William Ward

This William DID NOT DIE YOUNG, but I can't change the profile "photo". The date viven in the profile (and locked) is not the same as the 1640 date given below. Perhaps 1640 was the William who died young, and the info below is incorrect?

ABOUT WILLIAM WARD (2):

William (2) son of William, and his second wife Elizabeth Ward, was born Jan. 22, 1640 at Sudbury, Massachusetts and died at Marlborough, Massachusetts Nov. 25, 1697. He removed to Marlboro with his father in 1660, and resided there all his remaining years. He married, at Marlborough, Sept. 4, 1679, Hannah, born April 27, 1656, died Sept. 8, 1720, widow of Gershom Ames and daughter of Solomon and Hannah Johnson of Sudbury. Their son Elisha was killed or captured by Indians at Worcester, August 1709 while riding post from Marlborough to Hadley. His mother, by her will in 1714, provided: "If Elisha shall ever come again my executor shall pay him twenty shillings also." He did not come again. Bathsheba died young. Gershom died unmarried.

From: Genealogical and Family History of Western New York: A Record of ..., Volume 1 edited by William Richard Cutter

Estate:

"Know all men by these presents yt we Hannah Ward relict widow of William Ward late of Marlburrow dec'd Intestate and John Brigham & Samuel Ward of said Marlburrow all within County of Middlx in ye Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England are held... and ... firmly bound and obliged unto James K.... full sum of Seven hundred pounds current money of New England to be paid to ye sd James Russell Esqr his ... in ye office of Judge of Probate of wills etc for Middlx to ye true payment whom... we the said Hannah Ward, Jno Brigham & Samll Ward to bind and oblige our .... our heires.... and to be? jointly and severally firmly by those presents sealed with our seal based in Charlestowne: May ye 4th 1698 Anno ....

"The condition of this obligation is such yt if ye above bounden Hannah Ward Administratrix of all and singular goods cattelles rights and .... of her late husband William Ward late of Marlburrow dec'd intestate do make a true and perfect? inventory of all and singular of goods chattels rights and .... of ye sd dec'd, wer? have or shall ... hand or ... for her and of same to make do exhibit unto ye Registers office of ye sd county aforesd ... ye fourth day of August next ensuring sd same goods, chattles, rights and sundry? and all other goods chattels rights and ... of sd dec'd at ye time of his death wch at any time after shall shall [sic] come into ye hands or possession of ye sd Admx or of any other person or persons for her do well and truly administer according to Law and further do ake a? cause to be made a just and true account of her sd Administration aforesd for? and fourth day of May wch will be in a year four June? 1699 and all ye rest and residue of ye said goods Chattels rights and Credits? wch shall be found remaining upon ye Administration being? of probates of wills & for sd County of Middlx, sahll deliver and pay unto such person or persons as ye Judge or Judges by his or their d... or ..... to law shall limit and appoint. And if it shall come after appear ye any last will and testament was made by ye sd dec'd, and of .... those in .... do exhibit of same into ye sd Court of Probates makeing sd ... to have it allowed and approved accordingly.

If ye said Administratrix above bounden being thereunto required do render and deliver up ye sd Letter of Administration, approbation of .... testemonies being first had and made into ye registers office of sd County of Middlx then this obligation debt: will and of none effects else to be and remain in full fource and nature.?

Signed, Sealed & D'd In presence of Sam'll Phipps, Reg Pela. Whittemore

Her mark Hannah "H" Ward John Brigham his Hannah J Ward mark [sic]

Sources:

↑ "Sudbury Records." New England Historical and Genealogical Record. Vol 17 p. 170 (1863) ↑ Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: NEHGS, 1905 ↑ Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston: NEHGS, 1903. ↑ Hudson, Charles and Joseph Allen. History of the Town of Marlborough, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: From Its First Settlement in 1657 to 1861; with a Brief Sketch of the Town of Northborough, a Genealogy of the Families in Marlborough to 1800, and an Account of the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town. Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin & son, 1862 ↑ Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871, 23758; AmericanAncestors.org (NEHGR); digital images available to paid members

See also:

Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Ward Family; Descendants of William Ward Who Settled in Sudbury, MA in 1639. Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1851. The William Ward genealogy : the history of the descendants ... Martyn, Charles, b. 1874., p. 73. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89067294322;view=1up;seq=135 Vital Records of Sudbury MA to 1850 History of the Town of Marborough, Page 460 __________________________________________________ For some info on the Brigham family : 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 Haimah 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.

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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.)

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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...

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