Gov. Richard WARD

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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.)

Family/Spouse: Mary TILLINGHAST. Mary (daughter of John TILLINGHAST and Isabel SAYLES) was born about 1689; died on 19 Oct 1767 in Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Richard Ward and Mary Tillinghast

Amey married Samuel VERNON on 29 Dec 1736 in Newport, Rhode island. Samuel (son of Hon. Samuel VERNON, Esq. and Elizabeth FLEET) was born on 6 Sep 1711 in Newport, Rhode Island; died on 6 Jul 1792. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]