Nancy was 4th child.

Huldah was first of four children.

Owned his own business for 35 years -- Ira's Truck and Auto.

Served 22 years in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a Senior Chief Petty Officer 30 Jun 1980. Served three tours of duty in Vietnam.

She was an original member of the Pike Family Association.

He farmed and surveyed in both Vermont and Michigan. In the latter state he took up government land in Bloomer Township, Montcalm County, and served for some time as a Universalist minister.

In the Civil War, Army.

Sea captain from Eastport, Maine.

He was one of the earliest settlers of Henniker and helped, 1765, to lay out its first roads. He was the first sexton of the church and captain of the town's militia company.

He was a farmer in Limestone. In politics he was a Republican. He was a member of the Free Will Baptist Church, of the Good Templars and was lodge deputy in Limestone.

She was a member of Limestone Grange, of the Ladies Aid Society and the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

He represented Wardsboro in the state legislature.

Owned 230 acres in Marlboro, Mass.

They occupied the "Trowbridge Homestead," purchased by James Trowbridge from Deputy-Governor Danforth in 1675. He served as selectman and deacon, and for nine years as representative in the General Court.

Samuel's house-lot (by reversion from his brother Richard--see page 44 of Chapter VIII) was west of the Indian line, and probably near the old John Gleason place. His contract with his parents and his standing under the will of his father are told on pages 57 and 58 of Chapter X.

Under him, succeeding his father, the original "William Ward" house (i.e., the remaining structure on the original site) was frequently the place of the midweek church meetings and also the recognized abode of visiting and temporary ministers. During the intermittent French and Indian wars from 1689 to 1713, it was a garrison-house as during King Philip's War.

In his will dated May 22, 1727, Samuel Ward says he is "well stricken in years and crazy in body, but of perfect mind, and memory." His will was contested in Probate Court, December 19, 1729, by all his children and heirs (except his son Samuel, the chief beneficiary in virtue of a concurrent agreement to care for him and his wife during their lives) on the ground that he was crazy in mind as well as in body. At length the heirs agreed among themselves touching his will, and desired the judge to approve it.

In Massachusetts Archives 71:454 is his claim for a horse killed in August 1708 "in an engagement with ye indian Enemy in ye woods beyond Lancaster."

He had no daughter named Mary. The Mary given in Andrew H. Ward's "Ward Family," 1851, as the twelfth child and the wife of Daniel Stone, was William Ward's daughter-in-law, the widow of his son Richard.

First three children by first wife, Elizabeth Phillipus. First six children born in England, balance of 13 children born in Mass. William apparently emigrated to Sudbury between 12 Jul 1638 and 22 Jan 1640. Shipping records have not been found. First of this Warde line in America, William Warde dropped the final 'e' from the family name on his arrival in Mass. All 13 children reached adulthood and married.

Freeman, 1643, Sudbury.

In 1711 he sold his lands in Marlborough, and moved to Connecticut, settling in Ashford in 1715. A few years later he moved to Union, then a new township, and made it his home for the remainder of his life, becoming a large landowner.

During the greater part of his life he was a resident of Union, Conn. He was very prominent in the community, and the first appointed deacon of the church. He was remembered by the next generation as "an old man of venerable appearance, universally respected both for his wisdom and his virtues." In his later years he always occupied a special seat right beside the pulpit so that he might hear the minister's exhortations despite his deafness.

One American genealogist thinks that Mary was that Mary Cutting named as a sister in the will of Susan Browne of Ipswich, co. Suffolk, made in 1626. Susan also left legacies to her mother Judith Warde, her sister Rebecca Warde and her brother Edward Warde, which makes it obvious that these sisters and brother were children of Edward Warde of Little Wratting, co. Suffolk, yeoman, who named them all and his wife Judith in his will of 1620. This constitutes a valuable clue, but is not proof. See 'Genealogical Gleanings in England', Henry F. Waters, Boston, 1901, p. 584.

Torrey says Mary [?Ward].

1st husband of Maria Herriot Pike. He was a lawyer and died shortly aftr their marriage.

Daniel had six children, all by his first wife.

Graduate of Amherst College and tutor in that institution.

Went to New England in 1630 with the Winthrop Fleet and settled in Watertown, Mass