Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-12-12


by London merchant in her 18th year
IL the only fact concerning her that has
come to my hand.
| COUNCILLOR ROBERT CARTER,
as the young inheritor of tho estate be-
came afterwards widely known. because
| OF his long service In tho Kings Council
| at Williamsburg, married Miss Frances
| A. Tasker and settled at Nomony, where
he reared numerous household OF chill
| dren. His estates had during his minority
| steadily increased In value, so hat he
/ became one of the most prominent and
| opulent planters OF his day. His corre-
| spondence at the era of the revolution
shows him TO have been in ardent SYM
PATTY with the struggle for civil freedom,
and George Mason found in him an intel
llgent and staunch supporter Of the Bill
OF Rights.
He used his ample income freely In the
cause OF humanity and benevolence, offer
Ing in his homo an asylum TO selim. the
Algerine pirate; educating. at his personal
expense. Henry Toler, young Baptist
preacher, and seeking TO endow an or
phanage in Fredericksburg. The doors OF
his spacious mansion were thrown open
to the early Baptist preachers when they
appeared in the county, and for many
years the "dissenters" generally were in
vited to hold meetings in the great hall
OF his home. Here Lunsford. Taylor.
Sutton, and Fleeson, among the Baptists;
McGimmory. among the Presbyterians.
and Bishop Asberry. among the Metho-
dists, with other ministerial lights of the
last century, proclaimed the Word, and
converted the old banquetlng hall of mirth
and revelry into place Of religious wor-
ship Mr.. Carter, having united with the
Baptists, became prominent in their asso-
ciaional councils, in which he served for
several years on committee TO found
a college. In these councils he also took
a pronounced stand against tho lawful
ness of hereditary slavery" and In 1880
he manumitted the entire body Of his
slaves numbering, 1t is believed about
eight hundred. A London magazine Of
1871, in a letter from Philadelphia, said
of Mr. Carriers liberation OF his slaves: |
This is a sacrifice on the altar of hu- |
manity OF perhaps hundred thousand |
dollars. Vote him triumph, crown him |
with laurels, and let the million listen |
while he sings:
L would not have slave to till my
ground,
To carry me, TO fan me while sleep.
And tremble when / wake, for all the I
wealth
That slnews bought and sold have
earned."'
A few years later Councillor Carter re-
moved to Baltimore, where his last years
were spent There his religious views
a change, and he united with
the Swedenborgian Church. in whose
in Baltimore, he found burial
when he died in that city in 1904.
Councillor Carter's children, born at
In |
MS four sons, two died In their infancy.
The elder of the other two-named John
rasker-married Louisa, the daughter of
George Fairfax Lee. The other son OF
Hon. Robert Carter was George. who set>
led in Loudoun and founded the fine old
lome called "Oatlands," which was pur-
biased a few months since as q summer
lome by Mr.. Stilson Hutchins, the we'll
,nown nevspaper-man. George Carter
married Miss Betty Lewis, and his de-
cendants are numerous
OF the daughters of Councillor Carter,
he youngest, Sally Fairfax married DR.. ,
ohm Yates Chinn, who had graduated In
Medicine in London and settled in Rich
lond county, among whose estimable
escendants are Mrs. II. A. Tayloe and
and the children Of DR.. w. w.
DOUGLASS last marriage, all now or for
lerly Of the same county. Julia Car (
pr, Mrs. Chinn's sister, like her, found
husband in the person of a physician,
n. Robert Berkely Two Of Mr.. Car 4
RS daughters-Betty Landon and
married to two young men Z
Northumberland-Spe Ball and
ajor Thomas APP Jones-and afterwards
we'd, the enc at "Portisi," in Prince
VILLAIN, and the other at Bathurst" J
ear Tappahannock. Priscilla Carter, 9
AIMED for her Maryland grandmother, !
ecame Mrs. Mitchell, of Richmond l
1unty. Harriet Lucy Carter was married i
ugust 1, 1889. to a young emigrant frorl
Wales, named
JOHN JAMES MAUND, a
no became the next proprietor Of No h
ony Hall. Mr.. Maund was gentleman II
extensive business relations and large fl
nded properties, especially in the new y
,unties OF the Valley of Virginia. He h
as, If be not mistaken, a lawyer by Il
ofession, but was unlike most members n
the bar, in that his handwriting was r,
faultless beauty and clearness. In the 81
,cade from 1880 to 1900 eight children Il
ere born to him here, the eldest and o.
'ungest Of whom were daughters. OF n
o six sons, but one married. He, N
lomas Martin, welded a Miss Weache, "
Baltimore, where they resided, and N
here some Of their children still en- W
y a green old age amidst a large circle CO
warm and admiring friends. III
The eldest daughter Of John James and
arriet Maund was named Anna Martin, b.
d on January 8. 1910, she was united de
marriage with CT
DIR. JOHN ARNEST, II,
10 then became the occupant and owner v,
Nomony Hail. Three sons and a n
tighter were born here to these pa be
hts, and on May is, 1S1S Mrs. Arrest eli
ID, and was buried in the garden beside
r father, where tomb recites her vir- of
IS and marks her grave. The eldest of oil
r sons-George-loc in Texas, where ar
died. John was borne away on the ca
e Of early emigration to California, and Al
yet living-an octogenarian-nea Sac ch
nento City. He has planted numerous &C
)geny on the Pacific coast, all Of whom ar
} strangers to his parental home. OF da
omas Maund, the youngest son of DR.. fe
nest, born here OF his first marriage an
will be convenient to make further a
ntion later on in this account. Sophia, M
, only daughter Of Or. and Mrs. Ar S
81 grew to womanhood at Nomony, Ar
on the 1lth OF January, 1898, changed ba
: name to that OF Dozier. A guest at
: marriage, mentioning 1t in private
ter two weeks later said: II was there, we
L don't think ever saw a more ele- Nj.
It collection. 1t might vie with any on
t Of the States in respectability and mi
hion." bri
n. Arrest married again in the spring ne