From Wayne Olsen:From "Genealogical History of the Rice Family", by Andrew Hensaw Ward, Benjamin Richardson Publ., Boston, 1858:
Resided in Marlboro. 7 children.
From "History of the Brigham Family," Tuttle Co., Rutland VT, 1927:
As his second wife, he married his mother-in-law. Much intermarriage between the Brigham and Fay family.
Thomas went to Sudbury and Marlboro with his mother when she married Edmund Rice. Bought 24 acres in Marlboro from his stepfather when he turned 21. This land, situated near Williams Pond in the southwest part of the town, was the beginning of his large farm, which included many acres stretching away toward Chauncey Pond in Westboro. He was also one of the purchasers of the old plantation "Ochoocangansett", which had been reserved for the Indians out of the ancient boundaries of Marlboro, and which many contended they forfeited by their actions during Philip's War. Certain leading men of that day of Marlboro, including the Brighams, obtained without the consent of the General Court, title to this plantation of 5800 acres and formed a company. The amount paid never can be known, because of the subsequent disappearance of the deed, but the sum doubtless was nominal.
Thomas unquestionably was one of the principal citizens of the town and must have held offices of responsibility, but an important volume of the town records was lost many years ago, hence there is no connected record of town officers or of town proceedings from 1665 to 1739. The church records are also fragmentary or nonexistent for the early period. His lands, however, were extensive, lying in what now are four townships. They divided into comfortable farms for his descendants and made many of them well-to-do.
(Regarding settling of Marlboro)..heading the list of petitioners (13 from Sudbury), and one of the first to move to Marlboro, was Edmund Rice, who took with him his second wife, the widow of Thomas Brigham the Puritan, with her young Brigham family, whose names however do not appear upon the records for some time. They settled upon the north side of "The Pond," not far from Williams' Tavern; and for the succeeding 2 and 1/2 centuries, the Brighams have continued to people the scene.
At the time of Philip's War, they fled to Watertown. On their return, such was the feeling against Indian perfidy, a petition was made to the General Court to divide the 6000 acre "Indian Plantation", a part of and continguous to Marlboro. Although this was denied, the people, under the leadership of John Brigham, took a deed from the Indians to these lands, 15 Jul 1684; and though this was declared "null and void" by the General Court, the white proprietors proceeded to divide and settle these lands, under the supervision of their agent, the said John Brigham, who was their surveyor. In the 1686 list of proprietors we find the names of all the young Brighams, and their alliances, for the first time set out, viz.: Mercy Hunt (former widow of the Puritan Brigham, who before this time had married her third husband William Hunt, also then dead); Thomas Brigham, John Brigham, Samuel Brigham, John Fay (husband of Mary Brigham), and William Ward (husband of Hannah Brigham). Feeling uneasy over the adverse action of the Court, in 1683, the proprietors agree that their grants "shall stand good to all intents and purposes, if they be attested by John Brigham, their Clerk," And so it stood, until, after a generation, having acquired title by possession, the General Court confirmed it.
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From "Genealogical History of the Rice Family", by Andrew Hensaw Ward, Benjamin Richardson Publ., Boston, 1858:
Called himself 50 years old Jan 25, 1667, as appears by a depositionon in the files of the court. He was admitted freeman 1658. Resided at Sudbury and lastly at Framingham where he died Feb 10, 1710-11. 10 children.
Bio in "History of Sudbury," by Alfred Serano Hudson, 1889, publ by town of Sudbury:
He was assigned a house-lot on the south street of the settlement of Sudbury, adjacent to that of John Maynard on the east, and his father, Edmund, on the west.
From "Bullard and Allied Families", by Edgar J. Bullard, Detroit, 1930:
He lived in the second of the towns of Framingham that was called "Rice's Grant"
From Edmund Rice Assn Website:
Henry 2 Rice (Edmund1) was born circa 1617 , called himself 50 years old on January 25, 1667, as appears by a deposition on the files of the court. 1,2 He was baptized on 13 February 1620/21 at Stanstead, Co of Suffolk. 2,15,25,20 He married Elizabeth Moore, daughter of John Moore Sr and Bridget (--?--), on 1 January 1643/44 at Sudbury, Middlesex Co, MA, Ward gives the month as February. 1,26,15,27,4 He died on 10 February 1710/11 at Framingham, Middlesex Co, MA. 1,28,29 Henry Rice estate was probated on 28 February 1710/11 at Middlesex Co, MA. 1,30
He swore an oath of fidelity on 9 July 1645 at Sudbury, Middlesex Co, MA. He was a freeman on 10 May 1648 at Sudbury, MA. 31,32 He received one lot in the Sudbury Two-Mile Grant in 1655. 33 He was one of thethirteen Sudbury petitioners for the grant of Marlborough in 1656. 34 He was a freeman in 1658. 1 He received 50 acres at Rice's End from his father, where he built a house in 1659. 35 He stated in a court action that he was 50 years old on 25 January 1667 at Middlesex Co, MA.1 He was an original member of the church in Framingham in 1701. 35 He left a will on 3 October 1705, inventory was £527.11.0. The will mentions sons Jonathan and David; daughters Elizabeth Brewer, Hannah Taylor, Abigail Smith, Tamasin Parmenter, Rachel Drury, Lydia Wheelock, Mercy Allen; and granddaughter Mary Brigham.1
From Wayne Olsen
From "Genealogical History of the Rice Family", by Andrew Hensaw Ward, Benjamin Richardson Publ., Boston, 1858:
Settled in Sudbury MA in 1638 or 1639; shared in the 3 divisions of land in Sudbury, the first of which was made in 1639. His residence was on the east side of Sudbury River, in the southerly part of what is now Wayland, and near the border of the extensive meadows through which that river flows.
No record found of his embarkation for America, nor on what ship or where he first arrived.
He was Selectman in 1644 and subsequent years; deacon of the churchin 1648.
His second wife was Mercie, wid. of Thomas Brigham of Cambridge.
11 children.
Edmund Rice was one of subjects studied in "Puritan Village: TheFormation of a New England Town", by Sumner Chilton Power, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History 1964.
Bio in "History of Sudbury," by Alfred Serano Hudson, 1889, publ by town of Sudbury:
From "Bullard and Allied Families", by Edgar J. Bullard, Detroit, 1930:
...In 1638, Edmund Rice, with his wife and 7 children arrived in New England. The earliest record is his arrival in Boston, MA 1638.
From Edmund Rice Association website:
Twice in the 20th century nationally recognized research genealogists have attempted to determine the parents and ancestors of Edmund Rice. Mary Lovering Holman described the negative result of her search for records in the parishes near Stanstead and Sudbury, Suffolk County, England in "English Notes on Edmund Rice � ", The American Genealogist, Volume 10 (1933/34), pp. 133 - 137. Mrs. Holman isconsidered by many to be one of the best research genealogists in the 20th century. In 1997 the Edmund Rice (1638) Association commissioned Dr. Joanna Martin, a nationally recognized research genealogist who lives in England only a few miles from Stanstead and Sudbury to search again for records of Edmund Rice's parents. Dr. Martin reported in 1999 that she found no record that identified Edmund's parents or ancestral line.
Several authors of published works and computer data sets have claimed names for Edmund Rice's parents. Regrettably they have not given sources that would assist in definitive genealogical research. For example, the Ancestral File and International Genealogical Index, two popular computer data sets widely distributed by the Church of JesusChrist of Latter Day Saints, offer parent candidates that include: Henry Rice and Margaret Baker, Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost, Thomas Rice and Catherine Howard, and Thomas Rice and Elizabeth Frost.
From Mrs. Holman's paper we have an excellent record of one Henry Rice's marriage to Elizabeth Frost in November 1605 at Stanstead. Mrs.Holman also documents the baptism of Edmund's first child on 23 August 1619 at Stanstead. If this is the Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost to which the LDS records refer, the LDS records must be erroneous. Our researchers have not been able to find records that support any Henry Rice and Elizabeth Frost, Henry Rice and Margaret Baker, Thomas Rice and Catherine Howard, or Thomas Rice and Elizabeth Frost as parents of Edmund Rice.
A scholarly investigation by Donald Lines Jacobus, considered by many as the dean of modern American genealogy, appeared in The AmericanGenealogist, Volume 11, (1936), pp. 14-21. Jacobus traced many of the false accounts to the book by Dr. Charles Elmer Rice entitled "By theName of Rice � ", privately published by Dr. Rice at Alliance, Ohio in 1911.
Edmund Rice deposed in a court document on 3 April 1656 that he was about 62 years old. Sudbury, England includes three parishes, two of which do not have complete records for the years near 1594, which is Edmund's most likely birth year. Thus, if he were born in Sudbury, England his records have been lost and we may never know his origin.
In his address to the 1999 annual meeting of the Edmund Rice (1638 )Association, Gary Boyd Roberts, Senior Researcher, New England Historic Genealogy Society, reviewed all of the genealogical sleuthing on Edmund's parentage. Mr. Roberts is well known for his research on royal lineage. He concluded that there was no evidence whatsoever that supports the published accounts of Edmund Rice's parents and no evidence that Edmund Rice was from a royal lineage.
The Edmund Rice (1638) Association is very interested in proving theancestry of Edmund Rice. The association encourages anyone who can identify a primary source that names Edmund and his parents to identify that source. Records of a baptism, estate probate, or land transaction naming Edmund and his parents are the most likely records to contain that proof. Until someone can cite such a record, the association must state emphatically that Edmund Rice's parents and ancestry are not known and that Edmund Rice's descendants can not claim royal ancestry.Who was Edmund Rice?
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Edmund Rice arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1638. Our first record of his presence is in Township Book of the Town of Sudbury in the year 1639. Regrettably, no ship's passenger list has survived and we have no record of Edmund Rice and his family before 1639 so we can not be certain when or where he and his family arrived in the New World.
Knowing the names of Edmund Rice's children at Sudbury, family historians have traced his family back to England using church baptismal records for his children and, eventually, to his marriage to Thomasine Frost on 15 October 1618 at Bury St. Edmunds. However, we have found no record of his baptism or any other record that names his parents. Read more about the search for Edmund Rice's ancestry on another of these pages.
As yeomen farmers Edmund Rice and the other early settlers at Sudbury were well prepared for the tasks of forming and governing a new community. As yeomen they had assumed with both personal and community responsibilities back in England. As Protestant churchmen they had been encouraged to read and write so that they could study and understand their Bible. Although not of the noble class, they had shared many community and church responsibilities in their former communities in England.
Edmund Rice was one of the prominent leaders of his community at both Sudbury and Marlborough. In his Pulitzer Prize winning book, PuritanVillage, The formation of a New England Town, Sumner Chilton Powell sums up the high regard that his fellow citizens had for Edmund: "Not only did Rice become the largest individual landholder in Sudbury, but he represented his new town in the Massachusetts legislature for five years and devoted at least eleven of his last fifteen years to serving as selectman and judge of small causes." and "Two generations of Sudbury men selected Edmund Rice repeatedly as one of their leaders, with the full realization that they were ignoring men of far more English government experience who had come with him." If your ancestry goes back to Sudbury, be sure to read Powell's superb account of the development of this New England town in the mid 17th century.
Although much respected by his fellow townsmen, Edmund seems to have had an independent side to his nature. In 1656 Edmund Rice and others petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for a new town which became the City of Marlborough. Edmund moved his immediate family and was elected a Selectman at Marlborough in 1657. Later generations of Rices were founding members of many new communities, first in New England and Nova Scotia, and later across the United States and Canada.
Like many early New England families, Edmund Rice's family was a very large one. Of his twelve children, ten survived to have children of their own. Edmund Rice's descendants through his great great grandchildren number nearly 1,450. This pattern of large families seems to have continued well into the 19th century. The result is that many living people can trace their ancestry to Edmund Rice.From the Marlboro website:
EDMUND RICE, born about 1594, came from Barkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England, and settled in Sudbury in 1639. He was a prominent man in Sudbury; was one of the selectmen, or townsmen, as they were frequently denominated, and was one of the Deacons of the Church. He was honored with several appointments by the General Court, and was denominated therein "Goodman Rice." He was appointed to solemnize marriages in Marlborough, and enjoyed the confidence of his fellow citizens in both towns. He was one of the petitioners for the grant which was afterwards made the town of Marlborough, and moved to the place.
His wife Tamazine, died in Sudbury, June 13, 1654, and he married March 1, 1655 as a 2d wife, Merrie (Mary Brigham), widow of Thomas Brigham, the ancestor of the numerous Brighams which afterwards settled at Marlborough. He married Mercie, March 1, 1655, and died at Marlborough May 3, 1663, and was buried at Sudbury. His widow married 1664, William Hunt, of Marlborough, an early settler of Concord. He died at Marlborough, 1667, and his widow died December 28, 1693. Edmund Rice came to Marlborough soon after the grant of the township, and took up his abode on what is known as the "great road," on the northerly side of the Pond, not far from the Williams Tavern. We have no record of the birth of his children, and cannot set them down in chronological order.
Much of "Puritan Village, The Formation of a New England Town" is about Edmund Rice and his differences with Peter Noyes in creating the town of Sudbury. Author is Sumner Chilton Powell, Publ by Wesleyan Univ. Press,Hanover, NH, 1963. Won Pulitzer Prize for History in 1964.
From Richardson article:
Thomas2 bp. Yardley, co. Worcester, England, 16 Feb. 1611/2, d. Springfield, Mass., 5 June 1662; in. (1) All Saints, West Bromwich, co. Stafford, England, 17 Sept. 1639 MARY JAMES, (2) LYDIA ________ , executed for witchcraft, Windsor, Conn., shortly aft. 28 Nov. 1654, (3) Springfield, Mass., 30 June/1 July 1655 (marriage contract 23 May 1655) Katherine2 (CHAPIN) BLISS, bp. Berry Pomeroy, co. Devon, England, 1626, d. Springfield 4 Feb. 1712/3, dau. of Samuel1 and Cicely (Penny) Chapin (NEHGR 83[1929]:354-55) and widow of Nathaniel Bliss.
This person is dead.
(Regarding Lydia's witchcraft trial)... Who Lydia Gilbert's accusers were is unknown. Whether ignorant gossip or private enmities brought this ghastly charge upon her, it is impossible to say. That the charge of procuring the death of Henry Stiles could be brought against her seems incredible, when everyone of mature age in Windsor must have known that Henry Stiles met his death by the carelessness of Thomas Allyn, three years before. But the charge was brought against her. She was charged with other witchcrafts besides this, and it may be that she was one of those unfortunate women to whom suspicion of witchcraft clung, for reasons which cannot now be stated. The evidence upon which Lydia was convicted, and the names of the witnesses against her, are unknown. The juror's oath, the names of the jury and the names of the magistrates who heard the case are on record, as well as the indictment and the verdict. 6 of the magistrates and jurymen were residents of Windsor, 5 of Hartford, and the rest belonged to Wethersfield. The Court considered the case in a special session beginning Nov 28, 1654. The jury brought in the indictment and the records seem to show that they brought in the verdict as well.
...It is doubtful if Lydia Gilbert escape (execution). She may have suffered the penalty either in the jail yard at Hartford or more probably on the lot at the corner of Albany Avenue and Vine Street in Hartford, where the public gallows is known to have stood a little later.
William DE BOHUN Earl of Northhampton
From Wikkipedia:
William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, KG (c. 1312 – 16 September 1360) was an English nobleman and military commander.
Contents [hide]
1 Lineage
2 Life
3 Campaigns in Flanders, Brittany, Scotland, Victor at Sluys & Crecy
4 Renowned Diplomat
5 Issue
6 In Historical Fiction
7 Ancestry
8 References
Lineage[edit]
He was the fifth son of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Elizabeth of Rhuddlan. He had a twin brother, Edward. His maternal grandparents were Edward I of England and his first Queen consort Eleanor of Castile.
Life[edit]
William de Bohun assisted at the arrest of Roger Mortimer in 1330, allowing Edward III to take power. After this, he was a trusted friend and commander of the king and he participated in the renewed wars with Scotland.[1]
In 1332, he received many new properties: Hinton and Spaine in Berkshire; Great Haseley, Ascott, Deddington, Pyrton and Kirtlington in Oxfordshire; Wincomb in Buckinghamshire; Longbenington in Lincolnshire; Kneesol in Nottinghamshire; Newnsham in Gloucestershire, Wix in Essex, and Bosham in Sussex.
In 1335, he married Elizabeth de Badlesmere (1313 – 8 June 1356). Her parents Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere, and Margaret de Clare had both turned against Edward II the decade before. Elizabeth and William were granted some of the property of Elizabeth's first husband, who had also been Mortimer's son and heir.
William was created Earl of Northampton in 1337, one of the six earls created by Edward III to renew the ranks of the higher nobility. Since de Bohun was a younger son, and did not have an income suitable to his rank, he was given an annuity until suitable estates could be found.
In 1349 he became a Knight of the Garter. He served as High Sheriff of Rutland from 1349 until his death in 1360.[2]
Campaigns in Flanders, Brittany, Scotland, Victor at Sluys & Crecy[edit]
In 1339 he accompanied the King to Flanders. He served variously in Brittany and in Scotland, and was present at the great English victories at Sluys and was a commander at Crécy.
His most stunning feat was commanding an English force to victory against a much bigger French force at the Battle of Morlaix in 1342. Some of the details are in dispute, but it is clear that he made good use of pit traps, which stopped the French cavalry.
Renowned Diplomat[edit]
In addition to being a warrior, William was also a renowned diplomat. He negotiated two treaties with France, one in 1343 and one in 1350. He was also charged with negotiating in Scotland for the freedom of King David Bruce, King of Scots, who was held prisoner by the English.
Issue[edit]
1. Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford (1341-1373)
Mary de Bohun (1368-1394); mother of Henry V of England
2. Elizabeth de Bohun (c. 1350-1385); married Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel