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Ira Ward

Birth
Killingworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Death
20 Nov 1773 (aged 69)
Killingworth, Middlesex County, Connecticut, USA
Burial
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Ira Ward and others were Nova Scotia Loyalists during Rev. War. Rufus Handy's name appears on the 1783 list of United Empire Loyalists who left the country to found the town of Port Roseway, Nova Scotia. After the first summer the family likely went to New Brunswick with the transports in the autumn. Mary "Molly" Ward Handy's father, Ira Ward was an Associator. He went alone to Nova Scotia where he was granted a town lot and 50 acres of land in Shelburne.

Rec. of State of Conn. Vol I R974.632 CT pg 347 - Ira Ward
Upon the application of the civil authority, selectmen and committee of inspection of Killingworth, representing that Ira Ward of said Killingworth, who is under confinement at Willington as a person dangerous to the United States, has given such assurances of his future good behavior they are desirous he should be released from said confinement and return to said Killingworth: Voted and resolved by this Board that the said Ira Ward be released from his present confinement at Willington (Connecticut) and be permitted to return to Killingworth, there to remain under the direction of the Civil authority, selectmen and committee of inspection in the town of Killingworth.

Ira, son of Capt. Peter and Mary Joy Ward mar. Lydia Parmelee in Killingworth, CT. They became parents of the following children: Ester, Ledy, James, Tryal, Sarah, Marib, Mattaniah and Mary "Molly" Ward. These children were born in Killingworth, Middlesex Co., CT.

Some researchers state place of death for Ira Ward as Shelburne, Nova Scotia and other researchers state Killingworth, Connecticut as place of death.

Most of my research was taken from Ward Genealogy at DAR Library in Washington, D.C., and town records of Killingworth, CT., Barbour Collection. sJones.
Ira Ward and others were Nova Scotia Loyalists during Rev. War. Rufus Handy's name appears on the 1783 list of United Empire Loyalists who left the country to found the town of Port Roseway, Nova Scotia. After the first summer the family likely went to New Brunswick with the transports in the autumn. Mary "Molly" Ward Handy's father, Ira Ward was an Associator. He went alone to Nova Scotia where he was granted a town lot and 50 acres of land in Shelburne.

Rec. of State of Conn. Vol I R974.632 CT pg 347 - Ira Ward
Upon the application of the civil authority, selectmen and committee of inspection of Killingworth, representing that Ira Ward of said Killingworth, who is under confinement at Willington as a person dangerous to the United States, has given such assurances of his future good behavior they are desirous he should be released from said confinement and return to said Killingworth: Voted and resolved by this Board that the said Ira Ward be released from his present confinement at Willington (Connecticut) and be permitted to return to Killingworth, there to remain under the direction of the Civil authority, selectmen and committee of inspection in the town of Killingworth.

Ira, son of Capt. Peter and Mary Joy Ward mar. Lydia Parmelee in Killingworth, CT. They became parents of the following children: Ester, Ledy, James, Tryal, Sarah, Marib, Mattaniah and Mary "Molly" Ward. These children were born in Killingworth, Middlesex Co., CT.

Some researchers state place of death for Ira Ward as Shelburne, Nova Scotia and other researchers state Killingworth, Connecticut as place of death.

Most of my research was taken from Ward Genealogy at DAR Library in Washington, D.C., and town records of Killingworth, CT., Barbour Collection. sJones.


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