Brief Life History of John
John Prince was born about 1807, in Tennessee, United States. He died after 1870.
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Family Time Line
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- Legacy NFS Source: John Prince - Government record: birth-name: John Prince
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World Events (3)
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
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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