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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903)
122.
RICE, Mary, d. Nathanell and Patiance, [born] Sept. 16, 1707.
- ↑ Crane, Ellery Bicknell. "Descendants of Henry Curtis, of Watertown, Massachusetts", in Worcester Society of Antiquity (Massachusetts). Proceedings of the Worcester Society of Antiquity. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Photocopied by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1985-1986)
Vol. 25, p. 11.
The wife of Ephraim Curtis died December 1, 1745.
[See the note about the identify of the wife. This source gives the wrong wife, with no evidence.]
- Note: Source:Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Genealogical History of the Rice Family : Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, p. 33, shows a different Mary Rice marrying Ephraim Curtis but gives no evidence or justification. It is likewise repeated in many histories of Worcester without evidence or justification (e.g., Source:Nutt, Charles. History of Worcester and Its People). But it appears to be one of the those blindly-repeated errors that is sometimes found in genealogy. Nothing described in the life of Ephraim and Mary (Rice) Curtis of Worcester seems to show any connection to the wife's family, plus as long as the mythical match-up is used, it is impossible to properly account for the many Mary Rices of Sudbury without contradiction. There is a detailed discussion on the page of the other Mary Rice. In short, the father of Mary Rice of this page, Nathaniel Rice, in his 1726 will, names his daughter as Mary Rice (i.e., unmarried), ruling out her being the one who m. 1724 Paul Brintnall, leaving her as the one who must have married Ephraim Curtis, while the other Mary Rice that is named by Ward et al., d/o Isaac Rice, appears to be the only one who could have married Paul Brintnall.
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