Abishai Rice

From "A Genealogical History of the Rice Family - Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice" by Andrew Henshaw Ward, A. M., Boston - C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858

Abishai Rice (son of Gershom, grandson of Thomas, great grandson of Edmund), was born 16 Oct 1701, Groton, CT. He married Frances Rice (daughter of James, granddaughter of Thomas, great granddaughter of Edmund), born 6 Mar 1702/3, Marlborough, MA, and resided at Worcester. They had 9 children recorded there, after which they moved away, tradition says to Greenwich, CT; there is no record of them there.

Jotham Rice and his brothers, Zebadiah, Tyrus and Jessaniah, conveyed 4 Dec 1734 "100 acres of land in Worcester to our brother-in-law, Abishai Rice, who married our sister, Frances Rice; which land was the homestead of our Honored Father, in part, and partly land of our late brother, James Rice, deceased."

Children:

Lucy, born 2 Oct 1724

Nathan, born 26 Sep 1726, probably married Mehitabel

           Baldwin, "both of Leicester", 23 April 1751

Phineas, born 7 Nov 1728

James, born 7 Aug 1730

Asa, born 8 Feb 1731/2

Grace, born 23 Nov 1733

Michah, born 21 Jul 1735, supposedly married Silence

           Rice

Sarah, born 1 Apr 1739

Abishai, born 14 Oct 1740, married Rebecca