“Elias Ware, his youngest child, (parents Timothy and Mary Healy Ware) was born May 30, 1754, at Wrentham. He married January 25, 1781, Deborah, daughter of Ephraim Groves, of Franklin, Mass., and they became the parents of eleven children, Preston being their second child.”

Source:  Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Graves ad Steinbarger, Publishers, Boston, 1901, pages 849-50