Person:Artemas Ward (2)
General Artemas Ward
b.26 Nov 1727 Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
d.27 Oct 1800 Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 6 May 1714
  1. Persis Ward1718 - 1768
  2. General Artemas Ward1727 - 1800
Spouse and Children
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m. 31 Jul 1750
  1. Ithamar Ward1752 - 1828
  2. Nahum Ward1754 -
  3. Sarah Ward1756 -
  4. Thomas Walter Ward1758 - 1835
  5. Martha Ward1760 - 1781
  6. Artemas Ward1762 -
  7. Maria Ward1764 - 1833
  8. Henry Dana Ward1768 -
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Facts and Events
Name[3] General Artemas Ward
Gender Male
Birth[1] 26 Nov 1727 Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Degree[4] 1748 Harvard College.
Marriage 31 Jul 1750 Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Sarah Trowbridge
Death[2] 27 Oct 1800 Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number? Q321887?


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Artemas Ward (November 26, 1727 – October 28, 1800) was an American major general in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts. He was considered an effective political leader, President John Adams describing him as "universally esteemed, beloved and confided in by his army and his country."

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References
  1. ↑ Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1904)
    p. 105.

    WARD, Artemas, s. nahum and Martha, [born] Nov. 26, 1727.

  2. ↑ Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1904)
    p. 278.

    WARD, Maj. Gen. Artemas, [died] Oct. 27, 1800, a. 73.
    [Birth about 1727.]

  3. ↑ Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Ward Family: Descendants of William Ward Who Settled in Sudbury, Massachusetts in 1639. (Boston: S.G. Drake, 1851)
    pp. 45-50.

    Gen. Artemas Ward, s/o Col. Nahum Ward and Martha How, b. 27 Nov 1727, d. 27 Oct 1800, m. 31 Jul 1750 Sarah Trowbridge. Graduated Harvard 1748, Lt. Col. in invasion of Canada 1758, General in Revolutionary War, member of Congress.
    [Note: the author is a grandson.]

  4. ↑ Artemas Ward, in Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence. (Boston, Mass.: Massachusetts Historical Society & New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005)
    Harvard:5413-30.
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