Samuel RICE

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• Will: 10 Feb 1665

Samuel married Elizabeth KING on 18 Nov 1655 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. Elizabeth died on 30 Oct 1667 in Marlboro, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth RICE was born on 26 Oct 1656 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts; died on 22 Dec 1727 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
2. Hannah RICE was born in 1658 in Sudbury, MIddlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 09 Apr 1747 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.
3. Joshua RICE was born on 19 Apr 1661 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 23 Jun 1734 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.
4. Edmund RICE was born in 1663 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died in 1726 in Westboro, Worcester, Massachusetts.
5. Esther RICE was born on 18 Sep 1665 in Marlboro, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 11 Feb 1744 in Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Hadley Cemetery, Hadley, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts.
6. Samuel RICE was born on 14 Oct 1667 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 04 Mar 1713 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

Samuel married Mary DIX in Sep 1668 in Marlboro, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. Mary died on 18 Jun 1675. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary RICE was born on 06 Aug 1669.
2. Edlward RICE was born on 20 Jun 1672 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 20 Jul 1741 in Marlboro, Middlesex, Massachusetts; was buried in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
3. Abigail RICE was born on 10 Mar 1673 in Marlboro, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.

Samuel married Sarah WHITE on 13 Dec 1676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joseph RICE was born on 16 May 1678 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 05 May 1772.

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Edmund Rice came from Barkhamstead, in the county of Hertfordshire, in England, and settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1638 or 9; as he shared in the three divisions of land inSudbury, the first of which was made in 1639, he was not doubt residing there at that time.

No record has been found of his embarkation for this country, nor in what ship he came, or at what place he first arrived; there is not so much as tradition on the subject. The first we find of him is at Sudbury, with a wife and family of at least seven children that came over with him; that place, called "the planation lying near unto Concord," was incorporated in 1639 by the same of Sudbury. His residence was on the east side of Sudbury river, in the southerly part of what is now Wayland, and near the border of the extensive meadows through which that river flows in a northeasterly course to the Merrimac.

He was Selectman in 1644, and subsequent years; Dea,. of the church 1648, and in 1656, one of thirteen petitioners belonging to Sudbury, who besought the General Court for a new plantation, saying, "Whereas your petitioners have lived divers years in Sudbury, and God hath been pleased to increase our children, which are now, divers of them, grown to man's estate, and wee, many of us grown into years, so as that wee should bee glad to see them settled before the Lord take us away from hence; as also God having given us some considerable quantity of cattle, so that wee are so straightened, that wee cannot so comfortably subsist as could be desired; and some of us having taken some pains to view the country, wee have found a place, which lieth Westward about eight miles from Sudbury, which wee conceive might bee comfortable for our subsistence."

Sudbury at that time contained less than seventy-five families, and in territory included what is now Wayland. One would naturally think they were "straightened" for the want of 'neighbors', rather than for want of 'room' for themselves, or 'meadows' wherefrom to procure subsistence for their cattle; and so they found it, even twenty years later, when the town, with an increased population, was broken up and nearly destroyed by the Indians. Their petition was granted, and the plantation laid to them was incorporated by the name of Marlborough in 1660; whereto he removed and had a house lot of fifty aces granted to him by the proprietors of that town, with the rights appertaining thereto in after divisions.

His wife "Tamazine" died at Sudbury, June 13, 1654; the record of her death is the only one wherein her name has been found.

His 2d wife was "Mercie" wid. of Thomas Brigham of Cambridge; whom he married, March 1, 1656. His house lot in Marlboro',on which he built and resided, was in the westerly part of the town, on the old county road leading from Marlboro' to Northboro', and in the bend as it passes round the northerly side of the pond, a short distance northerly of the ancient "Williams tavern," afterwards kept by Gates and since by Wetherby. he was intrusted with various important duties by the General Court, which he discharged with a fidelity that occasioned repeated calls for his services, while the records of Sudbury and Marlboro' contain ample evidence of his vigilant and fatherly care in promoting the welfare of those infant settlements; the destruction of which by the Indians, occurring a few years after, he was not permitted to see by reason of death.

He died at Marboro', May 3, 1663, and was buried at Sudbury. A deposition of his on the court files at Cambridge states his age, April 3, 1656, to be "about 62 years" -hence he was born about 1594, and about 69 years old when he died.

Edmund married Thomasine FROST about 1617. Thomasine (daughter of Edward FROST and Thomasine BELGRAVE) was born in Stanstead, St. James, Suffolk, England; died on 13 Jun 1650 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]