“Honduras: July 9, 1695, I underwriters do acknowledge that I owe to JOHN PHILLIPS five tunns of Logwood which I promise and hereby oblige myself to pay the said PHILLIPS or his assigns 12 months after the date hereof.
Witness my hand and c. ROBERT HARDWICK.
Witness: HUMPHREY WARE.”
Reference Data:
Bermuda Settlers of the 17th Century, by Julia E. Mercer, 1982, page 83
Regarding Humphry:
I forgot to sign my the above comment.
Wendell Ware
The following may well be the same Humphry, If memory serves George Ware of New Kent, may have been his son.
I’ll have to check my records.
Humphry Ware , 24 May 1697, Emigrant……….New Kent Co. Va.
Now here’s a Ware who takes his debts seriously, as we all should do.
C. Wayne Ware
Cedar Falls, IA