WARD, Andrew Henshaw, antiquary, born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, 26 May, 1784; died in Newtonville, Massachusetts, 18 February, 1864. He was graduated at Harvard in 1808, studied law, was admitted to the bar at Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1811, and practised till 1829 at Shrewsbury, where, while filling the office of town-clerk, he transcribed all the records of births, deaths, and marriages, and was active in putting an end to the custom of " farming out " the town's poor. For the period between 1829 and 1853, except during two years, he was employed in the custom-house at Boston, and from 1837, when a general bankruptcy law went into force, till 1846, when it expired, he was United States commissioner of insolvency for the district of Massachusetts. He was a delegate from Newton to the convention of 1853 for revising the constitution of Massachusetts. For more than fifty years he was a justice of the peace, either in Shrewsbury, Boston, or West Newton, where he settled in 1842. Mr. Ward was an active member of the New England historic-genealogical society almost from its first organization, and a frequent contributor to its "Register." He published a " History of the Town of Shrewsbury" (Boston, 1847), containing a "Family Register," which was also issued separately; "Ward Family: Descendants of William Ward" (1851); and "Genealogical History of the Rice Family " (1858). See his "Memoir," by William B. Trask" (Boston, 1863).