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Rice Edmund
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  • Birth  Abt 1594  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Gender  Male 
    _UPD  16 AUG 2009 13:29:30 GMT-5 
    Died  03 May 1663  Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Buried  Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Person ID  I1751  Alan Donald Vibber
    Last Modified  08 Dec 2009 
     
    Family 1  Hurd Mercy or Mercie,   d. 28 Dec 1693 
    Married  01 Mar 1655  [1, 2, 5, 6] 
    Family ID  F798  Group Sheet
     
    Family 2  Tamazine or Tamazin,   d. 13 Jun 1654, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  Y  [3, 4] 
    Children 
     1. Rice Henry,   b. 1617, England, U.K. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Feb 1711, Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Rice Edward,   b. Abt 1620,   d. 15 Aug 1712
     3. Rice Matthew,   b. 1629, England, U.K. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1717
    Family ID  F800  Group Sheet
     
  • Notes 
    • As the Rices were one of the earliest, so they have been one of the most numerous families in the town — ranking with the Howes and Brighams, and like them sending out emigrants to many other towns. If either of these families had retained all their descendants within the township, the population would have increased more rapidly than it has, though there had been no other family in the place.

      EDMUND RICE, b. about 1594, came from Barkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England, and settled in Sudbury in 1639. He was a prominent man in Sudbury ; was one of the selectmen, or townsmen, as they were frequently denominated, and was one of the Deacons of the Church. He was honored with several appointments by the General Court, and was denominated therein " Goodman Rice." He was appointed to solemnizemarriages in Marl., and enjoyed the confidence of his fellow- citizens in both towns. He was one of the petitioners for the grant which was afterwards made the town of Marl., and moved to the place. His wife Tamazine, d. in Sudbury, June 13, 1054, and he m. as a 2d wife, Mercie, wid. of Thomas Brigham, the ancestor of the numerous Brighams which afterwards settled at Marl. He m. Mercie, March 1, 1655, and d. at Marl. May 3, 1063. and was buried at Sudbury. His wid. m. 1664, William Hunt, of Marl., an early settler of Concord. He d. at Marl., 1067, and his wid. d. Dec. 28, 1093. Edmund Rice came to Marl, soon after the grant of the township, and took up his abode on what is known as the " great road," on the northerly side of the Pond, not far from the Williams Tavern. We have no record ofthe birth of his children, and cannot set them down in chronological order.

      Edmund Rice. 1594-1663. Born about 1594. Came, with wife and family, from Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, Eng., probably in 1638. Was one of the original proprietors and settlers of Sudbury in 1639. Selectman from 1639 to 1644, deacon of the church, and Deputy to General Court for several terms. He bought various properties in Sudbury. His wife, Tamazine, died at Sudbury June 13, 1654. He married (2) March 1, 1655, Mercie (Hurd), widow of Thomas Brigham of Cambridge. He was one of the petitioners for the town of Marlborough in 1656, and removed there about 1660. Among various appointments conferred upon "Goodman Rice" by the General Court was that of commissioner to solemnize marriages in Marlborough. He died at Marlborough May 3, 1663, and was buried at Sudbury. His widow, Mercie, married in 1664 William Hunt of Marlborough, who died in 1667. She died Dec. 28, 1693.

      THE RICE FAMILY. Edmund Rice (i), immigrant ancestor of Samantha (Rice) Bushong, was born in England, coming from Barkhamstead. Hertfordshire, to Sudbury, Massachusetts, about 1638. He shared in the division of land there in 1639. He was selectman in 1644 and subsequent years, deacon of the Sudbury Church in 1648, and in 1656 one of the thirteen petitioners for the Marlboro grant. His home in Sudbury was in the southerly part of what is now Wayland, east of the Sudbury river meadows. In Marlboro his residence was in the westerly part of the town on the old county road from Marlboro to Northboro in the bend as it passes around the north side, of the pond a short distance from the ancient Williams Tavern. He died May 3, 1663, aged sixty-two years, and was buried at Sudbury. His wife Tamazindied at Sudbury, June 13, 1654. He married (second) Mercy Brigham, widow of Thomas Brigham, of Cambridge. (For children and further data of the immigrant, see other sketches of Rice family.)

      Edmund Rice, b. about 1594, came from Barkhamstead, Hertfordshire, in England, and settled in Sudbury, 1639. He was selectman several years, one of the deacons of the church, and the recipient of several appointments from the General Court. He was one of the petitioners for the grant which afterwards was known as Marlboro, and subsequently removed to that place. His wife, Tamazine, d. in Sudbury June 13, 1654; and he md. (2d) March 1, 1655, Mercy (Kurd) Brigham, widow of Thomas Brigham, the emigrant. He d. in" Marlboro May 3, 1663, and was buried in Sudbury. His widow md. (3d), 1664, William Hunt, and d. Dec. 28, 1693. Thomas Rice (son of Edmund) and wife Mary resided in Sudbury until about 1664, when he removed to Marlboro, where he d. Nov. 16, 1681. His ninth child was James Rice, b. March 6, 1669; md. Sarah Stone, b. Feb. 14, 1675, dau. of Daniel and Mary (Ward) Stone, of Sudbury. He resided in Marlboro, Sudbury, and Worcester, where he d. Oct. 14, 1730. Zebadiah Rice, second son of James, was b. in Marlboro Nov. 23, 1698, and settled in Worcester, where he d. 1778. By wife Elizabeth he had eight children, and among them was Samuel Rice, b. May 9, 1742; he md. Dec. 6, 1765, Hepsibah Flint, of Concord, and settled in Ashby, where she d., in June, 1790; and he md. (2d) Mary Davis. He d., 1805, leaving eleven children.
     
  • Sources 
    1. [S253] Who Begot Thee? Some Genealogical and Historical Notes Made in an Effort to Trace the American Progenitors of One Individual Living in America in 1903, Gilbert Oliver Bent, Gilbert Oscar Bent, (Name: Printed for private distribution, 1903;), 17 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S138] History of the Town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Charles Hudson, Joseph Allen, 431 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S142] Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: with a history of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Ellery Bicknell Crane, (Name: 1907;), 301, Vol. IV (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S144] History of the Town of Rindge, New Hampshire, from the Date of the Rowley, Ezra S. Stearns, (Name: 1875;), 656 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S138] History of the Town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Charles Hudson, Joseph Allen, 333 (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S144] History of the Town of Rindge, New Hampshire, from the Date of the Rowley, Ezra S. Stearns, (Name: 1875;), 454 (Reliability: 3).

  

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