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Joseph Carter (b. September 04, 1736, d. August 16, 1808)
Joseph Carter (son of Peter Carter and Judith Norris) was born September 04, 1736 in Prince William Co. Va., and died August 16, 1808 in Rye Cove,Russell Co.Va.. He married Elizabeth Presley.
Notes for Joseph Carter:
sons Thomas and Presley got Plantation. Servants willed to those who would retain them in slavery. (some of his kids had manumission ideas). Had about 720 acres.
Sutro Library microfiche g3/ g2739
death date from tombstone; birth date from his father, Peter's bible.
The part of Prince William county where Joseph grew up became part of new Fauquier County when it was created from Prince William IN 1759. JOSEPH CARTER was a private in the first company of militia known to have been organized in the new
county, in 1761 (see Fauquier county, Va Court Minutes 1759-1763, p. 155). Thomas Harrison took the oath as the new County Lieutenant at a court held 23 April 1761 and on William Edmonds' receiving his commission as captain of militia the
following 29 august, Harrison furnished Edmonds with a muster list of the officers and men who were to constitute his company. Joseph Carter's name is on this 1761 list -- as were the names of William Norris, William Russell, Thomas Porter, and
four Morgans (names intertwined with the Carter family). Captain Edmond 70 men were with the VA troops who fought in the French and Indian War. Joseph Carter was 25 years old.
Joseph married ca 1765/70 and enlisted for a 3 year term on 22 August 1777. (see national archives: War Department folder 231, 1 and 337, 1 (11 Virginia Regiment), folder 1 and 337 (15 Virginia Regiment); W.T.R. Saffell, Records of the
Revolutionary War (1858), PP 267-8; national #652 Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge & national #455902 DAR supplement. IN JAN 1778 HE WAS IN A DETACHMENT OF MEN UNDER THE COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GIBBS AND CAPTAIN
HARRIS IN THE 15TH VIRGINIA REGIMENT COMMANDED BY MAJ. G. B. WALLACE. In June 1778 Jsoeph Carter's company went to Paramus, NJ and then to White Plains, New York but he is listed on the muster rolls as casualty sick at Valley Forge. By Sept.
1778 he had rejoined Col Cropper's men at Camp Newark NJ as a foot soldier for the next 14 months. (The 11th and 15th regiments were combined in May 1778. On 30 Nov Joseph Carter became part of Lt. Col. John Cropper's company of Colonel
Morgan's Regiment, attached to General Woodford's Brigade.
Addington says (p 102) Carter's Fort in the Rye Cove, was built in 1784 by Thomas Carter and Joseph Carter. It was located on the farm now owned by Floyd Richmond, six miles west of Fort Blackmore, on the Boone and Porter's Road down the Clinch.
Norris Carter lived in Fort Blackmore until danger from the Indians was over. He then moved to his farm, where John Carter's family was killed and lived there until his death in 1816. It is reported that Thomas and Joseph Carter retreated to
Fort Houston on Big Moccasin for safety when their fort was threatened by Indians. The first settlement and fortifications were so weak that they were abandoned. Norris returned to Fort Blackmore, and Thomas and Joseph went to Black's Fort.
Later the Carter brothers returned to the Rye Cove and made a permanent settlement.
David Neeley and Wm Stewart were 2 Revolutionary vets who lived in the Rye Cove.
See DAR #455902 A671; #767015, #771445. Will on internet. In Russell co VA Will Book 2 pages 196-8
Children of Joseph Carter and Elizabeth Presley are:
- +Anna Carter, d. Aft. 1830.
- Judith Carter, d. 1828.
- +Mima Carter, b. 1772, Fauquier county Va., d., Scott county Va..
- +Elijah Carter, b. Abt. 1776, Fauquier county Va., d. Aft. 1850, Prop. Washington county Ark. territory.
- Elizabeth Carter, b. Abt. 1780, d. Aft. 1819.
- +Presley Carter, b. March 24, 1786, Russell,now Scott county Va., d. November 15, 1844.
- +Thomas Carter, b. Abt. 1789, Russell,now Scott county Va., d. Aft. 1860.

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