| Description | Apprentice "engine smith". Ward was apprenticed to Boulton & Watt by the Church Wardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Cardington, Bedforshire, and the Justices of the Peace for the County, Samuel Whitbread and Samuel Whitbread Jr. The indenture notes that Ward was aged 15, and he was apprenticed until he reached 21. |