 1667 - 1768 (101 years)
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| Name |
Gershom Rice |
Relationship | with Robert Alan Roy
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| Birth |
9 May 1667 |
Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  |
| Married |
say 1692 (Age 25) [1] |
Elizabeth Balcom, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Hayes) Balcom. She was born on 16 August 1672 in Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
Issue:
1. Gershom Rice (c1696-____)
2. Elizabeth Rice (1696-____)
3. Abishai Rice (1701-____)
4. Sarah Rice (1703-____)
5. Matthias Rice (1707-____)
6. Ruth Rice (1710-____)
There may have been a seventh child. |
| Moved To |
Before 1698 (Age 30) |
Groton, New London County, Connecticut |
| Moved to |
Before 1713 (Age 45) |
Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts |
| History |
1713 |
In 1713, he was one of the petitioners for a new settlement at Worcester to replace that destroyed by Indians. In his house in Worcester, the first
meetings of the church were held and he planted the first orchard in the town. |
| Death |
19 Dec 1768 |
Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts |
| Obituary |
26 Dec 1768 [1] |
| From The Boston Gazette, 26 December 1768 as reported by Ward (1858): "This day died here Mr. Gershom Rice, who completed the age of 101 years some time last May, besides retaining his reason and understanding in a very good degree to the last. He enjoyed a long and almost uninterrupted state of bodily health; was able, till very lately, to travel on foot a mile or two a day among his neighbors; eat his food with a good appetite, and slept quietly at night without any attendance. He was naturally of very pleasant disposition, very courteous in his behavior towards all, and withal grave and serious. Of late the decays of nature came on him fast; and he went away calmly and quietly at last, expressing his hope and trust in his Redeemer for admission to a better world." |
| Siblings |
12 Siblings |
| | 1. Grace Rice d. 03 Jan 1653/54, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts | | | 2. Thomas Rice, b. 30 Jun 1654, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 1748, Weston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Age 93 years) | | + | 3. Mary Rice, b. 4 Sep 1656, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 22 Aug 1733, Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts (Age 76 years)
▻ Sgt. Josiah White, m. 28 Nov 1678 ; Thomas Sawyer, m. 15 Jul 1718 | | | 4. Captain Peter Rice, b. 24 Oct 1658, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 28 Nov 1753, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Age 95 years) | | | 5. Nathaniel Rice, b. 3 Jan 1660, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 13 Nov 1726, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Age 66 years) | | | 6. Sarah Rice, b. 15 Jan 1662, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. Abt 1742 (Age 79 years) | | | 7. Ephraim Rice, b. 15 Apr 1665, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 25 Oct 1732, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Age 67 years) | | | 8. Gershom Rice, b. 9 May 1667, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 19 Dec 1768, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts (Age 101 years) | | | 9. James Rice, b. 6 Mar 1669, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 14 Oct 1730, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts (Age 61 years) | | | 10. Frances Rice, b. 3 Feb 1670/71, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 1767, Weston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Age 95 years)
▻ Benjamin Allen, m. 1690 | | | 11. Jonas Rice, b. 6 Mar 1673, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 22 Sep 1753, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts (Age 80 years) | | | 12. Grace Rice, b. 15 Jan 1675, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. After 7 Dec 1768, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts (Age 93 years) | | | 13. Elisha Rice, b. 4 Dec 1679, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts d. 1761, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Age 81 years) |
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| Person ID |
I16426 |
| Last Modified |
23 Oct 2018 |
| Father |
Thomas Rice, c. 26 Jan 1625/26, St James Church, Stanstead, Suffolk, England d. 16 Nov 1681, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Age ~ 55 years) |
| Mother |
Mary King, b. Abt 1630, England d. bta 1715, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Age 85 years) |
| Family ID |
F507 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Birth - 9 May 1667 - Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts |
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 | Moved To - Before 1698 - Groton, New London County, Connecticut |
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| Moved to - Before 1713 - Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts |
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 | Death - 19 Dec 1768 - Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts |
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| Sources |
- [S1032] Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, (Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858).
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