TY  - GEN
AU  - Prince,Christopher
TI  - Christopher Prince papers,
KW  - Allen, Ethan,
KW  - Prince, Isabella Coombs.
KW  - Prince, Hezekiah,
KW  - Washington, George,
KW  - Prince family.
KW  - Gaspée (Brigantine)
KW  - Oliver Cromwell (Ship)
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Royal Navy
KW  - United States
KW  - Continental Navy
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Conversion
KW  - Sailors
KW  - Religious life
KW  - New England
KW  - Seafaring life
KW  - Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
KW  - Connecticut
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1775-1783
KW  - Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)
KW  - Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)
KW  - Maine
KW  - Massachusetts
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Montréal (Québec)
KW  - Siege, 1775
KW  - Spencer (Mass.)
KW  - Thomaston (Me.)
KW  - Naval operations
KW  - Amphibious operations
KW  - Peace
KW  - Prisoners and prisons
KW  - History, Naval
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Religious activists
N1  - Open to research
N2  - 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
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009083
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009083.3
ER  -