Person:Moses Rice (1)
Moses Rice
b.27 Oct 1694 Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
d.11 Jun 1755 Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 2 Nov 1674
  1. John Rice1675 - 1733
  2. Anna Rice1678 -
  3. Deliverance Rice1681 -
  4. Tabitha Rice1683 -
  5. Prudence Rice1685 -
  6. Abigail Rice1687 - 1754
  7. Edward Rice1689 -
  8. Dinah Rice1691 - 1717
  9. Moses Rice1694 - 1755
  10. Tamar Rice1697 - 1765
  11. Aaron Rice1700 -
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Moses Rice1694 - 1755
  • W.  Sarah King (add)
m. 16 Nov 1719
  1. Samuel Rice1720 - 1793
  2. Abigail Rice1722/23 -
  3. Aaron Rice1724/25 - 1808
  4. Dinah Rice1726/27 - 1818
  5. Sylvanus Rice1728/29 -
  6. Tamar Rice1732 -
  7. Artemas Rice1734 - 1797
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Facts and Events
Name[2] Moses Rice
Gender Male
Birth[1] 27 Oct 1694 Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 16 Nov 1719 Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Sarah King (add)
Death[2][3] 11 Jun 1755 Charlemont, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States
Other[2][4] Worcester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesfirst Town Clerk
References
  1. ↑ Moses Rice, in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903)
    p 123.

    Rice, Moses, s. John and Tabitha, [born] Oct. 27, 1694.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 John Rice, in 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)
    p 17, 50, 51.

    [p 17] 9. Moses, [b.] Oct. 27, 1694, m. Sarah King.
    [p 50] Moses Rice (163.9) m. Sarah King at Sud., Nov. 16, 1719, and removed to Worcester about 1722, and opened a public house on the site of one afterwards kept by Capt. Ephraim Mower, and on which was subsequently erected the "United States Hotel."

  3. ↑ June 11, 1755, while Capt. Rice was in his field ploughing among corn, the Indians, lying in ambush, shot him, and at the same time shot and killed outright, Phineas Arms, aged 24, who was at work in the field at that time.

    The horse at the plough, being frightened, started suddenly and threw off the rider, Asa Rice, a gr. son of Capt. Moses Rice, aged about 8 years, whom the Indians caught up and carried to Canada. Capt. Rice being sorely wounded, and unable to walk, was taken some distance into the adjoining woods, where he was tomahawked and scalped. Such was his tragical end; being then in the 61st year of his age and in the chief man of the township for counsel in peace and in war.
  4. ↑ Ward in Rice Gen. states "He said to have been its (Worcester's) first town clerk; but as that township was not incorporated till 1765, ten years after his death, it is not unlikely he was the Proprietor's Clerk."S2
    However, in 1684, the town's name officially changed from Quinsigamond to Worcester. The third (and what would be permanent) attempt to settle the town occurred in 1713 and Worcester was incorporated as a town in 1722.
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