Lydia (Rice) Wheelock (1668 - aft. 1740)

Born 4 Jun 1668 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Lydia Rice was born on 4 Jun 1668, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts.^[1]

She died between 10 Dec 1740 and 1763.^[1]

Birth

4 Jun 1668

Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States^[2][3]

Death

No primary source record has been located for her or her husband. The last record of Samuel and Lydia is a deed dated 10 Dec 1740 Samuel and Lydia Wheelock signed over their estate to Daniel Wheelock of Shrewsbury out of "parental love and affection, and in consideration of obligation to maintain myself and wife." Recorded in Worcester County Probates, Case 63804, Deed Book 19, pg. 222. (Note: The sometimes cited 1756 death date for Lydia's husband is actually for their son [[Wheelock-123|Samuel).

Marriage

Lydia Rice and Samuel Wheelock were apparently married in about 1692 in Massachusetts Bay. No primary source record of this marriage event yet found in Vital Records of likely towns. Per Torrey, "WHEELOCK, Samuel (-1756) & Lydia (RICE) (1668_); ca 1692, b(efore) 1696: (settled in ) Marlboro"^[4] Samuel and Lydia had the following children:

Born Somewhere in Massachusetts Bay, then married in Sudbury, all four "of or Near Joyning to Worcester", on the same day^[5][6]

1. Gershom (b. 1693), m1 Abigail Flagg Jan.1, 1718-19 in Sudbury, m2 Elizabeth (?) Rice.^[7]
2. Lydia (unproven) (b. 1694? 1999?), m Richard Ward, Jan.1, 1718-19 in Sudbury^[8]

Born In Marlborough,^[9], Mostly married in Shrewsbury:^[10]

1. Samuel (b. May 14,1696 in Marlborough) m Huldah Rice in Marlborough Feb. 15, 1720^[7]
2. Martha (b. Apr. 13, 1698) m Ephraim Pratt, July 9, 1724^[7]
3. Elizabeth (b. Apr. 10, 1700) m Israel Allen, Feb. 14, 1727^[7]
4. Hannah (b. Jan. 23, 1701-2)^[7]
5. Tamar (b. March 2, 1703-4), m Ebenezer Keyes, July 13, 1725^[7]
6. Mary (b. June 5, 1706)^[7] married Eli Keyes , Oct. 28, 1734
7. Daniel (b. August 10, 1708)^[7]
8. Lois (b. December 25, 1710) m Cyrus Wheeler, May 1, 1746^[7]
9. Rachel (b. Nov. 26,1714) m. Daniel Willard, Mar. 2, 1742-3, "both of Worcester"^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Edmund Rice Association
2. ↑ Middlesex, Vital Records of Sudbury to the year 1850, p. 122; 'Rice - Lidea, d. Henry and Elizabeth"
3. ↑ Godfrey Memorial Library. American Genealogical-Biographical Index. Middletown, CT, USA: Godfrey Memorial Library Ancestry Record agbi #1259018 : Original source: Savage
4. ↑ Torrey, Clarence A., New England Marriages prior to 1700, p. 802
5. ↑ Middlesex, Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the year 1850, p. 284
6. ↑ Worcester, Vital Records of Worcester, Massachusetts to the year1850, p.442: :in Sudbury"
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9} "Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice", by Andrew Henshaw Ward, Boston, 1858, pp. 5, 14.
8. ↑ Sullivan, Rick. "Lydia Wheelock" on Wheelock Genealogy website. Note: Lydia is not listed among the children of Samuel & Lydia and her birth is not found in the local vital records. Their steady sequence of recorded births in Marlborough seen below, every two years from 1696 to 1714, leaves room for one birth in 1993 or 1994, ruling out twins.
9. ↑ Middlesex, Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts to the year 1850, p. 194, 324
10. ↑ Worcester, Vital Records of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, pp. 230-231>\

See also:

• Edmund Rice (1638) Association, Rice Family - Supp 1, p. 2.; Rice Gen'l Register, p. 2.; Margaret Skinner Rice, Rice Family - S2/P1, pp. 3, 6.; Margaret Skinner Rice, Rice Family - S2/P1, p. 3.
• New England Historic Genealogical Society, Sudbury, MA Vital Records.
• Barry, William. A History of Framingham, Massachusetts, including the Plantation, from 1640 to the Present Time (James Munroe and Co., Boston, 1847).