The
Cary Family: Third Generation America: Dorothy CARY [See
Cary
Family Gateway Page]
The Cary family is Part of the
Howard & Allied Family Lines forming [with the
Swope& Allied Family Lines] the basis of the Within the Vines
Genealogical Study
.
1 Dorothy CARY1,2,3
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| Birth |
abt 16804, Of
the county of Warwick5 Virginia4,5 |
| Death |
bef 1774, Va6 |
| Religion |
Quaker |
| Father |
Thomas
[Major] CARY (1645-1708) |
| Mother |
Anne MILNER |
| Alias |
Caircy , as given on her husband's memorial. But "The maiden
name of his wife was not 'Caircy,' as given in the 'memorial,' but 'Cary,'
she having been a daughter of Thomas Cary. She married, secondly, in 1718,
Robert Jordan, "10
See comments
on her Ascendancy and substantiation or questions on her inclusion
as daughter to Thomas and Anne Milner Cary |
| Note on Circumstances |
She presented the very large inventory of her deceased first husband
at a Court held for Henrico County the second day of August 1717 . See
John Pleasant's Inventory giving an idea of the home she lived in at his
page |
| 1st Spouse |
John PLEASANTS1,11,12 |
| Birth |
1671 or 1672, Curles [Plantation], Henrico County, Va.13,14 |
| Death |
171315,16 |
| Father |
John PLEASANTS (1644-1698) |
| Mother |
Jane LARCOME (1638-1708) |
| Marriage |
ca 1694, Virginia8 |
Children of Dorothy Cary and
John Pleasants;
Surnamed Pleasants |
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| 2nd Spouse of Dorothy CARY |
Robert JORDAN, Sr |
| Birth |
eleventh day seventh month 1668103,,
of Nansamond County, Virginia 105 |
| Death |
3 Aug 1728 106 |
| Father |
Thomas JORDAN (1634-1699) Of Chuckatuck, Nansemond County, Va,
and Quaker from 1660 |
| Mother |
Margaret BRASSEUR (1642-1708) a French Huguenot |
| Occupation |
Quaker Minister, first of several generations of Quaker preachers of
repute of his family |
| Marriage |
1718107, 108,
109 [9th 7mo ]107,,
Quaker Ceremony; Curles Meeting House , Henrico County, Va 107
Quaker record of Marriage for Henrico County, Va : Curles Meeting House
9th 7mo 1718 . Joseph Woodson , Elizabeth Woodson , Tarleton Woodson ,
Richd. Faris, Sr. , Edward Mosby , Mary Mosby & others witnesses to
the marriage of Robert Jordan Sr. to Dorothy Pleasants , widow of John
Pleasants of Henrico Co." 9 The
Valentine Papers, Vol 1-4, 1864-1908. Woodson Family Record
" Edward Mosby and Mary Mosby among the witnesses to the marriage of
Robert Jordan Sr. to Dorothy Pleasants , widow of John
Pleasants , decd. of Henrico Co. 9 d. 7 mo. 1718 ." The Valentine Papers,
Vol 1-4, 1864-1908. Mosby Family Record Book, 1699-1756 |
| Notes on Robert Jordan , Sr |
He married first [ninth day twelth month 1687] to Christian TABERER
[died twenty sixth day sixth month 1689], and he married second to
Mary Belson [ 10th day fifth month 1690] . Several of his children of his
second marriage were still young at the time of his third and final marriage
to Dorothy. |
Comments on her Dorothy Cary's Ascendancy and
substantiation or questions on her inclusion as daughter
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She is not included in the Prominent Families of Virginia by Pecquet du
Bellet
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Fairfax Harrison's comment on her is
"The only evidence for this Dorothy is the tradition in the Pleasants
family that the wife of John Pleasants, son of the Pleasants immigrant,
was Dorothy Cary (Va. Mag., XVI, 219, and William and Mary Quarterly, xxiv,
266). This is the only place she can be fitted into the pedigree. The Quaker
affiliation of this generation of the Carys, the marriages of Miles Cary,
of Potash Creek, and Joseph Pleasants, brother to John, with daughters
of Richard Cocke, and the references to the wife and children of John Pleasants
in his mother's will of 1708 (Va. Mag, xviii, 450), are all consistent
with the tradition.
The second husband was the first of several generations of Quaker preachers
of repute of his family. For these Jordans see The Harrisons of Skimino
(1910), 23. Under their influence Dorothy Cary's son Thomas Pleaasants
also became a Quaker preacher, and married a daughter of Robert Jordan
by his first wife (W & M Quar xxvii, 1210)
SOURCES [ed note: for Thomas Cary and children] :
(1) The Eggleston Notes for the will of THomas Cary , recorded 1708
in Warwick Will Book , I , 23, naming children Thomas, James, Milner and
Elizabeth (2) Gleanings from public records, as cited."8p
42
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The Valentine Papers states:
"John Pleasants II , son of John Pleasants I and Jane (Larcome) Tucker
, was born (according to the 'Memorial' quoted at the beginning of this
note) Circa 1671 or 2 ; he resided as shown by the various transactions
recited above, in Henrico County . He continued in the faith into which
he was born and figured prominently as a Quaker. He died in the Spring
or early Summer of 1714 . John Pleasants II married
Dorothy , daughter of Thomas Cary . She married Secondly Robert
Jordan , 1719 Febry. Robert Jordan and Dorothy , his wife, executor of
the last will and testament of John Pleasants , decd. Plts. vs Richard
Ferris Jr. Deft. 1720 June . The same vs the same. 1720 Sept. The same
vs Richard Cocke , admr. of Thomas Shields . 1721 July . The same vs Ebenezer
Adams , executor of Richard Cocke , decd. who was administrator of Thomas
Shields (Henrico Records 1719-1724 , pp. 11, 30, 45, 115)7
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(See Cary Family, ante p. 2247). "1The
Valentine Papers, Vol 1-4, 1864-1908. Pleasants Family. Inventory of John
Pleasants.
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Ascendancy as here provided is also found in Frank Willing Leach's Pleasants
Family Historial Society Publication.
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