![]() ![]() ![]() He was the only Colonial governor who refused to take the oath to enforce the Stamp Act. 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. His son Thomas married Amy Smith, a granddaughter of Roger Williams. 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. 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." These words are so characteristic of her, that in beginning the story of her life it seems proper to dwell at some length on the ancestors whose memory she cherished with such reverence. I wish to say that all my life I have been bouyed up and lifted on by the remembrance of the virtues of mine!" So-and-So," she said, "is bowed down by the sins of his ancestors. He drew stern pictures of the vice, the barbarism, the heathenism of the "good old times," and ended by saying with emphasis that he felt himself " bowed down beneath the burden of the sins of his ancestors." One of the speakers dwelt largely upon the sins of the fathers. O UR mother was once present at a meeting where there was talk of ancestry and heredity. H OWE, WITH HIS G RANDCHILD, A LICE R ICHARDS, 1873 340 J ULIA, S AMUEL, AND H ENRY W ARD, circa 1825įrom the bust by Clevenger now in the Boston Public Library W ARD IN 1835 AT THE C ORNER OF B OND S TREET AND B ROADWAY 22 "T HE C ORNER": T HE H OUSE BUILT BY M R. H OWE, circa 1861 ( Photogravure )įrom a painting in the possession of his grandson, Henry Marion Howeįrom a painting in the possession of her granddaughter, Mrs. 19 BOYLSTON PLACE: "LATER LYRICS." 1866 235 Richards (1850-1943) and Maud Howe Elliott (1854-1948), Assisted by Florence Howe Hall (1845-1922).īoston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915.ĬOPYRIGHT, 1915, BY LAURA E. ![]()
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