Daniel McCarty^[1]

1678 - 1724  (46 years)

• Name	Daniel McCarty  [2]
  Birth	10 Mar 1678	North Farnham Parish, Richmond, Virginia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 May 1724	Cople, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA
  Person ID	I44685	Master
  Last Modified	9 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	Dennis McCarty, Sr (IMMIGRANT)--no proof,   b. 1652, South Dublin, Dublin, Ireland d. 4 Apr 1694, Richmond, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA (Age 42 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Billington,   b. 1654, Richmond, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA d. 3 Apr 1717, Farnham, Richmond, Virginia, USA (Age 63 years)
  Marriage	1668	Old Rappahannock, Richmond, Virginia, USA
  Family ID	F10280	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Elizabeth Pope,   b. 25 Jun 1667, Old Rappahannock, Richmond, Virginia, USA d. 21 Mar 1716, Yeocomico, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA (Age 48 years)
  Marriage	19 Oct 1699	North Farnham Parish, Richmond, Virginia, USA
  Children	1. Ann Barbara (Nanny) McCarty Fitzhugh,   b. 30 Nov 1702, , Westmoreland, Virginia, USA d. 12 Dec 1737, Marmion, Stafford, Virginia, USA (Age 35 years)   2. Billington McCarty,   b. 1704, North Farnham Parish, Richmond, Virginia, USA d. Apr 1771, North Farnham Parish, Richmond, Virginia, USA (Age 67 years)   3. Denis Sutton McCarty,   b. 7 Nov 1705, , Westmoreland, Virginia, USA d. 18 Mar 1742, Cople, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA (Age 36 years)   4. Katherine McCarty Peachy,   b. 7 Nov 1705, , Northumberland, Virginia, USA d. 1725, Farnham, Richmond, Virginia, USA (Age 19 years)   5. Daniel McCarty,   b. 1707, , Westmoreland, Virginia, USA d. 26 Jun 1744, Cople, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA (Age 37 years)   6. Winifred McCarty,   b. 1709, North Farnham Parish, Richmond, Virginia, USA d. 1754, , Stafford, Virginia, USA (Age 45 years)   7. Sarah McCarty,   b. 1710, Colony, Laurel, Kentucky, USA d. 1799, , , Virginia, USA (Age 89 years)   8. Thaddeus McCarty,   b. 1712, , Westmoreland, Virginia, USA d. 7 Feb 1731, Yeocomico, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA (Age 19 years)
  Family ID	F10263	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2022

  
  

  Family 2	Ann Mary Lee,   b. 5 Jan 1683, Mt Pleasant, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA d. 12 Jan 1732, Eagles Nest, King George, Virginia, USA (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	27 May 1719	Farnham, Richmond, Virginia, USA
  Children	+ 1. Nancy Jane McCarty,   b. 1720, , , Virginia, USA d. Dec 1789, Traphill, Wilkes, North Carolina, USA (Age 69 years)
  Family ID	F10264	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Feb 2022

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 10 Mar 1678 - North Farnham Parish, Richmond, Virginia, USA Marriage - 19 Oct 1699 - North Farnham Parish, Richmond, Virginia, USA Marriage - 27 May 1719 - Farnham, Richmond, Virginia, USA Death - 4 May 1724 - Cople, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  McCarty History in Virginia: One of the nearest and most intimate friends of the McCartys was George Mason of Gunston Hall in Fairfax County. Mason is an historic figure in the political movements of his day and is described as "one of the greatest men of a great period." He was the author of the "Declaration of Rights" and the Constitution of Virginia, and is familiarly known as "The Father of States' Rights." Colonel Daniel McCarty and George Mason were keen sportsmen, and Dogue's Neck, part of the Mason estate, was long famous for its native deer and wild fowl, and the neighboring gentry often were guests at the hospitable mansion of the Masons and in hunting parties and other social events of the time. In 1778, Daniel, son of Daniel and Sinah (Ball) McCarty, married Sarah, daughter of George Mason, and William T. Mason, son of George, married Sarah McCarty. Daniel, Jr., was also known as "Colonel," and after their marriage the young couple settled at Cedar Grove. Kate Mason Rowland, in her Life of George Mason, thus refers to Cedar Grove: "The McCarty place has gone out of the family of its original owners. It is beautifully situated on Pohick Creek. Its lovely water views from its commanding position on high ground almost entirely surrounded by the Creek, are its chief attraction now, but in former days, with its lawns, its orchards and its shrubberies, it must have made a delightful residence. The family burial ground at Cedar Grove is perhaps a half mile from the house in a dense grove of oaks and poplars. Bending back the thick branches in this Druid-like solitude and stooping over fallen trees, one finds three graves with their gray mosscovered stones, marking the spots where rest Dennis McCarty and his grandson, Daniel McCarty, with the wife of the latter, who was the daughter of George Mason. Colonel Daniel McCarty, the elder, the friend and contemporary of George Mason, was buried at Mount Airy, another family seat of the McCartys. That portion of his estate in Stafford County which Daniel, the Speaker, bequeathed to his son, Dennis, having been subject to entail, the latter's descendants regarded it as a hardship that they were precluded by the terms of the will from disposing of it as they chose. This matter was the subject of discussion between Daniel McCarty and George Washington, and among the Washington papers at the Library of Congress there is a letter from Daniel McCarty dated December 6, 1769, addressed to "George Washington Esq. at Williamsburg," which reads as follows: "I send you by Mr. Peirce Bayly the Deeds made by me and my wife to Mr. Chichester and Likewise them from him and his wife to me, as also my Grandfather's will, Wherein you will find in the 3rd. Page how he gave the Land. Fairfax County was then Stafford, and by looking over the Will you may see some hardships which my father was laid under more than either of my Brothers. My wife's father's will I have not, neither is it in my Power to get it at this time, it being on the Records of Lancaster, but you may see by the Deeds made to Mr. Chichester in what manner it was Given which I hope will be sufficient. We have at last had a Vestry to lay the Parish Levy which is Sixty three per Pole 34900 being Levy'd Towards Paying for the Church and by those very Gentlemen who was so much against it formerly. Mrs. Posey & old Mrs. Johnston are both dead within two or three Days of each other. You will remember that I informed you that I have near Six thousand acres of Land more which is all intailed, being in the County of Loudoun, and I must beg your care of the Papers now sent. My Wife joins me in our Compliments to your Self, Mrs. Washington and Miss Patey, hopeing to see you all Return in Good Health, And I remain with great esteem Dr Sr yr most obet Hble Servt Daniel McCarty." It is evident that upon Washington's return from Williamsburg the question was again discussed, and that it was decided that McCarty should seek relief from the legislature by securing the passage of an act canceling the entail, which process was known as "docking the entail." The Journals of the House of Burgesses under date of December 12, 1769, contain this entry: "A Petition of Daniel McCarty was presented to the House, and read, setting forth that the Petitioner is seized in Fee Tail under the Will of Daniel McCarty his Grandfather, of 2000 Acres of Land in the Parish of Truro, and County of Fairfax, and is seized in Fee Simple of 1000 Acres of Land in the County of Fauquier, purchased of Richard Chichester and Sarah his Wife, and that it will be to the advantage of the Petr and those claiming in Remainder if the Intail of the said 2000 Acres of Land in Fairfax was docked and the said 1000 Acres of Land in Fauquier, with nine valuable Slaves, settled in Lieu thereof, and therefore praying that an Act may pass for that Purpose." Thereupon, it was "Ordered that leave be given to bring in a Bill pursuant to the prayer of the said Petition," and it is with considerable interest that we note that the two persons who were "ordered" by the House "to prepare and bring in the same" were George Washington and Richard Henry Lee. 21 On the following day there is an entry in the Journals, reading: "George Washington, member of the House from Fairfax County, presented a Bill to dock the Intail of certain Lands whereof Daniel McCarty is seized and for settling other Lands and Slaves to the same Uses," and the bill was passed by the House on December 19, 1769.

  
  

• Sources

  [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. [S1188] Ancestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Extracted Vital Records, 1660-1923, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), Virginia Vital Records; Indexed by: Judith McGhan.