Samuel Carter (1733 - 1804)

Born 26 Dec 1733 in Ashton Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Barnes) Carter — married 27 Aug 1756 in Chester, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 6 Sep 1804 at age 70 in Chatham County, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

Samuel was a Friend (Quaker)

Samuel Carter served with Chatham County Regiment, North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

From the Carter book referenced below:

"Samuel Carter, probably the third child to be born to John and Isabel, was born at the Carter homestead on 26 Dec. 1733. The Chester Monthly Meeting Minutes under date of 27 Aug 1756, show that Samuel Carter was married by a "priest" (meaning a minister of some other church not in accordance to friend's custom). Samuel and Mary were thus "disowned", though they were each later restored to membership.

Samuel's father-in-law Brinsley Barnes and family migrated southward about 1758, with Samuel and Mary following them soon after.

They followed the course of Quaker migration to the south by crossing upper Maryland, across the Potomac in the Shenandoah Valley, between the Blue Ridge and the Appalachian Mountains, following the old Warriors Path, that had become known as the Wilderness Trail. Here they stopped for a few years in Rockingham Co., Virginia. There was a Quaker settlement on Smith Creek, not far from present day New Market, near Harrisburg. Two of their sons were born there, John and Edward. They may have stayed a short while in Halifax Co. before moving on into North Carolina.

There is evidence that Brinsley Barnes had bought land in Orange Co. (now Chatham Co.) as early as 1754 and that in 1767 had sold 150 acres to Samuel Carter. Samuel Carter built his mill on the Rocky River about 1765. he lived near the mill and operated it for the rest of his life and in 1802 willed it to his two sons Samuel and Mordecai. The mill was still grinding corn until 1945. It was torn down prior to 1959.

• Samuel Carter was a Revolutionary War soldier. He was listed on the Muster Role of Capt. Joab Brooks, Serving with him were his brothers-in-law Brinsley Barnes, Jun'r and John Barnes. (This is doubtful as he was a faithful Quaker although his son Edward did disavow the faith to fight in the Revolutionary War before the age of 15.)

Sources

• North Carolina State Archives, Military Collection: Troop Returns Chatham County, 1772, Box 2, folder 42.
• Online source for militia service North Carolina [1]
• Roster Of Capt. Joab Brook's Company, Chatham County, North Carolina Militia 1772 (Chatham County 1771- 1791, by Hadley, Horton, and Strowd (pp. 449-450). Original source materials located at the Archives and History Library, Raleigh, North Carolina) https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~dansgen/joabmil.htm
• Find A Grave: Memorial #155489482
• Book: Those Who Would Be Named "Carter": The First 300 Years in American (1682-1982). Liddell, Charles Marcus II, page 43-48

See also:

• Ancestral File # GC29-21 (familysearch.org)