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Henry Cary Jr. was an American planter and
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, active during the early 1700s.


Biography

Cary was born in
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around the mid to late 1600s to Henry Cary Sr. and Judith Lockey Cary. There are few surviving records of his early life but it is likely that he learned about contracting through his father, who also worked as a contractor. Cary married three times and had seven children, three with his first wife Sarah Sclater and four with his second wife, Ann Edwards.


Construction

Cary became visibly active in construction after his father's retirement in 1710 and in December 1720 he was authorized to work on the Governor's Palace, in
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, Virginia, a project that his father had begun but was unable to complete. This was one of several jobs that Cary performed at Williamsburg and in 1726 he was hired to construct new gates for the
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. He went on to oversee the construction of St. John's Episcopal Church in
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(1728), and several buildings at the
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: a chapel wing (1729) and the President's House (1732). Cary was also likely in charge of constructing the Brafferton building (1723). Around 1733, Cary moved to a large plantation on the south bank of the
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, just downstream from present day
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in Chesterfield County, Virginia, where he built
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, which served as the Cary family home for many generations.


See also

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References

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