This branch of the family is unproven at this time. I await DNA evidence to prove that Charles M. Cary outlined below was the same person as Charles Mynn Cary, the son of Edward Cary and Martha Stubbs.
At this point the basis for associating the descendants of Charles M. Cary of Union County, Kentucky is circumstantial, based on the following facts:
1. Charles M. Cary was of the correct approximate age to fit in the family of Edward Cary and Martha Stubbs.
2. There were close associations between relatives of Ann T. Finnie and the Stubbs family and the family of Charles Mynn Thruston, a close Cary family associate. The mother of Ann T. Finnie, wife of Charles M. Cary, was Rachel Berry Taylor of Orange County, Virginia. Rachel Berry Taylor's uncle, Edmund Gibson Taylor, married Sarah Stubbs, the sister of Martha Stubbs who married Edward Cary, the father of Charles Mynn Cary. A son of of Edmund Gibson Taylor also married a daughter of Rev. Charles Mynn Thruston, a figure prominently associated with the family of Edward Cary of Frederick County, Virginia. It is believed that Charles Mynn Cary migrated to Kentucky perhaps in the entourage of Rev. Charles Mynn Thruston.
3. The time of arrival in Kentucky of Charles M. Cary of Clark County, Union County and Daviess County, Kentucky coincides with what one would expect from what is known of the family in Virginia. If he migrated to Kentucky about the time that Charles Mynn Thruston migrated to Kentucky, ca. 1806, he would have been about 17 at the time. Four years later he would have been married with his first child, John Edward Cary.
4. John Edward Cary, the son of Charles M. Cary stated that his father was born in Virginia at the time of the 1880 census.
5. The name "John Edward Cary" may have been derived from the names of his grandparents, John Finnie and Edward Cary.
6. Francis M. Cary, the son of Edward M. Cary who migrated from Virginia to Kentucky and then to Missouri, stated in a letter written in 1902 that his father's brother, Charles M. Cary, also migrated to Kentucky and some of the family perhaps moved further west.
7. There are no other known candidates found in Kentucky that could be Charles M. Cary if he married and left descendants.
8. John Edward, Alfred T. and James W. Cary, (sons of Charles M. Cary), were born in Clark County, Kentucky, according to History of Kentucky by Kerr, Connelley and Coulter (1922, digitized 2008). The household of Edmond Carey, a known descendant of Miles Cary, was present in Clark County in 1810. Estate papars in Clark County listing the heirs of Edmond Carey do not include Charles M. Car(e)y or his issue as an heir. However, there was also present William Carey, a brother of Edmond Carey.
9. The Kentucky Land Office at the Kentucky Secreatary of State's web-site shows military and non-military land patents in Kentucky during the 1770s and 1780s. Among them are 2 land transactions made by Edward Cary.
On one he purchased 2458 acres in Jefferson County and assigned it to Edmund Taylor four days later.
On the other he had 1000 acres of land in Jefferson County bounded by lands of Thruston and Edmund Taylor and requested a pattern be made for Joshua Willis, his assignee. It appears he purchased the land or retained it the from that which he sold to Edmund Taylor. 10. On 25 Oct 1779, Charles Mynn Thruston conveyed in trust to his brother John Thruston (who was the guardian for Samuel and Edward Cary who became orphans in 1763 when their father John Cary died) for John Thruston's son Charles Mynn Thruston (born 1775) 500 acres he purchased at Floyd's Branch in Jefferson County, Kentucky. The assignment was made in Gloucester County, Virginia and was witnessed by Edmund Taylor.
Edmund Gibson Taylor and his relatives were intermarried with families associated with the Thrustons and Carys. Edmund Gibson Taylor married Sarah Stubbs, the older sister of Martha Stubbs who married Edward Cary. Substantial investments in land were made in Kentucky by Charles Mynn Thruston and Edmund Gibson Taylor. Edmund Gibson Taylor's niece Rachel Berry Taylor married John Finnie and their daughter Ann T. Finnie is believed to have married Edward Cary's son Charles Mynn Cary who migrated to Kentucky ca. 1806-1808.
The family of Charles M. Cary is an exciting area of current research. It will be interesting to find the "missing branch" of the Cary family, descendants of Charles Mynn Cary, and hopefully to associate a prominent Cary family of Kentucky with their Virginia roots. Among descendants of Charles M. Cary and Ann T. Finnie were Glover H. Cary, a U. S. Congressman, as well as other elected officials, doctors and lawyers. The DNA test is needed to prove this connection since court records and other documents that would prove it are lacking. However, search is ongoing for documentary proof. See additional comments on the DNA study under "DNA Studies," now under the "Home" tab.
News! A DNA sample for a descendant of Charles M. Cary of Kentucky has been evaluated for 37 markers and matches 37 out of 37. We now have DNA proof that Charles M. Cary of Kentucky was the son of Edward Cary and Martha Stubbs.
Charles Mynn Cary, b. circa 1789in VA, d. ca. 1839
+Ann T. "Nancy" Finnie, b. circa 1789 in KY, d. ca. Jul 1851
├── John E. Cary, b. 23 Mar 1810 in Winchester, Clark County, KY, d. 9 Jul 1890, Calhoun, McLean County, KY
├── Alfred T. Cary, b. circa 1813 in Clark County, KY
├── Rachel M. Cary, b. circa 1815 in KY
├── James W. Cary, b. circa 1820 in Clark County, KY, d. 7 Feb 1859
├── Eliza S. Cary, b. circa 1821, d. before Oct 1851
└── Fanny F. Cary, b. circa 1832 in KY
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