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New information on Peter Ware came from the discovery of the 1628 Will of John Hatche of Tenterden, and from Tenterden Kent Marriages 1597-1894 by Peter Smith.  New information on Nicholas Ware I, II and III came from Grandma's Book by Eron M. Sharp, 1960, and the Ware-Tucker-Turnbull family Bible record, 1709-1930 (microform) and 28126 Misc. reel 445 found at the Virginia State Library.  Pictures of Peter Ware I, II, III and Nicholas Ware I, II and III are individuals who were living in the same time period.

THE EARLY ATTE WARE'S OF KENT

     In the ancient Saxon settlement of Canterbury, a district of Kent in South East England, we find the possible origin of the Ware surname.  "Canterbury was once Cani-wara-burgh, or the borough of the Kent people.  Wara, in the old name Cant-wara-burgh, reminds us of the prefix and affix War, ... 'The compounds of the Anglo-Saxon word ware = occupants, inhabitants, are too numerous to leave any doubt as to this and several other derivations. Cant-ware = Cant-icolae = people of Kent; Hwic-ware = Hwiccas = the people of parts of Worcestershire....'."  Source: Chambers's journal, Vol. 26, By William Chambers, Robert Chambers, p. 329.  

     Ware, Ash, Westmarsh and Hoaden are located in the civil parish of Ash, Canterbury, Kent.  They are situated near Canterbury in the Dover district of east Kent about three miles west of Sandwich.  Ash, or Ash-Next-Sandwich as it is often called, is found along the road from Sandwich to Canterbury.  Located near Ware is the scenic trail Pilgrims Way; a route taken by pilgrims to the shrine of Thomas Becket at Canterbury in Kent.  Pilgrims Way is a name somewhat misleading as the route closely follows a pre-existing ancient road dated by archaeological finds to 500–450 BC, and was later used by the Romans.

PILGRIMS WAY

     Canterbury was originally a Brythonic settlement and spoke the Insular Celtic language.  In the 1st century A.D., it was renamed Durovernum Cantiacorum by the Roman conquerors.  After the Jutes arrived around 449 A.D., it became a Jutish settlement and gained its English name Canterbury. After the Kingdom of Kent's conversion to Christianity in 597, St. Augustine founded an episcopal see in the city and became the first Archbishop of Canterbury, a position that now heads the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion. Thomas Becket's murder at Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 led to the cathedral becoming a place of pilgrimage for Christians worldwide.  Thomas Becket was canonized in 1246.  This pilgrimage provided the theme for Geoffery Chaucer's 14th-century literary classic The Canterbury Tales.

     In 1284/5, Willelm atte Ware is mentioned living in Westerham, county Kent.  Westerham is recorded as early as the 9th century, and later chronicled in the Domesday survey of 1086.  It was a large thriving settlement at that time.  Prior to the arrival of the Normans, it was held by the Saxon Earl Godwin and later by his son Harold, the last Saxon King of England.

     In the list of knight's fees in Kent dated 1284-5, there is an extract from the report submitted by Roger de Northwode stating: "Text Rolls of the fees which are held from the king in chief and from various other people in the county of Kent, according to the inquiries made before R(oger) de Northwod and his associates, appointed for this purpose by the king. ... Westerham Hundred (116) Willelm atte Ware holds a fourth part of one fee from the earl of Gloucester."  

     In the list for Aids and scutages dated 1302-3 there is an extract which states, "Aid for getting the king's eldest daughter married: ... Westerham Hundred: (381) a fourth part of one fee which Willelm (ate Ware) holds in Bradestede [Brasted] from earl of Gloucester."

     In the list of Aids and scutages dated 1346-7,  the account of, "Johan de Frenyngham sheriff of Kent and Thomas de Gyllyngham, collectors in the county of Kent of the aid of forty shillings granted to the king ... Aid for getting the king's eldest son made a knight. ... Westerham Hundred: (381) ... From the heirs of Willelm ate Ware - for a fourth part of one fee which the said Willelm (ate Ware) held in Bradestede from the earl of Gloucester."

     In 1284-5, we also find the first mention of the Hatch family of Kent. [John Hetche was nephew to Peter Ware according to his 1628/9 will].  Canterbury Cathedral Archives Grant  20 Nov 1284 - 19 Nov 1285 Robert burgelun of Chartham to the prior and convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory 1 acre, 1 at 'Smaldane' in Godmersham parish, lying with the priory's wood to south, the king's highway 'meleweye' to north, the wood of Ralph de Cornhelle and Richard de Rokyng' and the heirs of Hugh atte Thorne to east, and the priory's wood to west. Witnesses: Moses Taylefer; Richard atte Meleweye; John Buppehecche, reeve of Chartham; James de Smaldane; Nicholas atte Heche; Roger atte Heche; Ralph le Corncherl; John of East Stour; William Bidegod; Stephen of Elham; John the clerk of Wingham. 

KENT AND THE NORMAN CONQUEST

PETER WARE III

English Protestant Separatist, Pilgrim and Emigrant Ancestor

CHILDREN:    

1.  Peter Ware IV (c1632 co. Kent, England-Bet 1675-23 May 1693 New Kent Co., VA), m. Jane Valentine (c1632 England-Aft. 1693 New Kent Co., VA).  Son and heir, he was appointed Asst. Constable in 1660, and that same year he and Nicholas Ware witnessed a deposition. In 1662 he was appointed surveyor, in 1663 he was listed as a headright with John Garrett and in 1665 he was appointed Constable.  In 1675 he sold land to Hon. Nathaniel Bacon which was will to him by his father, that same year he purchased land in New Kent Co. next to Col. William Claiborne, Edward Cardingbrook and John Ware. This land was also next to Jeremiah Rawlings, John Garrett and Nicholas Ware according to a 1683 patent.

2.  John Ware (c1634 co. Kent, England-Bfr 1704 New Kent Co., VA)  In 1675 John Ware is shown owning property in New Kent Co. adj. Peter Ware, Nicholas Ware and Edward Cardingbrook.     

3.  Thomas Ware (c1636 co. Kent, England-Aft 1682 New Kent Co., VA)  On 26 Feb 1682, he appraised the estate of Thomas Reynolds. In 1637, Thomas Reynolds lived on the south side of the James River next to John Hucks who received 200 acres for transporting John Hodson.  On 6 Jun 1655, John Hodson and John Garrett patented 300 acres in New Kent Co., VA.

4.  Elizabeth Ware (c1638 co. Kent, England-) m. c1663 John Garrett (c1638-) son of John Garrett of Isle of Wight, VA. In 1657, Lt. Col. Robert Abrall was granted 950 acres in New Kent Co., for trans. 19 persons, one of which was Eliza. Ware. In 1664, John Pigg and Robert Abrall were granted 1250 acres in New Kent, and in 1663, George Bryar and Richard Lawrence received 3,000 acres for trans. 60 persons, 3 of which were: Peter Ware, Jno. Pigg and Jno Garrett. Their relationship appears to be based on the 1665 New Kent land grant held jointly by Nicholas Ware and John Garrett.

5.  Edward Ware (c1640 co. Kent, England-Bfr. 1704) is shown in 1673 as an estate appraiser in Hampton Parish, York Co., VA.  He is not charged on the 1704 Quit Rent, and was likely deceased prior to that year. The Edward Ware charged on the 1704 Quit Rent was the son of Nicholas Ware I, charged with 415 acres his father purchased on 29 Nov 1680; 300 acres his father received on 22 Sep 1682; and 20 acres Edward himself purchased on 12 Nov 1700 for a total of 735 acres; this shows Edward received his inheritance while his father was still living.

6.  Nicholas Ware I (c1642 co. Kent, England-Aft 1713)  On 21 Aug 1665, he patented a total of 386 acres with John Garrett in New Kent Co., next to Col. William Claiborne, Edward Cardingbrook and John Ware. According to his son Edward's 1722 patent, Nicholas Ware received a total of 795 acres from Henry Madison. He received 415 acres in 1680 and an additional 380 acres soon after. The 380 acres belonged to Henry's father, John Madison, Sr. of Queen's Creek, York Co., who was living adj. Col. William Taylor. In 1664, John Madison and John Pigg divided a patent of 1030 acres in New Kent. Nicholas appears on the 1704 Virginia Quit Rent Rolls charged with 718 acres. This 718 acres consisted of 536 acres he patented with John Darwood on 23 Apr 1681. The remaining 182 acres was his part of the 386 acres patented with John Garrett on 21 Aug 1665. John Garrett re-patented 204 acres on 26 Apr 1680, adjacent Cardingbrook and Jennings and previously re-patented same on 24 Feb 1675. In a 1713 deed, his son is referred to a Nicholas Ware, Jr., which indicates he was still living at that time. "Grandma's Book" by Eron M. Sharp, dated 1960, states: "Nicholas Ware, the first ancestor who lived in Stratton-Major Parish had married Jenny Garrett, and they settled there in 1665." Nicholas is first mentioned in 1660, when he and his brother Peter signed as witnesses of a deposition given by Francis Carpenter for Thomas Bucke's estate. He and Jenny married about 1667. She was likely the daughter of John Garrett of Upper Norfolk Co., who received 400 acres on 22 May 1642 upon Indian Creek on the Western Branch of the Nansemond River.

7.  FNU Ware (c1644-Bfr 1657) in 1657 Mary Hickes attended Orphan's Court to request division of property of the deceased orphans of Peter Ware to the remaining children.

8.  FNU Ware (c1646-Bfr 1657) in 1657 Mary Hickes attended Orphan's Court to request division of property of the deceased orphans of Peter Ware to the remaining children.

     In 1620, Edwin Bennett, an influential citizen of London, established a settlement called Nansemond located near Isle of Wight, VA.  That same year his nephew, Rev. Richard Bennett, arrived aboard the "Seafloure" with his brother, Rev. William Bennett, and Mrs. Utie and her son John.  The Rev. Thomas Harrison also labored with them.  

     Nansemond soon became the great center of the dissenting idea, and was most influential in the propagating of the views of the non-conformists and dissenters.  Rev. Richard Bennett and his group of Puritans moved from Isle of Wight Co. to Nansemond Co. shortly before 1635.  

     Rev. William Bennett was succeeded by Rev. Henry Jacob.  On June 3, 1635, Rev. George White, Robert Newman and Richard Bennett, along with others, patented hundreds of acres along the Nansemond River.  Early neighbors living along Indian Creek in Nansemond County were:  Thomas Powell, James Long, Hugh Sanders, John Bryan, John Garrett, William Powell and William Scott.   

      In 1628 Richard Bennett arrived to manage "Bennett's Welcome" in Isle of Wight, his uncle Edward Bennett's estate. By 1640, he had thousands of acres in both Virginia and Maryland and imported over 600 settlers, mostly Puritans.  He was also successful in recruiting three Puritan ministers from Plymouth to Upper Norfolk Co., VA, and in 1646 he organized a mercenary Puritan army to assist the exiled governor of Maryland, Leonard Calvert. Many of these mercenaries remained in Maryland and became the vanguard of a vast Puritan migration to that colony between 1648-1650.  Bennett's commercial and political connections included William Claiborne of Virginia and Maurice Thompson, a London merchant, allowing him to engage in profitable commerce between Virginia, Maryland, England and the Netherlands.  

     Thomas Hatche and Joane Brissenden of Tenterden, co. Kent, were the parents of Winifred Hatche, wife of 1. Richard Wills 2. Stephen Hatherly and 3. Stephen Huckstep.  Her brother John Hatche married Dorothy Philpott.  Sarah Tilden, daughter of Nathaniel Tilden, [son of Thomas Tilden and Alice Biggs], and Lydia Huckstep, [daughter of Stephen Huckstep and Winnifred Hatch], married George Sutton in 1635 in Scituate, Plymouth Colony.  Their son Nathaniel Sutton married Deborah Austin in Nansemond Co., Virginia on 12 Aug 1668. 

     Upon Nathaniel Tilden’s marriage to his second wife, Elinore Hubbard, he became stepfather to Robert Cushman, the London based agent of the Leyden Pilgrims.  William Bradford, the first governor of the Plymouth Colony, had once lived in Amsterdam with the separatists. He married Dorothy Maye, a cousin of Martin Maye of Old Romney who is mentioned in the will of John Hatche.  

     On 23 Dec 1714, John May, Robert Farish and John Pigg patented 2,000 acres in a fork of the Mattapony River in New Kent Co.  A John May was born c1668 in Scituate, Plymouth Colony and married Anne Warren on 8 Apr 1712, however, he died on 3 Jun 1754 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., MA, so the Virginia John May was likely from another branch of this family.   

     William Claiborne, also from Kent, named his Maryland settlement, "Kent Island," and later named his settlement in Virginia "New Kent" Co.  A New Kent Co. deed shows William sold a portion of this property, "to Peter Ware [Jr.] and making a "free gift" of 100 acres to Matthew Jennings, chirurgeon,"  according to Virginia Patent Bk. 7, p. 77 dated Apr. 23, 1681.  In William Claiborne of Virginia: with some account of his pedigree By John Herbert Claiborne, the following is written, "As for Claiborne, he was a Church of England man, and affiliated himself with the Puritans."  

     William Claiborne served with Richard Bennett of Nansemond on the Puritan Commission appointed to bring the colonies of Maryland and Virginia into line during the Cromwell Protectorate.  With the restoration of Charles II to the English throne, the influence of the puritan movement in England and in Virginia diminished. Most of the remaining Puritans became Quakers, particularly after the visit of George Fox and Wiliam Edmundson in 1672. 

     A known convert of Edmundson and Fox was Richard Bennett, and many surmise William Claiborne became a convert at that time as well.  George Fox in his journal writes of Bennett, "He was a solid wise man, received the truth and died in the same, leaving two Friends his executors.  As the history of the Eastern Shore unfolds, we discover Puritans and Pilgrims from England, New England and New Netherlands, as well as Quakers and Presbyterians, were setting their sights on the Eastern Shore to practice their faith unmolested.  

     The Mayflower Compact was signed by the Pilgrims from Holland and others who joined them on the Mayflower who were referred to as "strangers".  John Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, William Brewster, Isaac Allerton, Miles Standish, John Alden, Samuel Fuller, Christopher Martin, William Mullins, William White, James Chilton, John Craxton, John Billington, Richard Warren, John Howland, Steven Hopkins, Edward Tilly, Francis Cook, Thomas Rogers, Thomas Tinker, John Rigdale, Edward Fuller, John Turner, Francis Eaton, Moses Fletcher, Digery Priest, Thomas Williams, Gilbert Winslow, Edmond Margeson, Peter Brown, Richard Bitteridge, Richard Clark, Richard Gardiner, John Allerton, Thomas English, Edward Doten, Edward Liester, John Goodman and George Soule.

     In 1616, upon his return to London, Jacob formed the first Independent Church of England with the following initial members.  They continued to meet in secret, mainly in the homes of members:  John Allen, Thomas Allen, Mrs. Allen, Brother Arnold, Thomas Arundel, Mary Atkin, William Atwood, Praise God Barebone, Sarah Barebone, Mrs. Barnett, Mr. Bates, William Batty, Humphrey Barnard, Richard Blunt, Rice Boy, Richard Browne, Daniel Chidley, Mrs Chitwood, Brother Cradock, James Cudworth, Abigail De Lamar, Elizabeth Denne, Mrs Digeby, Henry Dod, Sister Dry, Brother Dupper, Thomas Dyer, Samuel Eaton, John Egge, Edward Farre, Joan Ferne Widow, John Fenner, John Flower, Mr. Gibs, Mr. Glover, Henry Goodall, Ralph Grafton, Wm Granger, Brother Green, Mary Greenway, Mrs Hammond, Jane Harris, Thomas Harris, William Harris, Widow Harvey, Saml Howes, Peninah Howes, John Ireland, Henry Jacob, Sara Jacob, Henry January, William Jennings, John Jerrow, Henry Jessey, Sarah Jones, Thomas Jones, Manasses Kenton, William Kiffin, Mr Laberton, Mrs Laberton, John Lothropp, Robert Linnell, Mrs. Linnell, Mrs Lovel, Mark Lucar, John Melbourne, Elizabeth Melbourne, Mabel Melbourne, Brother & Sister Morton, Widow Norton, Henry Parker, Henry Penn, William Pickering, Mary Price, David Prior, Stephen Puckle, John Ravenscroft, Robert Reignolds, William Russell, Elizabeth Sergeant, Thomas Sheppard, Roger Smith, John Spencer, Sabine Straismore, Mrs Swinerton, Toby Talbot, William Throughton, John Trask, Katherine Treadwell, Richard Treadwell, John Trimber, Hugh Vessey, Joshua Warren, Widow White, G. Wiffield, Benjamin Wilkins, Thomas Wilson, Phyllis Wilson, Susan Wilson, Alice Wincoop, Rebecca Wincoop, Elizabeth Wincoop, John Woodwin.  

     Names mentioned in early Virginia, Scituate, Barnstable and Dedham are:  Bacon, Biggs, Bird, Briggs, Brown, Bryant, Buck, Chambers, Clapp, Coleman, Cooke, Curtis, Ford, Foster, Garrett, Gilson, Hall, Hayward, Hill, Holmes, Huckstep, James, King, Lewis, Mayo, Mitchell, Morris, Osborne, Palmer, Payne, Pierce, Rawlins, Robinson, Rogers, Sayer, Smith, Sutton, Tilden, Turner, Vassall, Ware, Williams, White and Wood.  

     On Apr. 16, 1683, Mr. William Sayer patented 550 acres in New Kent Co. on the north side of the Mattaponi River beginning at Mr. Nicholas Ware's path; by John Taylor; to Meade's Corner; adj. Mr. Hall; Mr. Robert Hill and Mr. Henry Biggs; by Chiscake Path, to Mr. Light; Crossing Bridge Br. to Mr. Nicholas Ware.  (Cavaliers and Pioneers, Pat. Book 7, Pg. 262).  

     On  Aug. 9, 1693, William Todd and Ignatius Turner witnessed the will of Samuel Huckstep of Stratton Major Parish, King and Queen Co.; both Huckstep and Turner were from Scituate.  

     In 1647, Peter Ware [Sr.] was attorney for Robert Lewis in a case involving William Todd.  

     In  Nell Marion Nugent's Cavaliers and pioneer, Abstracts of Virqinia Land Patents and Grants, 1632-1666, John Garrett and Nicholas Ware, received 386 acres in New Rent, Virginia, on Aug. 21, 1665. This land was located on the northside of the Mattapony River for transporting eight persons: Sarah Dibdall [wife of Rev. John Dibdall of Surry Co.] Jim White [probably related to Rev. George White], Rowland Lurs, William Bryan, La. Boucher, Fran Cooke, Agnes Buck [probably related to Isaac Buck of Scituate who purchased a house once belonging to Resolved White, brother-in-law of Nicholas Ware].  

     In 1660 Peter Ware, Jr. and Nicholas Ware witnessed a deposition given by Francis Carpenter for Thomas Bucke's estate.   

    On 24 Sep 1647, Peter Ware, James Besouth, Philip Walker, William Coxe appraised estate of Robert Jackson, deceased.  Appraisal of other property of Robert Jackson was signed by Peter Ware. (Beverly Fleet, VA. Colonial. Abstract 25, York Co. Page 37, 53)  James Besouth was the brother of Elizabeth Besouth who married Richard Harrison.  Richard Lee is assignee of Robert Bouth (also called Besouth) for 357 lbs. tobacco. (Beverly Fleet, VA Colonial Abstract, York Co., Vol. 25, Page 57)  

     On 16 Sep 1657, Gervase Dodson patented 5200 acres in Westmoreland for transporting 2200 persons, two of which were Mary Hix and Peter Ware (Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book 4).  In May 1660, Gervase Dodson was among a group of Quakers apprehended and made to appear before the court.  Before his death, Dodson was publicly whipped for being caught at a house at night with several Quakers.  He was charged with plotting against the Crown.  The home owner was fined an extreme sum, and a book “Perkins & His Works” was confiscated. 

     In his lifetime, William Perkins, born 1558, attained enormous popularity, with sales of his works eventually surpassing even Calvin's. From his position at Cambridge, Perkins was able to influence a whole generation of English churchmen.  John Robinson, the founder of congregationalism in Leiden and pastor of the group which went on to found the Plymouth Colony, was one of his pupils.

     On 25 Sep 1657, Richard Russell received 1,000 acres in Northumberland Co. about William Presley and adj. Gervase Dodson and towards Col. Claiborne for Trans. Of 20 persons, one of which was Richard Eaton.  On 8 Dec 1653 John Hunt and Thomas Harwood were administrators of the estate of John Eaton.

WILL OF JOHN HATCHE

NICHOLAS WARE I 

CHILDREN:     

1.  Edward Ware b.  c1678 d. Aft 1744, is identified as the son of Nicholas Ware I in 1722 when he re-patents land his father patented on 29 Nov 1680.  The Virginia 1704 Quit Rent shows he was charged with 735 acres in King and Queen Co. VA.  This includes two of his fathers patents; 415 acres on 29 Nov 1680 from Henry Madison, and 300 acres on 22 Sep 1682 for 6 headrights.  The remaining 20 acres were purchased by Edward on 12 Nov 1700, giving him a total of 735 acres.  This reveals Edward received his portion of his father's estate during his father's lifetime. From 1740-1744, he was granted a license to keep an ordinary near Conway's Warehouse in Caroline Co., his brother Nicholas provided his security for several license renewals.  

2.  Nicholas Ware II b. c1686,Stratton Major Parish, New Kent Co., VA d. 1744 St. Mary's Parish, Caroline Co.  An Essex Co. patent dated 6 May 1713, identifies him as Nicholas Ware, “Jr.”  of Stratton Major Parish, indicating his father was still living in 1713.  A 1722 deed names his brother Edward as the son of Nicholas Ware, this deed states Nicholas Ware purchased land from Henry Madison in 1680.  A 1713 Essex Co. patent identified him as "Nicholas Ware, Jr." of Stratton Major Parish, King & Queen Co.; this 1713 patent was from Richard Long for 5 shillings, [the 5 shillings denotes a "token" sum, and he was likely his father-in-law].  This land was adj. William Harrison, Samuel Elliott, John Buckner and John Long. A 1734 Caroline County court ordered him to assist with building a new road.  He was to have Gabriel Long, [son of Richard who m. Margaret Harrison], John Holloway, Nicholas Ware, Jr. and John Garrett's people to assist. In 1727 John Buckner of Essex Co. sold him 310 acres near Ware's bridge, adj. Golden Vale Swamp, John Holloway and Persimmon Branch. In 1728 he was granted 1000 acres in the fork of the Rapidan River in St. George's Parish, Spotsylvania Co., VA; he sold 500 acres in 1733, and the other 500 acres in 1740 to Jeremiah Rawlings.  A land deed shows a Jeremiah Rawlings, dec’d, lived next to Nicholas Ware in New Kent Co.  In 1741 Nicholas was appointed Constable in Caroline Co., and the same year he and John Dillard proved the will of William Harrison. In 1744 he mentions in his will his sons Edward and Nicholas; John Dillard is identified as the writer.

     Edward Ware b. c1700, son of Valentine Ware, Jr.,  married Lucy [Powell or Sanders], who in 1748 was appointed executor of his estate.  Her securities were James Powell and Silvanus Sanders.  After Edward's death, she married Col. James Lindsay b. 1700 d. 12 Apr 1782, of Caroline Co., widow of Sarah Daniel b. bfr. bap. 23 Feb 1704 d. bet. 15 Jan 1747-1750, d/o William Daniel and Mary Williams.  William Daniel gave James Lindsay "my son-in-law" 116 acres purchased of William Berry.  On 8 Feb 1751, James Lindsay was appointed guardian for Mary, orphan of Edward Ware.  Edward purchased land in 1744 in Orange Co. from Richard Mauldin, which was sold in 1770 by Elizabeth and Jane, children of his brother Henry Ware.

     Henry Ware, b. c1708 d. 7 Oct 1750/7 Dec 1750 King George Co. VA, son of Valentine Ware, Jr. and brother of the aforementioned Edward, married [Elizabeth or Jane] Markham Aft. 6 May 1727.  His 1750 will names his brother John and son Markham b. 1735 King George Co., VA d. 1831 Gosport, Indiana.  Markham married Clara Lindsay, niece of Col. James Lindsay who married Lucy, widow of his brother Edward Ware.  Col. James Lindsay was widow of Sarah Daniel bap. 23 Feb 1704 d. 1747-Abt 1750, d/o William Daniel and Mary Williams.  Mary's father, Robert Williams, of Essex, made deed of gift to his step-children, "when my son-in-law William Daniel shall see fit." on 16 Aug 1715.  In 1739 Henry was living in Constable James Pickett’s Orange Co. precinct south of the Robinson River with 3 tithes.  In 1770 Henry's daughters, Elizabeth and Jane, are identified when property in Orange Co. was sold with their brother Markham Ware. His brother Edward Ware originally purchased this same property from Richard Mauldin in 1744. 

      Information helping to identify three sons of Valentine Ware, Jr., came from Pamunkey Neighbors by Sam Sparacio.  An abstract of the will of Henry Ware of King George Co., VA, dated 7 October 1750, mentions son Markham and leaves him lands in Goochland Co., the other children are not named. His wife and brother John Ware are named executors.   In 1749 Henry Ware of Hanover Parish, King George Co., VA bought 170 acres on Tuckahoe Creek, Goochland Co., Deed Book 6, page 39.  Henry’s will also mentions land in Orange Co. to be divided among his children.  Later his children, Markham, Jane and Elizabeth, sell this property, and the description is identical to land purchased in 1744 by Edward Ware, spouse of Lucy, from Richard Mauldin.

     On 15 Aug 1711 Henry Ware, b, c1690, son of Valentine Ware, Sr., King and Queen Co., married Margaret Daniel, d. 6 May 1727 per Christ Church Parish Records, Middlesex Co., VA.  An excerpt of the will of her father, Robert Daniel, spouse of Margaret Price Daniel, written 23 Dec 1720, names: wife Margaret, sons Robert, Harry, Garrett, James, daughters Margaret Ware and Jane Segar.  Witnesses were John Bryant, Mary Hunt and John Owens. Source: VA Middlesex Will Book 1713-1734.  Jane Segar married 12 May 1720 Oliver Segar and several years after his death on 26 Mar 1734, she married 15 Aug 1738 Robert Dudley.

     What little we know about Jenny Garrett came from "Grandma's Book" written by Eron M. Sharp, dated 1960:  "Grandma used to tell of her grandfather who died the year that she was born, she had heard much about him.  Robert Ware, born in 1781, was the son of Nicholas Ware and Mary Matthews Ware.  Nicholas Ware was the son of Henry Ware and Martha Garrett who had moved from Caroline County, Virginia to Edgefield County, S.C. as early as 1773, and had moved over into Wilkes County, Georgia, as early as 1776. Henry Ware and several of his sons were active in the Revolutionary War in fighting for American Independence, and his son, Nicholas Ware, as a reward for his part in the war, had received several hundred acres of good land in Lincoln County, Georgia, which formed the nucleus of the Ware property, to which many acres were added in the years to follow.   Mary Matthews Ware, the grandmother of Joseph B. Ware, was descended from another old Colonial Virginia family, the first immigrant of this family being Governor Samuel Matthews, one time Governor of Virginia around 1660. As far as family and pedigree was concerned, the Ware of Lincoln County did not have to bow their heads to anyone.  But they were the kind of people who were not like the "newly rich," having to impress others of their worth.   They were so accustomed and so sure of themselves as to be quite unimpressed with it and to be among the truly big people of the community in a humble and unassuming way.  They were not the richest people of the county, but they ranked among the "top quality" as the negroes used to say of them.  The slaves in the old days were as conscious of the standing of their masters as were the masters, and as proud to belong to "quality folks."  The early Wares of Virginia were devout adherents of the Church of England.  the first ancestors of our line lived in King and Queen County and belonged to Stratton-Major Parish, attending the church there.  A seating plan of this old colonial church shows the Ware pews.  The church was founded in 1665 and members of the Ware family were among the very first communicants.  Several members of the family were vestrymen of the Parish.  Nicholas Ware, the first ancestor who lived in Stratton-Major Parish had married Jenny Garrett, and they settled there in 1665.  A son of theirs, Nicholas Ware, Jr., went up into what is now Caroline County, Virginia, as early certainly as 1713.  He lived in St. Mary's Parish and attended St. Mary's Church.  He died in 1744 in Caroline county, and left two sons named Henry and Nicholas.  Henry and Nicholas Ware, sons of Nicholas of St. Mary's Parish, married sisters, daughters of John Garrett, a relative of some degree of their grandmother Jenny Garrett of Stratton-Major Parish in King and Queen County.  Nicholas married Dolly Garrett and in later life moved to Edgefield County, S.C. where he died, leaving many descendants."    

     In 1787 a man named John Price Posey set fire to the courthouse of New Kent County and burned it completely. He was hanged for his deed, but nothing could restore the Colonial records that told of the early days of New Kent, an enormous county in the 1600's, and the counties that were formed after 1654. These records included those of King & Queen County until 1691, King William County until 1702, Hanover County, Louisa County and Caroline County until 1728. Toward the end of the Civil War a number of counties had sent the records that began after the fire of 1787 to Richmond for safekeeping. These, also, were completely destroyed by fire when Federal forces burned Richmond in April of 1865.  All that remains of this burned county, ravaged by two wars, are a few records collected by Beverley Fleet many years ago, the Quit Rent Rolls of 1704, the priceless abstracts of land patents compiled by Nell Nugent, and the valuable Vestry Book of Stratton Major Parish, transcribed and edited by C. G. Chamberlayne in 1931.

     On 21 Aug 1665, John Garrett and Nicholas Ware acquired 386 acres of land in New Kent Co, (later King and Queen), which lay along Heartquake Creek and the meanders of Wolfe and Cattail Branches on the north side of the Mattaponi River for transporting eight persons to the colony.  (Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1666, Nell Marion Nugent, Vol 1, p. 476).  In 1675 his brother, Peter Ware, patented land adj. Col. William Claiborne, Edward Cardingbrook and John Ware.  A 1683 deed mentions John Garrett being adj. Mr. Cardingbrook.  This land is centered between the existing King and Queen Co. line and the Mattaponi River, below Courthouse Landing and above Melrose Landing. 

     Nicholas Ware, spouse of Ann Vassall, was deceased by 1662, three years prior to the 21 Aug 1665 patent between John Garrett and Nicholas Ware. The eldest child of Nicholas Ware and Ann Vassall would have been under the age of 21 in 1665, as Ann was age 6 in 1635 per the ship’s log book. Colonial law in America states that full majority was reached at the age of 21 and over to perform unrestricted legal actions such as buying land.  In order for this Nicholas to be her son, Ann would need to become his mother by age 15, while all four of her sisters are known to have married after the age of 21.  It is believe Nicholas Ware, spouse of Ann Vassall, was the younger brother of Peter Ware, Sr., spouse of Mary Hickes.  

     After selling his father’s land in Queen's Creek, York Co., in 1675, Peter Ware, Jr. purchased land next to his brother, in New Kent Co., VA, adj. William Claiborne.  Col. William Claiborne was given command of a militia in 1644, which effectively removed all Indians living at the head of the York River, sending them completely out of the region.  To compensate Col. Claiborne for loss of land in Kent Island (later Maryland), which was taken from him and given to the Calvert's, in 1652, he was granted 5,000 acres at the former site of the Indian town he had annihilated in 1644.  This land was located on the Pamunkey River where it joins the Mattaponi to form the York.      

     In 1722 Nicholas Ware is identified as the father of Edward Ware, and also the Nicholas Ware who purchased land in New Kent Co., Stratton Major Parish, on the south side of Dragon Swamp at the mouth of the Timber Branch from Henry Madison in a deed dated 1680.  Nicholas received a total of 795 acres from Henry Madison; he received 415 acres in 1680, and an additional 380 acres soon after.  The 380 acres previously belonged to Henry Madison's father, John Madison, Jr., of Queen's Creek, York Co., Virginia, who lived adj. Col. William Taylor. John patented 1030 acres in New Kent Co. in 1664 with John Pigg, each receiving 515 acres; Madison researchers believe John Madison, Jr. was deceased prior to 1680.  

     In 1675, thousands of New Englander's were massacred by hostile Indians, and residents of the Virginia Colony became convinced the Indians in their region intended to do the same. The Susquehannock, a powerful tribe that moved into the area, started raiding plantations in the winter of 1676, after an attack by settlers claiming a white servant had been killed by a Doeg Indian. The settlers attacked not only the Doeg’s, but also the Susquehannock. The peaceful Ocaneechee Indians, who continued living on the shore of the Matteponi, were forced to flee after an attack by Nathaniel Bacon in 1676. Bacon was able to rally numerous settlers, and acting without the consent of the colony, captured or killed most of the tribe. The fate of the Susquehannock and the Doeg’s remains unknown.

     Gov. Berkeley ordered him captured, and in September Bacon marched on Jamestown itself and burned the capital to the ground. Bacon died of dysentery the following month, and the rebellion collapsed. After the attack, the remaining tribe members accepted their fate, and their leader, Anne, wife of the slain tribal leader Totopotomi, moved them to the Mattaponi Indian Reservation, located on the south bank of the Mattaponi River in King William Co. The tribe was granted land by the government, which was the only lasting agreement the Indians made with Colonial Virginia.  

       The Indians remained an ever-present threat during this time, but to a lesser degree. Pirates were another threat that plagued the early settlers. Many sought land grants on streams away from the Rappahannock for fear of pirates. The pirates harassed the Virginia coast and inland waters in the interest of Holland, who was at war with England. In 1667, the tip of land protruding into the York River, across from Yorktown, was fortified for the settlers’ protection.     

     The Ocaneechee’s, decimated by disease and massacres, were peaceful by the early 1660’s. Settlers moved to New Kent Co. by traveling up the York River to the mouth of the Mattaponi, continuing past the peaceful Mattaponi Indians, to the narrows of the Mattaponi near Poplar Landing. Stratton-Major Parish established in 1664.  Parish records show the Ware’s as Vestrymen of Stratton Major Parish in New Kent Co. during this time.

     Valentine Ware, Sr. was son of Peter Ware, Jr. according to the following three sources: 1) York Co. Deeds, Orders, Wills, Book 1, 1633-57, 1691-94 - Valentine Ware 23 May 1693 of "King and Queen Co,” by deed of sale, states that he is son and heir to Peter Ware, Jr. and Jane his mother confirming the deed of 1675.   2) Beverly Fleet, Abstracts, King and Queen Co. VA pg. 210 -  Valentine Ware of age on 24 May 1693 when his literate mother Jane Ware of King and Queen Co. testified about the estate of Peter Ware deceased in Hampton Parish, York Co. 26 May 1675.  3) VA Colonial Abstracts, Vol. 6 - Valentine Ware testified on behalf of his mother Jane, who wrote, "I Jane Ware of King & Queen Co., empower my son Valentine Ware to acknowledge for me sale by Peter Ware late of York Co., deceased, land in Hampton Parish, York Co. 26 May 1675 to Honorable Nathaniel Bacon,” signed Jane Ware 24 May 1693.        

     In 1693, Valentine Ware, Sr. (believed to be the spouse of Mary Dudley, daughter of William Dudley and Elizabeth Cary), was appointed executor of the will of Hon./Col. Nathaniel Bacon, son of Rev. James Bacon, Rector of Burgate Suffolk, England, and grandson of Sir James Bacon.  Nathaniel, who died without issue, had been both acting Governor of Virginia and President of the King's Council.  Nathaniel Bacon's estate was quite extensive, owning property in both Virginia and England, and would have been a difficult task to administer for the most experienced.  His estate was originally intended for his cousin, Nathaniel Bacon the rebel, but his cousin's untimely death in 1676, dictated he leave his estate to his niece, Abigail Smith.  Abigail married Major Lewis Burwell II, who provided bond for Valentine while performing his duties as executor.    

     Joanna Burwell, daughter of Major Lewis Burwell II and Abigail Smith Burwell, married William Bassett, Jr., son of William Bassett who married Bridget Cary (believed to be the niece of Elizabeth Cary who married William Dudley).  The Bassett family owned 150 acres in 1639 bounding east and west on the Chichohomony north to Pattococok, York Co., VA (later part of New Kent Co.).  This property was located near Felgate’s Creek, and later became known at “Ringfield” after it was sold to Joseph Ring in 1692/3.  According to the book, “The Hoskins of Virginia and Related Families,” it also bordered property owned by Peter Ware. Sr.  

     During 1678, the royal government, at Jamestown, authorized the construction of the first fort for protection from the Indians to be built on the upper reaches of the Mattaponi River, in what is now present-day Caroline Co. Settlement of all the river valleys in Caroline soon followed. Even before Bacon’s Rebellion diminished the possibility of a savage death by Indians, a brave few ventured across the established frontier into what would become Caroline County. Most were a fiercely independent lot, stubbornly holding on to their homesteads. Flaunting the rule of the English King, they became the first Colonial citizens to sever official ties with Great Britain, making important contributions to the history of the United States.    

     Landowners who controlled vast estates used thousands of African Slaves to till the land, and were opposed to further migration of white settlers. Robert Beverley, a wealthy landowner, instituted crop rotation, made permanent improvement in his fields, imported grapevines from England and developed his own strains of wine, stated to be the best in the colony. He also improved livestock, and his interest in horses was to lay the foundation for horse racing in Caroline Co., Virginia.    

     William Dudley, Sr., Mary Dudley's father, participated in Bacon's Rebellion (he died shortly thereafter). According to the Virginia Historical Magazine - Whitehall, Dec. 22, 1677, "Order of King in Council on Petition of Elizabeth Dudley, widow of William Dudley late of Middlesex County, Virginia, on behalf of herself and her three sons setting forth that her husband was forced to administer Bacon's unlawful Oath, but with a salvo to his allegiance to his Majesty and before he would obtain the benefit of his Maj. Pardon. Sir William Berkeley seized fifteen hogsheads of tobacco to his own use, prays restitution. His Majesty being very sensible that many of his poor subjects there must have suffered many hardships in that calamitous time, and desiring they may be restored to all they can justly lay a claim to orders that said petition and papers annexed be referred to Lords of Trade and Plantations for their report when his Majesty will declare his further pleasure."  

     Mary Dudley and Robert Dudley 1533-1588, whose common ancestor was John Dudley Sutton VI, Knight, Baron, b. 25 Dec 1400, Lord Lt. of Ireland. Robert was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I, who made him Earl of Leicester in 1564. Son of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, he assisted his father in a plan to secure Lady Jane Grey's succession to the throne in 1553. John Dudley had taken great trouble to charm and influence King Edward VI; his powerful position as Lord President of the Council was based on his personal ascendancy over the King.

     However, the young King was ailing. John hurriedly married his son Lord Guilford Dudley to Lady Jane Grey, one of Henry VIII's great-nieces and a claimant to the throne. Edward accepted Jane as his heir and, on his death in 1553, Jane assumed the throne. Despite the Council recognizing her claim, the country rallied to Mary, Catherine of Aragon's daughter and a devout Roman Catholic. Jane reigned for nine days and was later executed, as was her husband in 1554. Robert Dudley was condemned to death when the scheme failed, but later pardoned.    

     Robert Dudley's dashing personality and good looks made him Elizabeth's favorite courtier from her accession in 1558. At one time, Elizabeth considered marrying him had not his wife, Amy Robsart, died under unusual circumstances in 1560. Many suspected Dudley had murdered her, but there was no evidence to implicate him, nor did he lose influence with the queen. He was given Kenilworth Castle, near Coventry, in 1563 and ennobled in 1564.

     Elizabeth later tried to marry him to Mary, Queen of Scots, who rejected the proposal. In 1578, he succeeded in alienating Elizabeth by marrying the widow of the 1st Earl of Essex. Queen Elizabeth never married and became known as the "Virgin Queen," and the namesake for the Virginia Colony.   

NICHOLAS WARE II 

KNOWN CHILDREN: 

1.  Nicholas Ware III, b. 12/29/1709 d. 11/10/1799 m. 1) Sarah Munday b. Abt 1712 m. Bfr. 27 Oct 1739 and 2) Dorothy "Dolly" Garrett b. Abt. 1710 m. Aft. 5 Apr 1750
2.  John Ware, b. c1712 m. Bfr. 1739 Mary Munday, in June 1750, John Ware of St. Stephens Parish King & Queen Co. sold to Richard Jones, Jr. of South Farnham, Essex Co., 30 acres of Essex land adj. to Ridge Rd. the dividing line of said Ware and Jones.
3.  James Ware, 15 Nov 1714 m. Agnes Todd of Gloucester Co. c1735, his son Nicholas b. 8/12/1739 moved to Abbeville, SC, and became known as the “Abbeville” Nicholas. Agnes' surname has been verified by the Ware / Webb Family Bible which states, "James Ware Sr  born Nov 15, 1714  Agnes Todd wife of James Ware Sr was born Dec 20 1714."  It also names each of their children with accurate dates of birth.

4.  Elizabeth Ware, b. c1716 m. Edward Garrett, son of John Garrett and Frances Buckner.  Their son Edward Garrett, Jr. m. Ann West Owsley, and they named a son Nicholas Ware Garrett.
5.  Edward Ware, c1722 m. Lettice "Letty" Powell
6.  Henry Ware, Sr., (Capt.) c1726 m. Martha "Patsy" Garrett, d/o John Garrett and Frances Dudley.

     The eldest son of Nicholas Ware II and Ms. Long was Nicholas Ware III, b. 29 Dec 1709 in Stratton Major Parish, New Kent Co., VA, and d. 10 Nov 1799 in Edgefield Co. VA at age 90.  He married first Sarah Munday and secondly Dorothy "Dolly" Garrett, daughter of John Garrett, and sister of Martha Garrett who married his brother Henry. 

The children of Nicholas Ware and Sarah Munday: 

1.  Henry Ware b. c1744; 

2.  Reuben Ware, born 1746 and died 1803, married Susan Graves.  A letter regarding the lineage of Rueben Ware found in the Ware Family File in the Frankfort Historical Library, Mrs. Leadru Ware Kirby of Missouri states, “Rueben Ware was born in Caroline County, Virginia, moved to Franklin Co. KY and died in 1803. Reuben was born in 1746 and married Susan Graves.” She lists the parents of Reuben Ware as Nicholas and Dolly (Garrett) Ware. Reuben “moved to Kentucky with his sister Sarah Ware Samuel and other Ware relatives to settle in Shelby County.” Their children are listed as Thomas; William; Nicholas; Mary (Polly) who married Rev. George Waller.”  The National Society of Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, Vol. XXXIV, p. 81, states: Reuben Ware served in the 5th and 9th Virginia Continental Lines and married Susan "unknown."   His father, Nicholas Ware III, was born 29 December 1709 and died 10 November 1799, he married 1) Sarah Munday, daughter of John Munday and Elizabeth Harrison (the mother of his children) and 2) Dorothy “Dolly” Garrett, daughter of John Garrett and Frances Dudley.  In Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories, By Junie Estelle Stewart King, the following is written:  Ware, Reuben.  May 1803.  Apprs:  Giles Samuels, Thomas Settle, Daniel Peak; 

3.  Sarah Ware b. c1746 m. William Samuel /Samuels b. c1746 son of Robert Samuel / Samuels and Lucy William / Williams Wilder states, "Sarah Ware, dau of No. Fl. (Edgefield) Nicholas Ware (IV) wife Dolly Garrett Ware) b. in Va. and William Samuel - they went to Kentucky with her brother.";

4.  Robert Ware (Capt) 5 Apr 1750 Caroline Co., VA-4 Nov 1817 Edgefield District, SC m. Margaret "Peggy" Tankersley c1750/1 Caroline Co. VA-22 Dec 1829 Edgefield Co. SC, d/o Joseph and Susannah (Thompson) Tankersley.

     This new information on Nicholas Ware b. 29 Dec 1709 came from The Library of Virginia which has a search engine of their holdings at www.lva.virginia.gov.  Charles "Chuck" Tucker was doing a search for Tucker and found this listing: Ware-Tucker-Turnbull family Bible record, 1709-1930 (microform) and 28126 Miscellaneous reel 445, which contained a wealth of information.

     Sarah Munday, daughter of John Munday, [son of Thomas who died in 1703], and Elizabeth Harrison, daughter of Andrew Harrison and Eleanor [Long] Elliott.  In the will of John Munday dated 27 Oct 1739, St. Ann's Parish, Essex Co. names sons John, Thomas, Joseph, Charles, Harrison [a minor] and Ambrose [a minor].  Daughters were Sarah Ware, Mary Ware, Margaret, Winifred, Tabitha, Wife and Executrix Elizabeth.  On 12 Sep 1735, Nicholas Ware, John Long, Wm. Harrison and John Munday appraised the estate of Baldwin Collown.

     At this time, there were numerous small patents of land. Small landowners were in a better position to prosper if they were not dependent upon the limited supply of labor. These holders of small grants became affluent members of the ever-growing community. The tobacco business was booming, the English loved the taste of the American tobacco developed by John Rolfe and could never seem to get enough. The higher demand for tobacco required more land to grow, cultivate and harvest the crop.

     Peumansend Creek, is the general location of the original property owned by Nicholas Ware of St. Mary’s Parish, Caroline Co., VA (originally Essex Co.).  This property was located on Goldenvale Creek, which is west of Rt. 17 below Samuels Corner and above Monroe Corner, VA.  Most of the property was located on the now Fort A. P. Hill  (Ambrose Powell Hill), which is currently the active army's premier live fire and maneuver training center on the east coast serving all branches of the armed forces. The Fort A. P. Hill site describes their location as near Bowling Green, VA and 20 miles southeast of Fredericksburg, VA.

     Edward Ware can be traced back to Nicholas Ware of Caroline Co. when Nicholas provided security for him to operate an Ordinary from his home.  In 1748 after Edward’s death, his wife Lucy was ordered by the Caroline Court to have administration of her husband’s estate, James Powell and Silvanus Sanders were her securities.   She later married Col. James Lindsay of Caroline County and Henry Ware's son Markham married Clara Lindsay, James’ niece.  

     Goochland Co. was formed in 1728 from Henrico County, part of the Shire of Henrico in 1634; it was named for Sir William Gooch, lieutenant governor in 1727-1749. Its county seat is Goochland. From its original territory came Albemarle Co., Amherst Co., part of Appomattox Co., Buckingham Co., Campbell Co. Cumberland Co., Fluvanna Co. (formed in 1777 from a chunk of Albemarle Co. was one of the Commonwealth's smallest counties), Nelson Co. and Powhatan Co.

     Peter Ware, b. c1706, was the son of Valentine Ware, Jr.  In his will dated 1741, we learn he had previously received 214 plus acres on Tuckahoe Creek in Goochland Co., VA from his father, which he then wills to his brother Henry [John Ware to be one of his executors].  There are two land patents by Valentine Ware, Jr. which can be seen on-line at the Virginia State Library Archives showing he patented a total of 429 acres in Tuckahoe Creek (Patent 11, pg. 203, dated 9/5/1723 by Valentine Ware in Henrico Co., 262 acres in the fork of Tuckahoe creek on the north side of the James River; and Patent 12, pg. 122, dated 12/10/1724 by Valentine Ware in Henrico Co., 167 acres on the north side of the James River, in a great fork of Tuckahoe Creek. By dividing 429, you have 214 plus acres, the amount each brother received from their father, Valentine Ware, Jr.

     John Ware, son of Peter Ware and Judith Scott and grandson of Valentine Ware, Jr. born ca 1736 and died 1801, married Mary Watson.  He served in the Goochland County Militia in 1777 as Captain.  He was the son of Peter Ware and Judith Scott and the grandson of Valentine Ware, Jr.  He was often referred to as being from "Old Albemarle,” and was one of the first inhabitants of the Seven Islands.   The Buckingham District Battalion was organized in September 1775, using the old independent company of Albemarle as a nucleus. Among the Companies formed from September 1775 to May 1776 was the company of Captain John Ware, Albemarle County, September 1775. The battalion held its first muster near Rockfish Gap in mid-September. Enlistments in the regular service depleted the battalion, and five of its companies were merged into the 2nd Minute Battalion, commanded by Colonel Charles Lewis. He was  named in the will of his father, Peter Ware, which states:  "I give and bequeath unto my son John... half the land I hold in Goochland near the Seven Islands namely half the back land and half the Island when of age."  This land was in the western portion of Goochland and in 1744 it became Albemarle Co. and in 1749 it became Fluvanna Co.  According to the Alexander Brown, Esq. papers held in the Special Collections Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia: John Ware from Old Albemarle served in the French and Indian War in 1755.  Cavaliers and Pioneers, Vol. 8 p. 8, shows he received bounty land in KY for his service.  The Will of John Ware of Fluvanna Co., sick and weak…tract of land known as Fork Ordinary may be sold and applied to discharging a debt due the  Commonwealth…land lying in Buckingham which is in dispute (and a suit in chancery now pending between myself and Robert Cary)… sons:  Washington  Ware, Ulysses Ware, John Ware, daughter:  Polly Ware…tract of land known as  Seven Islands whereon I now live.  Exors:  Sons Washington and Ulysses… Made 10 August 1801, Witness:  John Miller, Samuel Glass   Signed/ John Ware.  8 Sept. 1801 produced in court Peter Henry Ware,  Security  Fluvanna WB 1: 223.

     Peter's daughter Jane married Robert Hunter, a deed found in Clarke Co., GA shows that John Hunter of Guilford Co., NC in 1777 leaves a deed of gift to his grandchildren, named in the deed are:  Nancy Ware, John Ware, Pauline Ware, Jane Ware, Samuel Scott Ware, Alexander Harrison, Rachel Ware Hunter and John Ware Hunter.  From this it appears Henry Ware, Judith's brother, married Nancy Hunter and had Nancy, John, Pauline, Jane and Samuel Scott.  Nancy was named after his wife, John after his brother, Pauline after his half-sister (Pauline Jordan who married John Cabell), Jane after his sister, and Samuel Scott Ware after his stepfather, Samuel Jordan, and of course his mother's maiden name.  Jane named her children Rachel Ware Hunter, most likely after Robert's mother, and John Ware Hunter after his father.

     A few citizens enjoyed the income from established plantations, but many were still in the process of carving out a meager existence in the wilderness. Half the county was landless, being slaves or white indentured servants. The population of 5,000 was scattered over 350,000 acres. Settlers had one thing in common, tobacco, there were no towns, few churches, and three small trading centers, and many did not even know their neighbors. In 1732 a road opened designed to roll oxen-pulled hogheads packed with tobacco, hitched to an axle drum through the center, and tobacco began to roll towards the river.

     Valentine’s father-in-law, Col. William Leigh, was born about 1654 in York Co. and married Mary Green, believed to be the daughter of Charles Green and Elizabeth Iverson. He had been a King and Queen Co. Burgess and Militia Capt., Col. and Commander in Chief, and a member of the August Virginia Council, and the first Judge of the Admiralty Court of VA. In 1703, he was chairman of the VA House of Burgesses. He lived on a branch of the York River and had to cross the York to get to Williamsburg, the seat of VA government. Land patented by Lea from 1682-1699 was in St. Stephens Parish, in King and Queen, except for a large grant in Essex Co.

     In 1705, Lea's 6,200 acres, was inherited by his son John, who married Ann Taylor. Elizabeth, John’s daughter, married Zachary Taylor and was the president’s grandmother. His son, William, married Frances Major, and their daughter Sarah married George Penn, brother of John Penn, whose grandson, John Penn, signed the Declaration of Independence.

     After her husband’s death, Mary Leigh and her sons-in-law, Valentine Ware, and William Haines, obtained two patents in King and Queen Co. on 2 May 1705.  The first for 600 acres (land patent book 5, pg. 488, and book 9, pg. 657), and the second for 260 acres (deed K&Q 1731-1).  This land was originally New Kent Co. adjacent Peter Ware, Jr., which he bought from Col. William Claybourne.  On 4 Dec 1714, William, son of Col. William Leigh, purchased 100 acres in King and Queen Co. from Thomas Ware, deceased, located next to John Madison’s Mill North of the Mattaponi River in St. Stephens Parish (Land Patent Book 10, pg. 214 Virginia State Library).

     According to "Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia", by Bishop Meade, Page 376, Article XXXIII. The following list of vestrymen in Stratton Major Parish, commencing in 1739, will show who were the leading men in all the civil and ecclesiastical matters of the parish and county: Richard Roy, Richard Johnson, Henry Hickman, Edward Ware, Thomas Foster, Thomas Dudley, John Collier, Gawin Corbin, Valentine Ware, Roger Gregory, Richard Anderson, John Robinson, Benjamin Needler, Robert Dudley, John Livingston, Robert Gaines, Philip Roots, John Ware, Richard Shackleford, William Taliafero, John Strakey, William Lyne, Charles Collier, Thomas Thorpe, Thomas Langford, John Shackleford, John Foster, Philip Roots, Francis Gaines, John Whiting, Thomas Reade Roots, John Whiting, James Prior, Thomas Dillard, Lyne Shackleford, Hon. Richard Corbin, William Hall, John Taylor Corbin, Benjamin Robinson, Humphrey Garrett, Richard Bray, James Didlake, Philip Taliafero, Lyne Shackleford, Jr., Thomas Dillard, John Kidd.

     In "Wingfield's History of Caroline County, Va." by Marshall Wingfield, the following is written: "Some counties contained several parishes, and some parishes embraced more than one county.  The law required that churches be so situated that all inhabitants might attend them without any great inconvenience, and as a result churches were found on an average from ten to fifteen miles apart, according to the density of population.  The parish vestry consisted of twelve of the most prominent and substantial men of the parish, and divided with the court the responsibility for the public welfare of their respective communities". 

     In 1739, Nicholas Ware II appraised the estate of Thomas Powell of Caroline Co., Tyler Abstracts, p. 51, he is believe to be closely related to Letitia Powell who married Edward Ware.  

     In 1740 Nicholas Ware II of St. Mary's Parish Caroline Co. sold to Jeremiah Rollins of Drysdale Parish, King and Queen Co., 500 acres in St. Mark's Parish being half of a patent granted to Nicholas Ware 28 Sep 1728, which was sold for consideration of 60 lbs. current money of Virginia.  Deed Book 4, pg. 178.

     In  1741 - Nicholas Ware II was appointed Constable in Caroline Co., VA.  Source: Early Ware's in Virginia, obtained from the Historical Society, Richmond, VA.  The sheriffs were assisted by county court appointed constables, one per district. The constable's duties included serving as bailiff, enforcing the law, and maintaining order.  They collected fines for small offences, whipped criminals, arrested violators of the revenue laws, accompanied those who searched places suspected of containing smuggled goods, and had sole charge of runaway sailors, servants and slaves.  To these were added the duties of visiting tobacco fields and destroying all inferior growths, such as "seconds" or "suckers," the killing of stray dogs, and superfluous dogs about the "quarters," and the execution of the game laws.  It was an unpopular job, since it involved enforcing some highly unpopular laws. The constable served no set term, but rather served until he resigned, moved, died, or was fired. There was a fairly high mortality rate among Virginia constables. Most Caroline constables either resigned or were fired for not enforcing a law.  The constable's fees, like the fees of many other officers of that period, were paid in tobacco, for summoning a witness, five; for summoning coroner's jury and witnesses, fifty; for putting person in the stocks, ten; for whipping a person, ten; and for removing from the parish any person suspected of becoming a public charge, two pounds for every mile traveled going and returning.  He also received one pound of tobacco out of the county levy for each titheable in his precinct, and was exempt form payment of taxes, and from jury service, while in office.

     In 1744, the Last will and Testament of Nicholas Ware II, deceased, was presented in Court by Nicholas Ware [his son], and others therein named who made oath thereto according to Law and being further proved by the oaths of John Dillard, Benjamin Harrison, and Nathan Hall, witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded by John Dillard, the writer of the will of Nicholas Ware, (who) made oath that the Intention of the Testator was to Leave the negro woman he had lent to his wife during her widowhood to his son Edward during his life, and also the other two negroes, Ben and Sarah. Caroline County, VA, Order Book, 1740-1746, pg. 349. 

     James Ware, son of Nicholas Ware II, and his wife Agnes Todd were the great great grandparents of Lucy Ware Webb, wife of President Rutherford Birchard Hayes.  She was known as "Lemonade Lucy" because she would not allow alcohol to be served in the White House.

HENRY WARE, SR

 

1.  Frances Ware, c1748 m. Thomas Waugh of Bedford, VA
2.  Martha "Patsy" Ware, c1750 m. Edmund Lyon
3.  John Ware, c1752 d. 1795 Franklin Co., GA m. Mary Moss
4.  James Ware (Capt), c1754-1826 Morgan Co., GA m. Mary Tate 1780
5.  Henry Ware, Jr., b. 12/16/1756 d. 11/22/1807 Lincoln Co., GA
6.  Nicholas Ware, b. 1758 Caroline Co., VA d. 1827 Morgan Co., GA   
7.  Robert Ware, b. 10/10/1759 d. 5/18/1827 Montgomery, AL
8.  Sarah Ware, b. 9/15/1762 d. 8/7/1853 Henry Co., GA  

 

Robert Ware, son of Henry Ware, Sr. and Martha Garrett - born 10 Oct 1759

     

     Merchants and tobacco traders flocked to the Caroline warehouse and tavern, a place to lodge and dine. Men of all walks of life met at the tavern to discuss current issues, a

s well as business. In "Colonial Caroline, A History of Caroline County, Virginia," by T. E. Campbell, The Dietz Press Incorporated, Richmond, VA on page 411, Edward Ware (Henry's uncle) maintained a tavern from 1740-1744 near Conway's warehouse. His brother-in-law Robert Garrett was licensed to maintain a stand near Conway's warehouse, and Henry and Nicholas operated a blacksmithing business in this same area.    

     Robert Garrett, Nicholas Ware III, and Henry Ware were sworn to military duty on the same day, 13 Mar 1762; Nicholas and Henry as Lieutenants, and Robert Garrett as a Commissioned Officer in the Caroline Militia.  A Halifax land deed later shows Nicholas as "Col. Nicholas Ware" on 10 Jul 1777.  They took oath to His Majesty's Crown and Government, the first under the Commonwealth of Virginia. Henry married Martha Garrett, and his brother Nicholas married her sister, Dorothy "Dolly" Garrett, daughters of John Garrett and Frances Dudley.      

     The Wares soon left Virginia and made their home in South Carolina, Henry and Martha settled in an area called District Ninety-Six.  After the founding of Charles Towne (near the present city of Charleston, S.C.) late in the 17th Century, trade and commerce increased between coastal residents and Indians of the interior. The Cherokee Path was a primary trade route between Charles Towne and the inland Indian villages, but a number of the paths across SC intersected at Ninety-Six. The name "Ninety-Six" came from an estimate that the site lay ninety-six miles down the Cherokee Path from Keowee, a major Indian town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Because of the intersecting paths and its convenience as a stopover point, the area became a hub for trading many goods and services. Leather and pelts were the principal interest of white traders and were purchased from Indians, white hunters and trappers in exchange for guns, powder, rum and other supplies. 

     One of the most successful white traders was a businessman named Robert Gouedy who established a trading post in the area about 1751. Gouedy prospered here and expanded his commercial enterprises to include money-lending and farming. By the time he died in 1775, Gouedy owned over 1500 acres in the area, and almost 500 people owed him money.  The base of support offered by Gouedy's enterprises and the stores of other tradesmen in the area along with reliable water and fertile bottomlands gave rise to increasing settlement here. At first the Ninety-Six community was a scattering of homes for several miles around, but by the mid-1750's, blacksmith shops and flourmills had complemented existing development.    

     White settlement around Ninety-Six was on the rise, but friction with the Indians also increased. For a decade, Indian attacks were common throughout South Carolina, and settlers sought refuge in frontier forts. Fort Ninety-Six was an example and was built around Robert Gouedy's barn. During the Cherokee War, over 200 Cherokees unsuccessfully attacked this fort in March 1760. Finally, a treaty was signed with the Indians in 1761. According to the treaty, no Indian could travel below Keowee without permission, and the Indian's hunting privileges were also largely surrendered.    

     A resurgence in settlement in the Ninety-Six area followed peace with the Cherokees, and as population increased, demands for schools, churches, good roads and law enforcement arose. With no police, outlaws preyed on local residents. Vigilante groups formed to provide protection. But the justice of these vigilantes was often severe, and the colonial government finally provided the backcountry with law enforcement authority in 1769. This took the form of courthouses and jails to be built in each of seven judicial districts. The law authorizing these structures in the Ninety-Six District specified that the buildings be "within one mile" of Fort Ninety Six. They actually were finished in 1772 about one-half mile north of Fort Ninety-Six and Gouedy Trading Post. Robert Gouedy was able to enjoy the benefits of law enforcement authority without his clientele being intimidated by having a sheriff, jail and courthouse directly across the street from the Gouedy Trading Post.

     The courthouse and jail provided a focus for more development, and the village of Ninety-Six began to evolve. On the eve of the American Revolution, Ninety-Six Village contained at least a dozen buildings (courthouse, jail, homes, blacksmith shop) and was the new center of activity in the area.     

     The area Henry and Martha settled in would not be known as Edgefield until 1785, and just north in Abbeville Co. there's the town of Ware Shoals and Ware Place where "Abbeville" Nicholas settled and started a textile mill.  It was during this time that a land lottery was established for any white man, following the removal all Indians in this area. Henry arrived in the Piedmont area of South Caroline sometime shortly after 1771, with his wife's parents John Garrett and Frances Dudley. His brother Col. Nicholas and wife Dolly Garrett followed on 2 Oct 1782, the date he received his first land grant on Steven's Creek.

     Soon other Wares began to arrive in Edgefield, Capt. Robert Ware (spouse of Margaret Tankersley, and son of Nicholas Ware and Sarah Munday); James Ware (spouse of Mary "Molly" Veal); Edward Ware (spouse of Sarah Thurmond), (these last two were sons of Edward Ware and Lettice Powell); and Nicholas of Abbeville (spouse of Peggy Hodges), son of James and Agnes Todd.  All six became known as those "Six Ware Pioneers" in the Carolina - Georgia section according to William Murtha Wilder’s book, "Wilder and Connecting (especially Ware) Families in the Southeastern United States," printed 15 May 1951.    

     According to John Abney Chapman's, History of Edgefield County:  From the Earliest Settlement to 1897, "The Wares were large landholders in the Edgefield section.  They had an elegant residence near Woodlawn, on an eminence, perhaps the highest in this section, where they lived with ease and elegance, if not in luxury.  Large orchids and brick walls, a distillery and other evidences of wealth and prosperity were noticeable not many years ago.  The beautiful grounds, and house were totally destroyed by fire, and there is no piece of evidence of the old remains -- memories are all that are left of its past."    

 

Capt. Robert Ware and Margaret Tankersley were the grandparents of Susan Margaret Ware (daughter of Nicholas Ware and Susannah Carr) who married Francis Eppes.  Francis was the grandson of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), author of the Declaration of Independence, Governor of Virginia, founder of the University of Virginia and third President of the United States. Nicholas Ware born in Virginia on 16 Feb 1776, son of Capt. Robert Ware and Margaret Tankersley, moved to Augusta, Georgia where he became Mayor and prominent in business circles and political life. He was a United States Senator for Georgia when he died while in New York in 1834. Ware County, Georgia is named for him. He married 1) Mary Randolph and 2) Susannah Carr.          Children of Capt. Robert Ware b. 5 Apr 1750 Caroline Co., VA - d. 11/4/1817 Edgefield Co., SC m. Margaret "Peggy" Tankersley on 29 Dec 1767, daughter of Joseph Tankersley and Susannah Thompson (5 Nov 1750-12/30/1829) c1771 in Spotsylvania Co., VA.  1.  Joseph N. Ware b. 6 Dec 1772 Caroline Co., VA - d. 3/18/1809 Richmond Co., GA, m. Mrs. Elizabeth (Dawson) Howell, widow, on 1/11/1797 was Sheriff of the City of Augusta, GA. Joseph will was signed on 3/18/1801 and probated 5/2/1808 in Richmond Co.  It stated:  "To daughter Polly Arrington, not 17, a slave. Residue to my wife Elizabeth and all my children; Robert Dawson, Polly Arrington, Joseph, Edward Rowell, Henry Britton, and William Ware, sons not 21.  Friends Nicholas Ware, David Reed, Lewis Harris, William Bacon, and my wife Elizabeth."  (GA DAR, Wills, pg 44, in Augusta Genealogical Society Library).    2.  Nicholas Ware (Sen.) b. 16 Feb 1776 Caroline Co., VA - d. 9/7/1824 NY m. 1) Mary Randolph 2 Dec 1800 m. 2) Susan Brooks Carr 12 Jun 1806 d/o Thomas Dabney Carr and Frances Bacon (had Robert Alexander, MD 5/10/1807, Thomas Carr 12/1/1808, Mary Ann Lavonia 6/13/1811, Frances Selina 4/25/1813, Susan M. c1815, Nicholas c1817, Richard Henry c1819 and Caroline Virginia c1821). Nicholas bequeathed to his wife Susan young bay horses and carriage, and equal shares of the residue of his estate to each his wife and minor children.  He also mentioned his brother George.  Will signed 8/16/1824, and Probated 10/25/1824. Original Probate Records found in a folder (loose files on shelf along back wall) in Richmond Co. Court House, Augusta GA.     3.  Sarah Ware b. Caroline Co., VA 3 Aug 1778 - d. 9/19/1855 Edgefield, SC m. Lewis Harris 8 Jun 1795 in Mt. Pleasant, Charleston, SC. d. 9/19/1855 Edgefield, SC m. Lewis Harris 8 Jun 1795 in Mt. Pleasant, Charleston, SC. 4.  Lucy Green Ware b. 2 Aug 1781 Caroline Co., VA m. William Bacon (d. 1811 Augusta, GA) 7 Mar 1803 Augusta Co., GA.   5.  Robert Tankersley Ware b. 17 Dec 1783 Caroline Co., VA d. Jun 1821 m. Elizabeth Stanton 23 Dec 1805 (children Lucy b. 1807, Ann c1809, Margaret c1811 m. c1831 George McKie, Henry c1813 m. Susan Crafton).   6.  Thompson "Thomas" Ware, Col. b. 12 May 1786 Caroline Co., VA - d. 1842 Florida m. Elizabeth D. (Betty) Howell (c1786- 8/11/1828) on 5 Feb 1807 GA. The History of Jefferson County, Florida states,  "In 1837, a large tract of land near Lamont was acquired by Col. Thompson Ware of Edgefield District, SC.  He was born in 1786 and first settled in Georgia, then in 1836, came to Florida."  He called this tract, and the home they built "Wareland".  Thompson was described as a man of "firmness of character and business ability whose life work was shortened by his death in 1842, at age 56."    7.  Susannah Ware b.  11 Nov 1768 Caroline Co., VA - d. 9/23/1812 Edgefield, SC m. Daniel Barksdale Jan 1786. Her will was signed on 9/23/1812, "being sick and weak in body, but of perfect mind and memory", and proved on 12/18/1812.  (Edgefield Co. Will Book "A", pg. 310, Box 6, Pkg. 190) Thomas Meriwether qualified as Executor.    Jan 1786. Her will was signed on 9/23/1812, "being sick and weak in body, but of perfect mind and memory", and proved on 12/18/1812.  (Edgefield Co. Will Book "A", pg. 310, Box 6, Pkg. 190) Thomas Meriwether qualified as Executor.    8.  Henry Ware b. 1 Feb 1789, Caroline Co., VA - d. 9/1817 Edgefield, SC m. Amelia Jones 19 Jun 1817, he died before their first child was born, and his brother Thompson Ware adopted and reared his son Joseph.  Henry died just three months after marrying Amelia Jones, and two months prior to his father's death. Henry's son (by the former Amelia Jones) was mentioned in his father's will, which was signed and dated on Oct. 16, 1817, and probated in Edgefield County on May 21, 1818. 9.  George Green Tankersley (G. T.) Ware b. 8 Feb 1794 Caroline Co., VA - d. aft. 1830 Edgefield, SC m. 24 Feb 1835 Jane E. Middleton, granddaughter of Arthur Middleton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.  Their son, Dr. George G. Ware, was a physician and surgeon of Stanton; he was born in 1835, near Stanton, and is one of eleven children. His father was born in Caroline Co., in 1794, where he was raised and educated, and married, February 6, 1825, and in 1835 moved to Haywood County, where he engaged in farming near Stanton, and remained until his death, April 23, 1862. Mrs. Ware was a granddaughter of Arthur Middleton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.  She was born in South Carolina in 1805, and died in 1875, a worthy member of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. George Ware was educated at the Jackson Male College at Athens, Ga.  He commenced reading medicine when only nineteen, under Dr. Wm. Hewitt, of Stanton; in 1853 he entered Jefferson Medical College at Philadelphia, and graduated in 1856, and since then has practiced at Stanton, carrying a large practice, and being one of the most successful physicians in the county.  Dr. Ware was for a short time surgeon in the Fifth Georgia Regiment (Confederate Army), but was compelled to resign on account of ill health. In September, 1863, he married Miss Lucy A., daughter of William and Elizabeth Waldron, of Edgefield District, S. C., and of ten children born to them, six are living: Carrie M., William W., John H., Robert T., Jennie D., Mary C.  Mrs. Ware was born in South Carolina, October 1845, and died May 6, 1886, a member of the Presbyterian Church.  Dr. Ware is pleasantly located in the western part, of the town, and besides his town residence owns over 1,200 acres of land. In politics he is now a Democrat, but formerly a Whig. He is a member of the Old School Presbyterian Church, and a Mason, and belongs to the K. of H. and K. of P.

      

SENATOR NICHOLAS WARE

     

     Senator Nicholas Ware, as a young child, moved with his parents to Edgefield, S.C., and a few years later to Augusta, GA; received a thorough English education; studied medicine; studied law in Augusta and at Litchfield (CT) Law School; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Augusta; member, State house of representatives 1808-1811, 1814-1815; mayor of Augusta 1819-1821.  

     During his administration, a site was selected and the cornerstone laid for the city courthouse on Green St.  He was elected as a Republican to the US Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Freeman Walker and served from 11/10/1821, until his death in NY City 9/7/1824.  In his honor, Ware County was established on December 15, 1824 by an act of the General Assembly, which was created from portion of Appling Co., (an area of Georgia never visited by Sen. Nicholas Ware).  

     His home in Augusta Co., Georgia (pictured) was build in 1818, at a cost of $40,000, equal to roughly $12 million in today's market, earning it the nickname ``Ware's Folly.''  He was elected to the U.S. Senate the year after his house was built, and reportedly addressed people from the second-story balcony of his house. With its hand-crafted, curving staircase and multitude of imported and expensive woods, the home of Augusta Mayor Nicholas Ware was constructed with great attention to detail.

 

WARE'S FOLLY

     

     A three-story house, extravagant in description, located at the corner of Telfair and Fifth Streets, patterned in the Federal style of architecture, with wood carvings, archways, a hand carved mahogany staircase, and heart pine floors. Gazing up from the basement, one may become dizzy following a spiral staircase winding all the way to the attic.  Off from the center stairway are the living rooms and parlors, which were often used as a dance hall.  It is recorded that the Marquis de Lafayette, on a visit to Augusta, danced the minuet at a ball given in his honor in 1825 at Senator Ware's home.   

     Another Federal characteristics found in Ware's Folly include its elaborate doors with elliptical fan windows, fine detailing at the cornice, dormers in the upper stories and details such as columns, small entry porches, six-over-six paned windows, swags and shutters. The architecture and construction of Ware's Folly may have been inspired by two Charleston, S.C., homes, the Nathaniel Russell House and the Bennett house, and probably was built by a master builder.

     Although he lived in Ware's Folly for only a few years, it is said Ware was particular about its maintenance. When visitors departed his home, he would send a servant out with them to polish the exterior mahogany banister along the horseshoe staircase. After it rained, a servant would rub the exposed wood until it was dry.  Another legend states the window weights contributed to the needs of the Confederacy, producing 2000 pounds of lead for bullets.

     Four years after he died, his widow, Susan, sold the house to Richard and Emily Tubman, who were married there, according to records filed when the home became listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  After the Tubman's sold the home, it changed hands many times. By 1904, the area had become less fashionable, with wealthy people discovering The Hill, and the home sold for only $4,000.    

     At one time, there was talk of demolishing Ware's Folly. In 1932 the Augusta Art Club formed. In 1935, searching for a permanent home, it bought an option to purchase Ware's Folly. The problem was, the club couldn't come up with the money to complete the purchase. Finally, Olivia Herbert, a tobacco heiress and frequent winter visitor to Augusta, came to the rescue. She paid $4,000 for the building and gave it to the art club, and then paid about $40,000 to redo the wiring and plumbing and make other renovations.    

     Another grandson of Capt Robert Ware was William Ware (1801-1853), son of Joseph and Elizabeth Dawson.  He raised and commanded a company of volunteers at the Siege of Bexar and on March 12, 1836, was elected captain of the Second Company of Col. Sidney Sherman's Second Regiment, Texas Volunteers.  He took part in the battle of San Jacinto, where James Washington Winters described his effort "like a wild mustang."  

     In Montgomery County in 1836 William Ware married Elizabeth Ann Crane, the daughter of John Crane. In 1840 he owned 3,864 acres in Montgomery County, as well as eleven horses and seventy-five head of cattle. In 1844 he moved his family, which had now grown to eight children, to Kaufman County where they remained until 1849. The family then moved to a farm on York Creek, twelve miles south of New Braunfels, where Elizabeth Ware died on December 20, 1849. In 1850 Ware's family, eight children and three of his wife's younger siblings, were living on Cibilo Creek in Bexar County, where their property was assessed at $3,500. In 1852 William moved west again, establishing on August 17, 1852, the community of Waresville (now Utopia) in Uvalde County. At that time his was said to be the only Anglo-American family between D'Hanis and the Rio Grande. Ware died at Waresville on March 9, 1853.    

     William Bassett who married Bridget Cary and they were the great grandparents of William Henry Harrison born 2/9/1773, the 9th President of the United States. Harrison, taking office in the mist of a very bad depression, long lines of people were asking him for jobs. He was a kindly man and wanted to help and he worked hard. Worn out by his campaign, his inauguration speech and the favor seekers, Harrison caught cold which soon developed into pneumonia. Harrison is remembered for having the shortest term of all the Presidents, dying only one month after his inauguration.  

     The Bassett's lived in York Co. on the Pamunkey River in 1664 in an area near Felgate's Creek, adjacent land originally belonging to Peter Ware, Sr.  William Bassett was an officer in Rutherford's Regiment at the Battle of Dunkirk; he had the task of securing the defenses for the colony for this he received 10,000 pounds of tobacco.  In his will is mentioned....to my sister Mary Scott.  Mary was born about 1634 married about 1654 Newport Isle of Wight, England to Joseph Foster born about 1634.  He died about 1664 York Co., VA, and Mary then went with her three children, Joseph, Jr., Anne, and Mary to live with her brother William.  About 1663, she married in York Co., VA John Scott.   Joseph Foster, son of Sir Thomas Foster, arrived from Southhampton, England about 1650 and settled in Virginia.  His son Joseph lived at a place called Foster's Castle in New Kent, VA, and it was there that he married Mary Bassett of Eltham.  

     Over the next twenty years many men were charged with, "unlawfully assembling themselves to Teach or Preach the Gospel under the pretense of religion other than according to the Liturgy of the Church of England, not having Episcopal Ordination according to the Canons and dissenting from the Church of England. They were also charged with laboring to persuade many persons in communion of the Church of England to dissent from the same and for raising factions in the minds of his Majesty's Subjects contrary to the laws of the colony and against the Peace of our Lord The King, his Crown and Dignity."     

     Rev. Robert Ware petitioned the Middlesex County Court on June 24, 1771 to allow him to establish a place of public worship in the county, the petition was rejected and Robert Ware, John Waller, James Greenwood and William Webb were put in prison, where they remained forty-six days. Taylor, J. B., Lives of Virginia Baptist Ministers, 2d ed. pp. 79. BO.  

     This path was one of determination for John Waller who became a leader in establishing Baptist Churches across Eastern Virginia during this time.  Waller first appeared about 1766, when he served on a grand jury indictment of Lewis Craig for preaching the Gospel in Spotsylvania Co. Two years later, both were imprisoned together for preaching in that same county.  Although knowing their fate if caught, they continued and were also imprisoned in Hanover, Caroline, Essex and Middlesex Counties, often being physically abused, and on one occasion severely whipped by the sheriff.    

     In 1772 Rev. Waller constituted the Lower King and Queen Baptist Church, of which Robert Ware became the first pastor.  That same year Waller organized the Glebe Landing Church in Middlesex Co., and was soon responsible for the care of five churches.  He left Virginia in 1793 for South Carolina where he open the Siloam Baptist church in 1799.  Nicholas Ware b. 1720 and Dolly Garrett had Reuben b. c1746 whose daughter Mary b. c1766 married the Rev. John Waller, most likely a son of the above Rev. John Waller.    

     Although Henry Ware, Sr. was sworn to military duty in the Caroline Co. Militia on 13 Mar 1762, at age 36, it was not until 1771 that he attained the rank of Captain.  Being a blacksmith, Henry was undoubtedly in excellent shape for the job. The Revolution began in 1776, Henry was 50, two years later he organized and equipped a company of militia at his own expense, which served on active duty during the war, in which all five of his sons, served with him.     

     Early in the battle most enlistees would join and leave the army as they pleased. Weapons and supplies were so scarce that, at one point, Ben Franklin advocated using bows and arrows. At the battle of Guilford Court House, NC in 1781, General Nathaniel Greene placed the inexperienced NC militiamen in front and his more seasoned men in the rear. They were soon forced to retreat, but severely hurt the enemy, forcing it northward to Virginia.   

     In Oct. 1781, Washington's force of 9,000 men and a French force of 7,000 attacked Cornwallis's army at Yorktown. The French fleet under the "Comte de Grasse" blocked Chesapeake Bay, the British fleet could not enter to aid Cornwallis, and the British were defeated ending the war.     

     Henry's sons Nicholas, James, Henry Jr., and Robert Ware returned home safely after the war.  It is not known if his son John died during the war, but he died during this time period, leaving behind two young sons Thomas and Henry, of whom only Henry survived to be named in his grandfather's will in 1801.    

     After returning home from the war, Henry, Sr. received a land grant in Wilkes Co., Georgia (in a part which later became Lincoln Co.) for his service during the war, and soon moved to Wilkes Co., was one of the first seven counties established in Georgia. After settling in, he was selected by the community to hold the office of Justice of the Peace in Wilkes Co., and in 1783 he was chosen to represent Wilkes Co. in the Georgia House of Representatives. In 1798 he was selected to be a Georgia Delegate to the first Constitutional Convention in Louisville, Georgia.  

     Notes for Henry Ware, Sr.:  On 13 Mar 1762, he was sworn to military duty in the Caroline Co. Militia at the rank of Lieutenant; in 1771 he attained the rank of Captain.  During the Revolutionary War, he organized and equipped a company of militia at his own expense.  He was appointed Justice of the Peace in Wilkes Co., Georgia on 12 Jan 1782 by House of Assembly, and again on 30 Apr 1782 and 4 Feb 1783.  He was a member of the House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, and a member of the Continental Congress elected from Georgia.  He attended the Savannah Assembly on 7 Jan 1783 as Representative of Wilkes Co.  He was Justice of Inferior Court, Lincoln Co., Georgia 24 Aug 1796 and Feb 1798, and a Delegate from Lincoln County to the Convention in Louisville in 1798 when the Georgia state constitution was formed.    

     12 Apr 1784 - Certificate of Service by Col. Elijah Clark upon which he requested 250a bounty in Washington County. (Revolutionary Record Georgia, Candler, vol. ii, pg. 76-106,191,254).    

     26 April 1799 - sold to Nina Winn of Fairfield City; Deed for 146 acres being part of 250a granted to Henry Ware, Sr. on the Savannah River adj. Ware, Barnabas Pace and Drewry Pace. A plat is included. The tract adjoins Douglas Island. Martha Ware signed by Mark Witnesses: John Winn & Robert Leverett, registered 21 July 1801. Pages 348-49 Lincoln Co, Georgia.    

     Nicholas Ware, Edward Waugh (attorney for Thomas Waugh of Virginia), Robert Ware, Samuel McClendon, James Ware, and Edmund Lyon, heirs of Henry Ware (Sr.), dec'd, to Henry Ware (Jr.), 22 July 1805. Deed for 450a on Savannah River, granted to Henry Ware, (Sr.) dec'd adjoining William Fuqua. Wit: Anderson Lumpkin signed Henry Ware, Jr. Registered 27 November 1806 Pgs 165-167.    

     Thomas Lewis Ware, a son of Rev. Nicholas Cornelius Ware, grandson of Rev. Robert Alexander Ware, great grandson of Nicholas Ware and great great grandson of Henry Ware, Sr. was the soldier about whom the book "35 Days to Gettysburg, The Campaign Diaries of Two American Enemies", by Mark Nesbitt was written. It was the daily diary entries of Thomas Lewis Ware, a confederate soldier in the Northern Virginia Army, Co. G, 15th GA Regiment of Infantry from Lincoln Co. GA (enlisted 7/14/1861), as well as the diary of a federal soldier, written as they approached Gettysburg.  

HENRY WARE, JR

 

CHILDREN:      

1. James Anthony Ware, b. 2/26/ 1785 m. Mary "Polly" Mims
2. Britton Mims Ware, b. 12/15/1786
3. John Mims Ware, b. 2/29/1788 Edgefield Co., SC. d. 8/18/ 1838 Heard Co., GA m. Lucy Sturdivant 5/11/1811
4. Sarah "Sallie" Ware, b. 4/23/1790
5. Lucy Jones Ware, b. 12/18/1791 Edgefield Co., SC d. 12/15/ 1831 Pike Co., GA m. George W. Turrentine on 1/4/1821
6. David Ware, b. 5/22/1793  

 

     Winifred Mims was the daughter of Drury Mims and Lydia Jones of Goochland, VA; her siblings were John, Livingston, David, Britton, Tignal, Matthew, Drury, Ridley and Lydia.  Lydia's parents were Mary Ridley (daughter of Capt. Nathaniel Ridley, Sheriff of Isle of Wight Co. and Elizabeth Day) and Francis Jones (s/o Matthew Jones and Mary Tignall).  Drury's parents were Joseph Mims (s/o Lionel Mims and Anne Martin) and Susannah Unknown.  Matthew, Tignal and Ridley were named after Lydia's brothers and sister, and John and David were named after brothers of Drury.    

     Drury Mims' cousin was Shadrach Mims (son of David Mims and Agnes Weldy), who married Mary Woodson.  Shadrach's great granddaughter, Zerelda Amanda Mims was the wife of Jesse James, the outlaw.  The Jones and Britton's were both originally from Bitton, Gloucester, England.  Drury's brother David married Sarah Scott, daughter of Samuel Scott and granddaughter of Col. John Scott and Judith Dudley.  Sarah Scott's brother was Brig. General Charles Scott, Gov. of Kentucky.  Also, Elizabeth Scott, daughter of Samuel Scott, married Major John Middleton and their daughter, Jane Middleton, married George Green Tankersley (G. T.) Ware, son of Capt. Robert Ware and Margaret Tankersley.  

 

     This James family photo, which James expert George Warfel says most likely was taken in October 1858, includes:  Jesse James (back row, third from left) next to his future wife, Zee Mims; his stepfather, Reuben Samuel (middle row; second from left) next to Jesse's mother, Zeralda Elizabeth Cole James Samuel (third from left); Jesse's half-brother, John T. Samuel (front row), next to Jesse's sister, Susan James (far right).  It is believed the other two men are John Newman Edwards (back row, far left) and Frank James (with beard), but Warfel disagrees.    

     Following the American Revolution, Jay’s Treaty was signed after Federalists pleaded the advantages of regularizing relations with Britain. The treaty proved to be highly profitable to the United States, and from 1795 to 1800 American exports to Britain boomed, and the U.S. became Britain’s best customer. Coincidentally, Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin brought about a vast explosion in the raising and export of cotton.  

     At the same time in Georgia, General Andrew Jackson moved the Creeks to prevent further contact with the Seminoles after the Creek War, the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, Alabama. He also forced them to cede the Southern third of present day Georgia to the state. The land was made available to any white man with $4.00 by way of a land lottery, or given as land grants to soldiers returning from the Revolutionary War.  

     Prior to the Revolutionary War, Henry, Jr. lived and worked in Edgefield Co. SC, running his general store. After the war, he, along with his father and cousins, received a war service grant of land in Wilkes Co., Georgia. With the exception of his cousin Capt. Robert Ware, who remained in Edgefield, all other Wares moved on to Georgia after the war. It is thought Henry Ware, Jr. remained in Edgefield Co., SC, and moved to Lincoln Co., Georgia shortly before his death.