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mittee of safety, but, while he strongly con- dtmned the arbitrary action of Great britain. he deplored the action of the Vir- ginia convention in 1776, in declaring inde- pendence for fear of falling into a worse situation under a Republican government. He. nevertheless, patriotically cast in his fcirtunes with his country. He married three times: (first) Elizabeth, daughter of John Wormeley. of **Rosegill/' (second) Maria, daughter of William Byrd, of **West- over/' and (third) Elizabeth Beale. daughter ot Thomas and Elizabeth Beale. of Rich- mond county. By his first wife he was father of Robert Wormeley Carter, a member of the house of burgesses.

Cary» Archibald* son of Henry Gary, of 'Ampthill,'* (Thesterfield county, and Anne Edwards, his wife, was born in Williams- burg. January 24. 1721. was educated at William and Mary College, and was a mem- ber of all the assemblies from 1756 to 1776, ond of all the revolutionary conventions of 1774, 1775 and 1776. He was a member of the committee of nine appointed by the house of burgesses in November, 1764, to draw up remonstrances against the Stamp Act proposed by Lord Grenville, but with Pendleton, Bland, Wythe, Harrisoii and other leading patriots voted in May, 1765, against the resolutions of Patrick Henry, deeming them premature and unfair to the British government. In 1773 he was a mem- ber of the committee of correspondence. In the convention of May, 1776, he had the honor to be chairman of the committee of the whole which reported, on the 15th of month, the celebrated instructions to the Virginia delegates in the Continental Con- gress for independence. He was first speaker

of the senate in 1776 and remained its pre- siding officer till his death, February 26, 1787. He married Mary Randolph, daugh- ter of Richard Randolph, of "Curls," in Hen- rico county. One of his daughters. Jane, married Thomas Mann Randolph.

Cary» Richard, son of Miles Gary and Hannah Armistead. his wife, was born in Warwick county, Virginia, about 1739. was clerk of Warwick county, in 1764. member cf the county committee of safety, 1774- 1776, of the convention of May 6, 1776, ap- pointed a judge of the admiralty court. De- cember 17. 1776. and of the general court, December 24, 1788. He married Mary Cole, and died in Warwick county, November 3, 1789. He was father of Richard Gary, who was a member of the house of delegates in 1 787- 1 800. and member of the convention of 1788.

Curie* William Roscow Wilson* son of Wilson Curie, of Hampton, and Priscilla Meade, his wife, was chairman of the Eliza- beth City county committee of safety in 1774. and represented Norfolk borough in the con- vention of May, 1776. He was one of the committee of thirty-one which was ap- pointed May 15, 1776, to draft a declaration of rights and state constitution. In 1778 he was appointed a judge of admiralty. He married (first) Euphan Wallace, daughter of Captain James Wallace, and (second) Mary Xello. He was descendant from Pasco Curie, gentleman, who came from the parish of St. Michael in Lewis, county Sus- sex, England, to Elizabeth City county, Vir- ginia, of which he was a justice in 1688.

Dandridge* Bartholomew (q. v.. i-220).

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