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GENEALOGY. 109Thomas, 9th Lord (1762-1846^); 3. William (1765, died about 1782); 4.Ferdinando (1766?- 1820^), married, 1796, his cousin, Elizabeth BlairCary; 5. Robert (living 1787 but died young); 6. Henry, died infant; 7.Elizabeth (1770?), married Rev. David Griffith.Colonel Cary's sister Mary (1 704-1775). married, about 1720, JosephSelden, of Elizabeth City, who died 1727, leaving three sons: 1. ColonelCary Selden, of Buckroe, Elizabeth City, born about 1723, and marriedElizabeth Jennings, and had one surviving son, Dr. Wilson Cary Selden(1761-1835), of Loudoun; 2. Colonel Samuel Selden, of Selvington,Stafford county, born 1725 ? whose only son, Colonel Cary, died s. p. in1822; 3. Rev. Miles Selden (i726?-i7853 3 r ), married, about 1747, RebeccaCary, sister of Judge Richard Cary, one of Colonel Cary's executors,and left issue, five sons and three daughters.Mrs. Anne Whiting, Colonel Cary's second sister, was born about1706, and married, about 1724, a Whiting, of Gloucester, and apparentlydied s. p. The name of her husband & his relationship to Colonel HenryWhiting, mentioned in the will, have baffled my research. She haddied before the date of Colonel John Boiling's will in 1749, which mentionslegacies to his daughters Mary and Sarah, "left by their AuntWhiting's will."Colonel Cary names as one of his executors "my kinsman, Richard1Cary, of Warwick,'afterwards Judge of admiralty and of the generalcourt, who was born about 1730 and died November 13, 1789, and morethan once had represented Warwick in the House of Burgesses. Hehad been bred to his profession in the school of the county clerk's office,he himself, his father and his grandfather before him having succeededone another almost as hereditary clerks of Warwick ever since the latterend of the seventeenth century. He was a cousin of the testator, butmany degrees removed, being the second son of Major Miles Cary, ofPeartree Hall, by Hannah Armistead, and the grandson of "Mr. MilesCary, Junr.," as he is styled in the records, by Elizabeth, daughter ofRichard Cocke. This latter Miles is mentioned by the Quaker Story whovisited Warwick in 1699 and 1706, as "Secretary of the County," whowith his brother Thomas, had become converts. They were undoubtedlythe sons of Major Thomas Cary (1647-80?), uncle of Colonel WilsonCary of Ceelys.The relationship or connection of some of the parties mentioned inColonel Cary's will is set forth in the subjoined table: