Mary Carey (1765-1839), and Ann Carey Hobson (1763-1843) were sisters of William Carey. Ann married William Hobson (1756-1826), a Cottesbrooke farmer. Mary (often referred to as “Polly” by Carey) never married and lived with the Hobson’s for much of her life. Both sisters were ardent supporters of Carey’s work in India. After becoming speechless and paralyzed (except for the use of one limb) in 1789, Mary spent the last fifty years of her life bedridden. Nevertheless, she managed to maintain a correspondence with Carey and other BMS leaders. Several letters of William Carey to his sisters, as well as from Mary to William, can be found in the BMS Archives at the Angus Library, Regent’s Park College, Oxford. For more on the Careys, see Terry G. Carter, ed., The Journal and Selected Letters of William Carey (Macon GA: Mercer Press, 2000), 197; Mary Drewery, William Carey: A Biography (Grand Rapids MI: Zondervan, 1979), 72-73; Timothy George, Faithful Witness: The Life and Mission of William Carey (Birmingham AL:  New Hope Press, 1991), 100-103; S. Pearce Carey, William Carey, D.D. (London: George H. Doran, 1923) , 152, 239.