Col. Wilson Miles Cary, Sr.

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Col. Wilson Miles Cary, Sr.

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Newport News, Virginia
Death: November 30, 1817 (83)
Carysbrook, Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States
Place of Burial: Carysbrook, Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Col. Wilson Cary and Sarah Cary
Husband of Rebecca Cary and Sarah Cary
Father of Wilson Miles Cary, III; Sally M. Nelson (Cary); Elizabeth Blair Fairfax and Miles Cary
Brother of Sally Fairfax (Cary); Mary Ambler; Ann Nicholas and Elizabeth Blair Fairfax

DAR Ancestor #: A020276
Managed by: Henry Alan Johnson
Last Updated:

About Col. Wilson Miles Cary, Sr.

Colonel Wilson Miles Cary

Find A Grave Memorial ID # 188490323

Born at Richneck, Warwick County, now Newport News. Buried at Carysbrook, WPA Report at Library of Virginia Celey’s tract of land: survey report, 1936 December 9

Father: Wilson Miles CARY b: December 1702 in Elizabeth City County (later Norfolk County, now City of Chesapeake), Virginia Mother: Sarah PATE b: About 1710

Marriage 1 Sally BLAIR b: About 1738; 2 Rebecca Damson d/o Rev Thomas Damson Married: About 1757 Children by 1 Wilson Miles CARY b: About 1760 in Elizabeth City County, Virginia D1793 Sally 1762-1779 m1 Captain Thomas Nelson s/o Sec Nelson Mary Monro 1764-1836 m1 William S Peachy Miles 1766-1774 Elizabeth Blair 1753-1810 m1 Ferdinando Fairfax

A Patriot of the American Revolution for VIRGINIA with the rank of COLONEL. DAR Ancestor # A020276

NOTE: Colonel Wilson Miles Cary was a member of the Convention of 1776, was the son of Wilson Cary and Sarah Blair Cary and was born probably in Warwick County. From 1752-1755 he attended the College of William and Mary, and on 25 May 1759 he married his first cousin Sarah Blair, daughter of his uncle John Blair (ca. 1687–1771), then president of the Governor's Council. They had three daughters and two sons.

Cary was also closely related to the influential Fairfax, Nelson, and Nicholas families, and his siblings and children married into other prosperous and powerful families, including the Amblers, Carrs, Harrison, Jeffersons, Page and Trents.

For some unrecorded reason, he hyphenated his given names.

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Col. Wilson Miles Cary, Sr.'s Timeline

1734
April 1734
Newport News, Virginia
1760
1760
Virginia, British Colonial America
1760
Newport News, Virginia, United States
1766
1766
Hampton, Virginia, United States
1770
1770
1817
November 30, 1817
Age 83
Carysbrook, Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States
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Carysbrook Farm Cemetery, Carysbrook, Fluvanna County, Virginia, United States