Posted on 09/04/2009 11:54:59 PM PDT by BGHater
The governement (the true slave masters here on earth) would have taken your familys’ wealth (sadly) long before you have seen 1 red cent of it (remember the modern progressives who run our government believe you don’t really own your familys’ wealth, ~neither does God, in their opinon, who is really master and owner~, you only get your wealth by privilage of the government according to THEM)!
His half-brother was a slave. Wow.
At another time, a poet wrote,
“The deed of gift was many deeds of war.”
Beautiful story. “King” Carter married into my grandmother’s family tree. He is my first cousin (in-law) 9x removed. I had nothing on his grandson Robert III. Thank you for posting.
Was this his first wife, Judith Armistead, or his second, Elizabeth Landon?
If Landon, howdy cousin. No idea how far removed, though.
Thanks for the ping Pharmboy. What a great man!
And Wildbill, I was a history major as well - at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) - and never heard of him either.
No, it was ‘King’ Carter’s first wife, Judith Armistead. Judith was the niece of my 8th ggmother, Catherine Beverley.
Make that the niece of my 7th ggmother (Catherine Beverley).
Beverly Plantation on the James was/is no slouch, either. Same family?
Ol’ Tippecanoe (President William Henry Harrison) was born there.
Related to him, too?
In the aftermath of the Civil War, a lot of things were written out of the history books. The victors get to write them, you know.
My screen name refers to what was once recognized as the beginning of the American Revolution. Then-famous quotes from that 1760’s “war” were attributed to New Englanders. The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was written off as a fraud. The good ladies of Edenton, NC, with their Tea Party, were ignored.
And, the most amazing snub of all, is that Jamestown, VA is overlooked in favor of Plymouth Rock, despite being established nearly twenty years earlier.
I try to pull such events, figures and even places from historical obscurity, whenever possible. We should know our real history, and not some sanitized, regionally biased account, based upon old grudges, from old wars.
The Revolution was won in the Carolinas and Virginia, with a big nod of thanks to backwoods “Over The Mountain Men” from a region that would soon be ceded by NC to form the great state of Tennessee in 1796. You don’t see that admitted very much, either, despite the rather obvious historical accounts that cannot be avoided.
What ever works to keep them in office. They can play the race and class cards equally skillfully from either side of the deck. It's easy to do that if you have no principle but the lust for power.
They’re all in my tree, but I’m not descended from them.
Robert Beverly, the historian who wrote the definitive history of Virgina in the early 1700s, was my 9th ggf. I don’t believe he was the owner the plantation.
IIRC (without checking my tree) King Carter and Judith Armistead’s daughter Judith married Mann Page of Rosewell Plantation. The home has quite an interesting history:
http://www.rosewell.org
I believe one of their daughters married into the Harrison family and the presidents are descended from them.
If you like my article about Robert Carter III that was posted here by BGHater, check out my facebook page for links to more of my articles: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/steve.simms2?ref=profile
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