John WARD
HUSBAND:
[F12828]. (Captain) John WARD.
He was a Captain. An early immigrant. He was in Virginia by 1616. A census taken March-May 1619 enumerated twenty-six men and no women or children on “Captayne Wardes Plantation.” Records show he arrived in Virginia on the Sampson on 22 April 1619 and left the next month to fish as far north as Maine.
John Ward was in the Virginia General Assembly
John Ward’s wife, Grace, also an immigrant, died and John married Elizabeth (—) Boates, the widow of George Boates. As John Warde, he represented Wardes Plantation in Virginia’s first General Assembly (1619). They first refused to recognize him as a member because he had settled on Company land without the approval of the treasurer of the Virginia Company. The other burgesses reconsidered the matter in Ward’s absence. They acknowledged that Ward had made contributions to the Colony and agreed to seat him if he would go through the proper channels of approval before the next Assembly.
When William Hatcher [F3206] secured a patent for land in Henrico County on 1 June 1636 they described the property as “neare land of Elizabeth Ward, Widdowe”. So John Ward had died prior to June 1636. Elizabeth apparently remained a widow only briefly for when James Place patented land the same day she was Mrs. James Place.
WIFE (1):
Grace.
WIFE (2):
Elizabeth.
She married (1) George Boates. She married (2) John WARD [F6414]. He died before 1636. She married (3) James PLACE.
CHILDREN of John WARD [F6414]:
- [F6414]. Seth WARD.
SOURCES:
- [S1]. Ancestors of John Pritchett. http://www.virginians.com/redirect.htm?topics&3540
- [S2]. Magazine of Virginia Genealogy. Vol. 33:160-162.