Capt. Daniel McCarty

His 1st wife was Elizabeth Pope, widow of William Payne.

"McCarty, Daniel, son of Dennis McCarty, who died in Richmond County in 1694,was born in 1679; was burgess for Westmorland county in 1705-1706, 1715-1718, 1720-1722, 1723.He was speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1715 and 1718.He was a man of great estate and his massive silver table service, still preserved, bears the date of 1620, and the arms of Earls of ClanCarty. He died 4 May 1724, leaving issue, among others Daniel McCarty Jr." Lyon Gardiner Tyler, ed., Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Vol. I, p. 288.

Michael J. O'Brien, The McCarthys In Early American History, (Originally published by: Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1921), http://mccarthy.montana.com/Articles/EarlyAmericanHistory2.html (accessed 5/11/09):

"Captain Daniel McCarty lived on his estate in the Parish of Cople, Westmoreland County, near the Richmond boundary line, and the fact of his settling in that County to where the original immigrants, Charles and Owen, are said to have removed some years before, would seem to confirm the theory that all three were related. He seems to have been particularly fortunate in the selection of a place to establish his home. Before his death his estate extended along both sides of the Rappahannock River in Westmoreland and Richmond Counties, as well as in Stafford County, and across Westmoreland almost as far as Nomini Creek where it drops into the Potomac. It is a place to which nature has been lavish with its gifts, having a salubrious climate and rich soil, and the numerous creeks and inlets along the Potomac boundary abound with the finest fish, oysters and wild fowl. This section also has practically unlimited deposits of marl, brick and pottery clay; the cities of Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia are built largely from bricks made of Westmoreland County clay, and there are also large quantities of pure fuller's earth, principally along the streams. The slaves on their plantations excavated these rich deposits at very little expense, and for many years the industry was carried on by the McCarty and neighboring families, in addition to the cultivation of tobacco which was shipped to Europe from the nearby wharves on the Potomac.

Westmoreland County is one of the oldest settled parts of Virginia and in colonial days it was the home of wealth and influence. Indeed, it is by far the most historic section of the State; many rich and aristocratic families have resided there and the County is dotted with some fine estates. Washington once called Westmoreland "the garden of America," and it has the undisputed distinction of having been the birth-place of some of the most eminent Americans, among them General Washington and others of the Washington family, Richard Henry Lee and his three brothers, Thomas, Francis and Arthur, President Monroe and General Robert E. Lee of Civil War fame.

Daniel McCarty was married twice, first in 1703 to Mrs. Sarah Payne, widow of James Payne, and second in 1715 to Ann (Lee) Fitzhugh, daughter of Richard and Laetitia Lee of Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, and widow of Colonel William Fitzhugh of Eagle's Nest, King George County, who died in January, 1714. 32 More than a century later (on March 30, 1817), we see a re-uniting of the McCarty and Lee families when Anne, daughter of another Daniel McCarty, married Major Henry Lee, son of that famous Revolutionary General who is familiarly known as "Light Horse Harry Lee." Major Lee served in the 12th U.S. Infantry in the war of 1812 and was private secretary to President Andrew Jackson and afterwards Secretary of the United States Legation at Paris. 33 He and his wife lived in a famous colonial mansion in Westmoreland County known as Stratford Hall, in which Richard Henry Lee, Franeis Lightfoot Lee and General Robert E. Lee were born. A strong friendship was maintained between the successive generations of these two families and one of the McCartys, Mrs. Starke, sister of Anne (McCarty) Lee, was at one time the owner of Stratford Hall and lived in it up to the time of the Civil War, and on her death she left the manor house and one thousand acres of land to her nephew, Dr. Richard Stuart, whose family are said to be the present owners of the property. 34 On August 28, 1802, Richard Stuart of Cedar Grove, King George County, married Margaret R. McCarty, widow of Daniel and mother of the Anne McCarty who married Major Lee. In later years Hancock Lee married Sarah McCarty, daughter of Colonel Daniel McCarty, and John McCarty married Ann Lucinda Lee.

Between 1705 and 1715 Daniel McCarty was one of the "Gentlemen Justices of Westmoreland County" 35 and was also for some time Sheriff of the County, and in the "official Letters of Alexander Spotswood, Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1710-1722," 36 there is a letter dated September 5, 1711, in connection with "Proposals humbly offered to the hon'ble Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs for the better preventing illegal Trade in the Colony of Virginia," in which "it was recommended to the Commissioners of Customs that Captain Daniel McCarty be appointed Collector of Potomack River." In 1705 and 1706 he was one of the representatives of the County in the Virginia Assembly. Verbatim copies of the Journals of the House of Burgesses were published in several large volumes by the Commonwealth of Virginia, and these Journals show that on October 26, 1705, the House "Resolved that Mr. George Eskridge and Mr. Daniel McCarty are Duly Returned Burgesses to Serve in this Present General Assembly for the County of Westmoreland, 37 and in the same month Daniel McCarty was appointed one of the four members of the "Committee for Elections and Priviledges." That he took a forward part in the deliberations of the Assembly and served on several important committees during his terms of office, is seen from these Journals, and from 1705 to 1720 his name appears therein not less than 240 times.

On August 3, 1715, he was elected Speaker of the House of Burgesses, succeeding Peter Beverley, and on April 23, 1718, he was re-elected to the same important office. We are told that the session of 1715, over which Daniel McCarty presided, was "chiefly memorable for a bitter quarrel between Governor Spotswood and the House of Burgesses," 38 and the session of 1718 is also described in the preface to the printed Journals as "one of the most exciting that occurred in Virginia colonial history." In that year there was a bitter quarrel between members of the House and Governor Spotswood and in the circumstances it required much tact and good judgment on the part of the presiding officer to meet the situations that presented themselves. Usually, the Speaker of the House also was Treasurer of the Colony, but during Daniel McCarty's second term as Speaker, Beverly retained the office. McCarty seems to have been held in high esteem by his fellow members and on May 29, 1718, the House passed the following resolution: "That the Sume of One hundred pounds out of the money in the Treasurer's hands be paid to the Speaker as a Token of the Respect this House beares him."

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(Capt) Daniel McCarty

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