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	Artemas Ward - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Artemas Ward (November 26, 1727 – October 28, 1800) was an American Major General in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts.
		Artemas was born at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, in 1727 to Nahun (1684-1754) and Martha Ward.
		Ward was the Speaker of the Massachusetts House in 1785.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Artemas_Ward (981 words)

	4Reference \|\| Artemas Ward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Artemas Ward (November 26, 1727-October 28, 1800) was an American Major General in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts.
		Artemas was elected a justice of the peace in 1752 and also served the first of his many terms in the colonies assembly, or general court.
		Ward himself was sidelined during the battle by an attack of the stone.
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	Artemas Ward - Wikipedia
		Artemas Ward besuchte die Grundschule und teilte sich mit seinen Geschwistern einen Privatlehrer.
		Ward selbst erlitt einen Streifschuss während der Schlacht bei einem Angriff auf den Felsen.
		Artemas Ward starb in seinem Haus in Shrewsbury in Massachusetts und ist mit seiner Frau Sarah auf dem Mountain View Friedhof beigesetzt.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Artemas_Ward (887 words)

	Artemas Ward Online Research :: Information about Artemas Ward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Artemas was born at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, in 1727 to Nahun (1684 - 1754) and Martha Ward.
		Artemas was elected a justice of the peace in 1752 and also served the first of his many terms in the Massachusetts Bay Colony assembly, or "general court."
		In 1755 the militia was restructured for the war, and Artemas Ward was made a Major in the 3rd Regiment which mainly came from Worcester County, Massachusetts.
	in-northcarolina.com /search/Artemas_Ward.html (997 words)

	Harvard Gazette: This old house
		Ward, a 1748 Harvard graduate, was a prosperous farmer, local judge, and provincial legislator; on Feb. 9, 1775, he had been reappointed second-in-command of the Colonial militia.
		She found that one Ward descendant brought a mummified body from a Native burial cave in Kentucky and exhibited it for the public; in contrast, deceased Ward family members were honored with an imposing monument in the Shrewsbury cemetery.
		The name was "Nahum," Artemas Ward's father, a biblical name that to Kertész indicates how the Ward family thought of themselves: as pioneers in a Promised Land, rather than as invaders in a land already settled by Native Americans.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/05.22/13-ward.html (2146 words)

	Beneath Old Roof Trees
		Artemas Ward, famous as scholar, soldier, and jurist, was born in Shrewsbury, Worcester County, in 1727.
		Colonel Ward was one of this committee, and of the Committee of Safety raised to regulate the militia.
		The Provincial Congress selected Artemas Ward as one of the general officers; and it was doubtless through his advice that Worcester, so near his home, was selected as one of the places for the deposit of the materials for an army.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ma/state/roof/chapter21.html (3096 words)

	Headquarters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Artemas Ward, A.B. '51, lay ill in bed on April 19, 1775, as embattled farmers fired the shot heard round the world.
		Active in both colonial and state government, Ward was a chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas and speaker of the state house of representatives.
		Ward's yellow, one-horse shay, now very rare, is in the barn (a huge structure built in 1848 and a model of progressive agriculture).
	www.harvard-magazine.com /on-line/070318.html (289 words)

	ARTEMASWARD
		Ward, Artemas (1727-1800) General: Ward graduated from Harvard College in 1748 and began a political career in provincial and local government.
		For the first few months of the conflict, Ward was the de facto leader of the army laying siege to Boston.
		After he retired from military life, Ward continued to be active in state and federal politics.
	www.multied.com /Bio/RevoltBIOS/WardArtemas.html (132 words)

	Artemas Ward -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Artemas was born at (Click link for more info and facts about Shrewsbury, Massachusetts) Shrewsbury, Massachusetts in 1727 to Nahun (1684-1754) and Martha Ward.
		In 1755 the militia was restructured for the war, and Artemas Ward was made a Major in the 3rd Regiment which mainly came from (Click link for more info and facts about Worcester County) Worcester County.
		At first Ward directed his forces from his sickbed, but later moved his headquarters to (A city in eastern England on the River Cam; site of Cambridge University) Cambridge.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ar/artemas_ward.htm (1257 words)

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		General Ward was ill in bed when the express rider reached Shrewsbury with news of the clash with the British troops, but the next morning at daybreak he was on his way to join the militiamen who had driven the redcoats back to Boston and encamped around the town.
		Ward was considered overlenient to offenders, and it was charged that he held the reins too loosely.
		Thus was the Siege of Boston maintained under Ward until the arrival on July 2 of George Washington of Virginia, elected Commander-in-Chief by the Continental Congress in the well-founded hope of uniting the colonies in a common cause against the English government.
	www3.bc.sympatico.ca /robertkline/gen-ward.html (1874 words)

	WARD, Artemas D. (photo) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Artemus Draper Ward was born on 20 December 1837 in Warwick, Franklin Co., MA, the son of Sylvanus and Anna (Draper) Ward.
		In The William Ward Genealogy, The history of the descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass., 1638-1925, by Charles Martyn, on p.
		ARTEMAS DRAPER WARD,8 born December 20, 1837, in Warwick, Mass., died December 22, 1914, in West Brookfield, Mass.
	www.nextech.de /ma15mvi/biogrphy/wardartd.htm (313 words)

	Ward Genealogy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ward maintained the buoyant enthusiasm that is characteristic of him, the same unswerving adherence to his plans, and the same kindly courtesy for all those engaged upon them.
		Ward heard the full story of the massacre of the Pequot Indians and the practical extermination of the tribe, of the turmoil that had preceded Anne Hutchinson's expulsion, and of the great earthquake; and listened to debates on the prospects of the new separate colony of Connecticut.
		The Wards and their friends constituted the party in power, but the opposing clique were numerous and bitterly dissatisfied, declaring themselves a majority both of residents and of proprietors, and in "gravity" able to "ballance or overballance" their opponents.
	members.nuvox.net /~zt.jprell/ward_genealogy.htm (19250 words)

	Ward Family in the American Revolutionary War
		Born abt 1761 in Morris Co., NJ, a son of Joseph Ward and Phebe Parkhurst.
		Asa was b 17 feb 1747/48 in Worcester, Ma., a son of Daniel Ward and Mary Stone.
		Daniel Ward was born 8 Sep 1758 in Essex Co., NJ, a son of Joseph Ward and Phebe Parkhurst.
	www.geocities.com /~rewoodham/wardrwar.html (2612 words)

	Ward Circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ward Circle is a traffic circle at the intersection of Nebraska Avenue and Massachusetts Avenue in Northwest Washington, District of Columbia.
		The land on three sides of Ward Circle is owned by American University.
		The circle contains a statue of Artemas Ward.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ward_Circle (77 words)

	Roster and Genealogies of the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry: 1861 - 1864 - Person Page 45
		Artemas Draper Ward was born on 20 Dec 1837 at Warwick, Franklin County, Massachusetts, son of Sylvanus Ward and Anna Draper.
		Artemas Draper Ward and William L. Blood were enumerated in the 1860 US Federal census on 18 Jun 1860 at Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts, These two future members of the 15th Massachusetts live in the same boarding house of one "Richard Litchfield", hotel keeper, and work as shoemakers.
		On 15 Dec 1867 Artemas Draper Ward, 29, married Susan Elizabeth Cushman, 38, (daughter of Apollos and Susannah (Ripley) Cushman, and widow of Danforth Boyd of Oakham.
	www.nextech.de /ma15mvi/ma15mvi-p/p45.htm (5075 words)

	Continental Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The former were Artemas Ward, Charles Lee, Philip Schuyler, and Israel Putnam; the latter were Seth Pomeroy, Richard Montgomery, David Wooster, William Heath, Joseph Spencer, John Thomas, John Sullivan, and Nathanael Greene.
		General Ward was the chief, and John Thomas was his lieutenant.
		Richard Gridley was commissioned to command an artillery corps and to be chief engineer, and was assisted by Henry Knox, who had commanded an artillery company in Boston.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Continental_Army (555 words)

	Town of Auburn
		These areas were incorporated as the town of Ward on April 10, 1778.
		It was so named to honor Major General Artemas Ward, the commander of colonial forces in Cambridge until Washington arrived.
		Ward became a center for mail distribution in 1825, but because of a similarity in spelling and writing "Ward" and "Ware", difficulty in mail delivery resulted.
	www.auburnguide.com /template2.pl?id=9,2,1 (243 words)

	Ward-Spittler-Metz-Lyon Family Heritage Center: Ward Family Narrative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		WARD who was born about 1506 in Curlew, England who married Elizabeth ASHBY (1508-?) from Quenby, England.
		Edward and Maria HATTON WARD, was born in Warrington, England in 1603 and is the great-grandfather of Artemas WARD the first Commander-in-Chief of the American Revolution.
		There are many land sales recorded in the county by the above Ward family members from 1820 to 1849 and many members of the Ward family are buried in Christ Church Episcopal Cemetery there.
	members.aol.com /sbmerk/family/wardnarrative.html (755 words)

	Artemas Ward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Artemas Ward on the bill to authorise the President of the United States to call upon the several sta...
		Speech of the Honourable Artemas Ward,: Delivered in the House of representatives of the United States, on the fifth day...
		Ward of Massachusetts: February 9, 1816, read, and ordered to lie upon the table
	dictionaries.cc /Artemas_Ward (75 words)

	Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
		During the brief period that General Artemas Ward was in command, he and his fellow leaders made a drastic impact on the immediate course of events of the Revolution by shifting the attitudes, motivations, and mindsets of the New Englanders in military service.
		Men, who on April 20, 1776, rushed to defend their hometowns, had by July 2, when George Washington took command of the troops, become part of an American army that was engaged in a war with the British in defense of the life, liberty, and properties not just of their townsmen, but of all Americans.
		The Wards are a unique and provocative case study in the uses of historical memory.
	www.americanantiquarian.org /proceedings.htm (3292 words)

	The Patriot Resource: Charles Lee
		He now believed that he would be named the First Major General of the Continental Army, second only to Washington, but he had to settle for second Major General on June 19, 1775 behind Artemas Ward.
		Artemas Ward had been in command of the Siege of Boston and during the Battle of Bunker Hill.
		The rank was largely ceremonial, because of Ward's delicate health and lack of ambition for greater command.
	www.patriotresource.com /people/leechas/page1.html (568 words)

	June 1775
		By this time, the Continental Congress had met in Philadelphia and resolved to appoint a general to command all continental forces "for the defense of American liberty." George Washington, nominated by Thomas Jefferson and supported by John Adams, thus assumed command of the Continental Army on June 15, 1775.
		Under him were Major General Artemas Ward of Massachusetts and Charles Lee of Virginia.
		Despite Ward’s orders, General Putnam realized the need to fortify Breed’s Hill, closer to Boston Harbor, and so left a detachment to prepare the fortifications at Bunker Hill while he and his chief engineer supervised the digging of trenches and building of walls on Breed’s Hill.
	www.ctssar.org /monthly_history/y1775june.htm (665 words)

	Ward, Artemas -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Until the arrival of George Washington, Gen. Artemas Ward served as chief commander at the 1775 siege of Boston during the American Revolution.
		Ward was born on Nov. 26, 1727, in Shrewsbury, Mass., a city that his father, Nahum Ward, helped found.
		Humphry Ward created a sensation with her best-known work, Robert Elsmere, which advocated a Christianity based on social concern rather than theology.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9339860 (652 words)

	Encyclopedia: Artemas Ward
		November 26 is the 330th day (331st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar.
		The fort controlled both commonly used trade routes between the English-controlled Hudson...
		A number of places and things are named for this battle, see: Bunker Hill (disambiguation).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Artemas-Ward (2407 words)

	Ward
		The pond to the right is located behind the restaurant which is on Rt 20, the Marlborough treatment plant would be to the left of this picture.
		Two of the Ward family lost their lives during those forty-eight hours.
		Eleazer Ward was probably in Sudbury--he had during the previous spring married Hannah Rice to that township and had taken up his residence there.
	ancestor.homestead.com /Ward.html (349 words)

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		The following excerpt from "The William Ward Genealogy" by Martyn, copywritten by Artemus Ward in 1925 is for personal use only and not to be sold or reposted in it's entirety.
		None of his descendants appear in "The William Ward Genealogy" and he is only mentioned briefly in a footnote of his father.
		Ward's first legislative duty was on a committee appointed June 7 to examine a revision of the colonial laws submitted by ex-Governor Bellingham "and returne theire objections & thaughts thereof to this howse in wrighteinge."
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Prairie/1662/wwbook.html (17969 words)

	Pane-Joyce Genealogy
		Martha married Nahum Ward (8345), son of William Ward (2297) (22 Jan 1648-25 Nov 1697) and Hannah Brigham (9 Mar 1650-8 Dec 1719).
		The division of the property was followed by a petition to the General Court for land contiguous to and surrounding both the Haynes and other privately owned tracts for the formation of a new township.
		"The original double headstone of Nahum and Martha Ward is embedded in the east face of the west pier of the General Ward memorial Entrance to the Shrewsbury Cemetery."
	aleph0.clarku.edu /~djoyce/gen/report/rr08/rr08_462.html (504 words)

	ROBERT KLINE'S GENEALOGY PAGE
		This is a History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, MA, 1638-1925 by Charles Martyn, 1925, published by Artemas Ward.
		Here is the first sixty or so pages from THE WILLIAM WARD GENEALOGY It details the emigration from England and life in New England in the 17th century.
		Perhaps the most famous descendant of William Ward was General Artemas Ward, often referred to as the first Commander-in-Chief of the American Revolution.
	www3.bc.sympatico.ca /robertkline (885 words)

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	Kimball, Ward -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		July 8, 2002, Arcadia, Calif.), was among the “Nine Old Men” who made Walt Disney Studios the leader of film cartoons by drawing or directing the animation of classic features and shorts (including Dumbo, Fantasia, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, and The Three Caballeros) and creating television shows for Disney for 39 years.
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		As the 12th “prophet, seer, and revelator” of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons, Kimball instituted such momentous changes as allowing fls to hold the Mormon priesthood, retiring elderly church leaders, and adding the first non-Americans to the modern church hierarchy.
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