Nicholas Ware (c1627 co. Kent, England-1663 Rappahannock Co., VA) m. Anne Vassall (c1629 England-Aft 1663 in VA or Barbados). She was the d/o William Vassall and Anne King who were early settlers of Scituate in the Plymouth Colony and later moved to Barbados. At age 21, Nicholas Ware was a headright for Rev. George White for Lower Norfolk Co., VA in 1648. They had sons Nicholas and John who settled in Barbados.[1]
The NEHGR article "Alderman John Vassall and His Descendants" states that they were married before July 1655 (the date of probate of her father's will as detailed in the "Vassals of New England"[2] and probably settled in Barbados but nothing more.[3]
The connection between Nicholas Ware of Barbados and Nicholas Ware of Virginia seems to be further cemented by a sourced entry in the "Virginia Gleanings" book. It cites the "Court Act Book (PCC Admon Act Book)" as follows:
Nicholas Ware late of Rappa Hannock in Virginia, deceased. Renunciation of administration of estate August 1662 by Anne Ware, relict.
This would seem to prove that Nicholas Ware who married Anne Vassall (no other "Anne" has been asserted) was dead by August 1662. Why was probate in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury? Presumably Nicholas was a citizen of England, or had significant property there. This would seem to be a strike against an Irish lineage. Further, the book states:
On January 3, 1661, a certificate was recorded in Rappahannock Court that Mr. Nicholas Ware, merchant, had that day signed a power of attorney to mr. John Ware, of Rappahannock. There is also among the Rappahannock records a bond from Nicholas Ware, "now resident in Rappahannock county, Virginia, merchant" to John Vassall, of Barbadoes, merchant...&c detailing payment from Ware to Vassal for four slaves.[4]
Assuming these records really do exist, this brackets the death date of Nicholas Ware and strongly reinforces that his wife was Anne Vassall, daughter of William Vassall and brother of the afore-mentioned John Vassall.
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