By the Name of Rice

ectified by the marriage of the 2d. dau. Martha, to
William Rice, and they were the progenitors of the
Ohio Rices, through the line of Matthew. In the death
of Isaac Rice, the male descendants of Matthew, (6.5)
in direct line, became extinct. His mother, Martha
Rice, survived him and was past 90 at the date of his
death, in 1717-18.
Benjamin Rice (11.10) was the 10th. child of the
Deacon and the only son born in Mass. He was born,
according to Sudbury records, May 31, 1640, and died
Dec. 19, 1713, aged 73.
Benjamin married Mary Brown, of Sudbury, about
1662, and resided there. Benj. Rice, on May 23d.
1685, sued Dr. William Avery, of Boston, for malpractice,
verdict for defendant.
An extract from the records of this suit relates that
"one, Daniel Pond, testified that 10 years ago Benj.
Rice came to my house in Deadham, with his feet
frozen, and lodged there. Dr. Wm. Avery's son Benj.
cut off one foot at the lowest joint and staunched the
blood with a musquash skin."
The old Dr. does not appear, from Pond's Extract, to
have been present at the operation, and the malpractice,
if any, was not chargeable to him, but to his presumptious
and irresponsible son, who adventured this feat of
on his own account. Benj.
surgery purely
Rice was the
first member of the family on record who got cold feet.
His son Ebenezer married Bethia Williams in 1698 and
died in Sudbury June 21, 1724. Bethia Rice died July
6, 1721.
They left a family of 8 daughters and one son.
The oldest daughter, Mary Rice, mentioned under
Matthew (6.5) became a progenitor of Gov. Looker
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