Benjamin Davis

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Ancestry reports James Conway Davis 1719-1771 with children, Elizabeth, William Dale Davis 1750-1825; and Thomas W. Davis 1761-1839. Mary Elizabeth Carter, d/o Joseph and Catherine Stevens Carter shows a death date of 1787 in Broadfield, Spotsylvania, Virginia [not verified]

James married Mary Elizabeth Carter 25 Dec 1738, Lancaster Co., Virginia. Mary (daughter of Hon. Joseph of Barford Carter and Catherine 'Caty' Stevens) was born Est 1721, Spotsylvania Co., Colonial Virginia; died 1787, Broadfield, Spotsylvania, Virginia . [Group Sheet]

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Children attributed to Mary Elizabeth Carter and James Davis are: (Bible Records)
John Fielding Davis removed to Mecklenburg in 1766. b 1/1/1741
James Carter Davis b. 3/5/1741, d. 1792 Spotsylvania Co., VA
Benjamin Davis b. 10 Jan 1743, d. 1791 in Spotsylvania
Elizabeth, b 22 Feb 1745
Snead, b. 16 May 1749, died prior to 1765.
William Dale, b. 28 Aug 1750.
Mary, b. 24 May 1753, d. unmarried aft 1792.
Felix, b 27 Apr 1755, d. prior to 1765
Charles b. 22 Oct 1758, living 1794.
Thomas Wyatt b. 30 Nov 1761, d 8 Nov 1839
Portraits of James and Mary Davis were reproduced in the July, 1909, Quarterly.

Ancestry reports James Conway Davis 1719-1771 with children, Elizabeth, William Dale Davis 1750-1825; and Thomas W. Davis 1761-1839. Mary Elizabeth Carter, d/o Joseph and Catherine Stevens Carter shows a death date of 1787 in Broadfield, Spotsylvania, Virginia

Mary Elizabeth Davis (nee Carter) was married Christmas in 1738 to James Davis. Her Brother Thomas, was killed by accidental discharge of a gun at the wedding celebration.

Birth:
Or King and Queen Co., Colonial Virginia; DOB estimated from date of Father's Birth and Deed giving slaves to his daughter and her husband James Davis 1739; and date Slave given to Joseph Carter by James Stevens, 1727.

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Hon. Joseph Carter was High Sheriff in Lancaster Co., Virginia
His Children with Catherine Stevens are shown as Robert Carter 1735-1791; Catherine 'Caty' Carter, 1733-1750; Joseph Carter, 1733-1750; Elizabeth Carter 1731-1750; George Carter 1728-1771; John Carter 1725-1793; Edward Dale Carter 1723-1750; Mary Elizabeth Carter, 1721-1787 m. James Davis; Thomas Williamson 1720-1751; NOTE THE DEATHS ARE NOT RECORDED, THE BIRTHS ARE RECORDED; THE MARRIAGE OF CATHERINE STEVENS IN NOT SHOWN BUT THE BIRTHS OF HER CHILDREN ARE. THE FIRST MARRIAGE OF JOSEPH TO ANN PINES DEC 23 1713 IS RECORDED, BUT NO CHILDREN OF THAT MARRIAGE ARE RECORDED IN THE BIBLE RECORD.

Will Book B 1749-1759 Spotsylvania Co., VA St. George's Parish, d. 19 Feb 1750, p. 7 May 1751. Wit. Robert Huddlestone, Wm. Pruitt, James Younger, Robert Durrett. Executor Wife, Catharine Carter; Mr. John Minor and my son, John Carter...
CARTER, JOSEPH, St. George's Parish, d. Feb. 19, 1750, p. May 7, 1751. Wit. Robert Huddlestone, Wm. Pruitt, James Younger, Robert Durrett. Ex. wife, Catharine Carter; Mr. John Minor and my son, John Carter. Leg. wife, Catharine; son, Joseph Carter, the tract of land bought of Mark Wheeler; son, John, tract of land bought of Benj. Matthews; daughter Mary Carter; daughter, Elizabeth Carter; son, George Carter; son, Robert Carter, the land where I now live after his mother's decease;
daughter, Caty [Catherine] Carter.

Name:
Children of Joseph Carter and Catherine Stevens shown are: Mary Elizabeth Carter (proved); her children with James Davis are shown in the Bible record of Capt. Thomas of Barford Carter.

Died:
St. Mary's Parish

Joseph married Catherine 'Caty' Stevens 1719, King and Queen Co., Virginia. Catherine (daughter of James Stevens) was born Abt 1690, King and Queen Co. Colonial Virginia; died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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Birth:
Shown in deed of Joseph Carter as Father of his wife and deed in King and Queen County bearing the date of 2 Dec 1727.

Name:
Joseph was first married to Ann Pines; recorded in his father's Bible as 23 Decr 1713. There is no record in this Bible of his marriage to Catherine Stevens, however, the births of their children are recorded in the script of Thomas Carter, Senior of Barford, Lancaster Co., Virginia

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I think it would be appropriate to list Thomas Carter b 1753 as a separate line in your database and note this line is a very strong ydna 111 marker match to the Thomas Carter = Katherine Dale line. They share a common ancestor prior to 1753 obviously.

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Thomas married Katherine Dale 4 May 1670, Lancaster Co., Virginia. Katherine (daughter of Major Edward Dale and Diana Skipwith) was born Abt 1630, Lancaster Co., Virginia; died 10 May 1703, Virginia. [Group Sheet]

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Brothers John and Dale Carter along with their cousin Thomas Carter had settled on the north side of Clinch River near Blackmore's Fort about 1772. It was a tense time among the scattered settlers along the Clinch River. The Carter?s land grants were surveyed for them and entered in the Fincastle Survey Book on March 26, 1774.

On the same day, Logan, sent a raiding party against Fort Blackmore which secretly approached the fort and got within 75 yards before being discovered. Most of the men at Fort Blackmore were sitting on some logs a short distance from the gate. The Indians decided to make a bold push and enter the fort before the men could recover from their surprise. Creeping along the river bank, they were just ready to push into the fort when they were discovered by Dale Carter (1744-1774), who was about fifty-five steps from the fort and who cried, "Murder! Murder!"

Upon hearing Carter's alarm, the men (only ten militia men were actually stationed at Fort Blackmore) ran towards the fort and succeeded in reaching the gate before the Indians. Frustrated in their designs of entering the fort they turned upon Dale Carter. One Indian shot at him, but missed him; another shot him through the thigh, inflicting a wound which rendered him too lame to escape into the fort. Another Indian ran up to Carter, tomahawked and scalped him.

Meanwhile, John Carter b1752, brother of Dale Carter, and (later Colonel) John Anderson (1750-1817) serving as an ensign in the local militia attached to Blackmore's Fort left the security of the fort under fire to try to rescue a Dale Carter. Too late to prevent his death, they tried to prevent the Indian's scalping of the body. Anderson shot at the Indians who were involved in scalping the dead Carter, and John Carter shot at another. The Indians returned fire at narrowly missing both men. By this time, other men of the fort had climbed into the nearest bastion and had begun firing at the Indians. The Indians fled into the woods, free from pursuit due to the fort?s inadequate garrison.

Soon after Captains Daniel Boone (1734-1820) and Daniel Smith (1757-1824) brought thirty men to Fort Blackmore to track down the Indians. Near the fort they found many tracks, but the tracks were lost in the forest and the Indians were never captured.

As Captain David Looney (1735-1810) had been away from Fort Blackmore at his home near Kingsport at the time of Dale Carter's murder, the settlers at Fort Blackmore wanted a leader who lived nearby. They petitioned the highest officer in Fincastle County, Colonel William Preston (1730-1778), to make Daniel Boone a captain, and give him control of Fort Blackmore, Moore's Station, and Cowan's Fort. This petition was approved.

John Carter, brother of the Dale Carter, who was killed at Blackmore?s Fort in 1774, had settled on a 400 acre tract of land on the northwest side of Clinch River, about 4 miles below Blackmore?s Fort, in Scott County in the year 1773. He had married a daughter of Joseph Blackmore and had seven children.

One of the more tragic incidents in early Southwestern Virginia history was the death of Elizabeth Carter and her six children, by Indians in 1787. Plundering and setting fire to the Carter?s home, it reduced the bodies of his wife and children to ashes.

R. M. Addington, History of Scott County, page 99, says: In a short time after moving to his farm, having planted his crop, and completing such other preparations as were necessary to move back to the fort, he went out one morning to listen for his horses and cattle, which had bells on, intending to collect them up prior to moving back to Fort Blackmore on the next day. This was locust year, and he went out early in order to collect his stock before the locust began their noises. He had proceeded about sixty yards from his house when he heard his wife cry out, "Oh John". Turning he saw eight or nine Indians entering his house, and at the same time they fired at him. Realizing his perilous situation, he thought it best to make his escape and go for assistance, rather than fight and exasperate the savages in an unequal contest. Hastening to the fort, he collected a company and returned to his house, which he found in flames. With some poles, his companions succeeded in pulling out of the burning coals the charred remains of his wife and six children, which they buried. When they had done this, they heard a plaintive groaning a little ways from the house, in the weeds and grass. They went to the place from whence the sounds came and found his little daughter, about ten years of age, with an awful gash across her abdomen and her entrails falling out. They carried her to the river and washed her, but she died before they finished. (Judge Wood and Peter Honeycutt?s Letter, Draper MSS 4 C 27)

Image: Indian Scalping, Tussaud's Wax Museum, Niagara Falls
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Barbara Clogston Arnold Kit # A904224. My name is Barbara Arnold (maiden name Clogston). I am related to Thomas Carter Sr on my mother's paternal side. Jeraine Lloyd> Horace Lloyd> Oscar Carter Lloyd> William M Lloyd>Carter Jarrell Kelley> Francis C Carter> William M Carter> Soloman Carter> Peter Carter> Thomas Carter Jr> Thomas Carter Sr.

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Linda Dannette Carter Kryshtalowych; Trish Taylor, This may or may not be tied to your family. Thomas Carter b 1700 in Lancaster, VA married Sarah Haynie. They had a son, John Carter, who marred ??? Spencer. They had a son, Spencer Carter, b 1750, who had a son, Spencer II. Another son of John and Ms. Spencer was Thomas Preston Carter who married Susannah Gaines and had a son named Thomas Spencer Carter, b in Lancaster, VA and died in KY. Not a line I researched to any great extent but hope it helps with your search.
Linda Dannette Carter Kryshtalowych: Trish Taylor Since you have an ancestry account, go to the Search option then scroll down to Card Catalog. Then do a search for "The descendants of Capt. Thomas Carter of Bar, Lancaster, VA (descendants of John Carter of Lancaster) then find pages 48 & 49. Childrens names are listed and Meredith isn't among them but that's to say there wasn't a Meridith. The name could have been omitted for various reasons.

Married:
Note in Bible; With this Book pr Rv Mr John Shepperd on Wednesday ye 4h Day of May 1670 was Mard Mr. Thomas Carter of Barford in ye County of Lancaster in Virga & Katherine Dale ye eldest Daughr of Mr. Edward Dale ye same county.