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Facts and Events
Records in Virginia
- King George County, Virginia -
- From a Deed dated 27 October 1766 between William Carter and Frances his wife of the County of Spotsylvania; Whereas Simon Tomison by his last will and testament recorded in the court of Stafford County bequeathed to his Daughter, Margaret Tomison, at whose death the same descended to her Daughter, Elizabeth Kenyon, grandmother to William Carter [party to these presents] which Elizabeth Kenyon dying intestate without an heir male the land descended in equal proportions to her six Daughters, SARAH, MARGARET, ELIZABETH, ANN, FRANCES and MILLION which land was by Abraham Kenyon, the husband to Elizabeth, and by his will bequeathed to William Carter, which Sarah Kenyon who intermarried with John Carter, and dying intestate her part descended to her Eldest Son and Heir at Law, William Carter.
- Page 401 - Augt. 22, 1786. Wm. Carter and Frances, his wife; John Carter and Mary, his wife; Rice Curtis and Frances, his wife; Margaret Marshall, Wm. Heslop and Ann, his wife; Wm. Sutton and Sally, his wife; Richd. Stevens and Mary Beverley, his wife; Joseph Sutton and Judy, his wife; Lucy Carter —; Robert Carter and —, to Wm. Duerson. £10 to each of above parties. 200 a. in Berkeley Par., Spots. Co., etc., etc. Witnesses, Thos. Pritchett, Benj. Ballard, Jno. Davenport, Thos. Bartlett, Jno. Parrish, Jno. Chew, Jr.; Nicho. Payne, Jas. Stevens, Edwd. Herndon, Benj. Stubblefield, Jo. Brock, Jno. Carter, Jr.; Wm. Carter, Rice Curtis, James Mitchem. Jany 2, 1787.
- [Source: Virginia County Records, Spotsylvania County 1721-1800, Deeds, Deed Book "J", 1774-1782].
- Page 403 - [p.403] Septr. 23, 1786. Margaret Marshall of Caroline Co.; Wm. Sutton and Sarah, his wife, of same co.; Richd. Stevens and Mary Beverley, his wife, of same co.; Lucy Carter of Spots. Co.; Wm. Heslop and Ann, his wife, to Wm. Carter of Spots. Co. £210 curr. 208 a. in Berkeley Par., Spots. Co., etc., etc.
- Witnesses, Nicho. Payne, Wm. Smith, Jno. Brock, Richd. Stevens, Rice Curtis. Feby. 6, 1787.
- [Source: Virginia County Records, Spotsylvania County 1721-1800, Deeds, Deed Book "J", 1774-1782].
References
- Crozier, William Armstrong. Spotsylvania County records, 1721-1800: being transcriptions, from the original files at the county court house, of wills, deeds, administrators' and guardians' bonds, marriage licenses, and lists of revolutionary pensioners. (New York: Genealogical Association, 1905).
- Miller, Joseph Lyon. The descendants of Capt. Thomas Carter of "Barford," Lancaster County, Virginia: with genealogical notes of many of the allied familes. (Thomas, W. Va.: J.L. Miller, 1912).
- WILLIAM CARTER married Frances Curtis, daughter of Rice Curtis, Sr., "Gent." of .Spotsylvania, prior to November 20, 1761, as on that date he had a deed from Rice Curtis, Jr., that shows this marriage. Wm. Carter appeared in a list of Spotsylvania slave owners in 1783 as owner of ten
servants. His will, probated in Spotsylvania November 26, 1802, mentions his wife Frances Carter, daughters Lucy Aylett, Elizabeth Belinda, Sarah wife of Edmund Foster, Frances wife of Rice Connor; sons Rice, John and John's daughter Polly, Guilford D., Kenyon, and Abraham; stepmother Hannah Carter; and half sister Elizabeth Carter. He also had a daughter who married James Hume, as September 15, 1794, Wm. Carter made a deed of gift to James Hume for four negroes in trust for Wm. Lewis Hume, son of the said James and grandson of the said Wm. Carter. September 1, 1789, he made a deed of gift to his son John for 216 acres of land in Berkeley Parish.
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