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 1748 - Abt 1807 (59 years)
Generation: 1
| 1. | William Carter was born 1748, Henrico County, Virginia; died Abt 1807, Cumberland Co., Virginia. Notes:
http://genforum.genealogy.com/carter/messages/22552.html.
The other Carter is a William Carter. He is mentioned in the chancery documents in 1789 as the defendant against Onan Moody. Onan Moody was the illegitimate daughter (or son, not sure) of Frances Moody and Gerard Ellyson. Gerard's widow, Sarah (nee Crews), married William Carter in 1771. It was published in the Purdie and Dixon Gazette that she was 85 and he only 23! (Making William born in 1748). It also mentions that he is the son of John Carter of Henrico County. (This John Carter is the son of Theodrick Carter, the son of Giles Carter.) William had the following siblings:
1. Theodrick Carter m. Sally Eelbank in Lunenburg, VA in 1763
2. John Carter m. Anne
3. Frances Carter m. Robert Walton (son of Robert Walton and Mary Hughes, and brother to George Walton, signer of the Decl. of Ind.) in Charlotte County, VA
4. Sherwood Carter m. Frances
5. Jacob Carter m. Mary
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Memoir of Gen William Giles Harding Carter
"An act of the general assembly of Virginia was passed in October, 1786, for clearing and extending the navigation of the Chickahominy River, and William CARTER, a descendant of Giles Carter (First), was one of a committee of trustees appointed to supervise the clearing of the channel as far up as Meadow Bridge."
William married Sarah Crew 14 Mar 1771, Henrico Co., Virginia. Sarah was born Abt 1690, King William Co., Virginia; died 2 Mar 1789, Henrico Co., Virginia . [Group Sheet]
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