The Carter Family of Virginia

Carter Family #1

1. John Carter, Col., b. 1613, Edmonton, Middlesex, England, d. 10 Jan 1669, Corotoman, Lancaster Co., VA, m. (4) ca. 1650, in Lancaster Co., VA, Sarah Ludlow b. ca. 1629, d. 1668, Corotoman, Lancaster Co., VA, (daughter of Gabriel and Phillis (?) Ludlow). John was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses 1642-49, 1653-58; member of the Council of Virginia, 1658-59; commanded against Rappahannock Indians, 1654; Colonel of Lancaster County in 1656. . (Horace Edwin Hayden, Virginia Genealogies, [Wilkes-Barre, PA, 1891], .225). Clifford Dowdey, The Virginia Dynasties, [Boston: Little, Brown, n.d.], p.18). (One ref. states he was b. Garston, Hertford, England). Virginia Lineages, Letters & Memories, by Alice Nelson, 1984;p.194) Anne: Her father was of Ratcliffe Highway, St. Dunstans, Stepney, England. Sarah: The Colonial Genealogist, vol.8, no.2 [Apr 1976],pp.65-66: by Dom W. Wilfrid Bayne, O.S.B., of Portsmouth Priory, RI). (A History of the Carter Family, Copyright 1972 by Amer. Gen. Research Inst., Wash., DC). John first settled in Upper Norfolk, now Nansemond County, and later Lancaster Co., VA. Both himself and his eldest son, John appear on the vestry book as members of the vestry in the year 1666, the father having been acting in that capacity before – how long not known. The father, who died in 1669, had previously built by contract, the first church standing on the spot where Christ Church now is, and the vestry received it at the hands of his son John, in six months after the father’s death. John Carter, Sr., was buried with his 5 wives, near the chancel, in the church which he built, and the tombstone covers all of them, being still in the same position in the present church. [Old Churches, Families, II, 110, et seq.]. The epitaph from his stone, which lies on the right hand of the chancel, reads: Here lyeth buried ye body of John Carter, Esq., who died ye 10th of June, Anno Domini 1669; and also Jane, ye daughter of Mr. Morgan Glyn, and George her son, and Elenor Carter, and Ann, ye daughter of Mr. Cleave Carter, and Sarah, ye daughter of Mr. Gabriel Ludlow, and Sarah her daughter, which were all his wives successively, and died before him.

2. Robert “King” Carter b. ca. 1662, Corotoman, Lancaster Co., VA, d. 14 Aug 1732, Corotoman, Lancaster Co., VA, m (2) 1701, Elizabeth Landon b. 17 May 1683, Credenhill, Herefordshire, England, d. 3 Jul 1719, Corotoman, Lancaster Co., VA, (daughter of Thomas and Mary (de Laval) Landon, Esq.). Robert was known as “King” Carter due to his immense wealth. He had a remarkable reputation as a Colonial Official and an agent for Lord Fairfax, V. At the age of 28, Robert entered the Assembly as a Burgess from Lancaster County, serving five consecutive years. In 1726 he served as acting governor of Virginia after the death of Governor Drysdale. He served two terms as agent for the Fairfax proprietary of the Northern Neck of Virginia, the first being, 1702-1711, and the second term, 1722-32. During his first term, he began to acquire large tracts of land for himself in the Rappahannock region of Virginia. After acquiring some 20,000 acres for himself, he was succeeded by Edmund Jennings. When he became representative of Fairfax’s interests again in 1722, he succeeded in securing for his children and grandchildren some 110,000 acres in the Northern Neck. He also had additional acquisitions beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. Robert’s gifted and productive life centered around the original Christ Church, a smaller wooden structure. His parents were buried within the chancel of the church. A historic marker outside of the Church reads: “Christ Church was built in 1732, on the site of an older Church by Robert (“King”) Carter, who reserved one quarter of it for seating his tenants and servants. It is one of the very few colonial churches in America that have never been altered, a typical early eighteenth-century structure. Robert Carter is buried here. “(see tombstone inscription and pictures). At his death in 1732, his obituary in Gentleman’s Magazine described his estate to be “about 300,000 acres of land, about 1000 Negroes, 10,000 pounds in money.” The tombstones of Robert and his two wives, were placed at the east end of the old Christ Church. When Edmund J. Lee, MD wrote Lee of VA in 1894, he described the tombstones thusly:

“They were very large, handsome, and elaborately carved. All are now destroyed, and the ground around is strewn with their fragments. Bishop Meade saw that of the husband, and wrote in his report of that church in 1838: ‘Among the latter [tombs], at the east end of the house, within a neat inclosure, recently put up, are to be seen the tombs of Robert Carter, the builder of the house, and of his two wives. These are probably the largest and richest and heaviest tombstones in our land.’ Bishop Meade adds: ‘Tradition has it that the congregation, which doubtless consisted chiefly of his dependents, did not enter the church on Sunday until the arrival of his coach, when all followed him and his family into it.’ He rebuilt and enlarged the church; the walls are very thick, at least three feet, and are yet sound. It has the old-style, square, high back pews, two of which, those nearest the chancel, are at least fifteen feet square.”

The tombstones have been replaced by the church since that was written in 1894, and the inscription on his tombstone (taken from the original), :

“Here lies buried Robert Carter, Esq., an honourable man, who by noble endowments and pure morals gave lustre to his gentle birth. Rector of William and Mary, he sustained that institution in its most trying times. He was Speaker of the House of Burgesses, and Treasurer under the most serene Princes William, Anne George I and II. Elected by the House 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, blamelessly acquired, he built and endowed, at his own expense, this sacred edifice - a signal monument of his piety toward 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 family of Landons. By these wives he had many children, on whose education he expended large sums of money. At length, full of honours and of years, when he had performed all the duties of an exemplary life, he departed from this world on the 4th day of August, in the 69th year of his age. The unhappy lament their lost comforter, the widows their lost protector, and the orphans their lost father.”

3. Robert Carter, II b. 1705, Corotoman, Lancaster Co., VA, d. 12 May 1732, Nomini, Westmoreland Co., VA, m. 1725, Priscilla Bladen Churchill b. 21 Dec 1705, Nomini, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 1763, Warner Hall, Gloucester Co., VA, (daughter of William and Elizabeth (Armistead) Churchill, Esq.).

4. Robert “Councillor” Carter, III, Col., b. ca. Feb 1727, Nomini, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. Mar 1804, Baltimore, MD, m. 2 Apr 1754, Frances Ann Tasker b. Apr 1738, Baltimore, MD, d. 31 Oct 1787, Nomini, Westmoreland Co., VA, (daughter of Benjamin and Ann (Bladen) Tasker, Sr.). “Prospering as banker, ship owner, manufacturer, and merchant, as well as land-rich planter, for years he owned on of the finest houses in Williamsburg. He served of the Virginia Council and was a close friend of Lieutenant-Governor Francis Fauquier, perhaps Virginia’s most cultivated royal ruler. At Nomini Hall (Nah-min-EYE), his 1,063-acre Westmoreland County manor, Carter enjoyed additional honors as colonel of the militia, vestryman, and justice of the peace. To his compatriots he was Councillor Robert Carter of Nomini Hall, Colonel Robert Carter, the Honorable Robert Carter, Esq.” “...As a loner, a private autocrat, he took remarkable action that brought him more opprobrium than honor. In 1791 he freed his more than 500 slaves. Thereafter, in wry allusion to the unfolding French Revolution- and possibly his grandfather- he styled himself ‘Citizen Robert Carter.’ “ “In freeing his slaves, Citizen Carter was motivated by pocketbook as well as heart. Like many Virginia planters in those years before the cotton gin, he regarded slavery as an economic burden. But the heavier burden was moral. For years he grappled with the ethical implications of allowing one human being to own another. His struggle with the issue was marked by cataclysmic spiritual experiences, including, he believed a visit by Jesus Christ in the flesh. In 1778, he scandalized his friends and neighbors by turning from the slave-accommodating Church of England – the established church – to the Baptist Church, then small, persecuted sect opposed to slavery. A decade later he joined the even smaller, more outspoken anti-slavery New Church of Jerusalem. The New Church, he said, embodied ‘the True Christian Religion.’ “ “Not every slave Carter intended to release actually went free. On son, John Tasker Carter, vowed to ‘overturn and frustrate’ his father’s humane intentions. He sold slaves his father had manumitted, in some instances cruelly after their release dates. Another son, George, Carter’s executor, followed the letter but not the spirit of his father’s instructions. He bought new slaves to replace those he had been ordered to set free.” Robert was a young boy of 4 years, when his father passed away, shortly before the death of Robert “King” Carter. Under Virginia law, what Robert II was left by his father’s will was destined to go not to Robert III, but to the boy’s uncles, John Carter of Shirley, Charles Carter of Cleves, and Landon Carter of Sabine Hall, but they were looking out for the young lad. Instead of taking Robert II’s share of their father’s will for themselves, they persuaded the Virginia Assembly to pass an act “to vest part of the Estate of Robert Carter, Esq., deceased, devised to Robert Carter, the younger....in Robert Carter, the Son and Heir of the said Robert Carter the younger.” He thus gained 30,000 acres of land and more than 100 slaves. “His father also had some 40,000- acres of his own, including Nomini Hall......and under English law of primogeniture, all of Robert II’s estate went to young Rob. The new owner of Nomini Hall and his sister, Elizabeth, did not grow up there. Their mother, Priscilla Churchill Carter, daughter of one wealthy Virginian, Councillor William Churchill, and widow of another, soon married a third, Colonel John Lewis of Warner Hall, a cousin of George Washington. Warner Hall in Gloucester County became Bob Carter’s home.” When Robert turned 21, he wrote, “delivered to me all my estate in the month of February A.D. 1749, I then being 21 years old.” This was the estate that his uncles had put away for him of his father’s inheritance. Robert then sailed for London where he was introduced to London society by merchants who had handled family affairs for many years. Shortly thereafter, he was admitted to the Inner Temple to study law. In 1751, at the age of 23, he returned to Virginia with the reputation of “a profligate.” Robert met and married his wife, Frances Ann Tasker, aged 16, several year after his return to Virginia. The Maryland Gazette of April 5, 1754, reported: “ On Tuesday last Mr. Robert Carter of Westmoreland in Virginia was married by the Reverend Mr. Malcolm to Miss Frances Tasker, youngest daughter of Benjamin Tasker, Esq., a fine young lady with a genteel fortune.” “Through her Carter acquired 20 percent of the Baltimore Iron Works, a great industrial enterprise of the time. By 1775 the investment brought him at least L500 a year.....In 33 years they had 17 sons and daughters, of whom 11 survived their mother and eight their father.” “While managing as many as 19 plantations plus thousand of acres on which he installed tenants, Carter found time to indulge a taste for contemplation, books and music. He read widely in history, law, science and philosophy in a library that ultimately contained more than 2,000 volumes. He practiced daily a variety of musical instruments. His collection grew to include a harpsichord, a ‘forte-piano’, violins, flutes, a custom made organ, which Thomas Jefferson attempted to buy from him, and a specialty built copy of Ben Franklin’s new-fangled glass armonica, which he played by rubbing his fingertips over finely tuned crystal bowls.” “In 1758 George II appointed Robert Carter to the Virginia Council. Three years later, reappointed by George III, Carter wrote a friend that he was leaving ‘my desert’ at Nomini Hall ‘for a well inhabited country’, Virginia’s capital, Williamsburg. For the next decade, Carter and his growing family lived next to the Governor’s Palace, facing the captalpalined Palace Green. For his spacious house he ordered wallpaper from London to ‘hang three parlors,’ yellow silk window hangings, worsted damask seat coverings, a marble hearth, Wilton carpets, mahogany tea chests, and much more, all the finest.” The Carters entertained lavishly. George Washington wrote in his diary that on one particular occasion, he dined at Carter’s home, and among the guests were the royal governors of Virginia and Maryland. “As councillor, Carter served on many committees, including one to study building a canal through Williamsburg. In 1766, he was designated to address a letter of thanks to George III for the repeal of the hated Stamp Act. In the letter he asserted that Virginians would ‘at all Times exert ourselves in the Defence of your Majesty’s sacred Person and Government, at the Risque of our Lives and Fortunes.’ Later, Carter’s attitude toward the crown grew ambiguous. While sharing his countrymen’s resentment of arbitrary British rule, he feared the economic impact of a struggle for Independence and hoped for reconciliation. As sentiment grew for what he described as ‘a new system of politicks in british north america,’ Carter resigned his office and withdrew to Nomini Hall. A great deal of information about the Carter family came from the diaries of Philip Fifthian, a Presbyterian minister, who tutored seven Carter children for 13 months in the years 1773 and 1774. He described Nomini Hall thusly: “The Great House was 76 feet long and 44 wide. It stood on a high spot of Ground at the end of a 300-yard avenue lined by tall, flourishing, beautiful Poplars. The mansion was brick, limed white, and its five Stacks of Chimneys could be seen for 6 miles.” Nomini Hall burned and the bricks were carried away some 150 years ago. “Downstairs in the Great House were an off-center hall, a dining room – where, we usually sit – a second dining room for the children, Robert’s study, and a Ball-Room thirty Feet long. Upstairs were bedrooms: one for the parents, another for the Young Ladies, and two for guests.” Fifthian and the boys were housed at the “School House”, a 2 story building, 45 by 27 feet, which also housed offices and Carter’s steward. Other buildings included a “stable and coach-House,” a “Wash-House,” a kitchen, a “Bake- House,” a dairy, and storehouses, as well as mills, smithies, and workshops. By and large Fifthian like the Carters. “The Family is most agreeable!” he exclaims early in his stay. He was “daily more charmed & astonished with Mrs. Carter,” who read widely – “more than the Parson,” claimed her proud husband – and thought clearly. Fifthian found her “an elegant, beautiful woman.” He wrote: “[She] is prudent, always cheerful, never without Something pleasant [to say], a remarkable Economist, perfectly acquainted (in my Opinion) with the good-management of Children, intirely free from all foolish and unnecessary fondness.” Fifthian described the Carter children as follows: “Ben, the eldest son, was 18, a youth of genius: of a warm and impetuous Disposition, but sickly, with a weak chest. Bob, the second son, 16, though slow-witted, was quick and wrathful in his temper. Always in trouble, he was pleased with the Society of persons much below his Family and Estate. [Ben died within 5 years of Fifthian writing this, and Bob, died mysteriously in London at the age of 34]. Miss Priscilla, the eldest daughter about 16, is steady, studious, docile, quick of apprehension. Nancy, not constant in her disposition, nor diligent, was cheerful and lively. Fanny, the Flower in the Family.....seems to have a remarkable Sedateness, & simplicity in her countenance, which is always rather cheerful than melancholy. Betsy was young, quiet, and obedient, while Harriot was bold fearless, noisy and lawless; always merry, almost never displeased.” Throughout the Revolutionary War Carter supplied the American forces with flour, bread, textiles and other goods. He even set up a stocking factory and had slaves trained to operate it. In addition, he supplied iron from the Baltimore Iron Works in order to make arms. During this time, it seems that Robert went through some sort of metamorphosis or mid-life crisis. For no apparent reason, he named many of his plantations after signs of the zodiac – Aquarius, Scorpio, Gemini, and, he quit the vestry. While visiting Maryland in June 1777 to have himself and his daughters vaccinated against smallpox, he experienced what he called: “a most gracious illumination.” He claimed that the Lord “wrought a mighty work on my soul” and began to investigate revealed religion and sought out evangelical prayer meetings. He attended 21 of them in a six-week period. In 1778, Carter ascertained that Jesus Christ had appeared before him, and soon afterwards he testified before an assembly of 200 at the Morarttico Baptist Church in Lancaster County about this and other religious experiences. He was then baptized in his new faith. His wife did not convert to the Baptist faith until about a year before her death in 1787. Carter became very active in the church, and even ordered his overseers to be lenient about allowing slaves time for services. Not long after, Robert became interested in mysticism, and studied the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, a Swedish nobleman, scientist, and theologian, who was said by his followers to have communicated with the dead. Soon after his wife’s death, Carter embraced the Swedenborgian New Church of Jerusalem, never ceasing to support the Baptist preachers and congregations. In 1793, perhaps prompted by the hostility of former friends who didn’t approve of his religious convictions or his “deed of manumission” to free his slaves, Carter moved to Baltimore. Upon moving north, he turned over control of his plantations to his six daughters and 2 surviving sons. The names of these plantations were, Nomony Hall, Aries, Old Ordinary, Taurus, Gemini, Forrest Quarter and Coles Point, in Westmoreland County. Aquarius, Scorpio, Capricorn, Libra, Virgo, and Sagittarius lay in Frederick County, Leo in Loudoun County. He also had two plantations called Cancer, one in Richmond County, the other in Prince William County. Before Robert died in 1804, he wrote to his daughter, Harriot, “My plans and advice have never been pleasing to the world.” Robert may have died with few friends, but he was regarded as a great man by the more than 500 slaves that he attempted to free, a man way ahead of his time.

5. Elizabeth Landon Carter b. 15 Oct 1768, Nomini, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 3 Jan 1842, Portici, Prince William Co., VA, m. 27 Mar 1788, Nomini, Westmoreland Co., VA, by Rev. Henry Tasker, to Spencer Mottrom Ball, Capt., b. 6 Aug 1762, Coan, Northumberland Co., VA, d. 28 Feb 1832, Portici, Prince William Co., VA, (son of Spencer Mottrom and Elizabeth (Waring) Ball, Col.). Elizabeth’s will was written 9 Apr 1841, and names children Fanny Tasker Lewis, Alfred, Elizabeth Lucy Carter, Louisa and Adaline. The other children were deceased by then. Portici occupies a portion of the Manassas Battlefield and is known in history as the Lewis House. Spencer’s will was proved 4 Jun 1832.

Below are photos of Robert "King" Carter, Betty Landon and Robert Carter, III and his wife Fanny Tasker.

SEE PHOTO OF PORTICI BELOW:

6. Elizabeth Lucy Ball b. 16 Aug 1791, Nomini, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. 1855, Mountain View, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 5 Mar 1807, William Fitzhugh Carter b. 16 Aug 1782, Sudley, Prince William Co., VA, d. 27 Aug 1836, Mountain View, Fairfax Co., VA, (son of John and Janet (Hamilton) Carter). Elizabeth’s will was dated 8 Jan 1854, prov. 19 Mar 1855, Fairfax Co., VA. She received 250 acres of Portici after her brother’s death in 1853. William’s will was recorded 23 Nov 1836, Fairfax Co., VA.

7. Mary Adeline Carter b. 5 Jan 1831, Mountain View, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 12 Apr 1876, Hillwood, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 4 Jan 1853, Alexandria, VA, William Henry Thornton b. 1824, Lawnville, Prince William Co., VA, d. 1890, Hillwood, Fairfax Co., VA, (son of Stuart Gibbons and Mary Frances Adeline (Stuart) Thornton).

8. Adeline Stuart Thornton b. 7 May 1857, Loudoun Co., VA, d. 11 Oct 1893, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 19 Feb 1879, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Centreville, Fairfax Co., VA, to George Richard Lee Turberville III, b. 22 Sep 1845, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 6 Feb 1921, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, (son of George Richard Lee and Margaret Virginia (DeBell) Turberville). George was a ranger with Mosby during the Civil War. He served as a private in Company A, 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, and his Nickname was “The Bantam Rooster” due to his small size and agility. George was a lawyer after the war in Centreville.

9. Harriotte Lee Turberville b. 4 Jul 1881, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 29 Dec 1962, Arlington, VA, m. 1 Jan 1903, in SC, to Pinckney Lee McWhorter b. 14 Jun 1875, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 19 Aug 1949, Fairfax, VA, (son of William David and Mary Jones (Millan) McWhorter, MD). Pinckney and Harriotte are buried at Leeton, Chantilly, Fairfax Co., VA.

10. George Turberville McWhorter, Sr., b. 11 Aug 1906, St. Elmos, VA, d. 28 Dec 1975, Washington, DC, m. May 1930, Rockville, MD, to Mary Nell Dismukes b. 20 Mar 1908, Cumberland Furnace, TN, d. 28 Dec 1976, Inverness, FL, (daughter of Grover Cleveland and Mary Madeline (Bowers) Dismukes).

11. Mary Madeline McWhorter b. Washington, DC, m. 25 Aug 1951, Washington, DC, William Raymond Brown, Jr., b. Lignum, VA, (son of Willie Raymond and Clara Maude (Johnson)Brown, Sr.).

12. Patricia Lynn Brown b. Great Lakes, Ill Naval Hospital, m. (2) 19 Sep 1993, Morris Carroll Petitt, II, b. Alexandria, VA, (son of Morris Carroll and Ruby Regina (Corbin) Petitt, Sr.).

Arms: A cheveron, between three cart wheels.

Crest: A talbot serjant, sustaining a shield charged with a cart wheel.

Courtesy of Cousin Mary Carter from Gainesville, VA

"SABINE HALL",Richmond Co., VA

Carter Family #2

1. John Carter, Col., b. 1613, Edmonton, Middlesex, England, d. 10 Jan 1669, Corotoman, Lancaster Co., VA, m. (4) ca. 1650, in Lancaster Co., VA, Sarah Ludlow b. ca. 1629, d. 1668, Corotoman, Lancaster Co., VA, (daughter of Gabriel and Phillis (?) Ludlow). John was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses 1642-49, 1653-58; member of the Council of Virginia, 1658-59; commanded against Rappahannock Indians, 1654; Colonel of Lancaster County in 1656.

2. Robert “King” Carter b. ca. 1662, Corotoman, Lancaster Co., VA, d. 14 Aug 1732, Corotoman, Lancaster Co., VA, m(2) 1701, Elizabeth Landon b. 17 May 1683, Credenhill, Herefordshire, England, d. 3 Jul 1719, Corotoman, Lancaster Co., VA, (daughter of Thomas and Mary (de Laval) Landon, Esq.).

3. Landon Carter, Col., b. 7 Jun 1709, Corotoman, Lancaster Co., VA , d. 22 Dec 1778, Sabine Hall, Richmond Co., VA, m. (1) 16 Nov 1732, Christ Church, Loudoun Co., VA, Elizabeth Wormeley b. 1713, Rosegill, Middlesex Co., VA, d. 31 Jan 1740, Sabine Hall, Richmond Co., VA, (daughter of John and Elizabeth (?) Wormeley). Landon built Sabine Hall. He served as Burgess for Richmond County from 1748-64. He also served as Colonel of Militia. Landon Carter of Sabine Hall, in his will of 4 Sep 1770, probated Feb 1779, “Son Robert Wormeley to have half of my slaves except those hereafter given to George Carter, my grandson, and to Robert Hamilton; the other half….to be equally divided between sons Landon and John (friends Mr. Nelson Berkeley, Mr. Robert Beverley, the Hon. John Tayloe, and Mr. Richard Parker to div. The slaves); son Robert W. all lands in York, Charles City, King and Queen, Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond, Westmoreland, King George, and Stafford cos., as also all my lands upon the Shenandoah River as well as those in the county of Frederick as that tract on the Blue Ridge or the Virginia side of the Shenandoah River, as it is called by the upper inhabitants, which includes the Blue Ball Mountain excepting always tract called Summer Duck Run which I have herein given to Robert Hamilton in case that tract may happen to lie in King George, Stafford, or Prince William Co., both of my Bull Run tracts to be equally divided between son Landon and John; son Landon half of the lands on Goose Creek, that is, such of them as are situated in Loudoun Fairfax, Prince William, or Fauquier Counties; the other half of said lands on Goose Creek to son John…….”

4. John Carter b. ca. 1739, Sabine Hall, Richmond Co., VA, d. 1789, Sudley, Prince William Co., VA, m. Janet Hamilton b. Richmond Co., VA, d. 7 Jul 1799-16 Dec 1805, Sudley, Prince William Co., VA, (daughter of Gilbert and Anne (Beale)Hamilton). Janet Carter’s will was dated 7 Jul 1799, prov. 16 Dec 1805 in Fairfax County. It reads: “Whereas, by the death of my beloved brother Robt Hamilton, which took place some months ago, I conceive myself entitled, under the Law of descents of this Commonwealth, to one fourth part of his Estate; now being in perfect health of mind, I do hereby make and appoint this my last Will and Testament with respect to my proportion of said property. I give and bequeath to my son Robt Carter for and in consideration of the affection I bear him, all my right title, and interest in the land that my brother Robt. Hamilton died pofsefsed (sic) of; with all its appurtenances to him, and his Heirs forever or in other words, in absolute fee simple – In confirmation whereof, I hereby subscribe my Name This seventh day of July 1799th. In the Presence of John Carter, Landon Carter and Edward Carter. Signed Janet Carter.”

5. William Fitzhugh Carter b. 16 Aug 1782, Sudley, Prince William Co., VA, d. 27 Aug 1836, Mountain View, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 5 Mar 1807, Elizabeth Lucy Ball b. 16 Aug 1791, Nomini Hall, Westmoreland Co., VA, d. Jan 1855, Mountain View, Fairfax Co., VA, (daughter of Capt. Spencer Mottrom and Elizabeth Landon (Carter) Ball).

6. Mary Adeline Carter b. 5 Jan 1831, Mountain View, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 12 Apr 1876, Hillwood, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 4 Jan 1853, Alexandria, VA, William Henry Thornton b. 1824, Lawnville, Prince William Co., VA, d. 1890, Hillwood, Fairfax Co., VA, (son of Stuart Gibbons and Mary Frances Adeline (Stuart) Thornton).

7. Adeline Stuart Thornton b. 7 May 1857, Loudoun Co., VA, d. 11 Oct 1893, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, m. 19 Feb 1879, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Centreville, Fairfax Co., VA, to George Richard Lee Turberville III, b. 22 Sep 1845, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 6 Feb 1921, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, (son of George Richard Lee and Margaret Virginia (DeBell) Turberville). George was a ranger with Mosby during the Civil War. He served as a private in Company A, 43rd Battalion Virginia Cavalry, and his Nickname was “The Bantam Rooster” due to his small size and agility. George was a lawyer after the war in Centreville.

8. Harriotte Lee Turberville b. 4 Jul 1881, Leeton, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 29 Dec 1962, Arlington, VA, m. 1 Jan 1903, in SC, to Pinckney Lee McWhorter b. 14 Jun 1875, Fairfax Co., VA, d. 19 Aug 1949, Fairfax, VA, (son of William David and Mary Jones (Millan) McWhorter, MD). Pinckney and Harriotte are buried at Leeton, Chantilly, Fairfax Co., VA.

9. George Turberville McWhorter, Sr., b. 11 Aug 1906, St. Elmos, VA, d. 28 Dec 1975, Washington, DC, m. May 1930, Rockville, MD, to Mary Nell Dismukes b. 20 Mar 1908, Cumberland Furnace, TN, d. 28 Dec 1976, Inverness, FL, (daughter of Grover Cleveland and Mary Madeline (Bowers) Dismukes).

10. Mary Madeline McWhorter b. Washington, DC, m. 25 Aug 1951, Washington, DC, William Raymond Brown, Jr., b. Lignum, VA, (son of Willie Raymond and Clara Maude (Johnson)Brown, Sr.).

11. Patricia Lynn Brown, b. Great Lakes, Ill Naval Hospital, m. (2) 19 Sep 1993, Morris Carroll Petitt, II, b. Alexandria, VA, (son of Morris Carroll and Ruby Regina (Corbin) Petitt, Sr.).

Below are photos of Col. Landon Carter and his beloved 1st wife, Elizabeth Wormeley & some Carter homes.

"Nomini Hall", Westmoreland Co., VA

"Mountain View", Fairfax Co., VA

"Sudley", Prince William Co., VA

"Hillwood", Fairfax Co., VA

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