Rebecca Gerould

Katie Gerould

Ebenezer Gerould

Elias Gerould

Samuel Gerould

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Azubah Thompson

Benona Gerould

Jacob Gerould

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Jerusha Gerould

Eleazer Blake

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Theodore Gerould

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Ruth Bowditch

Jerusha Gerould

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James Gerould

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Lois Wood

Susanna Gerould

Dutee Rice

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On an inside page, in very flowery script are the initials of P G R. Under it - Town meeting in E. Smithfield is February, the third, Tuesday. We moved into the E A Wood home in 1871. The next page is as follows and I have copied the following exactly, spelling and punctuation. The Pedigree of the Family of Rice In a time of trouble in France a time which tried mens souls many was slain that adheared to the religion of Christ all Christians feared to openly acknowledge him lest they should be compeled to pay the penalty with their lives. Physician by the name of Gerould hearing of religious freedom enjoyed in America sold his possesions in France and embarked for America with his Family consisting of three sons and one daughter upon ariving here they settled near Boston in Massachusetts. The sons was all Physicians, the eldest established himself in Wrentham Mafs where he raised a large family. The eldest son Jabez Gerould enlisted in the revilution fought under George Washington was in the battle of Bunker hill June 1775 and was there wounded in his right arm by the wind of a cannonball he retired with $800 of continental money thinking with this to purchase himself a home but before he gained his health the money dyed on his hands being then reduced to extremiities he was compelled to resort to his trade which was (blacksmithing) for a livelihood and hearing that there was a shop and tools unocupied in Newtown Connecticut he went there and there married a worthy woman (Demaris Bennet) and having seven sons and one daughter removed in AD 1801 to Smithfiield in Bradford Co. Penna where he died in June 12th 1802. About the time that the Gerould family arived in America three brothers by the name of Rice came from Wales to America one of them settled in yorkstate another in Vermont the other in Rhode Island the one last mentioned arose to distinction in R.I and was known by the apeltion of Major Rice his son settled in Warwick near Providence and here they found the second son of the French DeGerould the (son) of Major Rice Caleb Rice marryed De Gerould eldest daughter and had nine children six Girls and three Boys the eldest son in his travels came to Smithfield Pa and becoming acquainted with his rellatives Jabez Geroulds family maryed the only daughter and had ten children six sons and four Daughters all of whome are living at this time Jan 27, 1851. This account of the line of ancestors is written by the second son Jabez Gerould Rice according to the reminescnce of his Mother Susan Rice.

Ephraim Bennett Gerould

Elizabeth Foster

Christiana Putnam