Artemas Ward
BIRTH
Nov 26, 1727
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
DEATH
October 28, 1800
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
FAMILY
FATHER:
Nahum Ward
(1684-1754)
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Ward, Artemus
(1727-1800)
Artemas Ward was an American major general in the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts.
GRAVE:
GRAVE
Mountain View Cemetery
22 Boylston St, Shrewsbury, MA 01545
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Sarah Ward Brigham
Thomas Walter Ward
(1798-1890)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Minute Man National Historical Park | 210 N Great Rd, Lincoln, MA 01773 | MUSEUM | ||
Bunker Hill Monument | 43 Monument Sq, Charlestown, MA 02129 | PARK | ||
Old South Meeting House | 310 Washington St, Boston, MA 02108 | MUSEUM | ||
Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters | 105 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138 | MUSEUM | ||
Boston Common | 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111 | PARK | ||
Fort Washington Marker - Cambridge | 95 Waverly St, Cambridge, MA 02139 | MARKER |
DIED:
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
Oct 28, 1800
Artemas Ward was born at Shrewsbury in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1727 to Nahum Ward (1684–1754) and Martha (Howe) Ward. He was the sixth of seven children. His father had broad and successful career interests as a sea captain, merchant, land developer, farmer, lawyer and jurist. As a child he attended the common schools and shared a tutor with his brothers and sisters. He graduated from Harvard in 1748 and taught there briefly.
Ward learned of their plan to attack Bunker Hill. He gave orders to fortify the point, setting the stage for the Battle of Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775. Command during the battle devolved upon General Israel Putnam and Colonel William Prescott.
Meanwhile, the Continental Congress was creating the Continental Army. On June 17, Congress commissioned Ward a major general, and appointed him second in command to General George Washington. Over the next nine months he helped convert the assembled militia units into the Continental Army.
After the British evacuation of Boston on March 17, 1776, Washington led the main body of the army to New York City. Ward took command of the Eastern Department and held that post until March 1777, when ill health forced his resignation from the army.