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dill, of Bhiri-y, w»lt;i.'Wi speaker of theKi»v at Buret**' * i,;i4 a‘' d lfi54 ; a,.„ -, f Mar \M. IMS; mo-.aber oi theV ' : ia Co uucil 1656. aarf same year ddeatsd M tbo Indians Bloody Hun ■ sUed b'-wt 1668 having * sou, Colonel; -rJJa, oi hot n. 1637, died NovVi, 1700, j*:-u lt;• ii f.itri..-! at Shir5 / sifl'.trto h':5 t *mK hi-s coat of arms,r*”n mo*;df tin ( Ouflcil 1688;tj.-'Hker ■ • • tj^crer. odl; admiralty jiie. « r '/;.-?{!lt; a ana North .Carolina 16.d and a-- ■ • ri.j lieutenant of Charles City an 'Srry : married a Miss Williams it is «ai ^ml had Colonel Edward, coliec to: f/ upper James, 1717, died unuarried,V .zabeth, who inherited Slurlet, married first John Carter, second Bowler Cocke. By “the courtesy” the latter lib.fi possession of the estate until his death in 1776.daughter of Governor Thomas Nels 'it, oi Yorktown, 11, Bernard, born 1776, dad unmarried, 12, John, born 1777, died on-married, 18, Kate SpoLsr^xjd, bor man iei Doctor Carter Berkeley o; ‘»dge-woud. Han rei [*}, 14, Be ’Moore b. 178P, lpriied”dauM0uir of General Henry Lelt;\ 'of S: ■«’f■ ij*by his firs: marriage w’fb 1 . ■ .^nghtor ■; I’bilip I-ud i,,'ur—r .4, Wlinar.u, M IT’ ; run;'’| born 1782. married V. • uu g: ■ —r of| Doctor t 'liiair. • ’■« Richmond,n the Union, From * caiVWhggls v*r;_ ither circtt! uJrtm a'llU/le- t'f .w oi .1 iel John OaHcr. Jtt. er; of Ca./JWU,111.AN EXTKNDEI) GENEOLOhY OF ITS REPRESENTATIVES.[Written for Tub Critic—Letter 1.1Among the most distinguished and widely known of the old Virginia families is that of Carter, which now has representatives in almost every state in the Union. ... identity of arms [three « crest ancl motto, and •'*’ it is believed that ily in Virgi*'’ the »'■•••- Wdlkio v.—HenfoifiN; U'- od of the 1 1from 1 comm f' **■ mesettled at ge ■ • • aA‘ in Lancastei hat county, 1658; hegave - j* church, which was rebuilt as it . ’Sviiucls bjr his son Robert; died June ;2lh, 166‘J, and was buried in Christ Church where his tomb remains.He married Cl) Aune Glynn-- and had issue George an l Eleanor -, married (2d) Anne, daughter of Cleve Carter, and had issue (1) John, vestryman of Christ Church, 1666. married Elizabeth Wormelj', and had Elizabeth, m. - Lloyd. John Carter Sr. m. (3d) Sarah, daughter of Gabriel Ludlow, [a] and had (2) Sarah, (3) Colonel Robert, of “Corotoman,” known from hi9 great possessions as “King Carter,” born 1663; vestryman of Christ Church: Speaker of the House of Burgesses, 1694 9, and treasurer; member of the Council, s 1699 to 1726, when, being president, he was acting governor for more than a year. According to the contemporary Gentlemen's Magazine, he left at his death, August 4th, 1722, 300,000 acres of land, 1,000 slaves and £10,000 in money He was buried at Christ Church, where remains his tomb and those of his two wives. He married (1) Judith, died 1699, eldest daughter of John Armistead, of “Hesse,” Gloucester, member of the Council; and (2) Elizabethwidow of - Willis, and youngestdaughter of Thomas Landon [6], of Gradual in the county of Hereford, England, i Had issue (by 1st marriage) (1) John, of A,uis’’ and barrister ax law of ibe Middle Temple, appointed secretary of Virginia 1722, and member of the council, 1724; born about 1690; died April 30tb, 1748; married Elizabeth, daughter of Colonel Ed ward Hill [c) of “Shirlly,” Charles City county, and eventually co heiress of Her brother Edward Hill, [2] Elizabeth, born 1680; died 1721; married (Is!) Nathaniel Burwell, of Gloucester;• (2nd) Doctor G. Nicholas, (she was the mother of the distinguished Robert Carter Nicholas), (3) Judith, marri M Mann Page, of “Rosewell,’» Qjpucesver county, suit yaa gnmdjinhher J ohn ra^^^^MWTi^Tr-ried Bpnjawiu Harrison, of “Berkeley,” C*y tan d was mother of Benjamin i, Governor of Virginia, and sign -die Declaration of Independence) 2d marri e of Robert Carter) (5) Robot • Nomini,” Westmoreland county;Hauervof Maryland and :d;(7)Anne Hill, bom 1773, died July 1829, mar ried General Henry Lfee, of “Stratford,’’ and was the mother of Robert E. Lee, “ “ Doctor Robert, born 1774, married daughter of Governor r~'Vorkt'*wn, 11, unmarried, 12,. mai ried.i :I Novthis country t? a men;1 oi the7!ii T. v,.. r Nof. ; .^ 1 i, : .t*r. : o d unmarried, 16,Mildred, b rn j, died unmarried, 17,I my . . j a lt;89, dial November 10th,1 ’ airied Nathaniel Burwell, of Drop.ore, Roanoke county', 18, William Filz hugh, born 1791, unmarried, died 1852, 19, son, born 1792, died young, 20, daughter, born 1794 died young, 21, Calphurnia, t born 1796, died unmarried.Issue of George and Lelia [Skipwith] Carter, 1, Doctor George, of Corotoman, married a daughter Major Richard Corbin, [/], of Laneville, King and Queen county, acd had Parke, died unniarriad, 2, Polly, married Doctor Joseph CioeliIsrne of Charles and Nancy Carter, of Mount Atlas, 1, Susan, married Reverend Thomas Batch, 2, Mary Walker, married Commodore Thomas ap Catesby Jones [A;], United States Navy, 3. Elizabeth, 4, John Hill.Issue of Edwrard and Jane Carter, lt;?f Cloverland, 1, Cassius, died unmarried, 2, EdwTard, died unmarried, 3, Shirloy, member of the House of Delegates, died un married about 1835, 4, Join Hill, of-Falkland, married first Baynton, daughter Thomas Turner, of Kiuloch, Fauquier county and Iito 1 Jane, married Colonel Robert Bevjrley, of Fauquier county; J. H. Cuter married 2d Jane Loughborough a» d had 2 Lavinia, married Nicholson G Jdsborougli, 3, Cassius, 4, Shirley, marri, d Lucy Hite, 5, Loughborough, 6, Caroline, 7, Eliza. 5, Alary, married Commodore Bladen Dulaney. United States Navy.Issue of Doctor Robert and Alary [Nelson] Carter, 1, Hill, of Shirley, served iu earb ♦ife as an officer in the navy, born 1796, Married Mary Braxton, daughter of Colone Robert Randolph, of Eastern View, 2, Anne, mvrried William P. Wickban, and was mother of General William, C. Wickham, 3, Lucy, married Edmund VVickham, 4, Thomas Nelson, of Pampatiki, King William county, married first in 1816 Juliette, daughter of Henry .Games, lt;1 Gloucester, 2d Ann Willing, daughter f William Byrd Page.Issue of Hill and Mary [Randolph] Gaiter, of Sh'. ley, 1, Lewis Warrington, mar ried .4 pies Haxall, and had Shiriey, 2, Robot Randolph, of Shirley, died 1886, Heut'uant IT. S. N. and captain C. S. N-.AhmV'Ujioijgfi ril^PP^SI^ihsford, Marion 3, Charles, married Fanny Nelson, and hadCharles, coliec' \■ Cocke.when it reverted to Charles Cat ter; Maftoa married Henry Gifford, of Wooten, riied 1709, Devonshire, England, eldest sou of John Gifford, of Brightly in Devon, a fam ily once one of the most important iu tin county, but which has since the civil wars much decayed./Vo] Colonel William Byrd, horn 1652, (f.nA 1704; son of John Byrd, of London, 'goldsmith, who wj.s descended from the ancient family of that name at Brexton, Cheshire ; settled tirst in Henrico, where he was j ustice, sheriff and burgess ; removed to Wcstover; appointed to the council, 1681, and auditor general, 1687 ; married -Miry, daughter of Colonel War-ham Horsmanden, of the Virginia council, ana before of Pqrley, iu tire county of Essex, England, who had been a H yalist officer, and had 1, Colone! Wbljam, u Westover, the well-known founder of Richmond ana author of the Byrd papers, who married first in 1704, Lucy, daughter of Colonel Parke, governor general of the Leeward Islands. (Colonel Parke was the son of Daniel Parke, of Virginia, and his wife, Rebecca, daughterof George Evelyn, of Surrey, England ; distinguished himself highly at the battle of Blenheim, aDd was sent to England by Marlborough with the first announcement of the victory. His conduct, however, as governor at Antigua was so outrageous that the people rose, December 7, 1710, attacked Lis residence, and after a desperate tight in which Parke killed several men, his guards wen* overpowered, and his body literally lorn to pieces.) By this marri ge there wee on'v daughters—1, Evelyn, died uumarrie.i November 13. 1737, and 2 Wilhetnina. married Thomas Chamberiayne. Willi am Byrd, thesecond, married, 2, Mary, daughter of Thomas Taylor, of Kensington, Eng. lmd, and had with other issue Antic, married Charles Carter, of Cievc, as above. Maria Byrd, wife of Landon Carter, was her sister. Reverend ilanie: Horsmanden, M. A , Oxford, 1617, and afterwards D. D.; rector of Uleombe. Kent; was a learned man, a atalous churchman, and a “high loyalist,” says Wood. The Parliament depiived iiimof his living in 1643, and in other ways he suffered much for the King’s cause during the civil wars, dying in 1654 He mar ried Ursula—died 1672-daughter of 8m Warham St. Leger, of U.combe, and sister of Sir William St Leger, who fell at, the battle of Newbury, fightiug for the Kin?. They had issue : Colonel Warham Hors m.’.uden, as above, who after the Restoration returned to Eugland and settled again at Parley, vvheie his descendeuitocon-tinucd. The rector of Purley aboe'f 1765 was named Horsmanden. The St. legers are one of the most ancient and distinguished families in England Sir Warham St Leger, grandlalher of Mrs. Horgtnan-(len, married Ursula, daughter of Gturgt-Neville, Lord Abeigavenny, and his 'CatMary U., Lucy, Charies Hill, Betty and Fanny, 4, William Fitzhugh, of Charies City county, married Betty Paunill and bad Donua, Alice, Page, Eva and Robert, 3, Eliza Hill, married John Wickham, 6, Bernard Hill, lieutenant Charles City Troop, C. S. Cavalry, killed in action Fredericksburg May 2d 1862, 7, Beverly married Mary Andesson and had Beva Randolph H., 8, Ai.i;, marri LJ. Leigh, of TinTT'it- uuugrftCr* v7Te~Wi*qvuiu Duke of Buckingham, the favorite aid afterwards ihe viciim of Richard Hi.[«] The tomb of Mrs. Braxton remains at Alattaponi church, King and Queen [/] There has long been in tue Moore famuy a tradition ol descent fnwa- bi Thomas Moore. According to oidpijAH tie first of the family in Vi«|frnia,who came to Virgiiaa u £*nie, and son, Augustine, af o fJ?d patented laud that year aijC] l!ie river, was ao cW ot Thomas Aloore, wlio”AtkUJpter Sir Basil Broqjy the only son of ■V \ 1, ThcvEiw
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