Spouse: Richard RICE.

Spouse: Richard RICE.

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"Brigham Family" and History of Marlborough, Hudson, 1862, p. 431.

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Spouse: Thomas RICE. Anna RICE and Thomas RICE were married on 10 November 1681 in Marlboro, Sudbury, Middlesex, Ma. Children were: Thomas RICE, Charles RICE, Eunice RICE, Demaris RICE, Jason RICE, Jedediah RICE, Abiel RICE, Anna RICE, Ashur RICE, Adonijah RICE, Perez RICE, Vashti RICE, Beriah RICE, Noah RICE.

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"Brigham Family" and History of Marlborough, Hudson, 1862, p. 431.

Rice Assn says no proof of this child.

The Rice Family, Ward, 1858, p. 10 -

M. Mary Brown, of Sudbury, about 1662, and resided there.

May 23, 1685, Benjamin Rice, of Sudbury, sued Dr. William Avery, of Boston, for malpractice. Verdict for defendant. In that suit, Daniel Pond testified that, "ten years ago, Benjamin Rice, of Sudbury, came to my house, in Dedham, with his feet frozen, and lodged there. Dr. William Avery's son, Benjamin, cut off one foot at the lowest joint, and stanched the blood with a musquash skin." Dr. William Avery does not appear, by the evidence in the case, to have been present at the operation. The malpractice, if any, was therefore not chargeable to him, but to his son, Benjamin:- hence the verdict.

D. in 74th yr. One child.

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The Rice Family, Ward, 1858, p. 23

Res. at Marl., d. in his 83rd year.

The will of Benjamin Rice, Dec. 31, 1744, proved March 27, 1749, gave to sons, Azariah, Zerubabel and Matthias; to daus. Lydia Rice, Elizabeth How, Rachel How, Priscilla Partridge and Damaris Brigham, and to two gr. children, chil. of son Simon, deceased; Ebenezer, of son Simon, to have my lands in Westboro'. Son, Zerubabel Rice, Exor.

Marlborough Inscriptions, Rice, 1908, p. 45

age 82 years & 2 mo.

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Spouse: Richard WATERMAN. Bethia RICE and Richard WATERMAN were married on 20 August 1637 in Salem,Essex, Massachusetts. Children were: Nathaniel WATERMAN.

A Genealogical Register of Edmund Rice Descendants.

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A Genealogical Register of Edmund Rice Descendants.

The Rice Family, Ward, 1858, p. 10 -

Baptismal records submitted by Mr. Boutwell of Woburn from the Parish Registry of Barkhamstead, in the county of Hertfordshire, England. The "three" older children of Edmund Rice are not found in the Registry at Barkhamstead; they probably came to that place with their parents, but where from, unknown.

Also, Burial Record, Parish Registry.

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The Rice Family, Ward, 1858, p. 19

Res. at Marl. D. in his 82d year.

The will of Daniel, May 5, 1729, proved Dec. 19, 1737, gave to sons Daniel, Luke, Eleazer, son-in-law Edward Wilson and Hopestill, his wife, to daus. Bethiah Newton and Judith Rice. Edward Wilson, Executor.

His wife, Elizabeth, probably was not living at the date of his will.

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Children were: Edward RICE, Stephen RICE.

Spouse: Mary Howlett Or Susannah SEARCY. Mary Howlett Or Susannah SEARCY and David RICE were married in 1731 in Albemarle Co., Va.. Children were: Mary RICE.

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Spouse: James BRADISH. Demaris RICE and James BRADISH were married on 16 June 1708 in Westboro,Worcester,Massachusetts. Children were: Robert BRADISH, Jonas BRADISH, Hepzibah BRADISH, Sarah BRADISH, Robert BRADISH, Mary BRADISH, James BRADISH, John BRADISH, Damaris BRADISH, Ruth BRADISH, Jonas BRADISH, Eunice BRADISH, Anna BRADISH, Joseph BRADISH.

Spouse: James BRADISH. Children were: Hepzibah BRADISH, Sarah BRADISH, Robert BRADISH, Mary BRADISH, James BRADISH, John BRADISH, Damaris BRADISH, Ruth BRADISH, Jonas BRADISH, Eunice BRADISH, Anna BRADISH, Joseph BRADISH.

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Came to Sudbury, Massachusetts from Berkhamsted, England in 1638-1639 probably on the "Susan and Ellen"
Ref: By The Name Of Rice by Charles Elmer Rice
Deputy for the Town and severed as Selectman in 1644
Magistrate in 1641
Deacon of Church 1648 --FBLOB 886-262
Some descendants : John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the USA
Julia Ward Howe, writer and poet , wrote the Battle Hymn Of The Republic.
Frances E. Willard, President of the Womens Christian Temperance Union.
Mary Rice Livermore , Civil War Nurse with American Red Cross
Clara Barton, Civil War Nurse and first President of the America Red Cross
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Writer, Poet
Calvin Collidge 30th President of the USA, Samuel F.B.Morse invertor of Electric telegraph.
Ref; The Edmund Rice Genealogy, by Edmund Rice,
In 1627, the Deacon and his wife, Tamazine, were living in the village of Berkhampstead, 28 miles north of London, in Hertfordshire. Their first three children were doubtless born in Sudbury, Bucks, and the Parish Register of Berkhamstead contains the record of five others who were baptized in that Parish. The Deacon and his wife, with seven of these children, (one had died and one was born during the voyage) landed in Massachusetts in 1638."
(Ref.: "By the Name of Rice," by Charles Elmer Rice, Alliance, Ohio, 1911.)
Notes for Edmund Rice:
No one has ever documented Edmund's birth date, place, or parents. We suspect Sudbury, Suffolk, England but have ABSOLUTELY NO PROOF! We are quite sure that none of the published suggestions are correct. These have been refuted by professional genealogists for over 60 years. The Edmund Rice (1638) Association has recently hired a professional English genealogist and she has not been able to find any verifiable birth date, birth place, or parents for Edmund after 2 years of searching. Edmund in a deposition did state his age which would correspond to his birth in 1594 but he most certainly did not say where or who his parents were

Please contact me when you download this gedcom. Karen Grubaugh at kleegrubaugh@@yahoo.com Parents: Henry "Thomas" RICE and Elizabeth FROST. Parents: Henry RICE and Elizabeth FROST. Parents: Henry "Thomas" RICE and *Elizabeth FROST. Parents: Henry Thomas RICE and Elizabeth FROST. Parents: Henry "Thomas" RICE and Elizabeth FROST.

Spouse: Thomasine FROST. Thomasine FROST and Edmund "Deacon" RICE were married on 15 October 1618 in Bury St. Edmunds, St. James, Suffolk, England. Children were: Thomas RICE, Samuel RICE, Mary RICE, Henry R. RICE, Thomas RICE, Deacon Edward RICE, John RICE, Lydia RICE, Matthew RICE, Daniel RICE, Samule RICE, Joseph RICE, Edmund RICE, Benjamin RICE, Henry RICE, Mary RICE, Edward RICE, John RICE, Thomas RICE, Lydia RICE, Matthew RICE, Daniel RICE, Samuel RICE, Edmund RICE, Benjamin RICE.

Spouse: *Thomasine FROST. Children were: Mary RICE, Henry RICE, Thomas RICE, *Deacon Edward RICE, *John RICE, Lydia RICE, Mathew RICE, Daniel RICE, Samuel RICE, Joesph RICE, Edmund RICE, Benjamin RICE.

Spouse: Mercie HURD. Mercie HURD and Edmund "Deacon" RICE were married on 1 March 1654/5. Children were: Ruth RICE, Ann RICE.

His grave is marked by a monument designed by a descendant, Arthur Wallace Rice of Boston. It was dedicated by the Rice Association on 29 Aug 1914. A boulder with a bronze tablet was also erected by the Association and it marks Edmund's homestead, on the Old Connecticut Path in Wayland.

Edmund married in st. Mary's, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, on 15 Oct 1618, Thomasine Frost, daughter of Edward Frost and Thomasine Belgrave.

He married 2nd, Mercy (Hurd) Brigham, 1 Mar 1655. She was born in England about 1618. D. 22 Dec 1693 Marlborough.

Above info taken from "A Genealogical Register of Edmund Rice Descendants, The Edmund Rice (1638) Associations, Inc. Ray Lowther Ellis, Managing Editor.

Other Rice Information from "By the Name of Rice", Charles Elmer Rice, 1911, and "From Whence We Came" (Elden Brigham). Also, "The History of the Brigham Family."

The Deacon lists among his descendants Julia Ward Howe.

History of the Town of Marlborough, Hudson, 1862, p. 431

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 solemnize marriages 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, 1654, and he m. as a 2nd wife, Mercie, wid. of Thomas Brigham, the ancestor of the numerous Brighams which afterwards settled at Marl. He m. Mercie, March 1, 1635, and d. at Marl. May 3, 1663, and was buried at Sudbury. His wid. m. 1664, William Hunt, of Marl., an early settler of Concord. He d. at Marl., 1667, and his wid. d. Dec. 28, 1693. 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.

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One pedigree chart in SLC lists Edmund's parents as Henry or Thomas Rice and Elizabeth Frost. Henry or Thomas's parents as William Rice & Thomasine Myal. William Rice's parents as Griffith Rice and ______ Howard (countess of Bridgewater). "William RICE -Rhys ap Griffith FITZURYAN/Katherine HOWARD line"

Edmund Rice Association -

Deacon Edmund Rice1,2 (M)
b. c 1594, d. 03 May 1663, #1
Deacon Edmund Rice was born circa 1594 at England. As reported later in this account of Edmund Rice, no record of his birth or christening has been found.1,3 Deacon Edmund Rice married 1st Thomasine Frost, daughter of Edward Frost and Thomasine Belgrave, on 15 October 1618 at St Marys Church, Bury St. Edmunds, England.4,2,5 Deacon Edmund Rice married Mercy Hurd? on 1 March 1655/56 at Sudbury, MA, (literally 1655) registered as Mary Brigham.2,6 Deacon Edmund Rice died on 3 May 1663 at Sudbury, MA, (not found in the published records).1,2 He was buried at Old Burying Ground, Wayland, MA; One possible site of the grave is marked by a monument designed by Arthur Wallace Rice of Boston, MA. It was dedicated by the Edmund Rice Association on 29 August 1914. A boulder with a bronze tablet was also erected by the Association and it marks Edmund's homestead on the Old Connecticut Path in Wayland.2
He and Thomasine Frost resided in 1627 at Berkhamstead, England.7,8 Deacon Edmund Rice was in a land transaction in 1638 where he acquired 4 acres in then Sudbury (now Wayland) and laid out in the fall of that year. He was one of the first to build in the area. According to Massachusetts Colonial Records, Volume 1, page 271, on 3 September 1639 Edmund Rice was one of the committee appointed by the Massachusetts General Court to lay out the land in Sudbury in 1639.
Edmund Rice's house was situated on the "Old North Street", near Mill brook. He received his proportion of "Meadowlands", which were divided "to the present inhabitants" under dates of 4 September 1639, 20 April, and 18 November 164-, his share being 42 1/2 acres. He shared in all the division of Uplands and Commons - the total number of acres which fell to his lot, as an original inhabitant, was 247.9

Deacon Edmund Rice was a Selectman in 1644 and subsequent years; a Deacon of the church in 1648, and, in 1656, one of the petitioners for a new plantation that became known as Marlborough at Sudbury, MA.10 He was designated a freeman on 13 May 1640 at Massachusetts.11 He became Deacon of the Church at Sudbury, MA, in 1648.8 He was a deputy to the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (the Massachusetts legislature) representing the Town of Sudbury, serving on 27 May 1652, 18 May 1653, and 3 May 1654 between 1652 and 1654 at Boston, MA.12 He resided after 1656 at Marlborough, MA, lived on "The Great Road" on the northerly side of the pond (Cochituate Pond), not far from Williams Tavern. The pond is also spelled Wachittuate, Caochituet, Chochichawicke, Coijchawicke, Catchchauitt, Charchittawick, Katchetuit, Cochichawauke, or Cochichowicke.13
Twice in the 20th century nationally recognized research genealogists have attempted to determine the parents and ancestors of Edmund Rice. Mary Lovering Holman described the negative result of her search for records in the parishes near Stanstead and Sudbury, Suffolk County, England in English Notes on Edmund Rice, The American Genealogist, Volume 10 (1933/34), pp. 133 - 137. Mrs Holman is considered by many to be one of the best research genealogists in the 20th century. In 1997 the Edmund Rice (1638) Association commissioned Dr. Joanna Martin, a nationally recognized research genealogist who lives in Hitcham, Suffolk, England, only a few miles from Stanstead and Sudbury, to search again for records of Edmund Rice's parents. Dr. Martin reported in 1999 that she found no record that identified Edmund's parents or ancestral line.
Several authors of published works and computer data sets have claimed names for Edmund Rice's parents. Regrettably they have not given sources that would assist in definitive genealogical research. For example, the Ancestral File and International Genealogical Index, two popular computer data sets widely distributed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, offer parent candidates that include: Henry Rice and Margaret Baker, Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost, Thomas Rice and Catherine Howard, and Thomas Rice and Elizabeth Frost.
From Mrs. Holman's paper we have an excellent record of one Henry Rice's marriage to Elizabeth Frost in November 1605 at Stanstead. Mrs. Holman also documents the baptism of Edmund's first child on 23 August 1619 at Stanstead. If this is the Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost to which the LDS records refer, the LDS records must be erroneous. Our researchers have not been able to find records that support any Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost, Henry Rice and Margaret Baker, Thomas Rice and Catherine Howard, or Thomas Rice and Elizabeth Frost as parents of Edmund Rice.
A scholarly investigation by Donald Lines Jacobus, considered by many as the dean of modern American genealogy, appeared in The American Genealogist, volume 11, (1936), pp. 14-21 and was reprinted in the fall of 1968 and the winter of 1998 issues of Newsletter of the Edmund Rice (1638) Association. Jacobus traced many of the false accounts to the book by Dr. Charles Elmer Rice entitled "By the Name of Rice, privately published by Dr. Rice at Alliance, Ohio in 1911.
Sudbury, England includes three parishes, two of which do not have complete records for the years near 1594, which is Edmund's most likely birth year. Edmund Rice deposed in a court document on 3 April 1656 that he was about 62 years old. Thus, if he were born in Sudbury his records have been lost and we may never know his origin.
In his address to the 1999 annual meeting of the Edmund Rice (1638) Association, Gary Boyd Roberts, Senior Researcher, New England Historic Genealogy Society, reviewed all of the genealogical sleuthing on Edmund's parentage. Mr. Roberts is well known for his research on royal lineage. He concluded that there was no evidence whatsoever that supports the published accounts of Edmund Rice's parents and no evidence that Edmund Rice was from a royal lineage.
The Edmund Rice (1638) Association is very interested in proving the ancestry of Edmund Rice. The association encourages anyone who can identify a primary source that names Edmund and his parents to identify that source. Records of a baptism, estate probate, or land transaction naming Edmund and his parents are the most likely records to contain that proof. Until someone can cite such a record, the association must state emphatically that Edmund Rice's parents and ancestry are not known and that Edmund Rice's descendants can not claim royal ancestry.14,15,16 WRN: 1.

Children of Deacon Edmund Rice and Thomasine Frost:
Henry Rice (c 1617 - 10 Feb 1710/11)
Deacon Edward Rice (c 1619 - 15 Aug 1712)
Mary Rice (23 Aug 1619 - b 1638)
Thomas Rice (26 Jan 1625/26 - 16 Nov 1681)
Lydia Rice (09 Mar 1627/28 - 05 Apr 1675)
Matthew Rice (c 1629 - 1717)
Daniel Rice (01 Nov 1632 - b 10 Nov 1632)
Samuel Rice (12 Nov 1634 - 25 Feb 1684/85)
Joseph Rice (13 Mar 1637/38 - 23 Dec 1711)
Benjamin Rice (31 May 1640 - 19 Dec 1713)

Children of Deacon Edmund Rice and Mercy Hurd?:
Lydia Rice (c 1657 - 26 May 1718)
Ruth Rice (29 Sep 1659 - 30 Mar 1742)

[S1] Andrew Henshaw A.M. Ward, The Rice Family, p. 5.
[S3] Rice Gen'l Register, p. 1.
[S1126] Unknown author, Bio Sketches of Pioneer Settlers.
[S1] Andrew Henshaw A.M. Ward, The Rice Family.
[S320] Harold F. Jr Porter, "The Strutt Ancestry of Thomasine Frost", p. 166.
[S331] New England Historic Genealogical Society, Sudbury, MA Vital Records, p. 258.
[S79] Mary Lovering Holman, "TAG, Vol. X, Notes on Edmund Rice", p. 136.
[S154] David Kent Young, Young, Siobhan Eddy.
[S282] Josiah H Temple, Gen Reg of Framingham Families, pp. 680-681.
[S1] Andrew Henshaw A.M. Ward, The Rice Family, p. 1.
[S288] Lucius R. Paige, Freemen of Massachusetts.
[S1427] Nathaniel B Shurtleff, Records of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, vol. 3, pp. 259, 297, 340.
[S1] Andrew Henshaw A.M. Ward, The Rice Family, p. 2.
[S79] Mary Lovering Holman, "TAG, Vol. X, Notes on Edmund Rice", pp. 133 - 137.
[S90] D. L Jacobus, "Edmund Rice of Sudbury, MA", pp. 14 - 21.
[S91] Mary Lovering Holman, "The Wife of Edmund Rice", p. 227.

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Spouse: Thomasine FROST. Thomasine FROST and Edmund RICE Deacon were married on 15 October 1618 in St. Mary's, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, EN. Children were: Henry RICE, Mary (Marie) RICE, Edward RICE, Thomas RICE, Lydia RICE, MATTHEW RICE, Daniel RICE, Samuel RICE, Joseph RICE -0, Edmund RICE, Benjamin RICE.

Spouse: Mercy HURD 0. Mercy HURD 0 and Edmund RICE Deacon were married on 1 March 1655 in Marlborough, , MA. Children were: Lydia RICE, Ruth RICE, Ann RICE.

Spouse: Thomasine FROST. Thomasine FROST and Edmund RICE were married on 15 October 1618 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Children were: Mary RICE, Henry RICE, Edward RICE, Thomas RICE, Lydia RICE, Matthew RICE, Daniel RICE, Samuel RICE, Joseph RICE, Benjamin RICE.

Spouse: Mercy HURD. Mercy HURD and Edmund RICE were married on 1 March 1664/5 in Sudbury, MA.

Spouse: Thomasine FROST. Thomasine FROST and Edmund RICE were married on 15 October 1618 in St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Children were: Thomas RICE.

Spouse: Mary BRIGHAM.

The Rice Family, Ward, 1858, p. 9 -

No record of his ever having m., or of his residence, or death, or settlement of any estate ever belonging to him, has been discovered.

The following appears in Mid. Prob. Records:-
Edmund Rice, Sudbury -- Inventory, April 27, 1714, #108.13.4-
42 3/4 acres at Haynes neck. 9 acres 124 rods near W. side Goodman's Mill
32 3/4 acres at ye Allowance. 10 acres at Ashen swamp near Mr. Graves's.
Mathew Rice and Isaac Rice, Admrs., Apl, 12, 1714.
Receipts of chil. and Gr. chil. of Edmund Rice -- viz., Jonathan Rice;
John Rice; Thomas Drury; Peter Haynes; Thomas Brintnal, Atty. for
Phineas Rice, Ebenezer Rice, Gershom and James Rice.

Mathew Rice, one of the admrs., was the only surviving son, in 1714, of Edmund, Sen; and Isaac Rice, the other admr., was son of Mathew; and all those receipting were gr. chil. of Edmund Rice, Sen. Those lands probably accrued from rights in lands in which Edmun Rice, Sen., had an interest, but undivided in his life-time.

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"Brigham Family" and History of Marlborough, Hudson, 1862, p. 431.

The Rice Family, Ward, 1858, p. 17 -

M. Joyce, dau. of William and Martha Russell of Cambridge, and resided in the south-easterly part of what is now Wayland, by "the spring'" and near his brother John Rice. He was deacon of Sud. church, and in 1707 represented that town in the General Court.

"At the request of Mr. John Rice and Deacon Edmund Rice, we have stated a way from John Rice's house by the southerly side of Deacon Edmund's house to THE SPRING. May 10, 1710." Signed, John Brigham, Hopestill Brown, David Haynes, Thomas Frink, John Balcom, - Selectmen.

---other notes----

Nov. 14, 1718, Edmund Rice and his wife Joyce, "for love and good will, convey unto our son Jason Rice, all of Sudbury," their homestead, viz: "half the house, half the barn, two-thirds of the meadow land, orchard and pastures." Jason was restricted from selling in the lifetime of his father. This deed was witnessed by Daniel Hastings, William Rice and John Sherman. Dea. Edmund Rice d. in his 66th year, and only 19 days after his brother John.

Inventory of his estate, #451.1.0, taken Nov. 19, 1719, by Jonathan Rice, Richard Parks and Edward Sherman. We do not learn what became of his widow. Her father, William Russell, d. FEb. 4, 1661; and her mother, Martha, m. a Hall, and survived him. Her son-in-law, Edmund Rice, settled her estate.

Nov. 24, 1719, Samuel Abbot and Jyce, his wife; Joseph Parmenter and Lydia, his wife, and William Rice and Martha, his wife, "convey all our right to Hon'd father, Edmund Rice's estate in Sudbury or elsewhere to our brother, Jason Rice.

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