Edmund Rice was an early English settler to Massachusetts Bay Colony born in Suffolk, England. He lived in Stanstead, Suffolk and Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire before sailing with his family to America.
Edmund Rice homesite marker tablet in Wayland, Massachusetts.
Edmund Rice Homestead built about 1643 by Rice in saltbox style by the spring feeding the Sudbury River near the Old Connecticut Path in southeastern Sudbury (now Wayland). It stayed in the Rice family many generations until it burned down sometime around 1910. The house was located at 42°20′42″N 71°22′00″W / 42.344897°N 71.3666763°W / 42.344897; -71.3666763 off present-day Charena Rd. in Wayland.
Signature of Edmund Rice on a 1659 land survey record of his estate purchase of the "Dunster Farm" property near Old Connecticut Path in old Sudbury. Original in Harvard University Archives, Cambridge.
The Edmund Rice Memorial designed by Arthur Wallace Rice was erected 29 August 1914 by Edmund's descendants at the Old North Cemetery, site of the First Sudbury Meetinghouse in Wayland, Massachusetts. (42°22′15″N 71°22′09″W / 42.370943°N 71.369046°W / 42.370943; -71.369046)
Haplogroup I-M253, also known as I1, is a Y chromosome haplogroup. The genetic markers confirmed as identifying I-M253 are the SNPs M253,M307.2/P203.2, M450/S109, P30, P40, L64, L75, L80, L81, L118, L
Edmund Rice (colonist)
…DYS392 = 11; DYS393 = 10; DYS426 = 11; DYS447 = 23; DYS454 = 11; DYS455 = 8; YCA-IIa,b = 19, 21) from known descendants of Edmund are consistent with Haplogroup I-M253; this is an exceedingly rare haplogroup among the Welsh but is relatively common among inhabitants of East Anglia. The genetic testing of Edmund Rice…