Ward Family; Descendants of William Ward: Who Settled in Sudbury, Mass., in 1639

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S. G. Drake, 1851 - 265 páginas
 

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Página vi - God having given us some considerable quantity of cattle so that wee are so straightened that wee cannot so comfortably subsist as could be desired; and some, of us having taken some pains to view the country, wee have found a place which lyeth westward about eight miles from Sudbury, which wee conceive might be comfortable for our subsistence.
Página vi - That whereas your Petitioners have lived divers years in Sudbury. and God hath been pleased to increase our children, which are now divers of them grown to man's estate: and wee, many of us grown into years, so that wee should bee glad to see them settled before the Lord take us away from hence...
Página 41 - TWICE honored. 1768, chosen one of the Executive Council, and by the Royal Governor, and for the same reason, negatived and deprived of a seat at that Board. 1775, appointed to the command of the army at Cambridge, and, by the Continental Congress, First Major General in the army of the Revolution.
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