... [Col. Daniel McCarty of Pope's Creek] married in St. Paul's Parish in Stafford County, now King George County on Jan. 15, 1765 to Winifred Thornton, daughter of Francis and Sarah Firtzhugh [sic] Thornton. Possibly he is identical with the Daniel McCarty who in about the same place on Apr. 3, 1764, married Mary Mercer (?), or Monroe (?), or Muse (?). But the two marriages seem to have been rather close together if they belong to the same Daniel. If they were not the same Daniel we have no idea who the other Daniel was. ...