Obadiah WARD

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Son of Richard Ward and Mary Moores

Notes:

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He erected a mill on his farm in Worcester where, a few years since, were the "red mills," so called. he d. at Worcester, Dc. 17, 1717, aged 55. His will bears date the day of his death, and apparently was made in haste. Of his children, only the two eldest are named in the will; he left them legacies, and gave the residue of his estate to wife, Joanna, to be disposed of among his other children at her discretion. She and her son, Issac, were residing in Framingham, 1725, at which time she remained his widow.

Obadiah married Hannah HARRINGTON on 20 Dec 1693 in Watertown, Massachusetts. Hannah died after 1725. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Hannah WARD was born in 1696 in Sudbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 24 Feb 1760 in Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
2. Maj. Daniel WARD was born in 1700 in Massachusetts; died on 21 May 1777.