Henry Cary Jr.

Henry Cary Jr. was an American planter and building contractor, active during the early 1700s.

[3] There are few surviving records of his early life but it is likely that he learned about contracting through his father, who also worked as a contractor.

[3] This was one of several jobs that Cary performed at Williamsburg and in 1726 he was hired to construct new gates for the Capitol.

[5] He went on to oversee the construction of St. John's Episcopal Church in Hampton (1728), and several buildings at the College of William & Mary: a chapel wing (1729) and the President's House (1732).

[1][6] Around 1733, Cary moved to a large plantation on the south bank of the James River, just downstream from present day Richmond in Chesterfield County, Virginia, where he built Ampthill, which served as the Cary family home for many generations.