Jacques (le) Prince was born in Normandy in 1646, and was a soldier in the Carignan regiment stationed in Port-Royal, Acadia from about 1666. There he met and married (probably in 1676) Marguérite Hébert, daughter of Etienne Hébert and Marie Gaudet. They had at least eight children: Marguérite (1677, married François Tillard and then Jean Hébert), Anne (1678 or possibly 1685, married Etienne Rivest), François (1680-1751, married Catherine Benoît), Etienne (1688), Jean (1689), Antoine (1680, married Anne Trahan; he and François were no doubt twins; they married on the same day), and another François (1692). Jacques died in February 1694 at Laprairie, only about 48 years old. The family's farm was at Pisiguit, which started as a 'suburb' of Grand Pré but by 1714 had over 350 people and was regarded as a separate town. It is located where the Kennetcook River empties into Minas Basin. After the Acadians were removed in the 1750s, it was renamed Windsor.

Jean Prince (1689-p1754) married Jeanne Blanchard in Port-Royal in 1715; she was a daughter of Guillaume Blanchard and Huguette Gougeon. His second wife was Jacquemine Guérin. He and Jeanne had at least four children: Honoré (1717), Joseph (1719), Jean-Baptiste (1721) and Pierre (1723). Their first, Marie-Joseph, was born dead in 1715. With Jacquemine, Jean had one more son, Jean, born in 1754 (when his father was 65!).

Joseph Prince married Anne Forest in January 1740 at Port-Royal (she was also from Pisiguit, the daughter of René Forest and Françoise Dugas. Their son Joseph-Timothée was born in 1745 (probably in Port-Royal) and married Anne Richard, daughter of Victor Richard and Marie Richard, in October 1767 at Bécancour, which is a port on the St Lawrence just opposite Trois-Rivières - showing that the family had fled from Acadia during the British takeover, rather than being deported. (Its parish church, Nativité-de-la-Vierge Marie, is pictured above.) Joseph-Timothée and Anne had a son Victor Prince who in August 1795 married Marie-Esther Bourgeois at St-Jacques de Montcalm. Her parents Armand Bourgeois and Marguérite Dugas were also of Acadian origin. They had at least four children: Charlotte, Marie, Joseph, and Joël or Zoël. Charlotte was married in July 1823 to Alexis Turcotte at Nicolet, and became the mother of Célina Turcotte and therefore maternal grandmother of Marie Eva Jean Martin.