Samuel Ward (1641-1729)

Samuel Ward, born Sept. 24, 1641, died 1729.
Married Sarah Howe on June 6, 1667.
Sarah born Sept. 25, 1644, died 1729.
Children included Joseph, born 1760.

Samuel Ward was Captain of the Marlborough (Mass.) Military Company, 1679-80 and represented that town in the General Court the same year. See Savage's Genealogical Dictionary Vol. IV p. 413. In Bodge's History of King Philip's War, p. 210, he speaks of him as being assigned as one of the garrison of his father's (William Ward) house named as one of the places to be defended Oct. 1, 1675. For line of descent see History of the Ward Family 1851 and the Descendants of Thomas Joy, p. 91.