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Thomas Prence was probably born in the area of Lechlade, Gloucestershire in about 1600 to Thomas Prince and Elizabeth Todlerby. The Prence father moved to the London parish of All Hallows Barking, near Tower Hill, where Thomas' father was a carriage maker." Prence's father, in his will of July 31, 1639, mentioned "my son Thomas Prence now remayninge in New England in parts beyond the seas", and bequeathed him a "seale Ringe of Gold", indicating the family may have been armigerous. Prence's ancestors spelled the family name "Prince", but, after his emigration, Thomas used the spelling of "Prence".
Prence lived in Ratcliff, at that time a hamlet in the parish of Stepney, which is where he was probably living when he decided to emigrate to the New World.
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