Ithamar Ward

• Residence: Phillipston, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States - 1820
  • Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Jan 28 2021, 23:51:15 UTC

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Ithamar appeared as a private on the Lexington Alarm Roll, of Capt. Job Cushing's company, Col. Artemas Ward's regiment, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, from Shrewsbury to Cambridge. He belonged to Shrewsbury and served 29 days.

He married 3 times:

1st to Phebe Parker Nov. 17, 1778 in Shrewsbury

2nd to Anna Powers October 1790 in Gerry (now Phillipston)

3rd to wife Sarah, Jan. 17, 1796 in Gerry

An interesting note found in the town's records regarding a wife that never was:

Intention of marriage by Lieutenant Ithamar Ward and Mrs. Abial Rich Both of Gerry entered September 12, 1789. Mr. Char Baker T. Clerk. Published one Sunday. then rec'd. order not to proceed any further.

Who could Mrs. Abial Rich be? Maybe she was the lady who eventually married Joseph Seaver. Sometimes older unmarried woman were referred to as Mrs., so it's a possiblity, although she would have only been 24 in 1789.

Ithamar was a Lieutenant of the militia, a magistrate, and a representative in the Massachusetts General Court years 1805, '6, '8, '9, '10, '12, '14, '15.

He was Phillipston Town treasurer 1787-1814 and 1816-1817.

The Ward family lived on Ward Hill Road on land granted to Gen. Ward and then deeded to Ithamar. The land passed to his son Nahum and then to Nahum's half-sisters and half-brothers Anna, Sally, Artemas & Trowbridge none of which ever married and they all lived together until one by one dying off all in the 1880's.

The Ithamar Ward house still stands today. Mr. Ward's children, who lived in that home well into their 80's, were in possession of many valuable old revolutionary documents handed down to them from their grandfather including a letter from George Washington to Gen. Ward dated March 29, 1776 at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 29 2021, 0:23:02 UTC