Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 09-30-2024.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom available to be downloaded.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Richard WARD
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Abt 1635 in England b
  • Death: 31 Mar 1666 in Sudbury River, Sudbury, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • William WARD Birth: Abt 1603 in Yorkshire, England Death: 10 Aug 1687 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Elizabeth WELLS Birth: Abt 1614 Death: 9 Dec 1700

Family:
Marriage:
  • Mary MOORE on 8 Sep 1661 at Sudbury, Massachusetts .m1
  • Mary MOORE Birth: 1641 in Berkhamstead, England Death: 10 Jan 1702/3 in Sudbury, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Obadiah WARD Birth: 19 Apr 1663 in Sudbury, Massachusetts Death: 17 Dec 1717 in Worcester, Massachusetts
  2. Lydia WARD Birth: 16 Mar 1665 in Sudbury, Massachusetts Death: 10 Jan 1740

Bibliography
  1. Bolton, Ethel Stanwood of Shirley MA, Some Descendants of John MOORE of Sudbury, Massachusetts, New England Historical Genealogical Register, vol 57 (Jul 1903) pp300-309, (Oct 1903) pp362-370, vol 58 (Apr 1904) pp176-178. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image. Also: Boston, MA: David Clapp, 1904. LDS Film#0856098#4. Available at http://archive.org/details/somedescendantso00bolt. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Bolton MOORE v5[78]p[0-9]*].
  2. DeForest, L. Effingham, William Henry Moore and his Ancestry, with Accounts of the Moore Families in the American Colonies, 1620-1730. New York: DeForest Pub Co, 1934. UMI#G296. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005731863. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: DeForest MOORE p[0-9]*].
  3. Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines, Vol 1: Dawes and Allied Families. Privately printed: Charles G Dawes, 1943. LDS Film#1035529#2. NEHGS CS71/D269/1931v1. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/256356. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p[0-9]*].
  4. Hart, Craig, Genealogy of the Wives of the American Presidents, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004. NYPL APK 05-1088 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hart PresidentWives p[0-9]*].
  5. Holman, Winifred Lovering, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and Frances Helen Miller. Concord, NH: Rumford Press, 1953. Sutro CS71.S844 1948. Available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005763135, Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Holman STEVENS-MILLER v[12]p[0-9]*].
  6. Martyn, Charles, The William Ward Genealogy: The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass, 1638-1925, New York, Artemus Ward, 1925, LDS Film#1035525 item#9. Available at http://archive.org/details/williamwardgenea1925mart. Available at http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001597787. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Martyn WARD p[0-9]*].
  7. Moore, Winifred H, Moore Genealogy, Report of the Genealogical Records Commttee District of Columbia Daughters of American Revolution, 1948-50. LDS Film#0874739#4. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007831154 images 490-625. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: MooreWH MOORE p[0-9]*].
  8. Plummer, John, The English Origin of John Moore of Sudbury, Massachusetts, in The American Genealogist, Vol 66, no 2, Apr 1991, pp75-77. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/american-genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Plummer MOORE p[0-9]*].
  9. 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, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Published Co, 1965. Scanned and corrected by Robert Kraft, 1994, and available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sav-age [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].
  10. Vital Records of Sudbury, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850, New England Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1903. Available at http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Middlesex/Sudbury/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SudburyMA vitals p[0-9]*].
  11. Ward, Aldrew Henshaw, Ward Family; Descendants of William Ward who settled in Sudbury, Mass. in 1639, Samuel G Drake, Boston, 1851, LDS Film#0873925#2. Available at http://archive.org/details/wardfamilydescen00byuward Information from this source tagged as [Ref: WardAH WARD p[0-9-]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
1 Apr 1635 [Ref: Hart PresidentWives p95]
abt 1635 [Ref: Martyn WARD p65, Sav-age WARD William, WardAH WARD p9],
place:
[Ref: Hart PresidentWives p95, Martyn WARD p65, Sav-age WARD William, WardAH WARD p9],
parents:
William WARD & Elizabeth ___ [Ref: Hart PresidentWives p95]
William WARD & second wife [Ref: WardAH WARD p8],
father:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p65, Sav-age WARD William, WardAH WARD p9]
Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information
mother:
perhaps first wife of William WARD (#5137) [Ref: Martyn WARD p65]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Bolton MOORE v57p301, Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p447, Hart PresidentWives p95, Martyn WARD p68, Sav-age WARD Richard, SudburyMA vitals p328],
place:
[Ref: Bolton MOORE v57p301, Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p447, Hart PresidentWives p95, Martyn WARD p68, Sav-age WARD Richard, SudburyMA vitals p328]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary MOORE
date:
[Ref: Bolton MOORE v57p301, DeForest MOORE p320, Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p447, Holman STEVENS-MILLER v2p153, Martyn WARD p68, MooreWH MOORE p2, Plummer MOORE p77, Sav-age MOORE John, Sav-age WARD Richard, SudburyMA vitals p281],
place:
[Ref: DeForest MOORE p320, Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p447, Holman STEVENS-MILLER v2p153, Martyn WARD p68, MooreWH MOORE p2, Plummer MOORE p77],
names:
[Ref: WardAH WARD p9]
Richard WARD & Mary MOORES [Ref: Martyn WARD p68]
Richard WARD & Mary ___ [Ref: SudburyMA vitals p148],
child:
[Ref: Hart PresidentWives p95, Martyn WARD p68, Martyn WARD p80, Sav-age WARD Richard, SudburyMA vitals p148, WardAH WARD p13]
Research Notes:
Had a house-lot of eighteen acres assigned to him in Sudbury, Nov 26 1660 [Ref: WardAH WARD p13]

freeman 1664 [Ref: WardAH WARD p13]

drowned in the Sudbury River Mar 31 1666. His widow and William Ward were appointed guardians of the children during their minority [Ref: Martyn WARD p68]

Mar 31 1666: drowned in the Sudbury River [Ref: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p447]



Pedigree of Richard WARD
 /-----William WARD
Richard WARD
 \-----Elizabeth WELLS



Descendants of Richard WARD
1. Richard WARD m. Mary MOORE
m. Mary MOORE father: John MOORE mother: Elizabeth RICE

2nd generation

2. Obadiah WARD m. Joanna MIXER
m. Joanna MIXER father: Isaac MIXER mother: Rebecca GARFIELD
3. Lydia WARD m. John MAYNARD
m. John MAYNARD father: John MAYNARD mother: Mary GATES

3rd generation

4. Richard WARD m. Lydia WHEELOCK
m. Lydia WHEELOCK father: Samuel WHEELOCK mother: Lydia RICE
5. Obadiah WARD m. Eunice (WARD)
m. Eunice (WARD)
6. Hannah WARD m. Daniel HEYWOOD
m. Daniel HEYWOOD
7. Daniel WARD m1. Sarah (WARD) m2. Mary STONE
m. Sarah (WARD)
m. Mary STONE
11. Isaac WARD m. Sibyl MOORE
m. Sibyl MOORE father: Nathanial MOORE
12. Thankful WARD m. Jonas FARNSWORTH
m. Jonas FARNSWORTH father: Benjamin FARNSWORTH

4th generation

22. Jonas WARD m1. Abagail CHILD m2. Sarah DRAPER
m. Abagail CHILD
m. Sarah DRAPER
23. Lydia WARD m. Thomas DRYDEN
m. Thomas DRYDEN
27. David WARD m.
45. Azubah WARD m. John GREENE
m. John GREENE father: Nathaniel Jr GREENE mother: Elizabeth TAYLOR

5th generation

88. Lydia DRYDEN m. Abel MARSHALL
m. Abel MARSHALL father: William MARSHALL mother: Eunice DAVIS
89. David WARD m. Mary AUSTIN
m. Mary AUSTIN father: David AUSTIN mother: Mary HARMON
90. Lucrieta GREENE m. Elijah MASON
m. Elijah MASON father: Peleg Sanford MASON mother: Mary STANTON