Joshua Ward

Biography

From The Driver Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Robert and ... page 285: GoogleBooks

Hannah Derby 8 married second, Oct. 10, 1737, as his second wife. Miles Ward, Jr., son of Miles and Sarah (Massey) Ward, grandson of Joshua and Hannah (Flint) Ward; he born April 18, 1704; died June —, 1792. (Sec Appendix. Flint Family, No. 7, III. child.) He was a widower, with eight children, having md. first, Jan. 3, 1727, Elizabeth Webb. (See Appendix, Webb Family continued, No. 10.)

Children of her second marriage include ...

(j) Joshua Ward4, born Oct. 25, 1752; died Sept. 14, 1825; merchant and owned a distillery; he md. first, Sarah Lander, who was the mother of his children; md. second, Susan McGee, of Boston. His son Joshua married Susannah, dau. of Dr. Edward A. Holvoke, who lived to be one hundred and one years of age, vigorous and strong until the close of his life. Joshua Ward, in 1789, entertained in his own house, on Washington Street, Salem, Mass., President George Washington, during his visit in that year to Salem. This house in 1879 was still standing and occupied.