This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Carter in AL Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SU.2ADI/2378.2.1 Message Board Post: The info you posted seems to fit my William Jasper Carter! Thanks! He didn't have a brother named James that I know of. He might have had an Uncle. His dad's name was Richard Wilkins Carter - born in GA, married in GA, and first child was born in GA. He shows up in Tallapoosa County AL on the 1840 census. On the 1850 census in Tallapoosa County AL, his son Charles is listed as being 15 and being born in GA. Let me know if you find anything else.