William Ward

b. say 1600, d. 10 August 1687
ChartsAncestors of Harriet Hanson Robinson
William Ward was born say 1600.1,2,3 He married Elizabeth (---) about 1638.4,2 He died 10 August 1687 at Marlborough, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.2

William came to Sudbury in 1639 with his first five children and probably shortly thereafter married his second wife, Elizabeth.

In Sudbury he was a freeman in 1643, a representative in 1644. In 1660 he removed to Marlborough where he was a representative in 1666 and deacon at the first organization of the church. He made his will 6 April 1686.2

Family 1
Children

Family 2

Elizabeth (---) b. abt. 1614, d. 9 Dec 1700
Marriage*He married Elizabeth (---) about 1638.4,2 
Children

Citations

  1. [S672] Gilman Biglow Howe, "Abraham How, of Watertown and Marlborough, Mass," National Genealogical Society Quarterly 7 (April 1917): 12-14. Hereafter cited as "Abraham How."
  2. [S925] James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Four Volumes. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown & Company, 1860-1862, 4:414. CD-ROM reprint, Compendium of New England Pioneers: A Collection of 14 Classic Genealogical Dictionaries of Early New England Settlers (Columbia, Maryland: Archive CD Books USA, 2006). Hereafter cited as Savage's Dictionary.
  3. [S1330] Estimated from probable birth of first child (1626).
  4. [S673] Editors, "The Ancestry of Brigham Young," The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine 22 (Jan 1931): 20-21. Hereafter cited as "Ancestry of Brigham Young."
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