The English Origin of the Carters; Wm. and Mary Qrtly., Vol. 1, No. 3

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The English Origin of the Carters

   W. G. Stanard

   William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, Vol. 1, No. 3.
   (Jan., 1893), p. 138.

                 THE ENGLISH ORIGIN OF THE CARTERS.

                       BY. W. G. STANARD.

   In his very full and carefully prepared "tree" of the Carter family, the late
Captain R. R. Carter, of Shirley, expressed his belief that John Carter, the
immigrant to Virginia (about 1649), was a son of William Carter of Carstown,
Hertfordshire, and of the Middle Temple, whose pedigree was entered in the
visitation of 1636.  Captain Carter appears to have founded his belief chiefly
on identity of arms, crest and motto; but further investigation shows that he
was in error.  An English correspondent informs me that William Carter of
Carstown, son of Robert Carter of the same place (who died 27th April, 1636),
was 21 years old and upwards, at the time of his father's death, and married
Mary, daughter of John Darnall, of Hastingfordbury.  By her he had divers
children, only two of whom survived at the time of his death, Nov. 9th, 1652,
viz:  William and Robert second son who died April 11th, 1664, aged 18, and was

buried, as was his father, at Bishop's Hatfield.  It thus would appear that
John Carter of Virginia, was not a son of William Carter of Carstown.  He may,
however, have been of the same family.