Artemas Ward House and Ward family papers digital collection, 1724-1933.

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Artemas Ward House and Ward family papers digital collection, 1724-1933.

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A collection of digital facsimiles of manuscripts, photographs, and printscreated by the family of General Artemas Ward. The source materials are from TheAmerican Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts; The General Artemas WardHouse Museum in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and Mr. Andrew Ward of Savannah,Georgia.

254 digital objectsrepresenting manuscripts, bound volumes, documents, and historical prints andphotographs.

Widener Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University

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Ward, Artemas, 1727-1800

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Artemas Ward (November 26, 1727 – October 28, 1800) was an American major general in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts. He was considered an effective political leader, President John Adams describing him as "universally esteemed, beloved and confided in by his army and his country." Born in Shrewsbury in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, he attended the common schools before graduating from Harvard College, teaching there briefly after graduation. In 1751, ...

Mary Sarah Henshaw Ward Putnam.

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Ward, Nahum

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Ward family

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In 1925 Harvard University inherited the Artemas Ward Homestead from a member of the Ward family. The house was the home of General Artemas Ward, first commander-in-chief of the patriot forces, and was occupied by his descendents until 1909. It was opened to the public by one of Ward's descendants, also Artemas Ward, from 1909 to 1925 when it was given to Harvard University. Harvard currently operates the house as a historic house museum. The house contains over 1,250 eighteenth- an...

Harriet Ward

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Nahum Ward

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