ELEVENTH GENERATION

1148. Beriah RICE was born on 20 Aug 1702 in Marlborough, now Westboro, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. He died @1764 in Annapolis, Nova Scotia. Beriah Rice (b 1702) was a New England Planter who emigrated from Massachusetts to the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia in 1760. Beriah and two of his sons set sail from Boston on 17 May 1760 aboard the ship "Charming Molly" for Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Other members of his family followed later in 1760 or in 1761.

Beriah Rice was a fourth generation descendant of Edmund Rice, born about 1594, and Thomasine Frost, born about 1599, who emigrated from England to Sudbury in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. Life in the new colony must have agreed with the Rice family as the Edmund Rice (1638) Association lists a few thousand descendants of Edmund and Thomasine Rice by the fifth generation in the mid 18th century.

Mary Goodenow was also a descendant of an English family who also emigrated to Sudbury in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. As with Beriah Rice's ancestors, Mary's Goodenow ancestors are well documented in Massachusetts by the Goodenow Family Association. Your author counts 120 Goodenow names of those who married into first five generations of the descendants of Edmund Rice and Thomasine Frost. It is likely that there are a similar number of Rice names appear in the Goodenow files.

Unfortunately we have no record of Mary Goodenow's travel to Nova Scotia or of her death. The passenger manifest of the first Charming Molly voyage does tell us if wives made that voyage so we know that Mary did not make the voyage. Beriah Rice's will tells us that Mary was alive in 1763 as he leaves half of his property in Annapolis to her. We can assume that she was alive in 1764 when the will was probated at Annapolis.

Beriah1 Rice; born 20 August 1702 at Marlboro, Middlesex Co, MA; married Mary Goodenow, daughter of Samuel Goodenow Jr and Sarah Brigham, 6 January 1730/31 at Westborough, Worcester Co, MA; died before 27 June 1764. Beriah Rice's will and probate record have names that were not known in Annapolis, Nova Scotia in 1764. Your author speculates that Beriah may have been visiting son Stephen or Benjamin in Massachusetts when his will was written and at the time of his death.

Judge Savary presents the List of Names of Confirmation of the Township of Annapolis, dated October 30th, 1765. Both Beriah and Beriah, Junr are listed. Paul Haseltine is also listed although we have good evidence that by late 1765 Paul was founding a new town in what is now the state of Vermont. We may assume that the town fathers padded the list of names as Beriah Sr was dead and Paul Heseltine was living in Vermont by that time.

He resided on 25 June 1760 at Annapolis Royal, Annapolis Co, Nova Scotia. He left Boston on the Charming Molly, May 17th, 1760 and arrived in Annapolis Royal on June 25th, 1760. He had with him two oxen and two cows. He left a will on 15 June 1763 at Annapolis Royal, Annapolis Co, Nova Scotia; which was recorded 27 Jun 1764 by Coram Francis Whipple, Justice of Peace. The will cited his wife Marcy (sic), eldest son Judah, second son Asaph, third son Timothy, younger sons Beriah, Benjamin, Joseph, and Stephen, eldest daughter Marcy (sic) wife of Paul Hareltine (sic), second daughter Lucy, third daughter Rachael, and fourth daughter Sarah. Beriah left a one half right to his farm "on the east side of the creek known as Bloody Bridge Creek ..." for the space of six years "but at the expiration of said term the above mentioned half right (to the) farm shall be you son Timothy's hereafter ...". Beriah left the other half of his land and farm dwelling on the east side of Bloody Bridge Creek to his son Timothy. " I give and bequeath to my eldest daughter Mary, wife of Paul Haseltine, four pounds lawful money of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay." The will was witnessed by Daniel Hardy, Abigail Adams, and Jonathan Bond. Your author notes that the names Adams, Bond, and Whipple are found nowhere in surviving records of Annapolis or Granville for the 1760s. Was the will probated somewhere else. It appears that the place may have been Worcester?.

Mary Goodenow was born on 5 April 1712 at Marlboro, Middlesex Co, MA. She died after June 1763 although we have no record of Mary's death or her living in Nova Scotia, her husband Beriah Rice left her one half interest in his farm and dwelling on the east side of Bloody Bridge Creek in the Township of Annapolis, Nova Scotia. Your author considers it quite certain that Mary lived at Annapolis Royal after 1760 and died after Beriah's will was recorded, 27 June 1764.

He was married to Mary GOODENOW on 6 Jun 1731.

1149. Mary GOODENOW was born on 5 Apr 1712 in Marlborough, Middlesex Co., MA. She died after 1764 in Annapolis Co., Nova Scotia. Mary Goodenow was also a descendant of an English family who also emigrated to Sudbury in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. As with Beriah Rice's ancestors, Mary's Goodenow ancestors are well documented in Massachusetts by the Goodenow Family Association. Your author counts 120 Goodenow names of those who married into first five generations of the descendants of Edmund Rice and Thomasine Frost. It is likely that there are a similar number of Rice names appear in the Goodenow files.

Unfortunately we have no record of Mary Goodenow's travel to Nova Scotia or of her death. The passenger manifest of the first Charming Molly voyage does tell us if wives made that voyage so we know that Mary did not make the voyage. Beriah Rice's will tells us that Mary was alive in 1763 as he leaves half of his property in Annapolis to her. We can assume that she was alive in 1764 when the will was probated at Annapolis.

Children were:

child274 i. Judah RICE.
child ii. Asaph RICE was born on 9 May 1733 in Westborough, Middlesex Co. MA.
child iii. Timothy RICE was born on 18 Feb 1735 in Westborough, Middlesex Co. MA.
child iv. Stephen RICE was born on 15 Mar 1737 in Westborough, Middlesex Co. MA.
child v. Mary RICE was born on 23 May 1739 in Westborough, Middlesex Co. MA.
child vi. Sarah RICE was born on 22 Mar 1741 in Marlborough, now Westboro, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. She died probably young.
child vii. Lucy RICE was born on 19 Mar 1743 in Westborough, Middlesex Co. MA.
child viii. Rachel RICE was born on 1 May 1745 in Marlborough, now Westboro, Worcester Co., Massachusetts.
child ix. Beriah Jr. RICE was born in 1747 in Westborough, Middlesex Co. MA.
child x. Benjamin RICE was born 11 Msy 1749 in Westborough, Middlesex Co. MA.
child xi. Sarah RICE was born on 16 Aug 1751 in Westborough, Middlesex Co. MA.
child xii. David RICE was born on 30 Jun 1752 in Westborough, Middlesex Co. MA.
child xiii. Joseph RICE was born on 28 May 1752 in Westborough, Middlesex Co. MA.

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