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    Miles Cary

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    • 9th Great-grandfather of Mary Chapin Carpenter — 12th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 3244 
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    • Christening Date:
    • 30 Jan 1622 
    • Christening Location:
    • All Saints Church, Bristol, England 
    • Death Date:
    • 10 Jun 1667 
    • Death Location:
    • Hampton Roads, Virginia 
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    • ABT 1646 
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    • Miles Cary is believed to have died from wounds suffered during a raid by the Dutch in 1667. The Dutch sailed five warships into Hampton Roads and sank the British guardship Elizabeth and captured a number of merchant ships loaded with tobacco that was about to be shipped to England.

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  • Sources for Miles Cary

    • 1 Sons of the Revolution in State of Virginia Quarterly Magazine, 1923, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 31-32.
    • 2 Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 105.
    • 4 Dorman, John Frederick, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th ed., Vol. 3, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2007), 293-294.
    • 5 Hardy, Stella Pickett, Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy of Colonial Families Who Settled . . ., New York: Tobias A. Wright (1911), 43.
    • 6 Laidley, W. S., ed., The West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarterly, Charleston, West Virginia: West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society, 1902, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 53-54.