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Note: 1 Oct 1796.
Samuel's children do not appear in the vital records of Barre or Leyden.
The 1800 census in Leyden, MA shows
1 male <18, 1 male 26-45, 1 female <18, 1 female 26-45.
Bethuel or Ira born 1798-1800, Samuel 28, Elizabeth 3 and Priscilla 27.
In the Barre land valuation records there is a Samuel that appears in 1803 and is there every year until 1815.
Next I sent for the tax valuation records from Barre and found the following information:
FHL film # 0859259 items 5 and 6:
There is a Samuel Rice that appears for the first time in 1803
Date Name House Acres Land Personal
Value Value
1803 Samuel Rice 1 12 $70 $45
1804 Samuel Rice 1 59 $350 $60
1805 Sam'l Rice 1 59 $350 $97
1806 Sam'l Rice 1 59 $350 $95
1807 Samuel Rice 1 59 $350 $95
1808 Sam'l Rice 1 59 $350 $95
Sam'l Rice Guardian 1 14 $85 Nath Withwell
Sam'l Rice do - 13 $85 Israel
Sam'l Rice do - 14 $85 Dan
Sam'l Rice do - 16 $85 Isrealiot [??]
1809 Sam'l Rice 1 59 $350 $120
Sam'l Rice Guad - For N. Withwell
Do for - Israel
Do for - 14 $85 Dann
Do for - 16 $85 Israelam [??]
1810 Sam'l Rice 1 59 $350 $120
do Guad for Daniel & Israel $50 Withwell
1811 Sam'l Rice 1 62 $400 $102
do Guad for Daniel & Isreal $50 Withwell
1812 Sam'l Rice 1 62 $400 $102
Do - 5 $25 Dolbear [??]
Do Guad for Dan Jr - $17 Israel Withaly [??]
1813 Samuel Rice 1 62 $400 $102
do do - 5 $25
1814 Sam'l Rice - 55 $295 $80 [can't read - possibly Phineas' estate]
do do - 18 $120 do
Sam'l Rice 1 62 $400 $100
do do - 16 $105 Guad [can't read]
1815 Sam'l Rice 1 62 $400 $100
do do - 18 $120
Samuel no longer appears on the 1816 record.
In 1810 residents of each district are listed. There is one other Rice listed in District 18 - Phineas Rice.
The entry for District No 18 reads as:
Beginning at Schoolhouse No 7 - Thence by John Walks, Gardner Ruggles to Hardwick lane, also Phinehas Rices & Jonathan Child to ________can't read__________ Also by Denison Robinson to edward Woods onto the County Road also Ebenezer Johnson containing the following houses and these estates.
Dean Babbit
The Thoce Boydous (sp - can't read)
Phinehas Rice
Sam'l Rice
John Ames
John P Ames
David Allen
Jonahtan Childs
Benja Stone
Zacherus Atwood (sp)
Bernadus Atwood
John Wallis
John Andover Farm
Gardner Ruggles
Benedam Robinson
Noah White
Elizabeth Hoce
Thos Attwood
Adam Hary
Elijah Robinson
Edward Wood.
[ I wonder if the name Gardner came from the neighbor Gardner Ruggles ???]
In the Barre vital records we find that Phinehas Rice died 24 Feb 1814, a. 44 y. Barre marriages Phinehas Rice m. Betsy Jonson of Danna, int. 3 Nov 1801.
In the 1813 tax valuation Phinehas had 55 acres valued at $295 in the same position that Samuel shows up in 1814 with the same acres and value. I would guess from this that Samuel and Phineas are brothers.
The 1810 census has Samuel in Barre, MA
[ <10,10-16, 16-26, 26-45, 45+ ] Sam'l Rice 31011-01011
Bethuel or Ira 10-12
Horace 8
Gardner 6
Ira or Bethuel 0-5
Samuel 38
Male >45
Elizabeth 13
Priscilla 37
Female > 45
There is a Samuel B. or Samuel Rice that served in the War of 1812 in the VT Militia from Guilford, VT. Guilford is just to the north of Leyden, MA. This Samuel served under Captain Luke Parson's Company, Col. Jonathan Williams' Regiment. His service was 2 months and 13 days during 1812. His pension certificate is number 9969.
27 Dec 1812 Samuel and Priscilla are baptized at the First Church of Barre
Found in the Record Book 1 of the First Church of Barre 1767-1845 - rebound by Henry Hill of Worcester in 1856 in possession of the Barre Historical Society.
25 Jul 1813 all five children are baptized: with the boys in the order Bethuel, Horace, Gardner, Ira. The girl is entered as Betsy.
Samuel appears in the Ashtabula Co property tax records starting in 1817 with land originally owned by E. White. Land that was first owned by Samuel was owned in later years by Horace, Elizabeth and Gardner Rice showing that they were all related in some way.
Samuel first appears in Kingsville, Ashtebula, Ohio in the 1820 census
Males: 1 10-16, 1 16-18, 2 16-26, 1 over 45 Samuel, Gardner, Horace and one other (Ira???)
Females: 1 0-10, 1 16-26, 2 over 45 Corinna, Elizabeth and 2 others.
3 engaged in agriculture.
The 1830 Census shows:
Samuel Rice in Kingsville
Males: 1 50-60 [Samuel]
Females: 1 15-20[most likely Harriet Russell, Corinna's youngest daughter], 1 30-40 [Elizabeth], 1 50-60 [Corinna]
H. Rice in Kingsville - males: 3 20-30 [Horace, Gardner and Ira],
females 1 20-30, 1 60-70 The 1840 Census shows Samuel in Kingsville as:
Males: 1 60-70 Females: 1 60-70 1 engaged in farming.
In 1843 free white males: Gardner and Sam___ Rice
In 1850 Samuel in Kingsville, Ashtebula, OH p 242 as:
Samuel 78 born in MA occupation none, no value to land.
Corinna 78 born in CT
Transcript of Case #49923 dated June 2, 1777,Series A
Guardian Bond, Probate and Family Court, Worcester Co., MA Know all Men by these presents, That we Elisabeth Rice, widow, & Denison Robinson, Yeoman, of Barre and Stephen Johnson of Hardwick, all in the County of Worcester, are holden and stand firmly bound and obliged unto the honorable Levi Lincoln Esq; his successors or assigns, in the full sum of three hundred pounds, in lawful money of the State of the Massachusetts Bay, to be paid undo the said Levi Lincoln, his successors or assigns, in the office of Judge of the Probate of wills, and for granting letters of administration on the estates of persons deceased, in the said County of Worcester, to the true payment whereof, we jointly and severally bind ourselves, and our several and respective heirs, executors and administrators, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our Seals. Dated the 2d day of June Anno Domini 1777.
The Condition of this Obligation is such, That if the above-bounden Elisabeth Rice, nominated and allowed to be Guardian unto Samuel Rice, a Minor of the age of five years, Son of Nathaniel Rice, late of Barre, in the County of Worcester, deceased, shall and do well and truly perform and discharge the Trust and Office of Guardian unto the said Minor, and that in and by all Things according to Law; and shall render a plain and true Account of his said Guardianship upon Oath, and all and singular such Estate as shall come to his Hand and Possession by Virtue hereof, and of the Profits and Improvements of the same, so far as the Law will charge him therewith (when he shall be thereunto lawfully required) and shall pay and deliver what and so much of the said Estate as shall be found remaining upon his Account (the same being first examined & allowed of by the Judge or Judges, for the Time being, of the Probate of Wills, etc. within the County of Worcester aforesaid) unto the said Minor, when he shall arrive at full Age; or otherwise as the said Judge or Judges by his or their Decree or Sentence pursuant to Law shall limit and appoint: Then this Obligation to be void, otherwise to remain in full Force.
Signed, Sealed and Delivered /s/ Elisabeth Rice
in Presents of us
/s/ John Haskell /s/ Denison Robinson
/s/ Eli Freeman /s/ Stephen Johnson
Transcript of Case #49903 dated Dec. 12, 1814, Series A
Widow's Dower, Probate and Family Court, Worcester Co., MA
Pursuant to a Warrant to us directed by the Hon. Nathaniel Paine, Esq., Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester, as the Subscribers having been first sworn, as said Warrant directs and gives notice to all persons interested, proceeded to view the Real Estate mentioned in said Warrant, viz. All the Real Estate of which Phinehas Rice, late of Barre in the County of Worcester, died, seized & possessed, and finding that part thereof lay in common & undivided with one Samuel Rice, viz. That the said Samuel owned one undivided fourteenth part of that part of said Real Estate which was formerly set off to the Grandmother of the said Phinehas, the Widow Rice, and have severed it therefrom by setting off to said Samuel three acres of land bounded as follows, viz. Beginning at a stake and stones on the line of Elisabeth Rice's land, thence S. 38 ½ (degrees) W 24 ½ rods to an Oak stump; thence South 13 ½ (degrees) E 29 rods & 8 links to a stake and stones; thence N 66 (degrees) E ten rods & six links to the end of a wall; thence N 1 (degree) W 44 rods to the first mentioned corner. We then proceeded to appraise said Real Estate as follows, viz.
One piece of Woodland consisting of 10 acres …………………………..$ 540.00
11 ½ acres of Land near Dean Babbits at………………………………… 200.00
A Saw Mill at…………………………………………………………….. 50.00
The remainder consisting of about 46 acres with the Buildings at………. 1,300.00
Amounting in the whole to ……………………………………………….$2,100.00
One third of which is……………………………………………………… 700.00
We then set off to Betsy Rice, Widow of said Phinehas, deceased, for her Dower as follows, viz. Eleven acres and six rods, with the Dwelling house and part of the Barn thereon, bounded as follows, viz. Beginning at a stake and stones on the southeasterly side of a town road leading from said deceased's Dwelling house to Hardwick; thence S 38 ½ (degrees) W on land of Elisabeth Rice, to a stake and stones; thence S 1(degree) E 44 rods on land set off to said Samuel Rice as aforesaid to the end of a walk; thence N 66(degrees) E 50 rods to the road; thence on said road Northerly about 8 rods to the Barnyard wall; thence N 18(degrees) W 4 rods through the Barn; thence N 77(degrees) E 4 rods to the road; thence Northwesterly on said road to the first mentioned corner - with an equal privilege in the Barn or thrashing floor & reserving to the Owners of the two thirds or remainder of said Estate free liberty to pass and repass with Carts, horses & otherwise through the land Northerly of said Barn to and from said Barn at all times.
Also one other piece of land situate on the Northerly side of said road - containing Six acres & 26 rods, bounded as follows, viz. Beginning at a stake and stones on the Northerly side of said road; thence N 8(degrees) E 57 rods to a stake and stones on land of John Ames; thence S 56 ½ (degrees) W on said John's land to a stake and stones; thence S 13(degrees) E 35 rods to said road; thence Easterly on said road to the first mentioned corner. Amounting to the aforesaid sum of $700.00.
Dated at Barre this 12 day of Dec. AD 1814. /s/ Nath. Jones
We the Subscribers agree to & are satisfied with /s/ Seth Lee
the above division & assignment /s/ Moses Holden /s/ Betsy Rice
/s/ Saml. Lee Jr., Guardian to the Heirs
/s/ Samuel Rice
A true copy of the original on file in the Probate Office
Shee___ Wheeler, Reg.
Note: Samuel is described as of Leyden, MA when he gets married in Barre on 1
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