General Artemas Ward

1727 - 1800  (72 years)

• Name	Artemas Ward  [1, 2]
  Prefix	General
  Birth	26 Nov 1727	Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Oct 1800	Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts   [3, 5]
  Burial	Mountain View Cemetery, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I47693	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	Nahum Ward,   b. 6 Dec 1684, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 7 May 1754, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 69 years)
  Mother	Martha Howe,   b. 13 Jul 1687, Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 1 Jul 1755, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	6 Jul 1714	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [6]
  Family ID	F27673	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Trowbridge,   b. 3 Dec 1724, Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 13 Dec 1788, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	31 Jul 1750	Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [5, 7, 8]
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Walter Ward,   b. 10 Aug 1758, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts d. 20 Aug 1835, Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 77 years)
  Family ID	F27668	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Major general of the Continental Army, 1775-77. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts, 1791-95. Described by John Adams as "universally esteemed, beloved, and confided in by his army and his country." Great-grandfather of Artemas Ward, American writer and advertising executive.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3431] Massachusetts, town clerk and town records, 1626-2001, on familysearch.org. [S7509] The Trowbridge Family, or the Descendants of Thomas Trowbridge, One of the First Settlers of New Haven, Connecticut by F. W. Chapman. New Haven: Punderson, Crisand, & Co., 1872. [S160] Wikipedia. [S2498] The Trowbridge Genealogy: History of the Trowbridge Family in America by Francis Bacon Trowbridge. New Haven, 1908., place only. [S742] The William Ward Genealogy: The History of the Descendants of William Ward of Sudbury, Mass., 1638-1925 by Charles Martyn. New York: Artemas Ward of the Seventh Generation, 1925. [S9207] History of the Town of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, from Its Settlement in 1717 to 1829 by Andrew H. Ward. Boston: Samuel G. Drake, 1847. [S160] Wikipedia., date only. [S2498] The Trowbridge Genealogy: History of the Trowbridge Family in America by Francis Bacon Trowbridge. New Haven, 1908., date only.