Hello Doug, I am a descendant of Thomas Rice through his daughter, Rebecca, who married John Windsor. I did not locate your ancestor in the data that I have, but I felt that you should look over the family so that you can better determine your research. I will tell you that there were two Thomas Rice's in Caswell County,NC. Mine was referred to Thomas(CB) Rice because he resided on Cabbin Branch; the other was referred to as Thomas Rice, Esq.; he named all of his children with names that began with the letter "Z". They both had originally lived in Hanover County, VA prior to their move to NC. It is believed that they were cousins. This is an old outline form that I used for a while. I would suggest that you copy it and paste it into your word processing documents, with the margins set at their widest. This should allow everything to fall into place for you. Hope that this gives you some assistance. Best regards, John Fox Winston-Salem, NC THOMAS (CB) RICE FAMILY OF CASWELL COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA The major portion of this information was found in the Rockingham County Legacy Book from an article supplied by Anne S. Neal. John Fox believes from his research that Thomas' grandparents were Thomas and Marcy King Rice of New Kent in Hanover County, Virginia as listed in the Mormon records. These records list the birth/christening date of a John Rice as 18 September 1698. This conceivably could be the father of our Thomas Rice of Caswell County, North Carolina since he named his first-born son John. Also Thomas Rice of Caswell had a daughter named Marcey, apparently named after his grandmother. Marymond Killian Carter in her book, 15 Southern Families published in 1974 gives her views of the origin of the Rice family of Hanover County, Virginia: "It is believed, after much research, that our line of RICE came from the little picturesque country of Wales. They were Welsh descendents of Kings of the 8th Century, and they were known as Aps Rhys, this being the Welsh spelling.....The prefix Ap denoted distinction or nobility. Several researchers have traced the Rice line back to Rhys Ap Griffith of Wales who married Catherine Howard, who was descended from William the Conqueror, and Kings Henry I and II, King John and King Edward I. Rice Ap Griffith was the son of Sir Griffith Rice who was the twentieth in paternal descent from Vryan Refed, Lord of Kidwelly, Carunllon and Yskenen, in South Wales..... Further research shows that the Rice and Thomas families have the same coat of arms, and stemmed from a Welsh Chiefton, Sir Rhys ap Thomas, a natural son of George Plantagenet.. Catherine Howard and Rice ap Griffith had two known sons: Thomas born 1525 and William, born 1522.. The Rev. David Rice, a grandson of the immigrants Thomas and Marcey Rice, wrote about them in a rare volume found in the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., published in 1824. He states: Thomas Rice was an Englishman by birth, of Welsh extraction. He was an early adventurer into Virginia; where he spent the first part of his life is not certain. In the later 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 rturned 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 assassinated. 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 small 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 children of Thomas and Marcey were: 1. William, born 4 April 1686 (St. Peters Parrish Register) 2. James, born 4 April 16f86; was lame. 3. Thomas, born 24 June 1688. 4. Edward, born 17 April 1690. 5. Mary, born 9 December 1694. 6. *John, born 18 September 1698. 7. Alice, born 27 September 1700. 8. Marcey, born 5 July 1702. 9. David, married Susannah Searcy; parents of Rev. David Rice. 10. Susannah, married Thomas Hart, Jr. in 1730 in Hanover County, Virginia. He died ca 1755 leaving her with six children. They later moved to Orange County, North Carolina. Susannah and Thomas Hart's children were Thomas Hart III, who married Susann Gray of New Bern; their daughter married Henry Clay; John Hart; Benjamin Hart, married Nancy Morgan; settled in Georgia; David Hart, married Susanah Nunn; Nathaniel Hart, born 8 May 1734 in Hanover,Virginia; died 11 August 1782 at Boonsboro, Kentucky, married Sarah Simpson, died February 1785 in Lincoln County, Kentucky; Nathaniel helped set up the Transylvania Company set up to help settle lands in Tennessee; Ann Hart, married James Gooch; their daughter, Ann, married Jesse Benton. Ann Benton's husband died; she and her eight children left Orange County, North Carolina to move to Tennessee to claim lands left to her husband. The children were Susan, Ann, Jesse, Jr., Samuel, Nathaniel, Mary, Margaret, and Thomas Hart Benton. Thomas Hart Benton was a famous lawyer who fought a duel with Andrew Jackson, and also a senator. His grandnephew, Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) was a famous regional American painter. + Thomas Rice Came from Hanover County, Virginia around 1775 and settled on a branch of Hogan's Creek in then Guilford County, later Rockingham County. Thomas was referred to as "Cabbin Branch" or "C.B" Rice to distinguish him from another Thomas Rice who had settled in Caswell County about the same time period. It is not known what relationship these two had, but they did move from the same Hanover County, Virginia to North Carolina. Thomas (CB) Rice was called for jury duty Tuesday 19 December 1780, p. 167 of the Caswell County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions to serve on 20 December 1780. This act of jury service qualifies his descendants for membership in Revolutionary period organizational membership for patriotic service. Thomas "C.B" Rice's property stretched into Caswell County on the east, and the original home was located on the county line. His wife's name is unknown at this time. His will, written on 20 March 1804 listed his seven surviving children to receive equal shares in his personal and real property. + Marcey (Massey) Rice Born 19 May 1754; married Francis Nunn IV 4 May 1774, and moved west, had a large family which can be found listed in Alexander Nunn's book Nunns of the South . - Elizabeth Nunn Born 13 March 1775; died 23 November 1804. - Elijah C. Nunn Born 14 March 1777 in South Carolina. (Family records of son of Elijah) - Zepheniah Nunn Born 15 August 1779 in South Carolina. - William Richard Nunn Born 11 April 1782 in South Carolina. - Sarah Nunn Born 3 June 1787; married James Mayfield. - Thomas Young Nunn Born 27 April 1784 in South Carolina; died 27 July 1874. - Rebecka Nunn Born 11 September 1792 in South Carolina; died 14 August 1812 in Williamson County, Tennessee. - Mary "Polly" Nunn Born 29 March 1795 in South Carolina. - Joel Nunn Born 10 March 1798 in South Carolina. - John Rice Born 1757; was killed by Indians while going down the Ohio River with Sevier in 1792. He was a large landowner in the area of today's Memphis, then called Chickasaw Bluffs; but through extensive court litigation over the holdings, the lands were eventually lost to the heirs. John was never married. + Elisha Rice Went to Tennessee and was married to Ann Collier there in 1791.. He died in 1806. - Harriet S. Rice Born 31 March 1792; married Nathaniel Crenshaw 19 September 1810 in Wilson County, Tennessee. - Elizabeth L. Rice Born 4 March 1794; married Rev. Hardy M. Cryer 11 August 1812 in Sumner County, Tennessee. - Nancy C. Rice Born 26 September 1802; married Peyton Rascoe 22 April 1825 in Sumner County, Tennessee. - Mary Oldham Rice Born 8 March 1796; married Elmore H. Cryer Sarver. - Joel C. Rice Born 4 February 1798; married Rebecca Reading 13 April 1820; died 16 August 1849. - John B. Rice Born 11 March 1800; married Elizabeth Organ; died 7 March 1848. - Rebecca Rice Married John Windsor of Caswell County See the Windsor lineage for the decendents of Rebecca. + Joel Rice Born 1762 in Virginia; married Mary Elizabeth Pryor Hickman, widow of Capt. Edwin Hickmam who was killed by Indians in Tennessee; died in 1833 in Madison County, Alabama. Settled for a period in Tennessee and 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. + Green Pryor Rice Married twice: first to daughter of Cheatman Ewing; second to Anne Eliza Turner. Served in the Alabama State Legislature; Presbyterian preacher. - Neander Rice Child of first wife. - Leonora M. Rice Child of first wife. - Green Pryor Rice, Jr. First child by second wife; married Mary Campbell. - Turner Benjamin Rice - Edward Rice Married Sarah Malone. - Jackson Van Buren Rice Married Lizzie Lester. - Hamilton Rice - Mary Emily Rice Married John Weakley. + Josephine Rice Married Josiah Patterson. - Malcolm Rice Patterson Called Ham Patterson; was governor of State of Alabama. - Septemius Decimes Rice Married twice: first Fannie Ottaway; second Eliza Brock. + Elisha Rice Married Mary Pittman; died in 1851. - Joel Rice - Laura L. Rice - Amanda Rice - William M. Rice Born 18 March 1800; died April 1890; never married. + George Washington Rice Born 1809 in Madison County Alabama; died 1847 in Mississippi. - Roman Knott Rice - Greek Polan Rice - George Washington Rice, Jr. - Aurelia Isabella Rice - Mary Lenora Rice - Joel David Rice + Andrew Jackson Rice Born 1814; died in Florida; married twice: first Sarah E. Ewing; second Elizabeth R. Robertson. - Andrew J. Rice, Jr. Child by first wife. - Stephen Ewing Rice Child by first wife. - Joel Rice Child by second marriage. - Elisha Rice Child by second wife. - Joel L. Rice + Agatha R. Rice Married Jesse Scott in 1831; died 18? - Andrew J. Scott - Agatha P. Scott - Howland Rice Scott - Alexander Erskine Scott + Cornelia Rice Married Allen Green. - Elizabeth Green - Susan Rice - Hyposia Rice Married James Kinnebrough in 1826 in Madison County, Alabama. - Tullioda A. Rice Married three times: first William H. Powers; second T.S. McCalley; third George W. Hunt. No issue. + William Higgason Rice Born in Hanover County, Virginia 12 March 1761. Moved to Caswell County, North Carolina with his father in 1775, according to his Revolutionary War Pension Application. He married first Susanna Williams Brooks, a daughter of Colonel Henry Williams and his wife Elizabeth, and widow of Christopher Brooks.. William H. Rice became guardian of her son Christopher Williams Brooks. Marriage bond in Caswell County records is dated 20 December 1784. After her death, William H. Rice married second Sarah "Sally" Gooch on 7 September 1795. Sally was a daughter of William Gooch, Sr. and his wife Frances Rice Gooch, who was daughter of John Rice, Sr. and wife Letisha, of Caswell County. Sally or Sarah Rice is mentioned in her father's will probated January 1803 as "Sarah Rice, wife of William H. Rice." William Rice married a third time in his later years in Rockingham County Eliza Bowman, by whom there were no children. William owned the High Rock Mill in Rockingham County. He did not live there, but did record that he had made peach brandy from the peach trees grown on the land. - Rebecca Rice Daughter of William and Susannah Williams Brooks Rice. Married Zachariah Neal of Amelia County, Virginia, recently removed to Caswell County, North Carolina. The marriage bond was dated 9 December 1811. They settled on land purchased from the estate of George Simpson, on the county line with Caswell County in Rockingham County, North Carolina, where they lived until about 1840. About that time they returned to Caswell County and purchased the estate of Colonel John Williams. Zachariah died in 1850; Rebecca died around 1857. - Polly Rice Daughter of William and Susannah Williams Brooks Rice; married a Scott. - Elizabeth Rice Daughter of William and Susannah Williams Brooks Rice; married a Simpson. - Marcy Rice Daughter of William and Susannah Williams Brooks Rice; married a Wall. - Henrietta Rice Daughter of William and Susannah Williams Brooks Rice; married Nathaniel Rice in 1812; second to Edmond Rice. - Stephen D. Rice Son of William and Sarah Gooch Rice; married Mary Boyd. - James Y. Rice Was deceased before his father's will was written. - William Clayton Rice Married Temesur Bowman 9 December 1839, bondsman Ryal Bowman. (Rockingham Marriage Bonds) - Solomon Rice - Sammy R. Rice - Nathan Rice Died before his father's will was written. Left a wife Sally and several children, among whom was a son, Williamson Rice. + Sarah "Salley" Rice Married Hugh Gwyn. + William Gwyn - Sarah Gwyn Married Jermiah Murphy, son of Alexander Murphy of Caswell County, North Carolina and grandson of Archibald Murphy. - Lucy Rice Married first John Scoby and second John Debow and lived in Orange County, now Alamance County, North Carolina.