From The Settlement of Prince Edward County by Nick and Helma Mika. Transcribed here by Linda Herman

Pioneers of Prince Edward County 
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

CAPT. JOHN PRINYER

Wife received 200 acres of land in North Marysburgh from her uncle. 

Colonel Macdonnell, one of Prince Edward County's first settlers, had a niece who married Captain John Prinyer. Macdonnell gave his niece about twelve hundred acres in North Marysburgh, where the couple raised their seven children: Ellen, Mary, Archibald, John, Isabella, Alexander, and Angus.

Captain Prinyer was active in the War of 1812, running dispatch across prince Edward County. He also captured thirteen American soldiers at their camp in the county. After his military career, Prinyer served at different times as councillor, reeve, alderman and warden for North Marysburgh or the county. John Prinyer was working for the public good; when others were looking for their expense account to be paid out of the public till, John Prinyer, as Warden of the county, said, "let the expense go for the public good: I will bear my own expenses." Prinyer's Cove was named in honour of Captain John Prinyer.

Captain Prinyer's eldest child, Ellen, never married. Se died in 1902., while in her ninetieth year. The second child, Mary, wed Gilbert Stanton. Archibald died an unmarried man.

The fourth child was named after his father, the pioneer. John Prinyer Jr. married Minerva Davis. They settled in North Marysburgh, by Prinyer's Cove, and raised their daughter, Helen.

The youngest three children of Captain Prinyer all moved outside Prince Edward County. Isabella and her husband, Michael Walsh, settled in Kingston. Alexander Prinyer married Antionette Burley, and they moved to North Dakota. Angus Prinyer and his wife, Cinderella Davy, settled in Watertown, New York.