Individual Details

Hester was born at Fairfield, died at age 67. She married (1) Ebenezer Hawley, contract dated 19 Apr 1678. She married (2) at Fairfield on 17 Oct 1682 to Ephraim Nichols; married (30 at Fairfield, Nov 1691, to Eliphalet Hill; married (4) about 1697, Robert Lord.



The Following short article appeared in The New England Historic Genealogical Register, Vol. 26, Oct. 1872 (P. 436). Ward, Hawley, Nichols, Hill.- Ebenezer Hawley, son of Joseph of Stratford, m. Esther, widow and only heir of William ward, and d. 1681. His widow m. 3d, 1682, Ephraim Nichols d. about 1690, and his widow Esther m. 4th, Eliphalet Hill. The above is according to Savage. According to the Fairfield records, Eliphalet Hill m. November, 1691, "Esther Nichols, who was the daughter of William Ward." Again, Ephraim Nichols, of Stratford, married with Esther Hawley, of Fairfield, on ye 7th day of October, 1682. At Fairfield it is also recorded, under date of April 19, 1678, a marriage covenant between Ebenezer Hawley, son of Joseph, of Stratford and "Hester Ward, daughter unto Mrs. Deborah Ward Tappin, of South Hampton." It begins: "Whereas there is a marriage intended," and refers to "the house and all the lands that Said Hester is now possessed of within the county of Fairfield." It appears from this that William Ward's widow was Deborah instead of Esther, that she married, before 1678, a Tappin of South Hampton, L.I. Savage places Tappin there in 1673. William Ward's inventory bears date, March 4, 1675-6. It is also evident that Esther or Hester Ward, who m. Hawley Nichols and Hill, was the daughter of William and Deborah Ward. John D. Champlin, Jr. New - York, Sept. 1872

Birth	Abt 1660
Death	1732

Father	William Ward (1632 - 1675)
Mother	Deborah Lockwood (1636 - )