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James T. Carter

Male 1832 - 1878  (46 years)


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  1. 1.  James T. Carter was born 1832, Kentucky (son of James T. 'Thee' Carter, Jr. and Elizabeth 'Eliza' Boisseau); died 1878, Tennessee or Kentucky.

    James married Mary Jane 'Molly' Balthrop 17 Jun 1858, Clarksville, Montgomery Co., Tennessee. Mary (daughter of Thomas Gardner Balthrop and Mariah L. Henson/Hinson) was born Abt 1840, Montgomery Co., Tennessee; died 1878, Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Charles Arthur 'Charlie' Carter was born 5 Aug 1872, Clarkesville, Montgomery Co., Tennessee; died 20 Jun 1955, Christian Co., Kentucky; was buried , Riverside Cemetery, Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  James T. 'Thee' Carter, Jr. was born Abt 1810, Halifax County, Virginia (son of James C. dna Carter and Amy /Anne Motley); died 1835, Tennessee.

    James married Elizabeth 'Eliza' Boisseau. Elizabeth (daughter of John Boisseau and Nancy Elizabeth Carter) was born Abt 1808, Logan County, Kentucky; died 1865, Christian Co., Kentucky. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Elizabeth 'Eliza' Boisseau was born Abt 1808, Logan County, Kentucky (daughter of John Boisseau and Nancy Elizabeth Carter); died 1865, Christian Co., Kentucky.
    Children:
    1. John Boisseau Carter was born 5 Nov 1829, Robinson County Tennessee; died 10 Aug 1913, Ballard Co., Kentucky.
    2. 1. James T. Carter was born 1832, Kentucky; died 1878, Tennessee or Kentucky.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  James C. dna CarterJames C. dna Carter was born 23 Dec 1774, Halifax Co., Virginia (son of Captain John C. dna Carter and Mary Michaux Cunningham); died 23 Apr 1845, DeKalb Co., Alabama; was buried , Raney Cemetery, Marshall Co., Alabama.

    Notes:

    James CARTER was born about 1777.(2) He resided in 1802 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. (290) Was of Pittsylvania County when he gave power-of-attorney to brother-in-law William WADDELL for his portion of father, John CARTER's estate. Witnesses: Noel WADDELL, Charles WADDELL and Noel WADDELL, son of William WADDELL. 22 Jan 1802. Bk. 13, p. 1. On 22 Jun 1802, James CARTER of Pittsylvania Co., VA gave to "my brother-in-law, William WADDELL" power of attorney to settle James' portion of the estate. Bk. 12, p.1. Witnesses:
    Noel WADDELL
    Charles WADDELL
    Noel WADDELL "son of William WADDELL"
    Parents: John CARTER and Mary CUNNINGHAM.
    JAMES, son of JOHN and MARY CARTER, died April 17, 1845.
    He married AMY MOTLEY. He lived in Halifax county,
    Virginia.
    1. JESSEE
    2. MARTHA
    3. MARY
    4. SUSAN
    5. JUDITH
    6. JOHN C.
    7. JOSEPH M.
    8. ANNE
    9. PRUDENCE



    Name:
    Diane Carter Giles [Need Valid Email Address] Y-DNA Kit # 23874 Group I1 - 12

    Sherrel Cavedo [jscave28443 AT yahoo.com] Kit # 277234 Group I1 - 12

    Died:
    inscription on Headstone:
    Buried North Of River Near Preston Beside His Son John M.

    This is what was written:
    "Richard and James Carter and their sister Anne Waddill went to Alabama, as did their kinsmen John and Michaux Cunningham."
    Holly Hampton

    James married Amy /Anne Motley 13 Feb 1799, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia. Amy (daughter of Captain Joseph Motley and Martha Ellington) was born Abt 1775, Amelia County, Virginia; died 12 Jun 1853, Marshall Co., Alabama; was buried , Rainey Cemetery, Marshall County, Alabama. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Amy /Anne MotleyAmy /Anne Motley was born Abt 1775, Amelia County, Virginia (daughter of Captain Joseph Motley and Martha Ellington); died 12 Jun 1853, Marshall Co., Alabama; was buried , Rainey Cemetery, Marshall County, Alabama.

    Notes:

    Married:
    The Middle initial of several of these children is M.; it has been assumed the M stands for Motley; however, it is likely at least one of these children is named Michaux for their grandmother.

    Children:
    1. Jesse Carter was born Abt 1800, Caswell Co., North Carolina; died 1860, Upshur Co., Texas.
    2. Mary [Motley] Carter was born 9 Jun 1803, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia; died 11 Nov 1832, Marshall Co., Alabama; was buried , Henryville Cemetery Marshall Co., Alabama.
    3. Susannah Carter was born 1805, Virginia; died 12 Nov 1865, Carthage, Hancock Co., Illinois; was buried , Langley Family Cemetery Hancock County Illinois.
    4. 2. James T. 'Thee' Carter, Jr. was born Abt 1810, Halifax County, Virginia; died 1835, Tennessee.
    5. Joseph Motley dna Carter was born 7 Feb 1811, Franklin Co., Tennessee; died 8 Sep 1888, Marshall Co., Alabama; was buried , Rainey Cemetery Marshall County, Alabama.
    6. John M. Carter was born Est 1813; died 1885.

  3. 6.  John Boisseau was born 14 Mar 1764, Dinwiddie County, Virginia (son of James Boisseau and Anna Fitzpatrick); died 1848, Simpson Co., Kentucky; was buried , Boisseau Cemetery, Simpson County, Kentucky.

    Notes:

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/jul/21/20060721-090027-7182r/?page=all

    A list of famous Civil War battles often includes Gettysburg, Shiloh, Antietam and Manassas; it never includes the battle at the Boisseau farm.

    In terms of significance, however, few individual battles in the war had more immediate and sweeping consequences than the April 2, 1865, fight southwest of Petersburg, Va. In fact, following on the heels of a Confederate disaster at Five Forks, the dramatic Union charge at Boisseau farm led directly to the fall of Richmond and Gen. Robert E. Lee?s surrender at Appomattox.
    The ?battle? of Petersburg was actually a 10-month siege between June 1864 and April 1865 that consisted of hundreds of smaller and larger clashes between Federal and Confederate soldiers. Some historians have calculated that as many as 80,000 casualties occurred during the siege operations.

    Some individual battles during the siege made national headlines: the Crater, Fort Stedman and Chaffin?s Farm. The greater part of the common soldier?s time during the siege, however, was spent digging earthworks and keeping his head down to avoid sharpshooters.

    The landscape along the siege lines between Richmond and Petersburg was stripped of trees, the soil was dug up and piled into revetments and earthworks, and then the dirt was shoveled up again to repair damage done after almost daily artillery exchanges. An elaborate network of zigzagging trenches and dugout shelters evolved over time. Homes and farms along the siege line were incorporated into the network.

    One such farm was the Boisseau plantation, located in Dinwiddie County southwest of Petersburg. Its highlight was Tudor Hall, an elegant Georgian and Federal two-story house built in 1812.

    The Boisseau farm had prospered before the war. For many years, hogsheads of tobacco were rolled down the nearby Boydton Plank Road to the busy warehouses in Petersburg, where inspectors graded, bought and sold tobacco. The war, however, visited hard times on owner Joseph Boisseau?s family, and by mid-1864, the success of the prewar years was a fleeting memory.

    In August, when Ulysses S. Grant?s Union forces cut the Weldon Railroad south of Tudor Hall and Lee?s Confederates were forced to extend the Petersburg siege lines farther west to Hatcher?s Run to protect vulnerable wagon routes and the remaining rail lines, Confederate trenches were constructed directly through and around the Boisseau farm.

    The situation was not conducive to family life. In early October, the Boisseaus moved out and the Rebels moved in. In a county where the vote to secede had been 804-to-1 in favor and where Joseph Boisseau had served actively in the pro-Confederate civil defense force, he had little choice but to turn over everything he had that could aid the war effort. This included allowing Brig. Gen. Samuel McGowan to set up his brigade headquarters in Tudor Hall.

    McGowan had steadily moved up in the ranks during the war and was noted for his bravery under fire. Born in South Carolina to Irish immigrants, he had been variously a successful lawyer, soldier and member of the South Carolina House of Representatives before the war. He kept the men of his brigade busy, assigning teams of 200 to 300 a day to work on the entrenchments and artillery revetments.

    According to one aide, these Confederate earthworks simply could not be taken. ?They could scarcely be stormed, on account of the ditch and the brush abatis in front.? In places, the combination of a ditch in front and the earthwork behind created a 15- to 20-foot differential in height, or practically a sheer wall.

    McGowan?s men worked constantly to add new obstructions and strengthen the works The weakness was not in the works; the problem was that there was as much as 20 feet between each soldier in Lee?s stretched and thinned ranks.

    When McGowan wasn?t busy with administrative duties, he played whist and recited Shakespeare. His men enjoyed a relatively quiet stretch of roughly five months while the drama of the siege was played out on other parts of the 40-mile line, such as the Crater, Fort Harrison and other areas that were often out of earshot and sometimes out of mind.

    In February 1865, the men passed a resolution vowing to continue the war no matter what happened, and McGowan followed with a stirring speech. Little did they know that their impregnable works soon would be the stage for a dramatic, siege-lifting, war-ending assault.

    Across from McGowan, Union Gens. Horatio G. Wright (VI Corps) and John G. Parke (IX Corps) were busy in late March. In conjunction with Grant?s spring offensive, they massed troops, supplies and ammunition in preparation for an all-out assault on the section of the Confederate line in front of them.

    On March 25, many of the advanced Rebel rifle pits were captured and held ? an ominous sign had the Confederates paid more attention. Near the end of March, McGowan?s brigade was shifted west and participated in Gen. George Pickett?s ill-starred Five Forks? movements.

    A few of Brig. Gen. James H. Lane?s depleted regiments filled the earthworks at Boisseau farm, but the line was substantially thinned by the shift. The 37th North Carolina covered the section closest to Tudor Hall with just two cannon, and the men spaced up to 10 paces apart. Sometimes, the next man in line was out of immediate eyesight.

    Following the Rebel disaster at Five Forks on April 1, Grant ordered an immediate attack on the siege lines in the Boisseau farm sector. Gen. George Meade directed Wright and Parke to assault the enemy at 4 the next morning following a massive artillery barrage.

    Thousands of men who normally were within easy line of sight of the Confederates hunkered down silently that dark night, threatened with gag and buck if they so much as sneezed. The Union soldiers could hear their Rebel counterparts several hundred yards away on sentinel duty, discussing news of the war and rumors of battles. Still, this sector of the front had been quiet for so long that they remained relatively unsuspecting.

    In the middle of the night, an artillery barrage of epic proportions erupted and left no doubt about what was coming. What little Confederate artillery responded was quickly overwhelmed. After more than three hours of ?softening up,? the cannon went silent, and the Union soldiers rose silently, bayonets attached, but without percussion caps on their rifles, which meant that they could not fire and would be forced to climb over the earthworks before loading.

    The thin and demoralized Rebels still remaining ? probably many fewer than 3,000 along this stretch of line ? shot sporadically, fighting tenaciously in small pockets (including around Tudor Hall itself) but gradually were forced to fall back toward Petersburg when the deluge of Union soldiers inevitably crawled over and through their works.

    The significance of this successful attack, inevitable or not, was that it represented the first real piercing of Lee?s Petersburg line. Grant had been attempting unsuccessfully for almost a year to penetrate Lee?s defenses. He had resorted to repeated attempts to outflank Lee, which, though stretching Rebel resources, hadn?t broken the opposing army. Even the men who breached the wall in the early morning twilight little suspected the tremendous impact of their actions.

    The consequences, however, were rapid and profound. The entire 40-mile Confederate siege line began to unravel from Boisseau farm northward. Lee could not bring any reserves to fill the gap. Within hours, the Union flag would be flying over the Capitol in Richmond, and within a few days, the war itself would all but end with Lee?s surrender.

    History, however, seems to have forgotten where the 10-month siege was broken and where Confederate hopes were dashed permanently. The surviving earthworks where the breakthrough occurred are protected and can be visited at Pamplin Park in Petersburg.

    When Eliza BOISSEAU was born in 1808 in Logan, Kentucky, her father, Sergeant, was 44, and her mother, Nancy, was 43. She married James Theodorick "Thee" CARTER and they had two children together. She then married Cary Ashley P. Foster and they had eight children together. She died in 1862 in Christian, Kentucky, at the age of 54.

    John married Nancy Elizabeth Carter 11 Jul 1786, Prince Edward Co., Virginia. Nancy (daughter of Waddill Carter and Mildred "Millie" Wade) was born 1765, Prince Edward County, Virginia; died 11 May 1849, Simpson County, Kentucky; was buried , Boisseau Cemetery, Simpson County,Kentucky. [Group Sheet]


  4. 7.  Nancy Elizabeth Carter was born 1765, Prince Edward County, Virginia (daughter of Waddill Carter and Mildred "Millie" Wade); died 11 May 1849, Simpson County, Kentucky; was buried , Boisseau Cemetery, Simpson County,Kentucky.

    Notes:

    http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tnlincol/geneal/carter2.txt


    PRINCE EDWARD CO.

    POLLY CARTER & THOMAS COLLIER 30 Oct. 1789 Marriage
    Bond
    NANCY CARTER & JOHN BOISSEAU 11 July 1786 Marriage
    Bond
    MARY CARTER & JOHN BARNETT 30 JJan. 1783
    ANN CARTER & ABEL BLANKENSHIP 13 July 1791
    THRODRICK CARTER JR. & JUDITH CUNNINGHAM 16 Apr..
    1764
    THOMAS CARTER & SARAH MARTIN 28 May 1764 Marriage
    Bond
    RICHARD CARTER & SUSANNAH BIGGER 29 Dec. 1772
    Minister return

    FRANCIS CARTER (BLW), died 7/26/1875, Prince Edward co.;
    married (1) MARTHA K. FARMER (2) AMELIA HATCHETT (3)
    5/11/1842 SARAH JANE LEIGH (P), Prince Edward co., she died
    10/29/1898, Rice Deepot, Prince Edward co., LNR Green Bay,
    Prince Edward co. 1879.
    Ref: Wardell p.75

    GEORGE (P,BLW), died before 7/5/1883, LNR P.O. Box, Prospect,
    Prince Edward co. 1871
    Ref: Wardell

    THEODORE/THEODORICK/THEODORIC CARTER (P,BLW),
    died 6/29/1873, Prince Edward co.; married (1) MARTHA BADWIN,
    (2) ELIZABETH BAKER (3) 7/15/1838 JULIA A. MORGAN (P),
    Prince Edward co.; She died 8/17/1898. LNR Pamplin, Appomattox
    co., VA 1871.
    Ref: Wardell p. 76

    WILSON CARTER (BLW), died 7/30/1858, Prince Edward co., VA;
    married 9/11/1851 MARY S. TAYLOR (P), Prince Edward co. She
    died c 1887. LNR Prince Edward co., VA 1882.
    Ref: Wardell p. 77

    The DAR Record that says Elizabeth Carter b 1787 (supposedly a daughter of Waddill Carter and Mildred Wade) is shown born two years after her father Waddill died. There is a mistake here. Nancy Elizabeth Carter, d/o Waddill & Mildred Wade Carter is thought to be born in 1765, which would put her the right age to have married John Boisseau. There are other Waddill Carters in the Halifax Virginia and Caswell Co., NC area, which are situated very close to one-another. Unless there is a second daughter of Waddill and Mildred Wade Carter whose name is Elizabeth, I cannot agree with the DAR record until further evidence is established. The records of the DAR are being investigated.


    Died:
    (Simpson, KY Circuit Court book 1, File 110 - Eliza Boisseau and her second husband Cary Foster sued Daniel T. Boisseau for Nancy's care. The case lists her death date.)

    Notes:

    Married:
    Children
    Susan BOISSEAU
    Mildred BOISSEAU b: 1787 in Virginia
    Nancy BOISSEAU b: ABT. 1790
    Lucy C. BOISSEAU b: 1790 in Virginia
    Daniel Thompson BOISSEAU b: 13 FEB 1793 in Virginia
    Benjamin Waddell BOISSEAU b: 1795 in Virginia
    Robert BOISSEAU b: 1799 in Virginia
    Eliza BOISSEAU b: 1810 in Kentucky

    Children:
    1. Benjamin Waddle Boisseau was born 1802, Bowling Green, Simpson Co., Kentucky; died 1863, Jackson County, Missouri; was buried , Boisseau Cemetery, Pittsville, Johnson County, Missouri.
    2. 3. Elizabeth 'Eliza' Boisseau was born Abt 1808, Logan County, Kentucky; died 1865, Christian Co., Kentucky.
    3. Daniel Thompson Boisseau was born 13 Feb 1793, Prince Edward County, Virginia; died 26 May 1873, Simpson Co., Kentucky; was buried , Boisseau Cemetery, Simpson County, Kentucky.
    4. Private


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  Captain John C. dna Carter was born 26 Aug 1737, St. Peter's Par., New Kent Co., VA (son of Theodorick3 dna Carter, Jr. and Anne Waddill); died 20 Sep 1781, Halifax Co., Virginia.

    Notes:

    Halifax County, VA ? Pleas (Court Orders) Book 3, March Court 1760, page 44 ? Ordered that John Carter and his male tithables, John Mount, David Mount, Richard Smith and William Russell be added to the gang belonging to road whereof John Lawson is Surveyor.

    Vestry Book of Antrim Parish, Halifax County, Virginia 1752-1817. At a Vestry held for Antrim Parish at Halifax Courthouse the 24 August 1767. Page 108 ? Pursuant to an order of the County Court of Halifax bearing date the 17 July last past for this vestry to appoint Processioners according to law whereupon it is ordered that John Lawson, John Mount and John Carter do procession the bounds of every particular person?s lands between Miller?s Road, Burches Creek, the County line and Dan River and it is further ordered that the Processioners aforesaid do begin their said work on the second day of November next and take and return to the Vestry on or before the last day of March next ensuing an account of every particular person?s land they shall so procession and the persons present at the same and what lands in their precincts they failed to procession and the particular reasons of such failure.

    John CARTER was born on 26 Aug 1736 in New Kent County, Virginia. (292) He was christened on 30 Oct 1736 in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia.(15) He died in 1781 in Halifax County, Virginia.(4) John Carter's Will: ...being indisposed but of perfect mind and memory..wife, Mary, during her widowhood and for the bringing up and educating my children...land, slaves, furniture, etc...My daughter Ann WADDELL twenty five shillings, daughters Elizabeth, Mary, Sally slaves and furniture, ...my three oldest sons, Richard, Theodorick, and Robert...minor sons Francis and James. Exec., brothers Theodorick Carter and Richard Carter. Witnesses Benjamin Hobson, David Bates, Charles Carter, Noel Waddill, Theo Carter.
    Will dated 18 Jul 1781/probated 20 Sep 1781. Parents:
    Theodorick CARTER Jr and Ann WADDELL.

    He was married to Mary CUNNINGHAM(?) about 1756. Children were: Richard CARTER, Theodorick CARTER, Robert CARTER, Ann CARTER, Elizabeth CARTER, Mary CARTER, Judith CARTER, Sally CARTER, James CARTER, Francis CARTER.
    Name: John CARTER Birth: 26 Aug 1737 New Kent, VA
    Christening: 30 Oct 1737 St.Peter Par., Henrico VA
    Death: 1781 in , Halifax, VA

    GILES CARTER OF VIRGINIA, by Gen. Wm. G. H. Carter:
    p 78 - John's CARTER's birth
    p 48 -John of Halifax Co VA bought 183 1/2 acres on Dan River from his father, Theodorick II of Pr. Edw. Co VA. p 48-50 - John's will executed 18 Jun 1781, probated 20 Sep 1781 in Halifax Co., VA
    Executors: wife Mary, Capt. James Turner, William Boyd, and
    John's brothers Richard & Theodrick III
    Heirs: Wife, 5 daus. & 5 sons.
    Witnesses were Benjamin Hobson, David Bates, Noel Waddill,
    Theodrick Carter III, and Charles Carter
    (son of Theodrick III)



    http://services.dar.org/members/dar_research/search_descendants/?action=list&MyPrimary_Seqn=159392&MyLineageCount=1&Control_Min_Seqn=159392

    CARTER, JOHN
    [Full Ancestor Record]
    Ancestor #: A019975
    Service:
    VIRGINIA Rank: SOLDIER
    Birth:
    26 Aug 1737 BRUNSWICK CO VIRGINIA
    Death:
    ANTE 20 Sep 1781 HALIFAX CO VIRGINIA
    Service Source:
    ECKENRODE, LIST OF REV SOLS OF VA, VOL 1, P 87
    Service Description:
    1) HALIFAX CO MILITIA

    http://reynoldspatova.org/getperson.php?personID=I256&tree=reynolds1

    Eliza's great-uncle John Carter (through her mother's line) was the father of Francis Watkins Carter, who built the home which is currently open for tours as Carter House Museum in Franklin, TN. One of her cousins was Confederate Lt. Theodorick "Tod" Carter, who died in a battle with Union troops on the lawn of the home during the Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864. In a sad tale reminiscent of so many of the era, family fought family as Eliza's son John joined the Union in combat with Missouri's Militia Regiment 5, Company B.

    http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=133334249&ref=acom

    294 Halifax Vestry Book 1752-1817 1767 Halifax Aug 24 1767
    Carter John bounds taker Burches Creek Ordered Thomas Spencer,
    William Eckols, Alexander Moore and Joseph Moore do procession the patent land beginning at the cowford on Banister river thence up the river to Sandy Creek thence up Sandy to the bridge thence along Terry's ferry road to Burches Creek thence down the said crek to Dan river thence down the Dan to Boyd ferry thence to the beginning.

    Name:
    Diane Carter Giles [Need Valid Email Address] Y-DNA Kit # 23874 Group I1 - 12
    Sherrel Cavedo [jscave28443 AT yahoo.com] Kit # 277234 Group I1 - 12

    John married Mary Michaux Cunningham Abt 1758, Halifax Co., Virginia Colony. Mary (daughter of Alexander Cunningham, Jr. and Easter Mary Michaux) was born 1740, St. Peters Parish, New Kent Co., Colonial Virginia; died 1781, Halifax Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet]


  2. 9.  Mary Michaux Cunningham was born 1740, St. Peters Parish, New Kent Co., Colonial Virginia (daughter of Alexander Cunningham, Jr. and Easter Mary Michaux); died 1781, Halifax Co., Virginia.

    Notes:

    John Carter was born in St. Peter's Parish, New Kent Co, VA on 26 AUG 1737, and baptized on 30 OCT 1737. This Parish is south of the York and Pamunkey Rivers and was also the home of the Waddill family.

    John Carter's Will was executed 18 JUN 1781, and probated before the court held for Halifax Co., VA on 20 SEP 1781. The witnesses were Benjamin Hobson, David Bates, Noel Waddill, Theodrick Carter (Third) and Charles Carter, a son of Theodrick Carter(Third). The Executors named were his wife, Mary Carter, Captain James Turner, William Boyd and John Carter's brothers Richard and Theodrick (Third).

    John Carter's three eldest children, Richard, Theo, and Robert filed a chancery suit in Halifax county in 1799 [19 years after the death of John] charging the Executors [Mary Carter, their mother] and Richard Carter, dec'd and his executor Susannah Powell (nee Carter) for monies not accounted for when Richard Carter bargained and sold land privately. Mary Carter (nee Cunningham) is still alive and gives testimony referring to Richard Carter's affidavit. Many pages of testimony follow demonstrating not only that money was paid to Richard, but never passed on to the family. The position of David Powell and Susannah is that the children were educated and provided for, out of the estate of their father, John Carter, dec'd. Robert appears to act as attorney and questions many witnesses. The suit is then refiled in Richmond County and continues. Polly Powell (nee Carter), wife of Mastin Powell and d/o Susannah Carter Powell (nee Bigger) testifies to angry words between Robert and Susannah, his aunt. The suit continues whereby Robert questions numerous witnesses as to the quality of his education, and of the ability of the estate of the dec'd John Carter to produce enough to keep the widow and children adequately. [it is obvious to this researcher that Robert is an ambitious, determined and combative individual and probably was of the same personality since his childhood, when he admits he would not be schooled.] He challenges that his education and that of his siblings was less than he considered their due. Both he and Theo, though, can write and sign their names, as does Susannah. [While the content of this matter is tedious reading, it offers more insight into the characters of this family, than previously seen.-mfe]


    Children:
    1. Anne (Nancy) Carter was born Abt 1758, Henrico County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown.
    2. Elizabeth Carter was born 30 Oct 1759, Halifax Co., Virginia Colony; died 15 Jul 1831, Franklin County, Alabama.
    3. Richard 'in Georgia' Carter was born Abt 1765, Halifax County, Virginia; died 10 Aug 1849, Jasper, Randolph County, Georgia.
    4. Patriot Theodorick 'Theo' of Halifax Carter was born Abt 1761, Prince Edward Co., Virginia; died Aft 1814, Halifax Co., Virginia.
    5. Mary "Polly" Amy Carter was born 1764, Cumberland County, Virginia; died 1841.
    6. Sarah 'Sally' Carter was born Abt 1765, Henrico County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown.
    7. Major Robert W. of Halifax 'Bobby' Carter, Esquire was born 22 Dec 1770, Halifax Co., Virginia Colony; died 9 Sep 1839, William Co., Tennessee; was buried , Franklin City Cemetery Franklin, Tennessee.
    8. Judith Carter was born Abt 1771, Henrico County, Virginia; died Yes, date unknown.
    9. Francis Watkins Carter was born 6 Dec 1772, Halifax Co., Virginia Colony; died 19 Mar 1841, Franklin Williamson Co., Tennessee; was buried , Franklin City Cemetery Franklin, Tennessee.
    10. 4. James C. dna Carter was born 23 Dec 1774, Halifax Co., Virginia; died 23 Apr 1845, DeKalb Co., Alabama; was buried , Raney Cemetery, Marshall Co., Alabama.
    11. Philip Carter was born 1778, Halifax County, Virginia; died 16 Jul 1835, Halifax Co., Virginia.

  3. 10.  Captain Joseph Motley was born 1720, Glouchester Co., Colonial Virginia (son of Joseph Motley and Elizabeth Forrest); died 1806, Amelia Co., Virginia.

    Joseph married Martha Ellington. Martha (daughter of David Ellington, Jr. and Martha Ann Tucker) was born 1736, Amelia County, Virginia; died 1780, Amelia Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet]


  4. 11.  Martha Ellington was born 1736, Amelia County, Virginia (daughter of David Ellington, Jr. and Martha Ann Tucker); died 1780, Amelia Co., Virginia.
    Children:
    1. David James Motley was born 1753, Amelia County, Virginia; died 20 Mar 1826, Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
    2. 5. Amy /Anne Motley was born Abt 1775, Amelia County, Virginia; died 12 Jun 1853, Marshall Co., Alabama; was buried , Rainey Cemetery, Marshall County, Alabama.
    3. Obedience 'Biddy' Motley was born 1768, Amelia Court House, Amelia County, Virginia; died 1863, Rockingham Co., North Carolina; was buried , Morehead Family Cemetery, Rockingham, North Carolina.
    4. Daniel Motley was born 1755, Amelia, Virginia Colony; died 1815, Pittsylvania County, Virginia.
    5. Delilah Motley was born Abt 1780, Amelia County, Virginia; died Bef 20 Mar 1837, Halifax Co., Virginia.

  5. 12.  James Boisseau was born 1736, Petersburg, Dinwiddie Co., Virginia (son of Private and Mary Rebecca Holt); died 1785, Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.

    Notes:

    Died:
    Chancery Record 1789 shows wife Mary d/o Joseph Watkins, exec. of James Boisseau's estate.

    James married Anna Fitzpatrick Abt 1758, Colonial Virginia. Anna was born 1740, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania; died 1797, Chesterfield Co., Virginia. [Group Sheet]


  6. 13.  Anna Fitzpatrick was born 1740, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania; died 1797, Chesterfield Co., Virginia.

    Notes:

    Name:
    D/O Peter Fitzpatrick died 1797 Chesterfield Co., VA

    Notes:

    Married:
    Children
    Daniel Fitzpatrick BOISSEAU b: 4 MAR 1760 in Virginia
    James BOISSEAU b: 13 NOV 1761 in Virginia
    John BOISSEAU b: 14 NOV 1764 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia
    Mary Holt BOISSEAU b: 1765 in Virginia
    Lucy BOISSEAU b: 1767 in Virginia
    Benjamin BOISSEAU b: 1769 in Virginia
    Anner BOISSEAU b: 1771 in Virginia
    Peter BOISSEAU b: 1773 in Virginia
    Susanna "Susan" BOISSEAU b: 1777 in Dinwiddie County, Virginia
    Patrick BOISSEAU b: 1778 in Virginia
    David BOISSEAU b: 1780 in Virginia

    Children:
    1. 6. John Boisseau was born 14 Mar 1764, Dinwiddie County, Virginia; died 1848, Simpson Co., Kentucky; was buried , Boisseau Cemetery, Simpson County, Kentucky.
    2. Benjamin Boisseau was born 28 Feb 1753, Dinwiddie Co., Virginia; died 1820, Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.
    3. James W. Boisseau was born Abt 1844, Dinwiddie Co., Virginia; died Feb 1904, Dinwiddie Co., Virginia.

  7. 14.  Waddill CarterWaddill Carter was born Abt 1743, Prince Edward Co., Virginia (son of Theodorick3 dna Carter, Jr. and Anne Waddill); died 1782, Prince Edward Co., Virginia.

    Notes:

    Nancy Waddill Carter (who married Thompson) had a brother, Waddill Carter. I have a copy of Waddill Carter's will from 1782, in which he mentions his "young son John." I am suspecting (but have not proven) that this John may be my long lost John Carter for whom I have spent years searching.

    Here is what I know of my family (taken from a family ledger owned by William below and court records):

    John Carter 25 March 1775 - 17 December 1852 married 21 March 1821 Oney Pollard 3 Sept. 1790 - after 1850
    His children were:
    1. William R. Carter 16 Sept. 1809 - 7 Feb. 1886 married 4 Feb. 1846 Mary Elizabeth Pollard 1 May 1829 - 1878
    2. Beverly Atwood Carter 3 July 1813 - 17 Sept. 1862 at the
    Battle of Sharpsburg (unmarried)
    3. Mary Elizabeth Carter 21 July 1821 - after 1880 married James Davis 16 Jan. 1799 - 8 Sept. 1845

    My John Carter first shows up on Amelia County Census
    Records in 1820. There is a John Carter on the 1810 Census in Prince Edward who is described as being married and with one infant son (which would match my John's description). It is clear to me that John was married to another woman before he married Oney Pollard in Amelia in 1821, since all three of his children were born before then.
    I have been somewhat hung up on the middle name of one of John's sons: Atwood. There are not many Atwoods in Virginia at this time. They seem to either be in Culpepper County (and they all move to present day West Virginia) or in Prince Edward County. Although I have not been able to find intermarriage between the Carters and the Atwoods, I have made this link: James Atwood dies in PEC in 1771. His will is witnessed by James Wade and Charles Wade. James and Charles Wade are the father and brother of Mildred Wade, who married Waddill Carter around 1765 in PEC. The name Atwood is too obscure (unlike say "Franklin") for there not to have been anyone to have known somebody of that name. -Peyton Carter on GenForum

    Waddell Carter was in Rev War. died 1782 P.E.Co Va. His widow married 2nd Robert Anderson 19 April 1790 P.E.Co Va. Waddell's dau Mildred married Anderson Wade 1799 P.E.Co. Va. Anderson Wade b. 1772 Goochland (he married 2nd Eliz Cox 1808 Montgomery Co Va. Anderson Wade was son of John Utley Wade b. 1739 Goochland & Alice Woodrum dau of John Woodrum & Mary in Goochland. Alice Woodrum was sister of Mary Woodrum married Benjamin Weaver (Weaver's live in Fluvanna Co 1782 next to my Richard Chandler & Eliz

    Samuel Carter who was named as one of the trustees was a son of Theodrick (Second) and Anne Carter. Samuel's brother Waddill married Mildred, a daughter of James Wade, who was also named as one of the trustees for widening the river.
    GILES CARTER OF VIRGINIA, by Gen. Wm. G. H. Carter, p 109:
    p 79 -Married in Prince Edward Co., VA, and lived there
    until his death.
    p 47 - Waddill was bequeathed land in his father's 1777 will.
    p 80 -Will executed 6 Apr 1782, probated Jul 1782; Witnesses: Ro. Lawson, John Morton, Tho. Charlton, &
    Abraham Venable;
    Executors: brother Samuel, father-in-law James Wade, friend
    Francis Watkins;
    Heirs: wife Mildred, three under-age sons & two or more
    unnamed daughters.

    CARTER FAMILY GENEALOGY FORUM, Peyton Carter Mildred Wade married Waddill Carter c.1765. They had five children together: 1. James Carter 2. Theodrick Carter 3.
    Elizabeth Carter 4. Mildred Wade Carter, who married Anderson Wade in 1799 (See note from Carol Clemmer) 5. John Carter. Waddill died in 1782 and Mildred remarried in 1790 to Robert Anderson. Apparently, Robert Anderson died in 1802 and Mildred Anderson remarried AGAIN to Joseph Lewis in 1803 (as detailed in Anderson's estate papers).

    From http://www.virginians.com/t.htm?7076 Waddill Carter married Mildred, likely Mildred Wade. Virginia reimbursed Carter for bacon and beef he provided during the Revolution. Milley was head of a household of nine whites in Prince Edward County in 1785. She married second Robert Anderson 19 April (bond) 1790, and third, Charles Joseph Lewis 9 October 1803.
    Known Children -- Lucy, Nancy, Mildred Wade, Mary, Elizabeth, Samuel

    The Boisseaus forefathers, who were Huguenots, came down to Montauban,, Franceto assist carrying on the Protestant University In 1705 a parish in Prine George County, probably Martin Branden Parish, Rev James died before 1915, leaving a widow, Sarah, who died in 1715, and a son Capt James Boisseau Capt James was a vestryman of Bristol Parish, Prine George County, Va in 1722. He resigned the post Nov 22, 1768. Capt James married Mary, believed to be the daughter of Rev Joseph Holt. Their son, James Boisseau od Dinwiddie County born May 22, 1735, married Anner Fitzpatrick, daughter of Peter Fitzpatrick. Anner and James were the parents of John, born March 14, 1764 John stated on his Revolutionary pension application that his birthday was recorded by his father, James in a book, that was sold at his fathers sale The book was bought by James Sweet of Dinwiddie County. John Boisseau married Nancy Carter July 11, 1786. NANCY WAS THE DAUGHTER OF wADDEL cARTER AND mILDRED wADE , daughter of James Wade John Boisseau moved to Kentucky in 1806,in the part of Logan Co,that became Simpson Co in 1819. John and Nancy were the parents of Daniel T Boisseau 1793-1873, born in Prince Edward Co, Va,married Feb 3, 1820, Mildred Wade Haskins 1799-1845. Mildred is buried on the Eldon Hall farm of Franklin Ky Daniel T married Susan E Robey, 1820-1897 brn in Rutherford Co Tenn Both are buried in Big Spring Cumberland Presby Cemetery. Daniel and Susan were the parents of Dora C Boisseau, 1860-1937. Dora married Robert Alexander Evans Jr 1851-1919 of Middleton Ky. Evans was the son of Walter W Evans and Susan Catherine Harris. They are buried in Franklin Cemetery.
    Jean Carter Wilson

    Died:
    Date of Will Probate July Court, 1782

    Waddill married Mildred "Millie" Wade Abt 1760. Mildred (daughter of James Wade, Jr. and Mary 'Polly' Dickerson/Dickenson) was born Abt 1743, Prince Edward Co., Virginia; died 24 Oct 1803, Prince Edward County, Virginia. [Group Sheet]


  8. 15.  Mildred "Millie" Wade was born Abt 1743, Prince Edward Co., Virginia (daughter of James Wade, Jr. and Mary 'Polly' Dickerson/Dickenson); died 24 Oct 1803, Prince Edward County, Virginia.

    Notes:

    Mildred WADE
    Married: ABT 1765
    Children

    James CARTER
    Theodrick CARTER
    John CARTER
    Elizabeth CARTER
    Mildred Wade CARTER b: ABT 1780
    Lucy CARTER
    Nancy CARTER
    Mary CARTER
    Samuel CARTER



    Name:
    Mildred Wade first married Waddill Carter. She married secondly, after his death, Robert Anderson. He died shortly afterwards and she married 3rd, Joseph Lewis. The dispute over the ownership of her 1st husband's Still is because she disregarded the part ownership of the Still of her husband's brother, Samuel Carter. When the judge orders the Still sold, Mildred and her husband Joseph Lewis purchase the Still, and pay Samuel for his part of the Brandy produced for 8-10 + years that it has been under her control. - mfe

    Notes:

    Married:
    John Bigger testified in the Chancery case, that "about the beginning of the War in America with Great Britan that Theodorick Carter Sen. and Waddill Carter bought in partnership a Still of a certain Henry Coldwell; as he this diplomat well remembers to have heard the Sen. Theodorick and Waddill Carter often say; and this deponant further saith that the fivalays understood that the said Still was used in partnership by the said Theodorick and Waddill Carter as their joint property and this informant often saw the said Still at the said Theorodick Carters and since the death of the said Theodorick Carter, he frequently saw the said Still at Samuel Carters, the plaintiff and he this deponent further saith that he always understood from the said Samuel Carter and said Waddill Carter both that it was their joint property and was kept by them alternately."
    [John Bigger also names his son as James Bigger]

    Children:
    1. 7. Nancy Elizabeth Carter was born 1765, Prince Edward County, Virginia; died 11 May 1849, Simpson County, Kentucky; was buried , Boisseau Cemetery, Simpson County,Kentucky.
    2. Mildred Wade 'Millie' Carter was born Abt 1780, Prince Edward Co., Virginia; died Yes, date unknown.
    3. Lucy Carter was born Abt 1768, Prince Edward Co., Virginia; died Yes, date unknown.
    4. Dr. James T. Carter was born 3 May 1769, Prince Edward Co., Virginia; died Bef 1835, Goochland Co., VA.
    5. Theodorick/Theodore Carter was born Est 1775, Prince Edward Co., Virginia; died 1873, Prince Edward County, Virginia.