Boston, Massachusetts was the entry point for nearly all of the Puritans who immigrated to New England during the “Great Migration”, 1630 to 1640. From here the immigrants branched out to local areas near Boston and then towards the end of the 17th century, began to slowly move westward as land areas became available.
The genealogy of the Rice family includes numerous immigrant families, however, in my work I have at this time concentrated on the families of Rice, Howe, and Potter. And in the near future will begin working on the Turners. Members of each of these families immigrated to Boston, but several generations would pass before they were united into one family. It was in Logansport that all four of these branches lived together as the Rice family as we know it. It was also in Logansport that the family split, that is, it was here of the event of the divorce.
The progenitor fathers of four branches which I have chosen and their arrivals were as follows:
William and Frances Potter: from Kent, England to Boston aboard the “Abigail” in July of 1635
John Howe: from Warwickshire, England to Boston or Sudbury sometime before 1637
Edmund and Thomasine Rice: from England to Boston, probably in 1638, during the “Great Migration” of 1630 – 1640
Edward Turner: very likely the first Turner immigrant arriving in America sometime before 1650
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Gilbert and
Julia Rice were the parents of Francis Jay Rice and the grandparents of Leslie
Francis Rice.
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