Historical records of the New Brunswick Regiment, Canadian Artillery

^OHISTORICAL RECORDS OF THEas the present, and might profitably be written if the regimentalhistory permitted of biography in detail. But we mustcontent ourselves with a few of the more prominent events inhis remarkable career. Major John Ward was born at Peekskill,Westchester County, in the Province of New York, in1752. His family were all loyal, and three brothers servedthe crown during the Revolutionary war. He joined the" Loyal American Regiment," with the rank of ensign, fromwhich he was promoted to a lieutenancy on 7 th October,1777, when he was twenty five years of age. He served withhis regiment through the war, being frequently in action andwas once wounded. He had a friendly intimacy with the unfortunateMajor Andre, and when the latter started up theHudson in the Vulture sloop of war, on his ill-fated missionto General Benedict Arnold, Lieutenant Ward was in commandof the escort which accompanied him.At the peace of 1783 he came to Parrtown with the rearguard of his regiment and many women and children. No accommodationshad been provided for them and they lived intents thatohed with spruce boughs, erected on the Barrackgrounds. Lower Cove. The winter was rigorous and manywomen and children died. Lieutenant Ward's son, JohnWard, jr., was born in one of these tents on the i8th December,1783.Lieutenant Ward removed to Sussex Valley in the spring of1784, but only remained there a short time, as in 1785 heentered into business in St. John with his brothers Benjaminand Moses. This firm was the pioneer in the West Indiabusiness, which brought so much prosperity to St John in tHeearly days. The subject of our sketch was a man of moretha!i ordinary enterprise. In company with the late Hon.