52 Ancestors - Week 390: #611 Ruth (Parker) Rice (1672-before 1720) of Marlborough, Massachusetts

Ruth Parker (1672-before 1720)   is #611 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #610 Edmund Rice (1663-1726) in 1692 in Marlborough, Middlesex County,  Massachusetts Bay Colony.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter #305 Dinah Rice (1693-1725), who married #304 Nathan Brigham (1693-1784) in 1717.

*  their son #152 Moses Brigham (1723-1769), who married #153 Mehitable Grout (1726-1795) in 1749.

*  their son, #76 Phinehas Brigham (1755-1802), who married #77 Lydia Batherick (1752-1795) in 1779.

*  their son #38 Lambert Brigham (1794-1834), who married #39 Sophia Buck (1797-1882) in 1817.

*  their daughter #19 Sophia Newton (1834-1923), who married #18 Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) in 1852.

*  their daughter #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) who married  #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) in 1874.

*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.

*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)  in 1942.

*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

* Name:                       Ruth Parker[1-3]  

* Sex:                          Female

* Father:                     John Parker (1629-1684)
* Mother:                   Sarah --?-- (1638-1680)

 

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                     before 27 October 1672, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[1-2]
*  Baptism:                27 October 1672 (after age 0), Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States[1-2]

* Death: before 1720 (before about age 48), Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
   

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:               Edmund Rice (1663-1726)

*  Marriage 1:           15 November 1692 (about age 20), Roxbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1,3]

*  Child 1:                Dinah Rice (1693-1725)

*  Child 2:                Silas or Tannhahorens Jacques Rice (1695-1779)

*  Child 3:                Timothy or Jacques Oserokohton Chief Rice (1697-1777)

*  Child 4:                Nahor Rice (1699-1704)

*  Child 5:                Huldah Rice (1701-1741)

*  Child 6:                Moses Rice (1703-1704)

*  Child 7:                Seth Rice (1705-1796)

*  Child 8:                Thankful Rice (1707-1779)

*  Child 9:                Eleazer Rice (1709-1767)

*  Child 10:              Ruth Rice (1712-1786)

*  Child 11:              Ebenezer Rice (1714-1714)

*  Child 12:              Anna Rice (1715-1802)

   

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

Ruth Parker (1672-before 1720) was baptized on 27 October 1672 in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay[1-]. She was the daughter of John and Sarah (--?--) Parker of Roxbury.

Ruth married Edmund Rice (1663-1726) on 15 November 1692 in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony as his first wife[1,3].  They resided in Marlborough, Massachusetts, and had 12 children, all born and recorded in Marlborough vital records[1].

*  Dinah Rice (1693-1725), married 1717 Nathan Brigham (1693-1784).

*  Silas Rice (1695-1779), married 1715 Marie Tsionnakwannen Tsaikohawi (1699-1779).

*  Timothy Rice (1697-1777), married Catherine Osennehawe (1701-1750).

*  Nahor Rice (1699-1704).

*  Huldah Rice (1701-1741), married 1720 Samuel Wheelock (1696-1756).

*  Moses Rice (1703-1704).

*  Seth Rice (1705-1796), married 1727 Dorothy Robinson (1709-1801).

*  Thankful Rice (1707-21779), married 1726 Josiah Rice (1700-1792).

*  Eleazer Rice (1709-1767), married (1) 1731 Persis Newton (1713-1746); (2) 1747 Mehitabel Stone (1719-1812).

*  Ruth Rice (1712-1786), married 1738 Elisha Ward (1712-1756).

*  Ebenezer Rice (1714-1714).

*  Anna Rice (1715-1802), married 1741 Solomon Rice (1713-1802).

During Queen Anne's War, three of Edmund and Ruth (Parker) Rice's children were captured in an Iroquois Indian raid on 8 August 1704 in Marlborough[1].  Their 5 year old son, Nahor, was killed. Two other sons, Silas aged 9 years old and Timothy almost 7 years old were taken to Quebec with other captives.  Silas married an Indian wife; by 1900 he had 1350 living descendants, and died in Canada in 1779 having lost his ability to speak his mother tongue.  Timothy became a chief of the Caughnawa tribe.  He visited Westborough in 1740 and died in Canada in 1777.

Ruth died before 1720, since Edmund married, secondly, Hannah Brewer on 23 June 1720 in Sudbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony.  There is no death or burial record for Ruth (Parker) Rice.  

5.  SOURCES

1. Andrew Henshaw Ward, The Genealogical History of The Rice Family:  Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice (Boston, C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858), page 35, Edmund Rice family sketch.

2. Vital Records of Roxbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (Salem, Mass.: The Essex Institute, 1925, 2 Volumes), Births, page 268, Ruth Parker baptism entry, 27 x month 1672.

3. "New England Marriages to 1700," online database with digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008),  page 1265, Edmund Rice and Ruth Parker marriage entry, 15 November 1692.

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NOTE: In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog. I have extended this theme in 2021 for an eighth year to 416 Ancestors in 416 Weeks. The list of 52 Ancestors biographies from my great-grandparents to the 7th great-grandparents (in work) is in https://www.geneamusings.com/p/ancestor-biographies.html.

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