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I am not researching these people, just entering information from one of my books "Houses Virginians Have Loved" by Agnes Rothery, 1954:
"Ampthill (pictured) originally stood on the southwest bank of the James River, about five miles below Richmond. It is believed to have been built in 1703-1732 by Henry Cary, Jr. His father, Henry Cary, son of Miles Cary, was the first owner of the land, having acquired it from William Byrd of westover. Both father and son were experienced builders who had tended the erection of many of the principal buildings at Williamsburg."
"On the death of Henry Cary, Jr. (1749) the plantation passed to his son, Colonel Archibald Cary who named it after Ampthill Castle in England. After various changes in ownership and after years of neglect, it fell into desrepair, and the land surrounding it was acquired by industrial interests. Hundson Cary, a collateral descendant of Henry Cary, acquired it in 1929, dismantled it and moved it, with its dependencies, to the present location on a bluff on the north bank of the James River in the western part of Richmond."
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