Samuel Nichols Ward (abt. 1648 - 1693)

Born about 1648 in Wethersfield, Hartford County, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Ogden) Ward — married about 1670 in Fairfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 8 Jan 1693 at about age 45 in Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Samuel Ward was born to Andrew and Hester Sherman Warde in Wethersfield in about 1644.

On March 15, 1668: "Samuel Ward receives his lands, etc., which were given him by his father's will, and at the same time purchases of his brother Andrew certain lands. The town granted to Samuel Ward a home lot near the mill, and other lands in succeeding years."

Samuel was sergeant in the Fairfield Trainband, and represented Fairfield as a deputy in the General Court in 1691.

Samuel married, first, Hannah Ogden, the daughter of Richard, likely in Fairfield about 1670.

Samuel then married Hannah Hawkins Nichols, widow of Jonathan.

Samuel died in Fairfield, shortly before the inventory of his possessions was taken 8 Jan 1692-3.

Samuel and Hannah Ogden had, in Fairfield:

1. Edmund, b. about 1671, removed to New York about 1693 initially to Fordham, later Eastchester; m. about 1693, Mary Hoyt
2. Sarah
3. Samuel, m. Hannah, removed to Eastchester 1698, removed further to Gloucester County, New Jersey and then after 1727 to Baltimore, where he died in 1731.
4. William, b. about 1678, m. Hannah Pell, daughter of John.
5. John, b. about 1685, m. Rebecca Fowler, then Elizabeth
6. Moses, b. ____Smith, d. of Eluzai, d. in Fishkill 1746
7. Andrew, d. 1706-7

Samuel and his second wife Hannah had:

1. Hannah, b. about 1692, m. Peter Bulkley in Stratfield, 1709, d. about 1772

Sources

• Ward, George K. (George Kemp), 1848-1937. Andrew Warde and his descendants, 1597-1910 : being a compilation of facts relating to one of the oldest New England families and embracing many families of other names, descended from a worthy ancestor even unto the tenth and eleventh generations. Publisher New York : A.T. De La Mare Print. and Pub. Co. 1911. (9) Samuel Ward, pg. 30
• Jacobus, Donald Lines, compiled & edited (1930-2). History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. For the Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution (Fairfield, Connecticut), Vol. 1, pages 647-648, 656, Additions & Corrections, pp. 36-37
• Wheeler, William Ogden, 1837-1900. cn; Van Alstyne, Lawrence, b. 1839, ed; Ogden, Charles Burr, 1855- joint ed. The Ogden family in America, Elizabethtown branch, and their English ancestry; John Ogden, the Pilgrim, and his descendants, 1640-1906. New York : A.T. De La Mare Print. and Pub. Co. 1911. John Ogden, The Pilgrim

Acknowledgments

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