The Will of Nathaniel Ward of Hadley

“The last will and testament of Nathaniell Ward of Hadley in the Colony of Massachusetts” dated 27 May 1664, gave “out of my Estate at Hartford…fourteen pounds to my Kinsman Daniell Allyn of Nashaway.” Continue reading

Nathaniel Ward Biography

Nathaniel Ward, clergyman, born between the years 1578 and 1580; died in Shenfield, England, in 1652. Cotton Mather, in the “Magnalia,” gives his birthplace as Haverhill, England, which is probably correct; and the date of his birth as “about 1570,” which is evidently wrong. Continue reading