Esther/Hester WARD

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• Birth: 1658

Esther/Hester married Ebenezer HAWLEY on 19 Apr 1678. Ebenezer (son of Joseph HAWLEY and Catherine BIRDSEY) was born on 17 Sep 1654 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 03 Oct 1681 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth HAWLEY was born on 06 May 1679; died on 18 Aug 1753.

Esther/Hester married Ephraim NICHOLS on 17 Oct 1682. Ephraim (son of Isaac NICHOLS and Margery ?) was born on 15 Dec 1657 in Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died in 1690. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ignatius NICHOLS was born on 17 Dec 1683 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 17 Dec 1758.
2. Deborah NICHOLS was born on 01 Jan 1685 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 14 Sep 1748 in Greenfield, Connecticut.
3. Esther NICHOLS was born on 18 Dec 1689 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

Esther/Hester married Eliphalet HILL on 16 Nov 1691. Eliphalet (son of William HILL and Elizabeth JONES) died in Jan 1695/6. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William HILL was born on 17 Nov 1692 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 25 Apr 1775.

Esther/Hester married Robert LORD on 20 Jan 1696. Robert was born on 16 Aug 1651 in Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut; died in 1739 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ebenezer LORD was born about 1705 in Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died in 1750.

Notes:

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William Ward was appointed by Gen. Court of Conn. as Surgeon, to accompany Fairfield Co. troops in expedition against the Narragansetts. He lost his life in the attack on the Indian fort, in the "Great Swamp fight." He purchased the Perry house and home lot of Dr. Thomas Pell's heirs on Newton Sq.
He was made freeman on may 31, 1657. According to page 10 of the Fairfield Prob. Rec. of that period, on Mar. 4, 1675/6, an inventory was made of the estate of Ensign William Ward. An ensign was a commissioned officer, holding his power from the Government and Legislature.

William married Deborah LOCKWOOD about 1657. Deborah (daughter of Robert LOCKWOOD and Susannah NORMAN) was born on 12 Oct 1636/7 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]