Samuel Ward (1725–1776) was a farmer politician Supreme Court Justice Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and a delegate to the Continental Congress. The son of an earlier Rhode Island Governor Richard Ward he was well educated as he grew up in a large Newport Rhode Island family. After marrying he and his new wife received property in Westerly Rhode Island from his father-in-law and upon settling there he took up farming.
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birth date
1725-05-25
birth place
Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Newport Rhode Island
death date
1776-03-26
death place
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
office
Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
