Person:Ruth Rice (2)
Ruth Rice
b.29 Sep 1659 Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
d.31 Mar 1742 Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 1 Mar 1655
  1. Lydia RiceAbt 1657 - 1717
  2. Ruth Rice1659 - 1742
Spouse and Children
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m. 20 Jun 1683
  1. Mercy Welles1684 - 1684
  2. Samuel Welles1688 - 1688
  3. Rev. Samuel Welles1689 - 1770
  4. Colonel Thomas Welles1692/93 - 1767
  5. Thaddeus Welles1695 - 1780
  6. Silas Welles1699/00 - 1754
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Ruth Rice
Married Name Ruth Welles
Gender Female
Birth[1][2][3] 29 Sep 1659 Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 20 Jun 1683 Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (possibly).to Captain Samuel Welles
Alt Death[5] 30 Mar 1742 Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death[2][4] 31 Mar 1742 Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Burial[2][5] Green Cemetery, Glastonbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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)
    5.

    "11. … Ruth (Rice), [born] Sept. 29, 1659, m. Samuel Wells."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 34. Capt. Samuel3 Welles, in Mathews, Barbara Jean; Donna Holt Siemiatkoski; Kathryn Smith Black; and Nancy Pexa. The Descendants of Gov. Thomas Welles of Connecticut and His Wife Alice Tomes. (Wethersfield, Conn.: Welles Family Association, 2015)
    1:280.

    "… Ruth Rice of Marlborough, Massachusetts, daughter of Dea. Edmund Rice and Mercy (Hurd) Bingham, born 29 September 1659 in Sudbury, Massachusetts (Sudbury pub. VR 123); and died 31 March 1742 in Glastonbury, Connecticut (Barbour citing VR 1:14, although Hale 7 gives the date as the 39th [sic - see following comment]), at age 82 according to her gravestone in Green Cemetery (Hale 7)."

    NOTE: See her mother's person page for a discussion of the Hurd surname.
    [Note: the gravestone says 30, so presumably the date of 39 seen above is a typo, probably by this source. The online record for Ruth Welles in the Hale collection here says 30.]

  3. ↑ Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903)
    123.

    "Rice, … Ruth, d. Edmund and Mercy, [born] Sept. 29, 1659. (Middlesex County record (East Cambridge))"

  4. ↑ Glastonbury Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    143.

    "Welles, … Ruth, wid. Capt. Samuel, d. Mar. 31, 1742 [1:14]"
    [Note: p. 1:14 of Glastonbury VRs says, "Mr's Ruth Welles. Widow to s'd Cap't. Sam'l Welles De'd Departed this Life March 31st. 1742".]

  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Find A Grave: Green Cemetery, Glastonbury, CT, in Find A Grave
    Ruth Rice Welles.

    Here lies Interred the Body
    of Mrs Ruth Wells Relict of
    Capt Samuel Well[s?] Decd who
    died March 30[th?] [chipped, appears to say 17]42 in the
    83[rd?] Year of her Age.
    [Note: NEHGR, "Inscriptions at Glastonbury, Conn.", Vol. 85, p. 68, says
    "Capt. Samuel Welles died Aug. 28, 1731, in his 72d year.
    Ruth, his widow, died Mar. 30, 1742, in her 83d year."
    which qualitatively agrees if not a verbatim inscription.]

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