Notes |
- Here is his excellent biography on Wikitree in 2022 provided by April Dauenhauer:
"Samuel Ward, son of Rev. John and Susan (Unknown) Ward, was born about 1577 [estimated from a portrait of him in 1620 representing him to be 43 years old].[1] He was probably at Haverhill, Suffolk, England where his father was minister.[1]
Scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge.
1604: Vacated his fellowship to marry in 1604 Deborah Bolton of Isleham, Cambridgeshire, a widow.
1607: B.D.
Lecturer at Haverhill.
Removed to Ipswich by 1604 (Says of himself on Dec 19, 1634, that he was preacher for the town of Ipswich for over thirty years).
1620: His pension was 100 pounds annually by 1620.
1622: Removed from prosecution to resume preaching.
1622-05-31: Pardoned by the king.
1623-08-06: Inhibited from preaching by a letter from the king.
Imprisoned by Archbishop Laud of Canterbury for about two years.
Family
Samuel and Deborah Ward were the parents of three sons and a daughter:[2]
Samuel Ward, s.p.
Nathaniel Ward, Dr. of Divinity, Rector of Stapleford in Essex, England
Joseph Ward, Rector of Badingham, Suffolk, England
Deborah Ward, married to Richard Goltie, Rector of Framlingham, Suffolk, England
Deborah (unknown) (Bolton) Ward, widow of Samuel Ward, was buried 22 Oct 1652 at Badingham, Suffolk, England, according to the entry in the parish records.[2]
Debora Boulton; Leech(/Leeth); Dg of Leech relict of __ Bolton.
Sources
A memoir of the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, A.M., author of The simple cobbler of Agawam in America, by John Ward Dean, (Albany, J. Munsell, 1868), reproduced at Internet Archive.org, Appendix of family genealogy from work by Matthias Candler, M.A. from Cambridge, a Puritan and vicar of Coddenham in Suffolk in 1629. [Candler had a personal acquaintance with Samuel Ward and his brother Nathaniel, both Puritan ministers.]
M.M. Knappen and John Cowart, eds, Seeking A Settled Heart_The 16th Century Diary of Puritan Richard Rogers (2007), page 42
Wikisource (Samuel Ward 1577-1640). [1] [3]
Wikipedia (Samuel Ward minister). [2] [4]
See John Carter, Pastor of Bramford and Belstead, Suffolk.
‘ 1.0 1.1 A memoir of the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, A.M., author of The simple cobbler of Agawam in America, by John Ward Dean (1868), page 135
‘ 2.0 2.1 A memoir of the Rev. Nathaniel Ward, A.M., author of The simple cobbler of Agawam in America, by John Ward Dean, (1868), page 124-126
‘ Wikisource (Samuel Ward 1577-1640)
‘ Wikipedia (Samuel Ward minister)."
|