Susannah Rice

Susanna Gerould was the granddaughter of Gamaliel Gerould (1719-1795) and his wife Rebecca Lawrence who he married Dec. 25, 171, and who died Jan. 12, 1751. Jabez Gerould, father of Susanna, was the fourth child of Gamaliel and Rebecca Gerould, was born Nov. 1, 1748 in Wrentham, mass., served as a private in the Lexington alarm of 1175 in Col. Sparhawk’s Regiment, and later as a drummer in Col. Ephrian Doolittle’s Regiment. After the war he settled in Newton, Conn., thence he emigrated to Franklin, N.Y. in 1798, and in 1801 he established his home in a log house in east Smithfield. His wife was Demaris Bennett of Newton, Conn. They had nine children, of whom Susanna was third, born Jan. 1, 1786. Her father died a year after coming to East Smithfield, but the mother with her children, the oldest of whom was 16, preserved, and brought them to maturity, with the exception of the first born who had died as a child.