The Wards
- Artemas Ward (1727–1800), Assessor of Worcester County, Massachusetts; Justice of the Peace in Massachusetts; Massachusetts Court Justice 1776-1777; President of the Massachusetts Executive Council 1777-1779; Massachusetts State Representative 1779-1785; Delegate to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts 1780-1781; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1791-1795. Father of Artemas Ward, Jr.
- Artemas Ward, Jr. (1762–1847), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 1813-1817. Son of Artemas Ward.
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“Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise before a man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)