Ancestry of
William Marsh Rice

Founder of Rice University

Martha Woodbridge

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• • 7th Generation — 4th Great-grandmother of William Marsh Rice
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 91 
  • Father:
  • John Woodbridge   
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Dudley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Jun 1658 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barford St. Martin's, Wiltshire, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Ruggles Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Jul 1680 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Roxbury (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:
  • Sarah Ruggles 

• Sources for Martha Woodbridge

  • ¹ Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 (Online Datebase), New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001-2008), Roxbury, Vol. 1, p. 302, Birth record for son Timothy Ruggles.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1987, Vol. 4, p. 72, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historic and Genealogical Society), 1878, Vol. 32, p. 293.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historic and Genealogical Society), 1871, Vol. 25, p. 313.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VII, T-Y, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2011), 507.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 193.
  • ⁷ Watson, Marston, Royal Families: Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry, Volume 1, Governor Thomas Dudley and Descendants . . ., 2nd Ed., Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (2004), 10, Ancestry.com (Online Database).