2671. Anne Martyn
Date of baptism is given in Dean Crawford Smith, The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part I, (NEHGS, Boston, 1996), pg. 205 as 8 May 1597.
2800. Edmund Rice
Removed to Berkhamstead, Herts, 1626. Came to Massachusetts Bay Colony between March 1638 and September 1639.
"Edmund Rice, with his wife and nine children, crossed the Atlantic around 1637 [sic]
to settle at Watertown, Massachusetts during the Puritan exodus from England
begun by John Winthrop seven years earlier. When they arrived, they found the
town full (at least it was considered full) and discovered they were too late
to receive a freehold grant from the town's founders which meant they would
have to purchase an estate or remain landless. Edmund Rice moved to Sudbury in
1638 as one of the original settlers. Ranked eighth in the group (perhaps on
the strength of his position in Berkhamsted), he received a fine, four-acre
house lot fronting the central Commons on Mill Road, thirty-three acres of
river meadow, and fifty-four acres of upland across the river. He also
received strips of the open fields. As well, by right of being an original
settler, Edmund Rice became one of the town's proprieters, who exercised
exclusive control over all common lands. Following a bitterly divisive dispute
over the division of some land given to the town in 1649 by the General Court,
in which he had tried to steer a middle course, Edmund Rice accepted the
invitation of John Ruddock (the leader of the liberal faction who had opposed
the conservative's proposal which favored the established families at the
expense of more recent arrivals) to petition the General Court for land on
which to establish a new town. In 1656, the court obliged with a grant of
about thirty-six square miles to the west of Sudbury. Edmund Rice, with
Ruddock and thirteen others established the new community which in 1660 became
the town of Marlborough."[from Benjamin W. Labaree, Colonial Massachusetts: A History, (Millwood, New
York: KTO Press), Chapter Four.]----------------------------------------------------------
REFN331 Andrew Henshaw Ward, A.M., The Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice; Who came from Berkhanstead, England, and settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1638 or 9, (Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson, original 1858, reprinted 1989/90 by Edmund Rice (1638) Association) page 1. Copied from ERA site on Jan. 25, 2001 cl http://www.widomaker.com/~gwk/era/edmund.htm Who was Edmund Rice? Edmund Rice arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1638. Our first record of his presence is in Township Book of the Town of Sudbury in the year 1639. Regrettably, no ship's passenger list has survived and we have no record of Edmund Rice and his family before 1639 so we can not be certain when or where he and his family arrived in the New World.
Knowing the names of Edmund Rice's children at Sudbury, family historians have traced his family back to England using church baptismal records for his children and, eventually, to his marriage to Thomasine Frost on 15 October 1618 at Bury St. Edmunds. However, we have found no record of his baptism or any other record that names his parents. Read more about the search for Edmund Rice's ancestry on another of these pages.
As yeomen farmers Edmund Rice and the other early settlers at Sudbury were well prepared for the tasks of forming and governing a new community. As yeomen they had assumed with both personal and community responsibilities back in England. As Protestant churchmen they had been encouraged to read and write so that they could study and understand their Bible. Although not of the noble class, they had shared many community and church responsibilities in their former communities in England.
Edmund Rice was one of the prominent leaders of his community at both Sudbury and Marlborough. In his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Puritan Village, The formation of a New England Town, Sumner Chilton Powell sums up the high regard that his fellow citizens had for Edmund: "Not only did Rice become the largest individual landholder in Sudbury, but he represented his new town in the Massachusetts legislature for five years and devoted at least eleven of his last fifteen years to serving as selectman and judge of small causes." and "Two generations of Sudbury men selected Edmund Rice repeatedly as one of their leaders, with the full realization that they were ignoring men of far more English government experience who had come with him." If your ancestry goes back to Sudbury, be sure to read Powell's superb account of the development of this New England town in the mid 17th century.
Although much respected by his fellow townsmen, Edmund seems to have had an independent side to his nature. In 1656 Edmund Rice and others petitioned the Massachusetts General Court for a new town which became the City of Marlborough. Edmund moved his immediate family and was elected a Selectman at Marlborough in 1657. Later generations of Rice's were founding members of many new communities, first in New England and Nova Scotia, and later across the United States and Canada.
Like many early New England families, Edmund Rice's family was a very large one. Of his twelve children, ten survived to have children of their own. Edmund Rice's descendants through his great great grandchildren number nearly 1,450. This pattern of large families seems to have continued well into the 19th century. The result is that many living people can trace their ancestry to Edmund Rice.
Copied from ERA site on Feb 2, 2001 cl Numbers in text are sources from Mr. G. King http://www.widomaker.com/~gwk/era/edmund.htm He was buried at Old Burying Ground, Wayland, Middlesex Co., MA. The grave is marked by a monument designed by Arthur Wallace Rice of Boston, MA. It was dedicated by the Rice Association on 29 August 1914. A boulder with a bronze table was also erected by the Association and it marks Edmund's homestead on the Old Connecticut Path in Wayland. Burial is recorded in Marlborough, MA vital records as "at Sudbury."(2,6) He and Thomasine Frost resided in 1627 at Berkhamstead, Co of Hertfordshire. (10) Deacon Edmund Rice was a Selectman in 1644 and subsequent years; a Deacon of the church in 1648, and in 1656, one of the partitioners for a new plantation that became known as Marlborough at Sudbury, Middlesex Co, MA. (11) He was designated a freeman on 13 May 1640 at Sudbury, Middlesex Co, MA. (12) He was a deputy to the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (the Massachusetts legislature) representing the Town of Sudbury between 1654 and 1656 at Boston, Suffolk, Co., MA(12) After 1656 Deacon Edmund Rice lived on "The Great Road" on the northerly side of the pond (Cochituate Pond), not far from Williams Tavern. The pond is also spelled Wachittuate, Caochituet, Chockickawicke, Coijchawicke, Catchchauitt, Charchittawick, Katchetuit, Cochichawauke, or Cochichowicke at Marlborough, Middlesex Co., MA (6,13) Child Edmund Rice, once thought to be a son of Deacon Edmund Rice, was believed to be confused as Deacon Edmund Rice's son Edward. [14,2,15] 2. New England Historic Genealogical Society, compiler, Sudbury, Massachusetts Vital Records to the year 1850 (NEHGS) (Boston, MA: Stanhope Press, F. H. Gilson Company, 1903), p. 120. Hereinafter cited as Sudbury, MA VR (NEHGS). 6. Andrew Henshaw Ward A.M., Rice Family (Ward), p.61 10. Frederick R. Rice, Rice Family-Supplement 1, p.611. Rice Family (Ward) p. 44 12. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Sudbury, MA VR (NEHGS) p. 322 13. Rice Family (Ward) p. 23 14. Marlborough, MA Vital Records to the year 1849 (Worcester, Worcester Co, MA: Franklin P. Rice, 1908) p. 153 15. Rice Family (Ward) p. 61
2801. Thomasine Frost
REFN332 Source of baptism: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Sudbury, Massachusetts Vital Records to the year 1850 (NEHGS) (Boston, MA: Stanhope Press, F.H. Gilson Company, 1903) p. 120. Andrew Henshaw Ward A.M., Rice Family (Ward) pp.5,10 43,61,83.
2810. Edward Rice
His first wife is said (Barry's History of Framingham) to have been Agnes Bent, and that she d. Without issue. However, George King (on ERA site) states, this is an error. "The will of John Bent in 1672 makes provision specifically for his daughter Agnes Rice and her son John Rice. John Bent's will also proves that Agnes was alive in 1672. As we have record of only one John Rice at the time who could have been the grandson of John Bent, this is compelling evidence that the line we describe here is correct." No record of their marriage or of her death has been found. He resided at Sudbury, removed to Marlboro', 1664, was deac. of the chh. there, and d. Aug. 15, 1712. By a paper on the court files at Cambridge, his age was 47, Oct. 2, 1666--if so, he was b. about 1619, and not far from 93 years at the time of his death. His widow, Anna d. at Marlboro' June 4, 1713, aged 83. All his children, except the eldest, whose birth is not found, were by his wife Anna--the two youngest are recorded at Marlboro, the others at Sudbury. Deacon Edward Rice and wife Anna of Marlboro' conveyed, April 1, 1686, to their son Edmund Rice of Sudbury, half of the farm (he purchased of his father Edmund, and some land he purchased of his brother Benjamin--John Rice of Sudbury, brother of Edmund, had the other half, and his choice of them) lying within the bounds of Sudbury, "near the spring." Deed acknowledged April 16, 1606, recorded Aug. 16, 1734.
3078. Louis Sédilot
Louis Sedilot de Montrueil-sur-Breche, Picardie was a famous colonist.
de Gif-sur- Yvette, ar. Palaiseau,archev. Paris (Essonne) ou de Gien, ar.
Montargais, ev. Auxerre, Aatinais(Loiret)
60 ans au rec, 67, acote St, Jean et St Francois de quebec, Jardinier en 1639.
3080. Pascal Poulin
BIRTH:Origine des Familles Canadiennes Francaises, GODBOUT, p. 31,IGI, 1992
Edition
!MARRIAGE:IGI, 1992 Edition