Ancestry of
Harry Chapin

Singer and Songwriter

Gershom Rice

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Harry Chapin — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 330 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Rice 
  • Mother:
  • Mary King   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 May 1667 
  • Birth Location:
  • Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Dec 1768 
  • Death Location:
  • Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Hope Cemetery, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Balcom
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1696 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Gershom Rice

  Abishai Rice

  Sarah Rice (Ahnentafel No:165 )

  Matthias Rice

• Sources for Gershom Rice

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 08/11/2016).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Marlborough, Vol. 1, p. 155, Birth record for Gershom Rice.
  • ³ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2002, Vol. 3.4, pp. 50-51.
  • ⁴ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2004, Vol. 5.1, pp. 45-46.
  • ⁵ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2008, Vol. 9.4, pp. 48-50.
  • ⁶ New Hampshire Gazette: Newspaper Abstracts, 1756-1769, p. 18938, Obituary for Gershon Rice.
  • ⁷ The Essex Genealogist, 2010, Vol. 30, pp. 13-14.
  • ⁸ Balcomb, Frank W., A First Book of the Balcombe Family, Peabody, Massachusetts: The Fraedy Press (1942), 2.
  • ⁹ Cutter, William Richard, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the Achievements of . . . Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1913), 303.
  • ¹⁰ Haynes, Frances, ed., Walter Haynes of Sutton Mandeville, Wiltshire, England, and Sudbury, Massachusetts and His Descendants, 1583-1928, Haverhill, Massachusetts: Record Publishing Company (1929), 58.

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