Rawley [Williamson] Carter^[1]

Abt 1740 - Abt 1821  (~ 81 years)

• Name	Rawley [Williamson] Carter
  Born	Abt 1740	Lancaster Co., Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	Abt 1821	Amelia Co., Virginia
  Person ID	I15131	My Reynolds Line | Descendants of Thomas Carter of Barford
  Last Modified	4 May 2016

  
  

  Father	Thomas [Thornton] Carter,   b. 1 Feb 1699, Gloucester Co., Virginia ,   d. 3 Dec 1776, Christ Church Parish, Lancaster Co., Virginia  (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Anne Wale,   b. Est 1700, Lancaster Co., Virginia ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F4925	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S126] United States Archives, http://archive.org/stream/descendantsofcap00mill/descendantsofcap00mill_djvu.txt. 6. Raleigh Carter (Thos. 3 , Edw. 2 . Thos. x ) was probably the youngest of the six sons of Thomas Carter, of Christ Church Parish, Lancaster, and his first wife. He was born in Lancaster about 1740 and died in Nottoway prior to 1820, leaving numerous and prominent descendants. He was married two times, first in Lancaster to Sarah Sharpe, a ward of James Ball ? marriage bond dated Sept. 5. 1765: (2) to Lucy Anne Crenshaw, daughter of Win. Crenshaw, of Nottoway county, in 1798-99. Between the date of his first marriage and Dec. 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, 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 inherit- ed 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. In 1782 Raleigh Carter was a justice of the Amelia County Court, and doubtless continued as such until Nottoway county was formed. In 1792 he was high sheriff of Nottoway. The census of 1782 shows him to have been the head of a family of eight whites and twenty-one servants. This indicates that he had six children. The family Bible was burned during the war and likewise most of the early records of Nottoway county, so that it is im- possible to get a complete account of Raleigh Carter's children, and the date of his death. 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.