Person:Jotham Rice (1)

Jotham Rice left a will on 23 December 1773 at Rutland District (Barre), MA,, mentioning wife Mary, daughters Mercy and Prudence, sons Ralph, Daniel, Jotham, James, and Benjamin, daughters Violate Garts, Elizabeth Wilder, Martha Walker, and Mary How, and executors John Mason and son. He estate was probated on 23 December 1783 at Worcester County, MA; (this probate date is not found in Jotham's probate docket and may be merely a garbled copy of the date of the will itself).

1.   Ward, Andrew Henshaw. A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, who came from Barkhamstead, England and settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1638 or 9. (Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858)
   pp 29, 70.

   JOTHAM RICE, s/o James Rice and Sarah Stone, b. Feb 17 1696, m Mary Earl, dau of Ralph Earl, and removed from Newport RI to Worcester about 1734 and thence to Rutland District Barre before 1749 where he d Nov 17 1782 in his 86th year.

2. ↑ Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Marlborough, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1908)
   p. 157.

   RICE, Jotham, s. James and Sarah, Feb. 17, 1696.

3. ↑ Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Barre, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1903)
   p. 263.

   RICE, Jotham, d. Nov. 11, 1782, a. 85. GS