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124 1862, and received the brevet of lieutenant-colonel for services at. Cedar Mountain, 9 Aug., 1802, where he was captured. After his release in December he participated in the North Carolina operations from 11 Jan. till 24 June, 1863, commanded the district of Pamlico from 1 May till 24 June, 1863, pursued the Confederate army in its retreat from Maryland, served in the Kapidan campaign from October till December, 1803, pursued Gen. Nathan B. Forrest's raiders in Tennessee and Alabama in 1864, and commanded on the coast of South Carolina from January till May, 1865. He was brevetted colonel and brigadier-general, U. S. army, on 13 March. 1865. He served on courts-martial in Washington, D. C., in 1865-'0, and was mustered out of volunteer service on 30 April, 1866. He then served as paymaster in Boston till 1869, as chief paymaster of the Department of the East till 1871, and as paymaster in New York city until 1875. He was assigned to the Division of the Pacific on 28 June, 1875, became lieutenant-colonel on 3 March. 1877, and retired on 31 Dec., 1879.

PRINCE, Jean Charles, Canadian R. C. bishop, b. in St. Gregoire, Three Rivers, Quebec. 13 Feb., 1804; d. in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec, 5 May, 1860. He was educated at Nicolet college, in the village of that name, and, while studying theology, taught in Nicolet college and afterward in the seminary at St. Hyacinthe. After his ordination as priest in 1820 he was director of the Grand seminaire of St. Jacques, at Montreal, until 1830, and of the College of St. Hyacinthe until 1840. The death of Monsignor Lartigue, first bishop D[ Montreal, having made a change in the bishopric necessary, he was called by Ignace Bourget, the second bishop, to assist in the administration of that diocese. Early in 1841 the chapter of St. Jacques was established, and Abbe Prince was installed titulary canon of the cathedral of Montreal on 21 Jan. The same year he issued the first number of "Melanges religieuse," a, periodical which at first only published the sermons of Monsignor de Forbin Janson, but subsequently comprised general religious intelligence. It was issued until 1852, when its offices and material were destroyed by fire. At this period the city of Kingston was without any religious institution connected with the Roman Catholic church. Bishop Gaulin, having no assistants save a few priests who were overburdened with work, asked the bishop of Montreal to send him several Sisters of Charity and a priest competent to take charge of them. M. Prince accordingly went to Kingston, established the Convent of the Sisters of the Congregation for the education of young girls, and prepared the way for the organization of the "Sœurs de l'Hǒtel-Dieu" for the care of the sick poor. On returning to Montreal he assisted in founding Providence House, and became its first director. He was also connected with the Convent of the Good Pastor and other institutions. He was appointed by Gregory XIV. coadjutor to the bishop of Montreal and bishop of Martyropolis, 5 July. 1844. The see of Montreal was at that time very large. Many new enterprises were calling for assistance, and bishop and coadjutor found all their energies taxed to the utmost. In 1851 Bishop Prince "visited Rome on an ecclesiastical mission, and while he was there Pius IX., at the request, of the delegates to the first council of Quebec, transferred him to the see of St. Hyacinthe, 8 June, 1852. He was the first bishop Of that diocese. Tile old college that he had purchased and transformed into a cathedral and episcopal palace was burned, 17 May, 1854, but he undertook the immediate construction of a cathedral chapel, besides laying the foundations of a more elaborate ecclesiastical edifice, which has since been completed. During his residence at St. Hyacinthe, Bishop Prince organized twenty parishes, established several missions, and ordained thirty-one priests.

PRINCE, John, clergyman, b. in Boston, Mass.. 11 July, 1751 ; d. in Salem, Mass., 7 June,. 1836. He was the son of a mechanic, and was apprenticed to a tinman, but prepared himself for college, and was graduated at Harvard in 1776, after which he studied theology, and from 1779 till 1830 was pastor of the 1st Unitarian church in Salem, Mass. He was a friend of Count Rumford, joined in many of the latter's inventions and experiments, and constructed an improved air-pump, which gave him a wide reputation. Brown gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1795. He published several sermons. A "Memoir" by Rev. Charles W. Upham, who became his associate in 1824, is printed in the Massachusetts historical collections.

'''PRINCE. Oliver Hillhouse''', senator, b. in Connecticut about 1787; d. at sea, 9 Oct., 1837. He removed to Georgia in early years, studied law. was admitted to the bar in 1800, and began to practise in Macon, of which he was a settler, and one uf the five commissioners that laid out the town. He was elected a U. S. senator in place of Thomas W. Cobb, serving from 1 Dec., 1828, till 3 March. 1*29. Mr. Prince was the author of many humorous sketches, one of which, giving an account of a Georgia militia muster, was translanted into several languages. He also published "Digest of the Laws of Georgia to December, 1820" (Milledgeville. 1822; 2d ed., Athens, 1837). He perished in the wreck of the steamer "Home" on the coast of North Carolina.

PRINCE, Thomas, clergyman, b. in Sandwich, Mass., 15 May, 1687; d. in Boston. Mass., 22 Oct., 1758. He was the grandson of John Prince, of Hull, England, who emigrated to this country in 1633. After graduation at Harvard in 1707, he visited the West Indies and the island of Madeira, went to England in 1709, and preached in Coombs, Suffolk, and elsewhere. In 1717 he returned to Boston, and on 1 Oct., 1718, was ordained colleague of his classmate, Dr. Joseph Sewall, pastor of the old South church in Boston, where he continued until his death, and became eminent as a preacher, linguist, and scholar. He began, in 1703, and continued through his life, to collect manuscript documents relating to the history of New England, which he left to the care of the Old South church. They were deposited in the tower, which also contained a valuable library of the writings of the early New England divines that had been gathered by Mr. Prince. These were partly destroyed by the British in 1775-'6, and much important matter relating to the history of New England was thus lost. The remainder of the manuscripts, with his books, which are of value, form part of the Boston public library, and of these a catalogue was published by William H. Whitmore (Boston, 1868), and a later one with his portrait