Family Pages:
David Bent family
Ebenezer Rice family
Beriah Rice family
John Rice family
Edmund Rice (1638)
Association
James Graham family
Other Helpful Links:
Annapolis
County (NS) GenWeb Project
Digby County
(NS) GenWeb Project
Dukeshire/Dukeshier
Genealogy
Kings County (NS) Historical
Society
Genealogical
Association of Nova Scotia
Halifax
County (NS) GenWeb Project
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These pages contain information about descendants
of five families who settled in Nova Scotia in the mid 1700s.
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The three Rice families and Bent family were New England Planters who settled
in the Annapolis Valley in 1760. All three of the Rice husbands, two of
the Rice wives, and the Bent husband and wife were descendants of
Edmund
Rice who was first recorded in Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1638.
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The Graham family arrived at Halifax about 1749, presumably from Northern
Ireland.
Because the Annapolis Valley was a rather small
community in the late 1700s and early 1800s, there were many marriages
within a small number of families. In the Rice files, you will find many
occurrences of other well researched families, such as Banks, Harris, McDormand/McDermand,
Potter, Spurr, and Whitman.
To protect the privacy of living descendants your author has included
only the first five generations of descendants of these families. Your
author will be glad to exchange more complete information for your direct
family line. You can contact me at: George
King
Wayne W. Walker has given permission to post a copy of his Abstracts
from the Court of Probate Records for Annapolis County, Nova Scotia.
These
abstracts are a must for anyone researching Annapolis County families
before 1938 or Digby County before 1838.
You will find helpful hints for your search at the beginning page for
each family file. |
