Deacon William Ward

Male, #728, (about 1603 - 10 August 1687)
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William Ward Memorial
     Deacon William Ward was also known as William Warde. He was born about 1603 in Yorkshire or Derbyshire, England.2,3 He was the son of Edward Ward.1 About 1638 in England William married Elizabeth unknown. Elizabeth being his second wife.4,2 Deacon William Ward and Elizabeth unknown immigrated about 1638 to Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, probably during the Spring.4,2,5 Deacon William Ward lived in 1639 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.6,7 He was granted land on 18 November 1640 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, the grant was recorded as 18 (9) 1640.8,9 He became a freeman on 10 May 1643 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.6,10,11,4,2,7 He served in 1644 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as Representative to the Massachusetts General Court.10,8,4,2,12,7 He served as chairman of the Board of Selectman from Sudbury for several years. He and Deacon Edmund Rice served in 1646 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as Commissioners to End Small Causes.2 Deacon William Ward in 1656; signed the petition to the General Court for the Town of Marlborough.12,8 He was granted land in 1657 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. He and Elizabeth unknown lived in 1661 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.4,3,2 Deacon William Ward deposed on 4 October 1664 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, giving his age as about 61 years. The deposition was dated 4 (8) 1664.6,3 He was one of the founders of the church and was made a Deacon at that time in 1666.4 He served in 1666 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as a Representative to the Massachusetts General Court.4 William's home was designated a garrison house, with his son Samuel's and his daughter, Hannah's families assigned to that garrison on 1 October 1675.2 He left a will on 6 April 1686 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.6,8,7,13 He died on Sunday, 10 August 1687 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.6,10,11,8,4,12,7 Ward (1851) adds one more child, Mary. He derived this from the second wife of Daniel Stone, however "Ward" was her married name, not her maiden name.7
Charts
Ancestry of Robert Roy

Children of Deacon William Ward

Children of Deacon William Ward and Elizabeth unknown

Citations

  1. Ancestral File. Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, 1994.
  2. Martyn, Charles. The William Ward Genealogy - The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass. 1638-1925. New York: Artemas Ward, 1925.
  3. Crane, Ellery Bicknell. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts. New York: The Lewis Publishing Co., 1907.
  4. Hudson, Alfred Sereno. The History of Sudbury, Massachusetts 1638-1889. 1889. Reprint Sudbury, Massachusetts: The Sudbury Press, 1968.
  5. Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register. volume IV. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1862).
  6. Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts. 1900. Reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1981.
  7. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Ward Family: Descendants of William Ward. Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1851.
  8. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. History of the Town of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts From Its Settlement in 1717 to 1829, with Other Matter Relating thereto Not Before Published, Including an Extensive Family Register. 1847. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1989.
  9. Jackson, Francis. A History of the Early Settlement of Newton, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, from 1639 to 1800. 1854. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, Inc., 1987.
  10. Paige, Lucius R. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Register. 1877. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986.
  11. Gozzaldi, Mary Isabella. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts 1630-1877 with a Genealogical Register - Supplement and Index. 1930. Reprint Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books, 1986.
  12. Hudson, Charles. History of the Town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts from its First Settlement in 1657 to 1861 with a Brief Sketch of the Town of Northborough. Boston: T.R. Marvin & Son, 1862.
  13. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice. Boston: C. Benjamin Richardson, 1858.
  14. Ritter, Priscilla R. and Thelma Fleishman. Newton, Massachusetts, 1679-1779 A Biographical Directory. Boston: New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 1982.
  15. Greenwood, Frederick. Greenwood Genealogies, 1154-1914. New York: The Lyons Genealogical Company, 1914.
  16. Ward, Andrew Henshaw. "Sudbury Records", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume XVII (1863).
  17. Pulsifer, David. "Early Records of Boston", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register volume VI (1852).
  18. Bullard, Edgar J. Bullard and Allied Families. Detroit: Private Publisher, 1930.
  19. Lawson, Stephen M.. Parmenter - Leavens - Woods. http://sml.simplenet.com/ancestries/leavenst.htm: manuscript, 22 March 1998.
  20. Brigham, Willard Irving Tyler. The History of the Brigham Family, a Record of several Thousand Descendants of Thomas Brigham the Emigrant, 1603-1653. New York: The Grafton Press, 1907.