John Carter Walton^[1]

1771 - 1804  (33 years)

• Name	John Carter Walton
  	Robert's wife Frances Walton is identified as the daughter of John Carter and Elizabeth by a legacy she received in her father's 1785 will. John Carter, by a 1773 deed of gift, gave each one of Frances Carter Walton's three children: John Carter Walton, Mary Walton and Elizabeth Walton, a slave, so all the children were born by that date.
  Born	1771	Cumberland County, Virginia
  Gender	Male
  Died	Mar 1804	Killed in a duel in Augusta, Georgia
  Person ID	I547451384	My Reynolds Line | Descendants of Giles Carter of Henrico
  Last Modified	25 Oct 2019

  
  

  Father	Robert3 Walton, Jr.,   b. 1741, Prince Edward County, Virginia ,   d. 12 Jul 1797, Augusta, Georgia  (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Frances 'Fannie' Carter,   b. Abt 1739, Henrico County, Virginia ,   d. 2 Feb 1786, Augusta, Georgia  (Age ~ 47 years)
  Family ID	F518495472	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Biographical notes: John Thomas Flournoy Army officer. From the description of Thomas Flournoy and James Wilkinson orderly books, 1812-1846. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71061178 U.S. Army officer, Thomas Flournoy (1775-1857), sometimes referred to as "John Thomas Flournoy," was born in North Carolina and, before the War of 1812, practiced law in Augusta, Georgia. In March 1804, Flournoy was involved in a duel with John Carter Walton (1741-1804), nephew of former Georgia Governor and Supreme Court Chief Justice George Walton, over the judge's decisions for the Thomas Flournoy vs. George Walton and Matthias Maher vs. George Walton cases. Flournoy shot and killed John Walton in the duel. http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6g16m5g

  
  

• Sources

  [S86] Our Southern Cousins, http://oursoutherncousins.com/walton5.html. John Carter Walton. In June 1789, John Carter Walton was second lieutenant in the Richmond County militia, when the governor requested a troop of horse be formed. It was under the leadership of Col. James Stallings and Capt. Robert Watkins. 1792-93, John C. Walton was among the list of men authorized to issue and sign subpoenas. To understand some of the dynamics at work in Richmond County, GA at this time, we must take into account the actions of John Carter Walton's cousins, Robert and George Watkins (sons of Sally Walton and Thomas Watkins). Robert and George Watkins were commissioned by the state legislature to write the first 'Digest of the Laws of Georgia.' The scandal of the Yazoo Act touched every politician in the State, and Robert and George included this infamous act in their 'Digest,' at the same time noting its repeal. The governor and the legislature refused to pay Robert and George for their work; they would have preferred that the Yazoo Act had never been mentioned at all! The angry response of Robert Watkins led him to be engaged in several duels with other prominent men in the area. In the papers of Gen. Thomas Flournoy (1775-1857), it states that in 1800 he was among those lawyers who subscribed to the Watkins 'Digest.' July 25, 1799, there is a a "strongly worded" letter arguing with Watkins over the outcome of a lawsuit in Columbia County. Flournoy closed his letter by challenging Watkins to a duel. Also included are a number of letters from Flournoy to GEORGE WALTON, covering the period of July of 1803 to January of 1804. In March of 1804, however, the correspondence was between Flournoy and JOHN CARTER WALTON, and led to a duel between the two men. These letters were "highly charged in their language" and concerned an argument over the cases Thomas Flournoy vs. George Walton, and Matthias Maher vs. George Walton. In one document Flournoy challenged John Carter Walton to a duel. "On 6 March of that year the seconds for the two men signed the following document, "Rules for duel between Thomas Flournoy and JOHN CARTER WALTON, signed by the seconds. Apparently JOHN C. WALTON, a relative of George Walton, whose honor he claimed to be upholding by the duel, died as a result, and the challenge was annotated, "We met, we fought, Walton fell. T. Flournoy."