Koamalu : a story of pioneers on Kauai, and of what they built in that island garden / by Ethel M. Damon. [Vol. 1, no. 2]

GENEALOGIES

937

at sea. He had 4 children, of whom Jabez Backus Hyde,
the second son, was the father of Mary Sophia Hyde
Rice.
Lieutenant Thomas Tracy, the first in the American
branch of the family, settled in Salem, Massachusetts,
in 1636. Of his 7 children, the eldest daughter, Elizabeth,
m. Nathaniel Backus of Norwich, Connecticut. Their
son, Jabez Backus, m. Eunice Kingsbury, Feb. 17, 1741.
Their daughter, Eunice, b. May 28, 1745, m. Capt. James
Hyde (see preceding paragraph), May 14, 1767. She
died March 9, 1778. Their second son, Rev. Jabez
Backus Hyde, b. Aug. 17, 1774, m. (1st) Lucy Hartshorn, Apr. 16, 1801, and settled in Richfield, N. Y.,
where they had 2 daughters, Anna, who died in infancy,
and Eunice, b. Aug. 23, 1803, d. Apr. 30, 1844. Mrs.
Lucy Hyde d. Jan. 28, 1806.
Rev. Jabez Backus Hyde m. (2nd) Jerusha Aiken,
of Richfield, N. Y., June 28, 1810. She died May 1,
1824. Their 5 children were:
1. Lucy,
b. Dec. 25, 1812,
m. William Reeves in Tennessee, June 19, 1856.
2. Hannah Willis,
b. Nov. 20, 1814, m. May 25, 1843, to Elias Weed,
d. Feb. 19, 1844.
3. Mary Sophia,
b. Oct. 11, 1816, d. May 25, 1911, having m. William Harrison
Rice of Hannibal, N. Y., Sept. 28, 1840.
For their children see Rice Genealogy.
4. Atwood Aiken,
b. Aug. 11, 1819,
m. Martha Reeves, Nov. 29, 1849, 4 sons.
5. Francis Mills,
b. Sept. 17, 1821, d. Jan. 12, 1825.