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- Ebenezer Rice was born on 12 March 1756 at Shrewsbury, MA, now Boylston. He was the son of Elijah Rice and Huldah Keyes. Ebenezer Rice married Sarah Tayntor on 20 September 1780 at Shrewsbury, MA. Ebenezer Rice married Ruth Henrietta Eveleth on 18 December 1791 at Hubbardston, MA, Ruth of Stow. Ebenezer Rice died on 18 December 1831 at TN, (Gen Reg indicates the location as Hubbardston, in error).
He and Sarah Tayntor resided circa 1781 at Hubbardston, MA.
Land on Seven Mile Prairie in White County, Illinois, in the next township to that which was to be chosen by James H. Rice had been settled before by Abel Rice whose brother Joel was to join him. They were grandsons of a Vermonter, Ebenezer Rice, a descendant of Deacon Edmund Rice. Ebenezer was sent in 1799 by a Virginia group as a missionary to the Chickasaw Indians on the bluffs near present-day Memphis, Tennessee. He and his children came to that very site owned until shortly before by John Rice, the Northern Caroliner, whose father, Thomas, had Hanover, Virginia Roots. This John Rice, tomahawked in 1793, also had a brother named Joel. Ebenezer Rice and his family roamed Tennessee and finally settled in Maury County, Tennessee where he died in the eighteen twenties about the time that two of his sons, Abel and Joel, left to settle in White County, Illinois. One brother, Roland Rice, had died in the War of 1812 as a Tennessee Militia-man.
In preparing for his Missions to the Chickasaw Indians, he put his goods on a flat boat at the head of the Ohio and floated down that river and the Mississippi to his destination.
Sources:
Andrew Henshaw A.M. Ward, The Rice Family, p. 74.
Edmund Rice (1638) Association, Rice Family - Supp 1, p. 13.
Rice Gen'l Register, p. 121.
Jeffrey Smythe, Family Tree Maker data set.
Franklin P Rice, Shrewsbury, MA Vital Records, p. 89.
Rice Gen'l Register, p. 122.
Franklin P Rice, Hubbardston, MA Vital Records, p. 161.
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Ebenezer Rice was born on 12 March 1756 at Shrewsbury, MA.4,1,2,3 He was the son of Elijah Rice and Huldah Keyes. Ebenezer Rice married Sarah Tayntor, daughter of Deacon Benjamin Tayntor and Sarah Brigham, on 20 September 1780 at Princeton, MA.5,1,2,3 Ebenezer Rice married Ruth Henrietta Eveleth, daughter of Joseph Eveleth and Patience Hunt, on 18 December 1791 at Hubbardston, MA; not listed as Ruth of Stow.1,6,7 Ebenezer Rice died in June 1831 at Maury County, TN; the Rice Genealogical register indicates the date of death as October 1831 and the location as Hubbardston, in error.2,8
He must have liked what he saw in Vermont, because he moved there with his family, sometime in 1792 after his marriage in December 1791 to Ruth and before the birth of Abel in September, 1792. That he lived in Vermont is most easily proven from the birthplace of Joel and Abel, his sons, as seen in the 1830 White County, IL census.
In Let The Drums Roll, Veterans and Patriots of the Revolutionary War Who Settled In Maury County, Tennessee, by Marise Parrish Lightfoot, Ebenezer is said to be born in Vermont about 1756, which we know is not true as to location. It goes on to remark on his Vermont War experiences correctly. It says he was a Baptist Minister and he was one of several from Vermont sent to the Southwest to perform missionary work in the Cherokee, Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. He "may" have moved to Maury County as early as 1808 as his children were there, and in 1811 he purchased land there on Fountain Creek. He died, the book goes on to say, in June 1831 having made his will in January 1831. He married daughter Patsey and Allen Moore on 15 Nov 1816.9,10 He began military service; in 1776 as a private in Captain Ebenezer Allen's Company, Vermont Troops. He next served from 1 May to 30 November 1778 in Captain Thomas Sawyer's Company of Provincial troops. His last term of service was in Captain Orange Train's Company, Colonel Lee's Regiment of Vermont Militia from 20 October to November 1778.11,12 He and Sarah Tayntor resided circa 1781 at Hubbardston, MA.1 Ebenezer Rice left a will on 21 January 1831 at Maury County, TN,, which was recorded 6 October 1831. The will mentions wife Henrietta, son Ebenezer, daughter Sally Mayson(sic),, son Abel, daughter Patsy Moore, son Joel, Sally Rice daughter of deceased son Rowan when she arrived to the age of eighteen, and Ebenezer Rice son of deceased son Rowan between age 19 and 21. Son Ebenezer Rice executor.13
Land on Seven Mile Prairie in White County, Illinois, in the next township to that which was to be chosen by James H. Rice had been settled before by Abel Rice whose brother Joel was to join him. They were grandsons of a Vermonter, Ebenezer Rice, a descendant of Deacon Edmund Rice. Ebenezer was sent in 1799 by a Virginia group as a missionary to the Chickasaw Indians on the bluffs near present-day Memphis, Tennessee. He and his children came to that very site owned until shortly before by John Rice, the Northern Caroliner, whose father, Thomas, had Hanover, Virginia Roots. This John Rice, tomahawked in 1793, also had a brother named Joel. Ebenezer Rice and his family roamed Tennessee and finally settled in Maury County, Tennessee where he died in the eighteen twenties about the time that two of his sons, Abel and Joel, left to settle in White County, Illinois. One brother, Roland Rice, had died in the War of 1812 as a Tennessee Militia-man.
In preparing for his Missions to the Chickasaw Indians, he put his goods on a flat boat at the head of the Ohio and floated down that river and the Mississippi to his destination.
Source: Jeffrey Smythe, Family Tree Maker data set
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Ramage Family History
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