John Ware

”John Ware (ca.1735-1801)

John Ware was one of the first permanent inhabitants of the Seven Islands. After coming of age in the 1750′s, John moved to Seven Islands after being willed half of the land his father, Peter Ware III, (ca. 1703-1741) owned in the future Fluvanna County, which was located along the James Rivers roughly between the Hardware River and Bremo Creek. …Besides farming his vast lands, John Ware also built at least two grist mills in the area … John Ware was also very involved with his community as were most wealthy citizens of the day. Before Fluvanna was created in 1777, Mr. Ware was a judge in Albermarle County. After the formation of Fluvanna County Mr. Ware became a member of the new county’s first court of justices. …John Ware also had five children: Ulysses, Washington, John, Polly and Peter.”

(Source: Excerpts taken from Seven Islands Fluvanna County, Virginia, on-line)

Records kept in the Vestry book for St. James Parish Northam list John Ware as a Vestry man in 1782 and he served for one year. I have seen a copy of the book on micro-film and I do not know which John Ware. The biography of John Ware of Fluvanna County, above, claims it was he.

It is important to write that another John Ware’s (1736 – 1816) genealogy is often confused with John Ware (c.1735 – 1801) who lived in Fluvanna County and who married Mary Watson. Both were married by Rev. Douglas at St. James Northam, however the union between John Ware and Mary Watson was in 1762. Part of the confusion also rests with the fact that John Ware, son of James and Agnes Ware, also owned property in Fluvanna Co.