A recent post and subsequent comments deserve more explanation. It was the home of Robert Carter III, aka "Councilor" (a moniker I don't think he deserves), of WESTMORELAND County. He was the grandson of Robert "King" Carter, and great grandson of Col. John Carter, founder of this line, also of LANCASTER County. I will only here quote from Mary R. Miller's *Place Names of the Northern Neck* _____ "Nomini Hall. Tract. Westmoreland County. South of Machodac and Beales Corner near Howell's Fork. "The tract at one time contained 3500 acres. Built about 1730 or 1732 by Robert "King" Carter for Councillor Robert Carter (b 1726), his grandson, the house was destroyed by fire in 1850, but not before being immortalized in the Journal and Letters of Phillip Vickers Fithian, the tutor of the Carter children. An avenue of tulip poplars leads to the eighteeth-century house site." ________ While the house no longer stands, it is still the site of the annual event sponsored by the Northern Neck of Virginia HIstorical Societyto commorate the largest manumission of slaves in Virginia, by Robert "Councilor" Carter III of Nomini Hal in 1793--great grandson of Col. John Carter of Corrotoman, Lancaster County. (He actually filed this in District Court at Northumbland County, where it remains of record.) See also: Andrew Levy, "The First Emancipator, The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, The Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves" (New York: Random House, 2005) and John Fea, "The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America" (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) Craig P.S. I will first mention this here, and will again. Most of you here could save a lot of time and money if you would simpy usr the searchable on-line catalog available to you at not charge from your very own own chair libary by clicking on (and using) this simple and absolutely free site: mbwm.org >From that home page, click on the the "SEARCH OUR CATLOG"