By the Name of Rice

on his wife and daughter Ann.
worked, six days in the week, at least,
No, the Deacon surely
and the inventory
of his estate shows that he acquired a very respectable
fortune for one so circumscribed and surrounded.
If It was not advantages but disadvantages that made
the Deacon great. He never used a safety razor nor
had his appendix removed. He was educated by actualities
and he never got goose flesh. Some of his descendants
have lived to an age to have regained such
infantile graces as a total want of memory, understand-
but the Deacon never withered
ing and interest in life,
at the top.
Mrs. Eddy's boasted descent from King David is not
a thing to be more proud of than the fact that she is
a granddaughter, in the seventh generation, of Deacon
Edmund Rice.
The village of Tremont, now sometimes called Boston,
in Massachusetts, was but 8 yrs. old when Edmund
Rice, Tamazine and their 8 children reached Plymouth.
In 1633 the Rev. Jno. Cotton came to Tremont and
renamed the village in honor of his birthplace, Boston
in Lincolnshire, England.
In 1633 there were only 307 persons living in Boston.
We do not know how many were living there in 1638
but we do know that the Deacon and his wife with
the bizarre name, added a full half score to the number
and then and thereafter did their full share towards
populating the Colony and the future Commonwealth.
In 1858 a chronology was published which listed 1400
families and over 7000 individuals having one common
Ancestor in the person of Deacon Edmund Rice. What
his descendants would number at the present date it
would be difficult to estimate.
The first we hear of Edmund after his arrival in Mass.
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