Family:Richard Brown and Mary Tompkins (1)

Miles Cary mentions in his will "my daughter Anne Tompkins". His widow Anne Cary names in her will "Mrs. Anne Tompkins wife of Capt. Bennett Tompkins." Mr. Tyler's record of the family of Tompkins of Pocoson parish, York {IF. o M. Guar., xvi, 96), shows this marriage and that the first child was born 1744, which justifies our conjectural dates, though it calls for an usually early, but not unprecedented, marriage. Further proof is that Mary Tompkins, daughter of Bennett Tompkins, born according to Mr. Tyler's record 1749, married, as shown by York records, 1772, Richard Brown, of York; and his will, dated 1792 and proved 1795 (York Will Book, .xxiii, 435), names his sons James Pride Brown, Richard Cary Brown and Bennett Brown as legatees and John Cary (presumably Col. John Cary, of Back River) as an executor; all of which names tie in with the children of Miles Cary