By the Name of Rice

I have only planned to preserve in this little book the main
facts regarding the Deacon, his children and grand-children,
with their dates and records. Almost any one of the present
generation will be able to connect by tracing backwards, for
surely any of us can tell who were our great-grand parents.
There is an immense and ever increasing number of german
Rice families in the U. S., and more are on the way. I am
informed, in a hectic letter from an aspiring german Rice, that
there is "one entire Township of Rices, in Switzerland." May
the Lord preserve them, in Switzerland. Among the descendants
of Deacon Edmund Rice I have found almost every famous
New England name. The families of many of our Methodist
and Episcopal Bishops, of poets, authors, statesmen, clergymen,
inventors, financiers, actors, musicians and politicians are descended
from Deacon Edmund or some of his family.
Directly descended from Deacon Edmund Rice, amongst
many others, are found the well known families of: Adams,
Allen, Abbott, Alvord, Arnold, Alden, Ainsworth, Brigham,
Brewer, Ball, Burke, Brintwell, Barber, Bouker, Barton, Baker,
Bannister, Belcher, Bigelow, Bachellor, Boyd, Bacon, Bartlett,
Bancroft, Brooks, Baxter, Buckminster, Barnum, Briggs,
Bowman, Barrows, Bugbee, Butterfield, Bascom, Babcock,
Bradford, Bryant, Bagley, Baldwin, Boynton, Barnard, Bullard,
Cutler, Carpenter, Coolidge, Curtis, Clifford, Chapin, Clarke,
Cotton, Cook, Childs, Coffin, Cheney, Chandler, Crawford,
Chase, Gushing, Cooper, Crosby, Dudley, Dole, Dwight,
Dennison, Dana, DeGraff, Dickerson, Day, Dodge, Denio,
Draper, Eames, Eaton, Erskine, Emerson, Edwards, Endicott,
Fairbank, Fletcher, Fiske, Fay, Force, Froeman, Foster, Francis,
Fuller, Fales, Farnsworth, Farrar, Field, Gary, Goodenow,
Goddard, Gates, Goodale, Greenwood, Goldthwaite, Garfield,
Gilman, Gray, Gerry, Grosvenor, Gordan, Hubbard, Howard,
Holbrook, Haven, Howe, Hamilton, Hoffman, Hart, Hale,
Hoyt, Huntington, Holland, Hosmer, Hall, Hodges, Jackson,
Jennings, Johnson, Kendall, Knight, Knapp, Kellogg, King,
Kinsman, Kemp, Kingsbury, Lowell, Leland, Lamb, Livermore,
Looker, Laurence, Luther, Lucas, Longfellow, Lee, LeCaine,
Lewis, Morse, Moore, Maynard, Munroe, Miles, May,
Manning, Manchester, Mann, Merrick, Marsh, Mead, Morrill,
Morton, McClure, Mason, Newton, Newhall, Niles, Oakes,
Osgood, Orcutt, Olmstead, Parmenter, Pratt, Parker, Paine,