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Edgar Rice Burroughs

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Obadiah Rice

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Edgar Rice Burroughs — 6th Generation
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  • 40 
  • Father:
  • Jacob Rice 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Esther Merrick
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Sep 1722 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Tilly Rice (Ahnentafel No:20 )

• Sources for Obadiah Rice

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Brookfield, Vol. 1, p. 188, Birth record for son Tilly Rice.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Brookfield, Vol. 1, p. 395, Marriage record for Obediah Rice and Esther Mirick.
  • ³ 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), 20, 56.