Prince, Thomas (2)

Prince, Thomas (2)

an American writer and editor, son of the preceding, was born in 1722, and was educated at Harvard College, where he graduated in 1740. He edited the earliest American periodical, The Christian History, containing Accounts of the Revival and Propagation of Religion in Great Britain and America for 1743 (Boston, 1744-45, 2 vols. 8vo), which was published weekly. He died in 1748. See Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Authors, s.v.