George Wyatt Prince

Brief Life History of George Wyatt

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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Family Time Line

George Wyatt Prince
1785–1834
Betsey Howard
1785–1874
Marriage: 20 December 1811
Sarah Prince
1812–1836
Louisa Prince
1815–1906
George Prince
1817–1882
Emeline Prince
1819–1886
Caroline Prince
1819–1894
Joseph Prince
1822–1848
David Stanley Prince
1826–1901
Solomon Prince
1831–1914

Sources (34)

  • George Prince, "New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900"
  • George Prince, "New Hampshire Marriage Records, 1637-1947"
  • George Wyatt Prince, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1786 · Shays' Rebellion

Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.

1788 · New Hampshire Helps Ratify the US Constitution

On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and final state needed to ratify the US Constitution and make it the official law of the land

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

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.

Name Meaning

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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