Samuel Ward (officer)

Samuel Ward (born November 17, 1756 in Westerly , Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , † August 16, 1832 in New York City ) was a soldier in colonial North America. He fought in the American Revolutionary War and was a delegate to the Hartford Convention and the Annapolis Convention .

family

Ward was born the fifth of eleven children of the politician Samuel Ward and his wife Anne Ray. His father served as the 31st and 33rd governors of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations . Ward's paternal grandfather, Richard Ward , held this position between 1741 and 1742. His oldest known paternal ancestor, John Ward, was from Gloucester . He served in Oliver Cromwell's army and emigrated to Newport , Rhode Island in 1673 after the Stuart Restoration . While fighting in the Revolutionary War, Ward married his cousin Phoebe Green, daughter of the second Governor of Rhode Island, William Greene, while on leave from the front . The marriage took place on March 8, 1778 in Warwick . From this marriage, among others, the son Samuel emerged, who made a name for himself as a banker. His daughter and thus a granddaughter of Ward was Julia Ward Howe .

Life

Military career

Ward received his education at Rhode Island College , the forerunner of today's Brown University . There he graduated with honors in 1771. He then entered the military and joined the Kings and Kent County militia . He was stationed in Cambridge and served there under George Washington . On July 1, 1775 Ward was promoted to captain and transferred to the second regiment of the Militz under James Mitchell Varnum . As one of 250 men from Rhode Island, he took part as a volunteer in Benedict Arnold's campaign to Québec from the beginning of September 1775 . He was taken prisoner there and was not released until August 1776. On January 1, 1777 Ward moved to the First Regiment of Rhode Island which was stationed in Morristown at that time . There he was first promoted to major and took part in the Battle of Red Bank . In May 1778 he returned to Rhode Island and helped build a new regiment, which he took over during the Battle of Rhode Island . In April 1779 Ward was promoted to lieutenant colonel . In early 1780 Ward took command of a unit in Providence . The following year, Ward retired.

Political activity

After his military career, Ward settled in Warwick and worked as a merchant. and made numerous trips to Europe and Asia . He also took over his first political office in 1786 as a delegate to the Annapolis Convention . In 1806 he became president of the New York Insurance Company . In 1814 Ward was also sent as one of four delegates from Rhode Island to the Hartford Convention . Ward died on August 16, 1832 in his apartment in Lower Manhattan to cholera .

Awards

In 1784 Ward was inducted into the Society of the Cincinnati .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Ward: A memoir of Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Ward, First Rhode Island regiment, army of the American revolution . Self-published, New York 1875, LCCN  17-009743 , OCLC 5207086 , p. 12 ( Online [accessed January 19, 2014]).
2. ↑ For details on this John Ward: A memoir of Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Ward, First Rhode Island regiment, army of the American revolution . Self-published, New York 1875, LCCN  17-009743 , OCLC 5207086 , p. 7–9 ( online [accessed January 19, 2014]).
3. ↑ More precisely illustrated in John Ward: A memoir of Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Ward, First Rhode Island regiment, army of the American revolution . Self-published, New York 1875, LCCN  17-009743 , OCLC 5207086 , p. 7–9 ( online [accessed January 19, 2014]).
4. ↑ James H. Ellis: A Ruinous and Unhappy War: New England and the War of 1812 . Algora Publ., New York City 2009, ISBN 978-0-87586-690-1 , pp. 241 ( online [accessed January 19, 2014]).
5. ^ Theodore Lyman: A short account of the Hartford Convention: taken from official documents . O. Everett, Boston 1823, LCCN  08-005315 , OCLC 83588877 , p. 23 ( Online [accessed January 19, 2014]).
6. ^ Laura E. Richards : Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 . 1st edition. Vol. I. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston et al. a. 1917, OCLC 630528598 , p. 39 .

literature

• John Ward: A memoir of Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Ward, First Rhode Island regiment, army of the American revolution . Self-published, New York 1875, LCCN  17-009743 , OCLC 5207086 ( A memoir of Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Ward, First Rhode Island regiment, army of the American revolution [accessed January 19, 2014]).