Wilson Miles Cary

Wilson-Miles Cary
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Elizabeth City County
In office
November 10, 1795 – December 27, 1796
Serving with Miles King
Preceded byGeorge Wray
Succeeded byGeorge Booker
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Warwick County
In office
May 5, 1783 – January 11, 1787
Serving with Cole Digges, John Langhorne, Richard Cary Jr.
Preceded byEdward Harwood
Succeeded byJohn Scarsbrooke Langhorne
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Fluvanna County
In office
May 5, 1777 – December 21, 1778
Serving with Thomas Napier
Succeeded byGeorge Thompson
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Elizabeth City County
In office
October 7, 1776 – December 21, 1776
Serving with Henry King
Succeeded byMiles King
Worlich Westwood
Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from Elizabeth City County
In office
1766–1772
Serving with George Wythe, James Wallace
Preceded byWilliam Wager
Succeeded byHenry King
Worlich Westwood
Personal details
Born1733
Richneck Plantation, Warwick County, Colony of Virginia
Died25 November 1817(1817-11-25) (aged 83–84)
PartyFederalist
Spouses
  • Sarah Blair
    (m. 1759; died 1799)
  • Rebecca Dawson
    (m. 1802)
Children3 daughters and 2 sons
Relatives
  • Miles Cary II (grandfather)
  • Miles Cary (great grandfather)
Alma materCollege of William and Mary
Occupation

Wilson-Miles Cary (1733 – November 30, 1817) was an American politician from Virginia. A prominent patriot in the American Revolutionary War and once one of the wealthiest men in the Colony of Virginia, Cary served in the Virginia House of Burgesses and later the Virginia House of Delegates as a Federalist who represented at various times Warwick County, Elizabeth City County (modern Hampton) and the newly created Fluvanna County. Cary also built Carysbrook Plantation in Fluvanna County, where he died in the household of his grandson Wilson Jefferson Cary (who would continue the family's legislative tradition five years later).