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Family: Deacon Nehemiah Ward / Sarah Whitney (F610)

• Male Deacon Nehemiah Ward

  
  

  Birth	19 May 1751	Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Death	18 Jan 1831	Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Burial
  Marriage	4 Oct 1773  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]	Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
  Father	Timothy Ward | F608 Group Sheet
  Mother	Margaret Woodward | F608 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Sarah Whitney

  
  

  Birth	26 Feb 1741	Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Death	28 Sep 1824	Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Burial
  Father	Jonas Whitney | F487 Group Sheet
  Mother	Sarah Perry | F487 Group Sheet

  
  

  Male + Deacon Daniel Ward

  
  

  Birth	11 Jul 1774	Athol, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Death	16 Dec 1861	Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Burial		Jones Cemetery, Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Jones Cemetery, Orange, Massachusetts
  Spouse	Sarah Jones | F421
  Marriage	20 Oct 1795	Orange, Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

  
  

  Female Hannah Ward

  
  

  Birth	15 Jul 1776	Athol, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Death	20 Jul 1850	New York City, New York, U.S.A.
  Burial

  
  

  Female Desire Ward

  
  

  Birth	13 Jul 1779	Athol (now Orange), Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Death	11 Dec 1859	Northfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Burial

  
  

  Male Nehemiah Ward

  
  

  Birth	6 Jul 1783	Athol, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Death	11 Nov 1787	Athol (now Orange), Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Burial

  
  

  Male Nehemiah Ward

  
  

  Birth	2 Jan 1788	Athol, Worcester County, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  Death
  Burial

  
  

• Notes

  Married: Sarah was the sister of Desire, who married Nehemiah's brother, Edward. Pierce (1895) gives the marriage date as 1775.

  
  

• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S665] Woods, Henry Ernest. Vital Records of Newton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, (Boston: New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 1905). [S451] Martyn, Charles. The William Ward Genealogy - The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass. 1638-1925, (New York: Artemas Ward, 1925). [S452] Woodward, Norma Slater. Descendants of Richard Woodward New England 1589-1982, (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1982). [S453] Roy, Robert Alan. Extracts from the Genealogical Files of Barbara Crosby, (Orange, Massachusetts: manuscript, 1980). [S456] Jackson, Francis. A History of the Early Settlement of Newton, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, from 1639 to 1800, (Boston: Stacy and Richardson, 1854). [S457] Ward, Andrew Henshaw. Ward Family: Descendants of William Ward, (Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1851). [S972] Pierce, Frederick Clifton. The Descendants of John Whitney, Who Came From London, England, to Watertown, Massachusetts in 1635 , (Chicago: Press of W. B. Conkey Company, 1895).