Edmund Rice (colonist)
| Edmund Rice | |
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Edmund Rice homesite marker tablet in Wayland, Massachusetts.
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| Deputy of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony | |
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In office 1640, 1643, 1652 – 1654 |
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| Selectman Sudbury, Massachusetts | |
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In office 1639, 1640, 1644 – 1656 |
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| Judge of Small Causes Sudbury, Massachusetts | |
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In office 1641–1655 |
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| Selectman Marlborough, Massachusetts | |
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In office 1657–1663 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | ca. 1594 Suffolk, England |
| Died | 3 May 1663 (aged 69) Marlborough, Massachusetts |
| Resting place | Old North Cemetery, Wayland, Massachusetts |
| Profession | Yeoman farmer, Surveyor, Land owner, Deacon of Puritan Church |
| Website | http://www.edmund-rice.org/edmund.htm |
Edmund Rice (c. 1594 – 3 May 1663), was an early immigrant to Massachusetts Bay Colony born in Suffolk, England. He lived in Stanstead, Suffolk and Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire before sailing with his family to America. He landed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in summer or fall of 1638, thought to be first living in the town of Watertown, Massachusetts. Shortly thereafter he was a founder of Sudbury in 1638, and later in life was one of the thirteen petitioners for the founding of Marlborough in 1656. He was a Deacon in the Puritan Church, and served in town politics as a selectman and judge. He also served five years as a member of the Great and General Court, the combined colonial legislature and judicial court of Massachusetts.
Edmund Rice's rough birth date of 1594 is reckoned from a 3 April 1656 court deposition in Massachusetts in which he stated that he was 62 years old. His likely birthplace, somewhere in Suffolk in East Anglia, is found through the town of his marriage and of his earliest children's births. Many of the church records from 1594 in Suffolk are lost, so any record of his birth or the names of his parents or any of his forebears is unknown. Edmund Rice had a presumed brother, Henry (c. 1580-1621), who married Elizabeth Frost (sister of Edmund's wife Thomasine) on 12 November 1605 at St. James Church,Stanstead, Suffolk 52°06′42″N 0°41′26″E / 52.111652°N 0.690641°E. Repeated attempts to find record of Edmund Rice's birth or the birth of his presumed brother Henry in church or civil records of the Stanstead, Sudbury, Haverhill, and Bury St. Edmunds region of Suffolk have not been successful and the records are presumed to be lost.
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