Find the marker for the Homestead of Deacon Edmund Rice - 10th Great- Grandfather of Glen Parker. It is in the first two pictures. I couldn't figure out where it was until I asked a neighbor. The only reason he found it was his father was helping him trim his bushes and found it buried in the overgrowth and cut it out.
Edmund Rice (1594–1663) | Person | Family Tree | FamilySearch
Edmund Rice[4] was born about 1594 (parents unknown), and came to this country from Barkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England. He married first Tamazine Frost, October 15, 1618 in Bury St. Edmunds, England. She died June 13, 1654,in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts[5], where she was buried June 18, 1654. He married second March 1, 1655 Mercie (_____) Brigham, widow of Thomas Brigham of Cambridge. He had twelve children, nine of whom were born in England, and the others in Sudbury. They are listed below. Edmund Rice died May 3, 1663, at Marlboro, aged about sixty-nine, and was buried in Sudbury. His widow married William Hunt of Marlboro.
Early Settler & Leader in Sudbury
Edmund Rice arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1638, although no passenger list survives that names him.
The first record of his presence is in the Township Book of the Town of Sudbury in the year 1639.[6]
As yeomen farmers, Edmund Rice and the other early settlers at Sudbury were well prepared for the tasks of forming and governing a new community. As yeomen they had assumed both personal and community responsibilities back in England. As Protestant churchmen they had been encouraged to read and write so that they could study and understand their Bible. Although not of the noble class, they had shared many community and church responsibilities in their former communities in England.[6]
Mr. Rice was a prominent man in the settlement, owning lands in and out of the town, some of which came by grant of the General Court: [7]
His first dwelling-place at Sudbury was on the old north street. September 1, 1642, he sold this place to John Moore.
In September of the same year, he leased, for six years, the Dunster Farm, which lay just east of Cochituate Pond.
He bought of the widow Mary Axdell (or Axtell) six acres of land and her dwelling house, which were in the south part of the town.
Some years afterwards he bought of Philemon Whale his house and nine acres of land near "the spring" and adjacent to the Axdell place; and these taken together, in part at least, formed the old Rice homestead, not far from the "Five Paths" (Wayland). This old homestead remained in the Rice family for generations.
In 1648, Edmund Rice was ordained as a Deacon in the Puritan Church at Sudbury.[4][4]
In his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Puritan Village, The formation of a New England Town, Sumner Chilton Powell sums up the high regard that his fellow citizens had for Edmund:
"Not only did Rice become the largest individual landholder in Sudbury, but he represented his new town in the Massachusetts legislature for five years and devoted at least eleven of his last fifteen years to serving as selectman and judge of small causes." He adds, "Two generations of Sudbury men selected Edmund Rice repeatedly as one of their leaders, with the full realization that they were ignoring men of far more English government experience who had come with him." [8][9]
He was appointed to apportion land in 1639, and became a Deputy to the General Court, a magistrate in 1641, and a selectman in 1644, and some years following.[10]
”Far-reaching interest attaches to a pen-and-ink drawing by Pauline Atlee Long, reproduced above, which has for subject the Deacon Edmund Rice homestead, built in Wayland, Mass., in 1650. Deacon Rice was a Pilgrim, born in Buckinghamshire, Eng. in 1594. He settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1638, according to a tablet that has been erected near the site of the house pictured above.”[11]
Founding member & leader in Marlborough[4]
In 1656, Edmund Rice was one of thirteen petitioners belonging to Sudbury, who petitioned the General Court for a new plantation, saying,
"Whereas your petitioners have lived divers years in Sudbury, and God hath been pleased to increase our children, which are now, divers of them, grown to man's estate, and wee, many of us grown into years, so as that wee should bee glad to see them settled before the Lord take us away from hence; as also God having given us some considerable quantity of cattle, so that wee are so straightened, that wee cannot so comfortably subsist as could be desired; and some of us having taken some pains to view the country, wee have found a place, which lieth Westward about eight miles from Sudbury, which wee conceive might bee comfortable for our subsistence," &c.
Sudbury at that time contained less than seventy-five families, and in territory included what is now Wayland. Their petition was granted, and the plantation laid to them was incorporated by the name of Marlborough in 1660. Rice had a house lot of fifty acres granted to him by the proprietors of that town, upon which he built a house. The property sat in the westerly part of the town, on the old county road leading from Marlboro' to Northboro', and in the bend as it passes round the northerly side of the pond, a short distance northerly of the ancient "Williams tavern."
Early Settler & Leader in Sudbury
Edmund Rice arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony about 1638, although no passenger list survives that names him.
The first record of his presence is in the Township Book of the Town of Sudbury in the year 1639.[6]
As yeomen farmers, Edmund Rice and the other early settlers at Sudbury were well prepared for the tasks of forming and governing a new community. As yeomen they had assumed both personal and community responsibilities back in England. As Protestant churchmen they had been encouraged to read and write so that they could study and understand their Bible. Although not of the noble class, they had shared many community and church responsibilities in their former communities in England.[6]
Mr. Rice was a prominent man in the settlement, owning lands in and out of the town, some of which came by grant of the General Court: [7]
His first dwelling-place at Sudbury was on the old north street. September 1, 1642, he sold this place to John Moore.
In September of the same year, he leased, for six years, the Dunster Farm, which lay just east of Cochituate Pond.
He bought of the widow Mary Axdell (or Axtell) six acres of land and her dwelling house, which were in the south part of the town.
Some years afterwards he bought of Philemon Whale his house and nine acres of land near "the spring" and adjacent to the Axdell place; and these taken together, in part at least, formed the old Rice homestead, not far from the "Five Paths" (Wayland). This old homestead remained in the Rice family for generations.
In 1648, Edmund Rice was ordained as a Deacon in the Puritan Church at Sudbury.[4][4]
In his Pulitzer Prize winning book, Puritan Village, The formation of a New England Town, Sumner Chilton Powell sums up the high regard that his fellow citizens had for Edmund:
"Not only did Rice become the largest individual landholder in Sudbury, but he represented his new town in the Massachusetts legislature for five years and devoted at least eleven of his last fifteen years to serving as selectman and judge of small causes." He adds, "Two generations of Sudbury men selected Edmund Rice repeatedly as one of their leaders, with the full realization that they were ignoring men of far more English government experience who had come with him." [8][9]
He was appointed to apportion land in 1639, and became a Deputy to the General Court, a magistrate in 1641, and a selectman in 1644, and some years following.[10]
”Far-reaching interest attaches to a pen-and-ink drawing by Pauline Atlee Long, reproduced above, which has for subject the Deacon Edmund Rice homestead, built in Wayland, Mass., in 1650. Deacon Rice was a Pilgrim, born in Buckinghamshire, Eng. in 1594. He settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1638, according to a tablet that has been erected near the site of the house pictured above.”[11]
Founding member & leader in Marlborough[4]
In 1656, Edmund Rice was one of thirteen petitioners belonging to Sudbury, who petitioned the General Court for a new plantation, saying,
"Whereas your petitioners have lived divers years in Sudbury, and God hath been pleased to increase our children, which are now, divers of them, grown to man's estate, and wee, many of us grown into years, so as that wee should bee glad to see them settled before the Lord take us away from hence; as also God having given us some considerable quantity of cattle, so that wee are so straightened, that wee cannot so comfortably subsist as could be desired; and some of us having taken some pains to view the country, wee have found a place, which lieth Westward about eight miles from Sudbury, which wee conceive might bee comfortable for our subsistence," &c.
Sudbury at that time contained less than seventy-five families, and in territory included what is now Wayland. Their petition was granted, and the plantation laid to them was incorporated by the name of Marlborough in 1660. Rice had a house lot of fifty acres granted to him by the proprietors of that town, upon which he built a house. The property sat in the westerly part of the town, on the old county road leading from Marlboro' to Northboro', and in the bend as it passes round the northerly side of the pond, a short distance northerly of the ancient "Williams tavern."
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