Margaret (Graves) Cary (1719 - 1762)

Born 19 Jul 1719 in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Cary — married 24 Dec 1741 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 8 Oct 1762 at age 43 in Massachusetts Bay

Biography

Birth

Margaret Graves was born on July 18, 1719 in Dedham, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay. She was the daughter of Thomas & Sybil (Avery) Graves.^[1]

Margaret's father was a Physican turned Judge. Sybil died of smallpox in 1721 and Margaret worked in her father's apothecary shop until she was old enough to marry. Her husband was a Capt. in the merchant class which made up only 10% of the port's population, and was away from home most of the time.

Marriage

She married Samuel Cary on December 24, 1741.^[1]

Issues

Children of Margaret Graves and Samuel Cary:

1. Samuel Cary
2. Thomas Cary
3. Jonathan Cary
4. Abigail Cary

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Historical Collections. Vol. XXV. "Materials for a Genealogy of the Sparhawk Family in New England," complied by Cecil Hampden Cutts Howard. Salem, 1888, 37. Print.

• Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH4Z-CMJ : 10 November 2020), Mrs. Margaret Greaves in entry for Samuel Capt. Cary, 24 Dec 1741; citing Marriage, Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009468.
• Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F42Q-V4Y : 10 November 2020), Margaret in entry for Samuel Cary, 20 Sep 1742; citing Birth, Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009468.
• "The Diary of Margaret Graves Cary: Family and Gender in the Merchant Class of 18th Century Charlestown", by Joshua Allan Kiger, p 2