I54488: William BURTON (ABT 1720

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Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia. Article XVIII. Warwick, VA: The family of Cary owned large tracts of land in this county, and had two family-seats, well known and much visited in former days. One of them is near Denbigh. The tombs of a number of the family are still to be seen there. The other, called Richneck, is about eight miles off, and higher up the county. The last occupant bearing the name was Mr. Cary, who moved to Carysbrook, in Fluvanna county. On visiting this place, and going to the graveyard where some of the ancestors had been buried, I found that the brick enclosure had been removed, and even the bricks underneath the only large tombstone which was there had been taken away, and used in constructing a steam mill for sawing up the timber of the plantation. The whole estate, consisting chiefly of forest, either of ancient or modern growth, and amounting to fifteen hundred acres, had been sold to persons from a distance, who were converting it into lumber and wood. What is true of this is true of many other old settlements in Warwick. Impoverished by improper culture, and deserted of its former owners, what was once covered with habitations and people has now returned to its primeval state, and is dense forest. It is now feeding the steamboats and furnishing building-materials for our towns. A few more generations may see it once more in a different condition.

Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia. Article XLI. "This branch has been denominated the Iron Carys, from the fact that Archibald Cary was called "Old Iron," either, says Mr. Grigsby, because of his "capacity of physical endurance" or "his indomitable courage," or because he had an iron furnace and mills at Falling Creek, on the site of one established by Colonel Berkeley, who, with a number of his men, was murdered by the Indians in 1622. Mr. Cary's mills were burned by Colonel Tarleton in the American war."

"He was a sterling patriot; was a member of the Convention of 1776 and acquired the sobriquet of "Old Iron. Col. Archibald Cary Died September, 1786, aged 66 Painted about 1750, by an unknown artist. It is said to have been painted by Charles Wilson Peale, of Philadelphia, but it is more probable that it was the work of Bridges. Copied in part in water color by C. H. Sherman, of New York City, 1882."

"IV. Col. Archibald Cary((4)) (Henry((3)), Henry((2)), Miles((1))), of Ampthill, b. January 24, 1720; d. September 1786, aged sixty-six years. He was a sterling patriot of the Revolution, and was a member of the Virginia Convention of 1776. He was nicknamed "Old Iron," whether from his extreme patriotism and as a sterling fighter in the Revolution, or from the fact that he had an iron furnace at the "Falling Creek," on the same site of the one once established by Colonel Berkley who, with his men, were murdered by the Indians in 1622. Colonel Cary's mills were burnt by Tarleton's troops during the Revolution. He commanded a regiment during the Revolution, and was also president of the first State Senate., He married (May 31, 1744) Mary Randolph, b. at Curl's Neck, about 1727, daughter of Richard Randolph (son of William Randolph and Mary Isham) and Jane, daughter of John Bolling, of Bollingbrooke, Chesterfield Co., Va. Archibald Cary and his wife, Mary Randolph, had issue:

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24 January 1721

My Southern Family

William BURTON

ABT 1720 - ____

ID Number: I54488

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Col. Archibald CARY of "Ampthill"

24 Jan 1720 - 26 Feb 1787

ID Number: I41884

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FULK CORBET

25 May 1284 - 1323

ID Number: I93184

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David Jonathan GANZHORN

Martha Patsy GATEWOOD

21 Apr 1777 - 1830

ID Number: I29284

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Henry Marion HODGES

5 Feb 1823 - ____

ID Number: I6128

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Sarah LEWIS

1664 - 1710

ID Number: I80580

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Margaret PORTER

ABT 1780 - ____

ID Number: I52118

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Daniel PRICE Jr.

ABT 1680 - 1770

ID Number: I85947

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Robert Carter SANDUSKY

30 May 1857 - ____

ID Number: I77263

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Thomas WEAVER

AFT 1877 - ____

ID Number: I14310

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