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  • Name: Jonathan RICE
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 3 Jul 1654 in Sudbury, Massachusetts b
  • Death: 12 Apr 1725 in Framingham, Middlesex Co, Massachusetts d
  • Burial: Church Hill Cemetery, Framingham, Massachusetts u


  • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Henry RICE Birth: Feb 1621 in Stanstead, Suffolk, England Death: 10 Feb 1711 in Framingham, Massachusetts
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth MOORE Birth: Abt 1628 in Henham, Co Essex, England Death: 23 Aug 1705 in Framingham, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage:
Marriage:
Marriage:
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. 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].
  3. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, New England Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1903. Available at http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Sudbury/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SudburyMA vitals p[0-9]*].
  4. Ward, Andrew Henshaw, Genealogical History of The RICE Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, who came from Berkhamstead, England, and settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1638 or 1639. Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858. Univ Microfilm G-426. Available at http://books.google.com/?id=DKxOAAAAMAAJ Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ward RICE p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: Ellis RICE p2, Rice Association 9/25/2000, SudburyMA vitals p121, Ward RICE p5],
place:
[Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000, SudburyMA vitals p121, Ward RICE p5],
parents:
[Ref: Ellis RICE p2, Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Henry RICE & Elizabeth ___ [Ref: SudburyMA vitals p121]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000],
place:
[Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Sources with Information about marriage to Martha EAMES
date:
23 Mar 1675/76, also stated as 23 Mar 1674/5 in Rice Genealogical Register [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000],
place:
[Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000],
names:
[Ref: Ellis RICE p2]
Sources with Information about marriage to Rebecca WATSON
date:
[Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000],
place:
[Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Sources with Information about marriage to Elizabeth WHEELER
date:
12 Feb 1690/91 [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000],
place:
[Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]
Research Notes:
innkeeper; operated a public house for many years at East Sudbury [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]

Jun 16 1707: bought 38 acres at Salem End in Framingham from Benjamin Nurse [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]

1708: served as selectman in Framingham 10 times beginnin in 1708 [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]

1711: sat in the General Court [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]

1720: sat in the General Court [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]

1725: sold 38 acres at Salem End to son Abraham [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]

moved in with father with his mother died [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]

will dated Mar 15 1724/25, proved May 21 1725. Mentions wife Elizabeth, sons Jonathan, David, Henry, Hezekiah, Abraham, Ezekiel, Phineas, Richard, and daughters Anna wife of William Cutler, Martha wife of James Whitney, Elizabeth wife of Daniel Pratt, Sarah, Abigail. Executor son Hezekiah [Ref: Rice Association 9/25/2000]



Pedigree of Jonathan RICE
                   /-----Henry RICE
          /-----Edmond RICE
         |         \-----(Unk) (RICE)
 /-----Henry 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)
Jonathan RICE
|         /-----John MOORE
 \-----Elizabeth MOORE
          \-----Elizabeth (MOORE)



Descendants of Jonathan RICE
1. Jonathan RICE m1. Martha EAMES m2. Rebecca WATSON m3. Elizabeth WHEELER
m. Martha EAMES father: Samuel EAMES mother: Patience TWITCHELL
m. Rebecca WATSON
m. Elizabeth WHEELER