Thomas Prince Quotes


It is exactness I aim at, and would not have the least mistake, if possible, pass to the world. If I have unhappily fallen into any, it is through inadvertency only


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Thomas Prince, 1687-1758, Massachusetts Clergyman & Early American Historian, Quoted in John Franklin Jameson, The History of Historical Writing in America

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Thomas Prince was an American clergyman, scholar and historian noted for his historical text A Chronological History of New England, in the Form of Annals. Called 'an American pioneer in scientific historical writing', Prince influenced historians such as Jeremy Belknap and Thomas Hutchinson, and his Annals was still being used as a reference text as late as 1791.