1652-1912 The Descendants of Capt. Thomas Carter Of “Barford,” Lancaster County, Virginia With Genealogical Notes of Many of the Allied Families By Joseph Lyon Miller, Published 1912 388 pages, indexed, searchable ***************************************************** Digital EBook Cd Requires Adobe Reader 7 or higher to View ***************************************************** $11.99 + $1.99 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/Thomas-Carter-Descendants-Lancaster-Co-Virginia-/130382808135?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e5b6bc447 “This volume is the record of a family that for two hundred and sixty years has played a part in the social, political andmilitary life of the Old Dominion and other States to the southand west. While many have held high places of trust and honor,the majority have not been mien of great wealth and publicposition, yet it is to their credit that they were good citizens.leading honorable lives—acting well their part in the local affairsof their neighborhoods, and always finding a place on the battlefieldfor principle's sake. We should not love our kindred alonefor their genius and glory, but also for their homely virtuesand domestic affections that expanded and flourished unobservedsave by the little world in which they moved. “The first of the family in Virginia was Capt. Thomas Carter,planter and tobacco trader, said to have been the son of a Londonmerchant, though it is pretty well established that ''gentle bloodcoursed through his veins." Among his descendants have been vestrymen, justices, sheriffs, legislators, congressmen, circuit andsupreme court judges and candidates for Governor ; and in militaryaffairs they have ranged from private to brigadier-general. In the hundreds of wills, deeds and other papers of the Carterfamily examined, but one man made his mark; and in the inventoriesof their personal estates for two and a half centuriesthe possession of books is recorded in all. “A noticeable fact is that many of the Carters of Virginia as well as elsewhere, though they cannot give a connected account of theirancestry beyond the Revolution, are by '"tradition" descendantsfamous old "King Carter of Corotoman,'" whose immense wealth has enabled his descendants to hold on to the splendid old homesof his sons, and the frequent appearance in print of accountsof these has done much to spread and maintain this idea. These"traditions" have been particularly hard to shake even in thelight of comprehensive data to the contrary from the originalpublic records.” The first (wooden) Christ Church in Lancaster County was built by John Carter in 1670. His son Robert current built the brick Historic Christ Church structure in 1730 (pictured). Many Carter descendants were members, and are buried in its cemetery.