I have only planned to preserve in this little book the main facts regarding the Deacon, his children and grand-children, with their dates and records. Almost any one of the present generation will be able to connect by tracing backwards, for surely any of us can tell who were our great-grand parents. There is an immense and ever increasing number of german Rice families in the U. And more are on the way. I am informed, in a hectic letter from an aspiring german Rice, that there is one entire Township of Rices, in Switzerland. May the Lord preserve them, in Switzerland. Among the descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice I have found almost every famous New England name. The families of many of our Methodist and Episcopal Bishops, of poets, authors, statesmen, clergymen, inventors, financiers, actors, musicians and politicians are de scended from Deacon Edmund or some of his family.