Sarah Mary Rice

Notes

Jan 2014:

LDS has DOB as 18 December 1696 Little Compton,Newport,Rhode Island,USA & 2nd marriage to Thomas Manchester I720. Pcez has DOB  as b. ABT 1693 of Woodstock, Windham, CT & no impossible 2nd marriage. However both sites report Samuel Rice as dead in 1717 - before his children were born ....

June 2014:

Cannot have been a daughter of William Earle & Hepzibah Butts; they were married in Little Compton, Rhode Island, in 1725, two years before the reported birth of the Earle born in Woodstock, Connecticut.  They had 4  daughters recorded in Little Compton Vital Records, beginning 1726, and whose marriages are accounted for.   

There is a reference in the Earl Genealogy to "a (presumed) sister of John Earle" marrying Samuel Rice; this seems to be the source of the confusion.  Jonathan Earle (son of William & Hepzibah) was a fellow lease holder in Lot 4 of the Beekman Patent.

See http://www.geni.com/discussions/134239?msg=946854 & http://www.geni.com/discussions/134239?msg=946774

Sources

1. "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/94FX-8GG : accessed 2014-01-29), entry for Sarah Earl, submitted by nburgess3758453.
2. http://hylbom.com/family/paternal-lines/paternal-dy-to-gi/earle-5600/ "William Earle was of Dartmouth when he sold 112 acres to Peleg Slocum in August 1693 for £65.  He sold more land in 1696 to Robert Havens and was a Constable in 1695 and 1696.  His children were recorded in Little Compton but the Earle Family Genealogy, (page 29), notes “no further history of this family is found: they probably emigrated from New England.”  The family is next found in Pomfret, Connecticut, and several of William Earle’s children came to the Beekman Patent[12].  Samuel Rice, John Franklin and John Earl were all in lot 4 area of Pawling by about 1740.  Rice and Franklin married (presumed) sisters to John Earle."

Links

• http://www.pcez.com/~bigshoe/du/Rice/eastman.html