Mary (Cary) Ambler (1733 - 1781)

Born 3 Feb 1733 in Virginia

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Died May 1781 at age 48 in Jamestown, James City, Virginia

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Biography

Mary was born in 1733. She is the daughter of COL. Wilson Miles Cary and Sarah Pate [also suggested as possibly Judith Jones]. Mary passed away in 1781, and was buried at Jamestown Fort James Cemetery, Jamestown, James City County, Virginia.

Mary Cary Ambler

BIRTH 3 Feb 1733

DEATH May 1781 Virginia, USA

BURIAL Jamestown Church Cemetery Jamestown, James City County, Virginia, USA

MEMORIAL ID 10746959

Sources

• Cary, Wilson Miles and Fairfax Harrison. Sally Cary: A Long Hidden Romance of Washington's Life (New York: De Vinne Press, 1916). See especially p. 19, on which George Washington's secret lover is identified as Sally Cary, the daughter of Sally (Pate) Cary and granddaughter of Col. John Pate of Poropotank, in Gloucester County, Virginia.

Find A Grave Memorial no. 10746959

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1803 Virginia Court Reports

Cary & C. Executors of Ambler, & C. v. Macon & al.

EDWARD AMBLER, died in 1768, seized in fee of an estate in Jamestown, a plantation not far from thence, on Powhatan swamp, an estate in Hanover called the Cottage, a plantation in Louisa, and a moiety of an estate at Westham, (the other moiety of which belonged to Robert Carter Nicholas) and possessed of a lease for years from the governor, of a farm on the mail land near Jamestown. He left a Will.

Widow, Mary, who took possession of the Jamestown estate, and removed about the year 1777 to the Cottage in Hanover, where she lived until her death in May 1781.

The estate suffered greatly during the war. The British army, under Lord Cornwallis, committed great ravages at Jamestown, the main, and Powhatan, destoying among other things, all the stocks of cattle, etc. belonging to those places.

They had:

Issue: John Ambler (a party to this suit), born circa 1762, became of age in 1783

Issue: Edward Cary Ambler, died at age of 16, before 11 September 1775. Will dated 5 March 1775.

Issue: Sarah, married on 25 March 1779, William H Macon, and died prior to 26 August 1789, leaving one daughter.

Issue: Mary Ambler, died an infant, unmarried, on 31 October 1768, about a month after her father's death.

Executors: Jacquelin Ambler, Robert Carter Nicholas, John Blair, Jr, and Wilson Miles Cary.

Virginia Wills

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"6-5. Mary, b. 1738 ; m. 1754, Edward Ambler, of Jamestown, Va., son of Richard and Elizabeth (Jacquelin) Ambler, and had issue. (See Ambler lineage.)Hardy, Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: ---, p. 130

• Hardy, Stella Pickett, Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy of Colonial Families who Settled in the Colonies Prior to the Revolution, New York : Tobias A. Wright, 1911 (Print.)