Uzall Wardwell1 
b. 7 April 1639, d. 25 October 1732
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6th great-granduncle of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
8th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
- Family Background:
- Fairfield and Allied Families
Uzall Wardwell was born on 7 April 1639 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; 7th 2nd mo. 1639.1 He was the son of William Wardwell and Alice (—?—) (Wardwell).1 He married first widow Mary Rindge, daughter of Robert Kinsman, on 3 May 1664 at Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.2 He married second Grace.3 He died on 25 October 1732 in Bristol, Rhode Island, at age 93.3
Uzall Wardwell was a carpenter. After his first marriage he lived in Ipswich until abut 1675 when he moved to Salem where he was the town's constable in 1681, and where he was taxed in 1683. By the summer of 1684 he had moved his family to Bristol, Rhode Island, where he remained for the ret of his life. In Ipswich he was on the trial jury in the courts of September 1677, and November 1680. He took the Oath of Allegiance in 1678. He was the constable of Bristol in 1691.
In King Philip's War he saw much service, being a trooper in Capt. Paige's company in the Mt. Hope campaign and a sergeant in Major Appleton's company in the winter expedition in the Narragansett country.
The will of Uzal Wardell of Bristol, proved in 1732, mentions his wife Grace, his daughters Mary Barker, Sarah Bosworth, Abigail Green, Hannah Crompton, Grace Giddings, Alice Glading and sons Uzal, James, Joseph, William and Benjamin.3
Uzall Wardwell was a carpenter. After his first marriage he lived in Ipswich until abut 1675 when he moved to Salem where he was the town's constable in 1681, and where he was taxed in 1683. By the summer of 1684 he had moved his family to Bristol, Rhode Island, where he remained for the ret of his life. In Ipswich he was on the trial jury in the courts of September 1677, and November 1680. He took the Oath of Allegiance in 1678. He was the constable of Bristol in 1691.
In King Philip's War he saw much service, being a trooper in Capt. Paige's company in the Mt. Hope campaign and a sergeant in Major Appleton's company in the winter expedition in the Narragansett country.
The will of Uzal Wardell of Bristol, proved in 1732, mentions his wife Grace, his daughters Mary Barker, Sarah Bosworth, Abigail Green, Hannah Crompton, Grace Giddings, Alice Glading and sons Uzal, James, Joseph, William and Benjamin.3
Additional Data
Uzall Wardell was mentioned in his father William Wardell's will dated 18 April 1670 in Boston.4,5,6
Citations
- [S185] William S. Appleton, ed., Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, Boston Births, 1700-1800, 2 volumes in 1 (Boston: The Registry Department of the City of Boston, 1883 and 1894; reprint Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1978), 8.
- [S898] Essex Institute, Vital Records of Ipswich Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Newcomb & Gauss Company, 1910), 2: 443.
- [S893] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Wardwell, of Wells," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. III, 550, originally published in The Ancestry of Annis Spear (1945).
- [S893] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Wardwell, of Wells," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. III, 549-550, originally published in The Ancestry of Annis Spear (1945).
- [S761] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; (Online database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001), (Orig. Pub. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 148 vols., 1847-1994) 48: 458.
- [S899] "William Wardwell", citing Suffolk Probate 7: 35-36, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, online http://www.newenglandancestors.org/, printout dated 2005. Previously published in hard copy (Boston: NEHGS, 1995).
