Rice Cousins

[1]

Edmund Rice’s first wife was Thomasine Frost.

His second wife was Mercy Hurd Brigham Rice, widow of
Thomas Brigham. She later married William Hunt.

His parents are unknown, but he was a brother of Henry Rice,
who married Thomasine Frost's sister Elizabeth.

He was of Berkhempstead, Co.Hertfordshire, England, and he
married Thomasine Frost Oct 15, 1618 at Bury St.Edmund's,
Co.Suffolk.

Children(by first marriage): Henry Rice, Edward Rice, Thomas
Rice, Lydia (Rice) Drury, Matthew Rice, Samuel Rice, Joseph
Rice, Benjamin Rice, Edmund Rice Jr, and Daniel Rice.

Children(by second marriage): Ruth (Rice) Welles, Ann Rice,
and Mary Rice.

From Ken Smith #46985536:

"Edmund Rice was born in England. According to a deposition
he made in 1656, at which date he claimed to be about 62 years
old, he was probably born about 1594. Edmund married
Thomasine Frost in St. Mary's Church at Bury St. Edmunds,
Suffolk on October 15, 1618.

They had four children who were baptized at Stanstead,
Suffolk by 1626. About that time, they must have moved to
Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire. Five more children were born to
the couple there.

Around 1638 they left England and sailed for America. The
settled for a short time in Watertown, then moved to Sudbury,
Massachusetts in 1693. That place is where Edmund is first
mentioned in the records of the records of New England. At
that time he had a wife and seven children, two of their
children having died young. Edmund and Thomasine had one
more child born in Sudbury.

Edmund shared in all three division of land there. His home in
Sudbury was on the east side of the river, in the southerly part
of what is now Wayland. He build up a large farm by renting,
buying and selling land near Dudley Pond in present Wayland.
In fact, that part of Sudbury came to be known as Rice's End.
He was a selectman in 1644, deacon of the church in 1648.
Thomasine died in Sudbury on June 13, 1654, and Edmund
married second, Mercy, widow of Thomas Brigham of
Cambridge on March 1, 1655. Mercy also bore Edmund two
children.

Although he was one of the largest landholders in Sudbury,
Edmund was one of the petitioners of 1656, asking the General
Court to grant a new plantation to the west. The petition was
granted, and the new town was incorporated with the name of
Marlborough in 1660. Edmund immediately moved to
Marlborough, received a house lot of fifty acres on the west
side of the town, north of the pond and became a leader in his
new town.

Edmund died in Marlborough on May 3, 1663 and was buried
at North Cemetery in Wayland. The grave is marked by a
monument designed by Arthur Wallace Rice of Boston,
Massachusetts. It was dedicated by the Rice Association on
August 29, 1914. A boulder with a bronze tablet was also
erected by the Association which marks Edmund's homestead,
on the Old Connecticut Path in Wayland.

Edmund's burial is recorded in Marlborough vital records as
"At Sudbury".

The value of his estate in both Sudbury and Marlborough was
566 pounds in addition to 170 Pounds for his home and land in
Marlborough. Edmund died intestate, and a petition for the
division of his estate was brought to the court on June 16,
1663. She later returned to the court and asked that the division
be suspended, pending clarification of the portion of the estate
given to son Benjamin. Mercy married, for her third husband,
William Hunt of Marlborough in 1664."

[2]

Susannah Searcy, b. abt 1700, daughter of Robert and Sarah

[3]

J.M. admin by joburnstx

[4]

Elizabeth Jane Butler has one lineage to Henry II King of
England 1154-1189 which is referenced in the Claiborne
book by Dorman & Smith titled "Claiborne of Virginia".

This however is not the only line. She is also of the lineage
of Henry I, Charlemagne and William the Conqueror.
Her ancestral blood is discussed in many resources.

Elizabeth's family provides us with a deep and well
documented family lineage. Her parents are John and Jane
(Elliott) Boteler of Roxwell Parish, Essex, England. John’s
grandfather, George Butler was from Bedfordshire, whose
manors included those of Tofte and Lorings in Sharnbrook and
Souldrop.

His grandmother was Mary, the daughter of Richard Throckmorton
of Higham Park, Northamptonshire. Through John’s grandmother,
Cressett Saint John (pronounced “SinJin”).

The family can claim descent several times over to
Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou through his son Henry II
King of England, and Hamelin Earl of Sussex through the Saint
John line as well as the Neville line.

Along with descent from Henry de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and
signer of the Magna Carta. Jane Elizabeth Boteler (Butler)
Claiborne is a Gateway Ancestor of the Magna Carta Surety
Barons who coerced King John to endorse the document at
Runnymede, England in June 1215.

Elizabeth's uncle was Capt. Nathaniel Butler, Governor of Bermuda.

[5]

Jane Eliott married John Butler, her sister Elizabeth married
John Yonge. Jane Elizabeth Butler is said to have been one
of the Ladies in Waiting during the imprisonment of Mary
Queen of Scotts.

[6]

Hannah Russell, parents:
General William Washington Russell 1735–1793
Mary 1738–1776

[7]

S.N. ancestry: admin by quietmeadow

[8]

D.A. (managed by Michael Jinks)

[9]

Parents: Thomas William Claiborne 1657–1705
Katherine Elizabeth Dandridge 1673–1706
Spouse: m. 1710, Edward Rice 1690–1770

[10]

ancestry: chrlsday, Charles Wayne Day

[11]

Note -- Please read all of the following: (It is not for William Bailey Rice.)
William B. Rice entered the Revolutionary War with the First Virginia State
Regiment in January 1776. He later filed for his pension in Muhlenberg
County, Kentucky stating that his discharge papers were in Richmond VA. He
died 1 March 1838. His wife, Rebecca Ellington Rice, filed for her pension
as his widow from Montgomery County, Missouri, and her son William B. Rice
filed a document in 1857 on behalf of her heirs, after her death, also from
Montgomery Co. Missouri.
According to the Rev. War Pension file for Wm B. Rice, he is the son of David and "MARY" Rice, and that he moved to Missouri in 1827.
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Certified change of name --
"[f p. 29] -- Liberty November 15, 1819
I do hereby certify that from my infancy I was known by the name of William Rice. I enlisted by that name, served and was discharged by that name. And there was no distinction of the addition of the letter B until August 1781. I married and settled in Prince Edward County Virginia in a neighborhood where there were four of the same name and for distinction sake and to save the trouble I added the B and have written my name ever since. - Wm B Rice" Less

[12]

G.B. admin by bluecourt76

[13]

May be: David Lynn Williams - ancestry: admin by zilwill

[14]

W.E. admin by smsgoofy

[15]

Nancy_Jay: Nancy Nation Jay

[16]

D.T. - ancestry: admin by slmaybe

[17]

T.G. (managed by annagernt)

[18]

W.S.
(administered by sheetrockqueen1)