Ancestry of
Jennifer Coolidge

TV and Movie Actress

Martha King

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of Jennifer Coolidge — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2115 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1643 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Jan 1668/1669 
  • Death Location:
  • Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Rice
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 May 1658 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Martha Rice (Ahnentafel No:1057 )

  • Notes: 

  • Martha King's given name is also seen as Mary or Mercy.

    Torrey's New England Marriages to 1700 states that Mary is the wrong given name and that it should be Martha.

• Sources for Martha King

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1863, Vol. 17, p. 256, Marriage record for Joseph Rice and Mary or Mercy King.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1923, Vol. 77, p. 276.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1933, Vol. 10, p. 136.
  • ⁴ Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Vol. 2, p. 1266, Marriage record for Joseph Rice and Martha King.
  • ⁵ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his Wife Frances Helen Miller, Vol. 1, Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press (1948), 85.
  • 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), 8-9.

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