Thomas Welles: JEM Genealogy

Generation: 1

1. Thomas Welles was born on 14 Feb 1692 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA (son of Ruth Rice and Samuel Welles); died on 14 May 1767 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

Generation: 2

Ruth Rice was born on 29 Sep 1659 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (son of Edmund Rice and Mercy/Mary Hurd); died on 30 Mar 1742 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

Ruth + Samuel Welles. Samuel was born on 13 Apr 1660 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 28 Aug 1731 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel Welles was born on 13 Apr 1660 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 28 Aug 1731 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

Children:

Samuel Welles was born on 24 Dec 1689 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 21 May 1770 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.
1. Thomas Welles was born on 14 Feb 1692 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 14 May 1767 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
Thaddeus Welles was born on 27 May 1695 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 22 Dec 1780 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
Silas Welles was born on 21 Mar 1700 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 17 Sep 1754 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

Generation: 3

Edmund Rice was born in 1594 in Stanstead, Suffolk, England (son of Henry Rice and Margaret Baker); died on 3 May 1663 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Wayland, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Arrival: 1638, , , Massachusetts, USA
Residence: 13 May 1639, , , Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

from Ancestry of Edward Wales Blake and Clarissa Matilda Glidden (p208-9)

EDMUND RICE was born in England about 1594, probably in Stanstead, Suffolk. He was either younger brother or son of Henry Rice who married Elizabeth Frost, sister of Thomasine, in 1605. The marriage of Edmund Rice and Thomasine Frost was recorded on the register of Saint Mary’s, Bury, Suffolk, on 10/15/1618. She was born in Stanstead, Suffolk, on 8/11/1600, the daughter of a wealthy clothier, Edward Frost….She died in Sudbury, MA, on 6/13/1654, and Edmund married again in Marlboro, MA, on 3/1/1655, Mercy (Hurd), the widow of Thomas Brigham of Cambridge, MA. She had three sons and two daughters by her first marriage. Edmund died on 5/3/1663 in Marlboro, but was buried in Sudbury….

The Rice family lived first in Stanstead, Suffolk, and later in Great Barkhamstead, Hartfordshire, England. They were settled in Sudbury, MA, by 1639, where Edmund was made Freeman in 1640. He was Selectman in 1639, 1644, and subsequently Deacon in 1640 and Representative in 1654.

He was one of the substantial men of the plantation, owning lands in and out of the town, some by the grant of the Court. He shared in all the divisions of uplands and commons. The total number of acres which he received as an original inhabitant was 247 acres. His first dwelling in Sudbury was on old North Street. This he sold in 1642 to John Moore…. He bought of the Widow Mary Axtell six acres of land with her dwelling house, in the south part of the town, and some years afterwards he bought of Philemon Whale…his house and nine acres adjacent to the Axtell place. These together formed the old Rice homestead in Sudbury, which remained in the family for many years. In 1647 he took a ten-year lease on the Oliver Glover farm, mostly in what is now Framingham. In 1657 he bought 200 more acres. In 1656 he was a petitioner for the new town of Marlborough, where he received grants of a house-lot and fifty acres, and other lands in proportion, and whither he removed in 1660.

His inventory amounted to £566, the house, etc., to £170.

Children of Edmund and Thomasine:

1. Mary: bap Stanstead 8/23/1619; d before family emigrated
2. Henry : bap “” 2/13/1621; d 2/10/1711
3. Edward: bap “” 10/26/1622; d 1712
4. Thomas: bap “” 1/26/1626; d Marlboro 1681
5. Lydia bap Barkhamstead 3/9/1628; m Hugh Drury c1645; d Boston, 4/5/1675
6. Matthew: bap “” 2/28/1630; d 1717
7. Daniel: bap “” 11/1/1632; d same year
8. Samuel: bap ““ 11/12/1634; d 1685
9. Joseph: bap “” 3/13/1638
10. Edmund?: perhaps b at sea 1638

Edmund married Mercy/Mary Hurd on 1 Mar 1655 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Mercy/Mary was born in 1615 in , , , England; died on 22 Dec 1693 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mercy/Mary Hurd was born in 1615 in , , , England; died on 22 Dec 1693 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.

Other Events and Attributes:

Name: Mary Brigham

Children:

2. Ruth Rice was born on 29 Sep 1659 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 30 Mar 1742 in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; was buried in Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

Generation: 4

8.	Henry Rice was born in 1555 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England; died in Nov 1621 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. Henry + Margaret Baker. Margaret was born in 1558 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England; died in 1605 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret Baker was born in 1558 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England; died in 1605 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England.

Children:

4. Edmund Rice was born in 1594 in Stanstead, Suffolk, England; died on 3 May 1663 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Wayland, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.