Peter WARD

Peter married Deborah BUELL on 13 Apr 1733 in Killingworth, Connecticut. Deborah (daughter of Benjamin BUELL and Hannah HUTCHINSON) was born on 16 Feb 1715 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; died on 07 May 1750 in Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Hannah ISBELL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jairus HANDY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: ? POST. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Moses ALLEN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"In the year 1807 Deacon Levi Ward accompanied his sons, John and levi, Jr., M.D., with a few neighbors to Western New York, then called 'Genesee Woods,' purposing to share with them the privations of pioneer life. These brave hearted and truly Christian men carried with them, as they left New England, their ancestral, heroic, puritan piety, of which they were never for an hour ashamed. When stopping for the night at a tavern or farm house they would, with permission cheerfully given, spend an evening hour in singing sacred songs, the sound of their voices calling together settlers by the score. 'Deacon Ward,' the title he ever bore, would then give a brief, earnest, practical exhortation, when all would bow in social worship. It was a strange event to many of these emigrants, who, alas, had in too many instances practically forgotten the religious usages of early life. Reaching their place of destination, the father and sons purchased adjoining lands, reclaimed them from native wildness, and secured homes of comfort, if not of luxury, for themselves and their families. The father was less in public life than were the sons, but, without an hour's abatement, held a large place in the reverence and affection of all who were favored with his acquaintance and friendship," --From Biographical Sketch by Rev. F.DeW. Ward D.D.
The following excerpt from a Bergen, Genesee county, newspaper sufficiently indicates the esteem in which he was held by the community; "Died at Bergen, Deacon Levi Ward, aged 92 years, 10 months and 22 days. Three children, twenty-three grandchildren and sixty-five grand children survive him; twenty-two grandchildren and great-grandchildren had preceded him to the grave; making the whole number of his descendants, at the time of his death, one hundred and thirteen. He had survived his own and a large part of the succeeding generation of his friends and neighbors. As a citizen, a friend, a husband and a parent he had performed his public and social duties with integrity, fidelity and faithfulness. His death was calm, peaceful and triumphant, an appropriate close to such a life."

Levi married Mary MEIGS on 08 Jun 1762 in Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut. Mary (daughter of Josiah MEIGS and Mary HAND) was born on 08 Jan 1736/7 in Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut; died on 06 Nov 1806 in Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jemima HUBBARD. Jemima was born in 1754; died on 4 Oct 1846. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ambrose married Lois MEIGS on 02 Jan 1771 in Killingsworth, Middlesex County,Connecticut. Lois (daughter of Josiah MEIGS and Mary HAND) was born on 28 Aug 1743 in Guilford, New Haven County,Connecticut; died on 26 Apr 1825 in Killingsworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ichabod married Lydia TOWNER on 21 Jan 1781. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]