Genealogy: Rice/Massachusetts descendant chart

Rice/Massachusetts

Edmund Rice arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1638, first documented in Township Book of the Town of Sudbury in the year 1639. No ship's passenger list has survived. Ties to England have been verified, in the form of church baptismal records for his children and his marriage to Thomasine Frost on October 15, 1618. No records naming his parents, whether baptism or other, have yet surfaced, however. The Edmund Rice Association has boldly and publicly proclaimed its satisfaction with colonial history and heritage, and formally dispensed with pretensions at royal descent.

Generation No. 1

Edmund Rice, born 1594 in Stanstead, Suffolk, England and died May 3, 1663 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts. The son of Thomas Rice, he emigrated in 1639 after marrying Thomasine Frost on October 15, 1618 in Bury Saint Edmund's, Suffolk, England. The daughter of Edward Frost and Thomasine Tomyzin Belgrave, she was born August 10, 1600 in Stanstead, Suffolk and died June 13, 1653 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

Mary Rice, born August 23, 1619
Henry R. Rice, born February 13, 1619-20, died February 10, 1709-10, married Elizabeth Moore February 1, 1641-2
Edward Rice, born October 20, 1622, died August 15, 1712, married (1) Anna, (2) Agnes Bent 1646
Thomas Rice, born January 26, 1625-6, died November 16, 1681, married Mary King 1652
Lydia Rice, born March 9, 1626-7, died April 5, 1675, married Hugh Drury 1645.
Matthew Rice, born February 28, 1627-8, died 1717, married Martha Lamson November 2, 1654
Daniel Rice, stillborn
Samuel Rice, born November 12, 1634, died February 25, 1683-4, married (1) Elizabeth King, (2) Mary Dix September 1668, (3) Sarah White December 13, 1676
Joseph Rice, born March 13, 1636/37, died December 23, 1711, married (1) Sarah Prescott, (2) Mary Beers, (3) Mercy King
Benjamin Rice, born May 31, 1640, died December 19, 1713, married (1) Mary Chamberlain, (2) Mary Browne

Generation No. 2

Thomas Rice, born January 26, 1625-6 in Stanstead, Suffolk, England and died November 16, 1681 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Married Mary King 1652 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She, the daughter of Thomas King and Anne Collins, was born February 22, 1627-8 in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England and died March 22, 1714-5 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

Grace Rice, died January 3, 1652-3
Mary Rice, born September 4, 1656 and died August 22, 1733, married (1) Joseph or Joseph White, (2) Thomas Sawyer July 15, 1718
Peter Rice, born October 24, 1658, died November 28, 1753, married Rebecca How 1688
Nathaniel Rice, born January 3, 1659-60, died November 13, 1726, married (1) Sarah Stone, (2) Patience Brown December 1704
Sarah Rice, born January 15, 1661-2, married John Adams
Ephraim Rice, born April 15, 1665 and died October 25, 1732, married (1) Hannah Livermore February 11, 1687-8, (2) Mary Noyes March 24, 1724-5
Gershom Rice, born May 9, 1667, died December 19, 1768, married Elizabeth Balcom, born August 16, 1672
James Rice, born March 6, 1668-9 and died October 14, 1730, married Sarah Stone; born February 14, 1674-5 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
Frances Rice, born February 3, 1669-70 and died 1767, married Benjamin Allen
Jonas Rice, born March 6, 1671-2 and died September 22, 1753, married Mary Stone February 10, 1700-1
Grace Rice, born January 15, 1674-5, married Nathaniel Moore February 10, 1700-1 and died November 25, 1761
Elisha Rice, born December 11, 1679 and died 1761, married Elizabeth Wheeler February 10, 1706-7
Damaris Rice, born 1688, married James Bradish
Vashi Rice, born March 7, 1699-00 and married Daniel Hardy December 22, 1727
Thomas Rice, born January 30, 1653-4 and died 1747

Generation No. 3

Elisha Rice, born December 11, 1679 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts and died 1761 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Married Elizabeth Wheeler—born Concord, Massachusetts—on February 10, 1706-7.

Adonijah Rice, married Persis Gates
Eliakim Rice, born February 27, 1708-9, married Mehitable Livermore
Elisha Rice, born March 2, 1710-11
Elizabeth Rice, born November 3, 1713, married Jonas Livermore November 28, 1735
Julia Rice, born March 30, 1716
Silas Rice, born November 7, 1719, died March 24, 1800, married (1) Copiah Broughton May 4, 1769; (2) Lois Pollard September 20, 1770, (3) Mehitable Goodnow December 4, 1784
Elijah Rice, born March 5, 1721-22, married Huldah Keyes
Zebulon Rice, born January 5, 1724-5, married Susanna Allen

Generation No. 4

Elijah Rice, born March 5, 1721-2 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts and died March 1818 at Holden, Massachusetts. Married Huldah Keyes, daughter of Ebenezer Keyes and Tamar Wheelock, on November 23, 1748.

[Sources: Henshaw and Ward, The Rice Family, pp 32,74. Massachusetts Vital Records: Shrewsbury p 207. Edmund Rice Association, s1 p13. Rice General Register, p 22. New England Historic Genealogical Society.]

Elijah Rice, born September 10/11. 1749 and died January 3, 1827
Lois Rice, born September 19, 1751 and died January 22, 1842
Joseph Rice, born c 1753
Tryphena Rice, born c 1753
Ebenezer Rice, born March 12, 1756 and died December 18, 1831
Zerviah Rice, born August 6, 1760
Huldah Rice
Lettice Rice, born c 1765 and died 24 June 1847

Generation No. 5

Elijah Rice Jr., born September 11, 1749 in Boyleston and died January 3, 1827/9 in Shrewsbury, married Leafy/Relief Williams, daughter of saddler Zephemiah Williams, on November 10, 1772. Farmer.

[Sources: Henshaw and Ward, The Rice Family, pp 74.135. Massachusetts Vital Records: Shrewsbury pp 90/272, Lancaster p 104. Edmund Rice Association, s1 p30]

Lois Rice, died after 1847
Joseph Rice, born January 19, 1773 in Holden, married, died Connecticut
Tryphena Rice, born April 28, 1774, married November 19, 1798 to Rufus Holman, and died August 6, 1848 in Marlboro, buried Legg burying ground, Sterling MA
Nahum Rice, born October 27, 1775, married Nancy Young
Lucy Rice, born July 25, 1777, married Stephen Woods
David Rice, born March 8, 1779, married April 29, 1806 in Boston, died December 13, 1830 in Baltimore MD on a visit, children
Martin Rice, born March 8, 1781, married Lucy Wheeler 1804, died 1852, children
Huldy Rice, born February 28, 1782 and died 1784
Azubah Rice, born August 14, 1784, married Rufus Pratt
Elijah Rice, born December 5, 1786
Alexander Rice, born December 27, 1788, married 1811, children
Olive Rice, born October 6, 1790, married Billings Briggs
Abner Rice, born September 7, 1792, married

Generation No. 6

Elijah Rice III, born December 5, 1786 in Holden, died 18—, married secondly Martha Goddard, daughter of watchmaker Luther Goddard of Shrewsbury and his wife Betsy, November 26, 1807. Martha died August 26, 1842 in Boyleston, Massachusetts, and was buried in Worcester.

Luther Goddard Rice, born September 18, 1808
Charles Williams Rice, born Mary 21, 1810
Parley Goddard Rice. born April 5, 1812 and died November 1827
Emerson Keyes Rice, born April 29. 1813, and married before September 26, 1845
Elizabeth Goddard Rice, born May 12, 1815
Alvira Woods Rice, born May 20, 1817 and died April 4, 1897

Generation No. 7

Alvira Woods Rice, born May 20, 1817, married December 22, 1836 to Williams Barker Brooks in Boston, and died April 4, 1897 in Norwich. Buried in Cedar Grove Cemetary, Dorchester, Sothsby, Massachusetts.

Mary Alvira Briggs Brooks, born December 22, 1837, died September 7, 1838
Marion Williams Brooks, born October 7, 1839, died March 30, 1901
Noah Walter Brooks, born October 28, 1843, died May 5, 1925
Ella Maria Brooks, born June 28, 1847, died February 21, 1903
Esther Stetson Brooks, born August 1, 1849, died July 12, 1906
Williams Barker Brooks, Jr., born April 6, 1852, died September 18, 1917
Antoinette Parsons Brooks, born September 12, 1854, died October 1939
Agnes Alvira Brooks, born December 10, 1857, died 1944
Laura Alice Brooks, born May 2, 1859, died February 18, 1940, married Samuel Wesley Martine

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