Mary WARD

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• Fact: Daughter of Samuel Ward and Sarah Howe

Mary married Deacon Caleb RICE on 21 May 1696. Caleb (son of Joseph RICE and Martha ?) was born on 19 May 1666; died on 5 Jan 1738/9. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jabez RICE was born on 2 Feb 1702; died in 1783.

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He had a 2d wife, Elizabeth, who survived him. He d. 1729, aged 84. In his will, dated May 22, 1727, he says he is "well stricken in years and crazy in body, but of perfect mind and memory." His will was contested n Probate Court, Dec. 19, 1729, by all his children and heirs (save his son, Samuel, to whom he gave most of his estate) on the ground, that he was crazy in mind as well as in body, when he made his will. At length the heirs agreed among themselves touching will, and desired the Judge to approve it.

Samuel married Sarah HOW on 6 Jun 1667. Sarah was born on 25 Sep 1644; died on 11 Aug 1707 in Marlboro, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of John How of Marlboro