Mary (Goodenow) Rice (1712 - aft. 1764)

Born 5 Apr 1712 in Marlboro, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of Beriah Waldon Rice Sr — married 6 Jan 1731 in Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died after 1764 after age 51 in Bloody Bridge Creek, Annapolis, Nova Scotia

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Biography

Mary Goodenow was born in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts on April 5, 1712. She was the daughter of Samuel Goodenow and Sarah (Brigham) Goodenow.^[1] She married Beriah Rice in Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts on December 23, 1731. ^[2] Mary arrived in Nova Scotia in 1760,^[3] presumably on the Charming Molly with her husband Beriah. Mary died after 1764, as the will of Beriah Rice Sr. on June 27, 1764 left her one half of his farm on the east side of Bloody Bridge Creek in Annapolis Township. She appears to have been buried along with her husband in Annapolis Royal's Garrison Graveyard.^[4] Online trees list her date of death as late as December 15, 1795, but this has not yet been documented.

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988. Marborough Births, p. 82. (Via Ancestry.com)
2. ↑ Beriah and Mary Goodenow, Jan. 6, 1730-1. CR Records of Westborough, MA until the year 1849. Marriage Record
3. ↑ Smith, Leonard H. Jr., and Norma H. Smith. Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. p. 204.
4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #169299947

See also:

• Edmund Rice Genealogy