Captain "Dr." Moses Prince

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Biography

Babson, in his "History of Gloucester" gives the following extract from a letter written in that place on 25 Sep 1721, by Dr. Moses Prince, brother of the Rev. Thomas Prince, the annalist of New England: "This gentleman (Captain Robinson) was first contriver of schooners, and built the first of that sort about eight years since." He may possibly have been educated as a physician, as in many genealogies and in some records of deeds he is called "Doctor," but he was certainly a mariner, and is more frequently spoken of as Captain Moses Prince or, "Moses Prince, mariner." From his own diary it appears he made a trip to England in 1729. On his return he left Oxford, England, July 30, and rode on horseback to Chester. Thence he came by ship to Dublin and sailed from Dublin August 27 for New England, arriving at Boston October 14, 1729. There he lodged at "Cousin Loring's" on October 19. The following winter he made a voyage to North Carolina, trading merchandise for tar, pitch and rozin. In the same diary he writes of his attending service in 1730 in the new church just built and dedicated in Boston and of sitting in "our pew" to the left of the pulpit, which he says cost the family 110 pounds "being our contribution to ye meeting house." This meeting house is the present Old South Church, corner of Washington and Milk Streets, where his brother was pastor. While his residence after marriage seems to have been Boston, he had a farm and a grist mill at Wareham, land at Rochester, and also owned a one-half interest in the sloop "Success" and her cargo. On one of his voyages to the West Indies he died at Antigua, Leeward Islands, leaving a widow of twenty-nine and four children, one of whom was born after his death. An inventory of his estate was taken October 9, 1745, covering the property refered to above, personal property of all sorts, and one-half of the pew in the Old South church.

In 1757, Jane Prince of Boston, as guardian of his minor children, Samuel, Jane, and Deborah signed a receipt for their share of their uncle Nathan Prince's estate.[1]

Moses Prince (abt. 1697 - 1745)

Moses Prince

Born about 22 Feb 1697 in Sandwich, Massachusetts

Son of Samuel Prince and Mercy (Hinckley) Prince

Brother of Samuel Prince Jr. [half], Martha (Prince) Bourne [half], Thomas Prince, Mary (Prince) Thatcher, Mercy Prince, John Prince, Joseph Prince, Mercy (Prence) Weeks and Alice (Prince) Gray

Husband of Jane (Bethune) Gilman — married 1 Feb 1738 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Father of Jane (Prince) Robbins and Deborah (Prince) Cary

Died 6 Jul 1745 at about age 48 in Antigua, British West Indies

Sources

↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97D-69B7 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1758-1764 vol 15-16 > image 66 of 623; State Archives, Boston.
Evidence of marriage and birth of first child at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQXK-8G8

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