Alice Pleasants

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Married Sylvester Proffitt

John2 married Dorothea3 'Dorothy' Cary. Dorothea3 (daughter of Henry2 Cary and Judith Lockey) was born Est 1675, Warwick, Henrico County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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She is living in 1704

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In his will, John Pleasants mentions his brothers Samuel, Benjamin, Thomas - Sisters in England

John married Jane Larcombe. Jane was born Est 1650, Henrico, Virginia Colony; died Abt 1708, Henrico, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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Daughter of John; Widow of Samuel Tucker

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Jane signs her name in 1704 18th day of first month 1704

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Henry Cary, son of Miles the immigrant, lived at 'The Forest', Warwick County. Born about 1650 and died in 1720, He was a builder and contractor, and had charge of the erection of the capitol and governor's house at Williamsburg, when the government was removed from Jamestown. He later also superintended the building of the church in Williamsburg and the restoration of the college after the fire of 1705. He married Judith Lockey, and had issue, among others Henry Cary Jr.

Henry2 married Judith Lockey. Judith was born Est 1650, Henrico County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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At the beginning of the eighteenth century there were six contemporaries bearing the name Miles Cary in Virginia. In the order of age, they were:

I. Miles Cary2, of Richneck, the third son named on the immi
grant's tombstone, who died in 1709;
2. Miles Gary*, called in the public records "Mr. Miles Gary, Jr.," prior to 1702, and thereafter "Captain Miles Gary** until the death of his uncle in 1709, when he becomes "Miles Gary, the elder," who was clerk of legislative committees as early as 1693 and during most of his life Glerk of Warwick ;
3. Miles Gary^, named in the will of Henry Gary^ as his second son. He was probably not born earlier than 1680, being the youngest of the five children by his father's marriage in 1671 with Judith Lockey. That he died young and unmarried is a reasonable deduction from the complete silence as to him of all other records than his father's will.
4. Miles Cary^, the second son of William Gary*, described in his father's will in 171 1 as then under age;
5. Miles Gary^, second son of No. 2 supra, and in time also
Glerk of Warwick; and
6. Miles Gary5, the second son of Miles Gary*, of Richneck, and Mary Wilson, who was not born until 1708.
During the agitation in Virginia from 1843 a Cary in Lynchburg testified generally in a letter fabulous "great Gary fortune in England" there were several attempts made to state the pedigrees of the various branches of the Gary family in Virginia. It was then that the Eggleston Notes were drawn from the Warwick records, and as those notes showed no Miles Gary among the sons of Major Thomas Gary*, the genealogists seem to have agreed that "Mr. Miles Gary, Jr.," must be one or the other of the Miles named in the wills of Henry or William. Since then these two theories have been so persistently advanced in the genealogical columns of newspapers that they have almost become
sanctified. (See e,g., Goode, Firginia Cousins, p. 283, advocating the Henry Gary origin, and Pecquet du Bel let, ii, 66, advocating the William Gary origin.) Meanwhile, however, the immediate family tradition contradicted both these theories. In 1843 of L}mchburg testified generally in a letter now penes me that his grandfather Golonel John Gary^ of Back River always maintained that the Peartree Hall household was of the senior line of the family in Virginia. Again in 1868 Miss Susan Gary<* (1789-1873)
of the Back River family, a clear-thinking repository of tradition, asserted stoutly and specifically that whatever the wills showed, the constant tradition of the family was that her ancestor. Miles Gary, Jr., was a son of the eldest son of the immigrant. Evidence is now available to support and establish this tradition.

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The Emigrants Prior to the civil wars, temp. Charles I, these Bristol merchants had been almost as prosperous as they became again after the Restoration. The interference of that war with their foreign trade nearly laid them flat on their backs. A number of the younger and more enterprising among
them then emigrated, one to New England, certainly two, and perhaps more, to Virginia, and one to the sugar islands in the West Indies. Our Miles Cary was one of those who so sought his fortune in Virginia, but the only one of them who is definitely identified as having established his race on that soil. The New England emigrant also left descendants who still flourish in Massachusetts.

Miles Cary went out as a young merchant with the tradition of a mercantile family, and suffered a sea change into a planter and public officer after he was established in the new world.
On the other hand, the descendants of his New England uncle continued to maintain in their new environment, and in a most interesting way, the Bristol seafaring and mercantile tradition.
It may be noted then, in passing that Miles Gary's 1667 tombstone in Virginia is the only recorded and surviving evidence of such use of arms by the Bristol family prior to 1699. ^^ accordance with the Virginia fashion Miles Car/s descendants displayed the arms consistently, throughout the eighteenth century, on tombs, signet rings, table plate, coach panels, book plates, etc. At the end of the nineteenth century the practice was resumed.


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VIRGINIA COUNTY RECORDS; WESTMORELAND COUNTY VIRGINIA Book No.3 Page 285 Major Miles Cary awarded 3,000 acres in 1654.

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TOMBSTONE OF MILES CARY, THE IMMIGRANT AT WINDMILL POINT, WARWICK CO., VA.
ARMS OF CARY OF DEVON
[Ar. on a bend sa. three roses of the field. Crest: a Swan ppr.]
HERE LYETH THE BODY OF MILES CARY, ESQ" ONLY SON OF JOHN CARY & ALICE, HIS WIFE, DAUGHTER OF HENRY HOBSON OF THE CITY OF BRISTOLL. ALDERMAN HE WAS BORN IN Y« SAID CriT [Bristol] AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE lOTH DAY OF JUNE 1667 ABOUT THE 47TH YEAR OF HIS AGE, LEAVING FOUR SONS AND THREE DAUGHTERS, VIZ: THOMAS, ANNE, HENRY, BRIDGETT, ELIZABETH, MILES, WILLIAM
Note. The monument is a brick altar tomb surmounted by a
heavy iron stone slab, evidently carved in England.

Miles1 married Ann Taylor. Ann (daughter of Captain Thomas Taylor and Mrs. Thomas Taylor) was born 1621, England; was christened 30 Jan 1622; died 1667, Warwick, Virginia Colony. [Group Sheet]

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PEARTREE HALL

The first home of the Warwick Carys in Virginia was the high bluff which divides Warwick River and Potash Creek at their confluence, facing Mulberry Island (or, as it is locally called, "Mulbri'land"). Here in 1643, on a plantation known as Windmill Point,^ a Bristol Merchant.

1 The Windmill Point property: The first settlements on Warwick (then known as Blunt's Point) River, below Martins Hundred, were made after the Indian massacre of 1622. From the patents it appears that John Baynham (spelled also Bainham and Burnham) had an "ancient patent" dated 1 Dec 1624, for 300 acres "adjoining the lands of Captain Samuel Matthews and William Claiborne, gentleman." {Va, Mag,, i, 91.) This was Windmill Point and there John Baynham was living in 1625. (Brown, First Republic, 622. A Richard Baynham "of London, goldsmith," was a shareholder in the London Company in 1623 and one of the Warwick faction, Brown, Genesis, ii, 904., 982, and an Alexander Baynham was Burgess for Westmoreland in 1654.) This John Baynham's daughter, Mary, married Richard Tisdale, who succeeded to the property, and from him Captain Thomas Taylor purchased it, taking out on October 23, 1643 (Va, Land Register, i), two patents, one calling for 350 acres, including Windmill Point proper, and the other for 250 acres known as Magpy
Swamp. In the first of these patents Windmill Point is described as "butting upon Warwick River, bounded on the S. side with Potash Quarter Creeke and on the N. side with Samuell Stephens his land." The Stephens place (patented 1636 "adjoining the land of John Bainham," Va. Mag,, v, 455) was "Bolthrope," which passed through the hands of the Governors Harvey and Berkeley merchantman, Captain Thomas Taylor, found a snug harbor, safe from the privateers of the Parliament (cf. Neill, Virginia Carolorum, 178), and here he was succeeded by his son-in-law Col. Miles Cary ; here in turn succeeded the eldest son of our immigrant. This Major Thomas Cary, "the merchant," is, on the surviving records, a somewhat shadowy person after his earliest youth, but he became the fertile progenitor of more of his race than any of his brothers and is still numerously represented. From him descended during the eighteenth century the neighboring households at Windmill Point and Peartree Hall,^ with the {Va, Mag., i, 83), was afterwards long the home of the Coles {Hening, ii, 321), and eventually the property of Judge Richard Cary*^. In his will the immigrant Miles Cary describes Windmill Point as "the tract of land which I now reside upon," refers to Thomas Taylor's patent, and says that a rcsurvey shows it to include 688 acres, exclusive of the Magpy Swamp. We trace the title through eight Carys to 1837, when the senior line became extinct and Windmill Point passed to the Lucas descendants of the youngest daughter of Captain Thomas Cary'^, one of whom Mr. G. D. Eggleston found in possession in 1851. In 1919 the site of the original house is marked by a grassy cavity. A modern house stands nearby, the residence of J. B. Nettles, who is now the owner of the small surrounding farm. The property is sometimes referred to as. "Carys Quarter." This Windmill Point must be distinguished from Sir George Yeardley's Windmill Point (originally Tobacco Point) on the south side of James River in Prince George, where, it is supposed, the first windmill in the United States was erected. Peartree Hall, It appears from the will of his son Miles that Miles, Jr.,8 dwelt on Potash Creek, a description which is persuasive that he established the house which in the next generation and
thenceforth was known as Peartree Hall. That house stood on
the bluflF over Potash Creek, about a mile above Windmill Point. It was destroyed by fire about the beginning of the nineteenth century.

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Daughters of Miles and Ann Taylor Cary are Elizabeth, b 1653?, M. Emanuel Wills of Warwick; Bridgett, 1652, m. Captain William Bassett of New Kent; and Ann (unmarried?)