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From: "Ellen" <>
Subject: Re: Ward origins
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:33:22 -0400
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I have information on William, Henry and Colonel John Ward. I am descended from both William and John. There was also a Miss Ward who is said to have been the second wife of Augustine Herman of Bohemia Manor. William Ward had a tract surveyed for him in 1671 in what was then Baltimore county and later Cecil county. He died April 17, 1720 and was buried in St. Stephens churchyard, Cecil County, MD. The first certain record of Henry Ward is the 24 August 1666 survey of 1400 acres on the south side of the Elk River in Cecil county MD called Poplar Neck. Henry Ward was born in England, probably before 1647, and died in New Castle County, Delaware, about 1683/84. Colonel John Ward had three tracts of land in 1707 when the rent roll in Cecil County MD was made. He died in 1747 in Cecil county MD.

The notes below were written by Duncan Veazey in the 1890s when he was researching the origins of the Ward families of Cecil County Maryland. These notes may be helpful to people researching other Ward families as well. I retyped his document and added links to information I found on the Internet. I've left those links in here in case someone might find them useful/interesting. I don't have anything further on the information below but you can check those sources mentioned.



In Brown's "Genesis of the United States', a copy of which is in the Peabody Library, the name of William Ward is found among those who subscribed to the Adventure of Virginia (The Virginia Company) Vol.2, page 1042, paid 37 pounds ten shillings. He was Marshall of the Admiralty Court of the Cinque Ports

In " Holten's Emigrants ", a copy of which may also be seen in the public libraries, it is stated on page 180 that among those living in Virginia Feb. 16, 1623 were William Ward at a plantation over against James City and William Ward at James City - apparently two persons but possibly the same person. On page 233 among the master inhabitants of Virginia in 1624 and 1625 is found William Ward, aged 20 years. On page 260 is John Ward, his muster in the Elizabeth (vessel) seven persons. The writer has seen a statement that the first grants of land in Virginia were made in 1621, three grants the first day and one of the three to John Ward. this agrees with the statement in Holten that John Ward was living near James City in 1623.

A William Ward was living in Northhampton County, Va., on the Eastern Shore of Virginia., a few years after. There were Wards also in Charles County, Maryland, children of John and Damaris Ward. Many tracts of land were held in Kent County, Md. by Matthew Ward and a Thomas Ward was in Kent County in early days. Matthew Tilghman Ward lived in Kent county and for a time in Cecil County but nothing has been found to connect him with this family.

In 1692 the Act dividing the Province of Maryland into parishes was passed and William Ward was one of the Justices and Commissioners who divided Cecil County into the parish of North Sassafras on Saint Stephens and South Sassafras on Shrewsbury.

The name Henry Ward appears in the Middle Atlantic region at least as early as 1637 when one of that name emigrated to Virginia (George Cabell Greer, Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666 [1912; repr. ed., Baltimore, 1989], 343). This, or another Henry Ward of Stepney, London, died in Virginia in 1659 (Peter W. Coldham, The Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1660 [Baltimore, 1988] [hereinafter cited as Emigrants 1607-1660], 422). On 4 November 1662, a Henry Ward had 550 acres surveyed in Spesutia Hundred, Baltimore County, on the Susquehanna River at the northern-most bounds of Stockets Chance, called Mount Surredoe (Maryland Rent Rolls: Baltimore and Anne Arundel Counties, 1700-1707, 1705-1724. A Consolidation of Articles from the Maryland Historical Magazine [1924-1931]; reprint ed., Baltimore, 1976], 20). On 4 July 1665 a Henry Ward claimed a land patent for transporting himself and 20 others to Maryland (MHR, Patents, 8:484).

Ellen Ward

----- Original Message -----

From: "Ted Ward" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: Ward origins


> With so much activity , how about every Ward posting their earliest known
> Ward relative-birth and death dates, location? Mine is Benjamin Ward b. 1791
> Easton. In the 1800 Ct. census there is a Benjamin Ward in the household of
> Abijah Ward.
> Earliest Wards I can find are:John Ward of Md. immigrated1646 d.1687, wife
> Damaris. William Ward of Sudbury Mass. b. about1603. Andrew Ward b.1602
> England d. Feb 28 1666 Fairfield Ct. any other 1600s Wards?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sherry Jones" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 6:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Think Everyone wants the Site stated
>
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> > Ray, Thank You for putting the site out there, but I have no connections
> > that I see either... :o( Was hoping to make some connections somewhere
> > though My Ward's are still lost....guess they will forever be lost.
> > Thanks again,
> > Sherry Jones
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 12:38 AM
> > Subject: Re: Think Everyone wants the Site stated
> >
> >
> > > In a message dated 9/23/02 8:17:03 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > > writes:
> > >
> > > << http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~woodman73446 >>
> > >
> > > Thanks, Ray. No connection that I can see.
> > > Lucy Ward
> > >
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