Person:Miles Ward (1)

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Miles Ward
b.Bef 1614
d.3 Mar 1649/50 Virginia
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m. Bef 1639
  1. Joshua WardEst 1639 - 1680
  2. John Ward1641 -
  3. Lydia Ward1646/47 -
  4. Martha Ward1649/50 - Aft 1674
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Name[1][2][3] Miles Ward
Gender Male
Birth[2][3] Bef 1614 Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage Bef 1639 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child.
to Margaret Unknown
Emigration[1] 1639
Residence[1][3] 1639 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Other[4] 2 Jun 1641 Admitted Freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Death[2][3] 3 Mar 1649/50 Virginia
Probate[5] 17 Sep 1650 Inventory (£108 3s. 6d.) presented at court; administration to the widow.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Miles Ward, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Directory. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jun 2015)
    358.

    "Ward, Miles: [Origin] Unknown; [Emigration] 1639; [Resided] Salem [SChr 9, 10; STR 1:106; EQC 1:28, 124; MBCR 1:378; EPR 1:118-19; Perley 1:101 [2:101]]."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Miles Ward1, in Perley, Sidney. The History of Salem, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: Sidney Perley, 1924-1928)
    2:101.

    "Miles Ward1 came from Erith, Kentshire, England. He had a brother in England in 1650, when his father had recently died there. He married Margaret _____; and died in Virginia March 3, 1649-50. She married, secondly, Thomas Rix in 1650. Children: 1. Joshua2, baptized April 25, 1641; 2. John2, baptized Dec. 26, 1641; 3. Lydia2, baptized Jan. 31, 1646-7; married Robert Glanfield; 4. Martha2, born [baptized] March 11, 1649-50; married Pasca Foote."

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Miles Ward, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    4:410.

    "Miles (Ward), Salem 1639, from Erith in Kent, few miles below London, on the Thames, and only two from Crayford, came with w. Margaret, had there bapt. a ch. whose name is not giv. in the rec. perhaps Joshua, b. [bapt.] 25 Apr. 1641; John, 26 Dec. 1641; Lydia, 1647; and Martha, 11 Mar. 1649; and he d. 1650. His inv. was tak. in Sept. but he d. in Virginia, 3 Mar. Lydia m. 12 1665, Robert Glanfield; and Martha m. 2 Dec. 1668, the sec. Pasca Foote."

  4. ↑ Paige, Lucius R. List of Freemen. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct 1849)
    3:188.
  5. ↑ Estate of Miles Ward of Salem, in Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
    1:118-19.

    "See also Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex Co., Mass., vol. 3 (1913), p. 458.

    Margret Rix, sometime wife of Miles Ward, deceased, brought in 17: 7: 1650 [September 17, 1650], a writing of his subscribed by Jo. Browne and Joseph Grafton; and also an inventory of 108li. 3s. 6d., subscribed by Edmund Battar and Jeffery Massy. She was appointed administratrix. The estate was to be divided as follows: To the eldest son, 10li., to the eldest daughter, 10li., and 10li. each to the two younger, the parents to have the use of that of the two youngest for their bringing up until they are of age. Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 3, leaf 25.

    Inventory of the estate of Miles Ward of Salem, with debts receivable and payable, related by himself in Virginia, 3 : 1 : 1650 [March 3, 1649/50]:—to Joseph Grafton and John Browne. …

    "In England, 40li. given by his father as a legacy to be paid to said Miles Ward by his brother, which he bequeathed to his four children. The proceeds of two hds. of tob. shipped aboard Mr. Fenn's vessel, to return to his wife at Salem, and three hds. of tob. shipped by John Browne and Rich. More to New England for his wife to dispose of; also three bags of tob. and two sides of pork, four sides and five roles of tob. from Goo Hamond and Tho. Tally, all to his wife, to whose care he committed all things. Essex Co. Quarterly Court Files, vol. 1, leaf 115."

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