WARD AND ALLIED FAMILIES A GENEALOGICAL STUDY WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Prep,ueJ anJ Privately Printed for MARJORIE MONTGOMERY WARD BY THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Inc. NEW YORK 1930 To the Memory of A. Montgomery VV ard Pioneer Merchant of Chica.go and Origina.tor of th.e Ma.ii Order Business-A Citizen of Ra.re PuLlic Spirit, Who Left His Finest Monument in the Preservation of Chicago's Lake Front for Public P a.rk Uses and His Wife Mrso Elizaheth Cohh Ward Whose Philanthropies, Particularly in the Cause of Education, Were Notable No Less for Their Vision and Wise Planning Than for Their Vast Proportions This Volume is Dedicated in Loving Devotion 1._ u~ Marjorie Montgomery Ward Contents PAGE vVard • • • . • . 7 Cobb • . • 51 Squier . 103 Bonnell • . 113 1~0.,_ '~l;t .U.J..LJ. I. • . • . 125 Bicknell • . • . 131 Stone • . 147 Whipple • • . • . • 161 Taylor • . • • 167 Hinckley • . • . 175 \¥ARD ARMS Ar1ns-Azure, a cross between four eagles displayed argent. Crest-On a mount v~rt a hind couchant argent. (Crozier: "General Armory." Burke: "General Armory.") Motto-Sub cr-uce salus. (Fairbairn: ''Crests.") 7 ~~~::.-;.--~=::..-.,- HE Ward family has an ancient and honorable English history. The origin of the name goes back to the days of the Vikings, \vho made themselYes masters, not only of the seas, but also of much of Europe. When William the Conqueror came over into England, he had Wards among the lists of his "noble captains," and there were others of the name among the descendants of the old sea kings \vho fought against him at Hastings. In the year I I 73 a \Villiam de la Warde lived at Chester, England, and from that time on, his family and descendants increased in importance and wealth until severai generations later, when William Ward, of Dudley Castle, was created the first Earl of Derby. The \Vard family spread throughout various counties of England, and finally was brought to America. Since the planting of the family on ~American soil the Ward name has reached out to practically every State of the lJnion, and in reviewing the annals of Amer­ ican history, we find many of the name to have won places of high distinction and honor in both State and national, as well as civic, affairs. Several of the name were earlv,_. settlers in America, and while not connected with the Ne\v Jersey family still have borne with honor the name which held so high a place in the home land. Of these was Andrew Warde, according to Som­ erby and other experienced genealogists, who was a grandson of Richard Ward, of Homersfield, County Suffolk, England, who was of a branch of the Gorleston Wards. Andrew Warde was at Watertown, Massachusetts, made freeman, May 14, 1634, and removed to Wethersfield, Connecticut, in 1635. In 1641 he removed to Stamford, Connecticut, vvhere, with Robert Coe he bought, in 1640, the land in what is now Stamford, for a colony from Wethersfield. When, in 1643, the 9 WARD Rev. Richard Denton removed to Hempstead, Long Island, Andrew Warde fol­ lowed him, and remained there until about I 6 50. Then he settled in Fairfield, Connecticut, ,vhere he died in 1659. Edmund Ward, his son, settled at East­ chester, in Westchester County, New York. (Ward: "Andre,v Warde and His Descendants," pp. 7-8, 12. Bolton: "History of the County of Westchester, New York," Vol. \ 7, p. 254.) The family of our particular interest has been long resident in Morris County, Ne,v Jersey, and records of their members are to be found in both the Congregational Church at l\1adison, New Jersey, and in the records of the First Presbyterian Chi.1rch of Chatham situated at Bottle Hill, now Madison, New Jer­ sey. The First Presbyterian Church of Chatham changed its name to the First Presbyterian Church in lVIadison ia 1845 ("Centennial of the Village Church in Chatham," 1923, p. 17). So intimately is the family connected with this locality and so closely allied to its church life that some of the history of both locality and institution is of enlightening interest herewith: Chatham in the early part of the last century was a rather large place. The to,vnship had in it: Bottle Hill, Hickory Tree, Genungto,vn, Bonneltovln, Chatham Village, Union Hill, and other settlements. The village church in Chatha~ was organized in 1823, but before that the inhabitants attended church at Bottle Hill. There the church was estab­ lished in 1747 as the Church of South Hanover, this region being in territory known as Hanover at that time. The parent church was at Whippany in Hanover bounds, established in 17r8, ;ind this was the first church west of Newark and Elizabethto,vn. l\1orris Tow71ship was set off from Hanover in 1798, and Chatham Township was formed from parts of Morris and Hanover to-vvnships in 1806. By Act of Legisla­ ture, Sessions of 1817-18, the name of the First Presbyterian Congre­ gation of Chatham was given to the Bottle Hi11 Church. So in 1823 when the village church in Chatham was organized, the name was taken to distinguish it. ("Centennial of the Village Church in Chatham, New Jersey," 1923, p. 17.) 11 WARD In the year 1713 the to\vnship of Hanover ceased to be a part of Burlington County through the setting off of the county of Hunterdon, and for the next t\venty-two years the territory in and about Whip­ panoug (Whippany) was a to,\rnship in that county. ( Chas. A. Philho\ver: "Brief History of Chatham, 1{orris County, N e,v Jersey," I 914, published by the Levvis Historical Publishing Co.) On the lviinutes of the Session of Bottle Hill Church; under date of _A..ugust 17, 1795~ is this item: The Clerk reported that according to the direction of the Session he had called upon the former Clerk for the Church Records \vhich ,vere left in his hands and was informed that by some means or other they \Vere lost or destroyed and that no Records previous to the appointment of the present Clerk can be obtained. ( Original Records of :Wiadison, N e,v Jersey, Presbyterian Church, seen in January, 1928.) Israel, Thomas and David Ward were among the first settlers of Bottle Hill, ,vhich ,vas settled about 1740, or shortly after, according to Mr. Tuttle's ''History of the 11adison Church," published in 1855. It is evident that the Thomas here referred to is the Thomas Warde \vho died there, April 10, 1752, in his thirty-seventh year, and \vhose tombstone is still standing in 1928. It is also evident that the David here mentioned is that David, Jr., son of David, who according to the latter's \vill, in r 764, had a plantation in l\forris County. It is also probable that the Israel to ,vhom reference is made, is Captain Israel Ward, who O\vned land adjoining that of David just mentioned. Concerning the ancestry of these three early pioneers, this information has been gleaned from the authorities cited: Thomas \f\Tarde, as the name is found on his tombstone, ,vas doubtless the oldest of the three Bottle Hill pioneers. Owing largely, probably, to the loss of the early church records of Bottle Hill, nothing is certainly kno\vn of him more than is found on his tombstone, which stands next to that of Samuel Lum, and which reads: "Here lyes ye Body of Thomas Warde, Deed April ye roth 1752 in ye 37th year of his age." No stone of any other Warde ( or Ward) is very near, but it is noteworthy that only two 13 WARD stones, closely set, separate that of Thomas Warde from the stones erected to the memory of Captain Nathaniel Bonnel and his wife Joanna, whose daughter mar­ ried Captain Israel Ward; the said two stones being those of Samuel Lum and Benjamin Bonnel. This is probably a coincidence, for it seems a most reasonable supposition, though positive proof is lacking, that he was the son Thomas named in the will of Caleb Ward, of Ne,vark, New Jersey, dated December 31, 1735, proved April 14, 1736, and whose ancestry is traceable, and \vho is not of our line. (New Jersey _i\.rchives, 1st series, Vol. XXX, p. 5 I 2.) The administratrix of the estate of Thomas Ward, "late of Morris County, deceased," was Susanna Ward, his ''\vidow and Relix." Gideon Hedges signed her administration bond, both he and Susanna being of Morris County, May 26, 1752. The inventory of the estate \Vas taken June 1, 1752, by William Dixon and David Young. Information is lacking regarding any chiidren that Thomas and his wife Susanna may have had. While it is noted that Thomas \Vard was about twenty­ two years of age when Captain Israel Ward was born~ and died when Captain Israel was about fifteen ·years of age; yet there is no evidence of any near rela­ tionship between Thomas and Israel. Even the spelling of the names on the tombstones is different (Warde and Ward). The probable ancestry of Israel is given elsewhere. Records of the Madison Presbyterian Church show the mention of the fol­ lowing members of the Ward family. On the records at the Madison, New Jer­ sey, Presbyterian Church, prior to 1803, appears: Among the Assessors, Col­ lectors and Trustees of the church were: David Ward, 1768; Enos Ward, 1771; David Ward, Jr., 1780; Silas Ward, 18o3. Phebe Ward1 one of the original members of the Bottle Hill Church, was born in 1731, and married Thomas Genung in 1748. (This item is not found in the church records, but is obtained from another source by the compiler of the Genung-Ganong Genealogy.) ("Genung-Ganong Genealogy," 19o6, p.