Person:Thomas Ward (43)

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Captain Thomas Ward
b.7 Feb 1660/61 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
d.2 Jun 1728 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 28 Mar 1660
  1. Captain Thomas Ward1660/61 - 1728
  2. Phebe Ward1663 - 1741
  3. Sergeant William Ward1665 - 1745
  4. Sarah Ward1667 - 1744
  5. Anna Ward1669/70 - 1755
  6. Dorothy Ward1671 - 1697
  7. George Ward1672 -
  8. Susanna Ward1674 - 1752
  9. John Ward1678 - 1761
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Captain Thomas Ward1660/61 - 1728
  • W.  Anna Tappan1662 - 1712
m. 6 Dec 1683
  1. William Ward1687 - 1761
  2. Phebe Ward1695/96 - Aft 1751
Spouse and Children
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m. 23 Dec 1713
  1. Fenner Ward1719 - 1722/23
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Captain Thomas Ward
Gender Male
Alt Birth[1] 2 Feb 1660/61 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Birth[2] 7 Feb 1660/61 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Baptism[3] 22 Aug 1669 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United StatesFirst Congregational Society
Marriage 6 Dec 1683 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesto Anna Tappan
Marriage 23 Dec 1713 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesto Elizabeth Starr
Alt Marriage 23 Dec 1714 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United Statesto Elizabeth Starr
Will[1][6] 3 May 1728
Death[1][2] 2 Jun 1728 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Burial[4] Riverside Cemetery, Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Probate[6] 3 Jul 1728 Will proved.
Probate[1] 8 Jul 1728 Will proved [alternate date].
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Molyneaux, M. Wheeler. Some Descendants of William Ward of Middletown, Conn. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jul, Oct 1978)
    54:133.

    "2. Thomas2 Ward (William1) was born 2 Feb. 1660/1 and died 2 June 1728. He married, first, 6 Dec. 1683, Anna or Hannah Tapping, … daughter of James and Anna; second, 23 Dec. 1714, Elizabeth (Starr) Browell [?Brownell] of Newport, R.I. Like his father, Thomas was active in town affairs serving as deputy to the general court in 1706, 1711 and 1712. He was lieutenant and later captain of the militia, a selectman and in 1712 a justice of the peace. His will, dated 3 May 1728, proved 8 July 1728, gave to wife Elizabeth one-half the homestead, land purchased of Daniel Harris Jr., and a negro man named Peter. Son James was willed the other half of the homestead, the whole to fall to him at his mother's decease, the Hubbard lot and Crowell lot, he to pay his sisters, Phebe (wife of Daniel Hall) and Mary (wife of Benedict Alvord), fifty pounds apiece. Son Thomas was to have land at Hornet Bay and Thomas's sons, Thomas and Tapping, land 'which was my bond, father William Ward's dec'd.' (Manwaring's Digest 2:598)."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Middletown Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    471.

    "Ward, … Thomas, s. William & Phebe, b. Feb. 7, 1660/1 (Arnold Copy has 'Wood') [LR1:6]"
    "Ward, … Thomas, Capt., d. June 2, 1728, in the 58th y. of his age [LR2:28]"

  3. ↑ Volume 070 Part 2 Middletown, in Connecticut, United States. Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920. (Ancestry.com (database on-line), 2013)
    600.

    "Ward, … Thomas, s. Sergt. & Phebe, bp. Aug. 22, 1669; presented by father and mother [1:3]"
    "Ward, … Tho[mas], [bp. or adm. com.] 22-6-1669 [1:116]"

  4. ↑ Capt Thomas Ward, in Find A Grave.
  5.   Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions Vol 28 711-19 McDonough Cemetery, Middletown, in Hale, Charles R. Hale Collection of Connecticut Cemetery Inscriptions. (Connecticut, United States: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, 1934)
    641.

    "Ward, Thomas, died June 2, 1748, ago 67 yrs." [Apparent transcription error; date of death was 2 June 1728.]

  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Ward, Thomas, Middletown, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    2:598-99.

    "Probate Records. Vol. X, 1723 to 1729. Recorded in Vol. XII, Page 204-5.

    Ward, Thomas, Middletown. Will dated 3 May, 1728: I, Thomas Ward, Sen., of Middletown, do make this my last will and testament: I give to Elizabeth my wife the one equal half of my now dwelling house and cellaring, which parts she shall choose; also the 1-2 of my homestead, 1-2 of my barn, 1-2 of the cellar under it, 1-2 of my lott called Bow Lott, and also the whole of that land which I bought of Daniel Harris, Jr., and also my negro man called Peter, for her improvement for comfort of life so long as she shall live and continue my widow, and no longer. I give to my wife 1 equal half of a pair of oxen and of one horse kind, with one equal half of my cart, plows, harrows, sleds, with all iron and wooden utensils, and also one-half of my cider mill and presses, with my cider tub and empty casks. And yt remains at her decease or marriage shall return to my son James Ward. And whereas, I have in this my will given my wife Elizabeth considerable estate so long as she shall continue my widow, and that if she marry it will fail her, it is my will that if my wife should by the providence of God be joined in marriage to another man, that then my sd. son James Ward shall pay to her £50 in or as money within one year after such marriage. I give unto my son Thomas Ward, besides what I have given him already, 7 acres of my Hornet Bay meadow. Also I give unto my sd. son Thomas his two sons Thomas and Tappin the whole of my right in the lottment of land which was my hond. father William Ward’s decd., which lyeth in the West Division lotts, of which my son William hath a part, and my part lying on the southern side, this I give unto my above named grandsons equally to be divided between them. I give to my son Thomas one equal third part of my wearing apparrel, to be equally divided between him and his brothers William and James. I give to my son William Ward, besides what I have given him, the whole remainder part of my Hornet Bay land besides what I have given to my son Thomas. And also I give unto my sd. son William my lottment of land on the east side of the Great River in the last division. I give to my son William one equal third part of my wearing apparrell. I give unto my son James Ward, besides what I have given him before, the one equal half part of my dwelling house and barn and cellering, and the one-half of my homested and 1-2 of my bow lott so called, both plowing and mowing and orcharding. These I give to my son James to enjoy and improve with my wife equally (with her half so long as she shall continue my widow, and at her decease or marriage shall be the proper propriety of my abovesd. son James Ward). So that I do hereby invest my sd. son James Ward in the possession and reversion rights of the whole of my now dwelling house, barn, cellering, homested, bow lott, Harris lott and negro man called Peter. I also give to my son James Ward my Hubbard lott and my Crowel lott so called, he paying to my two daughters, his sisters, Phebe, now the wife of Daniel Hall, and Mary, now the wife of Benedict Alverd, £50 to each of them in or as current money. I also give to my son James my gunn and sword and amunition. I appoint my beloved wife and my son James Ward executors.

    THOMAS WARD, LS.

    Witness: William Ward, John Ward, Joseph Rockwell.

    Court Record, Page 194—3 July, 1728: The last will and testament of Capt. Thomas Ward, late of Middletown decd., was now exhibited. Proven."

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