Scotland County NcArchives Biographies.....Prince, Daniel Malloy 1848 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000031 February 29, 2008, 2:44 pm Author: Leonard Wilson (1916) DANIEL MALLOY PRINCE DR. DANIEL MALLOY PRINCE, of Laurinburg, North Carolina, one of those excellent citizens who is to-day contributing his share toward the upbuilding of North Carolina, and the results of whose labors are seen in the progressive conditions which exist in that State, was born at Ellerslie, Marlborough County, South Carolina, July 14, 1848, son of Laurence Benton and Mary Rockdale (McEachin) Prince. Dr. Prince's father, Laurence Benton Prince, was a son of Laurence Prince, of Cheraw, South Carolina, who, in turn, was a son of Captain Charles Prince, of the British Navy. His grandfather, Laurence Prince, married Charlotte Benton, daughter of Colonel Lemuel Benton, and their children thus became related to the famous Thomas Hart Benton, United States Senator from Missouri from 1820 to 1850, and one of the great statesmen of the first half of the nineteenth century. After academic training Dr. Prince entered the Medical College of Charleston, South Carolina, from which he was graduated in due course, and his life since that time has been spent in the active practice of his profession as a physician and surgeon. He has been a man of a single purpose and his whole time and energy has been devoted to that. It is a fact of much significance that, in the history of our own country, no other pursuit or vocation has contributed a larger number of public spirited men than has the medical profession. They have been notable for their patriotism in every emergency. Their service in peace is a daily round of hard labor, having for its object the aleviation of pain and the conservation of human life. In war they easily bear away the honors. While the soldier on the firing line is inspired by action and excitement to deeds of reckless bravery, the surgeon, whose business it is to save life, travels over the battle fields, often under fire, searching for the wounded and rendering noble aid. His bravery is of the cool, calm kind which requires no other stimulus than the knowledge of the faithful performance of duty. The record shows that hundreds of these soldiers of peace have given up their lives on the battle field while trying to save life. Someone, recently writing of the great world war, states that the most profound impression made upon him in watching the stupendous conflict in Europe was that made by the surgeons who seem quite as careless of their own lives as the soldiers, and whose ministrations were given with impartiality to friends and foes alike. Dr. Prince has practiced his profession for many years, has gained an enviable standing among his colleagues and is now an honorary Fellow of the North Carolina and an honorary member of the South Carolina Medical Societies. He was married October 10, 1894, to Irene Burwell Marshall, of Monclova, Charlotte County, Virginia, daughter of William Morton and Virginia La Fayette Marshall. Mrs. Prince bears two historic Virginia names, Burwell and Marshall. The children of this marriage are, Daniel Malloy Prince, Jr., Laurence Benton Prince, Irene Burwell Prince, William Marshall Prince, Charles L'Empriere Prince, and Mary Rockdale Prince. The history of this family, in so far as it touches America, begins with Captain Charles Prince, of the British Navy, who was born in London about 1735, and died in that city August 17, 1797. Captain Charles Prince was a son of Captain Prince, of the East India Service. As the compiler of the Prince family history could find no other Captain Prince in that service except John Prince, captain of the "Latham," one of the ships of the East India Company, he was forced to the conclusion that Captain John Prince was the father of Captain Charles Prince. Charles Prince, while serving as a lieutenant of His Majesty's ship, "The Mercury," was married on November 17, 1763, by the Rev. Samuel Drake, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Ann L'Empriere, of the parish of Christ Church, daughter and only child of Captain Clement L'Empriere. She was evidently of that Huguenot stock which has so enriched the blood of South Carolina. Her father was a sterling patriot, for on July 24, 1775, he was commissioned by the South Carolina Committee of Safety to the command of the sloop "Commerce," and ordered to cruise in search of gun-powder, and to seize the same for use in the American army. In pursuance of these orders, Captain L'Empriere, on August 7, 1775, overhauled, off St. Augustine, the brigantine "Betsy," under Captain Alvere Lofthause, of London. The "Betsy" had on board one hundred and eleven barrels, one half barrel and thirty small kegs of gun-powder, which Captain L'Empriere appropriated for the use of the American army. The "Betsy" arrived in Charleston, on August 23, and ninety-one barrels of powder were landed at the bluff on Cummings Creek. "The Gentleman's Magazine," in 1799, gives the date of Captain Charles Prince's death as August 17, 1799. This date, however, appears to have been an error. Alexander Leslie(4), Lord Newark, had married a Miss Elizabeth Prince, daughter of an East India captain, and had issue, five sons and two daughters. He was evidently a brother-in-law of Captain Charles Prince. In a letter addressed to Mr. Clement Prince, believed to have been written by Honorable John Leslie, eldest son of Alexander Leslie, and evidently written in 1797, he conveys to Mr. Clement Prince the news of Captain Prince's death. The admiralty records confirm this, for they show that Charles Prince, lieutenant of the seniority of 1759, was discharged to half pay on September 20, 1796, and struck off the list the same year as dead. Captain Charles Prince is said to be buried in St. Paul's Churchyard, London, and his wife in the cemetery at Savannah. Captain Clement L'Empriere, father of Mrs. Charles Prince, was evidently one of the early patriots of South Carolina, his name appearing as one of the representatives from the Christ Church Parish in the Provincial Congress of South Carolina, held at Charleston, January 11, to 17, 1775. The children of Charles and Ann Prince were, Charles, Clement, Joseph, Laurence, John, Ann, Elizabeth and Leslie, this last-named being a daughter. Of these children, Laurence, who seems to have been the fourth in order, was born May 28, 1783, and died on July 4, 1852. His home was at Cheraw, South Carolina. He married, on April 21, 1805, Charlotte Benton, born June 8, 1783, and died August 25, 1870. Charlotte Benton was a daughter of Colonel Lemuel Benton, of Darlington County, of whom more hereafter. The children of this marriage were: Elizabeth Ann Benton, born at Georgetown, South Carolina, April 21, 1806, and died December 5, 1831; Lemuel Benton, born November 8, 1807, and died December 25, 1807; John Laurence, born November 9, 1808, and died November 28, 1808; Charlotte Laura, born at Stony Hill, August 28, 1810, died at Baltimore, Maryland, August 2,1881, and married John Auchincloss Inglis, at Cheraw, South Carolina, on November 8, 1832; Leslie Margaret, born January 18, 1813, and died October 30, 1819; Clarissa Harlow, born at Darlington Court House on September 25, 1814, died October 15, 1899, and married Rev. Donald McQueen at Cheraw; Charles Thomas, born July 8, 1816, and died September 25, 1816; Mary Jane, born at Darlington Court House on August 14, 1817, died July 21,1893, and married, on February 16, 1837, Rev. George H. W. Petrie, at Cheraw; Laurence Benton, born at Darlington Court House on June 29, 1819, died December 15, 1898, and married, November 10, 1842, Mary McEachin; Charles L'Empriere, born at Springville, on August 7, 1821, and died June 9, 1837, and William Little Thomas, born at Springville, May 9, 1823, died October 25, 1893, and married, on December 4, 1845, Mary P. McGill, at Columbus, Georgia. Laurence Prince's first home after his marriage appears to have been Georgetown, South Carolina, for a letter written to him and his wife by his wife's mother, Betsy Benton, on April 3, 1807, was addressed to that place. In 1814 he removed to Darlington Court House, and about 1828 to Cheraw, where he resided until his death. He was a successful cotton planter, operating on a large scale, owning about, three hundred negroes, and cultivating two plantations, one in South Carolina and one in Alabama. His estate, "Loudon," in Marlborough County, South Carolina, is considered to this day one of the finest cotton plantations in the Pedee Valley. Colonel Lemuel Benton, father-in-law of Laurence Prince, and one of the most notable figures of his day in South Carolina, was born in Granville County, North Caroline, in 1775, his people moving to the Pedee Valley about 1760. He settled near Major Kimbrough, ten miles below Long Bluff, and married Major Kimbrough's daughter, Elizabeth, who was an only child. The issue of this marriage were four sons and five daughters. The sons were, John, Lemuel, Buckley and Alfred. Buckley reared a family. Of the daughters, Clerissa married William Little Thomas, Charlotte married Laurence Prince, Grisilda (Gilly) married Isaiah Du Bose, Elizabeth married George Brice, and Penelope married first, William Brockington, and secondly, a Mr. Bishop. Colonel Benton first came into notice as major of the Cheraw regiment in 1777. In 1780 he appears to have been put in independent command of a body of men, and charged with the defense of the Pedee Valley against incursion of the Tories. The death of Colonel Kolb, on April 28, 1781, led to his promotion to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and to the command of the regiment. This position he held until 1794, more than ten years after the end of the war, when he resigned. In that last active year of the war in South Carolina, during Greene's great campaign, Colonel Benton's regiment was assigned to Marion's Brigade on September 17, 1781, and served under that distinguished officer until the close of the war. In 1783 he was a member of the Legislature of St. David's, and one of the vestrymen of the parish. In 1784 he was again in the Legislature. In 1785 he was Justice of the County Court for Darlington district, and one of the wardens of St. David's Parish. In 1786 he was again in the Legislature and in the same year he was elected Escheator of Cheraw district. In 1788 he was a delegate to the Convention, which met at Charleston, May 12, and ratified the Federal Constitution. In 1789 he was elected Sheriff for Cheraw district. In 1790 he was a member of the Convention that met in Columbia and framed the State Constitution. In 1791 he was again elected a Justice of the County Court for Darlington district. His long and active career of public service was completed with his election, in 1793, as a member of the Third Congress of the United States, which was followed by his re-election to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses, making a total service of six years as a representative of the Pedee district in the Congress. He was the first representative of that district. A summing up of his character and qualities made many years ago, and based upon the knowledge of those who were associated with him, is here given: "Colonel Benton was a man of very marked character— wise in counsel and efficient in action, possessing those peculiar qualities calculated to inspire confidence in all who were associated with him or under his command. His early opportunities of improvement were quite limited, but with talents of superior order, and an energy that flagged under no difficulties, he rose by the native force of his mind and character to a position of commanding influence. Ardent in feeling and strong and violent passions, he was a bitter enemy and as steadfast a friend. He had the peculiar faculty, which few possess, of gaining the confidence of the masses, and leading them at will. As a stump speaker he had no superior in his day. On more than one occasion lie conducted his own defense in court with signal success. "He was about six feet in height, stout, but well-formed, and of handsome and commanding person. He died about the year 1819 at his place, 'Stoneyhill,' in Darlington district, S. C." Dr. Prince has in his possession a portrait of Colonel Lemuel Benton, which has upon it this indorsement: "The likeness of Colonel Lemuel Benton, taken in the year 1798, in the forty-third year of his age, and presented to his daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Prince, the 10th day of August, 1806.—Betsy Benton.—Writ with a feeble hand." Colonel Benton died in 1819 after a life of great usefulness and distinction. He was a member of that family to which Jesse Benton, a Georgia planter and one of the pioneers of that State, belonged. Jesse Benton was the father of a second Jesse Benton and of Lemuel Benton, who was the father of Thomas Hart Benton, already referred to, and who was one of the greatest figures in the public life of our country in the nineteenth century. His record is so familiar to every school boy that it is not necessary to enlarge upon it here. Dr. Prince is of English, French and Scotch blood. The French blood came in through the wife of Captain Charles Prince, the English blood through the Bentons and Princes, and the Scotch-Irish blood through his mother. The latter was of that stock which has taken such a great part in the history of North Carolina, and, to a lesser degree, in the history of South Carolina. It is of interest to note that the Princes and Bentons are English, the Malloys Irish and the McEachins Scotch. The Coat of Arms of the Prince family dates from 1584, showing that the family in England was of standing as far back as the early years of Queen Elizabeth. The Benton family was more numerous, and had grants of coat armor at an earlier date. The Malloy family was originally Molloy, and that form of the name is still common though possibly the larger number now uses the more modern form. This was one of the great families of Ireland with an authentic history running back nearly nine hundred years, and a legendary history running back another seven centuries, claiming descent from Milesius, King of Spain, in the second century of the Christian era. The McEachins were a sept of the great MacDonald clan, that branch of it known as the MacDonalds of Clan Ranald, the history of which is of great interest. Additional Comments: Extracted from: MAKERS OF AMERICA BIOGRAPHIES OF LEADING MEN OF THOUGHT AND ACTION THE MEN WHO CONSTITUTE THE BONE AND SINEW OF AMERICAN PROSPERITY AND LIFE VOLUME II By LEONARD WILSON, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ASSISTED BY PROMINENT HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL WRITERS Illustrated with many full page engravings B. F. JOHNSON, INC. CITY OF WASHINGTON, U. S. A. 1916 Copyright, 1916 by B. F. Johnson, Inc. 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