She is listed, as Mary Barnett, as one of the daughters of John Boughan (Major) in his will in 1769.

An undated bill of complaint stated that John Boughan died in May 1776 “leaving Cary his widow & mother of his children & John & Major Boughan his sons & Mary wife of Richd Burnett & your oratrices his daughters” namely Cary (wife of John Turner) and Eliza (wife of William Howard). That Cary died without having married again. [Essex County, Virginia, Box Chancery 15, item 15-B-52.]

For marriage information, see Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Volume 2, page 469.