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Civil Service, VA-DAR Patriotic Index-Centennial Edition, Part 1, p. 355.
Capt. Hugh Brent was one of His Majesty's Justices for Lancaster Co., VA, a member of the Committee of Safety, County Lieutenant, and Tobacco Inspector, with Fortunatus sydnor, for both Lancaster and Northumberland Counties. He was a vestryman for Christ Church, and also a Church Warden.
He took the Oath of the Government and to qualify himself for a Commission - 16 March 1767 (L. Order Book).
Civil Service, VA-DAR Patriotic Index-Centennial Edition, Part 1, p. 355.
Capt. Hugh Brent was one of His Majesty's Justices for Lancaster Co., VA, a member of the Committee of Safety, County Lieutenant, and Tobacco Inspector, with Fortunatus sydnor, for both Lancaster and Northumberland Counties. He was a vestryman for Christ Church, and also a Church Warden.
He took the Oath of the Government and to qualify himself for a Commission - 16 March 1767 (L. Order Book).
George Carter, builder of "Oatlands", Leesburg, Virginia.
Between Washington, DC and the Shenandoah Valley, in hills that America's early presidents called home, "Oatlands" reigns as a prime example of the classic Virginia lifestyle. "Oatlands", built in the early 1800s, carefully balances the formality of its architecture withe the genuine warmth of the families who once lived there.
Its original owner, GEORGE CARTER, great grandson of Robert "King" Carter, built "Oatlands" in 1803 from bricks molded and fired on the property and from wood brought from the surrounding forests.
By 1816, Carter had constructed a gristmill on nearby Goose Creek, supplying ground flour from President Monroe's nearby "Oak Hill" estate and other Loudoun County farms. Soon "Oatlands Mill" became the center of a thriving community that included the miller's residence, a blacksmith shop, a school, and a store.
During the 1830's, changes were made to the interior which reflected the popularity of the Greek Revival style.
"Oatlands" fared well during the Civil War, escaping much of the ravages other plantations suffered as Northern troops skirmished with Confederate forces in surrounding towns.
Following the war, the Carter fortunes declined steadily. In 1897, "Oatlands" was sold to Stilson Hutchins, the founder of the Washington Post. He never lived at "Oatlands", however, and the property deteriorated.
In spite of its condition, in 1903, Mr. and Mrs. William Corcoran Eustis fell in love with and purchased "Oatlands". The grandson of William Corcoran, the Washington banker and philanthropist, and the daughter of Levi P. Morton, Vice-President under Benjamin Harrison, together returned the house and garden to its original beauty.
"Oatlands" was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972. Today, visitors may tour the mansion, enjoy the beauty and solitude of the restored formal gardens, and visit the Carriage House Visitor's Center and Shop.
(Source: National Trust for Historic Preservation-"Oatlands", Leesburg, VA)
Robert Carter, II, resided at "Nomini Hall", Westmoreland Co., VA. There is reference in "Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia", by Meade, that he married a Miss Bladen.
" Although Robert Carter had large possessions when he died, and was called "King" Carter, he is said to have been a very kind-hearted and benevolent man. His will, a copy of which is in the possession of one of his descendants in Clarke, shows that he owned 300,000 acres of land and 1,100 slaves" -Source: "History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley", Norris, 1890, p. 650, A Warner & Co, Publishers.
Robert "King" Carter was a member of th House of burgesses 1695-99; Speaker of the House, and acting Governor of Virginia 1726-1727. He resided in "Corotoman", Lancaster Co., VA. He was Speaker of the House of Burgesses in Virginia. He was a member of the Covernor's Council in Virginia.
Carter's Grove, in James City County, was built in the 1750's on land purchased by Robert ("King") Carter for his daughter Elizabeth. Her son Carter Burwell built the house. The property is maintained by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Inc., and is a National Historic Landmark.
(From the Ben Lomond Manor House Commission): The Ben Lomond Manor House was built in 1837-39, on a site that had been acquired a century earlier by Robert "KIng" Carter. (He once owned nearly 300,000 acres in the Virginia Colony). King Carter patented the Lower Bull Run Tract of 8,989 acres in 1724 in the name of his son, Robert Carter, of Nomini Hall. At that time the tract was located in Stafford County, but it later became part of Prince William, Loudoun, and Fairfax Counties.
Robert Carter (son) died before King Carter, (father). The next owner of the land was Robert "Councillor" Carter, who inherited it in 1732 from his father's estate. His total inheritance in the Northern Neck and Norhtern Virginia when he turnbed 21 (In 1749) exceeded 70,000 acres.
"Councillor" Carter (he was active in colonial Virginia government) had 18 plantations in Northern Virginia. The site where Ben Lomond was built later was part of his "Leo" plantation, his largest. By 1788, just as Virginia was ratifying the new Constitution to replace the orginal Articles of Confederation, the Leo plantation had a tobacco house, 14 houses, 7 cabins, and substantial other improvements. It also had 42 slaves...
The Lower Bull Run Tract was divided among three of "Councillor" Carter's 17 children after he died in 1804. His daughter, Sarah Carter and her husban John Yates Chinn, received the Leo plantation as a part of a 2,870 acre tract. When Sarah Carter Chinn died, the parcel was surveyed and measured at 3,561 acres - and error of 25%. Surveying and real estate transfers have improved quite a bit since then..
Sarah Carter Chinn's son, Benjamin Tasker Chinn, inherited 1,179 acres after his mother died in 1829. In 1837 Benjamin Chinn married Edmonia Carter, also a 4th generation descendant of "King" Carter, and began building the manor house as his primary residence. Benjamin chinn used the land for crops and horses until 1853, and then began raising cattle. And he added acreage to the estate, expanding to 2, 379 acres at his maximum (before selling 600 acres prior to the Civil War).
The name Ben Lomond was never used in the Carter Family or courthouse records during their ownership. Carter plantations were named after signs of the zodiac, including Leo, Cancer, and Libra (where the house known as Liberia is situated in the City of Manassas). Homes of other relatives had names like Sudley, Woodland, and Portici.
The Ben Lomond Manor House was used as a hospital after the first battle at Manassas. After the war, the farm was traded to William H. Campbell for land in Washington, DC. Benjamin and Edmonia are buried at the Shelter (near the intersection of Routes 15 and 234) with their daughter, Sallie sophia Tyler and her husband's family. No cemetery has been identified at Ben Lomond itself.
Robert, "King", Carter was probably the richest Virginian of his day.
The gravestone for Robert "King" Carter, at Christ Church, Lancaster Co., VA reads as follows:
"Here lies buried Robert Carter, Esq., an honourable man, who by noble endowments and pure morals gave lustre to his gentle birth.
"Rector of William and Mary, he sustained that institution in its most trying times. He was Speaker of the House of Burgesses, and Treasurer under the most serene Princes William, Anne, George I and II.
"Elected by the House 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, blamelessly acquired, he built and endowed, at his own expense, this sacred edifice, (Christ Church)---a signal monument of his piety toward God. He furnished it richly.
"Entertaining his friends kindly, he was neither a prodigal son nor a parsimonious host.
"His first wife was Judith, daughter of John Armistead, Esq.; his second Betty, a descendant of the noble family of Landons. By these wives he had many children, on whose education he expended large sums of money.
"At length, full of honours and of years, when he had well performed all the duties of an exemplary life, he departed this world on the 4th day of August, in the 69th year of his age.
"The unhappy lament their lost comforter, the widows their lost protector, and the orphans their lost father."
The gravestone for Judith (Armistead) Carter at Christ Church in Lancaster Co., VA reads as follows: "Here lyeth buried the body of Judith Carter, the wife of Robert Carter, Esq., and eldest daughter of the Hon. John Armistead, Esq., and Judith his wife. She departed this life the 23rd day of February, Anno 1699, in the ____ year of her age, and in the eleventh year of her marriage, having borne her husband five children, four daughters and a son, two whereof, Sarah and Judith Carter, died before, and are buried near here. Piously she lived, and comfortably died, in the joyful assurance of a hapy eternite, leaving to her friends the sweet perfume of a good reputation."
" Although Robert Carter had large possessions when he died, and was called "King" Carter, he is said to have been a very kind-hearted and benevolent man. His will, a copy of which is in the possession of one of his descendants in Clarke, shows that he owned 300,000 acres of land and 1,100 slaves" -Source: "History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley", Norris, 1890, p. 650, A Warner & Co, Publishers.
Robert "King" Carter was a member of th House of burgesses 1695-99; Speaker of the House, and acting Governor of Virginia 1726-1727. He resided in "Corotoman", Lancaster Co., VA. He was Speaker of the House of Burgesses in Virginia. He was a member of the Covernor's Council in Virginia.
Carter's Grove, in James City County, was built in the 1750's on land purchased by Robert ("King") Carter for his daughter Elizabeth. Her son Carter Burwell built the house. The property is maintained by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Inc., and is a National Historic Landmark.
(From the Ben Lomond Manor House Commission): The Ben Lomond Manor House was built in 1837-39, on a site that had been acquired a century earlier by Robert "KIng" Carter. (He once owned nearly 300,000 acres in the Virginia Colony). King Carter patented the Lower Bull Run Tract of 8,989 acres in 1724 in the name of his son, Robert Carter, of Nomini Hall. At that time the tract was located in Stafford County, but it later became part of Prince William, Loudoun, and Fairfax Counties.
Robert Carter (son) died before King Carter, (father). The next owner of the land was Robert "Councillor" Carter, who inherited it in 1732 from his father's estate. His total inheritance in the Northern Neck and Norhtern Virginia when he turnbed 21 (In 1749) exceeded 70,000 acres.
"Councillor" Carter (he was active in colonial Virginia government) had 18 plantations in Northern Virginia. The site where Ben Lomond was built later was part of his "Leo" plantation, his largest. By 1788, just as Virginia was ratifying the new Constitution to replace the orginal Articles of Confederation, the Leo plantation had a tobacco house, 14 houses, 7 cabins, and substantial other improvements. It also had 42 slaves...
The Lower Bull Run Tract was divided among three of "Councillor" Carter's 17 children after he died in 1804. His daughter, Sarah Carter and her husban John Yates Chinn, received the Leo plantation as a part of a 2,870 acre tract. When Sarah Carter Chinn died, the parcel was surveyed and measured at 3,561 acres - and error of 25%. Surveying and real estate transfers have improved quite a bit since then..
Sarah Carter Chinn's son, Benjamin Tasker Chinn, inherited 1,179 acres after his mother died in 1829. In 1837 Benjamin Chinn married Edmonia Carter, also a 4th generation descendant of "King" Carter, and began building the manor house as his primary residence. Benjamin chinn used the land for crops and horses until 1853, and then began raising cattle. And he added acreage to the estate, expanding to 2, 379 acres at his maximum (before selling 600 acres prior to the Civil War).
The name Ben Lomond was never used in the Carter Family or courthouse records during their ownership. Carter plantations were named after signs of the zodiac, including Leo, Cancer, and Libra (where the house known as Liberia is situated in the City of Manassas). Homes of other relatives had names like Sudley, Woodland, and Portici.
The Ben Lomond Manor House was used as a hospital after the first battle at Manassas. After the war, the farm was traded to William H. Campbell for land in Washington, DC. Benjamin and Edmonia are buried at the Shelter (near the intersection of Routes 15 and 234) with their daughter, Sallie sophia Tyler and her husband's family. No cemetery has been identified at Ben Lomond itself.
Robert, "King", Carter was probably the richest Virginian of his day.
The gravestone for Robert "King" Carter, at Christ Church, Lancaster Co., VA reads as follows:
"Here lies buried Robert Carter, Esq., an honourable man, who by noble endowments and pure morals gave lustre to his gentle birth.
"Rector of William and Mary, he sustained that institution in its most trying times. He was Speaker of the House of Burgesses, and Treasurer under the most serene Princes William, Anne, George I and II.
"Elected by the House 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, blamelessly acquired, he built and endowed, at his own expense, this sacred edifice, (Christ Church)---a signal monument of his piety toward God. He furnished it richly.
"Entertaining his friends kindly, he was neither a prodigal son nor a parsimonious host.
"His first wife was Judith, daughter of John Armistead, Esq.; his second Betty, a descendant of the noble family of Landons. By these wives he had many children, on whose education he expended large sums of money.
"At length, full of honours and of years, when he had well performed all the duties of an exemplary life, he departed this world on the 4th day of August, in the 69th year of his age.
"The unhappy lament their lost comforter, the widows their lost protector, and the orphans their lost father."
George Carter died in England, unmarried.
The wives of Col. John Carter, in order, were as follows: Jane Glyn; Eleanor Eltonhead; Anne Carter; Sarah Ludlow; and Elizabeth Sherley. He immigrated in 1635 to Lancaster Co., VA. He resided in "Corotoman", Lancaster Co., VA.
The inscription on the Carter gravestone at the Historic Christ Church, Lancaster County, Virginia reads as follows: "Here lyeth buried ye body of John Carter, Esq., who died ye 10th of June, Anno Domini 1669; and also Jane, ye daughter of Mr. Morgan Glyn, and George her son, and Elenor Carter, and Ann, ye daughter of Mr. Cleave Carter, and Sarah, ye daughter of Mr. Gabriel Ludlow, and Sarah her daughter, which were all his wives successively, and died before him. Blessed are ye dead which die in ye Lord; even soe, saith ye Spirit, for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them."
"John Carter, Sr. was the first of this well known Virginia family of that name to come from England. He settled in Upper Norfolk which he represented in the House of Burgesses in March 1642-43. He was a Burgess for Nansemond in Oct., 1649 and for Lancaster from 1654 to 1660. He was justice in Lancaster in 1653 and, at the division of the county on Dec. 13, 1656, he was appointed presiding justice and colonel commandant of Lancaster. In Nov., 1654, the assembly directed that an attack be made upon the Rappahannock Indians and that Maj. John Carter be appointed commander-in-chief. He was elected to the council on March 13, 1657/58, but was not sworn in until the assembly adjourned. On March 8, 1659, Gov. Matthews issued an order to the sheriff of Lancaster to arrest Col. John Carter "for contempt of tthe late commission of Government sent out by his Highness (Cromwell) and the lords of the Council, to appear before the Governor and Council at Jamestown." He was appointed one of the commissioners in 1663, by the governor of Virginia to confer with the commissioners from Maryland as to a restriction of tobacco planting. He was a vestryman of Christ Church Parish in Lancaster and the original church there was built under his direction. The present edifice, one of the finest specimens of colonial architecture standing, was built by the councillor's son, Robert "King" Carter. He died on the 10th of June, 1669, as stated on his tomb in Christ Church." (Source: "Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography", Vol. 1, Tyler, 1915, page 122).