The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-18

Elizabeth. son-in-law Edmund FosterS
married Sarah; son-in-l law Rice Conner. y
married Frances: grand -daughter Poccy7 (
Carter. daughter of John carter.
Deeds. 35B
Deed Book r. page 20. Date OF deed.
goth November 17s1 Deed parties.
Rice Curtis. Ir.. to VIM. Carter. shows
that Frances. daughter OF Rice Curtis.
married VIM. Carter IsSS
Deed Book Q. page 81, date of deed
Septemoer 8, 1855. shows George Carr
ter; of Buckingham. and John Carter.
OF Spotsylvania. were brothers
Deed Book n. p 531. dated April 81 q,
l174. shows John Carter's wife to be
lean Jean. tThs John was son OF
Henry.)
Deed Book l.. p. 4s5 dated August
"a, 1919. Deed between Rice Curtis
and his children. Names Frances. HIS
wife. and children. Nancy. John. Sarah,
Elizabeth. Mary. Frances Margaret,
George Bartemens and James
Deed Book k, p. So4. date of COM
missioner's report May s. 1854: date of 3
Partition OF John Carters land: names
his widow as Hannah Carter. n
Deed Book L.. p. 1873. Date Of deed,
August %. 1885. Names William Car
ter Francis. his wife: John Carter,
Mary. his wife; Rice Carter. Frances.
his Wife; Margaret Marshall, William
Hislop. Ann. his wife: William Sutton.
Sally. his wife: Richard stevens, Mary
Beverley, his wife; Joseph Sutton. Judy,
his wife: Lucy Carter, Robert Carter.
in deed conveying land to william
Dcerson. i
Deed Book L., p. ass. Date of deed,
April is. 17ss. Deed from Rice Curtis
| and Frances. his wife: Ann Curtis. John
Curtis, Sarah Curtis and Elizabeth
Curtis to William Carter.
| Deed Book u, p. 422. Date of deed,
October %, 1893. Deed between John
| Carter and Winifred, his wife, and John
| Nelson.
Deed Book u. p. 552 Date of deed,
May |, 1874. Deed from Captain John
Carter and Mary. his wife. and Mar
garet Marshall to DR.. Robert Wexford.
Bonds.
Bond Of John Chew az guardian OF
Robert Carter and Elizabeth Matilda
Carter. Bond given May IA. 1884. Will
Book 1772-179s. p $50
| Division OF Captain John Carters
estate August 2. 1884. Mentions wife.
Hannah: son. William son. Captain
John Rice Curtis and Frances his
Wife; Robert Goodloe and Martha, his
wife; William Hislop and Ann, his wife;
Captain John Marshall and Sarah, his
wife; Captain Richard Stevens and
Mary Beverly, his wife; Miss Lucy Car
ter. Miss Judy Carter, Miss Margaret
! Chew Carter. Mr.. Robert Carter, Miss
Elizabeth Matilda Carter and Misa
Sarah Kenyon Thomas.
|
tanned from Mr.. William G.. Stanard,
| who got them from Lancaster County):s
| Deed. Lancaster, May %, 1T49 from
John Carter. of Stafford. and Mary, his
| wife, conveying Ave acres in Lancaster.
| part of tract which Henry Carter by
his will, 1882, left to his son, GaryS
| Carter. and the said Gary Carter, dy-,
| ing intestate the land was inherited,
by his eldest brother, the said JohnI
Carter.
There was Henry Carter, Justice
of Lancaster. in 172S. Major Thomas
Carter. who died in 100. left a son.
Henry.
Tombs of Lees.
The following extracts from letter
from John w. C. Davis are so interest,"
ing to antiQuarians that we print
them.
THE first permanent settlement of
the Lee family was 'Matholic.' There
is the tomb of Richard CD Lee son of
the emigrant large oak tree mem
toned in his will Q714) was stand
ing in 1910. Proof from the county
records and from the old tomb
stones testifys that Governor Thomas
Lee, who built Stratford, and his son,
Richard Henry Lee, are buried near
the tomb OF Richard (2) Lee in the old
Matholic lmrying ground. From the
records it would appear that these
graves are all bricked up.
Il was present, a guest in the house,
when old Nomony Hail., the seat of
Councillor Carter. was burned In 1850.
we'll remember the house and can
furnish n plan of the old house. and a
picture of the house drawn by Il de-
scendant of Councillor Carter only q
few months before 1t burned Should
YOU wish to perpetuate these things.
there are only two or three now living
who remember the appearance and
arrangement OF the old house
1 ~ nf ha nj 10
not altogether correct-as proved by q
measurement of the old foundation
walls, still standing, made by Thomas
NJ Amest the present owner, and my
self.
Another old Colonial house OF this
Observation-Disclosures of the
old seats of the Corbins and Turber-
villes--was burned some fifteen or
twenty years ago. From my recollec-
tons, ana that of several of the old
occupants there yet living. 1 could get
up and furnish you drawings OF the old
house and It's internal arrangements.
Il own and live at Hickory Hill.'
the original seat OF the Tuherville
family. The old house was burned in,
1880, but have picture of the old
house drawn and painted under the
direction of my mother. who lived here
with her father. Major Robert Beale.
as the lady of the house. after her
mothers death for seven years before
the house burned. l have also tho
plan OF the house furnished by her:
and have myself eXcavated and meas
ured the old foundation walls. We
would ALL be glad to know more OF
many of the old places that are now
passed into oblivion, and it looks like
a great pity not to recover facts which
are yet available"
1t seems the fate of Virginia man..
sions TO be consumed by fire. Pecka-,
tone. Hickory Hill, Nomony. Carter's
Creek, the Amber House at James,
town, and many another within the
memory of man.
Tomlin.
! There were some errors in our Tom
lin genealogy printed some time ago
which we now correct.
First Robert Tomln married Re-
becca, probably Taylor, as he leaves
a legacy to my my brother George
Taylor and wife. Martha, son Robert
married Esther Walker. daughter.
John Walker, Issue two sons. Robert
and walker. Robert married Susan
nah Fauntleroy, issue eight children,
and unless there are unknown de-
scendants OF Moore Fauntleroy Tom
lin In MARYLAND there are no de-