Ward, Andrew

Abt 1602 - 1659  (57 years)

• Name	Ward, Andrew
  Born	Abt 1602	Fairfield, Connecticut
  Gender	Male
  Died	1659	Fairfield, Connecticut
  Buried	1659	, , Connecticut
  Person ID	I2194	Taylor
  Last Modified	9 Jan 2004

  
  

  Father	Ward, Richard,   b. Abt 1574, Homersfield, Suffolk, England
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Guiville, Anne,   b. Abt 1576, Homersfield, Suffolk, England
  Relationship	Birth
  Married	Abt 1598	Homersfield, Suffolk, England
  Family ID	F970	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sherman, Hester,   b. Abt 1602, Dedham, Essex. England ,   d. Bef 28 Feb 1665, Fairfield, Connecticut  (Age 63 years)
  Married	1 Feb 1618/1619	Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut
  Children	1. Ward, Anne,   b. 1620, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut ,   d. 23 Jul 1718, Woodbury, Litchfield, Connecticut  (Age 98 years)  [Birth]   2. Ward, Edmund,   b. Abt 1623, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut ,   d. 1666  (Age 43 years)  [Birth]   3. Ward, Esther,   b. 1623, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut  [Birth]   4. Ward, Isabelle,   b. Abt 1630, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut ,   d. 1676, Hadley, , Massachusetts  (Age 46 years)  [Birth]   5. Ward, Hester,   b. Abt 1633, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut  [Birth]   6. Ward, William,   b. Abt 1635, Watertown, Litchfield, Connecticut ,   d. 1675  (Age 40 years)  [Birth]   7. Ward, Mary,   b. Abt 1637, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut  [Birth]   8. Ward, John,   b. Abt 1639, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut ,   d. 1683  (Age 44 years)  [Birth]   9. Ward, Sarah,   b. Abt 1641, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut  [Birth]   10. Ward, Abigail,   b. 1643, Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut  [Birth] + 11. Ward, Andrew,   b. Abt 1644, New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut ,   d. 1690, Killingworth, Middlesex, Connecticut  (Age 46 years)  [Birth]   12. Ward, Samuel,   b. 1647, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut ,   d. 08 Jan 1692/1693, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut  (Age 46 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F968	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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 OLD CEMETERY Fairfield Beach Road Fairfield, CT Copied November 1934 Retyped for the web by Coralynn Brown Surnames N to W