Prince Society
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The Prince Society, or Prince Society for Mutual Publication, in Boston, Massachusetts, published "rare works, in print or manuscript, relating to America." It was named after Thomas Prince, fifth pastor of Old South Church in Boston. Historian Samuel Gardner Drake founded the society because he "had not been made a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and he resented it." Officials of the Prince Society included William Sumner Appleton, John Ward Dean, Charles E. Goodspeed, Edmund F. Slafter, John Wingate Thornton, and William Henry Whitmore. It operated from offices in Bromfield Street and Somerset Street. Around 1920 society members "realized at last that a publication society 'on the mutual principle' had become an anomaly in this day and generation." The society continued for several "years of poise before the final leap into the abyss" in 1944.
Publications of the society
- New England's Prospect by William Wood.
- The Hutchinson Papers William H. Whitmore, ed.
- John Duton's Letters from New England William H. Whitmore, ed.
- Sir William Alexander and American Colonization William H. Whitmore, ed.
- The Andros Tracts William H. Whitmore, ed.
- John Wheelwright by Charles H. Bell
- Voyages of the Northmen to America by Rev. Edmund F. Slafter
- The Voyages of Samuel de Champlain by Rev. Edmund F. Slafter
- The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton by Charles Francis Adams
- Sir Walter Ralegh and His Colony in America by the Rev. Increase N. Tarbox
- Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Gideon D. Scull
- Antinomianism in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay by Adams
- John Checkley, or the Evolution of Religious Tolerance in Massachusetts Bay by Slafter
- Edward Randolph, five volumes by Robert N. Toppan and Alfred T. S. Goodrick
- Sir Humfrey Gylberte and His Enterprise of Colonization in America by Carlos Slafter