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John Forbes Nash, Jr.

“A Beautiful Mind” Mathematician

Dorcas Rice

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of John Forbes Nash, Jr. — 9th Generation
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  • Father:
  • Edward Rice 
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  • Agnes Bent   
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  • 29 Jan 1664 
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  • Thomas Forbush
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  Aaron Forbush

  Thomas Forbush (Ahnentafel No:152 )

• Sources for Dorcas Rice

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marlborough, Vol. 1, p. 73, Birth record for son Aaron Forbush.
  • ² Morse, J. Howard and Miss Emily W. Leavitt, comp., Morse Genealogy Comprising the Descendants of Samuel, Anthony, William and Joseph Morse and John Moss, Springfield, Massachusetts: Springfield Printing and Binding Company (1903), Joseph Morse Section, p. 14.
  • ³ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Forbes and Forbush Genealogy: The Descendants of Daniel Forbush, Who Came from Scotland About the Year 1655 . . ., Chicago: Rand McNally and Co. (1892), 20-22.
  • ⁴ 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), 6, 21.

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