. The ancestors of my children : and other related children of the generations living in the morning of the twentieth century . een learned, on this side of+ the water, concerning Edmund Rice, who seated this familyin America, prior to 1627. The records of Barkhamsteadparish, Hertfordshire, England, show the following : Baptized, 1627, March 9, Lydia, daughter of EdmundRice. Baptized, 1629, Feb. 28, Mathew, son of Edmund Rice. Baptized, 1632, Nov. i, Daniel, son of Edmund Rice. Buried, 1632, Nov. 10, Daniel, son of Edmund Rice. Baptized, 1634, Nov. 12, Samuel, son of Edmund Rice. Baptized, 163
. The ancestors of my children : and other related children of the generations living in the morning of the twentieth century . een learned, on this side of+ the water, concerning Edmund Rice, who seated this familyin America, prior to 1627. The records of Barkhamsteadparish, Hertfordshire, England, show the following : Baptized, 1627, March 9, Lydia, daughter of EdmundRice. Baptized, 1629, Feb. 28, Mathew, son of Edmund Rice. Baptized, 1632, Nov. i, Daniel, son of Edmund Rice. Buried, 1632, Nov. 10, Daniel, son of Edmund Rice. Baptized, 1634, Nov. 12, Samuel, son of Edmund Rice. Baptized, 1637, March 13, Joseph, son of Edmund Rice. The three eldest children of Edmund Rice, namely, Henry,Edward and Thomas, who came with the family to America,do not appear upon the Barkhamstead records, which pointsto the conclusion that the Rice residence was elsewhere priorto 1627. There does not seem to have been found the timeof his leaving England, the ship he came in, when norwhere he landed in the New World. He settled, first, inSudbury, Mass., in 1638 or 9; second, in Marlborough, date of his birth we have EDMUND RICE HOMESTEAD, 1639 WITH VIEW OF THE OLD SPRING SUDBURY, NOW WAYLAND, MASS. 4lEl I,INE OF RICE 107 A deposition given by him, April 3, 1656, on file at Cam-bridge, Mass., states his age then about 62 years, hencehe was born about 1594. His wife, Tamazine, died at Sud-bury, June 13, 1654. This is the only mention or recordfound of her in America,-f- In 1656, Edmund Rice with his wife, children and herds, with but few neighbors—at that time Sudbury includedWayland, and contained but 75 families — had lived in Sud-bury 18 or 19 years, and, as the record says, were becomingstraightened for land. This year he, with 12 others ofSudbury, besought the General Court for a new plantation,in the words following : Whereas your petitioners have lived divers years in Sud-bury, and God hath been pleased to increase our children,which are now divers of them, grow
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