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The Virginia Carys : an Essay in Genealogy Gc 929.2 C2504h 1552930 GETNHALOGY COLLECTION Al LEN COUNIY fUHl II I IBHAHY 3 1833 01204 2609 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center http://www.archive.org/details/virginiacarysessOOharr / THE VIRGINIA CARYS ' I I I II I I i iiii iiii iii iii iiii m.i iiif i WH n ) w . .njLiiipiin . i m •^> 1^. f ^ J \ \ fcidi 11 liiiianii lii ^iiiiiiitfniV'liinr-"ffiMii#i(Miilifi1(i^ COL. ARCHIBALD CARY OF AMPTHILL I72I-I787 ' I The VIRGINIA CARYS (lAn Sssay in (genealogy ^aA h> ^J^ v"" \* "»\ Fix V e ^o^M' H tx I 5 PRIVATELY PRINTED THE DE VINNE PRESS NEW YORK 1919 ir A f ) ij I55;e930 Copyright, 19 19, by The DeVinne Press (V t;l TO TWO GARY WOMEN MY MOTHER AND MY tVIFE OT y.AU^ OV/T -—-'^ CONTENTS PAGE Introduction xiii CHAPTER I The Origins 3 II The Bristol Forebears . ii III Characteristics in Virginia ... 24 IV Windmill Point and Peartree Hall 32 V The Forest and Ampthill ... 85 VI RiCHNECK, Ceelys, Carysbrook and Oakhill 96 VII Skiffs Creek AND Prince Edward . 128 viii Other Carys in Virginia . , . .141 Appendix I: Calendar of Wills Proving Pedigree 159 Appendix II: Confirmation of Arms of Cary of Devon to Cary of Bristol, 1699 182 Key Index 189 I II ... ^. .-.vrl joTSiaH 3hT ii ) III I? . 3IiT V (J9 Jj i^t . /-.r/iiDaf/ VII gYHA'J xaHTp iiiv 9c' - • ^- - - £8x ^, - 981 . xaavjl Y3^ ^ ILLUSTRATIONS Note. The eighteenth century poitratts here reproduced are heirlooms and are given the names attributed to them by tradition; evidence for critxcai iden- tification of either subjects or painters is not available to the present editor. Col. Archibald Cary, of AmpthlU . Frontispiece From d copy, at Belvolr House, of the portrait formerly in the possession of John Cary Page, Esq., of Cumberland County, Fa. FACING PAGE The Cary House on Bristol Back . ii From a sketch made l8iy 'ujhen the house luas pulled dov:n. St. Nicholas Church, Bristol 15 From an old print. Autographs of the Immigrant's Sons ... 24 From surviving public records. Map of Warwick and Elizabeth City Counties, Virginia 32 From a sketch made to indicate localities herein mentioned. Cary Graveyards in Warwick County, Virginia 36 From photographs, April, iQig. Autographs of the Peartree Hall Carys . 49 From surviving public records and family papers. Col. Gill Armistead Cary, of Elmwood . 73 From a portrait in the possession of T. Archibald Cary, Esq., of Richmond. Col, John Baytop Cary, C. S. A 74 From a photograph. o -r. .C_ ^^ ,1 . IT -•;;,: - FACING PAGE Lieutenant George Cary, U. S. A 77 From a photograph. Map of the Upper James River Counties . 85 An enlargement of a part of Jefferson's Map of Firgitiia, 1787. Autographs of the Ampthill Carys . .88 From family papers. Ampthill House 90 From a photograph, April, IQIQ. Judith Cary (Mrs. David Bell) .... 94 From the portrait in the possession of Major Gist Blair, Washington, D. C. Col. Miles Cary, of Richneck 100 From the portrait in the possession of Mrs. Burton Harri- son, Washington, D. C. Autographs of the Richneck Carys . 103 From family papers. The Ceelys Plate 105 From a photograph of the originals in the possession of Miss J. M. Cary, of Baltimore. Sally Cary (Mrs. G. W. Fairfax) .... 106 From the portrait at Belvoir House. Col. Wilson-Miles Cary, of Ceelys . .108 From the portrait at Belvoir House. Wilson Jefferson Cary, of Carysbrook . .110 From the miniature at Belvoir House. Private Randolph Fairfax, C. S. A. .112 From the portrait at the Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va. ?o \ »iii »\ FACING PAGE Wilson Miles Cary, of Baltimore . , .115 From the portrait In the possession of Miss J. M. Cary, of Baltimore. Hetty Cary, Richmond, 1865 116 From a daguerreotype in the possession of Miss J. M. Cary, of Baltimore. Capt. W. M. Cary, C. S. A 118 From the portrait in the possession of IFilson Miles Cary, Esq., of Baltimore, Archibald Cary, of Cumberland, Md. .120 From the portrait at Belvoir House. Autographs of the Oakhill Carys . .123 From family papers, Constance Cary, Paris, 1867 124 From the portrait at Belvoir House. Midshipman Clarence Cary, C. S. N. .126 From the portrait in the possession of Guy Cary, Esq., of Neiu York. Martha Cary (Mrs. Edward Jaquelin) . 129 From the portrait at Glen Ambler, Amherst County, Fa. Pedigree Chart . -194 CXI] ,.V«i 4-Sl ./- .? .J .v-'c'J •o ,.^1^ ^£1 .bH INTRODUCTION IN the summer of 1843, Rumor took wing from Ovid's House of Fame and flew about Virginia, spreading a report that there was a fortune in England waiting to be claimed by the common law heirs of the Virginia immigrant Miles Gary. No one knew who was responsible for the story, but it profoundly affected the peace of mind of a wide-spread family connec- tion; not Carys only, but the nearer kin of their several branches—Randolphs, Pages, Nicho- lases, Seldens, Peachys, Hays, Leighs, Skipwiths and Egglestons. Lawyers and family Bibles were diligently consulted, heirlooms were fur- bished forth and a vast deal of traditional misin- formation was distributed and recorded in the form of pedigrees. The excitement was fed by highly colored specifications in great variety, dis- regarding geography as much as probability. An age-old leasehold in London had fallen in, the property it had covered having an actual value of from six to eighteen millions of dollars, with no one in England to claim the reversion; Lord [XIII] Brougham had moved a parliamentary commis- sion to investigate such hoary eleemosynary trusts as had outlived their usefulness, and a report had come in that, among others, a property known as "Gary's Rents" should revert to the heirs of the founder; this was described as lying, forsooth, on the Thames opposite Windsor, but already swallowed by the growth of London : the Lord Chancellor, clearing his docket, had exhumed an estate which had remained in chancery until the direct representatives of the original liti- gants had become extinct; a new interpretation of a Tudor marriage settlement had overturned long established property rights. It was even averred positively that the British Government had asked the State Department at Washington to produce the Gary heir. In due time, when re- plies to frantic inquiries in England came in, there was found to be no foundation whatever for the story: it was a purely American inven- tion; no one had heard of it in England. The bubble was pricked. Although sensible people then put away the visions of Alnaschar in which the soberest of them had indulged for a time, the agitation per- sisted for the ensuing ten years, reappearing at intervals as more "Gary heirs" were heard from in the West and Southwest. As late as 1852 a "Golonel Mulberry Sellers" from Georgia, then CXIV] ^»ar«aJ^ shepherding the sheep of Fortune in New York, advertised in the Richmond newspapers that he had new and mysterious information on the sub- ject. When interviewed he offered to sell his proofs, or, if the inquirer preferred and could produce legal evidence of his descent from Miles Cary, he was ready to buy out the claim: a modest sum, say $100,000, was proposed as the consideration either way.^ The suggestion of the need of proof had brought home to some among the Carys a dis- agreeable realization that they had no such evi- dence of their breeding as could stand the test of the law. While they might no longer have any belief in the existence of the visionary fortune, they did still cherish vaguely a traditional confi- dence that among them was the heir to the Hunsdon peerage which had been in abeyance for a century. There was, in fact, no more foundation for this dream than for that of 1 This was one of the earliest instances of a traffic which after- wards became an industry, the exploiting in America of imagi- nary claims to English estates. The most conspicuous case, in which some Virginians were involved, was that of the Jennings claim to the property of Earl Howe: this had some merit, but when it was finally quashed by the English Court of Chancery in 1878 and several merely fraudulent promoters of syndicates of American "heirs" of other names were jailed in the United States, the industry languished and died. The epidemic is historically interesting as one of the last symptoms of colonialism: the toll which, with curious manifestations, the present generation takes from its ancestors is membership in a patriotic societ}'. The seri- ous study of genealogy has profited by both. cxvn the fortune, but it was not pleasant to have to forego it.^ This lack of documentary evidence of origin, while conspicuous in the Cary family in the mid- dle of the nineteenth century, was not peculiar to them: other Virginia families shared a like des- titution. The explanation is not far to seek. After the Revolution and Mr. Jefferson's level- ^ The descendants of Miles Cary, sprung from Cary of Bristol, are the same relation to the Hunsdons that they are to the Falk- lands, namely, all three are derived from cadets of the same De- von stock: but the cadet who founded Hunsdon and Falkland left home generations after the ancestor of the Virginia Carys was es- tablished in trade at Bristol. Not even when the lion and the unicorn were fighting for the crown could a serious claim of in- heritance be made out on such facts: but it was not until i868 that the Hunsdon ghost was finally laid in Virginia.
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