Martha Cary

Martha Scarsbrooke

• Birth: ABT 1665 in Skiffs Creek, Warwick County, Virginia Colony (?)
• Death: 1713
• Sex: F
• Father: John Scarsbrook b. in England
• Mother: (probably his 2nd wife, Elizabeth Farley)
• Spouse: William Cary (Husband) b. 1657 in Warwick, Virginia - Marriage: 24 MAR 1684/85 in York, Virginia

Children:

1. Harwood Cary b. 1685
2. Martha Cary b. 1686 in "Skiffs Creek", Mulberry Island Parish, Warwick Co., VA
3. William Cary b. ABT 1700
4. John Cary b. ABT 1701

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Biography

Profile written by Allan Harl Thomas

Martha was born before1660.

Col. John Scarbrook and Mary Martiau had at least two children, one named Jane Duke; another daughter, Elizabeth Condon later widowed then married to a Mountford. [1]

Evidently Mary Martiau died. John Scarsbrook married Elizabeth, the daughter of a Mrs. Bushrod.

John SCASBROOK of York Co. in his will named his two oldest daughters Jane DUKE and Elizabeth CONDON executrices and directs that anything recovered from Mrs. BUSHROD's (his second wife's mother?) estate be divided among his four minor children, Martha, Mary, Hannah and John SCASBROOK.

In 1683 in a suit to settle the SCARSBROOK estate, Capt. Thomas MOUNTFORD is mentioned as having "married the surviving executrix of Col. SCASBROOK."

Martha Scarbrook, married Captain William Cary, youngest son of Miles Cary, the immigrant ; and Captain William Cary's daughter. [2]

married 25 Mar 1685

She passed away about 1730.

References

1. WikiTree contributors, "Martha (Scarbrook) Scarsbrook (bef.1660-abt.1730)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Scarbrook-1 : accessed 04 December 2024). cites
   1. https://archive.org/details/someprominentvir04pecq Virginia Familliea] Prominent Families of Virginia, by Jaquelin, Martha (Cary) 1686-1733, Volume: 4 Page 4
   2. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/cary-miles-bap-1623-1667/
   3. https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~marshall/esmd190.htm