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1 Thomas [Major] CARY1,2,3
Thomas Cary's sister Bridget is also direct, and their brother Miles was step father to our direct ROSCOW forebear. 
Birth aft 1645/6 [underage at time of dad's death]4,, of Warwick Co Virginia5,6 and Philadelphia5,
Death 1708, Warwick County, Va. 3 His will is in Book I, p233
Occupation  JP for Warwick, inherited the plantation involving Windmill Points and Mapgie Swamps from his father, and perhaps engaged in mercantile pursuits like  his father, son and grandson7
Religion Episcopalian. His sons affiliated with the Quakers. 
Virginia Militia Service Captain and Major of Warwick Militia; He ranked third in the Warwick Militia at Berkeley's array for defence against the Indians in 1676, prior to Bacon's rebellion.
Resided He inherited Windmill Points and Magpie Swamps,  in Warwick Co Virginia from his father,3 "Virginia Rent Roll of 1704 lists 125 parcels of land in Warwick. Among the prominent families of the period in Warwick County: Ranshaw, Roscow, Mountfort, Harwood, Lucas, Digges, Crew, Whitaker, Cary, Jones, Scarsbrook, Wills, Llewellyn and Cole" 43.
Father Myles or Miles [Col ] CARY , Esq (1621-1667)
Mother Anne TAYLOR (->1682)
Spouse Anne  MILNER3
Father Francis [Captain] MILNER (->1704)
Mother Unknown
Marr [ca 1669 ], by birth of children [ by 1699 when there is statement of it in the Heralds' College pedigree of 16997
Children of 
Thomas Cary and 
Anne Milner, 
surnamed Cary 


 
Notes on Thomas Cary married Ann Milner
Frank Willing Leach misidentifies him in his " Pleasants Family" published Philadelphia, PN by The Historical Publication Society, 1939. Leach there incorrectly states he was of Virginia and Philadelphia, and a son of Robert Cary of Nansemond County, Va. 8p 24. 
Major Thomas Cary inherited both Magpie Swamps and Windmill Points from his father according to Fairfax Harrison. and  Pecquet du Bellet says that Thomas Cary resided Magpie Swamps3. while Harrison , whose work is more extensive on the line, says he resided Windmill Points.7 They are within a mile of each other. See map of Virginia Carys of the region. 
Harrison's entry in "The Virginia Carys" reads that Major Thomas Cary 
" was employed 1666, before he was of age (as appears by his father's will), in the construction of the fort at Old Point Comfort. (MS. notes by Conway Robinson from General Court Order Book, 1666, in W M Cary Notes. See also Va Mag., xvii, 246.) Captain, Major and JP for Warwick . He ranked third in the Warwick Militia at Berkeley's array for defence against the Indians in 1676, prior to Bacon's rebellion. (Hening, ii, 330) He inherited Windmill Point and Magpie Swamp under his father's will, and perhaps carried on the  immigrants mercantile business in Warwick, in the tradition of which we find his son and grandson. 
By reason of the facts that no Virginia evidence has appeared for any activity, after 1676, by the immigrant's oldest son, and that his sons affiliated with the Quakers, it was at one time conjectured by the genealogists that Major Thomas Cary2 of Warwick might be identified with Colonel Thomas Cary, the North Carolina 'rebel' of 1711 (Spotswood Papers, 81) Apart from the stubborn fact of the Warwick will of 1708, the W M Cary Notes prove beyond peradventure that Colonel Thomas Cary of North Carolina was a son of Walter Cary of Cheping Wycomb, co Bucks, and a stepson of John Archdale, the Quaker proprietary of North Carolina. "7

 

 

1.1 Thomas CARY 3,7
Birth 16709,10
Death aft 1713 [1764]11,12
Occ 1712-13 was High Sheriff of Warwick7
Reli Affiliated with the Quakers 1698 and 1705, but as he was later Sheriff, it appears he was not 'convinced'7
Desc "Of Windmill Point" "the Elder, of Warwick County, Va. Will book O, p 488" The Cary's of Windmill Point held this land for 8 generations13,14
Spouse Elizabeth HINDE7
Birth ca 1679, see narrative
Marriage 16957
Children of 
Thomas Cary and Elizabeth Hinde, 
Surnamed Cary
  • Thomas (ca1696-1764) "As no record evidence has appeared for the names of the children of Thomas Cary3 and Elizabeth Hinde, it is a deduction that this Thomas4 (who cannot otherwise be placed) was son of Thomas3, the evidence being that we find the descendants of this Thomas 4 in possession of the entailed lands at Windmill Point, while he himself sells magpie Swamp to his cousin Miles Cary4, of Peartree Hall, as the latter testifies in his will. ] ...There is no evidence for his [This Thomas']  wife, but his will named his children, except James, viz..."7p 42 and 43
  • James 'Of Nottoway' [probable son] 7 Shown as an unproven but probable son by Fairfax Harrison in his ěthe Virginia Carysî in which he is shown with a question mark to denote that uncertain state, but with full detail suggesting the author feels his inclusion merited, with detail on his life informing he patented lands on the Nottoway River, then in Nansemond, describing himself as ëof Isle of Wight,í and in 1738 and 1740 added to these lands. He apparantly removed  from Nansemond 1753, buying  lands on the Roanoke River in that part of Lunenburg now included in Mecklenburg. 7 
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1.2 James CARY 7,3
Birth ca 16737

Fairfax Harrison in 'Virginia Cary's' informs
"This James is one of the unsolved problems of the Cary pedigree. There is no extant proof for him in relation to the Warwick family, except the Eggleston Notes of his father's will. As we have definite dates for the births of his older brothers, he could not have been born before 1673, and so would have been too young even at a time of early marriages to have been, as has been conjectured (Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 16, 1911) , the James Cary of Abingdon parish, Gloucester, who had a son baptized in 1689 (soo post, p . 149) . He may have been the James Cary who patented lands in King William in 1720 (Va Land Records, xi, 106), but he seems too early to have been the James Cary who patented lands on the Nottoway River in 1736 to 1740, and of whom there are traces as late as 1759. For this last named James see post, p. 43....

SOURCES [ed note: for Thomas Cary and children] :
(1) The Eggleston Notes for the will of THomas Cary , recorded 1708 in Warwick Will Book , I , 23, naming children Thomas, James, Milner and Elizabeth (2) Gleanings from public records, as cited."7p 42"

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1.3 Miles [Captain] CARY 15,16
Birth 16717
Death 17247
Occupation Clerk Co of Warwick. In 1691 began Clerk career as Clerk in Office of Sec of State at Jamestown ; Possibly continued the Mercantile trade of his immigrant forebear, for son Miles was engaged in such pursuit7
Religion He, like brother Thomas, met the Quaker missionary Story in 1698
Alias Miles Jr37
Military Service Captain in the Warwick Militia 1702, his uncle Miles Cary then being Colonel
Description One of his dtrs probably married Benjamin Collier of Brunswick3
Resided  Of Potash Creek. Warwick Co, Va [Will book I , page 313]17,18
Notes See Notations on his frequent misidentification
Spouse Elizabeth [under research] COCKE19
Birth 4 Oct 1665, of Bremo, Henrico Co, Va  19 [Information UNVERIFIED and no primary data provided by source]
Death 1724, Warwick, Virginia19 [Information UNVERIFIED and no primary data provided by source]
Father Richard [the younger son] COCKE (-1706)
The will of Richard Cocke her presumed father, seems to substantiate her. Mentions Eliz Cary, and her sons Miles and Nathaniel, but not her sons Richard or Thomas
Mother Unknown
Marriage 25 Aug 1695, St. Johns Church, Richmond, Va19[Information UNVERIFIED and no primary data provided by source]
Children of 
Miles Cary and Elizabeth COCKE
  • Richard 7 (ca1696-1721 )7 "He served an apprenticeship in the office of the Clerk of York County, and in 1718 succeeded his father as Clerk of Warwick, etc. He died unmarried after a brief career."7 
  • Thomas 3 , 7 (ca1698-1755)7Married Dorothy Philipson [died Chesterfield County (will dated 1761, Chesterfield Co, Will book I, 548) , dtr of Dr Robert Philipson of York County, Va. Two children of Union 7 
  • Miles [Major] 3 , 7(ca1701-1766)7  Of ěPeartree Hallî and later ěPersimmons Pondsî Clerk of Court Warwick after his father. Mercantile Pursuit with Hinde Russell  called ěmiles Cary and Coî. 7  Married first Hannah ARMISTEAD7  (ca 1706-ca1750)7  and second Anne [nee Timson?] HOWARD7. No children of second union7. 9 of first. 7

  • Nathaniel (ca1703-<1761)  Mentioned in his grandfather Cockeís will, and underage in same [dated Nov 1706]  "The will of his sister in law Dorothy Philipson Cary, 1761, shows that he had married, lived in Chesterfield and died without issue."7
  • Anne 3 , 7  (ca1707-)7 
  • Elizabeth3 , 7   (ca1709-))7 
  • Bridget  3 , 7  (ca1710-)7 
  • Dorothy3 , 7   (ca1712-)7 
  • Martha3 , 7 (ca1714-)7 
Notes on Miles Cary married Elizabeth Cocke 
Miles Cary has been often misidentified, and this perpetuated, and he is often neglected in his rightful branches in the family tree. Fairfax Harrison, in his Carys of Virginia, remarks that "During the agitation in Virginia from 1843 to 1852 over the fabulous 'Great Cary fortune in England' there were several attempts made to state the pedigrees of the various branches of the Cary family in Virginia. It was then that the Eggleston Notes were drawn from the Warwick records, and as those notes showed no Miles Cary among the sons of Major Thomas Cary2, the genealogists seem to have agreed that 'Mr Miles Cary, jr', must be one or the other of the Miles' named in the wills of Henry2 or William2. "7 Harrison gives ample reason why this can not be so, and he tells why this Miles is included here. See footnote ****

As for the details of his life, Harrison writes " In 1691 he began his career (and so determined the vocation of several generations of his descendants) as a clerk in the office of the secretary of State at Jamestown, of which his uncle Miles, of Richneck, was then in charge as clerk of the General Court. By the same influence he was appointed 1693 (McIlwaine, Journal of the House of Burgesses, 1659-1693, 450, 451) Clerk of the legislative committees of Privileges and Elections and of Public Claims. A few years later he was chosen Clerk of Warwick. He held all of these posts until 1718 , when he retired by reason of ill helath. In 1702 he was Captain in the Warwick Militia, his uncle Miles2 of Richneck then being Colonel (Cal State Papers, Am & W. I., 1702, No 237, p 158). It seems probable from entries in the York court records that he carried on the mercantile business which the immigrant had established; this surmise is supported by the clearly extablished fact that his son and official successor Miles4 was engaged in such a trade. 'Captain Miles Cary' appears on the Quit Rent Roll for 1704 as paying quit rents for 600 acres in Warwick; as both his father and elder brother were then living and n neither appears on the roll it is possible that this Miles3 was lessee of the Windmill Point lands; ce certainly he was at that time the most active representative of the eldest line. Though there is no stone to mark his grave, it seems quite certain that he was the first of his family to be buried in the Peartree Hall graveyard. That is as serene and restful a place to await the Day of Judgement as could be selected. In a secluded nook, 'far from the madding crowd', glanked by a stately forest and pleasant cultivated fields, six generations of Carys lie in the shadow of ancient mulberries, beneath a blanket of riotous jonquils, which in spring clother the entire area as with a golden oriental rug. This last home of his ancestors had been fences, and is piously maintained by T Archibald Cary8, of Richmond. He m 1695, Elizabeth, dau of Richard Cocke, of Gremo, in Henric (for the Cocke family, see Va Mag, iii, 282 ff.] and by her had" .....[transcriber's notes: children are here given as presented above] ...
" [No proof has yet appeared for the marriages of the daughters, nor is there any convincing tradition. Abraham (Cary Tradition in Richmond Whig, July, 1852) stated that Dorothy married George Dudley. This appears to be the origin of the unproved statement in Pecquet du Bellet, ii, 67[**] , that Dorothy Cary of the Warwick family was the mother of the Dorothy Dudley who in 1755 married John Cary, Jr., of Kingston Prash, Gloucester (See post, p 151, and for the little which is KNWON of the Dudleys of Gloucester and Middlesex, Va Mag., xxiii, 148). Again , Good (Virginia Cousins, 283 and 50) states that 'one of the daughters (of Miles Cary 3, of Potash Creek) probably' married a Collier; but Goode had already confused the daughters of Miles Cary3, of Potash Creek, with those of his son Miles Cary4, of Peartree Hall, and the Collier he selects was, he says a Revolutionary soldier, and so contemporary also with the fifth generation. ] 
The order of the children. The Eggleston Notes on the record of the will of Miles Cary3 state that he left children 'Anne, Elizabeth, Bridgett, Dorothy, Martha, Miles, Thomas and Nathaniel.' As the will was not quoted, this is merely a deduction, but it has been accepted as the order of seniority of the chilren. The evidence leads to another conclusion. In his will dated Nov 18 1706, Richard Cocke, of Bremo, leaves legacies to each of his grandchildren then in existence, Cockes, Carys and Pleasants, boys and girls, naming them. the children of his daughter Elizabeth Cary he enumerates as follows; 'Richard Cary, 20 pounds; Thomas Cary, 10 pounds; Miles Cary, 10 pounds, Nathaniel Cary, 10 pounds. ' It would seem to follow that that was the order of their birth [Richard was undoubtedly the eldest, receiving a double portion], and that none of the daughters of Miles Cary 3 was born prior to 1706. We have accordingly followed that order in our enumeration. The question is now of interest, as upon it depends the seniority of the extant Chesterfiled and Peartree Hall lines. 
Sources
1. N C Hist & Gen Reg., ii, 151, for affidavit of Miles Cary 3 that he was 'aged 42' in 1713
2. McIlwaine, Journals of the House of Burgesses, 1693-1724, for his service of legislative committes
3. W M Cary Notes for documents signed by him as Clerk of Warwick. See also Va Mab., i , 232 
4. Henrico Records for his marriage license Aug 22, 1695, and Register, St John's Church, Church Hill, Richmond for his marriage Aug 25, 1695
5. Eggleston Notes for record of his will proved 1724 in Warwick Will Book, I, 313
6. Will of Richard cocke, of Bremo, dated Nov 18, 1706, from Henrico Records
7. W M Cary Notes for couments signed by Richard Cary 4 as Clerk of Warwick after 1718
8. Journals of the House of Burgesses, 1718-1722, for this richard Cary's legislative service, and the date of his death. "7p 49-50 [Transcribed by C Swope of Within the Vines] 

** One of his dtrs probably married Benjamin Collier of Brunswick3 "Again , Good (Virginia Cousins, 283 and 50) states that 'one of the daughters (of Miles Cary 3, of Potash Creek) probably' married a Collier; but Goode had already confused the daughters of Miles Cary3, of Potash Creek, with those of his son Miles Cary4, of Peartree Hall, and the Collier he selects was, he says a Revolutionary soldier, and so contemporary also with the fifth generation. "7
 

Footnote ****"...there was only one Thomas Cary of the 3rd generation in Virginia and he was unmistakably the eldest son named in the will of thomas2. He married Elizabeth Hinde in 1695. The Quaker missionary Story says definitely, in his Journal, that the Thomas and Miles Cary he met in Warwick in 1698 and 1705 were brothers, and that Miles was Secretary (i.e., Clerk) of the County. ....Among the old records of Albemarle County, north Carolina, at Edenton, are several affidavits filed July 18, 1713, in a suit concerning a slave named Stephen, who had been sold some years before by Anne Akehurst to 'Miles Cary, Jr' (N.C. Hist & Gen . Reg, 1901, ii, 151.) The witnesses are 'Miles Cary, the elder.' , aged 42, whose signature is the unmistakable autograph of our first Clerk of Warwick. Thomas Cary of Warwick Couty Virginia 'aged 43' and Elizabeth Cary 'aged 34' who ways that she went to dwell in the house of Daniel Akehurst in 1695. This Akehurst was a Quaker. He lived in Warwick but had been the Proprietor Archdale's deputy in the North Carolina Council, subsequently Secretary for the Proprietors and died in 1699 (Weeks, Southern Quakers, 65.) It was at his house that Story first met the Carys in 1698, and so it is persuasive that Thomas Cary3 might have met his wife in the same house. The York records show (W . M . Cary Notes) that in 1701 'Mr Miles Cary, Jr', was attending to business for 'Ann Akehurst, executrix of Daniel Akehurst, dec'd.' All of this suggests that the witnesses for 'Miles Cary, the elder,' in 1713 were his brother and sister in law. Moreover , the Miles Cary who was Clerk of Warwick was the only one of the third generation who had a son named Thomas except the Thomas3 who Story says, was his brother. It seems likely that each of these sons was named after a common grandfather. "7

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1.4 Milner CARY 7
Death apparantly died young, see narrative note

"there is no record of him except in the Eggleston notes of his father's will. He must have died young....
SOURCES [ed note: for Thomas Cary and children] :
(1) The Eggleston Notes for the will of THomas Cary , recorded 1708 in Warwick Will Book , I , 23, naming children Thomas, James, Milner and Elizabeth (2) Gleanings from public records, as cited."7p 42
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1.5 Elizabeth CARY 3,7
Unlikely that she the Eliz Cary who went to dwell in the house of Quaker Daniel Akehurst in 1695?, who in affadavivit of Jly 13 1713 stating that residency, was aged 34

"[The only evidence for the marriage [ed note to Jones of Gloucester] is a tradition in the Jones family wich takes color from specifications that this Elizabeth Cary was mother to the Judith Jones of Gloucester who m. William Cary3 of Prince George [see post, p 138] , and that one of the children of Frances (Jones) Anderson, a sister of Judith (Jones) Cary, was named Thomas Cary. See statement of L. B. Anderson, 1872, in W.M. Cary Notes.] ......
SOURCES [ed note: for Thomas Cary and children] :
(1) The Eggleston Notes for the will of THomas Cary , recorded 1708 in Warwick Will Book , I , 23, naming children Thomas, James, Milner and Elizabeth (2) Gleanings from public records, as cited."7p 42"7
Spouse NN [Probable Husband] JONES7
Birth Of Gloucester Co., Va7
Marr Unproven but not impossible, probable, marriage
Probable Children of 
Elizabeth Cary and NN Jones, 
Surnamed Jones

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1.6a Dorothy CARY  [ Probable Daughter] SEE DEDICATED PAGE TO THIS DIRECT ANCESTOR WITH FAR MORE DETAIL ON HER MARRIAGE , SUBSTANTIATION IN TREE<AND CHILDREN 20,21,22
Birth abt 1680, Of the county of Warwick/ Virginia23,24
Death bef 1774, Va25
Religion Quaker
Description Married Twice. Fairfax Harrison gives the marriage date 1720 for 2nd marriage, but Quaker Records prove otherwise
1st Spouse John  PLEASANTS20,28,29SEE DEDICATED PAGE TO THIS DIRECT ANCESTOR
Birth 1671 or 1672, Curles [Plantation], Henrico County, Va.30,31
Death 171332,33
Father John PLEASANTS (1644-1698) SEE DEDICATED PAGE TO THIS DIRECT ANCESTOR
Mother Jane LARCOME (1638-1708) SEE DEDICATED PAGE TO THIS DIRECT ANCESTOR
Marr ca 1694, Virginia7
Children of
Dorothy Cary and John Pleasants 
surnamed PLEASANTS
  • Thomas (Minister) (1695-1744)
  • John** (~1697->1771) SEE DEDICATED PAGE TO THIS DIRECT ANCESTOR
  • Ann/Anna (<1708-)
  • Jane (<1708-)
  • Joseph (>1708-<1743)
  • Dorothy
2nd Spouse  to Dorothy Cary Robert  JORDAN34,35
Birth eleventh day seventh month 1668, of Nansamond County, Virginia36,37,38
Death 3 Aug 172839
Father Thomas  JORDAN (1634-1699)
Mother Margaret BRASSEUR (1642-1708)
Marriage 1718 [9th 7mo ], Quaker Ceremony; Curles Meeting House Henrico County40,41,42
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