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Lt Samuel King formerly Rice aka King alias Rice

Born 14 Oct 1667 in Marlborough, Middlesex, Colony of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Son of Samuel Rice and Elizabeth (King) Rice

Brother of Sarah Rice, Elizabeth (Rice) Haynes, Hannah (Rice) Hubbard, Joshua Rice, Edmund Rice, Hester (Rice) Hubbard, Mary Rice [half], Edward Rice [half], Abigail Rice [half] and Joseph Rice [half]

Husband of Abigail (Clapp) King — married 30 Oct 1693 in Milton, Norfolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Father of Ezra King, Sarah (King) Rice, Peter King, Samuel King and Thomas Rice King

Died 4 Mar 1713 at age 45 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Samuel (Rice) King was adopted

Adoptive Parents	Biological Parents
Father: Peter King (abt.1628-abt.1704)	Father: Samuel Rice (1634-1685)
Mother: Sarah (Rice) King (1631-)	Mother: Elizabeth (King) Rice (abt.1635-bef.1667)

Samuel Rice was born at Marlborough, Massachusetts, on 14 Oct 1667.^[1] He was the son of Samuel Rice and Elizabeth (King) Rice). Elizabeth died two weeks after Samuel was born, and his father gave him to Elizabeth's brother Peter King to raise as his own. Peter and his wife Sarah did not have any children, and they adopted Samuel, making him Peter's heir. In Sudbury records, Samuel is usually referred to as "Samuel King, alias Rice", and even his children bore the surname "King, alias Rice". By the third generation, the "alias Rice" was dropped and their surname was listed as "King".

Samuel married Abigail Clap/Clapp at Milton, Massachusetts on 30 October 1693.^[2] They were listed in the marriage record as "Samuel King of Sutbury and Abigail Clap of Milton."^[3] Abigail was the daughter of Ezra Clapp and Abigail Pond.^[2]

Samuel and Abigail had the following children (order uncertain):

Ezra King, born at Sudbury 22 May 1697. ("Ezra, s. Samuell and Abigail, May 22, 1697.")^[4]
Peter King^[5]
Sarah King ("There is uncertainty about the parents of Sarah King... LDS records list her parents both as Thomas King and Elizabeth Clapp of Charlemont... and as Samuel Rice King and Abigail Clapp of Sudbury. The published vital records of Charlemont, Milton, Scituate, and Sudbury are silent about the birth of a Sarah King. The baptismal records for Sudbury begin in November 1706. We know from the published vital records of Milton and Sudbury that Samuel King alias Rice was married at Milton and lived at Sudbury. Based on proximity, Samuel and Abigail would seem more plausible than Thomas and Elizabeth to be Sarah King's parents. However, neither claim can be substantiated.")^[2]
Abigail King^[5]
Samuel King, born at Sudbury 24 Mar 1701. ("Samuell, s. Samuell "aliess King" and Abigaill, Mar. 24, 1701.")^[4]
Thomas King, born at Sudbury 25 Mar 1703. ("Thomas, s. Samuell and Abigall, Mar. 25, 1703.")^[4]
Edward King, born at Sudbury 4 Aug 1705. ("Edward, s. Sam[ue]ll and Abigaill, Aug. 4, 1705.")^[4]
Elizabeth King, born at Sudbury 29 apr 1707. ("Elezabith, d. Sam[ue]ll and Abegal, Apr. 29, 1707.")^[4]
Mindwell King, born at Sudbury 16 May _____. ("Mindwell, d. Samuel and Abegail, May 16, 1[torn].")^[4]

Samuel King, alias Rice, died on 4 March 1712/13, at Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts^[2]

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Notes

Norman Thomas King Newton. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; Vol CXXX, October, 1976, pp.302-304; "Abstracts of Genealogical Research; King-Rice":

"Two seemingly small errors (one of commission and one of omission) in Andrew H. Ward's classic The Rice Family (1858) have been allowed to stand all these years uncorrected in print. For this reason-- and because the unusual adoptive record of the King alias Rice line has not been adequately published--Jonas Rice (1673-1753), although long honored as the "Father of Worcester", has not been accorded by his descendants the recognition due him as one of their authentic early New England progenitors.

The perpetuated error of commission is found in The Rice Family, p. 30, where Ward says that Silence (4), daughter of Jonas (3), (Thomas (2), Edmund (1)) and Mary (Stone) Rice married "John Bond." The error of omission is on page 38, where Ward gives only the birth, but not the marriage, of Ezra (4), son of Lt. Samuel (3), ((Samuel (2), Edmund (1)) and Abigail (Clapp) King alias Rice. To be sure, the massive 1970 Genealogical Record of Edmund Rice Descendants, pp. 8 and 35, attempts to correct the omission, but it only supplies another mistake, stating that Ezra King alias Rice married "Silence Bond." The correct entries would have been to the effect that Ezra King alias Rice married Silence Rice, and vice versa, in Worcester, ca 1719 (it appears that marriages were not recorded there until some years later).

The first child of Ezra and Silence, born 1720 in Worcester, was named Abigail King alias Rice (Vital Records of Worcester, Massachusetts, p.157.) presumably after Ezra's mother; the first son, Jonas King alias Rice, after Silence's father.(ibid.) Eleven more children were born in either Worcester or Brimfield, where they moved in 1731. Throughout his life Ezra was styled either `Ezra King' or `Ezra King alias Rice' interchangeably. In 1745, accompanied by his son, Jonas, he went on the Louisbourg Expedition; both father and son died there in 1746.

Ezra's death gave rise to a remarkable series of estate papers (Hampshire County Probate Records, still at Northampton, Massachusetts.) and land abstracts (Early Brimfield Records, now at Springfield, Massachusetts, as County Seat of the later Hampden County.) They serve not only to tie Ezra's children to each other, to him, and to his father, Lt. Samuel King alias Rice, of Sudbury, but also to account for the probable origin of Ward's error as to Silence's family name.

As Ezra's widow, Silence was granted letters of administration on 12 August 1746; she certified a complete inventory of the estate to the Hampshire Probate Court on 8 September 1747, signing as Silence King. But when a settlement of the estate was ratified by Judge Timothy Dwight on 9 April 1751, she was referred to as `Silence Bond alis Silence King Relict of Sd Decd.' It is clear that at some time between 8 September 1747 and 9 April 1751 she married a man named Bond. Other evidence shows him to have been John Bond of Worcester. Adonijah, ninth child of Ezra and Silence, died in 1755. In the settlement of his estate, a petition was tendered by "John Bond of Worcester and Silence his wife, late widow and administratrix on the estate of her former husband Ezra King of Brimfield, deceased." (Worcester Probate,35229).

Ultimately, John and Silence must have moved to Templeton, Massachusetts, for she died there, and her gravestone supplies an exceptionally complete record: "Silence Bond, wife of John and relict of Ezra King, and only daughter of Jonas Rice, Esq., 8 December 1763 in her 61st year."(Vital Records of Templeton, Massachusetts.p. 177.)

Ward's original error was probably a misinterpretation of the marriage record of Silence King and John Bond, 21 Nov. 1751 (Worcester Vital Records, p. 375). This was undoubtedly the marriage record, not of Ezra's widow, but of his daughter Silence, and John Bond's son, John Bond, Jr. As noted above, Ezra's widow had already been called Silence Bond, alias King, seven months earlier that this recorded marriage.

Moreover, the births of four children to Silence and John Bond, Jr. were so recorded in Worcester in the next few years, and, back at Brimfield, in the final division of the real estate of Ezra King on 2 June 1752, the daughter was specifically referred to as Silence Bond, Junr. alis Silence King.

The Ezra King alias Rice estate papers were discovered accidentally in 1897 by my grandfather, the late George Oscar King (1842-1917), who was then engaged in tracing back his own King ancestry. Until then he had been wholly unaware of the "alias Rice" aspect of the family name and of the 1667 adoption that caused it. Referred now to Ward's The Rice Family, he saw the story set forth clearly; after the birth of their sixth child, Samuel (3) Rice, to Samuel (2) and Elizabeth (2) (King) Rice at Marlborough in 1667, the mother lived only a fortnight and died on 30 October 1667 (Vital Records of Marlborough, p. 384). The distraught father, left with five children below the age of eleven, gave the infant in adoption to Elizabeth's childless brother and sister, Peter and Sarah King. Peter changed the boy's name to Samuel King alias Rice, a form that was to persist through the next two generations, after which the "alias Rice" would gradually fall into disuse.

The adoption itself was happily accepted by all concerned and later specifically blessed by references in the wills of both Samuel Rice and Peter King (Middlesex Probate 18798 and 13323.)

Oscar King's consequent prolific King-Rice notes of over sixty years ago were the result of wide correspondence, many interviews, and intensive personal exploration, especially in Vermont, where fire had destroyed so much of the Windham County records. His notes have aided many researchers, but were never published. Unfortunately, he accepted Ward's mistake as to Silence Rice, thus inadvertently continuing the error among those who used his notes. The ultimate clues to the truth, Adonijah's estate and Silence's gravestone at Templeton, were suggested some years ago by the late Charles S. Liscom of Dedham, Massachusetts, in a letter to me.

The main purpose of this communication is, of course, to correct the error about Silence (Rice) King. But, having made the correction, it also discloses between her and her husband, Ezra, a degree of relationship that was unusual even in colonial times. Their paternal grandparents were two brothers (Thomas (2) and Samuel (2), sons of Edmund (1) Rice married to two sisters, Mary (2) and Elizabeth (2) respectively, daughters of Thomas (1) King. Ezra and Silence were thus double second cousins, and each was a great grandchild of those two Sudbury worthies, Edmund Rice and Thomas King. The King-Rice line is therefore unusual not only because of the "alias" and the change of name, but also because its American beginning cannot truly be shown in the customary genealogical manner-- from a single immigrant ancestor.

For the line descends equally from Thomas King --AND-- Edmund Rice, and the parallel parts of the line merge in the marriage of Silence Rice with Ezra King alias Rice in the fourth generation.

DNA

"Y-DNA tests in the year 2004 for descendants of Samuel Rice King prove that he was an Edmund Rice descendant."^[2]

Sources

↑ Vital Records of Marlborough Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, "Marlborough Births", page 160. Worcester, Massachusetts, Franklin P. Rice, 1908 : Digital copy. www.internet archive.org.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 Edmund Rice (1638) Association, http://www.edmund-rice.org/era5gens/p21.htm#i178
↑ Vital Records of Milton, Marriages, p. 143.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 ^4.4 ^4.5 Vital Records of Sudbury, Births, page 82.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 Andrew Henshaw Ward. A Genealogical History of the Rice Family, page 38.

Samuel (Rice) King (1667 - 1713)

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