Wilson Miles Cary (1734 - 1817)

Born Apr 1734 in Richneck, Hampton, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Blair) Cary — married 25 Jul 1759 in Virginia

Descendants

Died 4 Dec 1817 at age 83 in Carysbrook, Fluvanna, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Wilson Miles Cary was born in 1734. He was the son of Wilson Cary and Sarah Pate.

He passed away in 1817.

"COL. WILSON MILLES CARY, (6-1), of "Rich Neck," Warwick Co., Virginia, and "Ceelys," and Cary's Brooks," Elizabeth City Co., Virginia., b. 1734 ; d. 1817

graduate of William and Mary College

a Burgess, 1758-59 ; 1762-74

Justice, 1770 ; Lieut. Col., 1758

Col. and County Lieut., 1762

Naval Officer of the Lower James River, 1760-76

of Convention, 1776

and member of the House of Delegates

a staunch and liberal supporter of the Episcopal Church

he married in 1759, Sarah Blair, daughter of Hon. John and Mary (Monro) Blair.

Issue: ..."

1. WILSON , b . 1760 ; of whom later .
2. Sarah , b . 1762 ; m . Capt . Thomas Nelson , of Yorktown , Virginia , son of Hon . Thomas and Lucy ( Armistead ) Nelson , and had issue . ( See Armistead lineage . )
3. Mary Monro , b . 1763 ; m . William Peachy .
4. Elizabeth Blair , b . 1765 ; m . Ferdinand Fairfax . ^[1]

Children's Data

Church Funerals

St. John's Parish

1842

Preached the funeral

"of Mr. Cary's child." (note on side:" Virginia Randolph dau. of Col. Wilson Miles Cary)

was listed in the Parish Register. ^[2].

Sources

1. ↑ https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062943303&view=1up&seq=142 Hardy, Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: ---, p. 130, 131
2. ↑ John's Parish Register, page 318/image 488.

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.)

Seldens of Virginia and Allied Families

Acknowledgements

Profile was originally entered by Leslie Ridley, Friday, March 7, 2014.

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Footnote

I found this on-line when searching the Wilson family of Virginia which was closely connected to my Miller family in the late 1600's. Jim Miller:

About the Plantation Ceelys...

From Pecquet de Bellet "Wilson Cary of Ceeley" and his family [Compiled by Wilson Miles Cary, of Baltimore, Md., with extracts from 'Virginia Historical Magazine', Vol IX, No., 1, July, 1901, and a few notes from Goode's 'Virginia Cousins']

In 1786, I (Wilson Miles Cary) made a horseback trip to the Peninsula of Virginia and travelled over all that section of country, with the purpose, if possible, of reconstructing the genealogy of my family, which, as embodied in a fine old vellum record, had been destroyed, together with the family Bible, etc., etc., at the burning of our Fluvanna residence, Carysbrooke, Nov 26, 1826.In the clerk's office at Hampton, I found not only the original will of Col Wilson Cary, of which I already had obtained a copy in 1866, but that of his brother Miles Cary, of 'Ceelyes' as he styles himself, and which I then transcribed. ... I rode to 'Ceelyes', on the banks of the James, three or four miles from Hampton, to visit the mansion so long the residence of my ancestors. The whole estate, containing some two thousand acres in Colonel Cary's time, lay along the river and adjoined the present Newport News. It was then occupied by a settlement of negro squatters, a section of 'Butler's Contrabands'. There was scarce a vestige of the old mansion remaining-the very foundations were obliterated-not a tree left standing, and the garden, which once ran in terraces to the river's edge, now a wilderness of weeds. I found the dispossessed proprietor, a young Mr Smith, quartered in a most primitive shanty, on the edge of the estate, almost despairing of ever enforcing his rights and ejecting the darkies, but still awaiting with what patience he might the otrageous dilatory proceedings of the reconstruction period. Mr Smith informed me that the negroes, after burning the fine old brick mansion to the ground, had entirely dismantled its walls, using them for the chimneys of their hovels. The original building was of large dimensions, two stories, with wings. Its age had been discovered by his father, who, on removing the porico to make some repairs, had found the figures 1706 on the lintel. The records of Elizabeth City inform us that the nucleus of the estate called 'Ceelys' consisted of two tracts of two hundred and fifty acres each, at the mouth of Saltford Creek, on the banks of James River, which were acquired by Colonel William Wilson in 1691 and 1695 from on Thomas Ceely-who represented Warwick County i n the House of Burgesses from 1629-39. Colonel Wilson was for many years the presiding justice and most prominent personage of Elizabeth City County, being long the Royal Naval Officer of the Lower James, and a very wealthy planter. He it was who built 'Ceelys' in 1706. He died in 1713 but his will was doubtless recorded in the General Court, whose archives were destroyed in the conflagration of 1865, so that a detailed disposition of his large estate can not now be had. His only son, Captain Willis, had died without issue in 1701. His daughter Mary (1675-1741) had first married William Roscow [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 bereavedat the same time, his wife, Mary Milner, having left him, 'issueless' as he tombstone states, October 27, 1700. .... Col Miles Cary died intestate, but from his tomb we learn the names of his children. To the younger of his two sons, Miles, his grandfather Wilson's estate of 'Ceelys' descended, while he, dying a bachelor in 1756, willed it to his only brother Colonel Wilson Cary, of 'Richneck'. 1pages 49-51