Person:Stephen Ward (6)

“The petition for an act of incorporation of the town of Bradford was dated 30 May 1787 and Stehphen was one of the twenty signers [NHPapers11:220]. He appeared on the Bradford tax inventory book in 1794 and in the Bradford records in 1795 when he was elected a surveyor of highways [BVR1:40]. Stephen Ward was witness to a deed for Bradford land in 1784 [HillsDeeds16:311] {in 1800 he was of Bradford, a gentleman when he sold Bradford land to Willard Newton gentleman of Southborough Mass [Ibid51:161] He was first called Lt. Ward in 1803. In 1805 he was a gentleman of Bradford when he bought Bradford land of John Maynard of Marlborough Mass; one witnesswas Ebenezer Ward [Ibid 132:23]. In 1821 Betsey was of Bradford when she made her mark on a deed with her husband selling land to Joshua Darling of Henniker [Ibid 32:25]. A female aged 50-60 was in their household in 1840.}”

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Sherry Gould and Kathy Beals. Vol. II of Bradford Town History, Early Families of Bradford, New Hampshire. (Bradford Historical Society).
2.   Sherry Gould and Kathy Beals. Vol. II of Bradford Town History, Early Families of Bradford, New Hampshire. (Bradford Historical Society).

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