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Flintlock turn-off pistols belonging to Artemas Ward
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These pistols belonged to Artemas Ward (1727-1800), a major general in the American Revolutionary War and a Massachusetts Congressman.
Artemas Ward was born in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, in 1727. He graduated from Harvard in 1748. He served as a colonel in the French and Indian Wars and also a general and commander-in-chief of the Massachusetts troops in 1775, until George Washington assumed command of the Continental Army. He was the chief justice of the Worcester county court of common pleas, a member of the Massachusetts provincial congress, the Continental Congress, the U.S. Congress, and the Massachusettts legislature. He died in 1800.