George Carter, son of William Carter (1600-1655) and his third wife Alice Croxon (b. 1599, d. abt. 1670), first appears in the Surry records on Oct. 20, 1659 (D. & W. 1645-71, p. 138). On Jan. 30, 1659/60 Mrs. Alice Parke gave a power-of-attorney to her son, George Carter (id., p. 148). These dates probably indicate that he had just come of age, and so was born in 1638. He last appears in the Surry records on May 7, 1664, when he was witness to a deed (id., p. 246) and died in 1664 or 1665.
MARY CARTER'S MARRIAGE TO WILLIAM HARE: His widow, Mary Carter, was married (2) to William Hare prior to June 26, 1665 (id., p. 262, William Hare gives bond for the estate of Elizabeth Carter, Orphan; also, p. 393, William Hare of Lawnes Creek Parish, Carpenter, and Mary his wife, the late wife of George Carter, decd., on Nov. 6, 1671 lease some of the Carter land).
WILLIAM HARE: William Hare was born in 1638, as he gave his age as 30 in a deposition July 7, 1668. He last appears on May 7, 1672, when he again gave bond for the estate of the orphan of George Carter. He appears to have left Surry Co. soon after this, and disappeared, probably having died. On May 5, 1674, it is stated that William Hare had "departed the county and is said to be dead," and that he left a child 4 years old, who is entrusted to the guardianship of Major Allen (Order Book 1671-90, p. 57). This child was William Hare, who was entrusted to the guardianship of Will Foreman June 15, 1681. He was born in 1670, and died without issue in 1693, leaving all his estate to Robert Crawford (his brother-in-law) (D. & W. 1693-1709, p. 308).
Mary Hare, mother of Elizabeth Carter and William Hare, Jr., was still living on July 7, 1674 (Orders 1671-90, p. 60), but died between that time and Mar. 4, 1678/9, when William Edwards appears as guardian of Elizabeth Carter (id., p. 241). A law-suit he instituted against Matthew Swan in 1679 to recover some of the Carter land which had been leased to Swan by Mary Hare for her life-time, shows that Mary was dead (id., p. 266). Elizabeth Carter was thus the only heiress of William Carter and Alice Croxon, and the only child of George Carter and his wife Mary. Through her the Carter land passed to her husband, Robert Crawford, and after her death to her eldest son, Carter Crawford.
