Person:George Cary (13)

Biography

In the Devon Carys, Volume I,^S1 its author, Fairfax Harrison (1869-1938) devotes a subsection of its Chapter XII — 'THE CAVALIERS OF COCKINGTON', to those of this Cary family he calls: 'THE EMIGRANTS'. These essentially refer to three of the younger sons of GEORGE CARY (c.1578-1643), of Cockington - they who emigrated to the 'new world' of either a couple of Caribbean islands or the American colonies - or both. One of these younger sons was his fourth son, also named George. And we only know his date of birth: 1625 - when he was probably born at 'Cockington House', in Devon - the residence of his parents. As will be seen from the following biography, Fairfax Harrison had found no record of when or where he ended his days. Although he does speculate that "it is probable that he lived out the remainder of his life in some one of the West India islands and died, as Prince says, "without issue."
Here I have renumbered the footnotes to put them together at the end. I have also added one paragraph separation, where it does not appear in the original - just to make it a bit more appealing to read here.

« VI. GEORGE, born 1625, testified after the Restoration¹ that during the first civil war he "did faithfully serve the late King as Captain of horse under his brother Sir Henry Cary" and subsequently "suffered much in his estate for his Majesty's interests, but was largely instrumental in the restoration" while employed as a merchant. He may have gone out to Barbadoes with his brother Theodore, but if so he had returned to England, for in 1660 he was "listed and now rides in ye squadron of the Hon^ble S^r Tho. Sandys under the command of Charles Lord Gerard, Capt. of his Ma^ties Life Guard of Cavalry," Failing, like his brother Sir Henry, in the hope of reward, he apparently went, certainly now if not before, to Barbadoes and there joined the colony promoted by Thomas Modyford, which emigrated from that island in 1664 to establish the first plantation of the new Proprietors of Carolina, the short-lived colony of Clarendon on the Cape Fear River in what is now North Carolina.² Here in 1665 he was a member of the Assembly,³ and here in June, 1666, as one of the "inhabitants of the County of Clarendon" he volunteered to accompany Colonel Robert Sandford, the resident secretary for the Proprietors, on that exploration of the territory of Carolina south of "Cape Romania," which resulted in the plantation of a new Charles Town in the country of Kiawah, which was the beginning of the present State of South Carolina.

Colonel Sandford's interesting report⁴ of this expedition, which has fortunately survived (see next: 'An Adventure' ^S4), affords several silhouettes of Captain George Cary, who was his second in command. We see him armed with morion and matchlock leading a file of soldiers through the jasmine-decked forest glades and the tender green swamp lawns, since familiar to many generations of men; sitting solemnly on an elevated seat in the hut of an Indian cacique and then compromising his dignity by playing at hoodman-blind with the Indian children. Colonel Sandford records that one of the islands on which they landed, lying between St. Helena and Port Royal sounds, now known as the Hunting Islands, "from Capt. Cary wee named Cary Island.⁵ George Cary signed the certificate attesting Sandford's relation, and there his record ends. The Clarendon colony broke up in 1667, the inhabitants scattering to Virginia or returning to Barbadoes. As there is no record of George Cary in Virginia and none has appeared in South Carolina, where some of his Clarendon colleagues ultimately settled, it is probable that he lived out the remainder of his life in some one of the West India islands and died, as Prince says, "without issue."  »

1. Cal. State Papers, Domestic, Car. II, xlviii, 49.
2. Colonial Records of N. C., i, 42 ff.; Home, Brief Description of Carolina, 1666, ed. Salley, in Narratives of Early Carolina, 1911.
3. Collections S. C. Historical Society, v, 60; Colonial Records of N. C., i, 149.
4. Relation of a Voyage on the Coast of the Province of Carolina, 1666, ed. Salley, in Narratives of Early Carolina, 1911.
5. Salley u. s., 96; but for the identification of the island see also McCrady, South Carolina under the Proprietary Government (1901), 87.

An Adventure

—Excerpts taken from: The History of South Carolina under The Propriety Government 1670-1719, by Edward McCrady, New York, The Macmillan Company, London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1897.^S4 [Bold type-face mine]

« As early as 1660 a company from Massachusetts had found their way to the Cape Fear, then known as Charles River, and planted themselves on its borders. These men were merely adventurers, who came under no authority, and claimed under no grant. They made some slight examination of the country near the mouth of the river only, and determined to occupy it for the purpose of rearing cattle. ... It is not certainly known how long these adventurers remained ; but they had abandoned the country before Hilton's arrival, and left a writing upon a post to the disparagement of the land and to the discouragement of all those that there after should come to settle there.

The Lords Proprietors in May, 1663, met to devise their plans. ...

... [ cont'd on p.74 ]

... It now behooved the Proprietors, under the rule they themselves had had laid down by the Privy Council, to show some effort to settle the great domain granted them, and in order " that the King may see that wee sleepe not with his grants," they sent a commission to Sir William Berke ley, one of their number, then Governor of Virginia, constituting him Governor also of "All that Terrytory or tract of ground now called the Province of Carolina syctuate lyeing, and being within his Majestys Dominion in America extending from the north end of the Island called Lucke Island which lyeth on the Southern Virginia Seas and within 36 degrees of Northern Lattitude and to the west as far as the south seas aforesaid ; " that is, the territory between Virginia and Albemarle Sound, and which was by subsequent instruction to Drummond, the successor of Berkeley, to contain 1600 square miles — Albemarle County. They also determined at this time to lay off an other county, — that of Clarendon ; so on the 1st of November, 1664, Robert Samford (Sandford) was commissioned Secretary and Chief Register of the County of Clarendon, and on the 24th John Vassal was commissioned the Governor General, — but its boundaries were not defined.

... [ cont'd on p.81 ]

... The purpose of an exploration for the site of a southern settlement was not, however, abandoned. He left Sandford to carry it out, directing him to employ for the purpose either the sloop upon her return from Virginia, if in a fit condition the purpose, or to hire a vessel of Captain Edward Stanyon, then in the harbor, bound for Barbadoes upon her return, whichever should first happen, and for this purpose he left also a commission for Sandford putting him in command of the expedition.

The sloop upon her return from Virginia was found unfit for the service. Captain Stanyon, in returning from Barbadoes, became demented, leaped into the sea, and was lost. His little vessel was, however, by a miraculous providence brought safely into port, and Sandford had now a vessel with which to undertake the expedition. Its burden, however, scarce exceeded fifteen tons.

Happily, Sandford has left us a most admirable account of the voyage, so clear in its statement that we may follow him and his company from point to point as he describes in quaint style the country, with its vast expanse of green marsh resembling a rich prairie, its broad and noble arms of the sea, rivers, and innumerable creeks fringed with oak and cedar and myrtle and jasmine — all now so familiar to us — as it appeared when first visited by those who proposed to make this new country their home.

On the 14th of June, 1666, near six months after the date of his commission, Sandford entered on his charge and on the 16th left Charles River in the Cape Fear, and sailed along the coast. He was accompanied by Captain George Cary, Lieutenant Samuel Hardy, Lieutenant Joseph Woory, Ensign Henry Brayne, Ensign Richard Abrahall, Mr. Thomas Giles, and several others to the number of seventeen besides himself. He took with him a small shallop of some three tons, belonging to the Lords Proprietors, in which he placed Ensign Henry Brayne, of some experience in sea matters. The shallop parted company with Sandford's vessel on the night of the 19th, it being very cloudy and dark.

On the 22d Sandford made land, and entered a fair river, and sailing up about four or five miles he came to anchor, when a canoe with two Indians approached. The Indians came aboard Sandford's vessel and informed him that this was the country of Edistoh, and that the chief town or seat of the Cacique was on the western shore somewhat lower down towards the sea, from which he supposed this to be the same river that Hilton had mentioned as the River Grandy, which he saw from sea, but did not enter. Sandford named it Harry Haven, in honor of his lieutenant. The next day, the 23d of June, he went with his boat into a creek on the east shore about a mile up, and landed. Then, according to instructions, he took formal possession by the ancient ceremony of turf and twig of the whole country from the latitude of 36° north to 29° south and west to the South Seas, by the name of the province of Carolina for his Majesty Charles the Second, King of England, and to the use of the Proprietors. Sandford does not mention whether his landing was upon the eastern or western bank, so that it is impossible now to know whether this seisin for the King and the Proprietors was taken on Wadmalaw or Seabrook Island ; but doubtless this formal entry into the territory of the new province was made in the North Edisto.

He explored to some extent on both sides of the creek, passed through several fields of maize or Indian corn, and following the guidance of a small path was brought to some of the Indian habitations. The next day he went a few miles up the main river to the North Edisto, and finding a branch on the east side he put in there to examine the land. This he found firm and dry, a flat black mould with a scarce discernible mixture of sand founded on marlor clay. The land he esteemed very profitable and tillable, and some of his company discovered an Indian planted field, which they told him "bore as tall Maiz as any." He rowed up this creek and, besides the swamps, saw and ranged through very spacious tracts of rich oak land, though not yet past the oyster banks and frequent heaps of shells near the salt water. On his return down the river he stopped at the landing-place nearest to the chief seat of the Edistohs, so that the Indians might with less trouble come aboard to trade.

While lying there, a captain of the Nations, named Shadoo, one whom Hilton had carried to Barbadoes, was very earnest that some of the company would go with him and lie at night at his town, which he told them was but a small distance away. Lieutenant Harvey, Lieutenant Woory, Mr. Thomas Giles, and Mr. Henry Woodward offering themselves to go, and some Indians remaining on board, Sandford permitted their doing so. They returned the next morning, much pleased with their entertainment, and especially with the richness of the land through which they had marched and the delightful situation of the town. The Cacique himself, however, had not appeared. His state was supplied by a female who received the party with gladness and courtesy. This induced Sandford to go himself, so, taking with him Captain George Cary and a file of men, he marched thither, followed by a long train of Indians, of whom some one or other always presented himself to carry Sandford on his shoulders over any of the branches, creeks, or damp places. The march tended to the southward of the west and consequently led near the sea coast, yet, says Sandford, it opened to their view so excellent a country both for woodland and meadow as gave singular satisfaction to all the company. Having entered into the town, the party were conducted into a large house of a circular form (their generall house of State). Opposite the entrance was a high seat, sufficient for half a dozen persons, on which sat the Cacique himself, with his wife (she who had received the party the evening before) on his right hand. The Cacique was an old man of large stature. Round the house on each side were lower benches filled with more women and children. In the centre a constant fire was kept burning on a great heap of ashes and surrounded with little low benches. Sandford and Cary were placed on the higher seat on each side of the Cacique, and presented with skins, accompanied with ceremonies of welcome and friendship. Sandford thus describes the town, which was probably somewhere near to the site of the present village of Rockville on Wadmalaw Island :—

"... The Towne is scituate on the side or rather in the skirts of a faire forrest in which att severall distances are divers fields of Maiz with many little houses stragliugly amongst them for the habitations of the particular families, On the East side and part of the South it hath a large prospect over meadows very spatious and delightfull. Before the Doore of their State-house is a spacious walke rowed with trees on both sides tall & full branched not much unlike to Elms which serves for the Exercise and recreation of the men who by Couple runn after a marble bowle troled out alternately by themselves with six foote staves in their hands which they tosse after the bowle in their race, and according to the laying of these staves wine or loose the beeds they contend for ; an exercise approveable enough in the winter but somewhat too violent (meethought) for that season and noon time of the day. From this walke is another lesse aside from the house for the children to Sport in."

After a few hours Sandford returned to his vessel with a great troop of Indians following him. The old Cacique himself came aboard his vessel and remained there that night without any of his people, some scores of whom, however, lay in booths on the beach. While he lay there Sandford learned that the river went through to another more westerly and was passable for his vessel. This increased his desire of passing that way, as he was persuaded from Hilton's map that the next river was the Jordan. So on the 27th of June, with the help of a flood tide, though the wind was contrary, he turned up the river, in which he found the channel six fathom deep and bold for a distance about ten miles from the harbor's mouth, where the river contracted between the marshes, but was seldom less than five fathom deep. The river being narrow and winding, no wind would serve long ; so that for the most part he was forced to tow through, often against the wind, which proved very tedious, the more so as they could only proceed by day. So that it was Sunday morning, the 1st of July, before they came to the next westerly river and by it again to the sea.

From this description of his voyage it is very clear that Sandford passed by Jehossee Island through Dawhow River, from North to South Edisto. He was much puzzled on reaching the sea to find none of the marks which Hilton had indicated for the Jordan ; and an evening storm driving him back into the river, he anchored and went ashore on the east point, and there he found Shadoo and several other Indians who had come by land across Edisto Island to see them come down the South Edisto. From these he learned that this was not the river in which Hilton had been. That Hilton had not known of it. The river in which Hilton had been was the next. When Sandford asked the name of this river, they answered him Edistows, and from this he says he learned that the Indians assigned names not to the rivers, but to the countries and people.

Amongst the Indians who had thus come to see him was one who had traded with the colony at the Cape Fear, and was known to them by the name of Cacique of the country of Kiawha. The Cacique was very urgent that Sandford should go to his country, assuring him of a broad and deep entrance and promising a large welcome and plentiful entertainment and trade. But Sandford told him he must first go to Port Royal and that on his return he would see his country. The Indian would not, however, leave Sandford, but to secure his return must needs accompany him to Port Royal as his pilot for that river. He sent his companion to give notice to the Chief Cacique of the place of Sandford's coming, that he might prepare food, and went himself on board of Sandford's vessel.

With the morning light, Sandford weighed and stood out to sea with an easy gale at northeast and an ebb tide; but, unacquainted with the coast, with which Shadoo him self does not appear to have been better informed, he ran upon the shoals, and nearly lost his vessel. From this he branded the place with the name of Port Peril. It is the same that was then known to the Spaniards as St. Helena Sound. After clearing the sands, he stood out to sea, and sailing around St. Helena Island, he came to anchor off Hilton Head. Broad River, which had been called the Jordan, he named Yeamans Harbor, in honor of the Lieutenant General and Governor. Whilst there, he espied with great rejoicing the shallop which had been parted from them since the 19th of June. St. Helena Island he had named Cary Island, in honor of his lieutenant, and Hilton Head Island, Woory Island. The shallop had come out of Yeamans Harbor. Sandford fired a gun and ran up his colors to let Brayne know that they saw him, but could not get to him for the mud flats. On the 3d of July, he luffed into the bay, and steering away between Hilton Head and the entrance of Port Royal, about midnight came to anchor within Port Royal River in seven fathoms of water.

The next morning Sandford moved opposite to the principal Indian town, and anchored before it. He had not ridden there long before the Cacique of that country himself appeared in a canoe, full of Indians, presenting him with skins, and bidding him welcome after their manner. Sandford went ashore with the Cacique to see the town, which stood in sight of the vessel. This was doubtless, from the description, Paris Island between Port Royal and Broad River. Sandford found the town, as to the forms of building, in every respect like that of Edisto, with a plain before the great roundhouse for their bowl ing recreation. At the end of this, there stood a fair wooden cross, which the Spaniards had left ; but it was not observed that the Indians performed any adoration before it. All round the town, for a great space, were fields of maize of very large growth. The soil was nothing inferior to the best he had seen at Edisto ; apparently more loose and light. The trees in the woods were much larger, all the ground under them covered with a great variety of pasturage. He saw there, besides a great number of peaches, some fig-trees very large and fair, both fruit and plants, and divers grape vines which, though growing without culture in the very throng of weeds and bushes, were filled with bunches of grapes, to his great admiration. Upon the whole, they esteemed the country superior even to Edisto. It was all cut up into islands made by the intervenings of rivers and creeks, yet of firm good lands, excepting what was marsh ; nor were the islands so small, many of them containing thousands of acres of rich habitable woodland, whose very banks were washed by river or creek, contributing not only to the fertility, but to the convenience of portage.

After a few hours' stay, to view the land about the town, he returned to his vessel, and there found Ensign Brayne with his shallop, who had come that morning through the sound from Yeamans Harbor, at the mouth of which they had seen him two days before. He reported that the morning Sandford had gone into Edisto he sailed along until evening, when he had entered Yeamans Harbor, and not finding Sandford there and " guessing " that he might be more southerly, he came through Port Royal and acquainted himself with Wommony, the son of the Cacique, who had been to Barbadoes, and with whom he easily prevailed to bear him company as guide from place to place in the several creeks and branches; that under his protection he had had an excellent opportunity of viewing all that part of the country, which, says Sandford, "he did so loudly applaud for land and rivers that his company's commendations of Edisto could scarce outnoise him." Satisfied with Brayne's report, Sandford determined to lose no more time there, but to proceed up the main river and see the country, and upon his return to enter a creek on the west shore, which Brayne had not explored; which he was the more desirous to do because the Indians reported that it led to a great southern river which pierced far into the country and he supposed might be the ‘’Frenchmans River May’’ or the ‘’Spaniard's St. Matthias.’’ With the flood tide and a favorable wind he sailed up the river in the shallop nearly thirty miles as he estimated it, passing where it divides itself into two principal branches, the westernmost of which he went up and landed. From this statement it appears that it was Coosawhatchie that he ascended. He found the ground rising and crossed several fine falls and one brook of sweet water, which ran murmuring between two hills. He was still more pleased with the country. The land here, he says, was such as made them all conclude not only a possibility that Edisto might be, but a certainty that it was, exceeded by the country of Port Royal. Tired with his march through a rank growth of vines, bushes, and grass, which fettered his legs and proclaimed the richness of the soil, Sandford returned to the boat and fell down with the ebb towards his vessel, passing divers fair creeks in each side, which time did not allow him to enter. Upon returning to his vessel, he then crossed the river into the western creek he had mentioned, which, after three or four miles, opened into a great sound full of islands. This was, without doubt, Calibouge Sound. He describes it as emptying into the sea by two or three outlets. He spent two days exploring the islands around, finding them of as good firm land as any he had seen, and better timbered with liveoak, cedar, and bay trees. He concluded from what he saw that on this sound alone habitation for thousands of people might be found, with conveniences for their stock of all kinds. In fine, he could see nothing here to be wished for but a good store of English inhabitants. He gave to the sound his own name, but it has not retained it.

Returning to his vessel, on the 7th of July Sandford took in some fresh water, proposing that night to leave Port Royal and return homeward, the discovery he had made exceeding all his own and he was confident would answer all other expectations. He purposed also to spend some days in viewing the country of Kiawha, the Indian of that nation remaining still with him for the purpose of guiding him thither.

A little before night the Cacique of Port Royal came aboard, bringing with him his sister's son. He inquired of Sandford when he would return, and pointing to the moon asked whether he would come within three times of her completing her orb. Sandford told him no; but in ten months. He seemed troubled at the length of time and begged him to come back in five. Sandford insisted upon the first number he had given. This being settled, the Cacique gave Sandford the young fellow to take with him, telling him he must clothe him and bring him back when he returned. Then he asked Sandford when he would sail, and when informed that he would do so that night, he importuned him to stay till the next day, that he might prepare him some venison.

Sandford was much pleased with this adventure and with the offer of the Cacique to let his nephew go with him, he leaving an Englishman in his room, for the mutual learning of their language. This he could do, for one of his company, Mr. Henry Woodward, a surgeon, had proposed to stay with the Indians for the purpose. Sandford determined, therefore, to wait until the next morning, to see if the Indians would remain constant to their purpose. Then taking Woodward and the young man with him, in the presence of all the Indians of the place and of the fellow's relations, he asked if they approved of his going with him. They all with one voice consented. He then delivered Woodward to the Cacique in the sight and hearing of the whole town, telling them that when he returned he would require him at their hands. They received Woodward with expressions of great joy and thankfulness. The Cacique placed him by himself on the throne and then led him forth and showed him a large field of maize, which he told him should be his ; then brought him the sister of the young man who was going with Sandford, to tend and dress his victuals and to take care of him so that her brother might be better used by the white men. Sandford, after staying a while, being wondrous civilly treated after the manner of the Indians, and giving Woodward formal possession of the whole country to hold for the Lords Proprietors, returned aboard and immediately weighed anchor and set sail.

The morning of the 10th of July Sandford found himself before the river that led into the country of Kiawha in the present Charleston harbor, but the Indian of the place, who had remained with him all the while solely for the purpose of piloting him into the harbor, mistook the entrance, and Sandford under his direction had stood away some two leagues before the pilot saw his mistake. It was now too late, for the wind was so that he could not fetch the river again and even if the weather had been fair could not enter it before night; but the appearance of the heavens forbade his lying that night upon the coast. The river he described as lying between Harry Haven (Edisto) and Cape St. Romana, and found seven or eight fathoms of water very near the shore and not the least appearance of shoals or dangers in any part of it. It showed a very fair large opening, clear of any flats barring the entrance — only before the eastern point he saw a beach, but which did not extend far out. He persuaded himself that it led to an excellent country, both from the commendation the Indian gave it and from what he had seen at Edisto. Wherefore, in hopes that it might prove worthy the dignity, he called the river Ashley, from the Right Hon. Lord Ashley, and to take away, he says, every vestige of foreign title, he blotted out the name of St. Romano and called the cape, Cape Carteret, in honor of Sir George Carteret, a Proprietor of Carolina.

On the 12th of July, about noon, Sandford and his company entered Charles River, the Cape Fear, and landed, to the great rejoicing of their friends, who received not, he says, their persons more gratefully than the favorable report they brought with them of the country they had seen and examined, in which they found ample room for many thousands secured from any danger of massacre with such accommodation, to boot, as scarce any place can parallel, in a clime perfectly temperate, and where the soil cannot fail to yield so great a variety of production as will give an absolute self-sustenance to the place without foreign dependence and also furnish a trade to the kingdom of England as great as 'that she has with all her neighbors, " and," he concluded, " under our Sovereign Lord the King within his owne Dominions and the Lands possessed by his Naturall English subjects universall Monarch of the Traffique and comodity of the whole world."

Chalmers in his Political Annals asserts that Sir John Yeamans remained with the Barbadian colony on the Cape Fear and ruled them with the affection of a father, rather than with the authority of a Governor, and thus insured a seven years' peace to the attempted colony, which was only disturbed by the selfishness of individuals ; and in this story he has been followed by other historians thus misled by him. But Saunders, in his prefatory note to the first volume of the colonial records of North Carolina, points out the inaccuracy of this statement. Sir John, as we have seen, arrived there with his small colony in October, 1665, but abandoned them and returned immediately to Barbadoes ; where he was a member of the King's Council, taking an active part in the affairs of the island during the years of his supposed benign rule at Cape Fear.

The Barbadian settlements on the Cape Fear were, in fact, broken up in the summer or early fall of 1667 ; the colonists not coming to South Carolina, as stated by Chalmers, but going, some up to the Albemarle settlement and some to Nansemond County in part, and in part to Boston.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Harrison, Fairfax. Devon Carys, Vol. 1 (New York: De Vinne Press, 1920), Chapter XII - pp. 263-264, 276-277, 279-281.

   « His (John Cary's) youngest son was that GEORGE CARY (1578?-1643) who was intended by the Lord Deputy to take the place of his own lost son of the same name but by his "unrulye caryage" forfeited his opportunity to be the sole heir. Nevertheless, under the final settlement, he inherited Cockington on his father's death and there he lived for many years, and there he was buried in 1643, passing on the estate intact, contrary to the expectations of his uncle. He had married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Edward Seymour, Bart, of Berry Pomeroy, near Totnes, and a great-granddaughter of the Protector Somerset.
   When in July, 1643, he died,¹ he left a large family of children.² The eldest son, SIR HENRY CARY (1613-1665), was then thirty years of age. ...
   Footnotes:
   1. He was buried in Cockington Church, but no M.I. nor any will survives. See, however, the parish register in H. & G., viii, 101.
   2. See post, p.277.
   ... [ cont'd on pp.276-277 ]
   ... In support of the application of Sir Henry Cary of Cockington for composition there was filed¹ a deposition by one of his servants that on June 15, 1646, there were living with Sir Henry, at Cockington, his mother and the following named brothers and sisters: Robert, Edward, John, Theodore, George, Walter, James, Francis,[sic] Elizabeth, Bridget. The Visitation of Devon of 1620 gives the children living when that record was made as Henry, Robert, Edward, Francisca, Elizabeth, and John, the last named "aet 3 menses."² It follows that all the younger brothers and sisters who were living in 1646, viz., Theodore, George, Walter, James, and Bridget, were born after 1620; and this is confirmed by the entry of the matriculation of the oldest of them, Theodore, at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1642, when he gave his age as eighteen;³ and by the earliest entry of the family in the surviving parish register of Cockington,⁴ namely, for 1629, reading: "Bridgett Cary, the daughter of George Cary, Esq., and Eliza, his wife, was bap: the 20 of January." One of them must then have been born every year from 1624 to 1629. It seems clear that the Francis of the deposition of 1646 was intended for the daughter Francisca born 1617, who appears in the Visitation pedigree, and not a son Francis born 1628, as the misprint has heretofore led us to conjecture.⁵
   Footnotes (those following the first are renumbered here, where there is no page separation):
   1. The children of Sir Henry Cary.
   2. Royalist Composition Papers, 1645, calendared in H. & G., viii, 105.
   3. Vivian, 152.
   4. Foster Alumni Oxon.
   5. H. & G., viii, 100.
   6. The Virginia Carys, 141. Cf. post, p. 697.
   .... »
   Source:Harrison, Fairfax. Devon Carys
   The full Vol. I may be accessed here: archive.org
   Source:Harrison, Fairfax. Devon Carys
   The full Vol. I may be accessed here: archive.org

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Nichols, John Gough, ed.: The Herald and Genealogist, Vol. VIII. London: R.C. Nichols and J. B. Nichols, printers to the Society of Antiquaries, 25, Parliament Street, Westminster. 1874. p.84-85, p.97.

   « BRANCHES OF CARY, OF COCKINGTON, TOR ABBEY, AND FOLLATON, CO. DEVON. (p.81--128)
   ...
   (pp.84-85) ... Sir George Cary was enabled to make large additions to the fair estate derived from his father and his first wife, and, at the time of his death, his rent-roll must have been one of the amplest in Devonshire. ...
   A large portion of these possessions, including the manor and mansion of Cockington, fell to the share of his namesake and adopted heir George, the youngest but one of the sons of his brother John Cary of Dudley, co. Stafford.
   This George Cary married Elizabeth, a daughter of the now ducal House of Seymour. The contents of a deed printed in the Appendix show that, in early life at least, George Cary displayed tendencies to extravagance, which excited his uncle's misgivings. He nevertheless handed down the Cockington estate, at his death in 1643, to his eldest son and heir, the gallant but unfortunate Sir Henry Cary.
   ... »
   Page 97 contains TABLE VII.—Carys of Cockington. This pedigree has the descent from "George Cary, of Cockington==Elizabeth (Seymour)." - in which their eleven children are shown (as in the table, sons are listed first, and numbered here: 1-8, daughters following: 1-3):
   1. "Sir Henry Cary, of Cockington; æt. 7 in 1620; lost Cockington 1651; High Sheriff of Devon 1643."=="Amy, dau. of Sir James Bagge, of Saltram, co. Devon; bur. at Cockington 16 June, 1652."
   2. "Robert, LL.D. born at Cockington; æt. 6 in 1620; Archdeacon of Exeter 1662; Rector of East Portlemouth, Devon; bur. there 19 Sept. 1688."
   3. "Edward, æt. 5 in 1620; living 1653."
   4. "John, aged 3 months in 1620."
   5. "Col. Theodore, died 1683, æt. 63; monument in Spanish Town, Jamaica; mar. Dorothy, dau. of . . . Wale, m. 1676."
   6. "George, a Captain of horse; living 1660."
   7. "Walter"
   8. "James"
   1. "Frances, æt. 3 in 1620; died 1634."
   2. "Elizabeth, æt. 2 in 1620."
   3. "Bridget, bapt. at Cockington 20 Jan. 1629."
   .... »
   Pages 84-85 accessed at: archive.org
   Table VII on p.97 accessed at: archive.org
   The Herald and Genealogist, Vol. VIII. London: R.C. Nichols and J. B. Nichols, printers to the Society of Antiquaries, 25, Parliament Street, Westminster. 1874. Edited by John Gough Nichols, F.S.A. Hon. Member of the Societies of Antiquaries of Scotland and Newcastle-on-Tyne, Corresponding Member of the Massachusetts Historical Society and of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 'Richard Seymor - Hartford 1640', a paper read before the Connecticut Chapter Daughters of Founders and Patriots of Amercica At Norwalk, Conn., February 13th, 1903 by Mrs. Maria Watson Pinney, Derby, Conn. p. 18.

   « ...
   "Mathew Hatch made declaration that Elizabeth Cary, the relict of George Cary of Cockington, and mother of Henry Cary of Cockington, in Devon, Knight, and sometimes called Elizabeth Seymour, also mother of Robert (of whom Westcote's Devonshire, page 511 states, married Christin, daughter and heir of Wm Strechley, Esq.) also mother of Edward, John, Theodore, George, Walter and James, sons, and Frances, Elizabeth and Bridget, daughters of the above George and Elizabeth, were all living and in good health."
   This is dated June 15th, 1646.
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   Accessed at: archive.org
   Note: Although the writer of this does not say so, this "Mathew Hatch" must be the servant of Sir Henry Cary, referred to in Devon Carys, Vol. I, p.276. (See reference source #1. above)

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} McCrady, Edward: The History of South Carolina under The Propriety Government 1670-1719, New York, The Macmillan Company, London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1897. pp.73-75, pp.81-93.

   Accessed on 21/07/2019 at: books.google.ca - from where, if desired, it may be downloaded as a pdf file.