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State of Service: GA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service / Civil Service
Henry Ware was born in Virginia about 1728. He was a blacksmith by trade. He volunteered for military duty in the Caroline County, Virginia, Militia, March 13, 1762. By 1771, he obtained the rank of captain. During the American Revolution, Ware organized a militia company of frontiersmen to assist Colonel Elijah Clarke. He served as a captain in the company and personally equipped many of the soldiers at his own expense. He also provided wagons and provisions. Most notably, Captain Ware’s company participated in the siege of Augusta, Georgia. Several of Ware’s sons served in this company.
After the American Revolution, Captain Ware relocated to Georgia. He served as one of the first Justices of the Peace at Wilkes County. He represented Wilkes County at the first Georgia Assembly in 1783. Ware served as a delegate to Georgia’s first Constitutional Convention in 1798. For his military services, Captain Ware was granted 850 acres of land at Wilkes County. He died after November 1801. His final resting place is not known.
Author: Kenneth Scott Collins
Henry Ware, Sr. b. 1728 d. 1801 LINCOLN COUNTY, GEORGIA
He came from Gloucester County, Virginia and served as a Lieutenant in the South Carolina Militia before the fall of Charleston. He was certified as a Revolutionary War Soldier by Colonial Elijah Clarke and received bounty land for his services.
See: (1) Genealogical & Historical Register of Troup County, Georgia, p. 523.
(2) Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 189.
(3) Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution, p. 966.
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 2, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke.
A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.
Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.
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