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About Eleazer Ward
Killed by indians on the highway between Sudbury and Marlboro, April 20, 1676.
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@R353280766@ Massachusetts, Compiled Birth, Marriage, and Death Records, 1700-1850 Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
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New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 1,61401::174950
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New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 1,61401::174950
Married 10 July or 5 Aug 1676, Eleazar Ward, son of Deacon William Ward Sr. and Elizabeth ??. [4][5][6] Eleazar was killed abt 20 Apr 1676 in an ambush outside of Marlborough, MA during King Philip's War, at which time Hannah was pregnant with their first child, Hannah.[7]
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Eleazer Ward
Born about 1649 [location unknown]
Son of William Ward and Elizabeth (Unknown) Ward
Brother of John Ward [half], Joanna (Ward) Williams [half], Obadiah Ward [half], Richard Ward [half], Deborah (Ward) Johnson [half], Hannah (Ward) Howe, William Ward II, Samuel Ward, Elizabeth (Ward) Kerley, Increase Ward, Hopestill (Ward) Woods and Bethia (Ward) Rice
Husband of Hannah (Rice) Taylor — married 5 Aug 1675 in Marlboro, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Father of Hannah (Ward) Cobleigh
Died about 20 Apr 1676 in road between Marlborough and Sudbury, Massachusetts
Profile last modified 22 Sep 2019 | Created 22 Feb 2010
This profile is part of the Ward Name Study.
Eleazar Ward[1] was born about 1650, probably in Sudbury, son of William Ward and Elizabeth Hall. (Birth records are missing from Sudbury records during this time period.)"
A year after his marriage to Hannah Rice, Eleazar was slain during an ambush between Sudbury and Marlboro during what came to be known as King Philip's War.[2]
"Captain Wadsworth and his men marching to the defense of Marlboro turned back without rest to the relief of Sudbury, accompanied by the Marlborocaptain and most of his men. They were ambushed near Sudbury where both captains and many of the men were killed. Included in this number was Eleazar Ward, the young husband of Henry Rice's daughter, Hannah..." And:[3]
"He was killed by by Indians while riding from Marlborough to Sudbury...during King Philip's War."The hill where he was killed bears his name. Mount Ward is "along the the road to Sudbury...2-1/2 miles outside of Marlborough." Killed either 20th or 21st April, 1676.
It does not appear that he was a formal soldier (although he might have been one of many locals impressed into service), as he is not listed among those under the command of either Capt. Samuel Wadsworth or Capt. Samuel Brocklebank, both killed in this fight.[4]
"They marched through Sudbury in the evening of the 20th, and without any sign of attack from the great body of Indians lying about the twon and its approaches, arrived in Marlborough near midnight, where, learning that the enemy had gone towards Sudbury Capt. Wadsworth, after a brief stop and slight reorgniazation of his company, leaving some of the boys that were unable to march at the garrison, and doubtless taking some fitter men in their places, and being joined by Capt. Brocklebank... with this company he marched hastily back towards Sudbury." "While this company were thus marching to and from Marlborough, the enemy were gathering more closely about Sudbury... Capt. Wadsworth with his tired troops, that had marched all the day and night before, marched promptly back from Marlborough, being joined by Capt. Brocklebank and a few of the garrison soldiers, making a company of not more than eighty men miserably tired for want of rest and sleep. This company was drawn into ambush and encompassed by many hundred Indians... fought them from a hill for four hours with the loss of only five men, till the Indians set fire to the woods at the windward of them, and thus forced them from their strong position, and in their retreat waylaid and destroyed all but a few of the men who escaped to a mill where they defended themselves till night, when rescued by Capt. Prentice's troopers..." ..."The most definite statement is that of Major Gookin, who puts the number of those slain, besides the two Captains, as "about thirty-two private soldiers." [one of whom was no doubt Eleazar Ward]... Unfortunately we are not as yet able to find any list of the names of those killed on that day..." At the time of his death, his wife was pregnant with his daughter, Hannah. His widow married another soldier, Richard Taylor, who raised Eleazar's daughter as his own along with their own children.
Eleazar's widow and daughter are named in the will of Eleazar's father, William Ward.
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↑ Savage, Genealogical Dictionary, vol. ??, p. ??: :"[WARD,] ELEAZER, Marlborough, youngest s. of William first of the same, m. 10 July, as one has it, but more prob. 5 Aug. 1675, Hannah, d. of Henry Rice; had Hannah, whose birthday is not found, but is nam. in the will of her maternal gr.f. when giv. legacies to mo. and ch. She was prob. posthum. and was k. by the Ind. in Apr. foll. His wid. m. 17 Oct. 1677, Richard Taylor of Sudbury. ↑ "Edmund Rice and his Family" p. 46: ↑ Charles Martyn, The William Ward genealogy : the history of the descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass., 1639-1925, New York: Artemas Ward (1925). Cites original documents; looks very well researched. p. 73; See also the illustration of "Mount Ward" facing page 52 and the reference on page 53. ↑ George M. Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip's War, Boston, Printed for the author (1891), p 171, 159;j see also pp 175-184 for a description of the Sudbury Fight
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Eleazer Ward's Timeline
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Sudbury, , MA
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Sudbury,,MA
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Sudbury,, MA
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Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
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April 21, 1676
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road between Marlborough and Sudbury, MA; slain by Indians, Marlborough, Middlesex, MA, United States
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April 21, 1676
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Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA
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Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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