[1] He and his wife died on October 9, 1837, in the wreck of the SS Home, grounded near Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina, during Racer's Storm.

Oliver's maternal uncle David Hillhouse had already settled in the state when his parents moved there.

"[3] However, he was described by 20th-century historians as "remarkably gifted with the literary instinct which he possessed with the most delicious sense of humor.

It quickly was put into use and is considered a classic, filled with notes, a list of repealed statutes and a valuable discussion of habeas corpus.

He served from November 7, 1828, to March 3, 1829, as a Jacksonian Democrat, supporting the president in the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

This authorized the government to remove the tribes especially from the Southeast to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

[2] He sold the journal in 1835, retiring with his family at the age of 48 to a 450-acre (180 ha) farm he bought in Athens, Georgia.

[2] Prince and his wife left in May 1837 for a trip to New York and Boston, where he worked with his publisher for some months preparing the second edition of his Law Digest for publication.

After sailing from New York on October 7, 1837, both Prince and his wife died in the wreck of the steam packet ship SS Home, which was caught in Racer's Storm, a destructive hurricane that hit both the Gulf and Atlantic coasts.

[2] Years later, the three Prince children erected a cenotaph in Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon in their parents' honor.