These are probably the only, genuinely “illustrious” ancestors I have in my direct lines, through his second wife Elizabeth Landon Carter. Their plantation house at Corotoman Creek was something else, especially for the era.
Their descendant, Landon Carter, was my fifth great grandfather, who fought in the Revolution in Virginia, and then settled in NC to live out the rest of his days. There were and are many men named Landon Carter, so the genealogy can be quite confusing.
Clarification: Elizabeth Landon was second wife of Robert “King” Carter, and not Robert, III.
Their wealth in the colonies could only remotely be rivalled by the Rensselaers of New York. Too bad none of it managed to descend to me, lol.