Brief Life History of Ruth
When Ruth Prince was born on 7 May 1758, in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Kimball Prince, was 32 and her mother, Deborah Fuller, was 28. She married Jesse Fuller on 11 January 1778, in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 5 daughters. She died on 30 September 1846, in Maine, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Hebron, Oxford, Maine, United States.
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- Ruth Prince, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Ruth Prince, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Ruth Fuller, "Find A Grave Index"
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1778
Historical Boundaries: 1778: Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States 1805: Oxford, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Oxford, Maine, United States
1781 · The First Constitution
Serving the newly created United States of America as the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation were an agreement among the 13 original states preserving the independence and sovereignty of the states. But with a limited central government, the Constitutional Convention came together to replace the Articles of Confederation with a more established Constitution and central government on where the states can be represented and voice their concerns and comments to build up the nation.
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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