Mary Charlton was born in North Carolina in about 1730. She married Richard Haughton and they had one child together prior to his death in about October 1748. Widowed, Mary married planter Levi Creecy in Chowan County in October 1750. The couple had at least seven children together prior to Levi's death in about 1772. In 1774 Mary Creecy as well as two of her daughters signed a nonimportation agreement that later became known as the Edenton Tea Party Resolves. She died sometime after April 1783.