Matthew
Rice
Born about in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England
Ancestors 
Son of Edmund Rice
and Thomasine (Frost) Rice
Brother of
Mary Rice, Henry Rice, Edward Rice, Thomas Rice Sr., Lydia (Rice) Drury, Daniel Rice I, Samuel Rice, Edmund Rice [half], Joseph Rice, Benjamin Rice, Lydia Rice [half] and Ruth (Rice) Welles [half]
Husband of
Martha (Lamson) Rice
— married
7 Jul 1654 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Father of
Sarah Rice, Martha (Rice) Bent, Deborah (Rice) Sawin, Ruth Rice, Elizabeth (Rice) Ware, Dorothy (Rice) Ware, Mary Rice, Isaac Rice and Patience Rice
Died
at about age 87
in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Profile last modified
| Created 22 Feb 2010
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Biography
Matthew Rice immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
Matthew Rice was baptized on 28 February 1628/29 at St Peter's Church, Berkhamstead, co Hertfordshire, England.
He married Martha Lamson, daughter of Barnabas Lamson and Mary Liggett, on 7 July 1654 at Sudbury, MA.[1]
He and Martha Lamson resided circa 1655 at Sudbury, MA.
Matthew Rice left a will dated 14 October 1716, proved 30 December 1717.[2] The will mentioned wife Martha; son Isaac (executor); daughters Martha Bent, Deborah Sawin, Dorothy Ware, Patience Leland; four (unnamed) children of daughter Sarah Loker, deceased. Inventory on 29 November 1717.
Matthew Rice died in 1717 at Sudbury, MA; about 89 years (not found in the published records).
Sources
- ↑ Vital records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 by Sudbury (Mass. : Town); New England Historic Genealogical Society,Volume 1,page 260,https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofsu00sudb/page/260/mode/2up
- ↑ Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org): https://www.americanancestors.org/DB536/i/14466/18767-co1/38372705
See also:
- Edmund Rice (1638) Association Publication
- Andrew Henshaw Ward, A genealogical history of the Rice family, pp. 5, 7
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