Christopher Lawson 'Kit' Carter^[1]

1784 - 1860  (76 years)

• Name	Christopher Lawson 'Kit' Carter
  Born	7 Feb1784	Pittsylvania Co., Virginia   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	10 Jul 1860	Lincoln Co., Missouri
  Person ID	I67768	My Reynolds Line | Descendants of Thomas Carter of Barford
  Last Modified	24 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	Captain Thomas 'of Pittsylvania and Cumberland' Carter,   b. 27 Nov 1734, Christ Church Parish, Lancaster, Virginia ,   d. 15 Jul 1817, Green Rock, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Winnifred Hobson,   b. 15 Jul 1745, St. Stephens Parish, Northumberland, Virginia ,   d. 3 Dec 1831, Green Rock, Pittsylvania County, Virginia  (Age 86 years)
  Married	10 Jul 1764	Prob. Cumberland Co., Virginia
  Family ID	F22663	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary 'Polly' Soyars,   b. Est 1790, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	28 Oct 1809	Pittsylvania Co., Virginia
  Last Modified	24 Sep 2018
  Family ID	F7702	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents		Children of Winnifred Hobson and Thomas Carter 67753Children of Winifred Hobson.JPG
  		Map of Missouri c. 1817 MIssouriHerodiasReynolds.jpg

  
  

• Notes

  http://danielsfamilytree.com/focal.php?id=30740&cs=brown&lang=english Christopher Lawson Carter married Mary Rogers Sawyers 2 Jan 1809: Children are: Pleasants Carter d.i.f. (ca. 1810 - ca. 1812) Rebecca Carter (ca. 1812 - ) James Sawyers Carter (ca. 1814 - 1894) Jane Carter (ca. 1816 - ) Christopher Lawson Carter Jr. (1818 - 1888) Judith Carter (1820 - 1910) Mary Carter d.i.f. (ca. 1826 - ca. 1828) George Carter (ca. 1829 - ) Thomas Miller Carter (ca. 1829 - 1910) Raleigh Carter d.s.p. (ca. 1832 - ca. 1901) 8. CHRISTOPHER LAWSON CARTER, born at "Greenrock," Pittsylvania county, Va. Feb. 7, I784 died in Lincoln County, Missouri, Oct 7, I860. January 2, 1809, he was married in Pittsylvania to Mary, daughter of James and Frances Rogers Sawyers. She was born Sept. 27, 1791, and died on the old Carter place in Lincoln county, Dec 2, 1876. The descendants of Christopher L. Carter have from him the statement that his father, Thomas Carter, of "Greenrock? Pittsylvania, was a soldier in the Revolution, and they think that he was the Thomas Carter who enlisted March I0, 1777 for three years as a private in Captain John Dandridge's company, 1st Artillery Regiment, Continental Line, under Colonel Charles Harrison, and was assigned to service in the State of Virginia. They also have the tradition that Christopher Lawson Carter and two of his brothers saw service in the War of 1812. I find from the Muster Rolls of the War of 1812, published in 1852, that Captain Edward Carter's troop of cavalry was attached to a regiment of United States Cavalry under Colonel P. Holcombe in the service of the United States from the 3rd to the 12th of Sep., 1814, and included the following Carters: Captain Edward Carter, Sergeant Rawley W. Carter, Sergeant Christopher L. Carter and private Jesse Carter. They were probably all four the sons of Thomas Carter of "Greenrock"--two undoubtedly were. Christopher L. and Mary Sawyers Carter had issue eleven children: 80. Frances Carter, married Barton Hubbard, and has descendants in Missouri. 81. Pleasants Carter, died young. 82. Rebecca Carter, married Pines Shelton, and has descendants in Missouri. 83. James Sawyers Carter, born in 1814, married Mary J. Duncan, and had one son, Christopher W. Carter, who saw service in the Confederate army. He married Nannie Ross Dyer and moved to Texas in 1874. They had four children, Martha Pleasants, married a Mr. McLeod; Emner L.; Henry L, and Errol. All live at Seymour, Texas. 84. Jane Carter, married James Shelton, and had several sons in the Confederate army. She has descendants living near Waco, Texas. 85. Christopher Lawson Carter, Jr., born Nov. 4, 18I8, was but twelve years old when his father removed to Missouri. In 1848 he vent to the gold fields of California, returning to Missouri in the fall of 1850 by way of the Isthmus of Panama. In 1854 he removed his family to Waco, Texas, and a year later to Pale Pinto county, Texas, where he lived until his death in July, 1888. During the war he was in the service of the State of Texas, but always on the frontier against the Indians. He was a large cattleman, and with Simpson, Slaughter and others formed the Texas Cattle Raisers' Association, which has become the most complete association of its kind in the country. He was married in Lincoln county, Mo., on July 7, I842, to Anne Smith Ross, born Oct. 18, 1825, in Lincoln county, died at the Carter homestead in Pale Pinto county, Texas, Nov. 17, I835. They had issue eleven children: a. Ross Carter, born May 7, I843, died Sept. 23, 1846. b. Pleasant Carter, born Nov. 11, I845, died Sept. 13, 1846. c. Shapley Prince Carter, born Aug. 2, 1847, died of wounds from Comanche Indian battle May 18,1869. d. Ella Carter; born Oct 19, I851, died May 3, I86I. e. Lawrence Sullivan Carter, born Nov. 4, 1853, was educated at Washington & Lee University, Virginia. He is farmer and stockman at Canyon City, Texas. In 1878 he was married to Louise M. Dillalunty, and has four children, L. S. Jr., Elizabeth, Lewis Randolph and Helen. f. Elizabeth Carter, born Dec. 14, 1855, died Feb. 16, 186I. g. Peter Ross Carter, born Dec. 10, 1860, died May 11, 1861. h. Christopher L. Carter, Jr., born March 25, 1863, lives in Hardamon County, Texas. He married, (1), Lucy Clarke and had issue: Lottie and Isaac Lawson; (2)...... i. Mary A. Carter, born March 4, 1864, married Aug. 25, 1887, Isham R. Darnell and lives at Benkelman, Nebraska. They have issue Mary A., died in infancy, Katharine C., Shapley Boyle and Ruth Elizabeth Darnell. j. Thomas Miller Carter, born Jan. 22, I867, married in 1897 Ola Kuykendall and has one daughter, Nannie Carter. They live on the old Carter place in Pale Pinto county. k. Katharine Ross Carter, born July 26, I870, married Wm. M. McGregor, of Wichita Falls Texas, on July 25, 1890, and has issue: William Carter McGregor and Lillian May McGregor. Mr. McGregor has been the cashier of the First National Bank of Wichita Falls for the past twenty years. 86. Judith Carter, born I820, married Washington Wright and died in 1910, leaving descendants in Missouri. 87. George Carter, served four years in the Confederate army. He married in Missouri. Henry had descendants in Missouri and California. 88. Mary Carter, died young. 89. Colonel Thomas Miller Carter, born in Virginia just before his father removed to Missouri in I830. He served in the war with Mexico, and in I861 raised a company and entered the Confederate army under Colonel F. M. Cockrell, wounded at Elkhorn, Vicksburg, Corinth and Franklin. When Colonel Cockrell was promoted to a brigade, Captain Carter commanded the regiment until he was wounded at Franklin. He married Alabama Henry, sister of his brother George's wife, and had four children. Colonel T. M. Carter died in 1910. a. Ida Carter, married John E. Richards and has several children. Lives near Troy, Mo. b. Austin Carter, unmarried. Lives in St Louis. c. Georgia Carter, married a Mr. Scholl and lives at Colorado City, Cola. d. Joseph Carter, married and lives in St Louis. 90. Raleigh Carter, never married, and died about ten years ago in the Confederate Home at Columbia, Mo. The data of this branch of the family was furnished by Mr. Isham R. Darnell of Benkelman, Nebraska.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston. Greenrock, noted in this memoir is Green Rock Branch, a spring fed waterway in the Callands area of Pittsylvania County, Virginia. - Mary Frances Eggleston [S3] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=grantpinnix&id=I058669. William and Mary College Quarterly HOBSON AND LAWSON EXCURSUS. Adcock Hobson is supposed to have been a grandson of Thomas Hobson, who was clerk of Northumberland for the long period of fifty-two years--1664 to 1716. July 30, 1741, Adcock Hobson married in Richmond County, Joana, eldest daughter of John and Mary Lawson, born March 17, 1721, and had issue: John, born Oct. 31, 1742; Winifred, born July 15, 1745; Thomas, born Jan. 11, 1746; William, b. Sept. 7, 1748; Caleb, born July 15, 1751--all born in Northumberland; and Lawson, Lucy, Edward and Elizabeth, born in Richmond and Cumberland counties. Joana Lawson Hobson's mother, Mary Lawson, died July 16, 1740, and her father's will was prob. in Richmond County, Feb. 2, 1761. They had issue: Christopher Lawson, whose will, prob. in Sept., 1772, names wife Sarah, and children John, Betty Digges, Epaphroditus, Joana, Katy and Lucy; Elizabeth, born Feb. 17, 1719, wife of a Mr. Barber in 1758; Joana, wife of Adcock Hobson, and Catharine, wife of Isaac White, twins, born March 17, 1721; Lucy, born March 3, 1732, married George Booker after 1758. The parentage of John Lawson of Richmond County, but the names of his children and grandchildren show positively that he was a member of the Lawson family of Lancaster County, which is descended from Rowland Lawson, the elder of three brothers--Rowland, Richard, and Epaphroditus--who came to Virginia prior to 1637, when Epaphroditus Lawson had a grant of 1,400 acres of land for their transportation. Between 1649-1656 they had large grants of land in Lancaster and Gloucester counties. Richard settled in Gloucester, and died prior to 1662. He was probably the ancestor of the Middlesex Lawsons. Epaphroditus and Rowland settled in Lancaster; the former died in Lancaster in 1652, and seems to have left but one child, a daughter, who married Robert Davis. Rowland Lawson was a justice of the Lancaster court, 1652-1656. His will, probated May 8, 1661, names wife Letitia (named in the head rights in 1637) and children: Rowland, Jr., a justice of Lancaster, 1684, died in 1706, leaving sons Rowland 3rd. (died 1717), Henry and John; Elizabeth; Henry; and John, who died prior to 1703, leaving sons John, Jr., and Epaphroditus, and daughter Elizabeth. Rowland Lawson II.'s will in 1706 bears a seal showing a chevron between three martlets. Burke gives the arms of the Lawsons of Brough Hall, Yorkshire, and of Cramington, Northumberland, as--Arg. a chevron, between three martlets sable. See Mr. W. G. Stanard's interesting notes of the Lawsons in Virginia Historical Magazine, Vol. IV. After their marriage Thomas and Winifred Hobson Carter lived in Cumberland county until 1783, when he purchased 467 acres of land in Pittsylvania known as "Green Rock." Here he built a log house, and in 1787 a frame house, which was considered very fine at that time, part of which is yet standing. In 1797-1798 and 1802 Thomas Carter, Sr., had grants for 1,193 acres of land in Pittsylvania. In the census of 1782 there were ten white members of his family and seven servants.