Cushing Prince (October 28, 1745 – January 8, 1827) was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the District of Maine. His former home, at today's 189 Greely Road in Yarmouth, Maine, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1785.[1]
Cushing Prince | |
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 The Cushing and Hannah Prince House in Yarmouth, Maine | |
| Born | October 28, 1745 |
| Died | January 8, 1827 (aged 81) North Yarmouth, Maine, U.S. |
| Resting place | Old Baptist Cemetery, Yarmouth, Maine, U.S. |
| Spouse | Hannah Blanchard |
Life and career
editPrince was born in 1745, in North Yarmouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay (now in Maine), two years after the marriage of Paul Prince and Hannah Cushing. His father (for whom Yarmouth's Princes Point Road is named)[2] compiled a bible, known as the Paul Prince Bible, containing the record of births of his children. It was printed in Edinburgh in 1791. Their other nine children were Sarah (born 1744), Rachel (1747), Hannah (1749), Ruth (1751), David (1753), Else (1756), Paul (1758), Pyam (1760) and Ammi (1763).[3]
On August 30, 1773,[4] he married Hannach Blanchard, daughter of Nathaniel and Bethiah, with whom he had three children: Cushing Jr., Polly and Olive.
In 1785, Prince had built a home at today's 189 Greely Road in Yarmouth. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places.[5]
Prince was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from the District of Maine, along with fellow North Yarmouth residents Ammi Ruhamah Mitchell and Edward Russell.[6]
Death
editPrince died in 1827, aged 81. He is interred in Yarmouth's Old Baptist Cemetery alongside his wife, who survived him by eighteen years.
References
edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ The Sons of the American Revolution Magazine, Volumes 54-58. Sons of the American Revolution. 1959. p. 9.
- ^ The Mayflower Descendant: A Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History, Volume 1. Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. 1899. p. 34.
- ^ Royal River Families, David C. Young (1997)
- ^ "189 Greely Road, Yarmouth, Maine". Press Herald. 2015-07-31. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ^ Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Volumes 11-12. John Francis Sprague. 1923. p. 169.