Talk:Lawrence Prince

Call me a skeptic
I just removed WP:OR saying that he went down with the Whydah Gally, and that the Whydah was "stuffed with 560 slaves", and suspect there is a great deal more original research in this article. For example, I'm not convinced that the Lawrence Prince that served under Sir Henry Morgan and the Lawrence Prince that captained the Whydah are the same man. For one, if his birthdate is to be believed, that means that he was Captain of a major slave vessel when he was approx. 78 to 87 years old! That would be an amazing feat by today's standards, and practically impossible in the 1700's. — groll tech   ( talk ) 02:34, 27 May 2015 (UTC)


 * It's a different Prince! The Whydah Prince captained 13 slave trading voyages between 1699 and 1720 (captain and crew-> Prince, Lawrence). He then seeems to appear in the East India Company Records from 1721-1737 (Anthony Farrington, A Biographical Index of East India company Maritime Service Officers 1600-1834 (London: The British Library, 1999): 639). 216.15.13.214 (talk) 15:37, 31 January 2023 (UTC)