Joseph Day ¹. Joseph married ¹ Miriam Knowlton on 26 Mar 1723.

Miriam Knowlton [Parents] ¹. Miriam married ¹ Joseph Day on 26 Mar 1723.

George Hubbard [Parents] ¹ was christened ¹ in South Eastern, England. He died ² in Feb 1661 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. George married ¹ Mary Bishop in 1627 in Hingham, Norfolk, Engl, England.

George Hubbard (i) was the emigrant ancestor of the Hubbard family of Holden, Massachusetts. He was born in England, probably in the southeastern part, and came to New England in 1633. He was at Watertown until 1635. He left Watertown, October 15, 1635, in a company of sixty men, women and children who went to Wethersfield, Connecticut, to settle. He was a surveyor and was employed to survey the lines of Windsor, Connecticut, (then called Dorchester) and Wethersfield (then called Watertown). For a year or so the Connecticut colony was under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay government, which appointed commissioners for the purpose. George Hubbard was a delegate to the first general court in which Wetherficld was represented in 1638-39. The records show that he was a prominent surveyor in the Connecticut colonies for many years. He lived in the eastern part of Wethersfield which later became Glastonbury, Connecticut, and some of his original farm is now owned or was recently owned by descendants ever since the original grant. After living in Wethersfield for three years he went to Long Island Sound, where he settled in the town of Milford. Later he sold Milford Island to Richard Byran.

He married Mary Bishop, who died at Guilford, Connecticut, September 14. 1675. She was the daughter of John and Anne Bishop, who first stopped in Wethersficld and in 1639 settled in Guildford, Connecticut, where John Bishop was one of the seven original proprietors. George Hubbard died February, 1661. Children of George Hubbard were: Mary, born about 1625. in England, married John Fowler; John, born 1630, in England, resided at Wethersfield, Connecticut, and Hadley, Massachusetts ; George, lived in Greenwich, Connecticut; Daniel, born at Milford, Connecticut, 1644, lived in Guilford ; Sarah, born 1635, at Wethersfield, married David Harrison; Hannah, born 1637, at Wethersfield or Milford, Connecticut; Elizabeth, born 1638, at Wethersfield, married late in life Deacon John Norton; Abigail, born 1640, in Wethersfield, baptized May 26, 1644, at Milford; married, October 14. 1657, Humphrey Spinning, died November, 1689: William, born 1642, in Connecticut, probably at Milford, married Abigail Dudley and removed to Greenwich before 1664; Daniel, baptized May 26, 1644. at Milford. died at Guilford, 1720; married, November 17, 1664, Elizabeth Jordan. [Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of ... By Ellery Bicknell Crane]

Mary Bishop [Parents] ¹ was born ¹ in 1610 in England. She died ² on 14 Sep 1675 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Mary married ¹ George Hubbard in 1627 in Hingham, Norfolk, Engl, England.

John Knowlton [Parents] was born ¹ about 1670. John married ¹ Abigail Bachelor ¹ on 20 Dec 1697.

Abigail Bachelor ¹. Abigail married ¹ John Knowlton on 20 Dec 1697.

Samuel Rice [Parents] ^{1, 2, 3} was born in Nov 1634 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. He was christened ⁴ on 12 Nov 1634 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. He died on 25 Feb 1685 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was buried ⁵ in Spring Hill Cemetery, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Samuel married ^{6, 7} Mary Dix on 2 Sep 1668 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.

Other marriages:

King, Elizabeth
White, Sarah

Lived in Sudbury from 1639, to Marlboro about 1664, then to Concord about 1676.  Married (1)  Elizabeth King, (2) Mary Brown, then (3) Sarah (White) Hosmer, widow of James Hosmer of Concord.

Mary Dix ¹ was born ¹ on 2 May 1639 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. She died ¹ on 18 Jun 1675 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. Mary married ^{1, 2} Samuel Rice on 2 Sep 1668 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA.

Samuel Rice [Parents] ^{1, 2, 3} was born in Nov 1634 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. He was christened ⁴ on 12 Nov 1634 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. He died on 25 Feb 1685 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was buried ⁵ in Spring Hill Cemetery, Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Samuel married ^{6, 7} Sarah White ⁶ on 13 Dec 1676 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA.

Other marriages:

King, Elizabeth
Dix, Mary

Lived in Sudbury from 1639, to Marlboro about 1664, then to Concord about 1676.  Married (1)  Elizabeth King, (2) Mary Brown, then (3) Sarah (White) Hosmer, widow of James Hosmer of Concord.

Sarah White [Parents] ¹ was born about 1637 in Hawkinge, Kent, England. She was christened ¹ on 9 Apr 1643 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. She died on 25 Feb 1685. Sarah married ^{1, 2} Samuel Rice ^{3, 4, 5} on 13 Dec 1676 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA.

Sarah was baptized on 9 Apr 1643 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA.

Deacon Edmund Rice [Parents] ^{1, 2} was born ³ in 1594 in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. He was christened ⁴ on 11 Aug 1600 in Buckinghamshire, England. He died ^{5, 6} on 3 May 1663 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He was buried ^{5, 7} in May 1663 in North Cemetery, Wayland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. Edmund married ⁸ Thomasine Frost on 15 Oct 1618 in St. Mary's Bury, St Edmonds, Suffolk, England.

Other marriages:

Hurd, Mercie

Edmund Rice was born about 1594 at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. He was christened Aug 11, 1600 at Buckinghamshire, Sudbury, England. He married 15 Oct. 1618, at St. Mary's, Bury, Suffolk, England, Thomasine Frost, daughter of Edward Frost, of Stanstead, Suffolk, and his wife Thomasine.

Edmund was a Puritan dissenter, moved from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England to Berhasmsted, Hertfordshire, England in 1626, and immigrated to New England about 1637-38, arriving at Watertown, Mass on the Charles River.

He settled in Sudbury, Mass in 1638-39, where he "took abode on great road on North side of Pond, near Williams Tavern". Sudbury, called the plantation, lying near to Concord, was incorporated in 1639. His residence was on the east side of Sudbury river, in the southerly part of what is now Wayland. He was Selectman in 1644, deacon of the church in 1648. In 1656, he was one of the thirteen petitioners belonging to Sudbury who besought the General Court for a new plantation. Their petition was granted, and the new plantation was incorporated in 1660. The village plot of Sudbury, now Wayland, was laid out in 1639, and Edmund Rice was one of the first build his house there. His house lot was on Old North Street, near Millbrook. He received his share in the meadow lands in the division, September 4, 1639, April 20, and November 18, 1640. He shared also in the division of all the uplands, and had altogether two hundred and forty-seven in grants.

His wife died in Sudbury 13 June 1654 and he married secondly, Mercie Hurd, widow of Thomas Brigham. He removed to Marlborough in 1660. He died at Marlborough, 3 May 1663, and was buried at Sudbury. The inventory of his estate amounted to 743. His widow married in 1664, William Hunt.

RHYS, REES, OR RICE FAMILY The name of Rice is of Welsh origin, and in Wales was written and spoken with the prefix, Ap. Ap Rice. The name "was borne nearly eight centuries ago by Rhys ap Tewdwr ab Einean ab Owen ab Howell dha, or as sometimes styled, Rhys am Tewdwr Mawr, i.e., Rice son of Tudor, Eineon, son of Owen, son of Howell the Good; or Rise son of Tudor the Great.”

1. DEACON EDMUND RICE was born in Barkhamstead, in the County of Hertfordshire, England, about 1594; died at Marlborough, 3 May 1663, aged 69 years, buried at Sudbury. He married first in England, TAMAZINE - - who died 13 June 1654 in Sudbury, Mass. He married, secondly, 1 March 1655, MERCY BRIGHAM, widow of Thomas Brigham. Dea. Rice came to America probably early in 1638, and settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1638-9. His wife and family of at least seven children came with him. He took the freeman's oath 13 May 1640. The village plot in Sudbury, now Wayland, was laid out in the fall of 1639, and he was one of the first to build there. His house lot of 4 acres was on Old North Street near Mill Brook. He received his share of the meadow land, 4 Sept. 1639, 20 April 1640, and 8 Nov. 1640, amounting in all to forty-three and threequarters acres. He also shared in all the divisions of uplands and common lands, the full number of acres he received as an original inhabitant, amounted to 247. He sold his home farm to John Moore, 1 Sept. 1642, and 13 Sept. 1642 took a six-year lease of the Dunster farm, located on the shore of Lake Cochituate. In 1643 he bought land of the widow Axtell, between Philemon Whale's place and his own at Rice's Spring. He built a second house in the south part of the town, between Timber Neck and the Glover farm, near the Spring. Later he bought Whale's house and 9 acres, forming the nucleus of the Rice homestead, which remained in the family until a recent date. On the 29 Sept. 1647 he leased for ten years the Glover farm, which is within the present limits of Framingham. He bought the Jennison farm of 200 acres, extending from the Dunster farm to the Weston line. Here some of the family still reside. In 1659 he and his son bought the Dunster farm. Besides these grants and purchases the General Court gave him 50 acres at Rice's End, in 1652, and 80 acres near the Beaver Dam in 1659.1 On 4 Sept. 1639, he was on the first committee to apportion the meadows; selectman 1639, 1644 and later; deacon after 1648; deputy to the General Court, 1654-56, and one of the original petitioners for Marlborough grant in 1656, and received a house lot and moved there in 1660. In 1662 he was empowered to marry. He died at Marlborough. His estate amounted to £566; house, etc., £170. He was a leading man, and one of the most influential in the plantation of Sudbury.

[ref: Homer Dixon's "Surnames," in New England Family History, Vol. I, p. 35; Cutter's Gen. and Personal Memoirs of Mass. Families, Vol. I, p. 445; Vol. IV, pp. 2153, 2227; Ward's Rice Family, p. v; Bigelow's, Hist. of Marlborough, pp. 156-57.]

Thomasine Frost [Parents] was born on 10 Aug 1600 in Stanstead, Suffolk, England. She was christened in Stanstead, Suffolk, England; Christening: St. James. She died on 13 Jun 1654 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA. She was buried ¹ in Jun 1654 in North Cemetery, Wayland, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. Thomasine married ² Deacon Edmund Rice on 15 Oct 1618 in St. Mary's Bury, St Edmonds, Suffolk, England.

Emigrant to America with Family.

First wife of Edmund Rice, and the daughter of Edward Frost and Thomasine (Belgrave) Frost of Stanstead and Glemsford, Co.Suffolk, England.

Children(by first marriage): Henry Rice, Edward Rice, Thomas Rice, Lydia (Rice) Drury, Matthew Rice, Samuel Rice, Joseph Rice, Benjamin Rice, Edmund Rice Jr, and Daniel Rice.

From Ken Smith #46985536:
"Thomasine was born in 1600 and baptized at St. James Church, Stanstead, Suffolk, England on August 11 of that year. Her parents were Edward and Thomasine Belgrave Frost. On October 15, 1618 she married Edmund Rice at St. Mary's Church in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
Edmund and Thomasine had four children who were baptized in Stanstead and about 1626 moved to Berkhamstead in Hertfordshire. In Berkhmstead they had five more children.
Around 1638, the family left England and sailed to America. They probably stayed in Watertown for a short time, but soon after the town of Sudbury was laid out on September 4, 1639 they settled there. Edmund bought, sold and rented land until he created a large farm near Dudley Pond on the east side of the river, in that part of Sudbury that later became Wayland. This area of Sudbury was later known as Rice's End.
Thomasine died in Sudbury on June 13, 1654 and was buried on June 18 in the North Cemetery in Wayland.
Edmund married again and died in 1663, after moving to Marlborough."

Daniel Hubbard [Parents] ¹ was born ² on 9 Mar 1661 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts. He died ² on 12 Feb 1744 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Daniel married Esther Rice ³ on 1 Nov 1683 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA.

Esther Rice [Parents] ¹ was born ¹ on 18 Sep 1665 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA. She died on 11 Feb 1744 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA. Esther married Daniel Hubbard ² on 1 Nov 1683 in Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA.

Richard Hubbard ¹ was born ¹ in 1590 in England. He died ¹ in Feb 1661 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Richard married ¹ Dulzebella ¹ in England.

Dulzebella ¹ was born ¹ about 1590 in England. Dulzebella married ¹ Richard Hubbard ¹ in England.

John Bishop ¹ was born ¹ in 1591 in Neen Savage, Shrops, England. He died ¹ on 7 Feb 1660 in Guilford, New Haven, Conn. John married ¹ Ann Stevens ¹ about 1610 in Guilford, New Haven, Ct.

Ann Stevens ¹ was born ¹ in 1592 in Suffolk, England. She died ¹ in Apr 1676 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Ann married ¹ John Bishop ¹ about 1610 in Guilford, New Haven, Ct.

Mary Knowlton [Parents] ¹ died ¹ before 1713. Mary married James Patch.