Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

President and CEO of NAACP

Thomas Rice

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1296 
  • Father:
  • Edmund Rice 
  • Mother:
  • Thomasine Frost   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 26 Jan 1625/1626 
  • Christening Location:
  • Stanstead, Suffolk, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 16 Nov 1681 
  • Death Location:
  • Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary King
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  Thomas Rice (Ahnentafel No:648 )

  Mary Rice

  Ephraim Rice

  Gershom Rice

  Jonas Rice

  Elisha Rice

• Sources for Thomas Rice

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sudbury, Vol. 1, p. 323, Death record for Thomas Rice.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marlborough, Vol. 1, p. 155, Birth record for son Gershom Rice.
  • ³ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2008, Vol. 9.4, p. 49.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1933, Vol. 10, p. 136.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1953, Vol. 30, p. 76.
  • ⁶ Balcomb, Frank W., A First Book of the Balcombe Family, Peabody, Massachusetts: The Fraedy Press (1942), 2.
  • ⁷ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 13, 3rd ed., William White, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 38.
  • ⁸ 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), 5-7.
  • ⁹ White, Almira Larkin, Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1638-1900, Vol. 1, Haverhill, Massachusetts: Chase Brothers, Printers (1900), 22.

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