Elizabeth Carter was born in Lancaster County, Virginia about 1725; the daughter of Robert Carter and Priscilla Churchill.[1]
Mr. Charles P. Keith writes to me in regard to the marriage of Francis Willis to Elizabeth Carter: [2] Robert Carter, of Nomini, married Priscilla, dau. of William Churchill, and had Robert, commonly called Councillor Carter, and Elizabeth, who married Willis.
Robert, of Nomini, was son of Robert (King) Carter by his 2d wife, Betty Landon."On 30 Sep 1742, she married Francis Willis in Gloucester County.
Elizabeth died before 1773."To George Washington from Francis Willis, 7 February 1774.” [3]
"Willis's wife Elizabeth Carter Willis was dead before 1773, and he and his first cousin Lewis Willis, it would seem, courted Daniel French's widow, Penelope Manley French of Rose HIll in Fairfax County. Lewis Willis's late first wife was Mary Champe Willis, and he took his sister-in-law Anne Carter Champe as his second wife in 1773."
QUISENBERRY, HUMPHREY, 30 Jan. 1773; 24 Sept. 1776.
Estate to wife and three children by her, viz:
Elizabeth,
Peggy and
John,
dau. Anne Piper 2 negroes;
dau. Mary Marshall 1 negro;
dau. Bethlune Burshaw 2 negroes;
son in law John Pope 5 shillings;
exrs. John Carter Senr. and Presley Neale.
Sources
↑ Tyler, Lyon G. “Willis Family.” The William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 3, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (1897). Footnote, p. 172. JSTOR.
↑ "On page 1 of my Addenda to Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, you will see that
↑Founders Online. National Archives, Founders. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 9, 8 January 1772 – 18 March 1774, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1994, pp. 467–468.]
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robert carter of namomi 1704–1732
Priscilla Churchill mp m 1732 1705–1757
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