Gov. Richard WARD

1689 - 1763  (74 years)

• Name	Richard WARD  [1]
  	He was of Newport; Freeman, 1710; Attorney General, 1712; Deputy ad Clerk of the Assembly, 1714; Recorder or Secretary of the colony, 1714-1733; one of the four commissioners appointed Jan. 10, 1725/6, to settle the boundary between the Colonies of Rhode Island and Connecticut; Deputy Governor, 1740-3. (The Ward family of R.I., p. 16; Vital Rec. of R.I., 4, Newport, p. 74; Austin; Savage, 4, pp. 412,414) In 1716, he and the Governor were appointed by the General Assembly "to revise the whole body of laws relating to the militia". In 1728, he was one of a Committee of four to revise the laws of the Colony "in order to be printed." In 1731, he and Col. Updike were chosen to prepare for the press "all the general laws of this colony." On Jan. 9, 1741, while Governor, he wrote in response to an inquiry by the British Board of Trade for the Foreign Plantations, a carefully prepared and exhaustive report on the emission of paper currency by the Colony of Rhode Island. (R.I. Col. rec., 5, pp. 8-14.) [1]
  Prefix	Gov.
  Birth	15 Apr 1689  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	21 Aug 1763  [1]
  Person ID	I83306	Main Tree
  Last Modified	1 Oct 2018

  
  

  Father	Thomas WARD,   b. 1641, England d. 25 Sep 1689 (Age 48 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Amy BILLINGS,   b. 20 Oct 1658
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F33835	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary TILLINGHAST,   b. Abt 1689   d. 19 Oct 1767, Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island (Age 78 years)
  Children	1. Amey WARD,   b. 21 Jul 1717, Newport, Rhode Island d. 17 Jan 1792, Newport, Rhode Island (Age 74 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F34056	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Aug 2020

  
  

• Sources

  [S3597] Ernest Flagg, "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking.