Ancestry of
Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Mary Buckminster

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Edgar Rice Burroughs — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 21 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Buckminster 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Baxter   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Nov 1726 
  • Birth Location:
  • Framingham, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Jun 1795 
  • Death Location:
  • Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Brookfield Cemetery, Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Tilly Rice
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Nov 1748 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Thomas Rice (Ahnentafel No:10 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources list Mary's birth date as 05 NOV 1726, while others list it as 05 NOV 1728.

• Sources for Mary Buckminster

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A095160.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/23/2013).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Brookfield, Vol. 1, p. 188, Birth record for son Thomas Rice.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Brookfield, Vol. 1, p. 396, Marriage record for Tilly Rice and Mary Buckminster.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Brookfield, Vol. 1, p. 525, Death record for Mary Rice.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Framingham, Vol. 1, p. 36, Birth record for Mary Buckminster.
  • ⁷ Ward, Andrew Henshaw, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, Who Came From Berkhamstead, England . . ., Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson (1858), 56.