Hi Dale, I too am searching for Wares from SC. My Joseph Ware was born in Greensville Co SC 15 May 1792. He married Martha McKnight born Spartanburg Co SC 22 Jan 1796. They were married in AR 4 Sept 1817. Their children were: Charles, Sarah, Erastus, James, Asa, Parker Suedecar, Jane, and Mary. All children were born in AR. Have you heard of these Wares? Rebecca J Harris ---------- | From: dalegrissom <[email protected]> | To: [email protected] | Subject: JAMES WARE | Date: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 8:59 PM | | Hello, I'm new to the Ware research list. I have a brick wall that's | about a mile thick. I'm looking for the parents of my ancestor, JAMES | WARE, b. 1758 in IRELAND. He was a revolutionary soldier who was living | in ROWAN CO., N.C. at the time in 1780 when he enlisted. He fought under | GATES at Gates Defeat, was under MORGAN at the BATTLE OF COWPENS was a | member at one time of the militia of FRANCIS MARION and ended up a | member of the S.C. CONTINENTAL LINE and was discharged as the orderly | Sgt. for SIMEON THUESS at CHARLESTON at the close of the war. I suspect | that he was a citizen of S.C. who with his family was chased out of S.C. | by the TORIES and that's why he was in N.C. at all. He received payment | for service ,land in OLD NINETY SIX in S.C., 200 acres in 1784 from the | state of S.C. and in 1791 he received some money for his service to S.C. | I don't know where he was living between 1784 and 1801 in which year he | traveled through the Creek nation on a passport to the settlements along | the Tombigbee R. in Sp. W. Fl. He moved immediately to what is today the | W. side of the Pascagoula R. in present day JACKSON CO.Ms. He served in | the 1812 war and when he moved to Ms. area he had a wife and 7 children. | Two sons were b. to him after his move to Ms., JAMES JR. AND SAMUEL. | Don't know the names for sure of the others, but the oldest was a | daughter and some of the other Ware men in the area were William, | Joseph,Laird Ware,and Michael, all of whom moved away from JACKSON to | Hinds Co.Ms. by the 1830s and probably before. | All the above learned from his pension app., which ceased in 1838, and | from land deeds and other court documents. My problem is who his | siblings and parents were. | Since he was b. in IRELAND in 1758, I've looked for immigrant families | with sons named JAMES. There is one such family in Chester/Fairfield | S.C. DAVID WARE had a son named JAMES OF JUST THE RIGHT AGE, but no | other researcher seems to know what happened to JAMES. Is anyone out | there researching the S.C. WARE/WEIR/WEAR families? DAVID WARE | immigrated from Antrim Ireland in the early 1770s. His son DAVID JR. AND | SON GEORGE were in some of the same battles as my JAMES. Their pension | apps. mention each other but not a brother JAMES. | If anyone is researching Wares in either North or South Carolina who | were immigrants from IRELAND I'd be most interested in sharing and | comparing notes. I'm already familiar with the WARES from Va. in | Edgefield and Abbeville as I also have this line in my ancestry. But | JAMES is not of that family. Hoping to hear from someone out there. | DALE GRISSOM in Texas.