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| Born |
1695 |
Lancaster Co., Virginia Colony  |
| Died |
1750 |
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Abingdon Episcopal Church Cemetery, White Marsh, Cloucester County, Virginia Colony |
| Spouse |
Mann Page | F8084 |
| Married |
26 Jul 1718 |
Lancaster County, Virginia Colony |
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| Sources |
- [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://secure.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19474872.
Robert 'KING' Carter
Birth: 1663
Death: Aug. 4, 1732Burial:
Christ Church Cemetery, Weems, Lancaster Co., VA
Parents:
John Carter (1613 - 1669)
Sarah Ludlow Carter (1635 - 1668)
Spouses:
Judith Armistead Carter (1665 - 1699)
Elizabeth Landon Carter (1683 - 1719)
Children:
Judith Carter*
Sarah Carter*
Elizabeth Carter Burwell Nicholas (1688 - 1734)*
John Carter (1690 - 1742)*
Judith Carter Page (1695 - 1750)*
Robert Carter (1704 - 1732)*
Anne Carter Harrison (1704 - 1745)
Betty Carter (1705 - ____)
Ludlow Carter (1708 - 1708)
Landon Carter (1710 - 1778)
Mary Carter Braxton (1712 - 1736)
Lucy Carter Harrison (1715 - 1763)
"The epitaph on his tomb in Christ Church, records his virtues and achievements.
Translated from the Latin, it says:
Here lies Robert Carter an honorable man who by noble endowments and pure morals gave luster to his gentle birth. Rector of William and Mary College, he sustained that institution and its
most trying times. And he was Speaker of the House of Burgesses and Treasurer under the most serene princes, William, Ann, George I. and George II. Elected by the House of Burgesses its Speaker six years and Governor of the Colony for more than a year he upheld equally the regal dignity and the public freedom. Possessed of ample wealth, blameless acquired, he built and endowed this sacred edifice, a signal monument of his piety towards God. He furnished it richly. Entertaining his friends kindly, he was neither a prodigal nor a parsimonious host. His first wife was Judith, daughter of John Armistead, Esq. His second, Betty, a descendant of the noble house of Landon. By these wives he had many children and whose education he expended large sums of money. At length, full of honors and of years, when he had well performed all the duties of an exemplary life he departed from this world on the 4th of August, 1732, in the 69th year of his age. The unhappy lament their lost comforter, the widows their lost protector, and the orphans their lost father."
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