Thomas son of Thomas & Marcy Rice of Hanover VA

Gen 2	Thomas Rice Sr		Joyce
Birth	24 Jun 1688	New Kent County, VA
Death	2 Apr 1744-28 Jan 1745/6
Parents	Thomas Rice	Marcy

1. Thomas Rice Jr/Esq/Sheriff b. by 1723 d. 13 Oct 1800 Justice. Sheriff of Caswell Co, Rev War vet (will - names eldest children except Nicholas and Ann)

   1. by Jane ?Mills

      1. Ann Rice b. 1740 Amherst VA d. 16 AUG 1833 Louisa County, VA m. Martin Key
      • Rice Key b. 1763 Amherst VA d. 16 AUG 1833 Surry County NC m. Sarah Hogg
      • John Key b. 1765 Amherst VA d. 1 JUL 1861 Coal Valley, Walker, AL m. Belinda Milstead
      • Jane Mills Key 1770– Birth 1770 Amherst County, VA m. John Clements
      • William W Key b. 17 MAY 1787 Pedlar, Amherst County VADeath 18 APRIL 1835 • Surry County, NC m. Seloma Forrester
      2. ?Nicholas Rice b. by 1741 grandson of Nicholas Mills Sr
      3. Zeri Rice d. 1824 Abbeville SC m. 3 Seo 1782 Caswell, NC Mary Mitchell In 1821 Zira of Abbeville District SC sold 150 A he got from his father to Zadrack. He left no will but the following got something from the estate and may be children)
      1. ?Garland Rice
      2. ?Pickney Rice
      3. ?Caroline Rice
      4. Zebiah Rice b. 3 Dec 1747 d. 20 Mar 1806 Caswell, NC m. George Simms
      5. Zillah Rice b. 1746 d. 1823 Caswell NC m. Capt Robert Blackwell
      6. Zeruiah Rice b. 1752 d. 24 Nov 1838 m. Dr Lancelot Johnson
      7. Zipporah Rice b. 30 APR 1756 d. 16 Aug 1829 Caswell m. 7 Feb 1774 Hanover Daniel Gwyn
      8. Zora Rice m. Louest Vannoy
   2. by Abigail Jul 1801 Count Minutes record she is named guardian of the children Zaza, Ziba, Elizabeth, and Joyce (Abigail in the 1800 cemsus has an unknown female age 26-44 lving with her - she could be a daughter older than Zadock who then marred or died by 1810 or a younger sister etc. If it is a daughter there are several Rice females who married in 1800-1810 but some one 26 or older is old for a first marriage)
      1. Thomas Zadock Rice b. 1786 d. by 27 Seo 1865 (will probate) Orange NC m. Nov 1817 Granville NC Amy Satterwhite m. 27 Feb 1821 NC Celiah H Lynch b. 1805 - 2 sons and 3 daughters in 1830
         1. John Green Rice by first wife (named in grandfather will)
         2. Susan Rice b. 1827 m. Edward A Terrell
         3. James Rice b. 18 28
         4. Moses Rice b. 1830
         5. Eliza/Betsey Rice b. 1830
            1. Lawrence Rice
         6. William b. 1837
         7. Robert Rice b. 1838
         8. Lemual L Rice b. 1844 d. 24 Nov 1920
      2. Zizi Rice b. 1775-1785 male
      3. Zara Rice b, 1785-1790 male
      4. Ziba Rice b, 1785-1790 m. 17 May 1806 Caswell NC Fanny Browning
         1. Frances B Rice 1807–1850 Caswell County, NC m. 24 May 1825 Caswell, NC Anderson Willis
         2. Zilpah Rice b. 1807 d. after 1880 Keltonburg, DeKalb Co TN m. 19 Nov 1832 Edward Judkin
         3. Jeremiah "Jerry" Rice b. 1817 m. Mary Ann Powell
         4. Iverson J Rice 1815–1860 Caswell County, NC m. Nancy Irene Gomer
            1. Iverson Franklin Rice b. Apr 1859 Locust Hill, Caswell, NC d. Seo 1913 m. 2 Dec 1891 Locust Hill, Caswell, NV Cornelia Ann Pettigrew
               1. Albert W Rice b.14 Jun 1895 Caswell Co NC d. 17 Aug 1946 Stony Creek, Caswell NC
               2. Lloyd Lemuel Rice b. 26 Jul 1901 Locust Hill, Caswell, NC d. 1 JUL 1971 Danville, VA
               3. Eugene Rice b. 26 Jul 1901 Locust Hill, Caswell, NC d. 16 JUN 1963 Rockingham Co NC
         5. Zera Franklin Rice b. 1822-4 d. Aug 1879 Caswell m. Sarah Adaline Boswell
            1. Priscilla
            2. Ziza Franklin Rice m. 17 Dec 1868 Adaline Cheek
            3. Zilpha A Rice
            4. Luther Suther F. Rice
            5. James Rice
            6. Eliza V
            7. Julia
            8. William
            9. Margaret J
      5. Elizabeth Rice b, 1785-1790
      6. Joyce Rice b. 1790-1800
2. William Rice d. by 1788 Louisa Co VA m. Jane d. after 1789
   1. William Rice Jr. liv in Louisa Co VA
   2. ?James Rice 86-93 Personal Tax Louisa Co VA

Comments

• Working Document for the Caswell county records for mainly Thomas' second family. It includes tax , censusm and land records
• A Nicholas Rice sells land in Albemarle in 1 Jan 1763 but living in Louisa. He shows up in another couple of minor records in Louisa over the years. He says the land he is selling he inherited from Nicholas Mills Sr. Many interpret that to mean Thomas Rice Jr 's wife Jane is Jane Mills daughter of Nicholas Miles Sr and Nicholas is their son. Date wise it is possible Nicolas is the son of John Rice Jr/Sr as the maiden name of his wife Mary is unknown also/
• Thomas Rice Jr names just his eldest children in his will except Nicholas who may be deceased as now records are found of him in the late 1700s. The children listed under his second wife Abigail are determined through deed records.
• Thomas Sr gets several Hanover Land Patents on both sides of Cub Creek and Dirty Swamp, bounded by the lands of Col. David Meriwether, David and William Meriwether, James Goodall, and Richard Brooks. Most of the Hanover records have been burned up but one surviving land record gives his wife's name as Joyce. Some of the land is in Louisa Co. Those records include a reference to the destroyed will in Hanover of Thomas Sr dated 2 Apr 1744. His executors were : William Rice of Louisa and Thomas Rice of Hanover. Later deeds identify Thomas as Thomas Jr including one 1 Jan 1752 listing Thomas Rice Jr and wife Jane selling more of the land. They lived in Hanover but have several entries in the Louisa Co land records as some of the land was in that county. The last of the Louisa Canada West entries is 1759. Some time before 1777 it is assumed they moved to Caswell Co where he already owned land in the 1777 tax list. The name of his daughter Joyce's assumed to be because of his mother's name as its unusual which supports this placement. But a Y-DNA test if he has any Rice male descendants would be helpful.
• William Rice of Louisa is presumed a son as he is executor in Thomas Sr's will. Thomas Sr's brother William has been dead many years so the William executor is likely a son. William stays in Louisa Co and appears consistently in the tax records both land and personal property. He had at least one son William Jr who appears in the tax records. A James appears in the Personal Property tax only shortly before William dies and is there several years after but he does not appear to take over the land tax so its unclear if Jams is related.
• Thomas Jr last Louisa record is 1759 and of course there are no Hanover (where he actually lived) records of that time. He moves to Orange/Caswell by Feb 1764 when his purchase of174 A of land from Luke Lea is registered. His cousins the Harts have been in Orange/Caswell County for several years and are very active in buying and selling land. There is no detailed deed (just a record of the land transfer) but Luke Lea got a land grant of 174 A on Countyline Creek. On the same court date of his transfer there is a land transfer for John Rice of 625 A purchasing from William Morrow. But there is no Land Grant of that size to say where so it is located or if this is John Rice Sr. In 1777 in Caswell's first record in Oct James Rice has 174 A and Thomas over 981 A. It is likely Thomas sold his174 A to his cousin James as it is a unique size. Other Orange county records in that period include a Robert Rice and a Nathaniel Rice but each have only one minor mention and there is not way to tell if they are related. Thomas is a witness on a coupe of deeds after his purchase. The deed register stops in 1768 and only a few deeds before 1781 survive the destruction of the deed book during the Revolutionary War.