IMMIGRANT Miles1 Cary^{[1, 2, 3]}

Est 1620 - 1667  (~ 47 years)

• Name	Miles1 Cary  [4]
  	VIRGINIA COUNTY RECORDS; WESTMORELAND COUNTY VIRGINIA Book No.3 Page 285 Major Miles Cary awarded 3,000 acres in 1654.
  Title	IMMIGRANT
  Born	Est 1620	Bristol, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	1667	Warwick Co., Virginia Colony
  	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.
  Person ID	I5412	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	6 May 2019

  
  

  Father	John Cary,   b. 1583, Bristol England ,   d. 13 Feb 1660, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England  (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Alice Hobson,   b. 1590, England ,   d. 1635, England  (Age 45 years)
  Married	Children of Alice Hobson: Henry 1618, Matthew 1620, Richard 1621, Alice 1625, Honor 1627, Elizabeth 1628, Mary 1530 m. Peter Jennings
  Family ID	F7934	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann Taylor,   b. 1621, England ,   d. 1667, Warwick, Virginia Colony  (Age 46 years)
  Children	+ 1. Henry2 Cary,   b. Est 1650, Henrico County, Virginia ,   d. 1720, Williamsburg, Virginia  (Age ~ 70 years) + 2. Miles2 Cary,   b. Est 1655, Warwick County, Virginia ,   d. 27 Feb 1709, Henrico Co., Virginia  (Age ~ 54 years) + 3. William2 Cary,   b. 1657, Skiffs Creek, Mulberry Island m, Warwick [Later Prince Edward Co., Va. ,   d. 1713, Prince George Co., Virginia  (Age 56 years) + 4. Major Thomas2 Cary,   b. Est 1647, Warwick Co., VA ,   d. 1708  (Age ~ 61 years)
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2015
  Family ID	F2018	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents		Miles Cary Awarded many Land Patents 5412MilesCary.jpg
  		Henry Hobson, daughter Alice, wife of Miles Cary names Grandchildren vamagazine-volXVIII.pdf

  
  

  Histories		The Carys, Miles, the Immigrant Carys.pdf
  		Virginia Heraldica - A Registry of Virginia Gentry Entitled to Coat Armor with Genealogical Notes of the Families Edited by William Armstrong Crozier, F.R.S., F.G.S.A. Virginia County Record Series Volume V. 1908 virginiaheraldic00croz.pdf

  
  

• Notes

  http://archive.org/stream/virginiacarysan01harrgoog/virginiacarysan01harrgoog_djvu.txt 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. 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S140] Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. THE VIRGINIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY Volume IV The year ending June 1897 THE COCKE'S OF VIRGINIA Henry Cary, s/o Miles1 Cary was the father of the Miles Cary3 who married Elizabeth Cocke3. Henry Cary3, s/o Henry2, is the father of Colonel Archibald Cary4, of Ampthill, died 1787; prominent in the Revolutionary period; married Mary Randolph, d/o Richard Randolph3. Another of the daughters of Henry Cary3 married Carter Page. Miles Cary1 came to Virginia in 1640-46, and died 1667. Settled in Warwick, and the name continued potent in that county down to 1800, and very prominent elsewhere. Miles Cary was a member of the Governor's Council in 1665. His children were: 1. Thomas; 2. Ann; 3. Henry; 4. Bridget; 5. Elizabeth; 6. Miles; 7. William. [S126] United States Archives, http://archive.org/stream/virginiacarysan01harrgoog/virginiacarysan01harrgoog_djvu.txt. THE SENIOR LINE AT WINDMILL POINT, EXTINCT 1837 I. Colonel Miles Cary {John^, of Bristol, (William^, Richard^, William^) ^ 1623-1667, of Windmill Point, Warwick County, Virginia. Baptized at All Saints' Church, Bristol, January 30, 1622, O.S. Emigrated to Virginia about 1645, where the first record of him is on the bench of the Warwick County Court 1652. Major 1654, Lieutenant-Colonel 1657, Colonel and County Lieutenant 1660. Died, probably from wounds, during the Dutch raid on Hampton Roads in June, 1667. He had acquired his father-in-law's lands at Windmill Point and Magpie Swamp, and others, aggregating'more than 2600 acres in Warwick, including the plantations afterwards known as The Forest, Richneck, and SkiflFs Creek (Mulberry Island). He m. (in Virginia not later than 1646) Anne, dau. of Captain Thomas Taylor, Collector of the Tobacco Duties for James River, Escheator. General for the Colony, Burgess 1 660-1 665, being member of the "Publique Committee" of the Assembly (Hening, ii, 31) ; advanced to the council 1665. He maintained a water-mill and a mercantile business, both of which are mentioned in his will. [The surviving evidence for the marriage is the reference in Miles Gary's will to "my father-in-law, Thomas Taylor, deceased." [S126] United States Archives, http://archive.org/stream/virginiacarysan01harrgoog/virginiacarysan01harrgoog_djvu.txt. The fragments of the tombstone of Mary Milner and Miles Gary 2 in situ at Richneck, Warwick Gounty, Va., April 10, 1919 Peartree Hall graveyard, as of April 10, 1919, [at this writing] are in complete ruin. The inscription was preserved by at least three copies, independently made, which agree, viz,: in 1844 by Mr. William Robertson, Clerk of Warwick; in 1851, by Mr, Guilford Dudley Eggleston and Mr. William B. ("Hell-cat Billy") Jones, then Clerk of Warwick; and in 1868 by Captain Wilson Miles Cary. It will be noted that, as so often is the case in respect of traditional records, the inscription contains two errors of fact: (i) Miles Cary was not the only son of John Cary of Bristol, though at the time of his death he may have been the only surviving son; (2) Miles Cary was at the time of his death in his forty-ninth year, as appears from the following contemporary entry in the parish register of. A II Saints* Church, Bristol: "The 30 January, 1622, [0.8.] was Baptized Miles, the Sonne of John Cary. The grave is on the high bluff over the mouth of Potash Creek, looking down Warwick River, in the midst of an ancient grove. In 1868 it was described as "at the foot of a giant walnut and in the deep shade of a bower formed by the festoons of a mighty grapevine which embraces the entire grove in its snake-like folds," This description held good on April 10, 1919, both the walnut and the grape-vine being extant. The brick tomb has entirely disappeared, while the slab which bore the inscription is shattered into many pieces, some of which have been carried away; but enough remains after two hundred and fifty years clearly to identify the inscription. with the aid of the copies made a half century ago [S3] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston, https://www.genealogical.com/upload_images/CallListofNames.pdf. THREE HUNDRED COLONIAL FAMILIES OF ROYAL ANCESTRY: Following are the MAIN royal lines listed in this remarkable work. End numbers in the list below refer to beginning pedigree charts in the full 3,672 -page publication . John Carleton (b. 1637-38; md. Hannah Jewett) 736 George Carrington (b. 8 Jul 1711; md. Anne Mayo) James Cary (chr. 14 Apr 1600; md. Eleanor) 1451 John Cary (chr. 10 Apr 1583;md. Elizabeth Hereford & Alice Hobson) 1451 John Cary (b. abt. 1610; md. Elizabeth Godfrey) 1451 Miles Cary (chr.30 Jan 1622; md. Anne Taylor) 1451 William Cary(chr.3 Oct 1550; md.Alice Goodale)1451 Anne Cavendish(b. abt. 1596; md. Vincent Lowe) William Farrar (chr. 28 Apr 1583; md. Cecily) 1022 John Henry (b. abt. 1705; md. Sarah Winston) Patrick Henry (b. 29 May 1736; Revolutionary War Patriot) Henry Isham(b.abt.1628; md. Katherine Banks) 1273 Thomas Ligon(chr. 11 Jan1623-24;md.Mary Harris)553 William Randolph(chr.7 Nov 1650;md.Mary Isham)1273 Hannah Price (b. abt. 1656; md. Rees Jones) Henry Randolph (chr 27Nov1623;mdJudith Soane)1274