July 14th, 2011
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WARD, Samuel (1725-1776) was an American farmer, shop keeper, and statesman from Westerly, Rhode Island. He twice served as a colonial Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and later as a delegate to the Continental Congress. Between terms serving as Governor of the colony in 1764, Ward joined John Brown, Nicholas Brown, William Ellery, Stephen Hopkins, the Reverend James Manning, the Reverend Ezra Stiles and several others as an original fellow or trustee for the chartering of the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (the original name for Brown University). Autograph Document Signed “Sam. Ward” 1pp. oblong octavo, Westerly, January 4, 1758, addressed to Thomas Richardson, General Treasurer, ordering Edward Crandal be paid “for his going in the late expedition” Inlaid, else Fine. After the disastrous 1757 British campaigns (resulting in a failed expedition against Louisbourg and the Siege of Fort William Henry, which was followed by significant atrocities on British victims by Indians), the British government fell, and William Pitt came to power, while France was unwilling to risk large convoys to aid the limited forces it had in New France. Pitt significantly increased British military resources in the colonies, and between 1758 and 1760 the British military successfully penetrated the heartland of New France, with Montreal finally falling in September 1760.
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