Ward, Andrew

Notes:

Andrew WARD married: by 1628 Hester SHERMAN (Dau of Edmund SHERMAN; her will dated 27 Dec 1665; her estate inventory dated 30 Jan 1665/6); will made 8 Jun 1659, estate inventory dated 18 October 1659; May be son of Richard of Gorleston, Co. Suffolk England

Most authors credit Sussex as the cradle of our Ward immigrant. He arrived in New England aboard the Arabella in 1633 and is noted as a freeman in Boston in 1634 and as a member of the Watertown church in May of that year. He was granted a ten acre homelot in Watertown @ 1633 which he apparently either sold or granted to his Sherman in-laws (Edmond, either father or brother) when he removed to Connecticut.

On 3 Mar 1635/6 he was one of 8 commissioners assigned by the Massachusetts General Court to govern the colony of Connecticut for the ensuing year. In order to perform his assigned duties, he settled in Wethersfield in 1635. On the 24 Mar 1640 land inventory he is listed as owner of eight parcels:

Homelot - 4 acres
Great meadow - 14 acres and 2 "roods"
Great meadow and swamp - 4 acres and 3 "roods"
Backlots - 2 acres and 3 "roods"
Dry swamp - 8 acres
Wet swamp - 6 acres
West Field - 54 acres
East side of the Connecticut River - 264 acres
While in Wethersfield, Andrew was named "Connecticut Assistant" April 1665 - May 1637 which made him one of the first judges in the colony. He served as Deputy to the General Court for Wethersfield from November 1637 to the term served by his last appointment there in January of 1640 at which time he moved his family to Stamford CT. From Stamford, he again served as Deputy to the General Court in April 1644 and was a judge at New Haven in October 1646. In 1648 he made his final move, settling at Fairfield CT from which he continued his public service having been appointed Deputy to the General Court from May 1648 to October 1658.

According to various extracts of his will, which was written 8 Jun 1659 and proved 2 Nov 1659 he called himself "Andrew Ward of Fairfield" and bequeathed to:

"Ester my beloved wife .. £ 40 and one third part of all my lands & housing in Fairfeild during her widowhood"
"my son John .. £ 50 at age twenty-one"
"my daughter Sarah .. £ 40 within one year after her marriage"
"my daughter Abigail .. £ 40 at age eighteen"
"sones Andrew & Samuel" .. all the rest of his property when they attain the age of 21.
"Item 7 .. And for the rest of my children, they have received their full portion all ready except my son Edmond, who if he come to this place my will is that out of my two youngest sons Andrew and Samuel's portions there may be paid £ 20".
Fairfield Probate Records indicate that the inventory of Andrew Ward's estate was taken 18 Oct 1659 and amounted to £ 242 10s including "house and lands" valued at £ 80.


Source:http://members.aol.com/janau/ward.htm#2064

Sources: The Great Migration Begins by Robert Charles Anderson - 1995; Pioneers of Massachusetts by Charles Henry Pope - 1900; Families of Early Guilford CT by Alvan Talcott - 1984; History of Guilford and Madison Connecticut by Steiner - 1897; Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford CT by Frank Farnsworth Starr - 1915 (Family of James Boosey); Commemerative Record of New Haven County Connecticut - 1902


?Ward, Andrew, born 1597, died 1659

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Andrew married Sherman, Hester on 1 Feb 1618/1619 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut. Hester was born about 1602 in Dedham, Essex. England; was christened on 01 Apr 1606 in Dedham, Essex, England; died before 28 Feb 1665 in Fairfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ward, Anne was born in 1620 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 23 Jul 1718 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut; was buried in Jul 1718 in Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut.
2. Ward, Edmund was born about 1623 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut; died in 1666.
3. Ward, Esther was born in 1623 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut.
4. Ward, Isabelle was born about 1630 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut; died in 1676 in Hadley, , Massachusetts.
5. Ward, Hester was born about 1633 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut.
6. Ward, William was born about 1635 in Watertown, Litchfield, Connecticut; died in 1675.
7. Ward, Mary was born about 1637 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut.
8. Ward, John was born about 1639 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut; died in 1683.
9. Ward, Sarah was born about 1641 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut.
10. Ward, Abigail was born in 1643 in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut.
11. Ward, Andrew was born about 1644 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut; died in 1690 in Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut.
12. Ward, Samuel was born in 1647 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut; died on 08 Jan 1692/1693 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut.

Richard married Guiville, Anne about 1598 in Homersfield, Suffolk, England. Anne was born about 1576 in Homersfield, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]