Sarah Prince Gill

Portrait of Sarah Prince Gill by John Singleton Copley, 1764. Sarah Prince Gill (July 16, 1728 – August 5, 1771) was an American Christian prayer group leader and writer.

Life Sarah Prince was the 4th of five children born to Deborah Denny and Thomas Prince. Thomas was the minister at Boston's Old South Church and a part of the Great Awakening.

Sarah Prince was educated at home. Thomas was particularly devoted to his children's education, "it was no small part of his labor and happiness to impress on his children a suitable sense of religion; and properly to form their sentiments, manners and taste."

Through her father, Sarah Prince was introduced to Esther Edwards Burr, daughter of Jonathan Edwards and future mother of Aaron Burr. Perhaps inspired by Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, the two young women exchanged journals with the goal of helping their self-improvement. They hid their correspondence from many of their acquaintances.

Sarah Prince also corresponded with Catharine Macaulay.

Although multiple men tried to court her, Sarah Prince remained singled and living with her parents throughout her twenties.

Sarah Prince Gill died at the age of 43 on August 5, 1771. The Journal of Esther Edwards Burr, 1754-1757 were published in 1984 by Yale University Press.

In 2005, Prince's conversion narrative was published by the University of Tennessee Press as part of The Silent and Soft Communion: The Spiritual Narratives of Sarah Pierpont Edwards and Sarah Prince Gill, edited by Sue Lane McCulley and Dorothy Zayatz Baker.