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WARD (VII) Bethuel Ward, ninth child and fifth son of Bethuel (q. v.) and Hannah (Dodd) Ward, com- monly spoken of as Bethuel Ward Jr., was born in Orange, September 11, 1787, and died in Bloomfield, December 7, 1859, intestate. Like his brother, Linus Dodd Ward, and his cousin, Horace H. Ward, he was a storekeeper in Bloomfield. He was also one of the execu- tors of his father's will. He was four times married. July 7, 1811, he married Lydia Free- man, born November 25, 1790, died February 2, 1819. Children : I. Isaac, born February 3, 1812 ; died September 23, 1875. 2. Caroline, born November 12, 1813; married James Bald- win. 3. John Freeman, born September 28, 1815; died July II, 1873. After receiving a common school education he entered the office of his uncle, Dr. Eleazar Dodd Ward, and graduated later from the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, in 1836, and imme- diately established himself in Newark, where for forty years he was one of that city's fore- most physicians. April 20, 1837, he married Jane D. Gibbs, of Bloomfield, who survived him until November 13, 1874. Their surviving children are: Edward Payson Ward, Cyrus Freeman Ward and John Freeman Ward Jr. 4. Uzal Dodd, born January 2, 1818 ; died Janu- ary 1, 1879. By wife Sarah he had children : William, died during the civil war, unmarried ;
Samuel, now living unmarried in Newark ; Harriet, married, and died in 1908; Amelia, married a Mr. Bigelow, and is now living in Newark ; Annie, unmarried, now living in New- ark with her brother Samuel. June 8, 1820, Bethuel Ward Jr. married ( second) Rhoda, sister to his first wife, Lydia Freeman, who was born March 19, 1788, and died December 5, 1839. Children: Cyrus Freeman Ward, born June 7, 1821, died September 29, 1844, unmarried ; and George Smith Ward, referred to below. March 10, 1841, Bethuel Ward Jr. married (third) Caroline R. Pierson, born January 10, 1800, died April 10, 1851, daugh- ter of Dr. Cyrus Pierson and Nancy, daughter of Dr. Matthias Pierson and Phebe, daughter of Isaac Nutman. Dr. Matthias Pierson was son of Samuel Pierson and Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Mary Sergeant, granddaughter of Jonathan Sergeant, of Branford and New- ark, and great-granddaughter of Jonathan Ser- geant, the emigrant to New Haven and Bran- ford. Samuel Pierson was son of Samuel Pierson and Mary, daughter of Sergeant Rich- ard Harrison, and grandson of Thomas Pier- son Sr., brother of Rev. Abraham Pierson and his wife Mary, sister to Sergeant Richard Harrison. Dr. Cyrus Pierson was son of Dea- con Bethuel Pierson and Elizabeth Riggs his first wife, grandson of Joseph and Hephzibah (Camp) Pierson (who was a brother to the Jemima Pierson, who married Samuel Ward, great-grandfather of Bethuel Ward Jr), and great-grandson of Samuel Pierson and Mary, daughter of Sergeant Richard Harrison. April 13, 1853, Bethuel Ward Jr. married ( fourth) Ellen S. Russell.
(VIII) Dr. George Smith Ward, younger of the two children of Bethuel Ward Jr. by his second wife, Rhoda Freeman, was born in Bloomfield, November II, 1827, and died in Newark, New Jersey, at his home, 969 Broad street, June 25, 1900, from a complication of diseases from which he had been suffering for several years before his death. He obtained his early education in his native place, where his father gave him every advantage that he could with a view to preparing him for col- lege and giving him a fair start in the pro- fession in which so many of the members of his family had already become such prominent personages. When he was ready for college and almost at the point of entering, he was prostrated by a fever which very nearly proved fatal in its termination, and left him in such a condition that a further application to study was for a long time precluded. When he had
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recovered and become sufficiently strong to give his attention once more to his books, he entered the office of his brother, Dr. John Free- man Ward, as a student. Here he remained, studying as he was able, and regaining his health and strength, and when this was accom- plished he matriculated at the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons, New York, and grad- uated from that institution in 1849, among his classmates being Dr. Arthur Ward, of Lom- bardy street, Newark, and Dr. William Spen- cer Ward, the latter of whom was his cousin, the son of Dr. Eleazar Dodd Ward. Settling in Newark, he soon began to develop the quali- ties which marked so many of his branch of the family and made them such success- ful physicians and surgeons, and lived to be not only one of the most successful but also one of the oldest practicing physicians in New- ark at the time of his death. For many years he was attending physician to the City Alms- house of Newark. The disease which caused his death was chronic bronchitis and tuber- cular affection of the lungs, complicated with other troubles, from which he suffered for a long time, his illness assuming a much graver form about four years before his death, when his wife died. From this time he never rallied, but gradually grew worse. May 9, 1850, Dr. George Smith Ward married Frances H. Bald- win, in Philadelphia, who was born in 1829, and died July 25, 1896. Children: I. Charles Wilcox Ward, born May 2, 1851 ; died Sep- tember 18, 1867. 2. George Crawford Ward, referred to below. 3. Clara May Ward, born July 31, 1854; died June 26, 1899; married George F. C. Smillie, who is now employed in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving in Washington, D. C .; children: May S., Fran- ces and Keith, the first two of whom are mar- ried. 4. Anna Baker Ward, born May 9, 1859; died unmarried, January 9, 1901.
(IX) George Crawford Ward, second child and son and only surviving child of Dr. George Smith and Frances H. (Baldwin) Ward, was born in Newark, New Jersey, September 6, 1852, and is now living in that city. For his early.education he went to the public schools of Newark, and in 1867, at the age of fifteen years, he became a naval apprentice on board of the "Sabine." From this vessel he was transferred to the "Saratoga," on which he remained for two years more and then, his term of enlistment having expired, he entered the employ of the Gilbert Elevated Railroad of New York City, and in 1881 entered the service of the government as a postal clerk.
After thirteen years of this work he was trans- ferred to the ocean mail service, where he spent nine years more, crossing the Atlantic ocean back and forth and making in that time one hundred and ninety-six trans-Atlantic voyages. In 1903 he was made the recorder of Salaam Temple, Mystic Shrine, and since that time has lived in Newark and given himself up to the duties which this office has imposed upon him. Mr. Ward is a member of St. Alban's Lodge, No. 68, F. and A. M .; Union Chapter, No. 7, R. A. M .; Damascus Commandery, No. 5, K. T., and of the A. A. S. R., thirty-second degree. February II, 1881, George Crawford Ward married Kate E. Baker, who died Sep- tember 23, 1885. January 10, 1895, Mr. Ward married (second) Jennie Bock, of New York. The marriage, owing to Mr. Ward's inability to leave his work at the time, was performed in London, England. There have been no chil- dren by either marriage.
WARD This branch of the Ward family of Newark is different from that treated on preceding pages, and has apparently no connection with it until after both had come over to this country.
The family whose founder was Sergeant John Ward, of Newark, New Jersey, traces its ancestry back in the old country to Robert Warde, gentleman, of Knoll, county Warwick, England, who by his wife Isabel Stapley, of Dunchurch, county Warwick, had children: I. James, referred to below. 2. John, married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Haselford, of Brafeld, county Northampton, where he him- self settled; children: i. William, of Brafeld, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Westlee, of Eythorpe, county Warwick ; children : Rev. William Warde, rector of Sudbarrow, died un- married, 1681; Mary; Judith; Elizabeth, the last two died without issue; and John, who married Rebecca, daughter of William Moul- shaw, of Thingdon, county Northampton, gentleman, John being born about 1608, and dying about 1671. ii. Daniel, of Houghton Parva, county Warwick, married Dorothy, daughter of Robert Pargiter, of county Northampton ; children: William, born 1605, married (first) Mary, daughter of Thomas Hughes, and (sec- ond) Alice, daughter of Sergeant Halton, of Thames Ditton; John; Robert; Margaret; Elizabeth and Joane. iii. Mary, married Rich- ard Neale, of London. iv. Judith, married Ed- ward Gest, of Sutton, county Northampton. v. to x. Jane, Manasses, Robert, Mary, Judith and Isabel. This last named may have been
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the Isabel Ward who married first the father of John Catlin, of Newark, and afterwards Joseph Baldwin, and was the relative of Dea- con Lawrence Ward, of Newark. 3. A daugh- ter, who married one of the Bagshaws. 4. An- other daughter, who married into the Brofelds.
(II) James, son of Robert and Isabel (Stap- ley) Warde, of Knoll, county Warwick, Eng- land; married Alice Fawkes, of Dunchurch. county Warwick, and had one child of record : Stephen, who is referred to below.
(I) Stephen (first in the American line), son of James and Alice (Fawkes) Warde, of Dunchurch, county Warwick, was long be- lieved to have died in England, but the late Sherman W. Adams, by his investigations into the records of Wethersfield, Connecticut, has practically proved his contention that Stephen did come to America and was killed by the Indians at Wethersfield. Stephen's wife was Joyce Traford, of Leicestershire, England, who came with her husband and children to New England in 1630, and with him removed in 1635 to Wethersfield, where she was long known as the "Widow Joyce Ward," and died in 1640, leaving a will in which she mentions all but one of her children, and makes her son- in-law, John Fletcher, her executor, and "Mr. Wollerslove, of Clipsham, county Rutland," her attorney. Children of Stephen and Joyce (Traford) Warde: I. Ambrose, born before 1619; as he is not mentioned in his mother's will probably died young. 2. Edward. 3. An- thony. 4. William, born about 1632; died March 28, 1690; first wife was named Sarah, and second Phebe. 5. John, referred to below. 6. Robert. 7. Mary, married John Fletcher.
(II) John, son of Stephen and Joyce (Tra- ford) Warde, was born probably in England, and brought to this country when a child by his parents. The earliest mention of him is in his mother's will, and the next occurs in 1666, when he is found among the representatives of Branford, where he had been residing since 1644. October 30, 1666, he signed with the other Branford-Newark settlers the funda- mental agreement, and from that time until his death takes his place as one of the fore- most of the citizens of the "Towne upon the Passaick river." He was one of the townsmen, 1667-69; a surveyor and layer out of high- ways, 1668-72 ; up to 1673 was sergeant, and after 1673 lieutenant of the town; 1673 was burner of the woods and meadows ; he was one of the town's magistrates, 1673-74; 1674 was one of the town committeemen; one of the justices of the monthly court, 1675-80; one of
the town's deputies to provincial council, 1675- 76; one of town's alternate deputies, or "third men," to the provincial council, 1680-81. De- cember 12, 1670, the town presented Sergeant John Ward with an extra fifty acres of land in the town as a reward for services, and Sep- tember 10, 1668, and February 28, 1674, re- spectively, he was chosen as one of committee to pass on excuses for tardiness and absence from town meetings, and "to carry on the town meetings till a new one is chosen." In 1668 he was one of committee appointed to consider and grant with due precautions for the iterests of the town the petition of Jonathan Sergeant and Daniel Dod for their grant of land near the lot of Hans Albers. In 1672 he was chair- man of the committee "to end the difference between Deacon Lawrence and Robert Dalglish about their second division;" and in 1673 he was one of the inspectors and layers out of the land petitioned for by Richard Fletcher. January 25, 1669, the town meeting "in general all agreed to have a Division of Land, viz: Upland to be laid out as soon as can be, of Six Acres to every Hundred Pounds Estate. And they chose five men whom they impowered, and would confide in their Faithfullness and Discretion to make as just a Sizure and meas- uring out of the said Division as they can ; and wholly to order the Manner of the Lying of the Several Ranges and Shotts of Lotts in each Place respectively, with all necessary High Ways and Passages for Carts and Cattle, commodiously as the Places will afford and do call for every where * * And the Names * of the Sizers are Mr. Robert Treat, Mr. Sam- uel Kitchell, Henry Lyon, Thomas Johnson, and Sarj. John Ward; and any three of them agreeing have Power to issue any Matter under Hand about the same." February 21, follow- ing, he was one of committee chosen to lay out corresponding division of salt meadows; and November 14, 1671, he was chosen as the assessor of rates for the north end of the town. his property lying on what is now Washington street, immediately opposite the park and the end of Washington place, where his descend- ants, Joseph Morris and Marcus L. Ward. now live. In the following year he was one of committee to settle Jeremiah Peck's difficulty with his rates.
In 1673, when New York and New Jersey were again in the possession of the Dutch. Sergeant John Ward was one of those chosen by the town who treated with the authorities at Albany for the purchase of the Neck, and was one of those chosen to take out in his own
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name on behalf of the town the patent for it. February 28, 1674, he was one of the three men chosen to go to New York City and "lay an arrest on the Person and Estate of Nicholas Bayard, who was the attorney of Major Na- thaniel Kingsland of the island of Barbadoes and negotiated the interests of his client in the disposal of the Neck." Between August 8, 1673, and March 30, 1677, he was again and again and again placed on committees which had in charge the relations of Newark to the real and the usurping governors, Sir Philip Carteret and James Carteret ; and also on the committees which consulted the governor with regard to the chartering and patenting of the town. May 3, 1680, he was one of the com- mittee which petitioned the governor and coun- cil for land at Poquannock to replace the land on the Neck and at Acquackononck of which they had been deprived. October 31, 1674, February 5, 1682, and March 25, 1689, he was chosen as one of the special committee ap- pointed to consider and arrange for such things as were necessary for the good and safety of the town, and February 12, 1678, he was a member of the committee which had in charge the quarantine arrangements necessitated by the existence of the small-pox in New York. February 7, 1676, he was one of the committee which went to Woodbridge to confer with the people of Elizabethtown and settle the bounds between the two towns; and March 1, 1677, May 30, 1684, and February 7, 1686, he was on the committee which arranged with the Indians for the purchase, and later regulated the appropriation of the lands at the top of the First or Orange mountain. April 19, 1682, he was one of the committee which looked after the supply of wood for Rev. Mr. Pierson, and February 12, 1683, he was on the com- mittee which arranged for the reseating of the . meetinghouse and mending broken seats. The final reference in the town records is his ap- pointment on the committee which made arrangements with Rev. John Prudden to be- come the successor of Rev. Mr. Pierson as minister of the town. This was in August, 1692, and two years later he died, as his will, dated October 31, 1694, was proved the follow- ig November 20. In this will he mentions his house and lot as lying between those of John Morris and Nathaniel Ward, and makes his sons, John Jr. and Nathaniel, his executors. The will is witnessed by Rev. John Prudden and Robert Young.
Sergeant John Ward was twice married, but his first wife was the mother of all his chil-
dren. She was Sarah, daughter of John Hill, of Guilford, Connecticut, who had emigrated from Northamptonshire, England, in 1654, by his first wife Frances, who died in May, 1673. Sergeant John Ward's second wife was Han- nah (Crane) Huntington, daughter of Jasper Crane, the emigrant (see Crane), and widow of Thomas, son of Simon Huntington, the emi- grant, who died on the passage from England to Massachusetts Bay colony in 1639. Chil- dren of Sergeant John and Sarah (Hill) Ward : I. John, referred to below. 2. Mary, born 1654; married Samuel, son of Sergeant Rich- ard Harrison, of Newark. 3. Phebe, born June II, 1655; died 1720; became first wife of Colonel John Cooper. 4. Nathaniel. born 1656; died about 1732; married Christiana, daughter of Lieutenant Samuel Swaine, of Newark, and sister to Elizabeth Swaine, who married (first) Josiah, brother to John Ward, the dish-turner, and (second) David, son of John Ogden, of Elizabethtown, the emigrant. 5. Hannah, born 1658; died June 19, 1693; married as his first wife, Jonathan, of Newark, son of Joseph Baldwin, of Milford and Had- ley. 6. Elizabeth, born 1660. 7. Dorcas, born 1662; died January 25, 1738; married Joseph, son of Sergeant Richard Harrison, of Newark. 8. Deborah, died some time after 1700; became first wife of Eliphalet, son of Thomas John- son, of Newark. 9. Sarah, married, 1674, Jabez Rogers.
(III) John, eldest child of Sergeant John and Sarah (Hill) Ward, was born April 10, 1650, in Branford, Connecticut, and died in 1695, in Newark, New Jersey. There are few references to him in the records of the town, but the great difficulty of distinguishing between the four John Wards in the town at this time (the sergeant, the dish-turner, and their two sons, all of them of age and mar- ried), makes it practically certain that the sons succeeded to their father's activities and im- portance, and that after the death of the seniors something like a half and half division of the honors and references in the town book would probably fall to each of the sons. According to a note on the inventory of his estate, John Ward Jr. died May 5; the inventory is dated May 27, 1695, and makes his personal estate £90 19 shillings, and his will, written May 2, proved September 20, 1695, divides his estate between his second wife and his four children, makes his widow and his "brothers," Nathaniel Ward and Joseph Harrison, his executors, and is witnessed by John Curtise, John Brown and Robert Young. December 20, 1695, the letters
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testimonial in the usual form were granted to his widow.
John Ward Jr. married (first) Mary, daugh- ter of Henry and Mary ( Bateman) Lyon, and granddaughter of Richard Lyon, the emigrant to Fairfield, Connecticut, and of William Bate- man, of the same place. By her John Ward had one child, John (3d), died December 27, 1714, married Martha, daughter of Joseph and Rebecca (Pierson) Johnson, granddaughter of Thomas Johnson, of Newark, and of Rev. Abraham Pierson. John Ward Jr. married (second) Abigail, born 1661, died 1714, daugh- ter of Samuel and his first wife, Elizabeth (Wakeman) Kitchell, and granddaughter of Robert Kitchell, the emigrant to New Haven and Guilford, Connecticut, and his wife Mar- garet, daughter of Edward Sheaffe, of Cran- brook, county Kent, England. In 1704 she bought the property west of High street, New- ark, now Sussex avenue, from Samuel Hunt- ington, and in her will, May 27, 1714, be- queathes it to her son David. She bore her husband three children: Jonathan, David (re- ferred to below), Mary.
(IV) David, son of John and Abigail (Kitchell) Ward, was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1680, and died in Morris county, New Jersey, December 14, 1768. He was a yeoman and was apparently well to do, although he has left but little record behind him, the only existing documents found being a deed signed by himself and wife in 1750, and his will, dated September 9, 1764, in which he names four of his children but makes no men- tion of his wife or of his youngest son Joshua, who is mentioned in the will of his maternal grandfather. David Ward married Mary, daughter of Daniel Brown, of Newark, and granddaughter of John and Mary Brown, of Milford. She died according to the most prob- able record, February 23, 1753, although her gravestone gives the year as 1738. Her age at death was sixty-three. Children of David and Mary (Brown) Ward: I. Moses, referred to below. 2. Ezekiel, lived in Newark highlands. 3. David Jr., died in Morris county, 1783; married Hannah, daughter of Daniel and Mar- garet Farrand, of Newark. 4. Phebe, married Nathaniel Chandler. 5. Joshua.
(V) Moses, son of David and Mary (Brown) Ward, was born in Morris county, New Jersey, in 1728, and died September 25, 1784. He was a cordwainer, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Caleb Ward Sr., of Newark, son of John Ward, the dish turner. (See sketch of George Ward, of Branford,
Connecticut). By this marriage Moses Ward had six children: I. James, referred to below. 2. Sarah, married (first) Moses, son of Joseph Baldwin (see Joseph Baldwin of Milford and Hadley), and married (second) Sayers, son of John and Hannah ( Johnson) Crane, and grandson of John and Abigail Crane (see Jas- per Crane, of Newark). 3. Stephen, born November 20, 1759; died September 13, 1777, from a gunshot wound, in house of Jonas Wade at Springfield. 4. Mary, married Jo- seph Case. 5. David, born 1772; died in infancy, September 12, 1776. 6. Moses.
(VI) James, eldest child of Moses and Eliz- abeth (Ward) Ward, was born September 27, 1764, and died in Newark, April 15, 1846. He lived in Newark, and November 27, 1786, mar- ried Lydia, daughter of John and Eleanor Nesbit, granddaughter of Samuel and Abigail (Harrison) Nesbit, and great-granddaughter of Nesbit, the exile from Scotland, and of Samuel, son of Sergeant Richard Harrison and his wife Mary, daughter of Sergeant John Ward, for whose ancestry see in this sketch, generation IV.
The children of James and Lydia (Nesbit) Ward were: I. Moses, who is referred to below. 2. Betsey, born March 21, 1789; mar- ried David Sands, eldest child of Gilbert and Lavinia (Wooley) Brown, born October 8, 1785, died May 10, 1872, and grandson of Pontus and Content Wooley, of Poughkeepsie, New York. 3. Samuel Nesbit, who is referred to below. 4. Caleb Wheeler, born May 24, 1799; died March 23, 1852; married Mary Woodruff, died September 1I, 1837, aged thirty-five years one month and twenty-two days. 5. Mary Morris, born May 9, 1802 ; died December 5, 1870; married, April 18, 1822, Caleb Woodruff, born August 2, 1796, died February 6, 1872.
(VII) Moses, the eldest child of James and Lydia (Nesbit) Ward, was born in Newark, New Jersey, October 1, 1787, and died in that city, May 5, 1866. His life was spent in New- ark, and his house (now torn down) was on part of the original John Ward lot, and is now in possession of John Herbert Ballantine. No- vember 14, 1811, he married Fanny, daughter of Gilbert and Lavinia (Wooley) Brown, and sister of David Sands Brown, who married his sister, Betsey, above. Children of Moses and Fanny ( Brown) Ward: I. Marcus Lawrence, referred to below. 2. Maria Louisa, born No- vember 17, 1814; died in May, 1892; married, January 6, 1836, Ziba H. Kitchen, born March 15, 1812, died February 24, 1893; five chil-
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dren. 3. Lydia Lavinia, born February 23, 1821; died unmarried, March 28, 1858. 4. Susanna, born March 18, 1823; died March 28, following. 5. Gilbert Brown, born April 28, 1824; died January 20, 1829. 6. Francis, born February 18, 1839; died March 18, 1839.
(VIII) Marcus Lawrence, eldest child of Moses and Fanny (Brown) Ward, was born in Newark, New Jersey, November 9, 1812, and died in that city, April 25, 1884. He ranks alongside and in some ways even overshadows his great ancestor, Sergeant John Ward. In his early life he entered into trade in connec- tion with his father, and soon became con- nected with the financial institutions and public enterprises of his native city. His wise coun- sel, prudent judgment and unswerving integ- rity, have all been felt in their management and success, and through the experience thus obtained Marcus Lawrence Ward gained that confidence which he retained to the close of his life, despite the passage of years, the virulence of party warfare, and through the severest test of all-that of public position and admin- istrative responsibility. His political associa- tions were with the Whig party, but he was among the earliest to recognize the necessity of a stronger organization if the growing domination of the south was to be curbed. He was one of the supporters of Fremont and Dayton in the presidential campaign of 1856, but his attention was not seriously drawn to political subjects until the summer of 1858. In that year the exciting contest between the aboli- tionists and the slave-holders called him to Kansas, and while there he fully saw and ap- preciated the importance of the struggle going on in that territory. During his stay in Kansas he gave his prudent counsels and generous contributions to the Free State party, and on his return to New Jersey he engaged enthusi- astically in the work of rousing public atten- tion to the impending issues. At a time when party spirit was thoroughly aroused and when constant misrepresentations were confusing the public mind, his clear and unanswerable statements of fact were received with the confi- dence which his character always inspired. He was deeply interested in the political con- test of the ensuing autumn, and none more than he rejoiced over the result in New Jersey which secured a United States senator and an unbroken delegation in the house of representa- tives pledged against the Lecompton constitu- tion for Kansas.
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