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Sixth Generation. 299
vessel, of which he had the controlHng interest until 1807, when the action of
the Government destroyed the merchant marine. He then received from
his father the mill property at Apponaug, and in company with others
started a cotton manufactory, which he conducted during his active life
with marked skill and intelligence, though with varied success. He married
(2) Elisabeth (Betsey) Burke, widow of Edmund Burke of Apponaug,
and daughter of Taylor. She died September 28, 1852, leaving no children.
He died suddenly, December 4, 1853, and was buried at Apponaug.
Children by First Marriage:
1588. Benjamin Robinson, bom May 22, 1798, married Mary Gorton Arnold.
1589. George Sears, born May 6, 1801, married (i) Elizabeth Vt)iton, (2) Martha
Barrett Dana.
1590. Sarah Wickes, bom April 19, 1S03, married Rev. Benjamin Plielon.
1591. Albert Daniel, bom July 8, 1S06, married Dorcas B. Greene.
1592. Mary Wickes, bom September 8, 1808, married James Fish.
1593. Robert Raymond, bom October 3, 1810, died March 16, 181 1.
1594. Thomas Raymond, bom January 18, 1812, died February 8, 1812.
1595. Octavia, bom September 3, 1814, married Dr. John Webster.
1596. Nelson, bom April 3, 1817, died July 4, 1826.
1597. Thomas Ray, bom January 28, 1819, died April 23, 1831,
735- SARAH ^ GREENE (Caleb ^ Samuel \ SamueP, John %
John ') was bom May 31, 1774, died October, 1839. She married (i) October
28, 1792, William Henry Rice, son of Henry Rice. She married (2),
August 16, 1804, Rufus Greene, son of Thomas of "Stone Castle."
Children by First Marriage:
1598. George Rice, bom April 24, 1793, married, January 27, 1820, Lydia Ann,
daughter of Daniel and Lydia {Carpenter) Whitman (or Wightman). They
had Geo. Franklin, bom May 2, 1823; Wm. Henry, born September, 1831
Ann Eliza, died young; Alary Amanda, died young.
1599. Sarah William Rice, born April 20, 1795, married Joseph Franklin Arnold,
son of Captain Joseph and Sarah (Stafford) Arnold, bom January 3, 1784.
They had (i) Sarah Stafford, bom May 17, 1817, married, March 30, 1836,
Josiah Baker, and had Josiah, Susan, and Frank; (2) Betsey Dexter, born
August I, 1819, unmarried; (3) Joseph Franklin, Jr., bom June 23, 1821,
died December 22, 1881; (4) Wm. Rice, bom May 17, 1823; (5) Phebe
Anna, bom May 3, died December 7, 1825 ; (6) Mary Ann Carpenter, bom
October 16, 1826, died March 29, 1827; (7) Georgiana Sears, born at
Providence, February 7, 1828, married Stephen Sheldon, and had Fanny,
Frederic, and Walter; (8) Mary Ann Carpenter, bom April 20, 1830, died
July 9, 1832; (9) Cordelia Alger, born February 5, 1833; (10) Samuel
Augustus, bom March 6, 1837, died July 16, 1838.
(For Sarah* (Greene) Rice's children by second marriage, see No. 11 76.)