Overview
Cushing Prince (October 15, 1786 – March 7, 1869) was an American sea captain in the first half of the 19th century.
Life and career
Prince was born on October 15, 1786, in North Yarmouth, Massachusetts (now in Maine), to Cushing Prince and Hannah Blanchard. He was their first child, and was followed by Polly and Olive.
Around the age of twenty, he began to develop an interest in the sea. By the 1830s, at the latest, he was a sea captain.
In the War of 1812, he was a corporal in Captain D. Mitchell's company and Lieutenant J. E. Foxcroft's regiment.
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