of my sons as John Joseph and Samuel Prince take care to see the estate so managed as their mother my beloved wife be maintained and their brother Thomas have his clothing and his years diet washing and lodging and his imploy and the profit of it for himself as all his bretheren have had before time.
These promices being performed by my beloved sons John and Joseph Prince whom I constitute as executors of this my last will and testament, that then my whole estate be equaly divided between all alike as namely John Prince, Joseph Prince, Elizabeth Prince wife to Josiah Loring Martha Prince now wife to Christopher Wheaton, Job Prince, Samuel Prince, Isaac Prince and Thomas Prince to all of these alike as they may divide it amoungst themselves or call any of their friends whom they may agree on to do it for them and if any of them shall strive or endeavor by any kink in law to get more than his equal share my will then is that he shall have no part of my estate but that it be equaly divided amongst the rest, only that John Prince and Joseph Prince being executors may have something for payment as may be agreed on amongst them and their friends.
And lastly my will is that my beloved wife Anna Prince have the use of the northwest room or end of the house as it now is furnished so long as she lives if she shall think good to live in the town and to have a cow kept in the pasture and my children to alow her two bushels of indian corn a piece a year and one bushel of malt and for my nett I will that it be made fit for service by either John or Samuel Prince and they to have the one half of the profitt for the maintenance of it and the other half of the profit to my wifes maintenance while she lives and when she dieth to be equaly divided as all the rest of my estate.
I also do will yt my beloved wife have and enjoy the western end of my house as long as she liveth if she continue in the town and yt the proper goods which was my wifes be hers after my death.
Attested and sealed in the presence of us.
Zachariah Whitman Witness my hd.
Nathaniel Bosworth John Prince
Proved Oct. 18, 1676. Recorded vol. 6, p. 128. Inventory vol. 12, p. 94---£315.)
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| Death |
16 Aug 1676 |
Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts [2, 3, 6] |
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| Will (proved) |
18 Oct 1676 [2, 7] |
- (Inventory of his estate amounted to £315.)
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| _UID |
48A4151817A5D5118A064445535400007B43 |
| Notes |
- Educated at Oxford University, but who, in consequence of his non-conformist principles, did not receive a degree, was the progenitor of all in America who bear the name Prince. After completing his education, possibly before, he, to escape the persecutions of Archbishop Laud, emigrated to America in 1633. He lived first at Watertown, Mass. and there he married his first wife. John was made freeman in Watertown, Mar. 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, Mass.. 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. The home lot of Elder John Prince in Hull was on the present Spring Street opposite to the head of Willow Street. He was empowered to solomnize 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, by one hundred and fifty of his descendants. All of Elder Prince's seven sons "took to the sea".
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| Person ID |
I2386 |
Old North Yarmouth, Maine |
| Last Modified |
17 Oct 2005 |
| Family 1 |
HONOUR Alice d. Abt 1668 |
| Marriage |
May 1637 [3, 6, 9] |
| Children |
| + | 1. PRINCE John, Jr., b. 1638, Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. Bef 1728, Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age < 89 years) |
| | 2. PRINCE Elizabeth, b. 9 Aug 1640, Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 13 May 1727, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age 86 years) |
| + | 3. Capt. PRINCE Joseph, b. 16 Feb 1642, Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 1695, Quebec, Quebec, Canada (Age 52 years) |
| + | 4. PRINCE Martha, b. 1645, Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. Yes, date unknown |
| + | 5. Capt. PRINCE Job, b. 1647, Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 1694 (Age 47 years) |
| + | 6. Capt. PRINCE Samuel, b. May 1649, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 3 Jul 1728, Middleboro, Plymouth, Massachusetts (Age ~ 79 years) |
| | 7. PRINCE Sarah, b. 22 Feb 1651, Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 24 May 1653 (Age 2 years) |
| | 8. PRINCE Benjamin, b. Bef 25 Apr 1652, Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. Bef 16 Aug 1676, Jamaica, West Indies (Age < 24 years) |
| + | 9. Capt. PRINCE Isaac, b. Bef 9 Jul 1654, Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 7 Nov 1718, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age > 64 years) |
| + | 10. Capt. PRINCE Thomas, b. 8 Jul 1658, Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts d. 1704, Barbados, West Indies (Age 45 years) |
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| Family ID |
F762 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
29 Mar 2020 |
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| Sources |
- [S6] Book-North Yarmouth-Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine, p.51-52, ME 974.1 CO.
- [S178] Book-Noyes-Gilman Ancestry, p.308.
- [S6] Book-North Yarmouth-Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine, p.52, ME 974.1 CO.
- [S178] Book-Noyes-Gilman Ancestry, p.307.
- [S247] Pamphlet-Elder John Prince, pp.6-7.
- [S247] Pamphlet-Elder John Prince, p.5.
- [S247] Pamphlet-Elder John Prince, p.7.
- [S6] Book-North Yarmouth-Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine, p.51, ME 974.1 CO.
- [S145] Book-Torrey; NE Marriages Prior to 1700, p.604.
- [S6] Book-North Yarmouth-Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine, p.53, ME 974.1 CO.
- [S178] Book-Noyes-Gilman Ancestry, p.309.
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