By the Name of Rice

of Thos. Brigham who "embarked in the 'Susan and
Ellen' April 1635, then aged 32," and with his wife
Mercie and two children came to Cambridge, where he
died Dec. 8, 1653.
His widow Mercie became the 2d. wife of Deacon
Edmund Rice, and the mother of No. 11 and No. 12
of the Deacon's children. Thus Mary (Rice) Brigham's
children, were the great grand-children
of Deacon
Edmund Rice; but grand-children of his predecessor
Tho. Brigham his wife's first husband. Two of
Mary's children married Howes (then spelled How)
and one married a Ward.
These are the first intermarriages with the Wards and
Howes but I could enumerate at least 20 more in each
family. The Deacon became the progenitor of all the
Mass. Wards and Howes, amongst whom should be
named Elias Howe, Samuel Gridley Howe and his
distinguished wife, Julia Ward Howe,t now in her 91st.
year, Timothy O. Howe, P. M. Gen'l of the U. S.,
John Q. A. Ward, one of our most famous sculptors,
etc.,
etc.
Hannah Rice
(15.3) married another Ward, Eleazer,
son of Deacon Wm. and Elizabeth Ward of Sudbury
and Marlboro. He was slain by the Indians, on the
road between Marlboro and Sudbury, in April 1676,
aged 27 years. His widow married Richard Taylor,
Oct. 17, 1777. By the first marriage there was one
child and by the second there were four.
Tamasin Rice (19.7) married Benj. Parmenter and left
t Julia Ward Howe, 7th. in descent from John Ward, a soldier in
Cromwell's army, is also descended from Deacon Edmund Rice
through the Cutler family. Her mother was Julia Rush Cutler. Mrs.
Howe's sister, Louisa Cutler Ward, married Thomas Crawford, the
eminent Sculptor. Francis Marion Crawford (1854-1909) was their
son and 8th. in descent from John Ward and Deacon Edmund Rice.
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