Asahel Ward (1726 - abt. 1777)

Born 20 Nov 1726 in Killingworth, Connecticut

Ancestors

Husband of Esther (Franklin) Ward — married 4 Dec 1748 in Killingworth (Middlesex) CT

Descendants

Died about 1777 at about age 50 in Addison, Addison, Republic of Vermont [uncertain]

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Asael Ward is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A120445.

Asael Ward performed Patriotic Service in New York in the American Revolution.

Biography

Asahel Ward was born in Killingworth, Connecticut to Peletiah Ward and Jerusha Kelsey20 Nov 1726.^[1]

He met Esther Franklin, a second cousin of Benjamin Franklin, in Killingworth and married her there in 1748. Their first two children were born in Connecticut. ^[2] They then moved to Dover, Stafford County, New Hampshire, ^[3] where it appears that the rest of their children were born.^[2]

Asahel was an early settler of Addison, Vermont. He and Zadock Everest, David Vallance and John Strong cleared land and built cabins at Chimney Point on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain in 1765. He went back to Connecticut for the winter and returned with his family in the spring of 1766.^[4]

Asahel provided Patriotic Service during the American Revolution as a Member of Committee in New York in 1776.^[5]

Asahel joined the Vermont Militia to repel the British invasion led by General John Burgoyne out of Canada in the autumn of 1777 and died on the march. His home at Addison, Vermont was burned down by the British and his family were scattered. ^[2]

Research Notes

Genforum should be contacted for their sources regarding Dover, NH. Other researchers claim that Asahel and Esther's children after Summit and Samuel were born in Dover Plains, New York. As of yet, there does not seem to be any documentation of the births of their children there. There are records of an Asahel Ward UE being from Dover Plains, NY, but he moved to Canada after the Revolutionary War. This has led to confusion among well-meaning people trying to combine this profile for the two separate Asahel Wards.

A further item of interest is that the records of the Daughters of the American Revolution list Asahel's son John as being born in New Hampshire and his son David as being born in Dover, New York. But neither of these are primary references. https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A120558 https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A120478

Sources

1. ↑ Killingworth, Middlesex Co., CT, Vital Records from Barbour, 1668-1852.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Ward, George Kemp. Andrew Warde and His Descendants 1597-1910 (New York: A. T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing Company, 1910) pp. 498-499. Citing Collections of the Vermont Historical Society, vol. 1, p. 13.
3. ↑ The VHS' accounts cited by George Kemp Ward are somewhat contradictory, disjointed, and confusing. The discussion at this forum has Dover, New Hampshire; Dover, New York, which is named in Ward's account, appears to have been the birth place of the Loyalist also named Asahel Ward.
4. ↑ Smith, H. P., "A History of Addison County, Vermont" (Syracuse, New York: Mason and Co., 1886).
5. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 22 Sept 2023), "Record of Asael Ward", Ancestor # A120445.

See Also:

• John Strong Mansion Museum in Addison, Vermont. http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/ward/2600/

• Chimney Point State Historic Site, https://web.archive.org/web/20120207045351/http:/www.historicvermont.org/chimneypoint/chimneypoint.html

• Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Killingworth Vital Records, 1667-1850, Birth and Marriage Records

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