Dictionary of Indian Biography/Carey, Mary

by Charles Edward Buckland

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CAREY, MARY (1741–1801)

Of Indian birth: wife of Peter Carey, a seafaring man: the last of the 23 survivors of the 146 persons imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta on June 20, 1756: her husband died there, or afterwards in the fighting at Fulta: her subsequent fate is uncertain, but the tradition of her being carried off by the Nawab's people is not authentic. She married again, her second husband being a military officer. She confirmed, at an interview on Aug. 13, 1799, Holwell's account of the Black Hole tragedy: she died March 28, 1801, at Calcutta.