1st wife of Samuel Ward

Mary married Samuel WARD, who died on 28 November 1638 in Hingham, Plymouth co., MA[1,15]. Perhaps the "Roger Hilliard referred to in Samuel’s will was her brother and a clue to her parentage.

Family

https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/131380/I169389/mary-hilliard/individual

[Mary Hilliard - unsourced] was born ABT 1595 in England. She married Samuel Ward on BEF 1632, son of [Eleanor /Buxton/ - unsourced] and Henry /Ward/. He was born 1593 in England, and died 30 AUG 1682.

Children of Mary /Hilliard/ and Samuel /Ward/ are:

1. Mary Ward was born ABT 1632, and died 4 FEB 1694/95 in Salem, Essex Co., MA.
2. Henry Ward was born ABT 1635 in Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA, and died 4 APR 1715 in Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA.
3. Martha Ward was born ABT 1637 in Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA, and died 4 MAY 1708 in Hull, Plymouth Co., MA.
4. Samuel Ward was born 18 NOV 1638 in Hingham, Plymouth Co., MA, and died 1690 in Quebec, Canada.

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Notes

(_____) (Osborn) Mulford, neighbor in Boston, was called "sister Moleford" in Collicott's will, and was probably a sister of second wife Thomasine. Coddington suggested that Frideswide and Thomasine were born Wards and were younger half-sisters of Samuel Ward of Hingham or of Ward's unknown wife.

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References

• “Frideswide Osborn” in the New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635. Richard Collicott sketch. AncestryImage Coddington suggests that Frideswide (__) (Osborn) Mulford and Thomasine (__) Collicott were younger half sisters of Samuel Ward of Hingham or of Ward’s unknown wife.
• http://kristinhall.org/fambly/Ward/SamuelWard.html
• WARD of Hingham and Charlestown, Massachusetts. Samuel Ward, my 10th great grandfather, was an early settler at Hingham, Massachusetts. He might have been the brother of the Henry Ward who was buried there on 15 May 1642. His first wife was Mary Hilliard, who died at Hingham 28 November 1638 ten days after giving birth to my 9th great grandfather, Samuel, Jr. Mary had given four children to Samuel, Sr. His second wife was Frances Pitcher, the widow of a Mr. Reycroft. Frances died in 1690 and is buried at Copp’s Hill Burial Ground in Boston. link
• http://lechpowell.com/getperson.php?personID=I3798&tree=tree1
• History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Published by the Town, 1893, (University Press: John Wilson and Sons, Cambridge, Mass), v III, page 274-275. “Samuel Ward, perhaps a son of Henry, who died and was buried here, 15 May 1642), had a grant of land on the Lower Plain 1636. …. “
• Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine, and ninety allied families. by Sumner, Edith Bartlett, Publication date 1959. Page 304. Archive.Org