Christopher Prince papers
Language: eng
Subjects: Social life and customs; Conversion; United States. Continental Navy; Prisoners and prisons; Sailors; Peace; Seafaring life; Oliver Cromwell (Ship); Christianity; United States; Great Britain. Royal Navy; Religious life; Naval History; Amphibious operations; Great Britain; Naval operations; Gaspée (Brigantine); History
Description: Manuscript autobiography (1806) containing accounts of seafaring life in colonial New England; maritime events of the Revolution such as the imprisonment of Ethan Allen aboard the Gaspée and the amphibious withdrawal of the British from Montréal in 1775; and Prince's employment by agents of George Washington to sink four British ships in the Hudson River, enlistment in the Connecticut navy to serve aboard the warship Oliver Cromwell, the close of the war, and his conversion to Christianity shortly thereafter.  Also includes a tyepwritten transcript of the autobiography and a souvenir booklet (1891) from a gathering in Spencer, Mass., of the descendants of Hezekiah and Isabella Prince of Thomaston, Me.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Naval Historical Foundation, 1997.

Converted to gift, 1998.

Sailor and activist in the seamen's religious movement.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009083

Forms part of: Naval Historical Foundation collection.