Brief Life History of Mary
When Mary Rice was born on 23 September 1789, in Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Jonah Rice, was 25 and her mother, Molly Hoit, was 16. She married Caleb Ward Jr on 26 July 1810, in Ashburnham, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. She died on 24 November 1859, at the age of 70, and was buried in Meetinghouse Hill Cemetery, Ashburnham, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.
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- Mary Rice, "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915"
- Mary Rice Ward, "Find A Grave Index"
- Marey Rice, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
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1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
1791 · The Bill of Rights
After the Constitution was made, some objections were raised by Anti-Federalists. So, in response ten amendments were discussed and voted on to become The Bill of Rights. These rights were made to clarify and guarantee certain freedoms of residents of the country.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
Welsh: Anglicized pronunciation of one of the most common Welsh personal names, Rhys, from a form originally meaning ‘rash, impetuous’, also spelled Rys and Re(e)s. See also Reese , with which it is interchangeable as a result of different Anglicized forms of the Welsh vowel y, and also compare Preece and Price . Initial R- in Welsh is voiceless and often spelled Rh-, but in English R- is voiced as in the Anglicized surnames Rees and Rice. Welsh y is a short back vowel /ɪ/. In the medieval period the English approximation of this vowel was either /i/ or /e/, lengthened to /i:/ and /e:/. Subsequent sound changes in English produced the alternative pronunciations represented in Rees, Preece and Rice, Price. The name has also been established in Ireland from an early date.
English: either a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a thicket (Middle English ris, rice, ris, from Old English hrīs, Old Norse hrís), or a habitational name for someone who came from a place called with this word, such as Rise (East Yorkshire).
English: perhaps a nickname from Middle English Rys(e) and Re(e)s which when without a preposition could derive from one or other of several Old French and Middle English words, including Anglo-Norman French ris ‘laughter, smile’, Middle English ris, res ‘stem, stalk’, in origin the same word as in 2 above, and Middle English ris, rise, rice, res, Old French ris, riz ‘rice’, perhaps a nickname for a rice dealer or a cook.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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