By the Name of Rice

CHILDREN OF MATTHEW RICE AND
MARTHA LAMSON
47. 1, Sarah, Sept. 15, 1655, m. John Looker.
48. 2, Martha, Aug. 17, 1657, m. John Bent.
49. 3, Deborah, Feb. 14, 1659-1660, m. Thomas Sawin.
50. 4, Ruth, April 2, 1662, m. Joseph Hastings.
51. 5, Elizabeth, May 20, 1663, m. Samuel Ware.
52. 6, Dorothy, Feb. 14, 1664-5, m. Sam'l Ware.
53. 7, Mary, died young.
54. 8, Isaac, May 1, 1668, m. Sybil Collins.
55. 9, Patience, March 5, 1671, m Holbrook.
In this rather remarkable family of eight daughters
and one son the lines will not be traced here.
Sarah Rice, the eldest daughter, married John Looker,
and had 4 children, the 3d. of whom, Henry Rice
Looker, to make assurance doubly sure, married, in
1716 Mary Rice, (daughter of Ebenezer, son of Benj.
1 Oth. son of Deacon Edmund, )
She being his 2d. cousin.
They became the Ancestors of Gov. Othniel Looker,
5th. Gov. of Ohio.
Apropos of this marriage of cousins, Coleridge once
debated with Charles Lamb, the question of consanguinity
and proved, to his own satisfaction at least,
that the marriage of cousins was eminently sane,
proper, just and right, and fraught with the best results
for humanity. Coleridge certainly had ample backing
and justification for his argument in the family and
descendants of the Pilgrim Deacon.
Matthew's only son Isaac died Feb. 4, 1717-18 leaving
5 children; all daughters. This mistake was later
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