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Robert CARTER
1663 - 1732 (69 years)
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Name Robert CARTER [1, 2] Birth 4 Aug 1663 Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America 
[1, 2] Gender Male FamilySearch ID LTDM-3HZ Name Robert Carter [3] Name Robert Carter, I, Governor of Virginia [3] Name Robert King Carter [3] Occupation Aft 1696 [3] 25th Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses Occupation Between 1726 and Sep 1727 Virginia, British Colonial America [3] President of the Council Burial Aug 1732 Christ Church Cemetery, Weems, Lancaster County, Virginia, British Colonial America [1, 2] Death 4 Aug 1732 Corotoman, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America [1, 2] Person ID I594785067 Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy Last Modified 22 Dec 2024
Father John CARTER, b. 7 Oct 1613, Shadwell, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London, England d. 10 Jan 1669, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 55 years) Mother Sarah LUDLOW, b. 1620, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, England d. 10 Jun 1668, Corotoman Plantation, Lancaster County, Virginia Colony, British Colonial America (Age 48 years) Marriage 1662 Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America [2] Family ID F536734134 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Judith ARMISTEAD, b. 25 Feb 1665, Gloucester, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 23 Feb 1699, Lancaster, Virginia, United States (Age 33 years) Marriage Bef 1688 Virginia, British Colonial America [3] Children 1. Sarah CARTER, b. Abt 1688, Virginia, British Colonial America d. Bef 1699, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age ~ 10 years)2. John CARTER, b. 1690, , Lancaster, Virginia, United States d. 1742, Charles City, Charles City County, Virginia, United States (Age 52 years)3. Elizabeth CARTER, b. Mar 1692, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America d. Mar 1734, Hayes, Gloucester, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age ~ 42 years)4. Judith CARTER, b. 1693, Corotoman, Lancaster, Virginia d. 18 Dec 1750, Rosewell, Gloucester, Virginia, United States (Age 57 years)Family ID F536734135 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Dec 2024
Family 2 Elizabeth LANDON, b. 17 May 1683, Grednal, Credenhill, Herefordshire, England d. 3 Jul 1719, Williamsburg, York, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 36 years) Marriage 9 Apr 1701 Virginia, British Colonial America [4] Children 1. Sarah Anne CARTER, b. 1704, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 12 Jul 1745, Berkeley, Charles City County, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 41 years)2. Robert CARTER II, b. 20 Jan 1704, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 12 May 1732, Nomini, Westmoreland, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 28 years)3. Betty CARTER, b. 1705, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 1706, Irvington, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 1 year)4. Charles CARTER, b. 1 Nov 1707, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 30 Oct 1764, Cleve, King George, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 56 years)5. Ludlow CARTER, b. 1708, Corotoman, Lancashire, Virginia, British Colonies d. 1708, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 0 years)6. George CARTER, b. 1709, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 3 Jan 1741, London, England (Age 32 years)7. Landon CARTER, Sr, b. 18 Aug 1710, Christ Church, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 22 Dec 1778, Warsaw, Richmond County, Virginia, United States (Age 68 years)8. Mary CARTER, b. 1712, Corotoman, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 17 Sep 1736, Jamestown, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 24 years)9. Lucy CARTER, b. 1715, King George, Virginia, British Colonial America d. 1763, Lancaster, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 48 years)Family ID F536734130 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 21 Dec 2024
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Notes - Robert "King" Carter (4 August 1663 – 4 August 1732) was a merchant, planter and powerful politician in colonial Virginia. Born in Lancaster County, Carter eventually became one of the richest men in the Thirteen Colonies. As President of the Virginia Governor's Council, Carter served as the royal governor of Virginia from 1726 to 1727 after the previous governor, Hugh Drysdale, died in office.
He acquired the moniker "King" from fellow Virginians in his lifetime connoting his wealth, autocratic business methods and political power. Carter also served as the colony's Treasurer, many terms in the House of Burgesses and twice fellow members elected him as their Speaker.
Robert "King" Carter was born in 1662 at Corotoman Plantation in Lancaster County, Virginia, to John Carter, Sr. (1613– 1669) of London, England, and his fourth wife, Sarah Ludlow (1635– 1668) of Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, who immigrated to the colony of Virginia, but died soon after the birth. His father had survived three previous wives, so young Robert had an elder step-brother, John, who under primogeniture inherited most of their father's estate in 1669, and was responsible for executing the provisions of their father's will. John Carter, Jr. also followed the instructions in their father's will and sent the orphaned Robert to England to be educated. Thus he lived in London with Arthur Bailey, a tobacco merchant who handled the family's tobacco, for six years and learned the transatlantic tobacco trade.
Robert Carter probably lived at Corotoman plantation with his elder half-brother and wife upon returning to Virginia. In 1690 Robert Carter increased his landholdings from his father following his elder half brother's death without male issue (and widow's remarriage and death, as well as managed his niece's property until her marriage and death also shortly thereafter). Carter also increased his landholdings through purchase, by foreclosing mortgages, and by his own advantageous marriages. In 1688, he married his first wife, Judith Armistead of "Hesse" plantation— then in Gloucester County, but which after boundary changes in 1691 became (and is now in) Mathews County. They had five children, of whom three survived infancy, including John, as elaborated below. After her death in 1699, Carter married the wealthy widow Elizabeth Landon Willis in 1701. She bore five daughters and five sons, seven of whom reached adulthood, as elaborated below. King Carter had each of his sons educated in England, and his firstborn son John like his long-dead uncle John saw to the education and marriage of his half-siblings, including those youngest underage after their father's death. Meanwhile, King Carter worked with his eldest on the family business, and endowed each of his sons who reached marriageable age in his lifetime with significant plantations. Robert Carter II (1704-1732) whom his father called "Robin" would die of a sudden illness months before his father, but his Nomini Hall plantation was inherited by his son, Robert Carter III (1728-1804), who like his grandfather served on the Governor's Council. Charles Carter (1707-1764) would exchange the land he had inherited for other property and built Cleve Hall in King George County, which he represented for many years in the House of Burgesses. Landon Carter received Sabine Hall from his father and represented Richmond County in the House of Burgesses, as well as (in 1742) inherited some of property from his elder half brother John, and served as guardian for those underage nephews Charles Hill Carter, Edward Hill Carter and Robert Carter Nicholas, all of whom would later serve in the Virginia General Assembly.
Another brother, George Carter, remained in England, where he practiced law but did not marry (nor take possession of his Virginia inheritance) before his death in 1642.
- Robert "King" Carter (4 August 1663 – 4 August 1732) was a merchant, planter and powerful politician in colonial Virginia. Born in Lancaster County, Carter eventually became one of the richest men in the Thirteen Colonies. As President of the Virginia Governor's Council, Carter served as the royal governor of Virginia from 1726 to 1727 after the previous governor, Hugh Drysdale, died in office.
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Sources - [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 21 Dec 2024), entry for Charles Carter, person ID MQ8T-3D8. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 22 Dec 2024), entry for Sarah Ludlow, person ID LYTP-NGQ. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 21 Dec 2024), entry for Robert Carter, person ID LTDM-3HZ. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 21 Dec 2024), entry for Elizabeth Landon, person ID KHN4-GXM. (Reliability: 3).
- [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 21 Dec 2024), entry for Charles Carter, person ID MQ8T-3D8. (Reliability: 3).