The
Wilson Family in America. 2nd Generation American Known: Mary Wilson
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The Wilson family is Part of the
Howard & Allied Family Lines forming [with the
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Genealogical Study
1.Mary WILSON1,2,3,4
Mary Wilson Married Three Times. Her
First Marriage is Direct to us through its progeny. Her second was so the
son of our directs Miles Cary and Anne Taylor with whom she also had children.
Her third marriage was to Archibald Blair, who married himself three times,
and who had four children, three of whom MAY have been Mary's [or his other
wives'].
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Birth |
Oct 16755,6,7 |
Death |
11 Jan 1741, Blunt Point , Warwick County, Va with first
husband2,3 |
Burial |
with her first husband at Blunt Point
Mary was daughter of Miles and Mary (Wilson) Cary, of Ceeleys8 |
Desc |
Dtr and Co heriress.of Col William Wilson of Elizabeth
City County13p266. Only daughter
surviving2 |
Father |
William [Col]
WILSON (1646-1713) [See Dedicated Page to This Direct Ancestor] |
Mother |
Jane
(ca1658-1713) |
Notation |
See Notes [Her beauty nearly
caused a small war; It led to the removal of a married man to England for
his behaviour in pursuing her. ] |
Spouse #1 to Mary WILSON |
William ROSCOW4,2
[See
Dedicated Page to This Direct Ancestor] |
Birth |
30 Nov 1664, Chorley, Lancashire, England3 |
Death |
2 Nov 1700, Blunt Point, Warwick Co, Virginia3 |
Father |
James ROSCOW [Of Chorley, Lancashire, England. Many Roscows are
in this region] [See Dedicated Page to This Direct Ancestor] |
Mother |
Unknown |
Marriage |
1695, Virginia10,11 |
Children of Mary Wilson and
William ROSCOW
surnamed ROSCOW |
James (>1695-)
(>1695->1736)
[See
Dedicated Page to This Direct Ancestor]
Willis (1701-died underage) |
Spouse #2 to Mary WILSON |
Miles
[Col] Cary (ca 1655/6->1708) |
Birth |
ca 1655/6Warwick County, Va |
Death |
17 Feb 1708, ěRichneckî, Warwick County, Virginia |
Father |
Myles or
Miles [Col ] Cary [See Dedicated Page to This Direct Ancestor] |
Mother |
Anne
Taylor [See Dedicated Page to This Direct Ancestor] |
Marriage |
1702 |
Children of Mary Wilson and
Miles CARY
surnamed CARY |
See names, spouses and known progeny for expanded info and sources
of Children
of Miles Cary and Mary Wilson
Wilson
[Col] (1702/3-
1772) married Sarah Unknown [1710-1783] [Is she
Pate or perhaps a Cary descendant? see her
entry]
Mary
(1704-1775)
married Joseph SELDON of Hampton [died 1727]
Anne
(1706-<1749)Anne
(1706<1749)married NN Whiting of Gloucester County, Va. "He is perhaps
colonel henry whiting"
Miles
(1708-1756Of Ceelys Carysbrook. He Inherited Ceelys plantation from
his mother. Educated William and Maryís College, Williamsburg, Va, he was
JP for Goochland County, Va and died a bachelor leaving his estate mostly
to brother Wilson, and mentioning most of his immediate family2
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Spouse #3
to Mary WILSON |
Dr. Archibald BLAIR of Williamsburg, Va. 2,
13 |
Birth |
Scotland 14 |
Death |
173613 |
Marriage |
about 172013Both bride and
groom were married three times |
Children of Mary Wilson and
Archibald BLAIR,
surnamed BLAIR |
See notes on his three
children of unknown matrilineage any of whom may have been Mary Wilsons
own. |
Notes on Dr Archibald Blair |
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"brother of Commissary James Blair of William and Mary College, and the
father of Honorable John Blair, President of the King's Council."13,
14Honorable
John Blair is discussed below
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Dr Archibald Blair was married at least three times .Dr Archibald Blair
had four known children, one of whom's mother is identified
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1st Wife of Dr Archibald Blair : Name Unknown. Son of this first wife is
:
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John BLAIR , died 1771, President of the Council and gov of Va 1757
John Blair had amongst MANY others a daughter:
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Sarah BLAIR , who "married Col. Wilson Miles Cary, of Ceely's (Cary Bible)"13This
Col Wilson Miles of Ceelys who married Sarah BLAIR is not further
identified by Mary Seldon Kennedy13
It may be, as chronologically it fits, that he is the Col
Wilson Miles of Ceelys identified as a son of Mary Wilson [here discussed,
wife to William Roscow, Miles Cary and Archibald BLAIR] and Mary
Wilson's second husband Miles
[Col] Cary . This author continues to research this possibility.
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2nd Wife of Dr Archibald Blair: Sarah , probably ARCHER, and they were
married by 1703, and she dead by ca 1720 when he married for third time
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3rd wife of Dr Archibald Blairwas Mary Wilson Roscow
Cary here discussed
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Dr Blair's three other
children's birthdates are not known making identification of their mothers
difficult. Any but John could have been a child of Mary
Wilson Roscow Cary Blair. Children of Dr Archibald Blair of uncertain
matrilineage are:
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James BLAIR , died about 1733
Kennedy, Mary Selden , in her ě Seldens of Virginiaî vol.1 Frank
Allaben Genealogical Company. New York. 1911. writes of him and his
son: îJames Blair, second son of Dr. Archibald Blair, died about 1773,
when Archibald Blair, 'his infant orphan,' made choice of John Blair, Esq.,
as his guardian. (York County Records.) Archibald Blair died Oct. 7, 1824,
aged 71. He married Molly Whiting, of Glocester, in 1787. He was Clerk
of the Council, and Clerk of Committee of Safety during the whole Revolution.
Mary, his daughter, married in 1822 John Minor Botts. The will of Archibald
Blair, dated in 1809, and recorded in Richmond, May 17, 1825, names children,
John, Beverly, Archibald, and Mary."
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Elizabeth BLAIR, died 22 Apr 1775. Married first Major John
Bolling, Jr [1700-1757] and had three children:
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John BOLLING [1730-1790s] married Martha Jefferson, sister to the
President of the US.
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Mary BOLLING [born 16 Jul 1744, married Richard BLAND (1730-1766) ]
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Archibald BOLLING [born 20 March 1750 , married Sarah CARY (died bef 2
Feb 1774) , 2nd married on 2 Feb 1774 Jane RANDOLPH, 3rd married
1797 the widow BYRD, and finally married the widow CLARKE]
Elizabeth BLAIR , died 22 Apr 1775. married second NN BLAND.
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Harrison BLAIR , married Dr George Gilmer, of Williamsburg, Surgeon
and progenitor of Gilmers in Virginia
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Notes of Mary Wilson:
"evidently a charmer. By her coquetry in 1702, when she was first a
widow and was about to marry Cary, she provoked a fire-eating Scot, Captain
James Moodie, commanding H. M .S. Southampton, then stationed in Virginia,
to threaten her father's life and to challenge Cary to a duel. Mary Wilson
had three husbands-William Roscow, Miles Cary and Archibald Blair...Surviving
them all, she elected to be buried with he first husband at Blunt Point."
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"Mary (1675-1741) had first married William Roscon [transcriber's note,
as given-should be Roscow], with whom she lies buried under a handsome
monument at Blunt Point, in Warwick. After his death, which ocurred Nov
27, 1700, she did not long remain in weeds, but in April , 1702, commiserating
the equally sad lot of a near neighbor, she bestowed her hand upon Colonel
Miles Cary, of 'Richneck' who had been bereavedat the same time, his wife,
Mary Milner, having left him, 'issueless' as he tombstone states, October
27, 1700. And just here, there is a romantic episode, which I intend writing
up, growing out of the frantic proceedings of one Captain James Moody,
of Her Majesty's man-of-war, Southampton, who madly, though a married man,
contested the hand of the fair widow, with Colonel Cary. The latter, having
the inside tract, treated the woul-be bigamist with contempt, and so overwhelmed
him with ridicule, that in a bloody rage he sailed around to Yorktown,
where the Governor and Court were in session, and despite the Governor's
threat of irons, undertook to post Colonel Cary. The Gobernor and Council
took down the proceedings and promptly complained of his outrageous conduct
to the home government, and the reckless villain was forthwith removed
to appease the indignation of the entire colony."9
From Pecquet de Bellet "Wilson Cary of Ceeley" and his family [Compiled
by Wilson Miles Cary, of Baltimore, Md., with extracts from 'Virginia Historical
Magazine', Vol IX, No., 1, July, 1901, and a few notes from Goode's 'Virginia
Cousins']
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