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  • Name: Joseph RICE
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Mar 1638 in Berkhamstead, Herts, England b
  • Baptism: 13 Mar 1638 in Berkhamstead, Herts, England c
  • Death: 23 Dec 1711 in Stow, Massachusetts d


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Edmond RICE Birth: Abt 1594 in Sudbury, Suffolk Co, England Death: 3 May 1663 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  • Mother:
  • Thomasine FROST Birth: Aug 1600 in Stanstead, Co Suffolk, England Death: 13 Jun 1653 in Sudbury, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage:
  • Mercy KING on 4 May 1658 at Sudbury, Massachusetts .m1
  • Mercy KING Birth: 26 Feb 1639 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Death: 4 Jan 1669 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Rebecca RICE Birth: 6 Apr 1660 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts
  2. Martha RICE Birth: 14 Jan 1662 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Death: 25 Dec 1695 in Watertown, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts
  3. Josiah RICE Birth: 3 May 1663 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts
  4. Caleb RICE Birth: 19 May 1666 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Death: 5 Jan 1739 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts

Marriage:
  • Mary BEERS on 1670 at Sudbury, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts .m2
  • Mary BEERS Birth: 1633 in Watertown, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Death: 13 May 1677 in Watertown, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Joseph RICE Birth: 5 Jun 1671 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Death: 3 Dec 1745 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts
  2. Eleazer RICE Birth: 26 Oct 1672 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Death: Before 1706
  3. Mary RICE Birth: 6 Aug 1674 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts

Marriage:
  • Sarah PRESCOTT on 22 Feb 1678 at Dedham, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts .m3
  • Sarah PRESCOTT Birth: Abt 1640 Death: 20 Nov 1727 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Jonathan RICE Birth: 26 Mar 1679 in Watertown, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Death: 7 Jun 1772 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts
  2. Sarah RICE Birth: 14 Feb 1681 in Watertown, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Death: Jun 1681 in Watertown, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts
  3. Phineas RICE Birth: 24 Aug 1682 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts Death: 4 Sep 1768 in Stow, Massachusetts

Bibliography
  1. Ellis, Ray Lowther, A Genealogical Register of Edmund Rice Descendants, Compiled by the Edmund Rice Association, 1970. Univ Microfilm G1740. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/45311. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ellis RICE p[0-9]*].
  2. Holman, Mary Lovering, English Notes on Edmund Rice, The American Genealogist, vol 10 no 3, Jan 1934, pp133-137. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/008128263 images 234-6. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Holman RICE p[0-9]*].
  3. Martyn, Charles, The William Ward Genealogy: The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass, 1638-1925, New York, Artemus Ward, 1925, LDS Film#1035525 item#9. Available at http://archive.org/details/williamwardgenea1925mart. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001597787. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Martyn WARD p[0-9]*].
  4. Edmund Rice Association, Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice (through his grandchildren, a narrative report), http://www.widomaker.com/~gwk/era/era00001.htm, 9/25/2000 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000].
  5. Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Published Co, 1965. Scanned and corrected by Robert Kraft, 1994, and available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sav-age [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Holman RICE p136]
13 Mar 1637 [Ref: Ellis RICE p1],
place:
[Ref: Ellis RICE p4, Holman RICE p136, Rice Association 9/25/2000],
parents:
[Ref: Ellis RICE p1, Holman RICE p136, Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
place:
of Sudbury [Ref: Sav-age COOLIDGE Jonathan]
Sources for baptism Information
date:
13 Mar 1637/8 [Ref: Holman RICE p136, Rice Association 9/25/2000],
place:
[Ref: Holman RICE p136, Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Ellis RICE p4, Rice Association 9/25/2000],
place:
[Ref: Ellis RICE p4, Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mercy KING
date:
[Ref: Ellis RICE p4, Rice Association 9/25/2000],
place:
[Ref: Ellis RICE p4, Rice Association 9/25/2000],
names:
[Ref: Ellis RICE p1],
child:
[Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary BEERS
date:
[Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000],
place:
[Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000],
child:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p71, Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Sources with Information about marriage to Sarah PRESCOTT
date:
[Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000],
place:
[Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000],
child:
[Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Research Notes:



Pedigree of Joseph RICE
          /-----Henry RICE
 /-----Edmond RICE
|         \-----(Unk) (RICE)
Joseph RICE
|                           /-----William FROST
|                  /-----John FROST
|                 |         \-----Philippa (FROST)
|         /-----Edward FROST
|        |        |         /-----Richard SCOTT
|        |         \-----Ann SCOTT
|        |                  \-----Johann (SCOTT)
 \-----Thomasine FROST
         |         /-----John BELGRAVE
          \-----Thomasine BELGRAVE
                  |                           /-----John STRUT
                  |                  /-----Thomas STRUTT
                  |                 |         \-----Isabelle (STRUT)
                  |         /-----John STRUTT
                  |        |         \-----Johane (STRUTT)
                   \-----Joanna STRUTT
                            \-----Catherine (STRUTT)



Descendants of Joseph RICE
1. Joseph RICE m1. Mercy KING m2. Mary BEERS m3. Sarah PRESCOTT
m. Mercy KING father: Thomas KING mother: Anne COLLINS
m. Mary BEERS father: Richard BEERS mother: Elizabeth FIRMAN
m. Sarah PRESCOTT father: John PRESCOTT mother: Mary PLATTS

2nd generation

3. Martha RICE m. Jonathan COOLIDGE
m. Jonathan COOLIDGE father: John COOLIDGE mother: Mary RAVENS