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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 1: Ancestral (search)
well at some length on the ancestors whose memory she cherished with such reverence. The name of Ward occurs first on the roll of Battle Abbey: Seven hundred and ten distinguished persons accompanied William of Normandy to England, among them Ward, one of the noble captains. Her first known ancestor, John Ward, of Gloucester, England, sometime cavalry officer in Cromwell's army, came to this country after the Restoration and settled at Newport in Rhode Island. His son Thomas married Amy Smith, a granddaughter of Roger Williams. Thomas's son Richard became Governor of Rhode Island and had fourteen children, among them Samuel, who in turn became Governor of the Colony, and a member of the Continental Congress. He was the only Colonial governor who refused to take the oath to enforce the Stamp Act. In 1775, in the Continental Congress, he was made Chairman of the Committee of the Whole, which from 1774 to 1776 sat daily, working without intermission in the cause of independence
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Index (search)
B., I, 68; II, 237. Shenandoah, I, 274. Shenstone, William, I, 13. Sherborn Prison, II, 159. Sheridan, Philip, I, 274. Sherman, John, I, 239. Sherman, W. T., I, 274; II, 380. Sherwood, Mrs., John, II, 73. Siberia, II, 187. Sicily, II, 408. Sienkiewicz, Henryk, II, 304. Silsbee, Mrs., I, 264. Singleton, Violet Fane, II, 5. Siouz, I, 380. Sirani, Elisabetta, II, 27. Sistine Chapel, I, 269. Smalley, Mrs., II, 168. Smiley, Albert, II, 326. Smith, Amy, I, 4. Smith, Mrs. E., I, 45, 46. Smith, Sydney, I, 82. Smith, Mrs., Sydney, I, 85. Smith College, I, 361; II, 411, 412. Smyrna, II, 42. Snyders, Franz, I, 42, 147. Socrates, I, 290, 354. Somerset, Lady, Henry, II, 170, 171, 201, 210. Sonnenberg, II, 175, 176. Sophocles, II, 130, 157. Sorosis Club, I, 373; II, 215. Sorrento, II, 389. Sothern, E. A., I, 143. South Berwick, II, 317. South Boston, I, 102, 123, 134, 154, 156, 180; II, 116. South