On 5 Jun 1700 Joseph married Abial Wheelock, daughter of Benjamin Wheelock (8 Jan 1639/40-ca 1720) & Elizabeth Bullen (-22 Oct 1679), in Marlboro, MA.287 Born on 30 Sep 1676 in Medfield, MA. Abial died aft Jun 1717.

Children of Joseph and Abigail (Wheelock) Ward, born at Marlboro:
    i. Daniel Ward, b. 14 Apr 1701;
    ii. Elizabeth Ward, b. 22 Jan 1703, d. 4 Jan 1707;
    iii. Phineas Ward, b. 5 Aug 1705;
    iv. Thankful Ward, b. 4 Apr 1708;
    v. Elizabeth Ward, b. 19 Dec 1710;
    vi. Joseph Ward, b. 5 Sep 1713; and
    vii. Abigail Ward, b. 23 Oct 1716.287

On 6 Sep 1695 when Elizabeth was 23, she married Dea. Nathaniel Hapgood (13951) , son of Shadrach Hapgood (ca 1642-2 Aug 1675) & Elizabeth Treadway (4807) (3 Apr 1646-18 Sep 1714).371 Born on 21 Oct 1665 in Sudbury, MA.287 Nathaniel died bef 1741.287

From The Hapgood Family, pages 27–31:371
    Deacon Nathaniel Hapgood, was, for his time, a man of eminence, distinguished for enterprise and success in business, official trusts, and usefulness. Being the eldest son, he received a double portion of his father's estate, and succeeded to the inheritance of his home-lot and proprietary in the then extensive town of Stow; and, as if not satisfied or accommodated by this, he, May 17, 1697, for £32.10s., bought of Simon Willard 80 acres adjoining his home-lot, on the southwest, and Assabet River on the north. March 19, 1702-3, he purchased for £70, of Mr. Willard, then of Salem, all his farm in Stow bounded southwest by near Alcocks farm (i.e. 'the farm' in Marlboro) and south by Assabet River, which parted it from Habgood's land formerly bought of Willard.” His home farm, well adapted to tillage, must now have been very extensive, including, as is presumed, the 500 acres granted 1657, by the General Court, to Major Symon Willard of Concord, for his services to this colony, added to the 50 acres inherited from his father, and 23 more adjacent on the east, assigned in the second division of common lands in 1719, and another lot adjoining the “Willard Farm,” granted in 1723; and when we consider the great allowance then made for swag of chain in laying out grants, Deacon Habgood’s home farm could have been little, if any, short of 700 acres.
    Subsequently, as the common lands of Stow were from time to time divided among the proprietors, he, “in the right of his father Shadrach,” drew many lots, especially in the north and northwest parts of the town. June 22, 1721, there was assigned to Isaac Gates 9 acres 55 rods of meadow, meadow bottom and upland, in two pieces, supposed to have been subsequently bought by Deacon Habgood. One, containing 5 acres 122 rods, extending up and down on the west side of Pinhill Brook, near Lancaster (original) line, and bounded east and northeast by that brook, west and south by common land. The other lot of 3 acres 93 rods, situated also on Pinhill Brook, next to Groton line, bounded north by that line, east by the brook, west by common land, and south by Ephraim Willowby’s meadow.
    May 22, 1722, there was laid out for him, for a fourth division, 95 acres in Stow, 50 in the right of his father Shadrach, and 45 in the right of Joseph Daby, on the west side of Pinhill Brook, bounded northeasterly (for a short distance) by the brook, and a way, 2 rods wide, left for the conveniency of the meadows, “Northerly near to Groton line, westerly near to George Robin’s land and southerly by undivided land.” The northeast line began near Isaac Gates’ meadow, above described, 2 rods from Groton line, and ran near west northwest parallel to said line, then parallel to Robins’ land, with a highway 2 rods wide between, then by John Daby’s lot of 15 acres, then east by 28 south 100 rods, and then east 148 rods to the brook. This lot constituted the nucleus of the second Hapgood farm in the old town of Stow, and was situated on the hip of Stow Leg, between Lancaster and Groton, and now in Harvard, about 1 1/4 miles from the Town House.
    In 1726, to Nathaniel Hapgood, 3 1/2 acres of meadow in Pinhill meadows, bounding southerly upon Lancaster line and Pinhill Brook, east by Isaac Gates’ meadow, the first above described, and northerly upon common land.
    May 16, 1727, there was laid out in Stow, for Deacon Nathaniel Hapgood, 24 acres 140 rods of the fifth and sixth division, 6 acres and 28 rods of which were to the right of his father Shadrach, and 10 acres to the right of John Daby. “It lyeth,” says the record, “westerly of John Daby’s land,
where he now dwells.” It had a way, running northerly or rather northeast and southwest for 7 rods of its eastern boundary, and the land of Samuel Hall for the northeast boundary, and its extreme south angle was “at or near the town line,” probably Lancaster north line. And at the same date another lot, of the fifth division, containing 18 acres and 132 rods; 9 acres and 25 rods to his own inherited right, and 8 acres 132 rods to the right of Joseph Daby. This was bounded north 86 rods by his own land, east by Thomas Wheeler’s, 73 rods, southeast by Pinhill Meadow, south by said meadow, and southwest by John Daby's land. Its south and southwest lines met near a small run of water in the bank of the meadow.
    He early became the proprietor of William Kerley’s right in the public lands of Lancaster, and of a lot upon Bare Hill. For, March 16, 1722-3, 23 acres, in two lots, were “laid out for him for a third and fourth division to the estate of William Kerley, Jr.” One lot was bounded northwest by his own land on Bare Hill, and the other northeast by the same. These were no doubt included in the 65 acres afterward owned by his son Shadrach. These lots, perhaps, by some exchanges, were gathered into a large farm, and by a division of Stow, in 1732, thrown into Harvard. Thus it appears that, years after the death of Shadrach Habgood the first, lots continued to be assigned to Deacon Nathaniel in the right of his father, which went to his descendants and gave them ample farms, and what was still better, farms on the mica slate formation.
    Deacon Nathaniel was much interested in Lancaster, and probably in Worcester and Grafton. At Lancaster, September 10, 1713, he sold, for £55, to Thomas Carter, a house lot of 20 acres. October 19, 1730, he bought of John Remain, for £138, a meadow at Long Hill, in Lancaster; and sold for 60, December 1, 1730, to Ephraim Wilder, 28 acres; and for £10, February 6, 1732, to Samuel Wilson, 40 acres in Lancaster. May 20, 1730, he gave his son Nathaniel, then of Lancaster, 12 acres in Stow, at Hogpen Hill, and all his town rights and lands in Lancaster.
    He seems to have purchased of Isaac Miller a right in the undivided lands of Worcester, where, in the part now Holden, 120 acres were drawn in his right, by his son Daniel, and June 20, 1750, sold for £100, to “Zacceus” Gates. November 5, 1728, he sold for £60, to John Coller, 48 acres in Hassanamisco, now Grafton.
    March 28, 1725, he conveyed to his son Shadrach “all his lands in Harvard with the rights and privileges thereto belonging which lands, it is added, are set forth in Stow & Lancaster proprietors' records.” This shows that they were originally in two towns, and drawn partly in the right of Deacon Nathaniel, and partly in the right of his father Shadrach.
    Deacon Nathaniel, it is safe to presume, was an excellent
man, early and long a pillar in the church of Stow, although her records are too defective to inform us of any of his religious history. In the management of the municipal interests of the town his name is most conspicuous. Between 1697 and 1727, he served as selectman 14 years; and in 1711 and 1712 as grand juryman, and in 1716-18 as town treasurer, and sometimes as moderator of town meetings. He was early styled “Ensign.” He seems to have settled his estate mainly in his lifetime, and probably died intestate. Yet there was no resort to any court for any further settlement. No record exists of his death, but his ashes, no doubt, repose in the graveyard by the old common in Stow. His name does not occur after 1732, when he appeared to be setting his house in order. His wife was a widow in 1741.

From The William Ward Genealogy:287
Nathaniel was the owner of a considerable amount of land by inheritance, purchase, and town division. His ‘home farm’ in the southwesterly section of Stow exceeded 700 acres, and his interests extended to Lancaster and other towns. He was selectman fourteen years, grand juryman two years, town treasurer 1716 to 1718, and a deacon of the church.

On 21 May 1696 Mary married Dea. Caleb Rice, son of Joseph Rice (ca Mar 1637/8-23 Dec 1711) & Martha King (26 Feb 1639-4 Jan 1669), in Marlboro, MA.287 Born on 19 May 1666 in Sudbury, MA.287 Caleb died in Marlboro, MA 5 Jan 1738/9.287

Samuel married Mary. Mary died on 17 Jan 1758.155

Mary may have been Mary Holden, b. 21 Mar 1678/8 at Cambridge, daughter of Justinian Holden.155

Children of Samuel and Mary Ward, born at Marlboro:
    i. Ephraim Ward, b. 26 Jun 1705;
    ii. Absalom Ward, b. 20 Sep 1706;
    iii. Tamar Ward, b. 11 Sep 1708, d. at Marlboro. unmarried;
    iv. Samuel Ward, b. 11 jan 1710, d. 3 Aug 1775 at Marlboro, unmarried;
    v. Urusla Ward, b. 23 Aug 1711, m. 30 Mar 1736 Nathan Prescott of Marlboro;
    vi. Uriah Ward, b. 2 Aug 1716; and
    vii. Benjamin, b. 10 Nov 1719.287