Benjamin Rice (1640 - 1713)

Born 31 May 1640 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Brown) Rice — married about 1662 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Husband of Mary (Chamberlain) Rice — married 1 Apr 1691 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 19 Dec 1713 at age 73 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Biography

Benjamin Rice^[1][2][3] was born and/or baptized 31 May 1640, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts.^[4]

He was assigned a house lot of 24 acres in 1660 at Marlborough, MA.11 On 29 September 1673 at Sudbury, MA, farm land was sold by written contract, naming Benjamin and Mary (Brown) Rice as the sellers of the land given to them by their parents, Edmund Rice and William Brown[e], were named as the father and father-in-law of Benjamin Rice; buyer was John Death.^{[citation needed]}

He sued Dr. William Avery, of Boston, for malpractice. Verdict for defendant on 23 May 1685 at Sudbury, MA. (Avery's son had amputated one of Benjamin's legs due to frost bite.)^{[citation needed]}

At least one online tree claims he married March 1, 1655 Mercy Brigham. On that date, one Mary Brigham [widow] married Edmund not Benjamin Rice in Sudbury.^{[citation needed]} She has been detached as spouse of Benjamin.

He married about 1662, probably in Sudbury or Marlborough, Massachusetts, Mary Browne, dau of William Brown and Mary Besbeth^[5][6] by whom he had:

• Ebenezer Rice, called only son in Ward 1858 (p. 10), but:
• Benjamin Rice (mentioned in his maternal grandfather's will)^{[citation needed]}

Mary (Brown) Rice died 1 Jan 1690/1,^[7]

After Mary died, Benjamin married 1 Apr 1691 Mary (Chamberlain) (Graves).^[8]

Benjamin died 19 Dec 1713, Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Profile of Benjamin Rice Edmund Rice Family Association
2. ↑ History of the Town of Marlborough, Page 431
3. ↑ Ward, Andrew Henshaw, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson (1858), pp. 5, 10.
4. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. 1903)(Free e-book) (Records are also available at ma-vitalrecords.org) p. 119
5. ↑ Their marriage is not recorded in either the Sudbury or Marlborough vital records
6. ↑ Ward (1858), p 10, citing 1676 will of William Brown which made a bequest to his daughter Mary, wife of Benjamin Rice, and her son Benjamin Rice.
7. ↑ Ward (1858), p 10
8. ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. 1903)(Free e-book) (Records are also available at ma-vitalrecords.org) p. 207, 257
9. ↑ Ward (1858), p 10

See also:

• Brian J.L. Berry, The Rufus Parks Pedigree, (Location? Publisher? Year?), page 95
• Vance-Whatley-Shaw, Mary F, and Thomas E. Whatley. Hosmer Heritage: Descendants of James Hosmer Who Emigrated to America in 1625 and Settled in Concord, Massachusetts, Which Includes Part of His Related Families Especially Those That Emigrated to Alabama About 200 Years Ago. Alpine, AL: Mary Frances Vance-Whatley-Shaw, 2005. Print., page 4