Good morning, My great-great-grandfather was Charles Wellington Rice, and he was born in Lubec, ME, between 1840 and 1850. Between my sister and I, we have determined that his father was Daniel V. Rice, also born in Lubec, ME, possibly around 1800 to 1810. We have seen two records of Daniel V. Rice's marriage. One says he married Lucy McDaniel of St. Andrews (NB??) in 1832 in Eastport, ME. Another says that he married Lucy McDonald of Lubec, ME. I have seen another record which shows a Daniel Rice living in Eastport, ME, in 1860. Last night I found another record of a Daniel Rice of Lubec, ME, Event/Unknown in 1804. This lists his parents as ASHBEL RICE and Persis Knights !!! I did a "search" for Ashbel Rice, and found out there was an Ashbel Rice in Lubec, ME. And a record of his being married in Lubec in 1826. (Also another Ashbel Rice being married in Lubec in 1875.) And, these same files showed an Ashbel Rice being born in Digby, Nova Scotia, around 1802/04. Someone from the RICE Family Association has advised me that he thought that the Rice families in Lubec and Eastport, ME, during the 1800's..... probably originated in Salem, MA. They then moved north to Nova Scotia. After a while, they left Nova Scotia, and moved to Lubec and Eastport, ME. However, according to the LDS files, there are many records of an Ashbel Rice living in the Worcester, MA, area, during the 1700's (Shrewsbury, Marlboro). Is it possible that Ashbel Rice and his family moved from the Worcester, MA, area .... to Nova Scotia ?? There is also mention of an Ashbel Rice in CT in the 1700's. And, there is mention of an Ashbel Rice still being in the Worcester, MA, area around 1850. And, yet there was an Ashbel Rice in Lubec, ME, around 1850. During the same time period, 1750 to 1850, were there three..... Ashbel Rice families, living in 3 different areas? There were several Rice families in Lubec and Eastport, ME, during the middle 1800's. I will guess that they were all related - siblings? cousins? I'd really appreciate it ... if someone could provide some additional information about these Rice families. In case you have gotten lost in my story, I'd very much like to know who the parents of Daniel V. Rice were. To complete my story, ....Charles Wellington Rice of Lubec, ME, somehow met a woman from Arlington, MA, named Adelaide CROSBY HUTCHINSON. (She was descended from both the Crosby and Hutchinson families of greater Boston, MA.) I still do not know where they married, possibly around 1870, possibly in Maine! Charles and Adelaide (Hutchinson) Rice moved to Arlington, MA, and had two daughters, Louise Wellington Rice and Edith Rice. (Edith never married; children's librarian.) One summer while Louise and Edith were visiting their Rice grandparents in Lubec or Eastport, ME, Louise met a man, named George "Sanford" KIDDER. "Sanford" was living in Eastport, ME, at the time, but he was born in Princeton, ME, in 1870. "Sanford" Kidder and Louise RICE married in Princeton around 1898. And, they also moved to Arlington, MA. They were my great-grandparents. Thank you for listening, Betty (near Arlington, MA)