Husband Captain Thomas Carter Sr.
Born: 1630-1631 - England 62
Christened:
Died: 22 Oct 1700 - Isle Of Wight Co, VA 62
Buried:
Marriage: 4 May 1670 - Lancaster County, VA 62
Events
• Military: Captain, Virginia Militia.
• Emigration: Bef 1652, England To America.
Wife Catharine Dale
Born: 1652 62
Christened:
Died: 10 May 1703 62
Buried:
Children
1 M Edward Carter
Born: 9 Apr 1671 62
Christened:
Died: 1743 62
Buried:
Spouse: Elizabeth Thornton
Marr: 3 Jun 1697 62
2 M Thomas Carter Jr.
Born: 4 Jun 1672 - Lancaster County, Virginia 62
Christened:
Died: 30 Sep 1733 - Lancaster County, Virginia 62
Buried: - Barford Plantation Cemetery, Merry Point, Lancaster County, Virginia
Spouse: Arabella Williamson
Marr: 22 Aug 1695 62
Events
• Residence: Between 1672 and 1733, Spottsylvania County, Virginia.
3 M John Carter
Born: 8 May 1674 62
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Frances Ball
Marr: 21 Nov 1698 62
Spouse: Margaret Todd
Marr: 4 Jun 1714 62
4 M Henry Skipwith Carter
Born: Between 1675 and 1677
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
5 F Diana Carter
Born: 30 Apr 1678 62
Christened:
Died: 2 May 1680 62
Buried:
6 M William Carter
Born: 2 Nov 1679
Christened:
Died: 11 Nov 1680
Buried:
7 M Nich Carter
Born: 2 Nov 1679
Christened:
Died: 12 Nov 1680
Buried:
8 F Elizabeth Carter
Born: 11 Feb 1680
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: William George 62
Marr: 15 Jun 1698 62
9 M Daniel Carter
Born: 22 Oct 1682 62
Christened:
Died: 30 Oct 1682 62
Buried:
10 M James Carter
Born: 25 Dec 1684 62
Christened:
Died: 24 Oct 1743 62
Buried:
Spouse: Hannah Beale
Marr: 3 Oct 1715
Spouse: Mary Brent
Marr: 12 Aug 1724 62
11 F Katharine Carter
Born: 4 Apr 1686 62
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: John Lawson
Marr: 16 Jun 1703 62
12 M Peter Carter
Born: 23 May 1688 62
Christened:
Died: 1721 62
Buried:
Spouse: Catharine Rogers
Marr: 23 Sep 1712 62
Spouse: Margaret 62
13 M Joseph Carter
Born: 28 Nov 1690 62
Christened:
Died: - Spottsylvania County, Virginia
Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Captain Thomas Carter Sr.
Of the ancestry of Capt. Thomas Carter, of "Barford," Christ Church Parish, Lancaster County, Virginia, we know nothing certain. The tradition preserved by a branch of the family in Lancaster and recorded in 1858 says that he was the son of a London merchant of good family.
The circumstantial evidence of the crest on his seal, the naming of his home "Barford," and the striking similarity of the baptismal names of his children and their descendants with those of Bedfordshire, makes it appear strongly probable that he was more or less closely connected with the ancient Carter family of "Kimpson' Bedfordshire. I am of the opinion that he was a son of one of the sons of William Carter, Gent, of Kimpson,
Bedfordshire (buried Dec. i, 1605), and his wife, Mary Ancell (Buried March 1, 1619), daughter of Thomas Ancell, Esq., of Barford, in Co. Bedford. They had issue seven sons and ten daughters as follows : Thomas, eldest son and heir, born Sept. 19, 1575 ; Nicholas, William, Anne, Winifred, Mary, Oliver, Amye, Elizabeth, Temperance, Anne, Ursula, Ansyll, Robert, Katharine, Alice, and John, the youngest, born Nov. 5, 1599. The names Henry, Edward and Daniel appear among the children of those sons of William and Mary Ancell Carter, of whom we have record.
Capt. Thomas Carter of Virginia may possibly have been the youngest son of Ancell Carter, born Oct. 28, 1591, son of Wm. and Mary Carter of Kimpson, who settled in London. At the visitation of the Heralds from the College of Arms in 1634, Ansyll (Ancell) Carter of London, Grocer, had six sons living as follows : George, eldest son, John, Ansyle, William, James, and Thomas, youngest son, who could not have been over three or four years old in 1634. Capt. Thomas Carter of Virginia was born in 1630-31.
No original paper of Capt. Thomas Carter bearing his own seal has been found (he sealed his will with the Dale crest), but his grandson, Joseph Carter of Spotsylvania, in 1739 used a seal bearing the initials "T. C." surmounted by a crest showing a demi-talbot out of a mural crown. This is one of the crests of the Kimpson Carters and of Ancell Carter of London.
Though the parentage of Capt. Thomas Carter is not known, as is likewise the case of Col. John Carter of "Corotoman" and a number of other prominent emigrants to Virginia, there is plenty of evidence to show that he came of a good family, whose claim to gentility was unquestioned. He lived in an age when a man's pretensions to social consideration must bear thorough investigation before being allowed; and Capt. Thomas Carter's seem to have stood the test.
Mr. Richard Alexander Bruce in his Social History of the Seventeenth Century in Virginia says : "There was the clearest recognition of class distinctions in every department of Virginia life during the seventeenth century, a fact brought out in numerous ways by the silent testimony of different legal documents which have survived to the present day. The colonial custom, following the immemorial English, was in such documents to fix by terms, whose legal meaning was understood, the social position of the principal persons mentioned therein. In conversation the term "Mister"' was no doubt applied to both gentlemen and yeomen ; the term seems in fact to have been reserved in those early times in all forms of written and printed matter for those whose claim to be gentlemen in the broad social sense was admitted by all."
Mr. Bruce says further that in Virginia this use was observed most constantly in the county tax lists, where only gentlemen received any designation at all ; and that was always either "Mr." or a military title if such was possessed. The Lancaster records abundantly substantiate such a claim for Thomas Carter, as from his first appearance in the tax list of 1653 as "Mr. Tho : Carter" until his death in 1700 he does not appear without the distinguishing "Mr." or "Capt." Thomas Sr came to Virginia in 1635 as an indentured servant for five years. He served as a silversmiths apprentice during this period. Following the end of his indenture he went to the Caribbean in 1641. Later he returned to VA and became a wealthy man.
The first written account we have of Thomas Carter, Gent., the emigrant, is in a MSS. account of the family in 1858 by John Carter of "The Nest," Lancaster County, who derived most of his traditions from a maiden aunt - Miss Fanny Carter, born in 1738, died in 1830, who seems to have known a great deal about the family. But in every generation the spinsters of a family, having no husband or children to occupy their time, have been the repositors of its genealogical lore. The account of Thomas Carter is as follows :
"Our ancestors came to Virginia about two hundred years ago & settled in Lancaster County. The first one of the Carters was my grandfather's grandfather Thomas Carter son of a London merchant of good family.
"I have heard said there was two brothers of them the other being a John Carter who settled south of the river in Essex but further I can't say. And I have heard said we are kin to old Robert Carter who is buried at old Christ Church in this County but have never found out how. He was very rich - some say the richest man in Virginia.
"Our old Ancestor Thomas Carter was about 21 years old when he come to Lancaster and he was a man of substance and position as a planter and tobacco trader. He was married twice. First to an English woman whose name I've never heard, they had 2 or 3 children who all died young. She died and he married a Miss Dale of good connections and had seven sons and two daughters named Thomas, Edward, James, John, Henry,
Peter, & Joseph and the girls was Betty and Katy.
"Betty married a Mr. George and has descendants in this county. Katy aunt Fanny said was a great beauty and married a Mr. Tabb and I guess was the great grandmother of the Gloucester Tabbs who are a rich and prominent family." Note. - The old Carter Prayer Book says that Katharine Carter married John Lawson on the 16th of June 1703.
The remainder of this MSS. will be given under the different branches of the family to which it refers. It is written in a little leather bound "Diary" for the year 1858 and is now owned by Miss Mary Carter, an aged lady, at present living in Lincoln County, Ky. It was sent to her uncle Thomas Carter, in 1858, by his uncle John Carter of Lancaster County. The first page is as follows: "The Carter Family Tree, for Thomas Carter Esq., Lexington, Ky. Written out by John Carter of The Nest Lancaster County Virginia from notes from the old papers at the Court House and the recollections of his aunt Miss Frances Carter who was born in the year 1738 and died in the year 1830."
As shown by the above note and the Lancaster records, Capt. Thomas Carter was besides being a planter, a merchant and tobacco trader and probably was the son of a merchant. This is true of the majority of the seventeenth century Virginians who made any stir in the social or political affairs of the colony. While most of them were more or less closely connected with the minor gentry at home in England, and an occasional "cousin to a lord," in the main the emigrants were either members of the various craft guilds or professions or sons of members.
Of the social status of these ancient tradesmen we know that in the seventeenth century the military, clerical, legal and medical professions and the mechanical and merchantile arts held relations to the social life of England vastly different from what they now have. These professions and occupations at that time were filled by the younger sons of both the nobility and landed gentry, who, owing to the law of primogeniture fixing the parental estate upon the eldest son, were thus dispersed to seek their fortune and honor elsewhere, without in any way affecting their lineal traits or mental and social investments. So a great deal of the very best blood in England entered the twelve great craft or livery companies as indentured apprentices to learn some trade or craft and later to be freemen of the same. Long lists of titled persons who actually served their apprenticeship have appeared. It is said that "from these companies sprang many of the noblest houses and grandest characters of English history."
Upon their arrival in Virginia many of these seventeenth century emigrants set up stores along the great rivers; commanded their own trading vessels, or went into business as master craftsmen, such as saddlers, carpenters, etc. Among the early merchants were the ancestors of many of the families that for three centuries have been pre-eminent in Virginia, such as the Lees, Byrds, Randolphs, Nelsons, Carters of Corotoman, Lightfoots, and others. Upon acquiring land, which most of them did soon after landing, the English law gave them the right to resume the distinguishing title of "gentleman" and the coat of arms, which came to them from their landed ancestors in England.
Mrs. Sally Nelson Robins, a descendant of some of Virginia's most prominent families, writes : "We Virginians should never be scornful of trade, for the best of our forefathers (and indeed the most of the early ones) coined money in their houses of general merchandise. * * * They did not come to the New World for the pleasure of the thing - ah, no it was for a better living than England afforded them, and when they got here they had to hustle, as the pioneers who suffered and toiled in Alaska hustled twenty years ago. The Virginia colonist didn't have the snow and ice in abundance, but he had chills and fever - much worse - and other ills not accounted for. To make his living he set up a store, or contracted for the erection of buildings, and in consequence was called "carpenter," and this affix to his honorable name shocks his twentieth century descendants, who think of Virginians as dashing cavaliers, never as tradesmen. The little store helped to move the great plantation and evolved the lordly planter, the most picturesque personage (after the Indian) in America."
Like Colonels Edward and John Carter, Captain Thomas Carter seems to have lived at first after he came to Virginia in Nansemond County and to have continued his store in that county after he had removed to Lancaster. He appears first in the tax list of Lancaster County in 1653 when "Mr. Tho: Carter" paid tithes on himself and four servants. From this time on until his death he appears with a varying number of servants - in 1663 he paid for twenty, and in 1699, the year before he died, for nine.
He purchased his first plantation of about eight hundred acres on the "Eastermost branch of Corotoman River" from Col. John Carter, and June 1, 1654, acknowledged the debt in court - 12,852 pounds of tobacco to be paid the following October "at ye dwelling house of the said Mr Tho: Carter," and 130 sterling on Sept. 18, 1655. "Mr. Thomas Carter," Planter," "Merchant," and "Gent." acquired land as follows :
Jan. 14, 1656, from George Marsh, 560 acres; 1658 from Edmund Lunsford a plantation, acreage not given; Dec. 8, 1674 from his father-in-law Edward Dale, "Gent." 500 acres ; May 27, 1657 a patent for 150 acres; Sept. 20, 1661, patent for 220 acres; and in the next thirty years patents for small parcel a gg re g atin g 47° acres. He seems to have kept practically all of this during his lifetime. The old court records show that he
appeared frequently as the attorney for non-residents of Lancaster both in other parts of Virginia and England, thus showing that he had a wide acquaintance.
"Oct ye 21 st 1663 According to order the Oath of a Commissioner (justice) was this day Administered to Capt. Thomas Carter after which he sat in the Court," and continued on the bench until Nov. 8, 1665. March 8, 1670 the following order of court was recorded : "At ye request of Mr. Edward Dale, Mr. Tho. Carter is dep'td Clerke for the said Dale for conformation of whom in ye Clerke's place it is ordered by this Court Y at a been sent to ye Ho bl Thomas Ludwell Esq 1- Secretary for his approbation." The first order shows that he was a captain in the Lancaster militia. It is also believed that he was a burgess in 1667 and probably subsequently. The Randolph papers show that a "Captain Carter" was a burgess in that year and a member of one of the committees. This was during the "Long Assembly", which convened March 23, 1661, and lasted until Mar. 7, 1676 without a general election. At this time there seems to have been no other Carters, of any prominence, in Virginia outside of those in Lancaster County, and Giles Carter of Henrico County, who is said to have never held any military or political position. In Lancaster County the tax list for 1667 shows the names of "Col. John Carter, Sr." ; Col. Edward Carter", "Capt. Thomas Carter," and "Mr. John Carter, Jun." April 11, 1666 Col. John Carter, Sr. as presiding justice administered the oath of a justice to his son "Mr. Jo: Carter", whose name appears in the list of justices with the title of "Mr." until 1670, when he appeared as "Capt." John Carter. For a number of years prior to 1661 Lancaster county had two and sometimes three representatives in the House of Burgesses, but the incomplete lists of the "Long Assembly" give her but one, though it is presumed that she had as many burgesses during that period as before and after.
Were the old vestry book of Christ Church in existence it would most probably show the name of Capt. Thomas Carter among the vestrymen and church wardens. The old vestry book beginning in 1739 for the combined parishes of Christ Church and St. Mary's White Chapel, gives the names of the two sons of Capt. Thomas Carter surviving at that time, and two of his grandsons among the vestrymen and church wardens ; and a grandson and a great grandson were clerks of the vestry for a number of years.
From Mrs. John Scarlett Smith of San Francisco, whose stepmother was a Carter, I have obtained the old Carter Prayer Book, printed in 1662, which contains many valuable records of this family.
The early marriage and birth records in this old book are all in the same handwriting, but as it is a seventeenth century hand, they were probably written in by Capt. Thomas himself in his old days, or else copied from some other record by one of his sons.
His Marriage and Children.
"With this Book (p r R v?) Mr John Shepperd on Wednsday ye 4th Day of May 1670 - was Mar'd Mr Thomas Carter of Barford in ye County of Lancaster in Virg'a & Katharine Dale ye eldest Daughter of Mr Edw. Dale ye same County." Capt. Thomas and Katharine Dale Carter had issue ten sons and three daughters, three of whom died in infancy.
"Edward ye eldest Sonne of Tho. & Kath'n Carter was born on ye 9th Ap'll 1671 of a Sunday at 8 aClock in ye Morn 8 and was bap 12 on Sunday the 30* Mr John Carter, Mr Edw'n Conaway & Mr Edw. Dale Gdfath rs & Mrs Diana Dale & M sz Lettys Corby n G'dMoth rs ."
"Thomas Carter son of Thomas was Born on the 4th day of June 1672 betw'n 3 & 4 aclock in ye Morn 8 and was Baptz d att ye new Church Aug 1 5th. Capt n John Lee, Mr Th: Hayne, ye Lady Ann Skipworth & Eliz h Dale godpar* 9 ."
"John 3 d Son was born ye 8th May 1674 and bap d Sunday y* 24 11 and had for God parents Col. Jno Carter, Mr Jno Stretchley and Mrs Ball."
"Henry Skipwith, 4th sonn Tho. & Kath. Carter born d of a Wednesday the 7 th June & was baptzd att Home by R ey Mr Dogette on Sun day after Service ye 18th Cap" W m Ball, Cap n David Fox and Mrs Sarah Fleete standing.
"Diana ye Eldest Daugh r Th: & Kath n Carter was born on the last Day of Ap n 1678 near 5 in the Affnoone and Christn d on Sunday 12 of May by M r Doggett when was Entertain 11 a large Company. M rs Diana Dale, M rs Mary Willys & Cap" Ball God parents. She Depart* 1 this Life of a Putrid Soar Throate at ye age of 2 yeares and 3 days."
"Wm & Nich twin sonnes of Tho : Carter born 2 d Nov r 1679 and dyed on the nth & 12th July 1680 of a Cholrey.
"Elizabeth 2 d Dauter was Born 11 day of Feb y 1680 about Sunrise & weigh d n lbs. Baptz d at S l Marys Sunday 15 May M rs Margaret Ball, M rs Elizabeth Rogers & Captain Ball standing for her.
"Daniel son of Thomas & Katharine Carter born 22 d Oct'br 1682 and died on the 30 11 of a Fit."
"James 8th sonn was Borne on Christ mas Day 1684 it being Thursday at 2 in the morn 8 & was Chris nd at Home on Sundy. Mr Jno Edwards, M r Tho. Wilkes & M rs Edwards standing as God parts ."
"Katharine 3 d Dau. was born at 6 aclock Easter Morning 4 h Ap 1 1686 Bap d on Whit-Sund y Mr David Fox M rs Hannah Fox & M rs Sarah Perrotte Gdp ts ."
"Peter 9th Son was Born near Midnight 23 d May 1688 & Baptzd on 3 d June M r Edwin Conaway, M r Tho. Dudly & M ri Ann Chowning standing."
"Joseph Youngest son born Friday 28 Nov r 1690 & Christ and at home on 10th Dec r M r Rob 1 Carter & Mr Joseph Ball Godfath rs & M rs Judith Carter Godmother."
Capt. Thomas Carter, Sr. died Oct. 22, 1700 "aged about 70 years."
Mrs. Catharine Dale Carter died May 10, 1703 in the 51st year of her life.
Capt. Carter's will, dated Aug. 16, 1700 was probated Nov. 14, 1700 by his second son Thomas Carter, Jr. He divided his estate as follows: Wife Catharine to have the home plantation for the rest of her life, a negro man named Dick, the great table, and one-third of the remainder of his personal property. Sons Edward, Thomas, Henry (then in England) and John to each have a hundred acres of land; son James to have the land devised to Henry if the latter did not return from England. Daughters Elizabeth and Katharine, and sons Peter and Joseph had been provided for by their grandfather Dale. Son-in-law William George to account for 1,560 pounds of tobacco that he had advanced him on the Dale estate due to his wife from her grandfather. Son Thomas to have the home plantation after the death of his mother. The rest of his real and personal estates to be divided equally between all children.
Capt. Carter sealed his will with a seal showing the crest of his father-in-law, Edward Dale, which doubtless was more convenient at the time of signing the paper than his own seal. The original papers in Virginia show numerous examples of men using some other family seal than their own, though they are known to have possessed one with their own crest on it.
The personal estate amounted to £236. and included a "parcel of old Bookes", a silver drinking pot, tankard, and twelve silver spoons, beside the usual household and plantation furnishings of a man of his class.
I obtained from a Mr. Dorit, a Lancaster photographer, a photograph and description of a delapidated old frame house standing not far from Corotoman River, and said to have been the old Carter home. It is a long wooden building, a story and a half high, and dormer windows front and back. There are four rooms and a small hall on each floor. A small chimney in the center and a great inside chimney at each end with enormous fireplaces upstairs and down. On either side of these end chimneys were large alcoves or closets with windows in them. The main rooms were about sixteen by twenty-four feet.
Imagination easily pictures Thomas Carter with his family and neighbors in the long winter evenings gathered about the huge log fires piled high in these wide throated chimneys at "Barford." And while the boys and girls played the old-time English games, roasting chestnuts, telling apple seeds, or dancing the old English dances, their elders around a great bowl of steaming punch (as was the custom), sang the old songs and told tales of the old days "at home" - their hearts and minds filled with happy recollections, as they watched the tree in its last glorious hour
giving back its memories in amethyst and sapphire haze, and gold and crimson flame. Memories, like those of the men and women about it, of blue skies and lost rainbows of Junes far past ; of threatening clouds and scurrying snowflakes of gray days untinged with gold. The sweet perfume of flowers, soft, clear call of birds, and drifting mounds of fallen leaves - friendly ghosts of days long gone conjured back in swift changing shadows along the walls and floor.
THE DESCENDANTS OF Capt. Thomas Carter OF "Barford" Lancaster County, Virginia
BY JOSEPH LYON MILLER, M. D.
Reference:
THE DESCENDANTS OF Capt. Thomas Carter OF "Barford" Lancaster County, Virginia JOSEPH LYON MILLER, M. D.
74174333 genealogy of the descendants of Jacob Carter of South Carolina.
Husband Thomas Carter IV
Born: 27 Nov 1734 - Barford, Lancaster County, VA 62
Christened:
Died: 15 Jul 1817 - Greenrock, Pittsylvania, VA 62
Buried:
Father: Thomas Carter III
Mother: Joana Miller
Marriage: 10 Jul 1764 62
Wife Winifred Hobson
Born: 15 Jul 1745 - Northumberland County, VA
Christened:
Died: 3 Dec 1831 - Pittsylvania, VA
Buried:
Father: Adcock Hobson
Mother: Joanna Lawson
Children
General Notes: Husband - Thomas Carter IV
Thomas* Carter (Thomas, 3 Thomas, 2 Thomas 1 ), born in Lancaster county, November 27, 1734, died at his home, "Green Rock," Pittsylvania county, July 15, 1817. July 10, 1764, he was married to Winifred Hobson in Cumberland county, Va. She was the eldest daughter of Adcock and Joana Lawson Hobson, was born July 15, 1745, and died December 3, 1831. Adock Hobson * was a descendant of Thomas Hobson, clerk of Northumberland county from 1664 to 1716. Joana Hobson was the daughter of John Lawson 2 of Richmond. Thomas Carter, removed to Pittsylvania after 1764
After their marriage, Thomas and Winifred Carter settled in Cumberland county, where in 1782 there were ten white
members of the family and seven servants. July 31, 1783, he purchased 467 acres of land not far from his brother, Jesse
Carter, in Pittsylvania, and removed his family to that county.
On this place, known locally as "Green Rock," he built in 1787 a fine house for those days, a part of which is yet stand-
ing. (See illustration.) Here the old folks spent the remainder of their days. In 1797, 1798 and 1802 Thomas Carter
had grants for 1,193 acres more land in Pittsylvania.
I have been given great assistance in collecting data of the descendants of Jesse and Thomas Carter by a great-great-
granddaughter of Thomas \emdash Mrs. N. E. Clements, Chatham, Va. She tells an interesting story of her great-great-grand-mother as follows: "Winifred Hobson Carter became converted to Methodism while living in Cumberland, and when they moved to Pittsylvania there were no Methodist churches up there. As she knew Bishop Asbury, she wrote to him to come to her house in his journeyings North and South. At his coming she notified the people in the surrounding country, and quite a number of them gathered at her home to hear the Bishop preach. In order to be able to address the whole crowd, he called for something to stand on, and the most convenient thing at the moment was one of Thomas's liquor cases. They are stoutly built, covered with leather and lined with velvet, and are now owned by Mr. Scott Carter, of Chatham, Va. Well the Bishop preached on the case, and Thomas afterward teased his wife so much about it that before another visit from the Bishop she had a small pulpit built, which afterward always stood in her parlor." Later Thomas Carter gave a tract of land called the "Bold Spring" place for the erection of the first Methodist church in Pittsylvania. Thomas Carter made his will September 16, 1803, probated August 18,
1817. He left a good estate to his wife and children; among the personal property were books, two sets of large silver
spoons, six sets of small silver spoons, and a large set of pink rose china. Their family Bible, now owned by Mr. Hill Carter Linthicum, Durham, N. C, records the following children:
195. Joana, born Aug. 15, 1766, died July, 1809.
196. Elizabeth, born June 21, 1768, married her first cousin, Thomas C. Carter.
197. Jesse, born November 30, 1770.
198. Sarah, born February 17, 1773, died December 25, 1805.
199. Edward, born March 8, 1775, died September 18, 1843.
200. Thomas, born March 8, 1777, died October, 1852.
201. Jeduthan, born March 22, 1779.
202. Lawson Hobson, born June 13, 1781.
203. Christopher Lawson, born February 7, 1784.
204. Dale Miller, born March 17, 1786, died September 8, 1796.
205. Rawley Williamson, born February 8, 1788, died October 18, 1847.
William and Mary Quarterly 237
William and Mary Quarterly 239
Husband Walter Borriegard Corbett
Born: 12 Sep 1888 - Echols County, Georgia
Christened:
Died: 11 Feb 1955 - Lowndes County, Georgia
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Marriage:
Wife Vera Frances Carter
Born: 12 Jan 1900 - Echols County, Georgia
Christened:
Died: 25 Dec 1977 - Lake Park, Lowndes, Georgia
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Father: Staten T. Carter
Mother: Eula Lightsey 28
Children
General Notes: Husband - Walter Borriegard Corbett
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61134870/walter_borriegard-corbett: accessed November 23, 2025), memorial page for Walter Borriegard Corbett (12 Sep 1888\endash 11 Feb 1955), Find a Grave Memorial ID 61134870, citing Carter Cemetery, Statenville, Echols County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Beth Stafford (contributor 48834131).
General Notes: Wife - Vera Frances Carter
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61135070/vera_frances-corbett: accessed November 23, 2025), memorial page for Vera Frances Carter Corbett (12 Jan 1900\endash 25 Dec 1977), Find a Grave Memorial ID 61135070, citing Carter Cemetery, Statenville, Echols County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Beth Stafford (contributor 48834131).
Husband Wiley Carter
Born: 30 Jul 1836 - Lowndes County, Georgia 135
Christened:
Died: 28 Jul 1862 - Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia, USA 135
Buried: - Statenville Cemetery, Statenville, Echols County, Georgia
Father: James Carter
Mother: Mary Bennett
Marriage: 1854 135
Wife Martha A. Fender
Born: 20 Sep 1834 - Barnwell District, South Carolina 135
Christened:
Died: 25 Apr 1899 - Echols County, Georgia 135
Buried: - Statenville Cemetery, Statenville, Echols County, Georgia
Other Spouse: William W. Carter - 1865
Children
1 F Ann E. Carter
Born: Sep 1855 - Lowndes County, Georgia
Christened:
Died: 1928 - Lowndes County, Georgia
Buried: - Shiloh Community Church Cemetery, Hahira, Lowndes County, Georgia
2 M George Pleasant Carter
Born: 11 Mar 1858 - Georgia
Christened:
Died: 12 Aug 1890
Buried: - Statenville Cemetery, Statenville, Echols County, Georgia
3 F Florida A. Carter
Born: Mar 1859 - Echols County, Georgia
Christened:
Died: 31 Mar 1931 - Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia
Buried: - Statenville Cemetery, Statenville, Echols County, Georgia
4 M Francis Bartow Carter
AKA: Bart
Born: 4 Aug 1861 - Lowndes County, Georgia
Christened:
Died: 1 Mar 1929 - Echols County, Georgia
Buried: - Carter Cemetery, Echols County, Georgia, USA
Spouse: Nancy Lee Carter
Marr: 1890
General Notes: Husband - Wiley Carter
CARTER, WILEY. Daughter of William F Fender & Annie Copeland CARTER, WILLIAM CARTER, WILLIAM, JR. William 3 Carter (Edward, 2 Thomas 1 ), died in 1757 leaving three children to the guardianship of Thomas Carter. They were: 58. William, Jr. 59. George. 60. Elizabeth. CARTER, WILLIAM CARTER, WILLIAM A. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44334084/william_w-carter: accessed December 13, 2025), memorial page for William W Carter (1846\endash 30 Dec 1885), Find a Grave Memorial ID 44334084, citing Good Hope Cemetery, Naylor, Lowndes County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Gerrys_1grl (contributor 47460709).
Daughter of William F Fender & Annie Copeland
1836-1862
ECHOLS
Wiley Carter was born in Lowndes (now Echols) County, July 30,1836, a son of Judge James Carter (Vol ). He was married in 1854 to Martha A. Fender, born 1837 in Barnwell District, S.C., daughter of William F. Fender of Lowndes County. They had four children:
1. Ann E.
2. George P.
3. Florida A.
4. Bartow
Wiley Carter served as a Justice of Echols Inferior Court from 1860 until his death July 28, 1862. His wife died about 1910. They were buried in the Statenville town cemetery. Mr. Carter was a member of Alapaha Lodge, No. 209,F,&A.M., receiving his degrees in 1858; he served as Junior Deacon in the lodge from 1859 until his death.
1860 Census Echols County, GA
12 CARTER, Wiley M 23 GA Farmer and Overseer RENT/810
Martha A. F 23 SC Wife
Ann E. F 5 GA
George P. M 3 GA
Florida A. F 1 GA
General Notes: Wife - Martha A. Fender
Mrs. Wiley (AKA Martha) Carter, who states birth as Sept 1838, has a CSA pension on line under Echols county in the GA archives virtual vault. She says her husband, Wiley, enlisted in Company D of the 50th GA Regiment. He died in Savannah, GA on 27 Aug. 1862.
Title: Carter, Wiley Mrs
Prefix Mrs
Last Name Carter
First Name Wiley
County ECHOLS:Record Type Document
Cite as Confederate Pension Applications, Georgia Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, Georgia Archives Digital Collection;
Confederate Pension Apps.; Record ID:USAMILCONFEDGA_178695-00400
Date created 2009-08-27
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24817370/martha_a-carter: accessed December 13, 2025), memorial page for Martha A Fender Carter (20 Sep 1834\endash 25 Apr 1899), Find a Grave Memorial ID 24817370, citing Statenville Cemetery, Statenville, Echols County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Beth Stafford (contributor 48834131).
Husband William Carter
Born: 1795
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Father: George Carter 108
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Wife Margaret Durrence
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1 M William Carter Jr
Born: 1812 - Tattnall Co., GA 28
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Died: Jul 1864 - Atlanta, Georgia 28
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Spouse: Mary Roberson
Marr: 1836 - Appling County, GA 2,28
General Notes: Husband - William Carter
1795-1855
William Carter, the first sheriff of Appling County, was born in South Carolina, Colleton District, in 1795, a son of George Carter and a brother of Capt. Jesse Carter (see Vol. 1). He came with his father to Tattnall County about 1810, thence to Appling County in 1819, where he lived until his death about 1855.
William Carter's wife's maiden name cannot be learned. They were married evidently in Tattnall County but no record appears there of the marriage. To him and his wife were born:
1. David
2. William
3. George
4. Jane
5. Sarah
6. Nancy
7. Margaret
Mr. Carter was Sheriff of Appling County in 1820-1822, and then served 1823 as Representative in the legislature from his county. He was a private in the Indian War in 1838 in Capt. N. J. Holton's company of Appling County militia.
His home was near Stephen O'Quin's farm in Appling County.
Census References: 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, Appling.
Husband William Carter Jr
Born: 1812 - Tattnall Co., GA 28
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Died: Jul 1864 - Atlanta, Georgia 28
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Father: William Carter
Mother: Margaret Durrence
Marriage: 1836 - Appling County, GA 2,28
Wife Mary Roberson
Born: 1823 - Wayne County, GA 28
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1 M Isham Carter
Born: 30 Nov 1837 - Ware County, GA 2
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Spouse: Mary Ann Miller 2
Marr: 3 Jun 1858 2
General Notes: Husband - William Carter Jr
1812-1864
APPLING
William Carter was born in Tattnall county in 1812, son of William and Margaret Carter (Vol. II). He was married in Appling county about 1835 to Mary ("Molsy") Roberson (or Robeson), born 1823 in Wayne county, daughter of John Robeson (Vol. III). They had nine children, viz:
1. Isham
2. Elizabeth
3. John J.
4. Civility
5. William, M,
6. Sarah
7. Francis Marion
8. Margaret
9. Mary
Soon after marriage William Carter moved to Ware county, living there several years; he is shown in 1840 census living in the 719th district (which territory is now in Echols county). He next moved to near Waresboro, where he served as Justice of Peace, 451st district, 1841-44. He was a private in Capt. David J. Miller's company of Ware county militia, 1838-42, in the Indian War.
About 1845, Mr. Carter and family moved back to Appling county where he lived until his death, He served In the militia the last year of the civil war, and was killed in the battles around Atlanta in July, 1864. His widow survived about twenty-five years and died and was buried in what is now an old abandoned cemetery in an old field on the left of the post-road south of Ten-mile Baptist Church. She and Mr. Carter were members of Ten-mile Church,
Husband William Carter
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Father: Edward Carter Sr
Mother: Elizabeth Heale
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1 M George Carter
Born: 1841
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Spouse: Ann Howell
General Notes: Husband - William Carter
The appraisement of the" personal estate amounted to £106.13. Jan. 21, 1773 the estate was divided between George and Elizabeth.
Husband William Carter
Born: 1801 - South Carolina 1
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Died: 1852 - Lowndes Co., GA 1
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Father: Jesse Carter
Mother: Mary Touchton
Marriage: 1823 1
Wife Nannie Monk
Born: 1801 - Bulloch County, Georgia 1
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Father: William Monk 50
Mother: Jerushia Parrish
Children
1 M Jesse W. Carter 24
Born: 1824 - Georgia
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Spouse: Penelope Staten
2 F Minerva Carter
Born: 1825 - Lowndes Co., GA 23
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Died: 1848 - Lowndes Co., GA 23
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Spouse: William Robinson
3 M William A. Carter
Born: 6 Jan 1828 135
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Died: 6 Dec 1900 135
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Spouse: Elizabeth Staten
4 F Sarah Carter
Born: 1836
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5 M George Carter
Born: 1841
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Spouse: Ann Howell
General Notes: Husband - William Carter
1901-1852
LOWNDES
William Carter was born in South Carolina in 1801, son of Jesse Carter (Vol. I). He came in his boyhood with his parents first to Tattnall county, thence to Appling County, thence to Lowndes County. He was married in 1823 to Nannie Monk, born 1801 in Bulloch County, daughter of William Monk, R.S., (Vol.I). To them were born the following children (list probably incomplete) :
1. Jesse W.
2. Minerva
3 William A.
4: Sarah
5. George
Mr. Carter was Justice of Peace in the 661st district, Lowndes County, 1827-1829. He was captain of the militia in the same district, 1827-1829 and 1832-1835. He served as Major, 138th Battalion, Georgia Militia, 1834-1836. He was a private in his father's company of Lowndes County militia in the Indian War, in 1838.
Mr. Carter died in 1852, and his son, Wm. A. Carter, applied for administration of the estate, April 13, 1852. His home-place was on lot of land 373, 11th district Lowndes County. He and his wife were buried in Union Church Cemetery.
Husband William A. Carter
Born: 6 Jan 1828 135
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Died: 6 Dec 1900 135
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Father: William Carter
Mother: Nannie Monk
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Wife Elizabeth Staten
Born: 12 Feb 1840 - Lowndes Co., GA 135
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Died: 16 Dec 1894 135
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Father: Barzilla Staten
Mother: Catherine Watson
Children
General Notes: Husband - William A. Carter
1828-1900
LOWNDES
William A. Carter was born Jan. 6, 1828, son of William Carter (Vol.V). He married Elizabeth Staten, daughter of Barzilla Staten (Vol.1). She was born in Lowndes County, Feb. 12, 1840. They had five children:
1. Jesse B.
2. James N.
3. Varina B.
4. William B.
5. Elizabeth C.
Mr. Carter lived in the Naylor district of Lowndes County near present Good Hope Baptist Church. He served as a Justice of Lowndes Inferior Court, 1861-65, and was Representative from his county in 1877. He died Dec. 6, 1900. His wife died Dec. 16, 1894. They were buried at Union Primitive Baptist Church, the old burial-ground of his parents and grandparents. Mr. Carter was a member of the Masonic fraternity for many years and was active in the three subordinate lodges he was a member of. He received his degrees in 1854, entering in as a charter member that year of St. John the Baptist Lodge, No. 184, at Troupville (now the lodge in Valdosta). Three years later he dernitted and became a charter member of Alapaha Lodge No. 209, at Statenville, which was more convenient for him to attend. He was the first Senior Deacon in that lodge. In October, 1857, he dernitted and became a charter member of Butler Lodge, No. 211, at Milltown (now Lakeland), which was only four or five miles from his home. He served as Junior Steward of that lodge, 1878, 1881, and as Senior Steward, 1882, 1883, and was a member at the dissolution of the lodge in 1883.
Mr. Carter was one of the administrators of the estate of his wife's father, and later of the estate of his own father. He was considered in his day as one of the leaders in his county.
Husband William W. Carter
Born: 1846 - Lowndes County, Georgia
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Died: 30 Dec 1885
Buried: - Good Hope Cemetery, Naylor, Lowndes County, Georgia
Father: James Carter
Mother: Mary Bennett
Marriage: 1865
Wife Martha A. Fender
Born: 20 Sep 1834 - Barnwell District, South Carolina 135
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Died: 25 Apr 1899 - Echols County, Georgia 135
Buried: - Statenville Cemetery, Statenville, Echols County, Georgia
Other Spouse: Wiley Carter - 1854 135
Children
1 M Orrin Oscar Carter
Born: 20 Jul 1867 - Statenville, Echols County, Georgia
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Died: 28 Jan 1942 - Titusville, Brevard County, Florida
Buried: - Edgewater New Smyrna Cemetery, Edgewater, Volusia County, Florida, USA
2 M James Jasper Carter
Born: 20 Aug 1868 - Statenville, Echols County, Georgia
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Died: 27 Jun 1910 - McAlpin, Suwannee County, Florida
Buried: - Mount Beulah Baptist Church Cemetery, Wellborn, Suwannee County, Florida
3 F Elizabeth Malinda Carter
Born: 9 May 1874 - Echols County, Georgia
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Died: 5 Jun 1957 - Zephyrhills, Pasco County, Florida
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4 F Texas O. Carter
Born: 19 Aug 1881 - Statenville, Echols County, Georgia
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Died: 7 Feb 1914 - Lake Park, Lowndes County, Georgia
Buried: - Lake Park Cemetery, Lake Park, Lowndes, Georgia
General Notes: Husband - William W. Carter
General Notes: Wife - Martha A. Fender
Mrs. Wiley (AKA Martha) Carter, who states birth as Sept 1838, has a CSA pension on line under Echols county in the GA archives virtual vault. She says her husband, Wiley, enlisted in Company D of the 50th GA Regiment. He died in Savannah, GA on 27 Aug. 1862.
Title: Carter, Wiley Mrs
Prefix Mrs
Last Name Carter
First Name Wiley
County ECHOLS:Record Type Document
Cite as Confederate Pension Applications, Georgia Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, Georgia Archives Digital Collection;
Confederate Pension Apps.; Record ID:USAMILCONFEDGA_178695-00400
Date created 2009-08-27
Information provided by Findagrave Member #46985035
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24817370/martha_a-carter: accessed December 13, 2025), memorial page for Martha A Fender Carter (20 Sep 1834\endash 25 Apr 1899), Find a Grave Memorial ID 24817370, citing Statenville Cemetery, Statenville, Echols County, Georgia, USA; Maintained by Beth Stafford (contributor 48834131).