WARD, Mary

1637 - 1664  (27 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	WARD, Mary
  Birth	1637	Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
  Gender	Female
  Burial	Mar 1664
  Death	6 Mar 1664	Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
  WAC	5 Sep 1904
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
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  Person ID	I30781	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	WARD, Andrew ,   b. 1604, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United Statesd. 28 Feb 1660, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States (Age 56 years)
  Mother	SHERMAN, Hester ,   b. 1 Apr 1606, Dedham, Essex, England Dedham, Essex, Englandd. 28 Feb 1666, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	Dedham, Essex, England
  Family ID	F17005	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	BURR, Lieutenant John ,   b. 1633, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesd. 19 Mar 1693, Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1658	Fairfield, Massachusetts   [1]
  Family ID	F17447	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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• Notes

  Mary Ward was married by 1659 for she was among the daughters not given legacies in her father's will because they had received portions at their marriage. She is named as Mary Burr in December of 1665 in her mother's will. There is no suggestion of children for Mary in that will although other grandchildren are named along with their parent. Some have attributed Daniel & Esther Burr as children to Mary - they each received 10 shillings from Mary's mother as an afterthough in the will. Some have tried to suggest that Jehu Burr was married to both sisters, Mary and Hester, but in the Puritan society which regarded with abhorrence a marriage to a dead wife's sister, that seems quite unlikely. The only Fairfield Burr available to be Mary Burr's husband seems to be John, brother to Jehu. He did marry Sarah Fitch but not until about 1673 when he was nearing forty. An earlier marriage would be probable. In 1864, the will of Moses Dimon, who married Abigail Ward, Mary's sister, called John Burr and Samuel Ward [brother of Abigail & Mary] his brethren. This term seems unexplainable unless John Burr was the husband of Mary Ward and another brother-in-law. That Hester was married to JEHU is certain: Jehu Burr and wife Hester conveyed her interest in Boosey property on 27 Feb 1661/2. The deed at Wethersfield stated that James Boosey gave the land to his son Joseph Boosey who was the first husband "unto the said Easter, now the wife of the said Jehu Burr". She certainly must have been the mother of the elder Burr children, Daniel, born as early as 1660, and Esther, named for herself. Several of the books including the Andrew Warde book whose data was then copied in the 'History of Fairfield", simply got this relationship wrong. "The Families of Old Fairfield", p.116-121, devotes some three pages to the solving of this mystery and the conclusion as represented therein seems to have merit.

  
  

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  [S64] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, International Genealogical Index. John BURR; Male; Spouse: Mary WARD; Marriage: About 1658 Fairfield, , , Massachusetts; No source information is available. Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church. Search performed using PAF Insight on 10 Aug 2004