Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

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 may be downloaded here.

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


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: John WARD
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Abt 1626 in England b
  • Death: 8 Jul 1708 in Newton, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • William WARD Birth: Abt 1603 in Yorkshire, England Death: 10 Aug 1687 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Eleanor (WARD) Death: Abt 1633

Family:
Marriage:
  • Hannah JACKSON on Abt 1650 at Cambridge Twp, (now Newton), Massachusetts .m1
  • Hannah JACKSON Birth: Abt 1631 in London, England Death: 24 Apr 1704 in Newton, Massachusetts
Children:
  1. Hannah WARD Birth: Newton, Massachusetts
  2. John WARD Birth: 26 Jan 1653 in Newton, Massachusetts Death: 5 Jun 1654 in Newton, Massachusetts
  3. Rebecca WARD Birth: 15 Jun 1655 in Newton, Massachusetts Death: 28 Aug 1735 in Newton, Massachusetts
  4. John WARD Birth: 8 Mar 1658 in Newton, Massachusetts
  5. Elizabeth WARD Birth: 18 Jun 1660 in Newton, Massachusetts
  6. Deborah WARD Birth: 19 Jul 1662 in Newton, Massachusetts
  7. William WARD Birth: 19 Nov 1664 in Newton, Massachusetts
  8. Richard WARD Birth: 15 Nov 1666 in Newton, Massachusetts
  9. Mercy WARD Birth: 27 Jan 1668 in Newton, Massachusetts Death: 4 Jun 1685 in Newton, Massachusetts
  10. Edward WARD Birth: 13 Mar 1671 in Newton, Massachusetts
  11. Eleazer WARD Birth: 26 Feb 1672 in Newton, Massachusetts
  12. Jonathan WARD Birth: 22 Apr 1674 in Newton, Massachusetts
  13. Joseph WARD Birth: 15 Nov 1677 in Newton, Massachusetts

Bibliography
  1. Farmer, John, A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England. Lancaster, MA: Carter, Andrew & Co, 1829. Available at http://books.google.com/?id=TUGHVUEbRBoC Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Farmer [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].
  2. 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]*].
  3. 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]*].
  4. 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:
abt 1626 [Ref: Martyn WARD p65, Sav-age WARD John, Sav-age WARD William, WardAH WARD p9],
place:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p65, Sav-age WARD John, Sav-age WARD William, WardAH WARD p9],
parents:
William WARD & first wife [Ref: Martyn WARD p65, WardAH WARD p8],
father:
[Ref: Sav-age WARD John, Sav-age WARD William, WardAH WARD p9]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p65, WardAH WARD p10],
place:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p65, WardAH WARD p10]
Sources with Inaccurate death Information
date:
2 Jul 1708 [Ref: Sav-age WARD John]
Sources with Information about marriage to Hannah JACKSON
date:
abt 1650 [Ref: Martyn WARD p65, Sav-age WARD John],
place:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p65],
names:
[Ref: WardAH WARD p9],
child:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p65, Martyn WARD p66, Sav-age WARD John, WardAH WARD p10]
Research Notes:
freeman 1649 [Ref: Farmer WARD John, WardAH WARD p9]

freeman 1685 [Ref: Sav-age WARD John]

proprietor of Sudbury 1651 [Ref: WardAH WARD p9]

Upon marriage he settled in Newton, the home of his wife's parents, building a house in the southeasterly part of the village upon a tract of forty-five acres belonging to his father-in-law and subsequently deeded to him by the latter. He had learned the trade of turner and combined its practise with farming, in time increasing his holdings to several hundred acres. [Ref: Martyn WARD p65]

When Newton became a separate township in 1679, he was elected to its first board of selectmen and as its first representative in the General Court, being several times reelected to both posts. He was also a deacon of its first church. [Ref: Martyn WARD p65]

of the first selectmen when the town was set off from Cambridge [Ref: Sav-age WARD John]

Representative 1689, and several years after [Ref: Sav-age WARD John]

Selectman for nine years, and nine years Representative in "The Great and General Court" [Ref: WardAH WARD p9]

Representative in 1689, and for about 15 years afterwards [Ref: Farmer WARD John]

he lived in the southeasterly part of the town. his dwelling house was constructed for, and used as a garrison prior to, and at the time of King Philip's war, 1675-6. [Ref: WardAH WARD p9]

House that John Ward built for his bride was later fortified as a "garrison house" during times of Indian alarms. [Ref: Martyn WARD p66]

Disposed of real estate in 1701 (which lay mostly in one body) by deeds of gift to his sons. The quantity of the land given to each was about one hundred acres. [Ref: Martyn WARD p66]

1701: In each deed was a clause restricting the grantee from selling without the consent of his brothers, or the major part of them. When any one of them sold, his brothers witnessed the deed, and thereby gave their implied consent to the sale [Ref: WardAH WARD p10]

Made his will Feb 2 1708 [Ref: WardAH WARD p10]

House was taken down in 1821, after having sheltered seven generations of Wards. [Ref: Martyn WARD p66]



Pedigree of John WARD
 /-----William WARD
John WARD
 \-----Eleanor (WARD)



Descendants of John WARD
1. John WARD m. Hannah JACKSON
m. Hannah JACKSON father: Edward JACKSON mother: Frances (JACKSON)