Hello - a quick search in the soon-to-be-released Virginia Historical
Inventory Project at http://eagle.vsla.edu/vhi has numerous entries
about the Cary family, and a Miles Cary in particular.
Elizabeth
>
> In the introduction of _The Virginia Carys an Essay in Genealogy_ by Farifax
> Maxwell, 1919, is the following:
>
> "In the summer of 1843, Rumor took wing from Ovid's House of Fame and flew
> about Virginia, spreading a report that there was a fortune in England
> waiting to be claimed by common law heir of the Virginia immigrant Miles
> Cary. No one knew who was responsible for the story, but it profoundly
> effected the peace of mind of a wide-spread family connection; not Carys
> only, but the nearer kin of their several brances - Randolphs, Pages,
> Nicholases, Seldens, Peachys, Hays, Leighs, Skipwiths and Egglestons.
> Lawyers and family Bibles were diligently consulted, heirlooms were
> furbished forth and a vast deal of traditional misinformation was
> distributed and recorded in the form of pedigrees."
>
> ... "In due time, when replies to frantic inquires in England came in, there
> was found to be no foundation whatever for the story: it was purely American
> invention; no one had heard of it in England. The bubble was pricked."
>
> Is anyone familiar with this incident in Virginia in the summer of 1843? Mr.
> Fairfax Harrison does not quote any direct sources - only vague ones.
>
> Thanks for any information anyone can provide.
>
> Lonny J. Watro
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