William Prince was a Revolutionary War patriot who served as a captain in Colonel Benjamin Roxbury Spartan Regiment, S.C. He organized a group from 96th S.C. District that migrated through Cumberland Gap and settled on Red River in northwest Tennessee. In 1798 he explored land on Eddy Creek and built Shandy Hall above Big Spring in an area called Eddy Grove. He was a large land owner, surveyor, and public servant, and he established First Baptist Church in Eddy Grove. His family donated 50 acres for Prince's Place, now called Princeton, with the deed recorded in the first Caldwell County order book C in 1817 on page 150.