Randall Rice, Sr.

Notes:

Randall and his family lived in Coventry, RI.

Randall married Elizabeth George Abt 1701. Elizabeth was born Abt 1680; died 1746. [Group Sheet]

1. Randall Rice, Jr. was born Abt 1702, Warwick, RI.
2. Richard Rice was born Abt 1704, Warwick, RI.
3. Isaac Rice was born Abt 1715.
4. Henry Rice was born Abt 1718.

Notes:

Notes (edited) from JD Watson at Rootsweb's Worldconnect:
b. 1646 in Salisbury, Lancashire, England
d. 6 JAN 1730/31 in Warwick Rhode Island
Immigration: 1661 Warwick, Rhode Island
Settled age 15 or 16 to Rhode Island w Edmund Calverly, London innkeeper
May 1663 cleared timber at Paquabuck
bet. 1673 - 1674 purchased land near Potowomut & Cowesett Bay from the Indians
22 May 1674 Order of town, home lot of 6 acres granted at Warwick Cove adjacent to Edmund Calverly
4 May 1675 admitted freeman of Newport, RI
1687 served on Grand Jury
1710 Deputy from Warwick, Rhode Island

The following notes are from Norma Roberts:

Cherry Fletcher Bamberg has done extensive work on John Rice and his life. See her work for more info.

The name John Rice ("John Riss") shows up in Warwick records for the first time on 13 Jan 1661, when he joined Edmund Calverly and Randall Holden in witnessing an indenture. John O. Austin, who published a biographical sketch of John Rice, says he came from old England with Mr. (Edmund) Calverly.

No source has identified John's parents but he was very close to Edmund Calverly, and given the difference in their ages (Calverly was born in 1613), it can be assumed that John may have been an apprentice of Calverly's or some kind of relative back in England. Calverly made a deed of gift to John and Elizabeth Rice on 18 Nov 1676 "in consideration of the Love and affection which I have," but mentions no relationship. Calverly also made a second, also unexplained, deed of gift 23 Jan 1677/78 to John Rice alone.

No proof of when his wife Elizabeth died or whether he remarried, or no birth records of his children's births can be found in Warwick records. He had two sons to whom he made deeds of gift, but it is possible he may have had one or more daughters (unknown at this time). Elizabeth may have died young and John never remarried and this could explain why only two children are found for John and Elizabeth.

John married Elizabeth Holden 16 Jul 1674, Warwick, Kent Co., RI. Elizabeth (daughter of Randall HOLDEN and Frances DUNGAN) was born Aug 1652, Warwick, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Possibly Elizabeth died shortly after their second child was born. No record has been found of other children being born to this couple.

Notes:

Randall Holden was one of the signers of the first Portsmouth Compact, 7 March 1638. He was also one of the original settlers of Warwick, along with the Gortons and Greenes.

On 24 March 1639 Randall Holden witnessed the deed of the purchase of Rhode Island (Aquidneck Island) from the Indians. (source: RI Genealogical Register, Vol 14, p. 220)

Randall married Frances DUNGAN 1648, Warwick, Kent Co., RI. Frances (daughter of William DUNGAN and Frances LATHAM) was born 1630, London, England; died 1697, Warwick, Kent Co., RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

William & Frances and their family resided in St. Martin's in the Fields, London, England. William was a "Gentleman."

William married Frances LATHAM Abt 1628. Frances (daughter of Lewis LATHAM and Elizabeth Unknown) was born 15 Feb 1609/10, Kempston, Bedford, England; died Sep 1677, Newport, RI; was buried , Governor's Lot, Newport, RI. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

When Frances died in 1677, she left 86 grandchildren.

The following note is from a website: "The writer can state definitely that the Dungan family, of whom were the Earls of Limerick, was the only manorial family into which Frances Latham could have married, her father being the King's Sergeant Falconer, and a member of his household. There is no doubt in the writer's mind after an extended search, that William Dungan was a grandson of Sir John Dungan by his wife Margaret Forster, and this conclusion was arrived at by Mr. Howard O. Folker and an Irish genealogist in Dublin, who conducted their investigations without consultation with the writer." (source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mylines/dungan108_09.htm)

The following information is from another website: http://pages.prodigy.net/reed_wurts/heraldry/latham.htm

Frances Latham now generally called "The Mother of Governors," because no less than fourteen of her direct descendants, and many sons-in-law in succeeding generations, became Governors or Lieut. Governors. Baptized 15 February 1609/10, she was the eldest of nine children of Lewis Latham whose portrait is in the collection of the late George W. Elkins, a descendant of Lewis Latham.

He who was of Elston, co. Bedford, England, was born about, 1584 and buried 15 May 1655, aged about 71 years. He was a member of the King's household, and Falconer to Prince Henry in 1612, and later was Sergeant Falconer to King Charles I.

ARMS-Or, on a chief indented azure, three bezants
CREST-An eagle standing on an empty cradle with wings displayed, reguardant or.

(NEHGR, Roll of Arms, Vol. LXXXII, p. 156; A.R. Justice, ANCESTRY OF JEREMY CLARKE..., p. 72)

We can imagine Frances as a young girl on the moors in companionship with her father as he attended the Royal Princes, Henry and Charlie, in their hunting with falcons, ever a favorite royal sport, the birds being highly trained to search out and pounce upon rabbit, grouse and other small game and bring them to their master.

Frances Latham was married in 1627 at age 17 to William Dungan, Gentleman, who was born about 1606, a London Merchant and Perfumer. His wares were in great demand and quite necessary to offset the obnoxious odors arising from the gutters in a thickly settled district subject to heavy fog and having surface drainage.

They made their home at St. Martins-in-the-Fields where later he died and was buried 20 September 1636, leaving her a widow at age 26 with four little children between the ages of 2 and 8 years. By his Will dated 13 September 1636 he gave all his property to his wife Frances, after bequeathing