William WARD

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The History of the Brigham FamilyAuthor: Willard Irving Tyler BrighamCall Number: R929.2 B855Zb v. 01
This book contains a record of several thousand descendants of Thomas Brigham the Emigrant. 1603-1653.
Bibliographic Information: Brigham, Willard Irving Tyler. The history of the Brigham Family. The Grafton Press. New York. 1907.

HANNAH2, daughter of Thomas1 and Mercy (Hurd) Brigham; born in Cambridge, Mass., 9 March,         1649-50; died in Marlborough, Mass., Dec., 1719; married (1) Gershom Eames(*) of Marlborough, who went to Watertown, Mass., on the breaking out of King Philip's War, where he died 25 Nov., 1676; married (2)  William, son of William Ward (who was in Sudbury as early as 1639, and owned land there); born in Sudbury, 22 Jan., 1640; died in Marlborough, 25 Nov., 1697.

The historians have had a good deal of trouble over Hannah with respect to her marriage, Morse having married her to Samuel Wells of Glastonbury, Conn., and Hudson (p. 357) concurring with the historian of Shrewsbury that Gershom Eames married Hannah Johnson, daughter of Solomon and Hannah Johnson. The Sudbury records show the birth of a Hannah, daughter of Solomon Johnson (who was Solomon, Jr.), but she would have been only 14 years old when Gershom Eames married Hannah Brigham. Paige corrects  these errors (pp. 501-2), and we can support him with overwhelming evidence. Paige first quotes two  Massachusetts public records; one wherein her name is given as Hannah Ward and another where William Ward, her husband, joins with Thomas2, John2, and Samuel2 Brigham, in 1681, in conveying to Nicholas Fessenden certain of the Thomas1 Brigham land in Cambridge. Paige continues:

"I do not find any Hannah Ward in that town who could represent herself as a daughter of Thomas Brigham, except the wife of William Ward, who united with the Brighams in the sale of (*) the Cambridge land. This Hannah had been the wife of Gershom Eames; and is supposed by her descendant, Andrew H. Ward, in his History of Shrewsbury (p. 457) to have been a daughter of Samuel Johnson of Sudbury. But I think it more probable that Thomas Brigham was her father, and that John Brigham, who witnessed the execution of her will, Oct. 30, 1714, was her brother."

Hannah Eames had two children: Hannah (named for herself) and a posthumous daughter, Mary. She lived in Marlborough both before and after her marriage to Mr. Ward, although she probably accompanied her first husband to Watertown at the time of King Philip's War. In her will, executed 30 Oct., 1714, she makes pathetic reference to the boy Elisha, who was killed or stolen by the Indians. After the usual introductory formula, she devises as follows:                               WILL OF HANNAH BRIGHAM-EAMES-WARD.....


The name in the early records is spelled with an E, but most of the families  have dropped the E and spell it Ames (Hudson's History of Marlborough, p. 358).


Children (Eames or Ames), born probably in Marlborough:
         i Hannah3, b. 3 Feb., 1675.
        ii Mary (posthumous), b. 1677; d. 1772, . 95 yrs. and 1 mo.; m. 11 March, 1696, John, son of Elias and Sarah (Blanford) Key
           Marlborough; moved to Shrewsbury about 1723; built a new house and part of the family slept in the new one and part in the o
           one, just before the building was completed. In Aug., 1723, both houses were burned and two of his sons sleeping in the new
           house perished. He was a Major and d. 1768, in his 94th yea
           Ch. (Keyes):
            Gershom4, b. 1 March, 1698; m. about 1718, Sarah (???); moved to Boston and became wealthy; 5 ch.
            2 Mary, b. 24 Oct., 1700; m. 1720, Daniel Rand.
            3 Solomon, b. 30 Aug., 1703; m. Sarah (???). 2 c
            4 Hannah, b. 9 July, 1706; m. 1725, Gershom Flag
            5 Thankful, b. 24 May, 1709; m. 1728, Jonas Keye
            6 John, b. 30 April, 1712; burned to death, Aug., 172
            7 Sarah, b. 5 March, 1715; m. 21 Dec., 1721, Joshua Wilde
            8 Stephen, b. 2 April, 1718; also burned to death, Aug., 172

Children (Ward) born in Marlborough (as per Hudson's History of Marlborough):
       iii  William, b. 27 March, 1680; m. Jane Cleveland, and res. in the part of Marlborough which is now Southboro. He rose to the ra
           of colonel and was a J. P. Ch:  1 Hezekiah; 2 Elisha; 3 William; 4 Charles; et al.
        iv  BETHIAH, m. Elnathan3 Brigham, 11.     ***************
         v  (Col.) Nahum, b. 18 Dec., 1684; m. 16 July, 1714, Martha, dau. of Capt. Daniel and Elizabeth (Kerley) Howe; b. 30 July, 1687; followed the sea in early life, and then moved to Shrewsbury, where he was a Colonel, J. P., Rep. and Judge. Their sixth child was (Gen.) Artemas4, b. 1727; grad. Harvard Coll., 1748, was Major in the French War; at the opening of the Revolution was appointed General and Commander-in-chief of all the forces raised by the Colony; he had command of the troops besieging Boston until the appointment of Washington as Commander-in-chief.  He then commanded the right wing of the besieging army until the capitulation, after which he had command of the department of the East. He served several terms in Congress, was president of the governor's council, and until his death judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Worcester County.
        vi Elisha, b. 12 Jan., 1686; was killed or taken captive by the Indians in Worcester, 1709, while riding post from Marlborough to Hadle
       vii Bathshebah, b. 16 May, 1689; d. 6 Oct., 1693.
      viii Gershom, b. 3 Jan., 1693; rep. Marlborough, 1738; d. unm., 173
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Her parents were emigrants from England in 1635. She was the sister of Samuel  Brigham, who married his niece, Elizabeth How (WW 57), and widow of Gershom Eames.   http://www3.telus.net/robertkline/g0000000.html#I181


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