Mary was born in Sudbury, MA on September 16, 1707 to Nathaniel and Patience (Brown) Rice. Her parents had both been married previously. Mary was the second of their three children as a couple, and had older siblings from her mother’s first marriage (and likely her father’s as well). She married Paul Brintnal on November 10, 1724. They had four sons: Nathaniel in 1724 (born a little over a month after their marriage), Joseph in 1727, John in 1729, and Collens in 1731. Paul

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Sarah was born in Sudbury, MA on October 31, 1718 to Jonathan and Sarah Smith, the oldest of the their three children whose births are recorded in the town. She married Nathaniel Rice, also of Sudbury, on November 24, 1737. They had one child, a daughter named Sarah, on September 3, 1738. Sarah the mother died on January 4, 1740/1. Her daughter died three weeks later. They lie side by side in the Revolutionary War Cemetery in Sudbury, MA.