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"Mary was beautiful, a typical belle of the period, vivacious and charming, with a townhouse in Hampton and a country home at Ceely's. She was married three times. She was first married to William Roscoe and he died. Then she married Col. Miles Cary, and finally on his death she married Archibald Blair of Williamsburg where her home is still standing. Her daughter was the young lady who refused George Washington's marriage proposal at Carter's Grove"[1]
Mary Wilson was the daughter and heiress of Colonel William Wilson of Hampton, Elizabeth City County, and his wife Jane.
She was born Oct 1675 and died: 11 Jan 1741 at Blount Point, Warwick County, VA, buried at Blount Point, Warwick Co. with her first husband.
She first married 1695 Col. William Roscow of Blunt Point, Warwick Co.
Her second husband was 1702 Miles Cary.
Last and thirdly married about 1720 to Dr. Archibald Blair b Scotland d 1736, also his third marriage.[2]
William Roscow and Mary Wilson had Issue:
Miles Cary and Mary Wilson had issue:
Dr. Archibald Blair and Mary Wilson had issue
"Evidently a charmer. By her coquetry in 1702, when she was first a widow and was about to marry Cary, she provoked a fire-eating Scot, Captain James Moodie, commanding H. M .S. Southampton, then stationed in Virginia, to threaten her father's life and to challenge Cary to a duel. Mary Wilson had three husbands-William Roscow, Miles Cary and Archibald Blair...Surviving them all, she elected to be buried with he first husband at Blunt Point."
"Mary (1675-1741) had first married William Roscon [transcriber's note, as given-should be Roscow], with whom she lies buried under a handsome monument at Blunt Point, in Warwick. After his death, which ocurred Nov 27, 1700, she did not long remain in weeds, but in April , 1702, commiserating the equally sad lot of a near neighbor, she bestowed her hand upon Colonel Miles Cary, of 'Richneck' who had been bereaved at the same time, his wife, Mary Milner, having left him, 'issueless' as his tombstone states, October 27, 1700. And just here, there is a romantic episode, which I intend writing up, growing out of the frantic proceedings of one Captain James Moody, of Her Majesty's man-of-war, Southampton, who madly, though a married man, contested the hand of the fair widow, with Colonel Cary. The latter, having the inside tract, treated the would-be bigamist with contempt, and so overwhelmed him with ridicule, that in a bloody rage he sailed around to Yorktown, where the Governor and Court were in session, and despite the Governor's threat of irons, undertook to post Colonel Cary. The Governor and Council took down the proceedings and promptly complained of his outrageous conduct to the home government, and the reckless villain was forthwith removed to appease the indignation of the entire colony."
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