When George Wyatt Prince was born on 10 June 1785, in Amherst, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Joseph Prince Jr., was 29 and his mother, Sarah Wyatt, was 33. He married Betsey Howard on 20 December 1811, in Amherst, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 16 December 1834, in Tyngsborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Amherst, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States.
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While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
English and French: nickname from Middle English, Old French prince (from Latin princeps).
Americanized form (translation into English) of German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Prinz ‘prince’, or its Czech, Slovak, Slovenian or some other Slavic cognate Princ, from princ ‘prince’.
Americanized form of Slovenian Primc: status name for one who lives in the house of his father-in-law, from a derivative of primiti ‘to accept, to take over’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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