Mary Randolph [RA.5.4] (21 Nov. 1727 - 25 Nov. 1781) married Col. Archibald Cary (24 Jan. 1721/2 - 26 Feb. 1787) of Ampthill, son of Henry Cary who gave his son 2,132 acres in Goochland County 21 September 1742.
Archibald took the oath as lieutenant colonel of the Chesterfield County militia 5 May 1758 and 1 December 1758. Cary represented Goochland (1748-9) and Chesterfield (1756-76) in the Virginia House of Burgesses, was a delegate to the Revolutionary Conventions, and first president of the senate (1776-8). The Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography devotes a topic to Cary.
Archibald left a will in Chesterfield County remembering four married daughters and their husbands (will dated 12 Feb. 1787, recorded April 1787 ). Three children, not listed below, had died in infancy. In debt at his death, his body was secretly buried so that it might not be seized by creditors, which was then the law.
4 Anne Cary [RA.5.4.1] (c.1745- 6 Mar. 1789 ) married as his first wife Thomas Mann Randolph 18 November 1761. See their family
4 Jane Cary [RA.5.4.2] (12 Feb. 1751/2 - Feb. 1774 ) married Thomas Isham Randolph of Dungeness. See their family
4 Elizabeth Cary [RA.5.4.3] (1769) of Ampthill, married Robert Kincaid in Chesterfield County 7 July 1787, although her fathers will provided that he would received none of his property, should he marry his daughter. The marriage consent placed her birth as 1769.
4 Mary Cary [RA.5.4.4] (4 Dec. 1766 - 26 Jan. 1797) married Carter Page (- 9 April 1825) in Chesterfield County 12 April 1783. They were the parents of eight, of whom four died young. Carter, a veteran of the Revolution, married second Lucy Nelson, a daughter of Gen. Thomas Nelson, 14 December 1799 and they were the parents of seven.
5 John Cary Page [RA.5.4.4.1] (9 May 1784 - 14 May 1853) married Marianna F. Trent, a daughter of Alexander Trent, 12 October 1808. They were the parents of 12.
5 Henry Page [RA.5.4.4.2] (29 Sept. 1785) married Jane Browne Deane, a daughter of T.W. Deane, 23 December 1813.
5 Carter Page [RA.5.4.4.3] (9 Dec. 1786 - 7 Nov. 1789).
5 Lavinia Randolph Page [RA.5.4.4.4] (15 June 1788 - 8 Nov. 1789
5 Carter Page [RA.5.4.4.5] (10 Aug. 1790 - 30 June 1791).
5 Mann Page [RA.5.4.4.6] (26 Oct. 1791) married Jane Frances Walker 12 December 1815. See their family
5 William Page [RA.5.4.4.7] (21 Aug. 1793 - 26 Dec. 1793).
5 Mary Isham Page [RA.5.4.4.8] (30 Dec. 1794 - 26 Dec. 1811) lost her life in the fire at the Richmond Theater.
4 Sarah Cary [RA.5.4.5] (23 Feb. 1753 - 7 April 1773) married as his first wife Archibald Bolling 13 September 1770. When her father made his will, Sarah was dead and Archibald married to Jane Randolph. Their children were the following.
5 Archibald Cary Bolling [RA.5.4.5.1] (20 July 1771) was named in the 1787-will of his maternal grandfather.
5 Sarah Cary Bolling [RA.5.4.5.2] (30 Mar. 1773 - 2 July 1774).
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Richmond Whig & public advertiser (Richmond, Va. : 1833 : Semiweekly)
Title Married- On Oct. 5, in Maury County, Tenn., by Rev. Monroe, Lieut. Grey Skipwith, of the U.S. Navy, to Virginia Randolph Cary, dau. of Miles Cary, late of Virginia. (p. 2, c. 7)
Publication Friday, November 4, 1836.
Gen. note From the marriage and obituary citations compiled by Bernard J. Henley from Virginia newspapers on microfilm at the Library of Virginia.