Ward Family Line

Ward Family Line

Parents:

Samuel Ward II

1593-1682

Mary Hilliard

1595-1638

Family

Spouse:

Isaac Lobdell (1633 - 1718)

Birthdate: June 28, 1633

Birthplace: Hull, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Christened: ca. 1637 at Hingham, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Denomination: (probably) Puritan or Congregationalist

Death: April 26, 1718 in Hull, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts

Burial: Hull Village Cemetery, Hull, Plymouth County, Massachusetts (*see note, below)

Immediate Family:

Son of Nicholas Lobdell (1605-1648) and Elizabeth Hovey (1604-1641)

Children:

1. Isaac Lobdell 1657–1698

2. Ann Rebecca Lobdell 1660–1689

3. Rebecca Lobell 1660–1743

4. Samuel Lobdell 1661–

5. Elizabeth Lobdell (Perry) 1662–1735

6. Mary Lobdell 1663–1744

7. Nicholas Lobdell 1663–1698

8. Joseph Lobdell 1665–1725

9. Abigail Lobdell 1666–1742

10. Rebeca Lobdell 1670–1743

11. [?] Lobdell 1673–1673

12. Perry Lobdell 1673–1710

About Martha Ward

Biography

Martha Ward,[1]was born about 1635.

She died at Hull, 4 May 1708.[2].

She married probably at Hull, abt 1656, Isaac Lobdell (aka Lobden).

Sources

↑ "Hull, Massachusetts," in NEHGR, 143:347

↑ Hull VR, p 68

The Loring Genealogy online Charles Henry Pope assisted by Catherine Peabody Loring; Murray and Emery Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1917. p.33

The town of Hingham was within Suffolk County from its founding in 1643 until 1803, and Plymouth County from 1803 to the present.

References

↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)

143:334, Oct 1989.

↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Richardson, Douglas. Nicholas Lobdell, Founder of the New England Lobdell Family. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jan 1978)

54:36.

↑ Hull, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Hull, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1911)

p. 69.

LOBDELL, Martha, w. of Isaac, [died] May 4, 1708.

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/Martha-Lobdell-Ward/6000000005018004675

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L5PJ-L9N

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ward-3107

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Martha_Ward_%2811%29

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55537894/martha-lobdell

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Nana's 8x Great-Grandfather:

My 10x Great Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 11x Great-Grandfather:

Samuel Ward II (1593 - 1682)

Samuel Ward

Birthdate: 1593

Birthplace: Greater London, England

Denomination: (probably) Puritan or Congregationalist

Arrival: 1637

Will: March 6, 1681

Probate: October 3, 1682

Death: August 30, 1682 in Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Burial: Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

Parents:

Rev. Samuel Ward

1577-1640

Deborah Leech

1573-1652

Family 1

Spouse:

Mary Hilliard

1595-1638

Mary Ward

Birthdate: 1595

Birthplace: England

Denomination: (probably) Puritan or Congregationalist

Date of Marriage: bef. 1618

Place of Marriage: Hereford, England

Arrival: [unknown]

Death: November 28, 1638 in Hingham, Plymouth Colony

Immediate Family:

Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

Children:

1. Mary Ward 1632–1695

2. Martha Ward (Lobdell) 1635–1708

3. Henry Ward Sr. 1635–1715

4. Samuel Ward 1638–1691

Family 2

Spouse:

Frances Reycroft

Frances Ward

Also known as: "Frances Pitcher"

Birthdate: 1607

Birthplace: Hingham, Norfolk, , England

Denomination: (probably) Puritan or Congregationalist

Marriage: 1640 in Wilmslow, Cheshire, England

Arrival: [unknown]

Death: June 10, 1690 in Copps Hill, Boston, MA, United States

Immediate Family:

Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

Children:

1. Mary Ward 1641–1694

2. John Ward 1646–

About Samuel Ward II

http://kristinhall.org/fambly/Ward/SamuelWard.html

BIRTH Samuel was born circa 1593 in probably England, as based on his death information[1,2].

DEATH & BURIAL Samuel died in Charlestown, Suffolk co., MA on 30 August 1682; he was 89[1]. He is buried in Copp's Hill Burial Ground, Boston, Suffolk co., MA[1].

POSSIBLE OTHER FAMILY ASSOCIATIONS He was perhaps the son or brother of one Henry Ward, who was buried at Hingham, Plymouth, co., MA on 15 May 1642[3].

MIGRATION & RESIDENCE His migration information is currently unknown, but he was in Hingham, Plymouth co., MA by 1636, when he received a land grant on the lower plain of the settlement[2,13]. He made Freeman there in 1637[2,4] and served the town well -- becoming Deputy to the General Court in 1637[2,4] and serving as the second town clerk of Hingham in 1646[2]. Samuel owned considerable property in Hingham[2].

Samuel moved his family to Hull, Plymouth co., MA sometime between 1646 and 23 August 1649 when he sold his 1/8th share of the bark Sea Flowre to Jeremiah Clark of Rhode Island[2,12]. Apparently, he was listed as being "of Hull" at that time. His Hull properties in 1657 included two homelots on Town Hill and a third on Further Hill.

By 1656, he had removed to Charlestown, Suffolk co., MA, where he became a large landowner[2]. On 9d:6m(August):1656, he was admitted to the church at Charlestown[1]. Wyman gives a summary of his Charlestown real estate transactions: he bought 3.5 acres near South meadow in 1657 from Timothy Wheeler; he bought .25 acres of land from Margaret Willoughby in 1672 (this was recorded in 1685); he sold to H. Phillips a lot on the Square in 1673 (this was recorded in 1713); he received a grant of 4.25 cow commons in 1681; received a grant of 15.5 acres � location not noted -- in 1685; finally, comes the cryptic entry "With T. Graves, 6.25 acres, 1681"[11].

He and his wife Frances Ward sold 2 acres of land at "Lyford's Liking" in Hingham, Plymouth co., MA to John Jacob; 10 acres at Hingham to John Otis and another 25 acres there to Edward Wilder on 31 March 1665[2,14]. Wyman also noted that he owned a servant named Sarah Metcalf in 1674[1].

LEGAL MENTION Legal mention of Samuel Ward is fairly innocuous. On 12 June 1643, he, Bozoan Allen and Lt. Anthony Eames were granted permission to set up a corn mill near the cove in Hingham, Plymouth co., MA for the use of the town[2,5]. On 22 September 1652, he was referred to as "Mister" in a court proceeding which concerned debts owned the estate of Bozoan Allen[2,6].

ESTATE His will was dated 6 March 1681/2 and proved 3 October 1682[7,8,9]. His wife Frances was to have the estate during her lifetime � the house & land, commons & wood-lots at Charlestown, Suffolk co., MA. She also received three years' worth of their servant Roger Hilliard's time. After she died, their son Samuel was to receive this bequest. His daughter Mary and her husband Ambrose "Gaal" (NOTE: his name was "GALE" not "GOOL" or "GOULD" as has been alleged) received a bequest of land at Hull, Plymouth co., MA. His daughters received "the house I built near Phillips". His son-in-law, Isaac Lobdell, received the house Samuel had built in Charlestown.

The most interesting bequest was made to Harvard College:

"I give the Island laying betwixt Hingham and Hull, called Bomkin [Bumpkin or Bankin] Island, unto the College [Harvard] and my mind is that it be called Ward's Island".

On 8 July 1682, he added this codicil to the back of his will:

"the island that I have given the College, my mind is that it shall remain forever to Harvard College in New England, the rent of it to be for the easement of the charges of the Diatte [diet] of the students that are in the Commons."[7]

Use of the island, which in the appraisal was valued at £80, fell to Isaac Lobdell who later re-leased it in March 1699 for 20 years at £4 yearly, payable annually on March first. His son Isaac later took over the lease from March 1707/8 for twenty years[9,10].

The inventory of his Charlestown estate included:

House & lands with 4 cow commons, £300;

First and Third division. woods near Medford, £9 and £8;

2.5 years of Roger Hilliard's time (for 3 years given by will to wife), £10;

House near Phillips £380;

House that was John Lowden's near mansion, £50;

Total: £521

Total at Hull: £182[7]

On 4 November 1682, the executors sold E. Phillips the house and land near the Charlestown Meeting-House.

MARRIAGE #1 Samuel first married Mary HILLIARD, who died on 28 November 1638 in Hingham, Plymouth co., MA[1,15].

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/Samuel-Ward/6000000005018031026

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MKHN-NXM

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ward-1034

https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Samuel_Ward_%2817%29

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51164347/samuel-ward

https://sites.rootsweb.com/~dearbornboutwell/fam8675.html

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Nana's 9x Great-Grandfather:

My 11x Great Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 12x Great-Grandfather:

Occupation: Minister at St. Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich

Death: March 8, 1640 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Place of Burial: St Mary Le Tower Church, Ipswich, Ipswich Borough, Suffolk, England

About Rev. Samuel Ward

Rev. Samuel Ward Was a Puritan Minister

“Among all the gifts of God, there is nothing more useful than faith. It is profitable for this life and the life to come.”

--Rev. Samuel Ward (1577 - 1640)

Biography of Samuel Ward (1577-1643):

Samuel Ward (1577-1643), master of Sidney-Sussex College, Cambridge, was born at Bishop Middleham in the county of Durham, He was of good family, although his father is described as of ‘more auncientry than estate’ (Harl. MS. 7038, p. 355). He was originally a scholar of Christ’s College, where in 1592-3 he was admitted B.A. In 1595 he was elected to a fellowship at Emmanuel College, and in the following year proceeded M.A. He appears first to have become known to the learned world as one of the translators of the Authorised Version, his share in the work being chiefly the Apocrypha; during this time he also made the acquaintance of Ussher, whom he often assisted in his patristic researches. A letter which he addressed to him, 6 July 1608, affords an interesting illustration of the English scholarship of this period (PARR, Life of Ussher, pp. 22-7). In 1599 he was chosen by the executors of the founders of Sidney-Sussex College to be one of the fellows to form the new society. William Perkins [q. v.] had entrusted to him for publication his treatise, ‘Problema de Romanae Fidei ementito Catholicismo ; ‘ Ward published it with a noteworthy preface addressed to King James, to whom he was shortly afterwards appointed chaplain (Perkins, Opera, ed. 1611, col. 221). On 9 Jan. 1609-10 the executors at Sidney elected him to the mastership of the college, and his letter of thanks to Lady Anne Harington is still extant (Tanner MSS. Ixxv. 317). In 1610 he was created D.D., having already been admitted B.D. in 1603. He was now generally recognized as a moderate puritan of Calvinistic views, strongly attached to the Church of England, but equally opposed to all “Romish” innovations, an attitude which Fuller, who was his pupil at SidneySussex College, considers that he maintained with exceptional consistency (Worthies, ed. Nuttall, i. 488). His undeniable narrowness as a theologian was, however, largely redeemed by his high character, great attainments, and ready sympathy with every effort I that tended to promote religion and learning in the university.

In 1615 Ward was made prebendary of Wells Cathedral, and also archdeacon of Taunton. On 21 Feb. 1617-18 he was appointed prebendary of York (LE Neve, iii. 170), and in the following year was one of the English delegates to the synod of Dort. The letters addressed to him there from Thomas Wallis, Gerard Herbert, Dr. (afterwards bishop) Hall, Bishop Lake, are printed in Goodman’s ‘Court of King James,’ vol. ii. The ability he displayed in the course of the proceedings of the synod led Episcopius to pronounce him the most learned member of the whole body (HACKET, Sermons, ed. Plume, p. xxvi). The statement of Sanford (Studies of the Great Rebellion, p. 204) that he ‘never attended’ the synod rests on a misquotation of a statement by Carter (Hist. of the University of Cambridge, p. 381). In 1622-3 he was appointed Lady Margaret professor of divinity in the university, and on 11 April 1623 delivered his inaugural oration (fuller, Church Hist. ed. Brewer, vi. 22 n.)

Notwithstanding his retiring and modest disposition, a sense of duty impelled him to controversy. He was one of the licensers of George Carleton’s book against Richard Montagu’s “Appeale,” although the former volume was afterwards suppressed by Laud; and he appears to have himself taken part in the attack on Montagu, whose chaplain he had at one time been [see Carleton, George, 1628; Montagu, Richard]. He concurred in the censure of a sermon preached at Great St. Mary’s by one Adams in 1627, advocating the practice of confession (Canterburie’s Doom, pp. 159-92); and in the same year, when Isaac Dorislaus [q.v.] was appointed lecturer on history at Cambridge, he extended to him a sympathy and hospitality which contrasted strongly with the treatment which that eminent scholar received at the hands of the academic authorities. He appears also to have written in reply to the famous anti-Calvinistic treatise, “God’s Love to Mankind,” by Mason and Hord (HlCKMAN, Histaria Quinqu-Articulari, p. 385).

Along with his party in the university Ward watched with the gravest misgivings the progress of Arminianism and the growing influence of Laud, while he trembled for his own tenure of the professorial chair (see letter to Ussher, 14 Jan. 1634-5, Ussher’s Works, xv. 580-1). His college under his rule maintained its freedom from the innovations of ritualism; its chapel remained unconsecrated, and offered to the view of the iconoclast, after the master’s death, nothing that called for reform. But when the civil war broke out his sense of duty, as involved in his sworn allegiance to the crown, would not allow him to take the covenant, and in consequence he became obnoxious to the presbyterian majority. In 1643, along with many others, he was imprisoned in St. John’s College until, his health giving way, he was permitted to retire to his own college, where he was attended during his closing days with filial care by his servitor, Seth Ward [q.v.] On 30 Aug. 1643, while attending the chapel service, he was seized with illness, an attack which terminated fatally on the 7th of the following September. His obsequies were formally celebrated on 30 Nov., when a funeral oration was pronounced in Great St. Mary’s by Henry Molle, the public orator, and a sermon preached by the deceased’s attached friend and admirer, Dr. Brownrigg [q. v.] He was interred in the college chapel.

Ward’s ‘Diary’ (1595-1599),which is preserved among the manuscripts of SidneySussex College, was mainly written during his residence at Christ’s College, and exhibits the internal workings of a singularly sensitive nature, prone to somewhat morbid habits of self-introspection. Apprehensions of the evil to come, both in church and state, darkened indeed the greater part of his maturer years, but no ‘ head’ in the university was held in higher esteem for ability, learning, and character. The eloquent tribute to his memory by the pen of Seth Ward in the preface to the “Opera Nonnulla” exhibits him as what he really was —a central figure in the university of those days. Among his intimate friends were Archbishop Williams, Bishop Hall, Bishop Davenant, Archbishop Ussher, Brownrigg, Thomas James, Sir Simonds D’Ewes; while he was well known to most of the leading divines and scholars of his time. Among his pupils were Fuller, Edward Montagu, second earl of Manchester, and Richard Holdsworth, the master of Emmanuel.

Ward was a generous patron of learning, as is shown by the acknowledgments of Abraham Wheelocke [q.v.] in the preface to his edition of Bede, and those of Simon Birkbeck in the preface to his “Protestant’s Evidence” (ed. 1657, paragraph 2).

There is a good portrait of Ward in the master’s lodge at Sidney-Sussex College; his commonplace book is also in the care of the master of the college.

His works are: 1. A Coal from the Altar to Kindle Holy Fire of Zeal, 1615, Revelation 3:19, 2. A Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience, 1617, Hebrews 13:18, 3.

All in All (or, Christ is All in All), 1622, Colossians 3:11, 4. The Happiness of Practice, 1621, John 13:17, 5. Jethro’s Justice of Peace, 1618, Exodus 18:21-23

The Life of Faith, various scriptures, 6. The Life of Faith in Death: Exemplified in the Living Speeches of Dying Christians, 1621, 7. A Peace-Offering to God for the Blessings We Enjoy Under His Majesty’s Reign, with a Thanksgiving for the Prince’s Safe Return, 1624, 1 Thessalonians 5:18, 8. Woe to Drunkards, Proverbs 23:29,32, 8. Christ is All in All, Colossians 3:11, and 9. A Most Elegant and Religious Rapture.

[Information kindly afforded by authorities of Emmanuel and Sidnev-Sussex Colleges, and by Professor J. E. B. Mayor; Tanner MSS., see Cat. Cod. MSS. Biblioth. Bodleianw. iv. 1152-3; Baker MSS. vii. 258-65, 268-77, xi. 341, 353; Acta fiynodi Dortrechti (ed. 1620), p. 11; Aubrey’s Lives, ed. Clark, ii. 283. 284, 287; Fuller’s Worthies. i. 173,487-8, iii. 287; Goodman’s Court of James I, ii. 174, 186, 194, 218, 325; Pope’s (Sir Walter) Life of Seth Ward, pp. 13-14; Vossius (G. J.) Epist. pp. 108, 126; Worthington’s Diary; Cat. of MSS. in SidneySussex College Library, by Dr. James, p. 29.]

Biography

Samuel Ward, son of Rev. John and Susan (Unknown) Ward, was born about 1577 [estimated from a portrait of him in 1620 representing him to be 43 years old].[1] He was probably at Haverhill, Suffolk, England where his father was minister.[1]

Scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge.

1604: Vacated his fellowship to marry in 1604 Deborah Bolton of Isleham, Cambridgeshire, a widow.

1607: B.D.

Lecturer at Haverhill.

Removed to Ipswich by 1604 (Says of himself on Dec 19, 1634, that he was preacher for the town of Ipswich for over thirty years).

1620: His pension was 100 pounds annually by 1620.

1622: Removed from prosecution to resume preaching.

1622-05-31: Pardoned by the king.

1623-08-06: Inhibited from preaching by a letter from the king.

Imprisoned by Archbishop Laud of Canterbury for about two years.

Family

Samuel and Deborah Ward were the parents of three sons and a daughter:[2]

Samuel Ward, s.p.

Nathaniel Ward, Dr. of Divinity, Rector of Stapleford in Essex, England

Joseph Ward, Rector of Badingham, Suffolk, England

Deborah Ward, married to Richard Goltie, Rector of Framlingham, Suffolk, England

Deborah (unknown) (Bolton) Ward, widow of Samuel Ward, was buried 22 Oct 1652 at Badingham, Suffolk, England, according to the entry in the parish records.[2]

Debora Boulton; Leech(/Leeth); Dg of Leech relict of __ Bolton.

His Works:

The Holy Fire of Zeal and Other Sermons by Samuel Ward – eBook

Buy his printed works HERE

This updated work houses all Samuel Ward’s sermons and treatises in one volume, both in electronic form and in hardback:

A Memoir of Samuel Ward. by J.C. Ryle

A Coal from the Altar to Kindle Holy Fire of Zeal, 1615, Revelation 3:19

A Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience, 1617, Hebrews 13:18

All in All (or, Christ is All in All), 1622, Colossians 3:11

The Happiness of Practice, 1621, John 13:17

Jethro’s Justice of Peace, 1618, Exodus 18:21-23

The Life of Faith, various scriptures

The Life of Faith in Death: Exemplified in the Living Speeches of Dying Christians, 1621

A Peace-Offering to God for the Blessings We Enjoy Under His Majesty’s Reign, with a Thanksgiving for the Prince’s Safe Return, 1624, 1 Thessalonians 5:18

Woe to Drunkards, Proverbs 23:29,32

Christ is All in All, Colossians 3:11.

Sources

A memoir of the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, A.M., author of The simple cobbler of Agawam in America, by John Ward Dean, (Albany, J. Munsell, 1868), reproduced at Internet Archive.org, Appendix of family genealogy from work by Matthias Candler, M.A. from Cambridge, a Puritan and vicar of Coddenham in Suffolk in 1629. [Candler had a personal acquaintance with Samuel Ward and his brother Nathaniel, both Puritan ministers.]

M.M. Knappen and John Cowart, eds, Seeking A Settled Heart_The 16th Century Diary of Puritan Richard Rogers (2007), page 42

Wikisource (Samuel Ward 1577-1640). [1] [3]

Wikipedia (Samuel Ward minister). [2] [4]

See John Carter, Pastor of Bramford and Belstead, Suffolk.

↑ 1.0 1.1 A memoir of the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, A.M., author of The simple cobbler of Agawam in America, by John Ward Dean (1868), page 135

↑ 2.0 2.1 A memoir of the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, A.M., author of The simple cobbler of Agawam in America, by John Ward Dean, (1868), page 124-126

↑ Wikisource (Samuel Ward 1577-1640)

↑ Wikipedia (Samuel Ward minister).

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/Samuel-Ward/6000000011491705493

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Ward_(minister)

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZLS-9H7

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ward-15481

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105100331/samuel-ward

http://digitalpuritan.net/samuel-ward/

https://www.apuritansmind.com/puritan-favorites/samuel-ward-1577-1640/

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Ward,_Samuel_(1577-1640)

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Nana's 10x Great-Grandfather:

My 12x Great Grandfather:

Laila Laemmel-Gordon's 13x Great-Grandfather:

Rev. John Ward (1550 - 1598)

Rev. John Ward, l

John Ward, Minister of Haverhill

Also known as: "Rev John Ward, Sr.", "Reverend John M. Ward", "John Ward"

Birthdate: 1550

Birthplace: Haverhill, Suffolk, England

Denomination: (probably) Anglican / Puritan

Occupation: Preacher at Haverhill, England; Minister at Haverhill

Will: October 9, 1598

Probate: October 31, 1598

Death: October 31, 1598 in Haverhill, Suffolk, England

Burial: St Mary the Virgin Churchyard Haverhill, St Edmundsbury Borough, Suffolk, England

Plot: memorial located on chancel, north wall

Parents:

Ward "of Rivenhall"

1525–

[mother unknown]

Family

Spouse:

Susan Castleman

1555-1639

Susan Ward

Also Known As: "Susanna Ward", "Susan Rogers"

Birthdate: ca. 1555

Birthplace: Redenhall, Norfolk, England

Denomination: (probably) Anglican / Puritan

Date of Marriage: bef. 1577

Place of Marriage: England

Death: 1639 in Wethersfield, Essex, England

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Richard Castleman and Elizabeth Smith

Children:

1. Rev. Samuel Ward 1577–1640

2. Rev Nathaniel Ward 1578–1652

3. Rev John Ward Jr "Rector of St. Clement's" 1580–1662

4. Abigail Ward 1580–

5. Mary Ward 1580–

About Rev John Ward

Samuel Ward (1577-1640) was born in Suffolk, the son of John Ward, minister of Haverhill, by his wife Susan. Nathaniel Ward was his younger brother. Another brother, John, was rector of St. Clement’s, Ipswich. Samuel was admitted a scholar of St. John’s College, Cambridge, on the Lady Margaret’s foundation, on the nomination of Lord Burghley, 6 November 1594. He graduated B.A. in 1596-7, was appointed one of the first fellows of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1599, and commenced M.A. in 1600. Having finished his studies at the university, he became lecturer at Haverhill, where he was a successful evangelical and became the ‘spiritual father’ of Samuel Fairclough.

On 1 November 1603 he was elected by the corporation of Ipswich to the office of town preacher, and he occupied the pulpit of St. Mary-le-Tower with little intermission, for about thirty years. In 1604 he vacated his fellowship at Sidney College by his marriage with Deborah Bolton, widow, of Isleham, Cambridgeshire, and in 1607 he proceeded to the degree of B.D. He was one of the preachers at St. Paul’s Cross, London, in 1616.

In 1622 Bishop Samuel Harsnet prosecuted Ward for nonconformity in the consistory court of Norwich. Ward appealed to the king, who referred the articles exhibited against him to the examination of Lord-keeper John Williams. Williams decided that Ward, though not altogether blameless, was a man easily to be won by fair dealing, and he persuaded the bishop to accept Ward’s submission and not to remove him from the lectureship. He was accordingly released from the prosecution; but the king wrote to the Ipswich council to deter them. In 1624 Ward and Yates, another Ipswich clergyman, complained to a committee of the House of Commons of the Arminian tenets broached in A New Gag for an Old Goose by Richard Montagu. The session was drawing to a close, and the commons referred their complaint to the archbishop of Canterbury.

Ward subsequently incurred the displeasure of Archbishop William Laud. On 2 November 1635 he was censured in the high commission at Lambeth for preaching against bowing at the name of Jesus and against the Book of Sports on the Lord’s day; and for saying that religion and the Gospel were in imminent danger. He was suspended from his ministry, enjoined to make a public submission and recantation, condemned in costs of suit, and committed to prison. His fellow-townsmen declined to ask the bishop of Norwich to appoint another preacher, as they hoped to have Ward reappointed in despite of all censures.

Having at length obtained his release, Ward retired to Holland, where he first became a member of William Bridge’s church at Rotterdam, and afterwards his colleague in the pastoral work. Ward did not remain long in Holland, for in April 1638 he purchased the house which had been provided for him by the town of Ipswich in 1610. He died in March 1640, and was buried on the 8th of that month in the church of St. Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich. [More via Wikipedia] [J.C. Ryle’s biographical sketch is here.]

The Works of Samuel Ward:

A Most Elegant and Religious Rapture. {I’m looking for a copy of this.}

A Collection of Sermons and Treatises. (195 pages)

{pdf epub web via Google Books}

Contains the following:

Christ is All in All. (Colossians 3:11) – pdf, 13 pp.

The Life of Faith – pdf, 26 pp.

The Life of Faith in Death, Exemplified in the Living Speeches of Dying Christians. (Revelation 6:7-9) – pdf, 28 pp.

A Coal from the Altar to Kindle the Holy Fire of Zeal. (Revelation 3:19) – pdf, 23 pp.

Featured in The Digital Puritan, Vol.II, No.2.

Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience. (Hebrews 13:18) – pdf, 21 pp.

Jethro’s Justice of Peace. (Exodus 18:21-23) – pdf, 21 pp.

A Peace-Offering to God for the Blessings We Enjoy Under His Majesty’s Reign, with a Thanksgiving for the Prince’s Safe Return. (1 Thessalonians 5:18) – pdf, 15 pp.

Woe to Drunkards. (Proverbs 23:29,32) – pdf, 12 pp.

The Happiness of Practice. (John 13:17) – pdf, 14 pp.

Recent research he was the son of Thomas and Joan Ward:

Hovius, Matthew. The Ancestry of Edwarde Warde of Little Wrattling, Sufflock and the Putative Lukyn Origin of His Wife Judith, in American Society of Genealogists. The Genealogist. (New York: Vol. 28 p. 137-54 , Fall 2014.

ID: I751 Name: Rev. John WARD Sex: M Birth: 1550 in Haverhill, Suffolk, England Death: 31 OCT 1598 in Haverhill, Suffolk, England Note:

REV. JOHN WARD (Robert1). Born in 1550 in Haverhill, Suffolk, England. John died in Haverhill, Suffolk, England, bef 31 Oct 1598; he was 48. John married Susan ?. Born in 1555 in Redenhall, Norfolk, England. Susan died in Wethersfield, Essex, England, aft 1639; she was 84. They had the following children:

i. Nathaniel. Born in 1570 in Haverhill, Suffolk, England. Nathaniel died in Ipswich, Essex Co., MA, in 1653; he was 83.

ii. Samuel. Born in 1577 in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. Samuel died in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, bef 24 Apr 1640; he was 63. On 2 Jan 1604/1605 when Samuel was 27, he married Deborah LEECH, in Ipswich, Suffolk, England.

iii. Abigail. Born ca 1580 in Haverhill, Suffolk, England. Abigail married John ASHBORNE.

3 iv. MARY (ca1582-)

v. John. Born ca 1584 in Of Dennington, Suffolk, England. John died in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, ca 1656; he was 72. John married Lydia ACTON

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Change Date: 13 DEC 2006

Father: Robert WARD b: ABT 1530 in Haverhill, Suffolk, England

Marriage 1 Susan Susannah UNKNOWN b: 1555 in Redenhall, Norfolk, England Married: Children

Mary WARD b: 14 Jan 1581/82 in Haverhill, Essex, England

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Ward_(minister)

Rev. Richard Rogers married second Susan, widow of Rev. John WARD of Haverhill, Suffolk.

Note: Rev Richard Rogers is known to have been born in 1551, and died in 1618. His first wife's name is known to have been Barbara. She was probably born about 1551 or after. They had three sons (one died before his father) and four daughters.

Richard married second a widow, Susan Ward, who already had four sons and two daughters by her first husband. Susan and Richard had no children together.

Three of Susan Ward's sons - "Samuel, John, and Nathaniel - became Puritan ministers, and, in Laud's time, all ran afoul of the ecclesiastical authorities. Samuel distinguished himself as a a Puritan Lecturer at Ipswich, after losing a previous living in Suffolk." "Nathaniel went to New England, where he is known as the author of the first code of laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and also as the author of The Simple Cobler of Aggawam. Of "Edward, we know nothing. Probably he died in infancy."

References:

https://www.geni.com/people/Rev-John-Ward/6000000008815259893

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LBK3-JH2

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ward-3007

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106414252/john-ward

http://digitalpuritan.net/samuel-ward/

https://www.apuritansmind.com/puritan-favorites/samuel-ward-1577-1640/

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Ward History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

The Ward Motto

The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.

Motto: Comme je fus

Motto Translation: As I was.

The ancestors of the Ward family migrated to England following the Norman Conquest of 1066. The surname Ward is for a guard having derived from the Old English word ward, meaning guardian or watchman.

Early Origins of the Ward Family

The surname Ward was first found in Northampton, where they held a family seat from ancient times, and the first on record was Osbert de Varde of Givendale in the year 1130, who was a descendant of Fouques de Vardes of Normandy. His descendent Simon Ward was Governor of Pontefract Castle in 1324.

John Warde is mentioned in the Pipe Rolls for Yorkshire in 1194, while in the Hundred Rolls for 1273 there is a William le Warde in Oxford, a Simon le Ward in Buckinghamshire, and two further le Wardes, one in Hampshire and one in Cambridgeshire.

Some of the family were found at Barford in Warwickshire. "Barford was for three centuries the residence of the ancestors of Charles Thomas Warde, Esq., now of Clopton, in the county. Of this family was Rowley Warde, an eminent lawyer in the reigns of James and Charles I., commonly called Old Serjeant Warde, and in the parish register styled the Right Worshipful Rowley Warde; who died at the age of 96, about the year 1650. His son, Thomas Warde, barrister at law, served as an officer in the army of Charles at the battle of Edge Hill, and kept the royal flag flying on the top of the church tower here, facing his own house; which caused Cromwell's army after the battle, on its march to Kenilworth Castle, eight miles distant, to fire shots at the tower, the marks of which still remain. Among other relics [in the church of Barford] is a curious tablet of freestone, part of a monument, which the rector, the Rev. William Somerville, has had placed in the wall of the vestry, with this inscription: 'Here lyeth the body of Thomas Warde, Gentleman, parson of Barford, 2d son of Thomas and Martha Warde; he died in 1532.' "

Later the name was found further north in Scotland, where "John de Warde was a tenant of the earl of Douglas in the barony of Kilbucho, 1376. Robert Waird was burgess of Stirling in 1601."

Ward Name Meaning

1 English: occupational name for a watchman or guard, from Old English weard ‘guard’ (used as both an agent noun and an abstract noun).2 Irish: reduced form of McWard, an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Bhaird ‘son of the poet’. The surname occurs throughout Ireland, where three different branches of the family are known as professional poets.3 Surname adopted by bearers of the Jewish surname Warshawski, Warshawsky or some other Jewish name bearing some similarity to the English name.

Ward Spelling Variations

Before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Sound was what guided spelling in the Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Ward family name include Ward, Warde, Varde and others.

Ward Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Andrew Ward, who settled in New England in 1630

Elizabeth Ward, who settled in Virginia in 1635

George and Henry Ward, who settled in Boston Massachusetts in 1637

Benjamin Ward, who landed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1640

Edmond Ward, who arrived in Maryland in 1641