Major Thomas2 Cary

Thomas2 married Anne Milner. Anne was born Est 1650; died Yes, date unknown, Warwick Co., Virginia Colony. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

We begin then with the fact that there was only one Thomas
Cary of the third generation in Virginia and he was unmistakably the eldest son named in the will of Thomas^. He married Elizabeth Hinds 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 (ue,. Clerk) of the County. By one of those happy accidents, which give zest to the patient study of genealogy, there has recently come to
light in a most unexpected place a paper which goes far to establish the tradition now under consideration, checking with Story's statement also. 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 County, Virginia, "aged 43," and Elizabeth Cary "aged 34," who says 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 Cary^ might have met his wife in the same house. The York records show (ff^, 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 Thomas^ who, Story says, was his brother. It seems likely that each of these sons was named after a common grandfather.

Thomas3 married Elizabeth 'Eliza' Hinds 8 Jan1695, Elizabeth City, Virginia. Elizabeth died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]