Ancestry of
Ben Jealous

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Elijah Rice

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Ben Jealous — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 162 
  • Father:
  • Charles Rice 
  • Mother:
  • Rachel Wheeler   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Jun 1719 
  • Birth Location:
  • Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 15 Apr 1785 
  • Death Location:
  • Henniker, Merrimack, New Hampshire 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Prudence Hardy
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 Aug 1762 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Upton, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Thankful Rice

  Prudence Rice (Ahnentafel No:81 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Additional marriages for Elijah Rice

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Shattuck
  • Marriage Date:
  • 24 May 1744
  • Marriage Location:
  • Westborough, Worcester, Massachusetts

• Sources for Elijah Rice

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A204016.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Upton, Vol. 1, p. 103, Marriage record for Elijah Rice and Prudence Hardy.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Westborough, Vol. 1, p. 87, Birth record for Elijah Rice.
  • ⁴ New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1654-1969, Deaths Q-R to 1901, p. 4295, Death record for Elijah Rice.
  • ⁵ Wakefield, Robert S., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 2, 2nd Ed., Richard Warren, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 318.
  • ⁶ 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), 61, 109-110.

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