Robert King Carter

1663 - 1732  (69 years)

• Name	Robert King Carter
  Born	1663
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	1691  [1]
  	Burgess of Lancaster County
  Occupation	1696-1699  [1]
  	Burgess of Lancaster County
  Occupation	1699-1705	Virginia   [2]
  	Treasurer
  Occupation	1699-1727	Virginia   [2]
  	Councillor
  Occupation	8 Jul, 1726-1728	Virginia   [1]
  	Governor as President of the Council
  Will	left 500,000 acres of land, a thousand slaves and $50,000 when he died   [1]
  Died	4 Aug,1732	Christ Church Cemetery, Weems, Virginia
  Buried	Christ ChurchCemetery, Weems, Virginia
  	Robert King Carter son of John Carter and Sarah Ludlow Robert King Carter married 1680 Virginia, to Judith Armistead.From the "ENCYCLOPEDIA of VIRGINIA BIOGRAPHY" Under the Editorial Supervision of Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL. D., VOLUME V, 1915, pages 848-849 "The epitaph on his tomb in Christ Church, records his virtues and achievements. Translated from the Latin, it says: Here lies Robert Carter an honorable man who by noble endowments and pure morals gave luster to his gentle birth. Rector of William and Mary College, he sustained that institution and its most trying times. And he was Speaker of the House of Burgesses and Treasurer under the most serene princes, William, Ann, George I. and George II. Elected by the House of Burgesses its Speaker six years and Governor of the Colony for more than a year he upheld equally the regal dignity and the public freedom. Possessed of ample wealth, blameless acquired, he built and endowed this sacred edifice, a signal monument of his piety towards God. He furnished it richly. Entertaining his friends kindly, he was neither a prodigal nor a parsimonious host. His first wife was Judith, daughter of John Armistead, Esq. His second, Betty, a descendant of the noble house of Landon. By these wives he had many children and whose education he expended large sums of money. At length, full of honors and of years, when he had well performed all the duties of an exemplary life he departed from this world on the 4th of August, 1732, in the 69th year of his age. The unhappy lament their lost comforter, the widows their lost protector, and the orphans their lost father." Family links: Parents: John Carter (1613 - 1669) Sarah Ludlow Carter (1635 - 1668) Spouses: Judith Armistead Carter (1665 - 1699) Elizabeth Landon Carter (1683 - 1719) Children: Sarah Carter* Judith Carter* Elizabeth Carter Burwell Nicholas (1688 - 1734)* John Carter (1690 - 1742)* Judith Carter Page (1695 - 1750)* Robert Carter (1704 - 1732)* Anne Carter Harrison (1704 - 1745)* Betty Carter (1705 - ____)* Ludlow Carter (1708 - 1708)* Landon Carter (1710 - 1778)* Mary Carter Braxton (1712 - 1736)* Lucy Carter Harrison (1715 - 1763)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Christ Church Cemetery Weems Lancaster County Virginia, USA Created by: Pat Sproat Record added: May 21, 2007 Find A Grave Memorial# 19474872
  Person ID	I97	Ellie Wood Keith
  Last Modified	3 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	John Carter,   b. 1613, Shadwell, London Borough of Tower Hamlets ,   d. 10 Jan, 1669, Lancaster County, Virginia  (Age 56 years)
  Relationship	putative
  Mother	Sarah Ludlow,   b. 1635, Maiden Bradley, Wiltshire, England ,   d. 1668, Lancaster County  (Age 33 years)
  Relationship	putative
  Family ID	F64	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Judith Armistead,   b. 1665, Gloucester County, Virginia ,   d. 23 Feb, 1699  (Age 34 years)  [3]
  Children	+ 1. Judith CARTER,   b. 1695, 'Corotoman', Weems, Lancaster County, Virginia ,   d. 1750  (Age 55 years)  [Birth]
  Last Modified	3 Jan 2018
  Family ID	F59	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth "Betty" Landon,   b. 1683, Herefordshire, England ,   d. 3 Jul,1719, Williamsburg, Va  (Age 36 years)
  Last Modified	10 May 2017
  Family ID	F63	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  [S4] If Legends are True. [S4] If Legends are True (Reliability: 3). [S3] Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19474872 (Reliability: 3).