Ceelys on the James

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Ceelys on the James was a plantation on the James River in Virginia, built in 1706 by Colonel William Wilson.[http://www.wilsonslanding.com/index_files/history.html Wilson's Landing History] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905163949/http://www.wilsonslanding.com/index_files/history.html |date=September 5, 2008 }}

Wilson's daughter, Mary, married Colonel Miles Cary, Jr. of Richneck Plantation.{{cite web|last1=Bergstrom|first1=Peter V.|title=Miles Cary (d. 1709)|url=http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Cary_Miles_d_1709|publisher=Encyclopedia Virginia|accessdate=8 July 2015}} Sally Cary, who married George William Fairfax, and Sarah Cary, who married Bryan Fairfax were born there.{{cite book| author= Louise Pequet du Bellet| title= Some Prominent Virginia Families| year= 1907| publisher= J.P. Bell Company| url= https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_tyQSAAAAYAAJ| page= [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_tyQSAAAAYAAJ/page/n62 50]| quote= Ceelys, on the James.}}

Located 3 or 4 miles from Hampton, it was destroyed during the Civil War.{{cite journal| author= Wilson Miles Cary| title= Wilson Cary of Ceelys, and his Family| journal= The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography| year= 1901| publisher= Virginia Historical Society| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=kDXBpQL5VQUC&dq=Ceelys,+on+the+James&pg=PA105}}{{cite book| author= Fairfax Harrison|authorlink=Fairfax Harrison| title= The Virginia Carys| year= 1919| publisher= The Devine Press| url= https://archive.org/details/virginiacarysan00harrgoog| quote= ceelys plantation.}}