Bethulia RICE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Jonathan Rice and Ann Derby

Bethulia married Benjamin GATES on 05 Apr 1727 in Sudbury, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. Benjamin (son of Simon GATES and Hannah BENJAMIN) was born about 1698 in Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts; died before 12 May 1758 in Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Israel GATES was born on 25 Jan 1727/8 in Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 31 Aug 1807 in Conway, Massachusetts.
2. William GATES was born on 14 Mar 1729/30 in Worcester, Massachusetts.
3. Thomas GATES was born on 27 Jun 1732 in Worcester, Massachusetts.
4. Makepeace GATES was born on 12 May 1735 in Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 09 Sep 1817 in testate in Barre.
5. Benjamin GATES was born on 27 Nov 1737 in Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 11 Feb 1797 in intestate in Barre, Massachusetts.
6. Esther GATES was born on 20 Apr 1739 in Worcester, Massachusetts.
7. Jonathan GATES was born on 27 Jul 1742 in Worcester, Massachusetts; died in 1815 in Whitingham, Vermont.
8. Aaron GATES was born on 02 Oct 1744 in Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 17 Jan 1816 in intestate in Barre, Massachusetts.
9. Bethulia GATES died in Probably young..

Jonathan married Ann DARBY on 25 Mar 1702 in Concord, Middlesex Co. Massachusetts. Ann (daughter of Deacon Thomas DABY and Mary BROWNE) was born in 1681 in Concord, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 23 Dec 1773. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Sarah ?. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Also Known As: Darby Derby
• Death: 13 Oct 1738

Notes:

"Derby Genealogy": Thomas Daby was a Narragansett soldier under Capt. Joseph Sill in King Philip's War, 1676....Was elected in 1706, a deacon of the Stow Church, which was organized in 1706.

Thomas married Mary BROWNE. Mary (daughter of John BROWN and Esther Hester MAKEPEACE) was born on 19 Dec 1662 in Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts; died on 04 Jan 1727 in Stow, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Edmund Rice came from Barkhamstead, in the county of Hertfordshire, in England, and settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1638 or 9; as he shared in the three divisions of land inSudbury, the first of which was made in 1639, he was not doubt residing there at that time.

No record has been found of his embarkation for this country, nor in what ship he came, or at what place he first arrived; there is not so much as tradition on the subject. The first we find of him is at Sudbury, with a wife and family of at least seven children that came over with him; that place, called "the planation lying near unto Concord," was incorporated in 1639 by the same of Sudbury. His residence was on the east side of Sudbury river, in the southerly part of what is now Wayland, and near the border of the extensive meadows through which that river flows in a northeasterly course to the Merrimac.

He was Selectman in 1644, and subsequent years; Dea,. of the church 1648, and in 1656, one of thirteen petitioners belonging to Sudbury, who besought the General Court for a new plantation, saying, "Whereas your petitioners have lived divers years in Sudbury, and God hath been pleased to increase our children, which are now, divers of them, grown to man's estate, and wee, many of us grown into years, so as that wee should bee glad to see them settled before the Lord take us away from hence; as also God having given us some considerable quantity of cattle, so that wee are so straightened, that wee cannot so comfortably subsist as could be desired; and some of us having taken some pains to view the country, wee have found a place, which lieth Westward about eight miles from Sudbury, which wee conceive might bee comfortable for our subsistence."

Sudbury at that time contained less than seventy-five families, and in territory included what is now Wayland. One would naturally think they were "straightened" for the want of 'neighbors', rather than for want of 'room' for themselves, or 'meadows' wherefrom to procure subsistence for their cattle; and so they found it, even twenty years later, when the town, with an increased population, was broken up and nearly destroyed by the Indians. Their petition was granted, and the plantation laid to them was incorporated by the name of Marlborough in 1660; whereto he removed and had a house lot of fifty aces granted to him by the proprietors of that town, with the rights appertaining thereto in after divisions.

His wife "Tamazine" died at Sudbury, June 13, 1654; the record of her death is the only one wherein her name has been found.

His 2d wife was "Mercie" wid. of Thomas Brigham of Cambridge; whom he married, March 1, 1656. His house lot in Marlboro',on which he built and resided, was in the westerly part of the town, on the old county road leading from Marlboro' to Northboro', and in the bend as it passes round the northerly side of the pond, a short distance northerly of the ancient "Williams tavern," afterwards kept by Gates and since by Wetherby. he was intrusted with various important duties by the General Court, which he discharged with a fidelity that occasioned repeated calls for his services, while the records of Sudbury and Marlboro' contain ample evidence of his vigilant and fatherly care in promoting the welfare of those infant settlements; the destruction of which by the Indians, occurring a few years after, he was not permitted to see by reason of death.

He died at Marboro', May 3, 1663, and was buried at Sudbury. A deposition of his on the court files at Cambridge states his age, April 3, 1656, to be "about 62 years" -hence he was born about 1594, and about 69 years old when he died.

Edmund married Thomasine FROST about 1617. Thomasine (daughter of Edward FROST and Thomasine BELGRAVE) was born in Stanstead, St. James, Suffolk, England; died on 13 Jun 1650 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Esther Hester MAKEPEACE on 24 Feb 1655. Esther (daughter of Thomas MAKEPEACE and Alice BRASIER) was born in 1635 in Bristol, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]