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: Obadiah WARD
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Abt 1632 in England b
  • Death: 5 Jan 1718 in Marlborough, 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: Children:
  1. Alice WARD Birth: 14 Nov 1668 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  2. William WARD Birth: 7 Jan 1670 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  3. Obadiah WARD Birth: 18 Sep 1672 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  4. Bethiah WARD Birth: Jan 1674 in Marlborough, Massachusetts Death: 7 Jun 1674 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  5. Mary WARD Birth: 4 May 1676 in Marlborough, Massachusetts Death: 4 May 1676 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  6. Jane WARD Birth: 3 Mar 1677 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  7. Edmond WARD Birth: 21 Jan 1679 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  8. Sarah WARD Birth: 29 Jan 1681 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  9. Richard WARD Birth: 26 Apr 1683 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  10. Elizabeth WARD Birth: 4 Dec 1685 in Marlborough, Massachusetts Death: 21 Jan 1730 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  11. Hannah WARD Birth: 3 Jan 1688 in Marlborough, Massachusetts Death: 23 Feb 1740 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  12. Eleazer WARD Birth: 2 Nov 1689 in Marlborough, Massachusetts
  13. Prudence WARD Birth: 1691 in Marlborough, 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 1632 [Ref: Martyn WARD p65, Sav-age WARD William, WardAH WARD p9],
place:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p65, Sav-age WARD William, WardAH WARD p9],
parents:
William WARD & first wife [Ref: Martyn WARD p65, WardAH WARD p8],
father:
[Ref: Sav-age WARD William, WardAH WARD p9]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p6, Sav-age WARD Obadiah],
place:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p6, Sav-age WARD Obadiah]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary (WARD)
date:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p67]
abt 1667 [Ref: Sav-age WARD Obadiah],
place:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p67],
names:
Obadiah WARD & Mary ___ [Ref: Martyn WARD p67, Martyn WARD p68, Sav-age WARD Obadiah, WardAH WARD p9],
child:
[Ref: Martyn WARD p67, Martyn WARD p68, Sav-age WARD Obadiah]
Research Notes:
of Sudbury 1654, Marlborough 1662 [Ref: Farmer WARD Obadiah]

had land assigned him in Sudbury, MA, on his coming of age in 1653. [Ref: Martyn WARD p67, WardAH WARD p12]

moved to Marlborough [Ref: Martyn WARD p42]

obtained a house lot of twenty one acres "with after divisions" in Marlborough in 1660, and moved there soon after [Ref: WardAH WARD p12]

He was one of the three contractors for the erection in 1661 of the frame of the minister's house. [Ref: Martyn WARD p67]

Marriage is recorded as Nov 13 1669. In the early settlement of the country, the like record of marriages was not uncommon, whereby the family name of the wife is not only withheld, but the record so made as to imply a wife before marriage. Their marriage probably took place in 1667, instead of '69. [Ref: WardAH WARD p12]

He was a delegate to the Council for Safety of the People and Conservation of the Peace, May 9 and 22, and June 5, 1689, and also a representative at the General Court 1690-91 during the critical period intervening between the forcible deposition of Governor Andros and the convening of the General Court under the new charter. [Ref: Martyn WARD p67]

rep. 1689 [Ref: Farmer WARD Obadiah, Sav-age WARD Obadiah]



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



Descendants of Obadiah WARD
1. Obadiah WARD m. Mary (WARD)
m. Mary (WARD)