Notes for Raleigh Carter




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Notes for Raleigh Carter

[Joseph Lyon Miller, M.D., "The Descendants of Captain Thomas Carter", C. J. Carrier Company, Harrisonburg, VA., 1972, written in 1912]:
Probably the youngest of six sons of Thomas Carter of Christ Church Parish, Lancaster Co., Virginia.
"Between the date of his first marriage and December 7, 1772, Raleigh Carter removed from Lancaster, to what was then Amelia County, as on the latter date "Raleigh Carter, of Amelia County, planter" sold to Burgess Ball, of Lancaster, a part of a tract of 468 acres of land left by Elias Edwards to his sisters (half-sisters?), one of whom was the said Sarah Sharpe Carter. In 1776 he inherited from his father a negro servant, "The Upper Plantation," and a share of the residuary estate in Lancaster. In 1777 he sold his share of his father's home plantation, which came to him in the division of the residuary estate, to his brother Edward Carter."
"An old tax receipt shows that Sept. 4, 1821, Dabney Morris and Lee Jones, executors of Raleigh Carter, dec'd, paid taxes on 1,690 acres of land and 125 slaves in Nottoway county belonging to his estate."
Family Bible burned during war, as did most early records of Nottoway County.

Raleigh Carter furnished supplies for the use of the Continental Army. See Amelia County Court Order Book No. 15 for the years 1780-1782, page 122.

In her DAR Application Lineage, Maria Louise Borum lists and proves the following as children of Raleigh Carter, but does not indicate to which wife of Raleigh Carter they were born:
Charles Carter b1800; m 1st Mary Coleman Carter (sic); 2nd Mary F. Hatchett
Mildred Carter m - - - - Osborne
Mary Carter
Thomas Carter
Elias E. Carter deceased in 1820
William Carter deceased in 1820; m Jane Crenshaw
Rawleigh Carter deceased in 1820; m Susannah Stokes
Francis Carter b 1802; m Jane Lee

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