Brief Life History of William
When William Prince was born on 13 June 1773, in Thompson, Windham, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, David Prince, was 36 and his mother, Eunice Porter, was 30. He married Phanelia Lyon on 15 December 1796, in Windsor, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 29 December 1841, in Windsor, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Hill Cemetery, Windsor, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Legacy NFS Source: William Prince - Church record: birth: 1773; Thompson, Windham, Connecticut, United States
- William Prince, "Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910"
- William Prince, "Find A Grave Index"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
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1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
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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