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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... lived with Aunt Margaret and made himself very useful to her. The last I heard of him was some time in the early fifties. News came that he had married someone near Fredericksburg, Virginia, but I never heard to whom, and that his father-in-law appeared at the wedding, even at that late period, in cue and knee-breeches. 5 5 ' My youngest brother was named Wilson Cary." Children (by first wife): i Samuel, died in infancy. 91 ii Mary, married, first, Mann Page, second, her cousin, Doctor Wilson Cary Selden. Children (by second wife): 92 iii Ann Mason Mercer, married John Taliaferro Brooke. 93 iv Wilson Cary, married Sarah Mason Cooke. 91 Mary Mason4 Selden (Samuel2, Joseph2, Samuel1) was born at Salvington, Stafford County, Virginia, in 1754. She married, first, about 1767, Mann Page, born at Xorth End, 1747. son of Honorable John Page, who was born at Rosewell County, about 1720, and removed to North End, Gloucester (now Matthew) County, Virginia, and married, in 1746, Jane Byrd of Westover on the James River, Charles City County. The marriage of Mary Selden and Mann Page took place about 1767. They removed to Mannsfield, Clarke County (See Page family, No. 24). After his death, Mary (Selden) Page married, second, her cousin, Doctor Wilson Cary Selden. by whom she had no children. (See Number 42.) He was the guardian of her children by her first husband. Mary Selden died in Winchester, Virginia, September 17, 1787. Children (by first husband): i William Byrd Page, married Ann Lee, daughter of Richard Henry Lee (See Page Family, No. 25). ii John Byrd Page, married Elizabeth;no children. iii Jane Byrd Page, born about 1774; married Thomas Swann; died in 1812 (See Page Family, No. 28). The following account of the law suit, 'Mercer, Lessee...