Ancestry of
Elias Howe

Inventor, Lockstitch Sewing Machine

John Rice

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Elias Howe — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 66 
  • Father:
  • Edward Rice 
  • Mother:
  • Agnes Bent   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Dec 1651 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Sep 1719 
  • Death Location:
  • Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Tabitha Stone
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Nov 1674 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Deliverance Rice (Ahnentafel No:33 )

  Tabitha Rice

  Abigail Rice

  Moses Rice

• Sources for John Rice

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, John Stone (m. 1640), p. 6.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sudbury, Vol. 1, p. 121, Birth record for John Rice.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sudbury, Vol. 1, p. 124, Birth record for daughter Tabitha Rice.
  • ⁴ Howe, Daniel Wait and Gilman Bigelow Howe, Howe Genealogies: This Volume Contains the Genealogy of John Howe of Sudbury and Marlborough, Massachusetts, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1929), 25.
  • ⁵ Wakefield, Robert S., ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 13, 3rd ed., William White, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 35.
  • 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), 17.