Gershom Rice

1667 - 1768  (101 years)

• Name	Gershom Rice  [1, 2]
  Birth	9 May 1667	Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 Dec 1768	Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I18019	Master
  Last Modified	15 Jul 2012

  
  

  Father	Thomas Rice,   b. 26 Jan 1625, Haverhill, St Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, England d. 16 Nov 1681, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Mary King,   b. 12 Feb 1630, Shaston, Dorset, England d. 22 May 1714, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	1651	Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
  Family ID	F4587	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Balcom,   b. 16 Aug 1672, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA d. 16 Aug 1752, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	12 Aug 1696	Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
  Children	+ 1. Gershom Rice,   b. 1696, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 24 Sep 1781, Auburn, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (Age 85 years)   2. Elizabeth Rice,   b. 20 Oct 1698, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1744, Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (Age 45 years)  [Father: Natural]   3. Abishai Rice,   b. 16 Oct 1701, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1769, Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (Age 67 years)  [Father: Natural]   4. Sarah Rice,   b. 9 Feb 1703, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 10 Dec 1781, Petersham, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA (Age 78 years)  [Father: Natural]   5. Matthias Rice,   b. 26 Jan 1707, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1758, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 50 years)  [Father: Natural]   6. Ruth Rice,   b. 11 Apr 1710, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1725, , , New Hampshire, USA (Age 14 years)  [Father: Natural]
  Family ID	F4590	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 9 May 1667 - Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 12 Aug 1696 - Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA Death - 19 Dec 1768 - Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Gershom Rice was son of Thomas, who was the third son of the emigrant Edmund Rice, who came from England and settled in Sudbury in 1639, and afterward removed to Marlboro, where he died May 3, 1663. Gershom Rice was the second settler of Worcester coming here in 1715. Selectman, 1724, 27, 31, 33, 36, 46. Town treasurer, 1736-39. It was at his house that religious services were first held in the town. It was through the personal effort of Mr. Rice in a letter to the Governor of the Province that a guard of nineteen men was stationed here in 1724 for the defence of the settlers. Cemetery: Old Burial Ground On the Common Stone: 251 Name: Gershom Rice Death Date: 19 Dec AD 1768 Age: in ye 102d year of his age Relative: son: Thomas Inscription: Here lies Buried ye Body of

  
  

• Sources

  [S338] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.). Birth date: abt 1666 Birth place: Death date: 9 Dec 1768 Death place: Worcester, Massachusetts [S340] Findagrave.com, (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 16 July 2011.). Death date: 19 Dec 1768 Death place: