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William Ward

Male Abt 1632 - Bef 1676  (~ 44 years)


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  • Name William Ward 
    Born Abt 1632  , , England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Bef 4 Mar 1676  Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3268  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Deborah Lockwood,   b. 12 Oct 1636, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Bef 20 Oct 1658  Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1678  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • BIOGRAPHY:
      1. Per the book "The Story of the Early Settlers of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641 - 1700," by Jeanne Majdalany (including genealogies comp. with Edith M. Wicks, page 194: contains bio of father Andrew Ward: "born in Homersfield, Norfalk, England...m. in Dedham, Essex. He came to America in 1630...He was in Watertown until 1635 when he moved to Hartord where he was a magistrate of the court. he was one of the orinal group of settlers in Stamford in 1641 and was one of the first men chosen for townsmen; later he was magistrate; In 1647 or 1648 he moved to Fairfield, CT. He was also in Hempstead, L.I. for awhile. Descendants: William-m. Deborah Lockwood,..."

      2. Citation Information: "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633," Volumes I-III: "for Andrew Ward, father of William Ward as noted below:
      "Andrew Ward
      Origin: Unknown
      Migration: 1633
      First Residence: Watertown
      Removes: Wethersfield 1635, Stamford 1641, Fairfield 1648
      Church Membership: Membership in Watertown church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship.
      Freeman: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369]. Education: He signed his will and his wife made her mark to hers. His inventory included "books and honey" valued at £1. The inventory of his widow included "books" valued at 15s. and "a Great Bible" valued at 15s. Offices: Commissioner for Massachusetts Bay to govern new settlements on the Connecticut, 3 March 1635/6 [MBCR 1:171]. Connecticut Assistant, April 1636, September 1636, March 1637, May 1637 [CT Civil List 58]. Deputy for Wethersfield to Connecticut Court, November 1637, March 1638, April 1638, August 1639, September 1639, January 1640 [CT Civil List 58]. Deputy for Stamford to New Haven Court, April 1644 [CT Civil List 58]. New Haven Assistant, October 1646 [CT Civil List 58]. Deputy for Fairfield to Connecticut Court, May 1648, May 1649, September 1649, May 1650, September 1650, May 1651, May 1652, May 1653, September 1653, May 1654, September 1654, May 1655, May 1656, October 1658 [CT Civil List 58]. Estate: Andrew Ward was granted a ten-acre homestall in Watertown, probably in 1633 [WaBOP 99]. In the Inventory of Grants and the Composite Inventory, this homestall belonged to Nicholas Busby, who also held many parcels granted to Edmond Sherman, father-in-law or brother-in-law of Andrew Ward [WaBOP 50, 99, 135]. Apparently Edmond Sherman acquired the homestall from Ward upon his removal to Wethersfield, and based on the proprietary rights accompanying the homestall received further grants in Watertown, which he then sold to Busby. In the Wethersfield land inventory on 24 March 1640/1 Andrew Ward held eight parcels of land: homelot of four acres; fourteen acres and two roods in the great meadow; four acres and three roods of great meadow and swamp; two acres and three roods in the back lots; eight acres of dry swamp; six acres of wet swamp; fifty-four acres in the West Field; and two hundred sixty-four acres on the east side of Connecticut River [WetLR 1:250]. In his will, dated 8 June 1659 and proved 2 November 1659, Andrew Ward of Fairfield bequeathed to "Ester my beloved wife" £40 and one third part of all my lands & housing in Fairfeild during her widowhood"; to "my son John" £50 at age twenty-one; to "my daughter Sarah" £40 "within one year after her marriage"; to "my daughter Abigall" £40 at age eighteen; (the next clause is partly lost to fire, but apparently gives land jointly to sons Andrew and Samuel at age twenty-one); residue of moveables to be divided equally between sons Andrew and Samuel; "and for the rest of my children they have received their full portions already except my son Edmond who if he come to this place my will is that out of my two younger sons Andrew and Samuell's portions there may be paid twenty pounds" [Fairfield PR 1:58-59]. The inventory of the estate of Andrew Ward was taken 18 October 1659 and totalled £242 10s., including £80 in "house and lands" [Fairfield PR 1:59-60]. In her will, dated 27 December 1665 and proved 28 February 1665/6, Hester Ward bequeathed to "my son William Ward" £5; to "my daughter Mary Burr" 40s.; to "my sons Andrew and Samuell" £8 apiece; to "my daughter Abigaill" £10; to "the children of my daughter Anna Nicholls nine pounds to be equally divided among them"; to "my grandchild Hester Ward" £9; to "my son John's children in being" £9; to "my grandchildren Sarah Burr and Nathaniell Burr the children of my daughter Sarah nine pounds to be equally divided among them"; wearing apparel divided among daughters Ann, Mary, Sarah and Abigail; sons William Ward and Andrew Ward to be executors and residuary legatees; to "Daniell Bur and Hester Burr ten shillings apiece"; to "my son William ... my great Bible and if Andrew outlive him then Andrew shall have it" [Fairfield PR 2:11]. The inventory of th e estate of "Mrs. Hester Ward deceased" was taken 30 January 1665/6 and totalled £139, with no real estate included [Fairfield PR 2:12]. Birth: By about 1603 based on estimated date of marriage. Death: After 8 June 1659 (date of will) and before 18 October 1659 (date of inventory). Marriage: By about 1628 Hester Sherman, daughter of Edmund Sherman; she died between 27 December 1665 (date of will) and 30 January 1665/6 (date of inventory). Children:
      i EDMUND, b. say 1628; named in father's will of 8 June 1659 (apparently not residing in New England), but not named in mother's will of 27 December 1665.
      ii ANN, b. about 1630; m. by 1650 Caleb Nichols (eldest child b. Stratford 1 December 1650 [FOOF 1:435-36]).
      iii William, born say 1632; m. by about 1664 Deborah Lockwood, daughter of Robert Lockwood (Jeffrey Ferris, who married the widow of Robert Lockwood, made payments to the children of Robert Lockwood, deceased, and one of the payments was to William Ward [Fairfield PR 1:42, 66, 67; FOOF 1:380-81].
      iv HESTER, born say 1634; probably m. (1) Joseph Boosey, and if so m. (2) Jehu Burr, son of JEHU BURR [FOOF 1:118-20].
      v Mary, born say 1636; m. (poss.) John Burr, son of JEHU BURR [FOOF 1:119-21].
      vi John, born say 1638; m. Middletown 18 April 1664 Mary Harris, daughter of William Harris [MidVR Barbour 468, citing Middletown LR 1:12].
      vii Sarah, born say 1640; m. by about 1662 Nathaniel Burr, son of JEHU BURR [NYGBR 51:164].
      viii Abigail, born say 1642; m. (1) by 1672 Moses Dimon [FOOF 1:184-85]; m. (2) by contract dated 2 June 1685 Edward Howard [FOOF 1:293].
      ix Andrew, born say 1644; m. by about 1669 Trial Meigs, daughter of John Meigs (in his will of 28 August 1671 John Meigs made bequests of land to "my daughter Tryall Ward," which were to go at her death to "her son Andrew, or if he die and have no children then to return to his next brother John and his seed" [Henry B. Meigs, Record of the Descendants of Vincent Meigs ... (np 1901), p. 176, citing Killingworth LR 2:62]). x Samuel, born say 1646; m. (1) by about 1671 ____ Ogden, daughter of Richard Ogden [FOOF 1:448]; m. (2) Hannah (Howkins) Nichols, daughter of Anthony Howkins and widow of Jonathan Nichols [FOOF 1:438-39].
      Associations: Early accounts of the origin of Andrew Ward claimed that the family was from Homersfield, Suffolk, but no evidence of the family has been found there. Jacobus suggested searching in the area of Dedham, Essex, since that was the home of Ward's wife [FOOF 1:643-44]. Jacobus also noted a clue pointing to a Ward family of Faxton, Northamptonshire [NYGBR 44:119-21]. Comments: On 2 July 1640 Samuel Smith sued "Andrew Waird," but we do not learn the cause or outcome [RPCC 12]."

      3. "Connecticut Ancestry," periodical published by the Connecticut Ancestry Society, Inc., Dec. 2004, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 119-130: "Robert Lockwood of Watertown, Stamford and Fairfield: English Ancestry, New England Connections and Children's Marriages," by Robert Charles Anderson. Note that the following is a partial transcript of the full transcript in the notes of Robert Lockwood; the full article is well written by one of the very best modern genealogists and should be consulted in conjunction with the following notes:
      "DEBORAH Lockwood, b. Watertown 12 October 1636. She m. (1) by 20 October 1658 William Ward, son of Andrew Ward.(58) She m. (2) by 1678 John Topping.(59)
      Footnotes:
      58. Fairfield Probate Records 1:43; Anderson, Great Migration Begins 3:1918-21 (which misstates the estimated date of marriage).
      59. Jacobus, "Old Fairfield," 1:645 (citing "Marriage agreement between Ebenezer Hawley and Hester Ward, dau. of Mrs. Deborah Topping of Southampton, 19 Apr. 1678")."

      4. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
      "Robert Lockwood...
      Estate: ...On 1 December 1681, "Jonathan Hewsteed of Greenwich having marrying Mary Lockwood the daughter of Robert and Susanna Lockwood" acknowledged having received his wife's portion of her parents' estates from "Daniell Lockwood, Joseph Lockwood and Will[ia]m Ward administrators upon the estate of their father and mother" [Fairfield PR 3:314]. On 28 December 1681, "John Barlowe of Fairfeild," noting that "there was a portion due out of the estate of my father-in-law Robert Lockwood deceased and of the estate of my mother -in-law Susanna Ferris deceased unto she that is now my wife Abigal their daughter, and whereas that my brother-in-law Will[ia]m Ward in his lifetime and my brother-in-laws Joseph and Daniel Lockwood were appointed by the court to administer on the abovesaid estate," acknowledged having received his wife's portion [Fairfield PR 3:313]...
      Children...
      DEBORAH Lockwood, b. Watertown 12 October 1636 [NEHGR 7:159; WaVR 1:4]; m. (1) by 20 October 1658 William Ward, son of Andrew WARD {1633, Watertown} [GMB 3:1918-21 (which misstates the estimated date of marriage)]; m. (2) by 1678 John Topping [FOOF 1:265, 645 (citing "Marriage agreement between Ebenezer Hawley and Hester Ward, daughter of Mrs. Deborah Topping of Southampton, 19 Apr. 1678")]..."

      5. The periodical "Connecticut Ancestry," vol. 27, no. 1 (Sept. 1984), "The Lockwoods of Norwalk, Connecticut," by Harriet Woodbury Hodge, C.G., pp. 10-11:
      "Nearly a century ago, in 1889, two misguided compilers, Frederic A. Holden and E. Dunbar Lockwood produced "Descendants of Robert Lockwood, Colonial and Revolutionary History of the Lockwood Family in America." Modern genealogists realize that nineteenth century family histories often contain errors, and this genealogy is among the most confused; but it continues to be used as a reliable source. In his "History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," Donald Lines Jacobus put in order the early Lockwoods of that town. In 1978 this compiler undertook a similar task for Stamford Lockwoods with "Some Descendants of Edmund Lockwood (1594-1635) of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his son Edmund Lockwood (c.1625-1693) of Stamford." There remain the Lockwood founders of Norwalk and Greenwich with lines to be set straight...
      ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, son of Edmund and Ales (Cowper) Lockwood of England, bp. Combs, co. Suffolk, 18 Jan. 1600/01; d. Fairfield, Connecticut 1658, [Banks, "The Winthrop Fleet"; Jacobus, "Families of Old Fairfield," hereinafter F.O.O.F., 1:380].
      He m. prob. at Salem or Watertown, Massachusetts ca. 1633 SUSANNAH, prob. NORMAN, dau. of Richard Norman of Salem. She m. (2) Jeffrey Ferris.
      Children (LOCKWOOD), first six b. Watertown, Massachusetts, [VR], others prob. all b. Connecticut:
      i JONATHAN2 b. 10 Sep. 1634; d. Greenwich, CT 12 May 1688; m. MARY FERRIS; she m. (2) 1696 Thomas Merritt.
      ii DEBORAH b. 12 Oct. 1636; m. (1) WILLIAM WARD; m. (2) JOHN TOPPING.
      iii JOSEPH b. 6 Aug. 1638; d. Fairfield, CT 1717; m. (1) ISABEL? BEACHAM; m. (2) MARY (COLEY) (SIMPSON) STREAM. [His descendants are the only Lockwoods carried on in F.O.O.F., 1:385-387, 715-716 and 2:586-591].
      iv DANIEL b. 21 March 1640; d. Fairfield, CT 1691; m. ABIGAIL SHERWOOD. [See F.O.O.F. 1:383, 387 for his only son, DANIEL, who had but two surviving daughters. The name Lockwood ends there on this line].
      v EPHRAIM b. 1 Dec. 1641; d. Norwalk, CT 1685; m. MERCY ST. JOHN.
      vi GERSHOM b. 6 Sep. 1643; d. Greenwich, CT 1718/9; his three? wives are all being questioned.
      vii JOHN d. 1677 unmarried.
      viii ABIGAIL m. bef. 1681 JOHN BARLOW.
      ix SARAH d. CT 1 March 1650/1.
      x SARAH b. 27 Feb. 1651/2; ?m. ABRAHAM ADAMS.
      xi MARY m. (1) JONATHAN HUSTED; m. (2) JOSEPH KNAPP."

      6. The book "The New England Ancestry of Alice Everett Johnson 1899-1986," by W. M. Bollenbach, Jr. (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, Inc., 2003), pp. 241-43:
      "ROBERT1 LOCKWOOD, baptized Combs, co. Suffolk, England 18 January 1600, died Fairfield CT by 11 September 1658, son of EdmundA and AliceA or RuthA (Cooper) Lockwood; married Watertown MA about 1633 (birth 1634) SUSANNA2 NORMAN, born England say 1615, died Greenwich CT 23 December 1660, daughter of Capt. RICHARD1 and (___1) NORMAN, married (2) Greenwich about 1659 (between 11 September 1658 and 23 December 1660) as his second wife Jeffrey1 Ferris, born England say 1614, died Stamford CT 1666, married (1) Watertown before 1634 Mary (___), married (3) Stamford about 1663 (birth 1664) Judith Feake (see Norman Chapter) (Torrey 470 and 263).
      Robert1 came in the Winthrop Fleet in 1630 on the "Mary and John", and settled that year in Watertown, made freeman 9 March 1637, and removed to Fairfield in 1646, where he had owned land as early as 1641. On 20 May 1652, he was made freeman of the Connecticut Colony, and May 1657 the Connecticut Court confirmed him and Nehemiah Olmstead to be sergeants of the Fairfield Train Band under Capt. Nathaniel Seeley. He was executor of the estate of Edmund Lockwood, supposedly a brother, in 1635.
      Children, surname LOCKWOOD...
      ii. DEBORAH, born Watertown MA 12 October 1636, died after 1677; married (1) Fairfield CT about 1656 Ensign William2 Ward, born probably England 1631, died 1676, son of Andrew1 and Hester1 (Sherman) Ward; married (2) Southampton LI about 1677 as his second wife John1 Topping of there, born probably England 1636, died Southampton 1686 (Torrey 779 and 727)...
      (Pope 289; Colket 195; "St. John and Harries", Ben Cash, 1973; Savage III:104; "NY Genealogical & Biographical Record" 43:191, 58:395; "Old Fairfield", I:380, D. L. Jacobus, 1930; TAG 31:222-24)"