James Rice
Probably the James Rice who married Abigail Warren at Scarborough, Maine, on 11 Nov 1786, after a first wife, Mary Libby, and so the father of Rufus Rice (b. 1794) and ten other children, raised in the Freeport-Pownal district. As the Ancestry tree has it, he was born at Scarborough in 1764 and died there in 1837.
Life
- 1764Born18 Jun 1764, Scarborough, Cumberland County, Mainecompiledpossible
- 1786Married Abigail Warren11 Nov 1786, Scarborough, Maine
Maine vital records index, Abigail "Warrin" (FamilySearch Q21S-SPGZ, as WikiTree cites it).
documentedprobable - 1837Died18 Apr 1837, Scarborough, Cumberland County, Maine
WikiTree has him buried at the Old Baptist Cemetery, Yarmouth (Find a Grave 96486294), which casts doubt on the tree's Scarborough; to decide (research/to-decide.md).
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Family
- Father
- Joseph Rice
About 1720-1776, of Kittery, as the tree has him, with Ruth Scott (WikiTree, unsourced); WikiTree carries the line up to the Thomas Rice family of Kittery, also without sources.
- Spouse 1
- Mary Libby
His first wife, married 1783; she died soon after, leaving a son Francis.
Pedigree
Notes
Grandfather of Mary Abigail (Rice) Ellingwood. Born at Scarborough, as the Ancestry tree has it, he married first Mary Libby, in 1783, and secondly Abigail Warren, at Scarborough on 11 Nov 1786 (record). His children by Abigail, as WikiTree lists them: Daniel (1787-1864), Mary Cotton (1788-1870), Ruth Sherburn (1790-1871), Rufus (1794-1840), Coburn (1796), Abigail (1798), Elizabeth (1800-1868), Hannah (1802), Sally (1804), Anna (1806) and James Sullivan (1808-1893) (source). The family lived in the Freeport-Pownal district, where Rufus was born in 1794. No Revolutionary service has been found for him.