RICE, Comfort

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Comfort married MORRIS, Martha on 1 Jan 1755 in Woodstock, CT. Martha was born on 4 Apr 1731 in Woodstock, CT; died on 14 Jun 1812 in Ward, MA; was buried in Auburn, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Gershom Rice, Jr., Militia, 6 weeks, 1775, 1 turn; Continental Army 177 6; 1 turn.

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Gershom married HAYNES, Esther about 1720. Esther was born in 1697 in Sudbury, MA; died in 1770 in Worcester, MA; was buried in Worcester, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Arrival: 1697, Groton, CT
• Arrival: 1713, Marlborough, MA

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Residence: bef 13 Oct 1713; Jonas Rice (1673-1753), Marlboro, Middlesex C o, MA; moving from Groton with a petition of that date signed by Gersho m and Jonas of Marlboro. Petition presented to the General Court expres sing desire to enter upon a new settlement of Worchester. The request w as granted and they then commenced the third and permanent settlement o f Worcester. Gershom and Jonas were called the "FATHERS OF THAT TOWN." A t his home, the first meetings for religious worship were held in 1736. T he church later was built to the left of City Hall on Main Street, Worc ester, the First Old South Church. Gershom was chosen as selectman & he ld that office for 9 years. He became a very prominent citizen of Worce ster. He built his home on Pakachoag Hill (now the site of Holy Cross C ollege). He sold his estate in Worcester and purchased a large tract o f land in what is now Auburn- on Bancroft Street where he died December 1 9, 1761, aged 101 years and buried on Worcester Common. His son Gershom , Jr. was the next one to live in the homestead and he assisted in orga nizing the new town and church. He was succeeded by his son, Comfort Ri ce, who is buried in Auburn, beside the Center Church. Then his son, Ed ward Rice and his son, Ezra rice lived there. From 1736 when the house w as built, five generations of Rice family lived there for 152 years. Th irty one children were born here by the name of Rice. Gershom (Sr.) pla nted the first orchards in 1735.

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He and his brother, Jonas, commenced the 3rd and permanent settlement of Worcester. Two previous settlements there were broken up by the Indians.

Gershom married BALCOMBE, Elizabeth. Elizabeth (daughter of BALCOMBE, Henry and HAYNES, Elizabeth) was born on 16 Aug 1672 in Charlestown, MA; died in 1752 in New London, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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A blacksmith. The Haynes family settled on a grant of land called "Quinisigmonnd" aft er arrival on the "Confidence" April 9, 1638. Deacon John Haynes grant ed one hundred of land included in the tract to Henry Balcombe, Septemb er 5, 1672.] Married by Lt. Edm. Goodonow

Henry married HAYNES, Elizabeth on 12 Aug 1666 in Charlestown, MA. Elizabeth (daughter of HAYNES, John and NOYES, Dorothy) was born on 19 Jul 1644 in Sudbury, MA; died on 20 Nov 1715 in Sudbury, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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