• My Uncle, Zael Ward, owned a farm adjoining my father’s in Keene Valley, Essex Co., N. Y., and resided on it some twelve or fifteen years. On selling out he purchased and moved on to a farm in the town of Harmony, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., about the year 1828. The next year following my father’s removal with his family to Newport, St. Clair Co., Mich. (now Marine City), in 1836, my Uncle Zael followed and settled also at Newport with his family of five girls and four boys, excepting his second daughter, Rhoda. The sons’ names were Samuel, Eber, Zael and David. Samuel being about one year older and Eber one year younger than myself. After residing some fifteen to twenty years in Michigan, and a short time only after Uncle Samuel’s death, Uncle Zael moved back to Chautauqua Co., N. Y., and died there at about 73 years of age.3614

• Submit Ward Cottrell’s father, Zael Ward, also owned ships and served as captain, as did her husband. There have been several Cottrells serving as captains listed in Great Lakes history.3768

• He is buried at the Blockville Union Burying Ground in Blockville NY. (aka Blockville Cemetery/Pioneer Cem. on Blockville-Watts Flatts Rd., 1/4 mi. from Rt. 474.) “Zale” Ward was listed on the 1830 census of Genesee/Chautauqua counties NY (called “Burned Over District”), as a resident of Harmony township, Chautauqua county.5010

• 1800 Census: Wells, Rutland, Vermont.1549