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Ward, Amos P.
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Amos P. Ward was born in Maine in 1849 to Seth Ward and Eunice Cole. Circa 1878 he married Loretta Tower from Rockport, New Brunswick, with whom he had eleven children between 1879-1903. They settled in Upper Rockport, New Brunswick, where he and his sons worked at shipbuilding. Ward was captain of several vessels, including the Rowena (1903-07), Lizzie Rich (1905), Stella Maud (1907-10), and the Carrie C. Ware (1913-15). He sailed to and traded in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Maine, Massachusetts and Connecticut.