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William Ward, Jr. was born 22 February 1649 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts to William Ward (1603-1687) and Elizabeth Story Hall (1613-1700) and died 25 November 1697 Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts of unspecified causes. He married Hannah Brigham (1650-1719) November 1676 in Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

Biography

Indian Plantation

Source: BOOK: History of the Brigham Family

p. 27: At the time of Philip's War, they fled to Watertown. On their return, such was the feeling against Indian perfidy, a petition was made to the General Court to divide the 6000-acre " Indian Plantation," a part of and contiguous to Marlboro. Although this was denied, the people, under the leadership of John Brigham, took a deed from the Indians to these lands, 15 July, 1684; and though this was declared " null and void " by the General Court, the white proprietors proceeded to divide and settle these lands, under the supervision of their agent, the said John Brigham, who was their surveyor. In the 1686 list of proprietors we find the names of all the young Brighams, and their alliances, for the first time set out, viz.: Mercy Hunt (former widow of the Puritan Brigham, who before this time had married her third husband, William Hunt, also then dead), Thomas Brigham, John Brigham, Samuel Brigham, John Fay, (husband of Mary Brigham), and William Ward (husband of Hannah Brigham). Feeling uneasy over the adverse action of the Court, in 1683, the proprietors agreed that their grants " shall stand good to all intents and purposes, if they be attested by John Brigham, their Clerk." And so it stood, until, after a generation, having acquired title by possession, the General Court confirmed it.

p. 57: NOTE 4.—SALE BY HEIRS OF THOMAS^ BRIGHAM, 1681 We Thomas Brigham, John Brigham, Samuel Brigham & William Ward, all of Marlbury in the County of Middlesex, Husbandmen, for & in consideration of fifteen pounds of currant money of New England, by us already received of Nicholas Fessenden of Cambridge in the same county, Glover . . . sold . . . unto said Nicholas Fessenden a platt of meadow & swamp lying in Cambridge bounds, conteyning about ten acres, as it is stated in the town book, be it more or less bounded, the above Nicholas Fessenden Southerly, Monotoma River westerly, the great swamp easterly, formerly in the possession of Edward Senr . . . In witness whereof we the abovesd Thomas Brigham, Jno Brigham, Samuell Brigham, & William Ward and or wives Mary & Sarah Brigham with Hannah Ward in acknowledgement of our free consent to this act 6 deed of our husbands & ye utter relinquishing of or Dower right in the above granted ... ye 27tii day of ye lOt^i m the year of o' Lord God . . . 1681. (scale) Thomas Brigham. John Brigham (seale) Samuel Brigham (seale) William Ward (seale) (Mid. Beg., viii. 134.)

p 72: At a meeting of the proprietors, in December of the same year, continues Hudson, it was voted that Major Hincksman and others "should have the thousand acres of land which was surveyed by John Brigham, and. signified by the plats under his hand, should be recorded in the Company's Book of Records, so that it make a final settlement of all differences about the said land, as to any further claimes." Among the fifty-two proprietors were included John, Samuel and Thomas, sons of Thomas^ Brigham, Mercy Hunt, their mother, and John Fay and William Ward, who had married their sisters... ------- His children:

Marriage & Family

  1. Bethiah Ward (1681-1765) - md her 1st cousin, Elnathan Brigham
  2. Nahum Ward (1684-1754) - militia colonel, 1st mayor of Shrewsbury MA, father of American Revolutionary Gen Artemas Ward.
  3. Luke Ward (1689-)
  4. Priscilla Ward (1692-)
  5. Gersham Ward (1693-)
  6. Eleazer Ward (1695-)
  7. Deborah Ward (1697-)
  8. Hopestill Ward (1702-)


Children


Offspring of William Ward, Jr. and Hannah Brigham (1650-1719)
Name Birth Death Joined with
Bethiah Ward (1681-1765) 25 May 1681 Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 15 April 1765 Mansfield, Tolland County, Connecticut Elnathan Brigham (1683-1758)
Nahum Ward (1684-1754) 18 December 1684 Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 7 May 1754 Shewsbury, Worcester County, Massachusetts Martha Howe (1687-1755)
Luke Ward (1689-)
Priscilla Ward (1692-)
Gersham Ward (1693-)
Eleazer Ward (1695-)
Deborah Ward (1697-)
Hopestill Ward (1702-)



Siblings


Offspring of William Ward (1603-1687) and Elizabeth Story Hall (1613-1700)
Name Birth Death Joined with
John Ward (1626-1708) 21 December 1626 Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England 8 July 1708 Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Hannah Jackson (1634-1704)
Johanna Ward (1627-1718)
Obadiah Ward (1632-1718) 9 May 1632 Clerkenwell, London, England 5 January 1718 Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Mary Bartlett (1636-1706)
Richard Ward (1635-1667) 1635 England 31 March 1667 Sudbury River, Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Mary Moore (1641-1702)
Deborah Ward (1636-1697)
Hannah Ward (1638-1717) 12 July 1639 Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 3 November 1717 Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Abraham Howe (1632-1695)
Samuel Ward (1641-1729) 24 September 1641 Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 3 October 1727 Weymouth, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Sarah Howe (1644-1707)
Elizabeth Beers (1642-1729)
Elizabeth Ward (1643-1710) 14 April 1643 Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 26 April 1710 Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts John Howe (1640-1676)
Henry Kerley (1627-1712)
Increase Ward (1644-1690) 22 February 1644 Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 4 August 1690 Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Record Wheelock (1644-1726)
Hopestill Ward (1646-1718)
William Ward (1649-1697) 22 February 1649 Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 25 November 1697 Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Hannah Brigham (1650-1719)
Eleazer Ward (1650-1676) 1650 Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 20 April 1676 Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Hannah Rice (1653-1707)
Bethiah Ward (1658-1721) 1658 Middlesex County, Massachusetts 8 December 1721 Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Daniel Rice (1655-1737)

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