Hi Rices, [To access the 'InMagic Word Wheel,' see discussion below, go to:
http://www.town.sudbury.ma.us/archives/index.htm
then enter Rice in the name box, then click on browse, which will bring up the
'InMagic Word Wheel and the'154 Benjamin Rice refs, 7 Benj jr refs, and 1 Benj of
Boston ref. I'll spend time later looking for/at the 154 refs].
If you are looking for your ancient BlueBlood (1640) RICE ancestors, you could hardly
do better than this wonderful site! Here is a (very) partial list of the old Geezers (my
brief fling revealed no Geezerettes!).
(We are looking for Benj Rice md Sarah Carruthers abt 1728).
Barry Wetherington
PS: OOPS!!! Turns out there ARE RICE Geezerettes!, and many more Rices than my first pass
located - MANY MANY more! 'Browse' the 'InMagic Word Wheel 3.0: Name'
tool [[[EXTREMELY difficult to locate on the site!!! IN FACT, I SPENT HALF AN HOUR
ATTEMPTING TO RETURN to the 'InMagic Word Wheel (to look for Benj) W/O SUCCESS]]] for
MANY MORE Rices - for ex: 95 records/ record entries for Wm Rice jr, 13 entries for
Tabitha Rice, 5 'Hits' for Sarah E Rice, 11 for Sally, 18 for Rebecca, etc etc!
(To access the InMagic Word Wheel,
If your blood runs blue, look here!
http://www.town.sudbury.ma.us/archives/
Rice, Ebenezer
Rice, Edmund
Rice, Ephraim
Rice, Henry
Rice, Phineas [Phogg?]
Rice, Jonathan
Rice, Jonathan junior
Rice, Nathaniel
Rice, John
Number of [RICE] Records Found: 2062
1. Town Ordinance; 1639
2. Selectmen's Meeting; 1639
3. List of Proprietors of the Common Land; 1639
4. General Court Act - Incorporation of Sudbury; September 4, 1639
5. Land Grants - Original Divisions of Common Land; 1640
6. Selectmen's Meeting List of Sudbury Landholders; February 22, 1640
7. Land Grant; April 3, 1640
8. Birth Record; May 31, 1640
9. Land Grant; November 18, 1640
10. Town Meeting; [1641]
11. Town Ordinance; [1641]
12. Town Meeting; [1641]
13. Town Meeting; February 1, 1641
14. General Court Act - Appointment Confirmation; June 2, 1641
15. Land Grant Land Transaction; 1642
. . . . . .
'Browse' the 'InMagic Word Wheel 3.0: Name' tool for MANY MORE Rices
Record #: 2284 Category: Proprietors' Records
Title: List of Proprietors of the Common Land
Date: 1639
November 24, 1718
http://www.town.sudbury.ma.us/archives/
EDMUND RICE was born in 1594, and came to this country from Barkhamstead, Hertfordshire,
England. He was twice married. His first wife, Tamazine, died at Sudbury, where she was
buried June 18, 1654. His second wife, whom he married March 1, 1655, was Mercie (HURD)
BRIGHAM, widow of Thomas Brigham of Cambridge. He had twelve children, nine of whom were
born in England, and the others in Sudbury: Henry (born 1616), Edward (born 1618), Edmund,
Thomas, Mary, Lydia (born 1627), Matthew (born 1629), Daniel (born 1632), Samuel (born
1634), Joseph (born 1637), Benjamin (born 1640), Ruth (born 1659), and Ann (born 1661).
Mr. Rice died May 3, 1663, at Marlboro, aged about sixty-nine, and was buried in Sudbury.
His widow married William HUNT of Marlboro. Mr. Rice was a prominent man in the
settlement. He early owned lands in and out of the town, some of which came by grant of
the General Court. His first dwelling-place at Sudbury was on the old north street.
September 1, 1642, he sold this place to John MOORE, and September 13 of the same year
leased, for six years, the Dunster Farm, which lay just east of Cochituate Pond. He bought
of the widow Mary AXDELL six acres of land and her dwelling house, which were in the south
part of the town, and some years afterwards he bought of Philemon WHALE his house and nine
acres of land near "the spring" and adjacent to the Axdell place;
and these taken together, in part at least, formed the old Rice homestead, not far from
the "Five Paths" (Wayland). This old homestead remained in the Rice family for
generations.
Mr. Rice was one of the substantial men of the Sudbury plantation. He was a freeman May
13, 1640, and was one of the committee appointed by the Colonial Court, September 4, 1639,
to apportion land to the inhabitants. He served as selectman from 1639 to 1644, and was
deputy to the General Court several successive years. He was prominent in the settlement
of Marlboro, for which he was a petitioner in 1656.
Thanks for the heads-up Jespane
----- Original Message -----
From: <Jespane(a)cs.com>
To: <RICE-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 2:38 PM
Subject: Sudbury -- Rice family
http://www.town.sudbury.ma.us/archives/
This website came across the MAMiddle-L@rootsweb earlier today
Thought some Rice ancestors might be available (and more records to come)
J (member of Rice Fam Association)
http://www.mediathinktank.com/