Cary, Benjamin

Cary, Benjamin a Congregational minister, was born at Hopkinton, Mass., in 1732. He graduated at Harvard College in 1761, and was ordained the first minister of the Church in. Dover, Mass., Nov. 10, 1762, is which position he remained until his death, Nov. 14, 1811. He was a man of very modest and retiring character. See Hist. of Meriden Association, p. 214. (J. C. S.)