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PRINCE Benjamin[1]

Male 1693 - 1737  (44 years)


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  • Name PRINCE Benjamin 
    Birth 28 Feb 1693  Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Gender Male 
    Church Member 18 Nov 1730  North Yarmouth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    1st Church (No. 8) 
    • (From Duxbury, Mass.)
    Occupation North Yarmouth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    farmer 
    Will 30 Nov 1737  [2, 3] 
    • (In the Name of God Amen I Benjamin Prince of North Yarmouth in the County of York in New England Shiprigtht being weak of Body and senceable of my Approaching Desolution do make and Ordain this my Last Will and Testament being through the Mercy of God of A Sound and Disposing Mind and Memory I Commit my soul to God that gave it and my Body to a decent Christian Buriall att the discretion of my Executors hereafter named.

      Imps I give unto my beloued Wife Abial Prince the Improvement of all my Lands Houseing and Meadows lying in the township of North Yarmouth dureing her Continueing my Widdow and in case she should see meet to alter her Condition by Marrying them to have the Sum of One Hundred Pounds out of the moveable Estate as it prised.

      Item I give unto my Eldest son Benjan Prince my Best Gun and two Rights or Shares in all my whole Estate both Real and personall.

      Item I give unto my second son Paul Prince my second Gun and one Right or share in all my whole Estate both Real and personall.

      Item I giue unto my third son Silvanus Prince my Third Gun and one Right or share in all my whole Estate both Real and Personall.

      Item I Give unto my fourth Son John Prince my fourth Gun and one Right or Share in all my whole Estate both Reall and Personall.

      Item I give unto my Daughter Sarah Prince one Right or Share in all my whole Estate both Real and PersonallItem I give unto my second Daughter Ruth Prince one Right or share in all my whole Estate both Reall and Personall.

      Item I give unto my Youngest Daughter Lidia Prince one Right or Share in all my whole Estate both Real and PersonallIt is my Will and to be Understood that notwithstanding this Will none of my Childred have the Use or Improvement of any of the Estate which I have here by given unto them untill after the decease or Marriage of my said Wife.

      I do hereby Appoint my loving Wife Abial Prince and my Eldest Son Benjan Prince Joynt Executors of this my last Will and Testament : Dated the thirtieth day of Novemr 1727

      Benja Prince (Seal)
      Signed sealed and Declared by the said Benja Prince to be his last Will and Testament in presence of us Samll Fotman David Stevens Barnabas Seabury
      Probated 7 Jan. 1737-8. Inventory returned 29 Dec. 1737 at £692: 17: 0 by David Seabury, Barnabas Seabury and David Stevens appraisers.

      [Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 396, citing Probate Office, 5, 101.]
    _UID 5DA50D38EB9ED5118A064445535400007675 
    Death 1 Dec 1737  North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Massachusetts [Maine] Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 6, 8, 9] 
    Notes 
    • Benjamin resided in Duxbury a few years and in 1727 removed to North Yarmouth with his wife and five children. In this third and permanent settlement of the town, he was apportioned in the division of land, Lot No. 1 on the Foreside, (now Prince's Point), including Basket Island. Nov. 18, 1730, he united with eight other citizens in founding the Congregational Church, which was the first ecclesiastical organization in the town, and the tenth in Maine. He was elected Collector of the town, Oct. 14, 1734, and was sent as one of the committee of three, with the town clerk, Mar. 22, 1736, to Bridgewater, to interview Rev. Mr. Keith with regard to accepting a call to the new church. The town allowed him £15 for the expenses of this journey. He was a very prominent man in the town.
    Person ID I1918  Old North Yarmouth, Maine
    Last Modified 2 Dec 2008 

    Father Capt. PRINCE Thomas,   b. 8 Jul 1658, Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1704, Barbados, West Indies Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years) 
    Mother TURNER Ruth,   b. 1663, Scituate, Plymouth Colony Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Oct 1729, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years) 
    Marriage 23 Dec 1685  Scituate, Plymouth Colony Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 10, 11] 
    Family ID F633  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family NELSON Abial,   b. 1697, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Sep 1744, North Yarmouth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years) 
    Marriage 1 Apr 1717  Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 12, 13, 14] 
    Children 
    +1. PRINCE Benjamin,   b. 14 Apr 1718, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    +2. PRINCE Paul, Sr.,   b. 14 May 1720, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Nov 1809, North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Massachusetts [Maine] Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)
    +3. PRINCE Silvanas,   b. 17 Sep 1722, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Sep 1790, North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Massachusetts [Maine] Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
     4. PRINCE Sarah,   b. 8 Apr 1725, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1736 (Age < 10 years)
     5. PRINCE John,   b. 20 May 1727, Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    +6. PRINCE Ruth,   b. 20 Jan 1730, North Yarmouth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1789, North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Massachusetts [Maine] Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 60 years)
     7. PRINCE Lydia,   b. 11 Apr 1735, North Yarmouth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     8. PRINCE John,   b. 4 Apr 1737, North Yarmouth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown (Age ~ 21 years)
    Family ID F632  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Mar 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 28 Feb 1693 - Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1 Apr 1717 - Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChurch Member - 1st Church (No. 8) - 18 Nov 1730 - North Yarmouth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - farmer - - North Yarmouth, York, Massachusetts [Maine] Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1 Dec 1737 - North Yarmouth, Cumberland, Massachusetts [Maine] Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S6] Book-North Yarmouth-Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine, p.570, ME 974.1 CO.

    2. [S44] Book-Portland Families in 1790.

    3. [S9] Publication-Royal River Valley Families.

    4. [S226] Book-VR Scituate, MA, p.300.

    5. [S247] Pamphlet-Elder John Prince, p.23.

    6. [S273] Book-North Yarmouth-First Cong. Church, N. Yarmouth, ME, p.14.

    7. [S6] Book-North Yarmouth-Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine, p.54, ME 974.1 CO.

    8. [S7] Book-VR North Yarmouth, ME, p.307 [1:771].

    9. [S133] CD-NEHG Register.
      Vol. 5, Oct. 1851; p.383 "Some Memoirs of Rev. Thomas Prince"

    10. [S6] Book-North Yarmouth-Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine, p.569, ME 974.1 CO.

    11. [S145] Book-Torrey; NE Marriages Prior to 1700, p.604.

    12. [S225] Book-VR Duxbury, MA, p.290.

    13. [S133] CD-NEHG Register.
      Vol. 5, Oct. 1851; p.384 "Some Memoirs of Rev. Thomas Prince"

    14. [S215] Magazine-The Mayflower Descendant, 11:24.


  

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