Dennis McCarty was born in England in about 1655. He emigrated in about 1670 and settled in Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia.

Dennis McCarty (d. 1694) was in Virginia during or before 1675, and married Elizabeth Billington in 1676. Descendants lived chiefly in Virginia.

Margaret Motes' third book derived from the 1850 census specifies about 2,600 persons of New England or Mid-Atlantic birth who were living in SouthCarolina in that census year, two-thirds of them from the Mid-Atlanticregion. She has arranged those findings in alphabetical order by surname.Each individual is identified by age, sex, occupation, country of birth, county of residence, and household enumeration number. The volume concludes with indexes to names, places, and occupation