CARTER, Colonel Robert

1663 - 1732  (69 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	CARTER, Robert
  Prefix	Colonel
  Birth	4 Aug 1663	Corotoman, Lancaster, Virginia, United States
  Gender	Male
  Burial	Aug 1732	Christ Church Cemetery, Dunmore, Virginia, United States
  Death	14 Aug 1732	Corotoman, Lancaster, Virginia, United States
  WAC	24 Aug 1905
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  Person ID	I63546	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Family	ARMISTEAD, Judith Robinson ,   b. 23 Feb 1665, Hesse-Darmstadt, Gloucester, Virginia, United States Hesse-Darmstadt, Gloucester, Virginia, United Statesd. 23 Feb 1699, Irvington, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 34 years)
  Marriage	1688	Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America
  Family ID	F30353	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Robert "King" Carter (1662/63 – 4 August 1732), of Lancaster County, was an American businessman and colonist in Virginia and became one of the wealthiest men in the colonies. As President of the Governor's Council of the Virginia Colony, he was acting Governor of Virginia in 1726-1727 after the death in office of Governor Hugh Drysdale.[1] He acquired the moniker "King" from his wealth, political power, and autocratic business methods. Robert Carter was born at Corotoman Plantation in Lancaster County, Virginia, to John Carter (1613–1669) of London, England, and Sarah Ludlow (1635–1668) of Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire. In 1688, he married Judith Armistead of Hesse in Gloucester County, an area which was included in the formation of Mathews County in 1691. After her death in 1699, he married Elizabeth Landon in 1701. At age 28, Robert Carter entered the General Assembly of Virginia as a Burgess from Lancaster County, serving five consecutive years. In 1726, as President of the Governor's Council, he served as acting Governor of Virginia after the death of Governor Hugh Drysdale. As an agent of Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron – known simply as Lord Fairfax – he served two terms as agent for the Fairfax Proprietary of the Northern Neck of Virginia. During his first term, 1702–1711, he began to acquire large tracts of land for himself in the Rappahannock River region of Virginia. Carter acquired some 20,000 acres (81 km2), a large part of which was the 6,000-acre (24 km2) Nomini Hall Plantation, also spelled “Nomoni” or “Nominy,” which he purchased in 1709 from the heirs of Col. Nicholas Spencer, cousin of the Lords Culpeper, from whom the Fairfaxes had inherited their Virginia holdings. When he became representative of Fairfax’s interests again in 1722, serving from 1722–32, he secured for his children and grandchildren about 110,000 acres (450 km2) in the Northern Neck, as well as additional land in Virginia west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Carter died on 4 August 1732, in Lancaster County, Virginia, and was buried there at Christ Church. He left his family 300,000 acres (1,200 km²) of land, 1,000 slaves and 10,000 British pounds in cash. Legacy When Lord Fairfax saw Carter's obituary in the London monthly The Gentleman's Magazine, he was astonished to read of the immense personal wealth acquired by his resident land agent. Rather than name another Virginian to the position, Fairfax made arrangements to have his cousin, Colonel William Fairfax, move to Virginia to act as land agent, with the paid position of customs inspector (tax collector) for the Potomac River district. Fairfax himself then visited his vast Northern Neck Proprietary from 1735–37, and he moved there permanently in 1747. Descendants Carter had five children with his first wife, Judith Armistead: Sarah Carter (born ~1690) Elizabeth Carter (~1692-1734) married Nathaniel Burwell. Judith Carter (born ~1694) died in infancy Judith Carter (1695–1750) married Mann Page. John Carter (1696–1742) married Elizabeth Hill of Shirley Plantation Carter had ten children with his second wife, Betty Landon: Anne Carter (1702–1743) married Benjamin Harrison IV Robert Carter II (1704–1734) married Priscilla Churchill. Sarah Carter (~1705–1705) Betty Carter (~1705–1706) Charles Carter (1707–1764) married Anne Byrd, daughter of Col. William Byrd II. Ludlow Carter (born ~1709) Landon Carter (1710–1778) married Maria Byrd, daughter of Col. William Byrd II. Mary Carter (1712–1736) married George Braxton Lucy Carter (1715–1763) married Henry Fitzhugh George Carter (1718–1742) via Wikipedia