General Notes

Note: There is some uncertainty about whether Mercy King died soon after her marriage to Joseph or whether she is the Martha Rice, wife of Joseph,who appears in the Marlborough vital records as having died on 4 January 1668. Ward lists both Mercy King and Martha (?) as wives of Joseph. The Rice Genealogical Register lists only wife Mercy King and takes the death record on 4 January 1668 to be that of Mercy King. There is nomention of a marriage between Joseph Rice and Martha (Eames) in the Sudbury vital records. On the other hand, the birth records of Joseph's first four children all list the mother as Martha.

Sources:
1) Genealogical History of THE RICE FAMILY: Descendants of DEACON EDMUND RICE, 2nd Edition, by Andrew Henshaw Ward (C. Benjamin Richardson, Boston, MA, 1858), p. 8; Repository: The New England Historic Genealogical Society.
2) A Genealogical Register of Edmund Rice Descendants by the Edmund Rice (1638) Association (The Charles E. Tuttle Company, Rutland, VT, 1970), pp. 1, 3, 4; Repository: Edmund Rice (1638) Association.
3) Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, pp. 227, 259.

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  Recorded Events in Her Life

• She has conflicting death information of 4 January 1668 and Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.