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Mathews-Williams Family Genealogy
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From, "The Paynes of Virginia", pp. 513-514:
In 1849, John Gibbs Ball, and his son-in-law William S. Flournoy, and a considerable party of others set out for California during the great Gold Rush, and had been on the road for several weeks, living on salt-pork and beans when the wagon-train encountered a herd of buffalo and shot some of them. The change of diet from salt to fresh meat, it was thought, made several persons ill, and resulted in thedeath of twon men, one of whom was John Gibbs Ball, who died June 17, 1849 in Colorado at what was then known as Big Timbers, on the Arkansas River about 40 miles below Fort Bent, a pioneer trading-post surrounded by a stockade as protection agains the Indians. From a letter written in 1895 by Mr. Flournoy the following is quoted - "The timber was all cottonwood and stood scattering on the ground. We had a top-floor in our wagon and I had a coffin made of it to bury him in, (referring to John Gibbs Ball). The grave was marked with head and foot boards only, there being no stone near."
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).
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).
Hon. Nathaniel Burwell resided in "Fairfield", Gloucester Co., VA. After his marriage to Elizabeth Carter, they lived in "Carter's Creek", Gloucester Co., VA.
The inscription on his gravestone reads as follows:
"Beneath this tomb lyeth the body of Major Nathaniel Burwell, eldest son of Major Lewis Burwell, who, by well-regulated conduct and firm integrity, justly established a good reputation. He died in the 41st year of his age, leaving behind him three sons and one daughter, by Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Robert Carter, Esq., in the year of our Lord Christ 1721."