The Carters of Greene County, Tennessee an Early American Frontier Family
Publisher: Dr. John Denton Carter
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Biloxi, Mississippi
Format: pdf
Number of pages: 63
Description: Dr. John Denton Carter after years of study and research presents a history of John Carter Sr. with brothers; one such individual Levi Carter Sr. in a detailed account of their sojourn from New Jersey through the Pennsylvania and Virginia wilderness of the 1770’s.
Table of contents: title: Dr. John Denton Carter after years of study and research presents a history of John Carter Sr. with brothers; one such individual Levi Carter Sr. in a detailed account of their sojourn from New Jersey through the Pennsylvania and Virginia wilderness of the 1770’s.; title: Settling in Surry County, North Carolina, participating in the Revolutionary War and instrumental in the victory of King’s Mountain, which led to the surrender of Cornwallis and the defeat of the British.; title: Eventually settling in Washington County, North Carolina 1780-1781, later to become Greene County, Tennessee. The Carters began to homestead prime Native lands.; title: Dr. Carter, using literary license coupled with documented facts gives a good account of explaining the Carter advancements on the Native frontier.; title: Dr. John Denton Carter, obviously with a love of family history, wrote several other books on the subject, “The Munsey ancestors of Rhoda Munsey Weems Carter (1814-1899), of Russell County, Virginia, and Newton County, Missouri” in 1969 and “Rhoda Munsey Weems Carter a pioneer Methodist mother of the upper south” in 1977.; title: This publication; “The Carters of Greene County, Tennessee an American Frontier Family” contains all the original 53 pages from the book, followed by a summation by Floyd Thomas Pratt.; title: Contains documented evidence of each locale the Carters lived and Dr. Carter injects local history concerning some key players of the American frontier.; title: Good reading offering a glimpse into the pioneer mentality of the white American 18th century expansionism.; title: Surnames contained: Allen, Cain, Campbell, Carter, Cleveland, Core, Cornwallis, Crockett, Dunmore, Ferguson, Fiske, Franklin, Gates, Goodwin, Granville, Greene, Hardin, Hartley, Haymond, Houston, Isaacs, Jackson, de Kalb, Marion, Martin, McGown, McDowell, Morgan, Owens, Powell, Rogers, Ross, Rutherford, Sevier, Shelby, Templeton, Tipton, Trimble, Washington, Walker, Williams, Winston.; title: 63 pages formatted as a .pdf file on a cd or emailed (please specify) $35.00; title: Can be ordered from Floyd Pratt email floydpratt59@gmail.com for a flyer and order form