Ancestry of
Julia (Ward) Howe

Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”

Richard Ward

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Julia (Ward) Howe — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Ward 
  • Mother:
  • Amey Billings   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Apr 1689 
  • Birth Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Aug 1763 
  • Death Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Tillinghast
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Nov 1709 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Ward

  Samuel Ward (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  • Notes: 

  • Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

• Sources for Richard Ward

  • ¹ Lineages of Members of the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims, Vol. III, p. 324, Image 336 of 1047.
  • ² NEHGS NEXUS: New England Across the United States, 1996, Vol. 13, p. 25.
  • ³ Flagg, Norman Gershom and Lucius C. S. Flagg, Family Records of the Descendants of Gershom Flagg (Born 1730) of Lancaster, Massachusetts . . ., Quincy, Illinois: Cadogan-Hatcher Mfg. Co., Printers and Binders (1907), 134.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 215.
  • ⁵ Tillinghast, Rose C., The Tillinghast Family 1560-1971, Unknown: Unknown (1972), 13.
  • ⁶ Wikipedia, "Richard Ward (governor)", (accessed 12/02/2014).