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Rachel Stone

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Bill Nye — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 33 
  • Father:
  • Jonas Stone 
  • Mother:
  • Rachel Rice   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Oct 1754 
  • Birth Location:
  • Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Oct 1818 
  • Death Location:
  • Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ward Nye
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 9 Aug 1784 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Jonas Ward Nye (Ahnentafel No:16 )

• Sources for Rachel Stone

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A110097.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Shrewsbury, Vol. 1, p. 198, Marriage intention for Ward Nye and Rachel Stone.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Douglas, Vol. 1, p. 132, Marriage intention for Ward Nye and Rachel Stone.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Shrewsbury, Vol. 1, p. 100, Birth record for Rachel Stone.
  • ⁵ Bartlett, Joseph Gardner, Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass. 1320-1917, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Murray Printing Company (1918), 150.
  • ⁶ Nye, George Hyatt and Frank E. Best, et. al., A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Cleveland, Ohio: The Nye Family of American Association (1907), 124-125.
  • ⁷ Thompson, Bradley Deforest and Franklin Condit Thompson, Blodget-Blodgett Descendants of Thomas of Cambridge, Concord, New Hampshire: Typed manuscript (1955), 332.
  • 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), 98.