Artemas Ward appears in the papers of Joseph Ward, the General’s secretary and aide-de-camp during the Revolutionary War. A finding aid for the Joseph Ward Papers can be found here.
The house was doubled and the roof raised two stories. Artemas Ward and his family lived in the new part, while his son Thomas Walter Ward lived in the old part. The expansion made the house suitable for either double- or single-family occupancy. The house was used in both...