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Subject: Re: Rice, Pryor and Graves Families
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:13:29 -0400


Hello Doris and Fred,
I was struck by the similarity of family names of Rice, Pryor and Graves in Doris posting, which caused me to read more attentively as this seemed to correspond to the Rice and Graves families who settled into Caswell County, NC. My ancestor, Thomas Rice, of Hanover County, Va and Caswell County, NC had a son Joel who was married to Mary Elizabeth Pryor, daughter of Green Pryor and Susanna Perkins. Joel and Mary Pryor Rice settled for a time in Tennessee where he represented Nashville in the North Carolina Legislature in Fayetteville, North Carolina in 1789; and was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of the same year. They eventually settled into Alabama.
The article alludes to the tie of the Rev. David Rice to the Rice family of Hanover, but does not specifically state what that tie was nor what documents that; and the statement was made that David was a nephew of William Rice of Culpeper, essentially tying William to the Hanover group of Rices.
The following provides the appropriate validation and connection for the Rev. David Rice and thereby, also for his uncle William Rice:

The Rev. DavId Rice, a grandson of the imrnigrants Thomas and Marcey Rice, wrote about them in a rare volume found in the Libra:ry of Congress in Washington,DC, published in 1824. He states: “Thomas Rice was an Engiishman by birth, of Welsh extraction. He was an early adventurer into Virginia, where he spent the first part of life is not certain. In the Iater part of his life, he owned a small plantation in the lower part of what is now Hanover County, Virginia. Here he left his wife, 9 sons and 3 daughters and returned to England to receive a considerable estate which had been left. to him, but returned no more. The: sailors reported that. he had died at sea. It is supposed that he was assasinated. No return was ever made of the property after which he had gone, and his family were left destitute in a strange land. The family left without an earthly father were distressed but part of them moved about thirty miles up the country where they procured a smal!
l plantation, on which they raised numerous families, four or five of them became serious preachers of religion, and were succeded in their religious profession by a considerable number of their children. Thomas’ wife Marcey, was esteemed truly a religious woman.
The known chiIdren of Thomas and Marcey were:1. Wiiliarny born 4 April 1636 (St. Peter’s Parrish Register)2. James, born 4 April 7 1656; was lame3 Thomas, born 24 June 16884. Edward, born 17 April 16905. Mary, born 9 Decembef 16946. John, born 18 Septernber 1698.7. Alice born 27 September 1700.8. Marcey born 5 July 17029. David, married Susannah Searcy. parents of Rev. David Rice.10. Susannah, married Thomas Hart, in 173O in Hanover County' Virginia. He died ca 1755 leaving her with six children. They later moved to Orange County; North Carolina.”
Best regards,
John FoxWinston Salem, NCDescendant of Hazell and Neathers Families of Culpeper
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