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Colonel Landon Carter[1, 2]

Male 1710 - 1778  (68 years)


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  • Name Landon Carter  [3
    Title Colonel 
    Birth 17 Jun 1710  Corotoman Plantation, Lancaster, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    Death 22 Dec 1778  Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Burial Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Person ID I43366  Master
    Last Modified 26 Jan 2023 

    Father Robert "King" Carter,   b. 4 Aug 1663, Corotoman Plantation, Lancaster, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Aug 1732, Corotoman Plantation, Lancaster, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Landon,   b. 1683, Credenhill, Hereford, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Jul 1719, Williamsburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years) 
    Marriage 9 Apr 1701  , , Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6
    Family ID F10001  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Elizabeth Wormeley,   b. 16 Nov 1713, Rosegill Plantation, Middlesex, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Jun 1740, Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 26 years) 
    Marriage 16 Nov 1732  Christ Church, Lancaster, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. William B Carter,   b. 1732, Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Washington, District of Columbia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. Robert Wormeley Carter, Sr,   b. 17 Jun 1734, Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1797, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)
     3. Landon Carter,   b. Aug 1738, Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 July 1801, , Prince William, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)
     4. John Fitzhugh Carter,   b. 1739, Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Apr 1789, Sudley, Prince William, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
     5. Elizabeth "Betsy" Wormely Carter Berkeley,   b. 1739, , Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 May 1787, Airwell Plantation, Hanover, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years)
     6. Lucy Landon Carter,   b. 7 Jun 1740, Corotoman Plantation, Lancaster, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1778, Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 37 years)
    Family ID F10718  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 25 Jan 2023 

    Family 2 Maria Horsmanden Byrd,   b. 6 Jun 1727, , Charles City, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Nov 1744, Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 17 years) 
    Marriage 22 Sep 1742  Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Children 
    +1. Maria Carter,   b. 22 Nov 1744, Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Aug 1817, Williamsburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
    Family ID F10751  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 25 Jan 2023 

    Family 3 Elizabeth Beale 
    Marriage 1746  Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Frances A "Fannie" Carter,   b. 1748, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1798, , Caswell, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years)
     2. Judith Carter Palmer,   b. 28 Oct 1749, Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jun 1836, , Patrick, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years)
     3. Reuben Beale Carter,   b. 1750, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1751, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 1 year)
     4. Susannah "Sukey" Carter,   b. 1757, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1758, , Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 1 year)
    Family ID F10708  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 25 Jan 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 17 Jun 1710 - Corotoman Plantation, Lancaster, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 22 Sep 1742 - Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1746 - Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 22 Dec 1778 - Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Landon Carter (August 1710 – December 22, 1778) was a planter from Virginia, best known for his account of colonial life leading up the American War of Independence, The Diary of Colonel Landon Carter.

      Landon Carter was the son of Robert "King" Carter, a Virginia-born merchant planter and uncle of Robert Carter III. In 1719, at the age of nine, Carter was sent to England to be schooled under the early linguist, Solomon Lowe. He returned to Virginia in 1727.

      "King" Carter died in 1732, and Landon inherited a portion of his father's estate. Shortly thereafter, Carter married Elizabeth Wormeley, daughter of John Wormeley. She died in 1740. In 1742, Landon married Maria Byrd, daughter of William Byrd II, who died two years later. Carter married his third wife, Elizabeth Beale, in 1746.

      Shortly after his first marriage, Carter settled on lands he had inherited in Richmond County. His mansion house, Sabine Hall, which he built about 1734, stood at the heart of his plantation there.

      Carter's daughter Maria married Robert Beverley son of Colonel William Beverley and Elizabeth Bland and named after his paternal grandfather. The Beverleys were descended from Pocahontas through their marriage to the Randolphs.

      Carter's grave is in the Lower Lunenburg Parish Church cemetery in Warsaw, Virginia. He left his heirs 50,000 acres (200 km²) of land and as many as 500 slaves. The Special Collections Research Center at the College of William and Mary holds papers relating to Landon Carter and many other descendants of King Carter.

  • Sources 
    1. [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree.

    2. [S1133] Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).

    3. [S1162] Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).

    4. [S751] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).

    5. [S753] Ancestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, U.S., 1649-1800, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.).

    6. [S32] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.).