Margaret Rice was born about 1757, possibly in Hamilton, Northampton County, PA. [1] She was the daughter of Jacob Reiss/Rice and Catherina (Mueller) Rice. [2]
Margaret’s sisters married brothers -- Cattrean married Jacob Teeter, and Christina married Peter Teeter. When Christina died, leaving two children, Margaret became the wife of Peter Teeter. Based on the birth of a daughter in June 1780, they probably married in the fall of 1779. [3] Researcher Linda Bloom Rossi added the following:
Peter and Margaret had a daughter baptized at Stillwater, Sussex County, New Jersey in October 1787. [5] After that, they seem to disappear from the Sussex County records.
On February 23, 1795, Peter bought land in today’s Lansing, Tompkins County, NY. [6] Records indicate the family was there as early as the fall of 1796. [7]
Peter and Margaret lived out their lives in Lansing. Their children were: Christina, married John Collins; Elias P., married Christiana Neuman and Prudence Knapp; Anna Maria (Polly), married Henry Snyder; Rachel, married Anthony Carter; Sally, married James T. Morgan; Peter, married Hannah Lee; and John, who died after 1832. In December 1803, Peter and Margaret had their last child, Margaretha, named after her mother. She was baptized at home and died a few weeks later. [8]
Peter died in 1832. Among other stipulations, the house and farm were to go to his son Peter, and his mother was to live there the remainder of her days. [9] Margaret lived another fifteen years.
Margaret (Rice) Teeter is buried in Asbury Methodist-Episcopal Church Cemetery in Lansing, Tompkins County, New York. Although cemetery records give her death as May 10, 1847, her tombstone reads: “MARGARET Wife of PETER TETER died Mar. 10, 1847 In the 91 Year of her age.” [10] [11]
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