Robert Carter^[1]

1695 - 1759  (63 years)

• Name	Robert Carter
  Born	10 Nov 1695	Charles Parish, York County, Colonial Virginia   [2]
  Christened	Y  [3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	28 May 1759	Cumberland Co., Virginia
  	Date of Will Probate
  Person ID	I14105	My Reynolds Line | Thomas Carter of Goochland
  Last Modified	9 Apr 2018

  
  

  Father	Thomas of Goochland Carter, Sr.,   b. Abt 1668, Lancaster Co., Virginia Colony ,   d. 1738, Goochland Co., Virginia Colony  (Age ~ 70 years)
  Mother	Susanna Merry,   b. Est 1675,   d. b 1726, Goochland Co., Virginia  (Age ~ 51 years)
  Family ID	F6821	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Susannah Baynes,   b. Est 1685, Goochland County, Virginia Colony ,   d. 11 Feb 1726, Goochland County, Virginia Colony  (Age ~ 41 years)
  Children	+ 1. John of Cartersville Carter,   b. 1725, Cumberland, Virginia ,   d. 1773, Buckingham County, Virginia  (Age 48 years) + 2. Thomas 'of Mecklenburg' Carter,   b. Est 1720, Cumberland County, Virginia ,   d. 1796, Mecklenburg Co., Virginia  (Age ~ 76 years)   3. Robert the Elder Carter,   b. 1715, Cumberland County, Virginia ,   d. 1786, Mecklenburg Co., Virginia  (Age 71 years) + 4. Charles 'of Goochland' Carter,   b. 19 Apr 1752, Cumberland County, Virginia ,   d. 1 Feb 1777, Goochland Co., Virginia  (Age 24 years)
  Last Modified	21 Sep 2018
  Family ID	F518495096	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

  Carter Family in Virginia & Georgia by Larry C. Knowles Carter Family in Virginia & Georgia by Larry C. Knowles.pdf

  
  

  Histories		History of Thomas Carter of Goochland 14103Thomas Carter c 1680.pdf
  		Memoir of Thomas Carter by Unknown Author ThosCarterDocs.pdf

  
  

• Sources

  [S100] Internet Source. Cartersville, Cumberland County, Virginia: [Dan Wallace] Dan Wallace: "The LWT of Thomas Carter dated 2 Nov 1726 does name a Robert Carter as his eldest son and a Thomas Carter as his second son." [per above, written in 1726 but proven in 1738 ... really strange combination of delays in both wills] "I have come to believe that this Carter family, originally out of Goochland Co., and repleat throughout Cumberland, is my family after all. It matches up with family stories that we came out of Goochland very nicely. If this family originally came to Goochland from Middlesex County and had major ties to Christ Church (as I have seen in some files) then it is easy to see why the "King" Carter rumor was so prevelant in my family". 4. Carter GenForum of Dan Wallace on 28 May 2006 - Proves the real Robert Carter of Cartersville: "Before we do let's address the "who founded Catersville question". As I reported in another recent post the 327 acres of land on which Carter's Ferry and later Cartersville was established was patented in 1725 [VPB 12/301] to Robert Carter of Henrico County and remained in Carter possession until after Robert Carter's death in 1759 when it was sold by his heirs to John Woodson. In Hening's Statutes at Large [5/249] CHAP. XVIII LAWS OF VIRGINIA, SEPTEMBER 1744-18th GEORGE II we find: "BE it enacted, by the Lieutenant Governor, Council, and Burgesses, of this present General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That public ferries be constantly kept, at the places herein after named: and that the rates for passing the said ferries, be as follows, to wit, . . . From the land of Ashford Hughes, on the north side of James river, near the mouth of Willis's creek, in the said county, across the said river, to the land of Robert Carter; and from the said Robert Carter's, to the said Ashford Hughes's, the price for a man, three pence, and for a horse, three pence. . ." "We can thus be fairly certain that Carter's Ferry was in fact so named because of this Robert Carter and not the " King". I may have discovered the origin of the Cartersville "King" myth in a footnote added on page 162 of "The Diaries of George Washington. Vol. VI. January 1790-December 1799" by Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979. It reads "Carter's ferry became the site of Cartersville in Oct. 1790, when the Virginia General Assembly authorized trustees to lay out the town on 27 acres of land that John Woodson (d. 1793) owned at the south landing. Established in 1744, the ferry was originally designated to run between "the land of Ashford Hughes, on the north side of James river," and "the land of Robert Carter" (apparently the deceased Robert "King" Carter) on the opposite shore, but by 1763 the land on both banks, including the ferry, belonged to the Hughes family, the family into which John Woodson married (HENING, 5:250, 6:16, 13:155, 171; WMQ, 1st ser., 11 [1902--3], 52--53)." 5. Carters of Cartersville, Cumberland, VA - absolute and final Proof for Robert Supporting Evidence that Cartersville was named for the Carter family of Cumberland Co VA: SOURCE: Abstracts of the Cumberland Co VA COB from Jun 1749 to May 1756, Shela S Fretwell, 1987, p79 Aug 26, 1751, p305: On the petition of ROBT CARTER leave is given him to open a road from his Ferry to Middle Rd near Triggs and the hands that used to work on Mr. Davis's Chappell Rd do open the Rd as far as Scott's Chappell Rd & ROBT CARTER is appointed Surveyor of the sd Rd. SOURCE: Abstracts of the Cumberland Co VA COB from Jun 1749 to May 1756, Shela S Fretwell, 1987, p138 Mar 26, 1754, p156: ROBT CARTER is appointed Surveyor of Carter's Ferry Rd in the room of Joseph Epperson who is discharged. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Email from D. B. Wallace on 30 May 2006: There are a few more fact relating to Thomas of Goochland Carter that seem important. They should be posted to the forum at some point. Some of the following repeats what I may have already sent but it allows for the references I make to other paragraphs. 1. In 1720 Thomas Carter purchased [Henrico COB 719-1724/242] 100a in Henrico County, Virginia on the north side of the James River at the east end of the Licking hole survey of John Woodson. Another 200a was deeded at the same time to Robert Carter , Charles Huddlesey and John Webb. These transactions are recorded in Henrico County COB 1719-1724 by the Feb Court of 1722. All of the participants in these transactions must have been born prior to 1700. 2. On 17 Aug 1725 at the cost of 35 shillings, a patent [VPB 12/301] was issued for 327a to Robert Carter in Henrico County on the south side of the James River adjacent to Robert Hughes including 1 mile of river front that encompasses the present day town of Cartersville. The Carter tract joined the Hughes track at a corner ash on the river that was described in the Hughes patent as being near Huddlecey's fence. Although this Robert Carter was involved in several other land transactions, he remained on this parcel until his death in 1759 when this parcel of land was devised to his son Charles. 3. On 2 Nov 1726 Thomas Carter signed a will that recited: To eldest son Robert , 1 yearling cow To 2nd son Thomas , 1 yearling cow To son John , 1 shilling To son Edward, 1 shilling To daughter ElIzabeth Carter, 1 shlillng To son Joseph, all land I live on, 100 acres, but if he dies without Issue, then to my son Edward. Personal estate to wife Penele, and she to be executrix. The will was signed with a full signature and was witnessed by: Thomas Edwards, William Pledge, Dorothy (0) Pledge. 4. On 18 Nov 1729 Robert Carter of St James Parish, Goochland Co, deeded [DB 1/144] to Susannah Hulsey, widow, of same Parish, for ?30 , 100 acres of land on north side of James River between land of Henry Atkinson and John Webb, with all houses, etc, being land where Charles Hulsey did formerly dwell. Mary wife of Carter relinquished her dower right [OB 1/177]. The deed was signed with a mark (R) and witnessed by: John Webb and Joseph Ashlin. In a deed recorded on the same day Susannah conveyed this land together with another 100a to son Charles Hulsey. She signed this deed with a mark. 5. On 28 Sep 1730 Thomas Carter, Junior received a patent [VPB 14/144] for 200a on Fleming Park Creek on Leonard Ballow's line. Thomas Carter, Jr. would have been born prior to 1710. 6. On 3 Dec 1733 at the cost of 20 shillings a patent [VPB 15/133] was issued to Thomas Carter for 400a in Goochland Co. lying on Deep Run of Muddy Creek on the south side of the river adjacent to John Bullington. 7. On 8 Oct 1734 Thomas Carter deeded [DB 2/20] to John Carter for ?16, 200a in Goochland County on Deep Run. {Weisiger has it the other way around in his abstracts as does some of the body of the recorded deed but it is clearly recorded as being signed by Thomas}. The deed is signed by Thomas Carter with a full signature and there is no dower release. 8. On 4 Jun 1735 Thomas Carter and his wife Susannah deeded [DB 2/109] to John Creasy for ?10.10.00, the lower 200a of the Deep Run tract. The deed was signed by Thomas with a full signature and by Susannah with a mark and was witnessed by Charles Raley, William Matlock and John Sand {Weisiger couldn't decide whether it was Sane or Lane but I believe it was Sand}. 9. On 4 Jun 1735 Thomas Carter deeded [DB 2/90] to his son Edward Carter that land in Goochland County where Thomas Carter lived. The deed identifies the land as that bought from Tarlton Woodson as executor of John Woodson, being part of the Licking hole survey but does not give an acreage. Later, see (13.) below, in Edward Carter's will, two parts of the land are described. One part between the river and Beaverdam Creek and one part north of the creek. These two pieces comprise the 100 acres of the deed in (1.) above. The deed was signed with a full signature and witnessed by Charles Raley, William Matlock and John Sand. 10. On 8 Sep 1736 at the cost of 40 shillings a patent [VPB 17/165] was issued to Thomas Carter for 400a in Goochland County, lying on both sides of Turkey Cock Creek south of the James River. Nothing in the patent tells us which Thomas Carter was the recepient.{We will see later that this was in fact Thomas Carter, Junior as in (5.) above. The patent does not use Junior thus ether Thomas Carter was dead by this date and his will was not recorded for two years , or, the patent was just wrong. There are no transactions involving this land until 1757 when Thomas Carter deeded 100a of the tract to John McGuire, husband of his daughter Rebecca (21.) The terms of the patent were such that the land must be seated within 3 years of the date of the patent or risk the forfeiture of the patent by the grantor. The question is who moved there to seat the property?} 11. On 20 Mar 1739/40 Robert Carter deeded [DB 3/195] to Stephen Hughes for ?60, 100a in Goochland Co., on the north side of the James River, bounded as follows: beginning on the river at the upper corner of the land of Thomas Carter, deceased thence up the river fifty poles thence north, north east one mile to the bark line thence on the bark line 50 poles (east omitted) thence to the place begun at the course being south, south west . The deed was signed with a mark (R) and Mary relinquished her dower right. An accompanying memorandum states that John Webb had Robert Carter's bond for the land mentioned in the deed and having lost the bond does by those present discharge and acquit the said Robert Carter from the said bond provided that the said Carter do acknowledge the deed to Stephen Hughes and his heirs. Mary his wife relinquished her dower right. 12. On 15 Mar 1744/5 at the cost of 40 shillings a patent [VPB 23/842] was issued to Robert Carter for 400a in Goochland Co. on the north side of the Willis River. This tract was bounded by Philip Mayo, Benjamin Harrison and James Skelton and was later conveyed to sons Robert, Jr. and Thomas, see (20.) below. 13. On 28 Dec 1748 Edward Carter signed a will with his mark and it was recorded [DB 5/534] on 18 Apr 1749 in Goochland County witnessed by: John Payne, John Hampton, and William Grymes. The will recited: To my daughter Judith Carter, part of land where I now live between the river and Beaverdam Creek. If my wife is with child, then to that child, the other part of land I live on northeast side of of Beaverdam Creek. If not, then all to my daughter Judith. If my child or children die without issue, then all to my brother Stephan Carter. All rest to my wife Mary for life and then to my children. Executor: my brother John Carter. When his estate inventory (?24..8..6) was recorded [DB 6/14] on 15 Aug 1749 it identified him as Edward Carter, Senior. This last entry 13. allows us to accurately locate the Thomas of Goochland Carter 100 acre plantation. An examination of a map of Goochland County shows a very short stretch of land where Beaverdam Creek is parallel to and less than a mile from the river and thus provides for a description such as is found in this will. Although these land transactions raise many questions I thought you should have the benefit of this data in developing the arguments for the Thomas of Goochland pages on your website. [S72] GenForum, http://genforum.genealogy.com/carter/messages/22371.html. Posted by: Holly Hampton (ID *****8234) Date: May 16, 2013 at 14:39:57 In Reply to: Re: Thomas of Goochland - some dates by Dan Wallace of 22545 Robert Carter b. 10 Nov 1695 d. 1759 Hope Carter b.17 Jun 1699 d. 14 Oct 1699 Thomas Carter, Jr. b. 1700-1704 d. 1763 John Carter b. 1705-1709 d. 1772 Edward Carter b. 1709-1714 d. 1749 Elizabeth Carter b. 1715-? d. ? Joseph Carter b. 1716-? d. ? Stephen Carter b. 1726-1730 d. 1807 They all seem reasonable to me. If anything, I would slide the four middle children a little later. I don't have anything to base that on other than I think Edward's children were born in the mid- to late-1740's. I have a marriage date of 10 Apr 1770 for Judith Carter and David Webster. [S40] Will. Page 183: Will of ROBERT CARTER, dated 15 September 1753, Pro. May 28, 1759. Beloved wife; sons, Thomas Carter and John Carter, 400 a. on North side of Willis Creek; my son, Charles Carter, 329 a. land where I now live; grandson, Giles Carter, 160 a. where his father now lives after his father's decease; son, Thomas Carter, a negro boy; son, John Carter, a negro Betty; son, Charles, 12 negroes; my daughter, Susannah Carter, negro, Hannah; my grandson, Giles Carter, negro Jack after his father's decease: son, Robert Carter, 1 sh.; my daughter, Mary, feather bed and furniture; my son, Thomas, John, and Charles and my daughter, Susannah, the 2 negroes lent to my wife to be divided amongst them after my wife's decease. Ex.: sons, Thomas and Charles Carter. Wit.: John Alexander, John Rowland, John Palmore, Dan'l. Matthews.