On his tomb an inscription gives, names of his father, mother, and maternal grandfather. The coat of arms of the Cary family of Devonshire is carved on this tombstone.

The arms: Argent on a bend sable; three vases argent, with a silver swan for their crest.

His tomb is at Cary's Quarter, at the intersection of the James and Warwick Rivers.

He died 1667, June 10th from wounds received in the attack by the Dutch Fleet upon Old Point Comfort, where he had been ordered to build a fort (Monroe) in 1665.

He left a will, and directed sale of two houses in Baldwin and St. Nicholas Streets for benefit of his three daughters, Anne, Bridgett and Elizabeth when married.

In the city of Newport News, Va., there were four landings on Salter's Creek. On Walnut Avenue about 100 feet back of Blair, was the landing which for a century was used by thw Wilsons and the Carys.

He acquired his father in law's lands at Windmill Point and Magpie Swamp, and others, aggregating more than 2600 acres in Warwick, including the plantations afterwards known as the Forest, Richneck and Skiffs Creek [Mulberry Island] 2 He was a slaveowner and left numerous slaves in his will. He operated a mill and a store.

About his death at the hands of roving Dutch
The Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News area, known as Hampton Roads is where he was killed by the Dutch [in one of the last actions of their second and final war with England in America] .

The Dutch precense in the now United States involved only one permanent settlement , New Amsterdam, on Manhattan Island, from which they sent branch hamlets up the Hudson and to the shores of Long Island Sound and to the South on the Delaware River. The Swedes came into collision with the Dutch on the Delaware and were overpowered by them. The English collided with, and finally overpowered the Dutch after several wars. In the mid Seventeenth century the British and Dutch saw each other as direct competitors and so, several times during this period they were in conflict. The First Dutch Anglo War (1652 - 1654) was followed by the Second (1664-1668) and third (1672-1674). All of these wars were caused by commercial rivalry , and their battles were fought in the North Sea, English Channel, the Far East, and off the coasts of West Africa and North America.
In 1664, Stuyvesant surrendered Fort Amsterdam. In the same year Fort Orange capitulated as well. Both the city of New Amsterdam and the entire colony were renamed New York, while Fort Amsterdam was renamed Fort James and Fort Orange became Fort Albany. The loss of the New Netherland province led to a second Anglo-Dutch war during 1665-1667. Dutch gains in this second war were temporary, but of interest is that Dutch war parties extended as far south as Virginia. Miles Cary was killed by the Dutch in Hampton Roads [Now the Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News area] during the Second Anglo-Dutch War and on 10 Jun 1667. With the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War [from 1665 to 1667] the Dutch faded entirely from now United Statesian presence.

About his Life:
Birth Records:
Baptismal record All Saints Church, Bristol reads 'The 30 Jan, 1622 [O.S.] was baptized Miles, the sonne of John Cary"2He is Mentioned in grandfather Henry Hobson's will as Myles Cary, son of Alice Cary, wife to John Cary, draper, of Bristol. "The Pedigree of Cary of Bristol, filed in the Heralds College, 1699 (includes the following... not repeated in the pedigree of 1701 ) among the children of John Cary and Alice Hobson, viz., 'Miles Cary, settled in Virginia and had issue Thomas Cary who married Anne, daughter of Francies Milner'"2 There was also "Testimony as to Miles Cary and his family in Hunsdon peerage case 1707, Harl. MS.6694, in the British Museum" 2
Life in Warwick County, Virginia

"Miles Cary went out as a young merchant with the tradition of a mercantile family, and suffered a sea change into a planter and public officer after he was established in the new world. On the other hand, the descendants of his New England uncle continued to maintain in their new environment and in a most interesting way, the Bristol seafaring and mercantile tradition ..." 2p 34-5

He " settled Warwick County, where he met his wife; He Lived at 'Magpie Swamps' inherited from father in law, and passed 'Magpie Swamps' to his son Thomas. His will mentions two homes, one on St Nicholas St, one on Baldwin , presumably in Bristol, to be sold for his daughter's benefit. In Virginia he owned 2, 000 acres well stocked, numerous slaves, in addition to a mill and a store. Anne bore him children between 1645-1666" 1
"*Note-Council and General Court Records, 1670. Col Miles Cary, late of Warwick, by his will, among several bequests and legacies, directed a sale to be made of his two houses in the city of Bristol, Kingdom of England; one of them situated in Belame Street and the other house situated in St Nicholas Street, and that the produce of money they should be sold for should be equally divided among his three daughters, to wit: Anne, Bridget and Elizabeth Cary. Emmanuel Willis married Elizabeth Cary, and they by a deed of the 11th of April, 1670, conveyed to William Bassetet, of the Courts of New Kent, all their interest in said houses [General Court Will Book . N. p 3]" 1

...'first record for him is on the bench of the Warwick County Court 1652. Major 1654, Lieutenant-Colonel 1657, Colonel and County Lieutenant 1660. Collector of the Tobacco Duties for James River, Escheator General for the Colony, Burgess 1660-1665, being member of the Publique Commitee" of the Assembly (Hening, ii, 31); advanced to the Council 1665. He maintained a water mill and a mercantile buusiness, both of which are mentioned in his will. Died , probably, from wounds, during the Dutch raid on Hampton Roads in June, 1667. He had acquired his father in law's lands at Windmill Point and Magpie Swamp, and others, aggregating more than 2600 acres in Warwick, including the plantations afterwards known as The Forest, Richneck, and Skiffs Creek (Mulberry Island). He married in Virginia not later than 1646 , Anne, dau of Captain Thomas Taylor. The surviving evidence for the marriage is the reference in miles Cary's will to 'my father in law, Thomas Taylor, deceased.' In his patents of 1657 Miles Cary recites that he had acquired Thomas Taylor's property by devise and he returns Anne Taylor by her maiden name as a headright. She is described in the 1682 patent of Miles2 as 'his mother Mrs Anne Cary' and so was living fifteen years after her husband's death. She was undoubtedly buried, as was also, probably , her father, in the graveyard at Windmill Point. No evidence has yet appeared to identify this Taylor family definitely. Thomas Taylor was one of the original patentees in Elizabeth City in 1626 (Hotten, 273) and in 1643 took up 600 acres in Warwick. In 1646 he sat as Burgess for Warwick and as late as 1652 was in the commission of the peace. In the patent of 1643 he is styled 'mariner.' He was probably a Bristol sea captain long engaged in the Birginia trade who retired from the sea in Warwick. Heis relation to Miles Cary suggests thta he may have been of the family of John Taylor, alderman of Bristol, who is mentioned in relation to the Bristol Carys in the 1652 will of the Bristol clergyman, Robert Perry (P.C.C. Bowyer, 243. See Va Mag, xi, 364). We have seen that there had already been a Taylor / Cary marriage in Bristol."2p 34-5

Death Records and Tomb
His will is found Will: Book A, page 448, June 21 1667 [recorded Warwick ]1
His located tomb was found in pieces , the fragments revealing a coat of arms when put together, which Fairfax Harrison describes as "Ar. on a bend sa. three roses of the field. Crest: a Swan ppr. " and part of an original monument involving brick altar tomb surmounted by a heavy iron stone slab, evidently carved in England but with no traces of the bricks remaining. 2 Pecquet du Bellet informs that this tomb was discovered in 1851 " on a farm called "Bensalls" near Warwick Inn, then occupied by Mr Lucas1 , and Fairfax Harrison gives us description of the location "on the high bluff over the mouth of Potash Creek, looking down Warwick River, in the midst of an ancient grove. In 1868 it was described as 'at the foot of a giant walnut and in the deep shade of a bower formed by the festoons of a mighty grapevine with embraces the entire grove in its snake-like folds'" . 2

The tombstone was in five fragments that , when put together, held the coat of arms above described, and bearing the inscription;

"Here lyeth ye body of Miles Cary, Esq.
Only son of John Cary and Alice his wife,
Daughter of Henry Hobson of ye city of Bristol. Alderman, he was born in ye city and departed this life ye 10th day of June , 1667.
about the 47th year of his age, leaving four sons and three daughters [viz:] Thomas, Ann, Henry, Bridget, Elizabeth, Miles and William"

" The Will of Myles Cary [recorded in Book A, p 448, June 21st 1667] corroborates the statement of the epitaph. The coat of arms of the original colonist is represented on articles handed down from early days, with this motto: 'Sine Deo Careo'1
His tomb calls him Esq, but court records refer to him as Colonel , yielding to the Virginia tradition of calling the men of the militia by their rank.
 

About his Plantation, its position and occupants:
He was given Windmill Point and Magpie Swamps by his father in law. Following the Characteristics of the Carys in Virginia is account of the first Cary home in Virginia and Cary holdings in Virginia over several generations, in which Windmill Point features prominantly . These excerpts are transcribed from " The Virginia Carys : An Essay in Genealogy. " by Fairfax Harrison. Published New York. Publisher: De Vinne. 1919.