Children of James Ware I and Their Families
Researched
and written by © Judith Cumbea Ware
July 2009
A1 Children of:
(Hannah)
Capt. John B. Ware and
Ann Harrison
B. December 12, 1736
1756
B. circa 1738
D. June
17, 1816
D. 1820
1. Lt. James B. Ware
+
Elizabeth
Miller
B. December 27, 1756 September 22, 1786 B. 1764
D. 1818
D.
1835
2. Andrew Ware +
died
single
B.
May 24, 1758
B.
D.
D.
3. Col. William
Ware
+
Susanna
Harrison
B. May 13, 1760 January
19, 1785
B. June 22, 1768
D. January 16, 1828
D. January 29, 1786
Also
Susannah
Payne (Suzan)
October
17, 1789
B. circa 1768
D. circa 1828
4. John Ware
+
Margarett
Lady
B. June 10, 1762 September 6, 1780
B.
D. lost at sea D.
5. Elizabeth “Betty” Ware
+
James
Poindexter
B.May 27, 1764
February
2, 1806
B.
D. D.
6. Mildred “Milly” Ware
+
single
B. September 27, 1766
D. 1829
7. Jane “Jenney” Harrison Ware +
John Mosby
B. December 14, 1768
April
11, 1799 B.
January 14, 1765
D. 1811
D.
1811
8. Anne “Nancy” Ware
+
Richard
Wyatt
B. June 30, 1771
December
8, 1796
B. January 1, 1763
D. April 17, 1838
D.
January 12, 1845
9. Mary “Molly” Ware
+
George
McLain
B. 1772
B.
D.
D.
John was the
oldest son of James Ware I and his wife Agnes Todd Ware.
John and Ann
Harrison were married at St. James Northram in Goochland County, Virginia. Ann (Hannah) was the daughter of Andrew & Sarah
Harrison (cousin of William Henry Harrison.) She
was born about 1738 and died between 1812 and 1817. These
are the siblings of Ann Harrison:
William
Harrison + Ann Payne married 12-26-1763.
**
It was the daughter of William & Ann Payne Harrison (named Susannah) who
married William Ware – her cousin.
Thomas
Harrison + Mary Kennon
Elizabeth
Harrison + John Teague & William Kennon
Ninian Harrison
(bothers were mentioned as his trustees until “such
time as he could manage properly”, but there are no details about what happened to
cause his apparent handicap) (ref.#831)
Milly Harrison
+ William Moore
Molly Harrison
+ Robert Burton
Jane Harrison
Andrew
Harrison + Nancy Williamson and Mary Richardson
According to military & DAR records, John Ware did patriotic service; given the
rank of “a captain in a Virginia unit.” (ref. 629 & 692)
In
1816, he was officially named Patriot. (ref. 894) John
“ran a
line of merchant ships from England to Ware’s Neck.” According to family records, “he held
extensive lands that he carefully designated in his will of February 24, 1816. There were nine known children, all of them born in
Goochland County.” (ref.#894) He seemed to be a very meticulous man because
his Last Will & Testament took care of many details and gave insights into his
thinking. He mentioned that he wanted his
grandsons to “get $100.00 instead of slaves; not wishing to divide or separate
parents and children.” (ref.
894) It also gives us a feel for how large his land
holdings were because in just one section, it states that he wanted one of his children
(William) to have “the tract on Dan River near where he now lives, which was sitting
on 613 acres.” (ref.894) Even
as far back as 1786, “extensive holdings speak of John Ware’s line, by his
Tavern, crossing the main road.” (ref.894) John named one of the executors of his will as
James Ware, his son. He left James distinct
instructions that “the extra lands be rented and the mill on Whittle Creek be
completed.” (ref.894) Although
his father (James Ware I) later relocated to Kentucky, it is believed that John Ware never
moved from his beloved Virginia.
(1) Lt. James Ware
was born on
December 27, 1756 and was probably named after his grandfather, James. He was baptized on April 8, 1757. He married Elizabeth
Miller, daughter of John Miller of Prince Edward County, on September 22,
1786.
(2) Andrew Ware was born on May
14, 1758. He was baptized on June 25, 1758,
but outside of that, we only know that he died single.
It is possible he may have even died as a child.
(3) Col. William
Ware was born in 1760. He served as both a Captain and a Colonel in the
Revolutionary War. William married twice. His first wife was his cousin Susanna Harrison (she was the daughter of his mother’s
brother William.) They married on January 19th
in 1785, and they had a
daughter they also named Susanna Ware - (she later married William Harrison.) William Ware’s first wife, Susanna Harrison
Ware, died in 1786 in childbirth. (ref. 844) There
is a very poignant deathbed statement that she made right before she died. His second wife
was not only another first cousin again, but was ALSO named Susannah. She was the daughter of Robert Payne and his wife
Ann Burton Payne who lived in a home called “The Cascades” on the Dan River. (ref.894B)
Basically. . . Josias and Anne Fleming Payne had these
3 children - John, Anna, and Robert - - all Paynes. John married Mary Coles & had a daughter
named Dolley Payne
(Todd) Madison. Anna married William Harrison (brother
of John Ware’s wife, Ann Harrison) & they had a daughter named Susannah Harrison who married William Ware (son
of John & Ann Ware.) Robert married Ann Burton & they had a
daughter also named Susannah and she also married William Ware after her cousin (Susannah Harrison
Ware) died. Dolley and the 2 Susannahs were
all cousins and also cousins with Patrick Henry.
William and his first wife (Susannah Harrison) had only
one daughter - Susannah Harrison Ware; named after her mother who died in childbirth. She later “married William Harrison Jr., son
of William Payne Harrison and Salley Hall; grandson of Col. William Harrison and Anna
Payne. Anna was the daughter of Josias Payne
and Anna Fleming Payne, and sister of both Robert (who wed Ann Burton) Payne and also John
(who wed Mary Coles) Payne. John and Mary
Coles Payne were the parents of Dolley Payne Madison, wife of President James Madison.”
(ref 881)
According to a Short Biography of William Ware written by
Vicki Cheesman in 2009, the children of William and his second wife (Susannah Payne Ware)
were (1) Ann “Nancy” Payne Ware who
was born on August 20, 1792, married (first) James Richardson and (second) Stephen
Sergeant (she died on November 29, 1872 on a train heading to visit her son Edmond in
Mississippi), (2) Susan Elizabeth “Eliza”
Ware (born 1793) who married Henry Sargeant in 1810, (3) Agnes Ware (born 1795) who married (first)
William Dupry and (second) John Briscoe, (4)
John Ware II (born 1797) who married Betty Saunders, (5) Robert Payne Ware who was born December 1,
1801 and married Martha Sanders. He died in Kentucky,
(6) William Ware Jr., (born 1805) who married
Alphea Clark, and possibly (7) Samuel Ware who married Nora Johnson. (ref. 844)
** John Ware (number 4) and his wife
Betty “gave land for a Methodist church in 1832 that was “on the north side of
the public road below Bachelor’s Hall in Pittsylvania County, and they named Henry
Sergeant and William Dupuy as trustees of the church.” (ref. 898)
** Anne Payne Ware & 1st
husband James Richardson had a son James who married Susan Estes and they had a son named
Triplett Estes Richardson.
Anne Payne Ware & 2nd
husband Stephen Sargeant had daughter named Margarett Delphia. She married James Lea and their daughter Talluah
married Triplett Estes Richardson. (ref. 889)
(4) John Ware was
born on June 10, 1768, and he was baptized a month later on July 18, 1762. On September 6, 1780, he was married to Margarett
Lady. All that is really known about him at
this time is that he died at sea. With the
strong family history of military service, his death very probably was related to the War.
(5) Elizabeth Ware
was born on
May 27, 1764. She was known as Betty and she
was baptized on June 24, 1764. She later
married James Poindexter on February 2, 1806
(6) Mildred Ware was born on
September 27, 1766 and was baptized on November 2, 1766.
She was known as Millie, and as far as we know, she died unmarried in 1829.
(7) Jane “Jenney” Harrison Ware
was born on December 14, 1768. She married
John Mosby on April 11, 1799. They had the
following children: Ann
Harrison Mosby, John Ware Mosby, Sarah Ann Haskins
Mosby, and Alfred Daniel Mosby. She and John became the grandparents of the famous Col. John Singleton Mosby of
the Confederate Army; thus making James and Agnes the great, great grandparents of this
legendary leader of Mosby’s Rangers. (ref.114, 784)
(8) Anne Ware was born on June 30, 1771 and she
was baptized on September 22, 1771. (ref. 5,621,651,372)
Anne went by several nicknames –
Annie and Nancy being her favorite. She married Richard Wyatt on December 8,
1796. Nancy had several children, but she
passed away on April 17, 1838.
(9) Mary Ware was known as Molly and she was born in
1772. Little is known of her except that she
married George McLain.
REFERENCES:
5. Wares of Virginia by Frances C. Griffin
(as collected from Virginia Genealogies by H.E. Hayden) This is a compilation of
information that Frances Griffin obtained from the book “Virginia Genealogies”
& mailed to me.
6. VIRGINIA GENEALOGIES: A Genealogy
of the Glassell Family of Scotland and Virginia by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden, M. A.
Printed in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1891 – copyrighted 1885.
114. Information on Jane Harrison Ware and how she
connects Col. John Mosby to the Ware family. Rootsweb.ancestry.com/my
southern family
621. Original Webb Family Bible from the Julia S. Ardery Genealogical Collection,
Box 19, Reel #3634, Webb Bible, Margaret I. King Library, University of Kentucky at
Lexington. Provided by Debbie McArdle.
629. DAR Patriot Index,
2003, NSDAR gives military info for John Ware, James Ware II, James Ware I, Nicholas Ware,
and William Ware. Gives ranks/dates/wives/ and
service
651. Old original lineage pages owned by Jane &
Scott Dudgeon - dating back to James Ware and Agnes – gives a good listing of all
their children (particularly James, John, & Nicholas)
Transcribed & triple referenced by Judy C. Ware April 2009
692. Military info on James Ware I, James Ware II,
& James Ware III given by Vicki Cheesman
from Ware Family History American Genealogical Research Institute, Washington DC,
Heritage Press, 1978
784. Information on Col.
John Singleton Mosby as found in Mosby Family Bible Records 1765-1896.
818. Cheesman/Ware/Dreisbach/Jorgenson Family
Tree – Genealogical charts & research done by Vicki Cheesman.
831. Dolley Madison
Resources: Harrison Heritage and Harrison Repository – Chapter III William, Caroline
County.
844. Short Biography of
William Ware, from Pittsylvania Co.,
Virginia Heritage, 1767-2004 submitted by Betty Fitzgerald, Raleigh, North Carolina; with
additional information provided courtesy of Vicki Cheesman 2009
881. Short
Biography of William Ware from Pittsylvania Co., Virginia Heritage, 1767-2004
submitted by Betty Fitzgerald, Raleigh, North Carolina.
889. Information and research done by
Vicki Cheesman
894A. Harrison-Payne-Ware
Part I from Pittsylvania County, Virginia Heritage 1161-2004
Submitted by Mrs. Ann Burnett, Grafton, Virginia. Provided courtesy of Vicki Cheesman
894B. Harrison-Payne-Ware
Part IV & V from Pittsylvania County, Virginia Heritage 1161-2004 Submitted by Betty Fitzgerald, Raleigh, North
Carolina Provided courtesy of Vicki Cheesman
895. John H. Mosby,
son of Alfred Daniel Mosby, married Jane Ware of Goochland on 11 April 1799 per Mosby
Family Bible Records, 1765-1896, Powhatan Co.
898. The History of Pittsylvania County Virginia
by: Maud Carter Clement, J.P. Bell Company, Inc. Lynchburg, VA. 1929 Provided courtesy of Vicki Cheesman
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