Mary Cary

     Mary was born circa 1744 in North Church, Sussex County, New Jersey. She was the daughter of Colonel Isaac Cary. Mary married Colonel Charles Beardsley, son of John Beardsley and Keziah Wheeler, circa 1759 in North Church. Charles was in the Revolutionary War and was a State Senator of New Jersey for 15 years. He was an extensive farmer and lived in a stone house on his farm on the same road as his father, John Beardslee's going towards Franklin Furnace on the Mill Brook Road. He married Mary - either Cary and moved from New Milford, Connecticut, before 1765, for he was then a resident of Sussex County, New Jersey according to a certain deed found among the records of that town. He was a member of the first Masonic Lodge of Newton & the Presbyterian Church of Sparta where he was one of the first elected trustees.