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About Mary Walker Carter (Carter)
Mary Walker Carter
- Gender: Female
- Birth: 1736 - Cleve Plantation, King George County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America
- Death: January 30, 1770 (33-34) - Weems, Lancaster County, Province of Virginia, Colonial America
- Place of Burial: Irvington, Lancaster County, Virginia
- Daughter of Col. Charles Carter of Cleve and Mary Walker
- Wife of Charles Carter (son of John Carter & Elizabeth Hill)
Charles Carter was born 15 Oct 1732 in Corotoman, Lancaster County, Virginia, the son of John Carter and Elizabeth Hill, and died 24 Jun 1806 at Shirley Plantation in Charles City County.
Sometime in the mid-1750s Carter married his first cousin Mary Walker Carter, daughter of Charles Carter, who represented King George County in the House of Burgesses for many years. They had two daughters and six sons (including one set of twins) before her death on January 30, 1770.
The 8 children of Charles and Mary Carter were:
- John Hill Carter
- Charles Carter, d.y.
- George Hill Carter, of Corotoman, m Oratrix Lelia Skipwith
- Mary Walker Carter, m George Braxton
- Elizabeth Hill Carter, m Robert Fauquier Randolph
- Charles B. Carter, m Anne Beale
- Landon Carter, d.y.
- Edward Carter, m Janet Carter
Late in November of that year he married Ann Butler Moore. Of their eight daughters and seven sons, four children died in infancy, and one was stillborn.
“Colonial Virginia Portraits” <link>
MARY WALKER CARTER CARTER (MRS. CHARLES CARTER, D. 1770)
Artist: JOHN WOLLASTON
Date: ca. 1755-1758
Mary Walker Carter was the daughter of Charles Carter of Cleve and his first wife, Mary Walker. She married her cousin, Charles Carter of Corotoman and Shirley Plantation.
Dimensions: 29 1/2 x 23 3/4 in. (74.93 x 60.33 cm)
The subject wears a gold-brown dress with a bow and a white underskirt. There is lace at her neckline and sleeves and breastknots at her elbow. Her hair has pearls and ribbon weaved into it. She is inside a painted oval frame.
From Christ Church & Museum: Account of Mary Walker Carter's Death - February 22, 1770 < link>
This post from the Virginia Gazette reported the death on January 31, 1770 of Mary Walker Carter, first wife of Charles Carter of Corotoman. Published three weeks after her death, the account said in her Carter “has lost an excellent and affectionate wife, and the parish a charitable and humane neighbour, and benefactress.” Mary and Charles were both the grandchild of Robert “King” Carter but by different wives: Mary by “King” Carter’s second wife Betty Landon Carter and Charles by his first, Judith Armistead Carter.
The paper offered no details on what caused her death and was actually off by one day: buried at Christ Church, next to her grandparents, the inscription on Mary’s stone reads “Under this stone are the remains of Mary Carter, the affectionate wife of Charles Carter of Corotoman who died on the 30th of January, 1770 after a painful illness of three months during which time she discover’d a truly Christian fortitude. Aged 34 years.”
Within the year Charles Carter had remarried. The paper reported in its November 29, 1770, issue that Carter had married “Miss Nancy Moore, second daughter of Colonel Bernard Moore.” In the mid-1770s the couple would move to Shirley on the James River following the death of Carter’s mother, Elizabeth Hill Carter.
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Mary Walker Carter (Carter)'s Timeline
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1736
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Cleve Plantation, King George County, VA, Colonial America
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| 1757 |
1757
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Va
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| 1759 |
1759
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Shirley, Charles City Co, Va
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| 1761 |
December 27, 1761
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Lancaster County, Virginia, Colonial America
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| 1763 |
1763
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Shirley, Charles City Co, Va
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| 1764 |
September 26, 1764
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Charles City, Charles City County, Virginia, United States
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1766
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Shirley, Charles City, Virginia, United States
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| 1767 |
September 27, 1767
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Cloverland, Fairfield, Henrico County, Virginia, United States
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1767
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Shirley, Charles City Co, Va
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