Elizabeth (Wheeler) Rice (1685 - aft. 1725)

Born 7 Feb 1685 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Elisha Rice — married 10 Feb 1708 in Concord, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died after 1725 after age 39 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Elizabeth Wheeler, daughter of Obadiah and Elizabeth (White) Wheeler, was born in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on 7 February 1685.^[1][2][3]

Elizabeth, of Concord, married Elisha Rice, of Sudbury, 10 February 1707/8 in Concord. Rev. Mr. Joseph Estabrooke officiated.^[3][4][1] Elisha, son of Thomas and Mary (King) Rice, was born in Sudbury in 1679 and died there in 1761.^[1]

Elisha and Elizabeth lived in Sudbury until about 1718, when Elisha received land in Worcester, Massachusetts. After living in Worcester, a few years, they returned to Sudbury by early 1722.^[1]

Elizabeth's death is unknown. Her last child was born 5 June 1725, and she was definitely deceased by 19 Oct 1761, when administration of Capt Elisha Rice's estate was granted to his son Eliakim.^[5] On 22 Jan 1761, Eliakim Rice and Elisha Rice, both of Sudbury, Elijah Rice of Westboro, Zebulon Rice, and Jonas Livermore and wife Elizabeth of Leicester, sold a farm to Silas Rice of Westboro.^[6][7][1]

Children,^[1] all born Sudbury,^[8] except Silas:

1. Eliakim Rice b. 27 February 1[709] Sudbury
2. Elisha Rice b. 27 May 1711 Sudbury
3. Elizabeth Rice b. 3 November 1713 Sudbury
4. Julia Rice b. 20 March 1715/6 Sudbury; non compos mentis.
5. Silas Rice b. 28 April 1719 Worcester^[9]
6. Elijah Rice b. 5 March 1721/2 Sudbury
7. Zebulon Rice b. 5 June 5, 1725 Sudbury

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Wakefield, Robert S. (editor). Sherman, Ruth Wilder and Sherman, Robert Moody (original compilers). Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Volume Thirteen Family of William White. Third Edition. (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006) pp 13, 38, 39
2. ↑ *"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (13 July 2016), Elizabeth Wheeler, 07 Feb 1685; citing Birth, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 892,249.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Concord, Massachusetts births, marriages, and deaths, 1635-1850 (Boston, T.Todd, printer, 1895) birth p. 28; marriage p. 70
4. ↑ Also recorded in Sudbury: Vital records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850] (Boston : NEHGS, 1903) p. 258
5. ↑ Middlesex County Probate file #18699, Elisha Rice 1761.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (22 May 2014), Middlesex > Deeds 1765-1780 vol 65-66 > image 336 of 654; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts. Middlesex Deeds Vol. 66:12, Elisha Rice to Silas Rice 1762.
7. ↑ "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (22 May 2014), Middlesex > Deeds 1769-1770 vol 69 > image 641 of 649; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts. Middlesex County Deeds Vol. 69:616, Elisha Rice to John Noyes 1767.
8. ↑ NEHGS,Vital records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 (Boston : NEHGS, 1903), pp. 120, 122, 124.
9. ↑ Rice, Franklin P., Worcester births, marriages and deaths (Worcester, Mass. : Worcester society of antiquity, 1894), p.223.

See also:

• Wheeler, Albert Gallatin, The genealogical and encyclopedic history of the Wheeler family in America, 2 vols., (Boston : American College of Genealogy, 1914) Vol. 1:354-5.

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