Randall Rice

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1747, Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA

Notes:

Rice City in Coventry

Rice City was originally founded along the Great North Road around 1736 by two men named Adam and Gabriel Love. This section of Coventry was known as the Seven Mens Land in the original Shawmut Purchase.

In 1711 Providence needed a road to Connecticut for trading but it did not come to fruition until 1714 when Rhode Island workers began constructing a road at the Weybosset Bridge in Providence to the colony line. This road, which became known as the Great North Road, passed through the lands of Adam Cason, John Burlingame, Randall Rice, Captain John Waterman, Thomas Havens, and Captain Richard Rice (See: Hopkins Hollow). The road was completed in 1716 at 60 miles long and was used to transport goods and people from Providence to Norwich.

Because the road was heavily traveled it was in constant need of repair. The demand of maintaining the road became too great for all the towns along the road so in 1794 it was decided to turn it into a toll road. In October 1795 the Providence Norwich Turnpike Society was incorporated and a toll was charged for the use of this road, making it the second toll road in Rhode Island.

In 1747 Caleb Greene, bought 200 acres of his father’s (John Greene) land complete with a homestead located along the north side of the Great North Road. In 1795 Caleb sold one acre of this property to Benjamin Clarke. In February 1805 a toll gate was constructed on this property on the north side of the turnpike within five miles of the Connecticut border. The toll booth was a one story wooden building that sat in the road with a small window and a door. The date of construction of the toll booth is not known but is believed to be mid-18th century.

The toll for use of this road was 12 and a half cents for four-wheeled vehicles drawn by more than two horses, 10 cents for four-wheeled vehicles drawn by two horses, and eight cents for pleasure carriages drawn by one horse. The toll was waved if the person was traveling by foot, horseback or on town business.

Benjamin Clarke sold the one acre to Stephen M. Pierce in 1808. In 1819 it was sold again, this time to Stephen Walker and Pardon Tillinghast. This property included a dwelling house, barn, tannery and building which was mostly likely the toll booth that became known as Walkers Toll. The Turnpike operated until December 1865 when the company deeded all the rights and title to the land to the Town of Coventry.

Rice City was named after the Rice Family that resided and operated a Tavern along Plainfield Pike. Today, Rice City lies between Flat River Road and Sisson Road. Other roads making up Rice City are Vaughn Hollow Road, Potter Road and Plainfield Pike. The building that was originally the toll booth can still be seen today on the property of 732 Plainfield Pike.

Randall married Dinah G Greene on 16 May 1735 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA. Dinah (daughter of Fones Greene and Rebecca Tibbitts) was born on 24 Dec 1715 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA; died on 24 Jan 1765 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Rice was born on 19 Mar 1736 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA; died on 2 Jan 1758 in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA; was buried in Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.
2. Job Rice was born on 20 Feb 1737 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA; died in Jul 1823 in Clarendon, Rutland, Vermont, USA.
3. Olney Rice was born on 12 Feb 1738 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA; died on 8 Dec 1764 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA.
4. Thomas Rice was born on 11 Nov 1739 in Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; died on 21 Apr 1825 in Clarendon, Rutland, Vermont, USA; was buried in Clarendon, Rutland, Vermont, USA.
5. Rhoda Rice was born on 20 Feb 1741 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA; died on 19 Oct 1818 in Clarendon, Rutland, Vermont, USA; was buried in East Clarendon, Rutland, Vermont, USA.
6. Fones Rice was born on 30 Apr 1743 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA; died in 1783 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA.
7. Mary Rice was born on 28 Sep 1744 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA; died in 1778 in , Washington, New York, USA.
8. Caleb Rice was born on 16 Nov 1745 in Grafton, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA; died on 13 May 1821 in Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island, USA.
9. Phebe Rice was born on 12 Oct 1747 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA; died in 1748.
10. Randall Rice, Jr was born on 12 Oct 1747 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA; died on 24 Mar 1771.
11. Nathan Rice was born on 20 May 1749 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA; died in 1797.
12. Elnathan Rice was born in Sep 1750 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA; died on 10 Nov 1832 in Rutland, Rutland, Vermont, USA.
13. James Rice was born on 6 Jun 1752 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA; died in Seneca, Ontario, New York, USA.
14. Daniel Rice was born on 4 Jun 1756 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA; died on 28 Dec 1814 in Middlefield, Otsego, New York, USA; was buried in Middlefield, Otsego, New York, USA.

Randall married Mercy Williams on 22 Dec 1768 in Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Mercy was born in 1720 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; died in 1783 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elnathan Whipple on 25 Jul 1695 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA. Elnathan (daughter of John Whipple and Mary Olney) was born on 2 Jan 1675 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; died in 1753 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA; was buried in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth Holden on 16 Jul 1674 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA. Elizabeth was born in Aug 1652 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA; died in 1730 in Warwick, Kent, Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mary Olney on 4 Dec 1663 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Mary was born in 1642 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; died in 1676 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Arrival: 1632, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

Due to his service in King Philip's War the descendants of Captain John Whipple are eligible as members of The Society of Colonial Wars.

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John Whipple (c. 1617 - 1685)[2] was an early settler of Dorchester in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who later settled in Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, where the family became well established.

The first mention of Whipple's name in colonial records was in October 1632 when he was ordered to pay a small fine to his master, Israel Stoughton, for wasting powder and shot.[2] In 1637 he received a grant of land in Dorchester, and in 1641 he and his wife joined the church there.[2] During the next 17 years, he raised a large family in Dorchester, where eight of his 11 children were baptized.[2] In 1658 he sold his homestead and lands in Dorchester and moved with his family to Providence, where he was received as a purchaser on 27 July 1659.[2]

In February 1665 he was given a lot in a division of lands, and the following year took an oath of allegiance in Providence.[2] In 1666 he served as a deputy to the General Assembly, a position he held for seven of the next 11 years.[2] In 1669 and again in 1670 he was paid for allowing the Providence Town Council to meet at his house,[3] probably referring to his tavern for which he was later granted a license in 1674.[2] He held a number of positions in Providence, including treasurer in 1668, surveyor in 1670 and 1671, selectman in 1670 and 1674, and moderator in 1676.[4]

The year 1675 brought the most devastating event to afflict Rhode Island for the entire colonial period when King Phillips War erupted, bringing the bulk of its destructive force on the Rhode Island colony. All of Warwick and Pawtuxet were destroyed, and much of Providence was as well. As the war wound down in 1676, Indian captives were given as slaves to those residents who remained during the war, and on 14 August 1676 Whipple was so entreated as being one of those "who staid and went not away."[2]

Whipple wrote his will on 8 May 1682, and it was proved three years later on 27 May 1685. His wife had died in 1666, aged about 42,[1] and he and his wife were buried on their own land, but were later moved to the North Burial Ground after its opening in 1700.[2]

With his wife Sarah, Whipple had 11 children, the first eight born in Dorchester, and the remainder born in Providence.[5] His oldest son, John, married first Mary Olney, the daughter of Thomas Olney and Mary Small, and secondly Rebecca Scott, the widow of John Scott (son of Richard Scott and Catharine Marbury).[2] Sarah married John Smith, Samuel married Mary Harris, and Eleazer married Alice Angell, the daughter of Thomas and Alice Angell.[6] Mary married Epentus Olney, the son of Thomas Olney and Mary Small, William's wife was named Mary, and Benjamin married Ruth Mathewson.[6] David married first Sarah Hearndon, and secondly Hannah Tower, and Abigail married first Stephen Dexter, the son of colonial President Gregory Dexter, and secondly William Hopkins, the son of Thomas Hopkins.[7] Whipple's tenth child, prominent merchant Joseph Whipple, married Alice Smith, and his youngest child, Jonathan, married first Margaret Angell, the daughter of Thomas Angell, and secondly a woman named Anne.[8]

A grandson of Whipple, Joseph Whipple, Jr. became deputy governor of the colony, and a great grandson, Joseph Whipple, III, was also a deputy governor.[9] Another great grandson, Stephen Hopkins was a governor of the colony, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whipple_(settler)

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John Whipple (1), the immigrant, was born in England, 1617. He was a house carpenter and was employed by Mr. Stoughton in Dorchester, Massachusetts, in 1632. His house was near what is now called Neponset. He removed to Ipswich and became a proprietor of that town in 1638. His brother, Matthew Whipple, also settled at Ipswich and was the ancestor of many Essex county and New Hampshire families. John Whipple returned to Dorchester and was a freeman and deputy to the general court, May 13, 1640. He was one of the court's commissioners of valuation in 1640. He was engaged in trade with William Paine and others in 1647. He had the rank of cornet in the military service. He was a town officer of Dorchester. He and his wife joined the Dorchester church, in 1641. He sold his house and lot at Dorchester, in 1658, to James Minot, and removed to Providence, Rhode Island, but he returned again to Ipswich and sold land there May 31, 1673. He was recorded as a purchaser July 27, 1659, at Providence, and drew lot 45 as proprietor February 19, 1665. He took the oath of allegiance in 1666. He was a deputy from Providence to the general assembly in 1666-69-70-72-74-76-77. He was licensed to keep a tavern at Providence in 1674. He was treasurer of the town from 1668 to 1683; town clerk 1670-71-72-76-77-81-82-83. He was in the Providence town council in 1669. He was virtually a resident of Providence after 1659. He refused to abandon his home during King Philip's war and was one of those entitled to the Indian prisoners, who were sold for a term of years to the planters. John Whipple died May 16, 1685, at Providence, aged about sixty-eight years, according to his gravestone there.

He married, 1639, Sarah (???), born 1624 and died 1666, according to her gravestone. Their children: John, baptized March 9, 1640, married, December 4, 1663, Mary Olney; Sarah, baptized February 6, 1641-42, married John Smith, Jr.; Samuel, baptized March 17, 1644; Eleazer, baptized March 8, 1646 (see forward); Mary, baptized April 9, 1648, married Epenctus Olney; William, born 1652, baptized May 16, 1652, married Mary (???); Benjamin, baptized June 4, 1654, married, April 1, 1686, Ruth Mathewson; David, baptized September 28, 1656, married, May 15, 1675, Sarah Harndon; married (second) Hannah Tower; Abigail, born at Providence, married, January 16, 1682, William Hopkins, son of Thomas Hopkins; Joseph, born at Providence, married, May 20, 1684, Alice Smith; Jonathan, born 1664, died September 8, 1721; married Margaret Angell; married (second) Anne (???).

From [http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/l/l/John-G-Allen/GENE3-0001.html]

John married Sarah Hutchinson in 1639 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Sarah was born in 1624 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1666 in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA; was buried in Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Matthew married Joanna Fuller. Joanna was born in 1560 in Bocking, Essex, England; died on 19 May 1612 in Braintree, Essex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]