By the Name of Rice

a large posterity, of whom are the Adams family, the
Brewers, the Burkes, and the Springs, along with a
liberal sprinkling of the Parmenters.
She survived her husband, who died in 1737. He had
been impressed into the service against the Indians in
1676 and was one of the foremost warriors in this
family.
Rachel Rice (20.8) married Thomas Drury, who was
the first Town Clerk of Framingham; its first representative
in the Gen'l Court 1701 ; Captain, Selectman,
etc., etc. He died in 1723. Rachel and Thomas Drury
had 9 children. Their 3 sons Caleb, Micah and Uriah,
married three sisters; Elizabeth, Abigail and Martha
Fames. Thomas married another Ward; Rachel married
a Fairbanks; Elizabeth a Morse and John a
Goddard.
Lydia Rice (21.9) married Samuel Wheelock in 1692.
She was the mother of 10 children, 9 of whom married
and had large families. Her daughter Martha married
Ephraim Pratt, July 9, 1724.
This Ephraim Pratt, of Shutesbury
is the one mentioned
in Dwight's Travels, Vol. 2, page 358, viz;
Rev. Dr. Timothy Dwight, Pres. of Yale College
who visited Mr. Pratt on Nov. 13, 1803, and remarks
of him that "he was born at East Sudbury, Mass., in
1687, and in one month from the day of our visit to
him will complete his one hundred and sixteenth year."
"His memory was still vigorous, his understanding
sound, and his mind sprightly in its conceptions."
"We were informed by him and by his host that he
had mown grass for one hundred and one years successively.
Four of his sons are now living, the eldest
of whom is 90 and the youngest 82 years of age."
See President Dwight's Travels.
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