Edmund Rice

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 Thomasine Frost on 15 Oct 1618 in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. Thomasine was born on 11 Aug 1600 in Stanstead, Suffolk, England; died on 13 Jun 1654 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Richard Rice was born in 1609 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; died on 9 Jun 1709 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.
2. Mary Maynard was born in 1619 in , , , England; died in 1680 in , , Massachusetts, USA.
3. Mary Rice was born on 23 Aug 1619 in Stanstead, Suffolk, England; died on 10 Feb 1710 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.
4. Edward Rice was born on 20 Oct 1622 in Stanstead, Suffolk, England; died on 15 Aug 1712 in Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.
5. Thomas Rice was born on 26 Jan 1625 in Haverhill, St Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, England; died on 16 Nov 1681 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Wayland, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.
6. Mary Gernor Rice was born in 1626 in Northfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA; died on 14 May 1687 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA.
7. Lydia Drury was born on 9 Mar 1627 in Berkhamsted, Dacorum Borough, Hertfordshire, England; died on 5 Apr 1675 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA.
8. Samuel Rice was born in 1634 in Hertfordshire, England; died on 25 Feb 1685 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA; was buried in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.

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]

1. 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.

Henry married Margaret Baker. Margaret was born in 1558 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England; died in 1605 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]