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Thomas Rice (1654)
Thomas Rice (June 30, 1654 – 1747) was a member of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts representing Marlborough in 1715 and 1716 and was a founder of Westborough, Massachusetts on 18 November 1717, and a selectman for the town in 1718 and 1727.
== Personal background ==
Thomas Rice was born on June 30, 1654 to Thomas Rice and Mary (King) Rice in Sudbury, Massachusetts.〔Ward, Andrew Henshaw. ''(A genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice )'' Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson, Publisher, 1858, 379pp〕 He was the grandson of Edmund Rice, a 1638 immigrant from England and founder of Sudbury. Rice married Anna Rice, daughter of Deacon Edward Rice and Agnes Bent, on January 10, 1681 at Marlborough, Massachusetts, and they had 14 children. Rice's brother Jonas was an early resident and founder of Worcester.〔Rice, F.P. (ed.) 1879. Early Records of the Town of Worcester, Book I, 1722-1739. Worcester Society of Antiquity, Worcester, MA.〕
Rice was among the first to settle prior to 1675 in the southwestern portion of Marlborough known as Chauncey, the portion of Marlborough that later became Westborough.〔p. 20 In: DeForest, Heman Packard (1891). ''The History of Westborough, Massachusetts, Part I.'' Published by the Town of Westborough. (online version )〕 Rice's home was a fortified garrison house that was used by area settlers for refuge from Indian raids during King Philip's War 1675-1676.〔 During Queen Anne's War in 1704, two of Rice's sons, Adonijah and Ashur, were abducted from a flax field in Marlborough by Mohawk raiders from Canada.〔Parkman, Ebenezer. (1769). ''(The Story of the Rice Boys: Captured by the Indians August 8, 1704 )'', Westborough Historical Society, Westborough, Massachusetts, 1906. 7pp〕 He was one of the founding members of the town on 18 November 1717, and one of the original members of the Congregational Church at Westborough begun by Ebenezer Parkman in 1724.〔 He represented the Town of Marlborough in the Great and General Court of Massachusetts, the colonial legislature in Boston in 1715 and 1716.〔〔p. 324 In: Schultz, John A. (1979) ''Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691-1780: A Biographical Dictionary'' Northeastern University Press, Boston.〕 And he served as a selectman in Westborough in the years 1718 and 1727.〔p. 466 In: DeForest, Heman Packard (1891). ''The History of Westborough, Massachusetts, Part I.'' Published by the Town of Westborough. (online version )〕 Thomas Rice died in 1747, with the ''Boston Gazette'' claiming he died at age 94.〔''The Boston Gazette'', Boston, Massachusetts, December 26, 1768.〕
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