A Samuel Ward born 09-24-1641 was son of William Ward born 1603 England and died 08-10-1687 ?Marlborough Massachusetts. 
A Samuel Ward was in Brainford (later Branford) (New Haven) Connecticut in 1667. He married Mary Carter, daughter of Mrs. Mary Carter. 
Samuel Ward, cooper, born 1592, a proprietor in Hingham Massachusetts in 1636, 1658 to Charlestown where he died 1682. 
Samuel Ward married 01-01-1658 Branford Connecticut. 
Samuel Ward married 01-01-1658 Branford Connecticut to Mary Carter Samuel Ward (1638-1690) m1.Abigail Maverick (1645-1674+), their first born was born 1663 [Samuel bapt. 1674], lived in Salem, Charlestown, he m2.Sarah Bradstreet, widow of Richard Hubbard, lived in Marblehead and Charlestown. Samuel Ward married Joanna  ?  and they lived in Boston Samuel Ward (1641-1729) m1.06-06-1667 Sarah How (1644-1707), lived in Marblehead Samuel Ward (?1648-1693) m1. ?Hannah Ogden (-1687+), lived in Fairfield Connecticut, m2. Hannah Hawkins (?1661-1698) widow of Jonathan Nichol, they lived in Fairfield Connecticut Samuel Ward (-1702) married 12-10-1691 Mary (Foster) Sale, lived Boston Samuel Ward (-1715) married ?  ?  he lived in Middletown Connecticut 
Samuel Ward of Sudbury, freeman 1637, rep.1637-1638, died 08-30-1682 in Charlestown. 
Andrew Ward was one of the first settlers of Wethersfield Connecticut, he later moved to Stamford and was one of it's first settlers. He later moved to Hempstead on Long Island and then to Fairfield Connecticut. where he died 1659. He married Hester  ?  she died 1667, 9 kids: Edmund married Mary  ?, William, Mary, Andrew, Samuel [this may be the ancestor] 
William Ward born 1603 England, came before 1639 to New England, in Sudbury in 1639. freeman 05-10-1643, deputy to Gen.Court 1644, 1660 moved to Marlborough, a deacon, m1. ?  ?, m2.Elizabeth  ?, she died 12-09-1700 in Marlborough at age 87 [born 1613], William died 08-10- 1687 his will dt.04-06-1686 and mentions his wife Elizabeth and all 14 of his "children by two wives". The eight child was Samuel born 09-24-1641. 
Abigail, Anna, John married ? Nichols, and Sarah.

Historical
1636: Ethiopia - Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar, which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries
1636: United States - Harvard University is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1636: United States - Roger Williams is driven from Puritan Massachusetts and settles Rhode Island, a haven for religious freedom
1638: United States - Delaware is settled by Peter Minuet
1639-1651: England, Ireland, Scotland - Wars of the Three Kingdoms, civil wars throughout Scotland, Ireland, and England
1639: Italy - Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649
1639: Spain, England - Naval Battle of the Downs, Republic of the United Provinces fleet decisively defeats a Spanish fleet in English waters
1639: United States - John Wheelwright is banished from Boston and founds a colony in New Hampshire
1640-1668: Portugal - The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union
1640: England - Torture is outlawed in England
1640: Scotland - King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots
1640: United States - The population of the American Colonies is estimated at 5,700. Starting in the 1990's, Charles Anderson of the New England Historic Genealogical Society begins books that provides information about all persons in New England by 1640.
1641: France - Rene Descartes publishes Meditationes de prima philosophia Meditations on First Philosophy
1641: Ireland - The Irish Rebellion
1641: Japan - The Tokugawa Shogunate Institutes Sakoku, foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan
1642-1649: England - Civil War in England, Charles I is beheaded by Cromwell
1642: England - Isaac Newton is born
1642: Neatherlands, New Zealand - Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand
1644-1674: Mauritania - The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War
1644: China - The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty, the subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912
1644: Italy - Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected Pope Innocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644
1645-1669: Turkey, Italy - Ottoman war with Venice, the Ottomans Invade Crete and capture Canea
1645: Japan - The death of Miyamoto Musashi, legendary Japanese Samurai warrior of natural causes
1647-1652: Spain - The Great Plague of Seville
1647: Turkey - Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes Ottoman sultan
1648-1653: France - Fronde civil war in France
1648-1667: Poland, Lithuania - The Deluge wars leave Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in ruins
1648-1669: Turkey, Italy - The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia
1648: Spain, Italy - The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War and the Eighty Years War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers
1649-1653: Ireland - The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
1650: United States - An estimated 40,000 people are living in the American Colonies
1652: England, Netherlands - Anglo-Dutch Wars begin
1652: South Africa - Cape Town founded by the Dutch East India Company in South Africa
1654-1661: Turkey, Albania - Mehmed Koprulu is Grand Vizier
1655-1661: Sweden - The Northern Wars cement the rise of Sweden as a Great Power
1658: India - After his father Shah Jahan completes the Taj Mahal, his son Aurangzeb deposes him as ruler of the Mughal Empire
1660: England - Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge founded
1660: England - The Commonwealth of England ends and the monarchy is brought back during the English Restoration
1661: China - The reign of the Kangxi Emperor of China begins
1661: India - Mehmed Koprulu dies and is succeeded by his son Ahmed
1662: France - Jacques Aymar-Vernay, who later reintroduced Dowsing into popular use in Europe, is born
1663: France - France takes full political and military control over Its colonial possessions in New France, microscope of Hooke discovers cells
1663: Turkey, Austria-Hungary - Ottoman war against Habsburg Hungary
1664: England - Forestry book by John Evelyn called Sylva is published in England
1664: Hungary, Turkey - Battle of St. Gotthard (first of two), count Raimondo Montecuccoli defeats the Ottomans, the Peace of Vasvar is Intended to keep the peace for twenty years
1664: United States - British troops capture New Amsterdam and rename It New York
1665: England - The Great Plague of London (aka. Bubonic Plague, Black Death) kills 70,000 people
1665: Portugal, Congo - Portugal defeats the Kongo Empire
1666: England - The Great Fire of London burns most of the city
1667-1668: France, Netherlands - The War of Devolutionm France Invades the Netherlands, the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) brings this to a halt
1667-1699: Turkey - The Great Turkish War halts the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into Europe
1668: Spain, Portugal - Peace Treaty of Lisbon between Spain and Portugal recognizes Portugal as Independent country
1669: Turkey, Crete - The Ottomans capture Crete