Maria Carter^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]}

1744 - 1817  (72 years)

• Name	Maria Carter
  Birth	22 Nov 1744	Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA   [7, 8]
  Gender	Female
  Death	21 Aug 1817	Williamsburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA   [7, 8]
  Burial	Champlain, Essex, Virginia, USA   [8]
  Person ID	I47287	Master
  Last Modified	17 Feb 2023

  
  

  Father	Colonel Landon Carter,   b. 17 Jun 1710, Corotoman Plantation, Lancaster, Virginia, USA d. 22 Dec 1778, Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Maria Horsmanden Byrd,   b. 6 Jun 1727, , Charles City, Virginia, USA d. 29 Nov 1744, Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA (Age 17 years)
  Marriage	22 Sep 1742	Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA   [7]
  Family ID	F10751	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Robert Beverley,   b. 21 Aug 1740, Blandfield Plantation, Essex, Virginia, USA d. 12 Apr 1800, Blandfield Plantation, Essex, Virginia, USA (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	1 Feb 1763	, Richmond, Virginia, USA   [6, 7, 9]
  Children	1. William Beverley   2. Maria Carter Beverley,   b. 15 Dec 1764, , Essex, Virginia, USA d. 2 Oct 1824, Williamsburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA (Age 59 years)   3. Robert Beverley,   b. 30 Jul 1766, , Essex, Virginia, USA d. 14 Jan 1767, , Essex, Virginia, USA (Age 0 years)   4. Robert Beverley,   b. 12 Mar 1769, , Essex, Virginia, USA d. May 1843, Blandfield Plantation, Essex, Virginia, USA (Age 74 years)   5. Lucy Carter Beverley,   b. 24 Feb 1771, , Essex, Virginia, USA d. 1854, Greensboro, Hale, Alabama, USA (Age 82 years)   6. Burton Beverley,   b. 24 Nov 1772, , Essex, Virginia, USA d. 16 Jul 1781, Champlain, Essex, Virginia, USA (Age 8 years)   7. Carter Beverley,   b. 17 Apr 1774, Blandfield Plantation, Essex, Virginia, USA d. 10 Feb 1844 (Age 69 years)   8. Byrd Beverley,   b. 17 Aug 1775, , Essex, Virginia, USA d. 1836, Sea, Sulawesi Tengah, Indonesia (Age 60 years)   9. James Mills Beverley,   b. 22 Dec 1776, Champlain, Essex, Virginia, USA d. 8 Apr 1779, Champlain, Essex, Virginia, USA (Age 2 years)   10. Anna Munford Carter Beverley,   b. 6 Jan 1778, , Essex, Virginia, USA d. 17 Jan 1830, , Caroline, Virginia, USA (Age 52 years)   11. Munford Carter Beverley,   b. 8 March 1779, , Essex, Virginia, USA d. Feb 1820 (Age 40 years)   12. Peter Randolph,   b. 17 Oct 1780, , Essex, Virginia, USA d. , Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA   13. Evelyn Byrd Carter Beverley,   b. 6 Jun 1782, Blandfield Plantation, Essex, Virginia, USA d. 10 Sep 1836, , Loudoun, Virginia, USA (Age 54 years)   14. Mackenzie Beverley,   b. 3 Jun 1783, , Essex, Virginia, USA d. , Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA   15. Jane Bradshaw Carter Beverley,   b. 27 Aug 1784, , Essex, Virginia, USA d. 23 Feb 1814 (Age 29 years)   16. Harriet Beverley,   b. 12 Apr 1786, Blandfield Plantation, Essex, Virginia, USA d. May 1829, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 43 years)
  Family ID	F10710	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	23 Jan 2023

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 22 Nov 1744 - Sabine Hall, Warsaw, Richmond, Virginia, USA Marriage - 1 Feb 1763 - , Richmond, Virginia, USA Death - 21 Aug 1817 - Williamsburg, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  To Miss Maria Carter at Cleve My Dear Cousin; You have rea'y imposed a task upon me which I can by no measns perform viz: That of writing a Merry and Comical Letter: how shou'd I my dear that am ever confined either at School or with my Grandmama know how the world goes on? Now I will give you the History of one Day at the Repetition of which without variations carries me through the Three hundred and sixty-five Days, which you know compleats a year. Well then first begin, I am awakened out of a sound Sleep with some croaking voice either Miss Polly, Milly's or some other of our Domestics with Miss Polly Miss Polly get up, 'tis time to rise, Mr. Price is down stairs and tho I hear them I lie quiet snugg till my Grandmama uses her voice, then up I get, huddle on my cloaths and down to Books, then to Breakfast, then to School again and may I have an hour to myself before Dinner, then the Same Story over again until twi-light and then a small portion of time before I go to rest, and so you must expect nothing from me but that I am. Dear Cousin, Most Affectionately Yours Maria Carter Governor Berkeley and the Creation of the Virginia Aristocracy: The landed gentry rose to prominence in Virginia with the arrival of Sir William Berkeley as Royal Governor. Governor Berkeley, an Oxford-educated playwright, soldier and diplomat, arrived in Virginia in 1642, when Virginia was a frontier society of roughly 8,000 colonists. He was to hold office longer than any other governor of Virginia. Born in 1606 in England, Berkeley had been a courtier in the court of the British monarch Charles I, and came with a desire to invigorate the colony and create an imitation of British society in the New World. Under his administration, the first generation of what would be known as the Virginian aristocracy came into existence before the English Civil War ended. These included the founders of powerful dynasties such as John Carter, Richard Lee, Benjamin Harrison, the first Randolph and Thomas Stegg (or Stegge) who amassed the Byrd wealth. All of the colonizers who rose socially had connections, wealth and education. These advantages promoted them to the highest rungs of the colonial society. The families they founded ruled the Royal colony of Virginia for more than a century. Colonists Arriving in Virginia Painting by Sidney King courtesy of Colonial National Historical Park The Byrd, Beverley, Carter, Culpepper, Isham, Washington, Spencer, Randolph, Jefferson, Bland, Beverely, Bolling, Eppe and Hackett families intermarried, creating a web of overlapping kinships. They sat on the governing boards of the colony and promoted each others interests. Berkeley also fostered the rise of the General Assembly from a small body into a replica of the Parliament in England, and promoted a separation of power between provincial and county governments. He worked to create a royalist society, where an elite ruled over the great masses of yeoman farmers, free and enslaved African Americans, indentured servants and marginal farmers who leased their land. A brief look at some of the families who served in the Virginia House of Burgesses displays a continuity of the landed-gentry class in the governing class of the colony. In 1664 Lawrence Washington and William Randolph were elected members of the House of Burgesses. The 1736-1740 legislative session had representatives of the Randolph, Carter, Fitzhugh, Beverely and Berkeley families seated, and the 1776 Assembly had Carters, Randolphs and Lees as well as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. See www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/jamesriver/gentry/htm. for the rest of the story.

  
  

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