Carter Thompson (1773 - 1838)

Born 12 Apr 1773 in Prince Edward County, Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Nancy (Morton) Thompson — married 12 Jan 1797 in Prince Edward Co, Virginia, USA

Descendants

Died 16 Dec 1838 at age 65 in Chipola, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, USA

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Biography

Carter Thompson, the second child of Thomas Thompson and Nancy Waddill Carter, was born April 12, 1773 in Prince Edward County, Virginia.^[1]

Marriage

On January 12, 1797^[1] Carter Thompson married Nancy Morton, the daughter of John Morton and Mary Elizabeth Anderson.^{[2] [3]} Nancy was twenty-eight years old at the time of the marriage, which occurred less than two months after her father's death.

1807 Emigration to Kentucky

Carter was deposed in Virginia for a lawsuit involving his mother's brother Samuel Carter in September, 1805. The last signature on the deposition was that of Major James Morton, the brother of Nancy Morton. ^[4]

He and Nancy moved with his family from Virginia to Kentucky in 1807. That he moved to Kentucky sometime after November, 1806, is indicated by the following notation from a Prince Edward County court case involving his brother James:

on the motion of [James Thompson] by his attorney a commission is awarded him to examine and take the deposition of Carter Thompson who is about to remove from the State ^[5]

Other family members had already emigrated to Logan County, Kentucky as evidenced by the November 7, 1806 issue of the Russellville Mirror containing a notice which informed Thomas [father] and James [brother] that they should claim letters addressed to them at the Russellville post office.^[6]

Butler County was formed taking part of Logan County in 1810.

Carter and his household are found in the Butler County Kentucky Census in 1810 with a family of nine (6 sons, 1 daughter) and four slaves. ^[7]

In 1815 Carter Thompson was appointed Surveyor in Butler County

On the motion of John Harreld, the Court Doth appoint Carter Thompson Surveyor of the road from the Old furnace at Berrys Lick to Thompson's mill. Further Ordered that the hands in the following bounds assist said Surveyor to Open and Keep Said road in Repair 20 feet wide agreeably to Law. Beginning at Carter Thompson's thence to Include Seth Colley thence to Include James Thompson's old place thence to include John Davidson thence to Include James McCormack thence to include Charles D. Hill thence to include Moses Read, thence to the Beginning.^[8]

Emigration to Louisiana

Carter last appears on the Butler County tax lists in 1826. Sometime after this date he moved to Louisiana. He was enumerated in the 1830 Louisiana census in Covington, the seat of St. Tammany Parish. His oldest son Hezekiah had married in St. Tammany Parish in 1819; he was a partner in a consortium which owned steamships and barges on Lake Pontchartrain. A March 8, 1833 list of voters in St. Tammany Parish contains the names of Carter and his sons Hezekiah, James, and Samuel.^[1] A reference to a runaway slave held in a Baton Rouge jail probably lists our Carter Thompson as the slave's owner. ^[9]

Family Bible Records

Thomas Thompson and Nancy Waddill Carter had eight children, according to a Bible which, in the 1920s, was in the possession of Mrs. Octavia Gayden Tullis. The inside back cover of the Bible had this inscription: "Carter Thompson's Holy Bible, August 14th 1819." Carter Thompson was Mrs. Tullis' great-grandfather.

The Bible record also listed Carter's children and the children of his father-in-law John Morton. In 1929 Mrs. Tullis sent three letters and a transcript of the Bible record to Dr. Joseph D. Eggleston, who she hoped could provide information about the Thompson and Morton families. Dr. Eggleston, a past president of Hampden-Sydney College, spent much of his life investigating Prince Edward County's history. The letters exchanged by Mrs. Tullis and Dr. Eggleston are preserved in the manuscripts section of the Virginia Historical Society (Genealogical Papers of Dr. Joseph Dupuy Eggleston, Morton Family File). ^[1]

Carter Thompson's Family Bible record was published by the Louisiana Genealogical and Historical Society in 1961 in "Be It Known and Remembered: Bible Records." ^[10]

Issue of Carter Thompson and Nancy Morton

• Hezekiah Morton Thompson b. October 22, 1797^[1]
• Thomas W. Thompson b. June 4, 1801^[1]
• John Morton Thompson b. August 30, 1802^[1]
• Nancy Carter Thompson Hill b. March 10, 1804^[1]
• Obediah Morton Thompson b. June 22, 1806^[1]
• Samuel Carter Thompson b. March 23, 1808^[1]
• Benjamin Woodson Thompson b. November 23, 1809^[1]
• James Anderson Thompson b. September 2, 1811^[1]
• Mary Anderson Thompson Wells b. August 10, 1813^[1]

The last public record which mentions Carter Thompson is a deed for two acres of land being transferred from Walthall and Teresa Burton to the trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church (now called the Darlington United Methodist Church), located in St. Helena Parish, Chipola, LA. The unincorporated community of Darlington, Louisiana may have been named for Darlington Heights, the town the Thompsons lived near in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Carter Thompson signed the Deed on April 30, 1838 as a witness.^[11]

Carter died Dec. 16, 1838, Chipola, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, USA and is buried at Darlington Methodist Church Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, USA.^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12} The Thompson Book
2. ↑ Dodd, Jordan. Virginia, Compiled Marriages, 1660-1800 [1]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.
3. ↑ Marriage bonds, 1788-1862. Prince Edward County (Virginia). County Clerk. Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1950, Richmond, Virginia : Filmed by the Virginia State Library, 1984. Marriage bonds, 1796 (con't. from previous film)-1802. DGS 007741922. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91Z-VDHH?i=224&cc=2134304&cat=1117403.
4. ↑ Virginia Chancery Records, Prince Edward, Samuel Carter v. Mildred Lewis. State Library of Virginia. https://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=147-1808-011. see image: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Thompson-3147-1
5. ↑ James Thompson v. Aaron Lindsey, Prince Edward County Order Book 15, November, 1806 term, page 380.
6. ↑ Thompson, Barney, (1995) The Thompson Family of Prince Edward County, Virginia, Butler and Trigg Counties, Kentucky, and the Florida Parishes of Louisiana: The Descendants of Thomas Thompson, 1740-1810. (a.k.a. "The Thompson Book.") Online Edition of the Thompson Book. Archive.org, archived 31 Jan 2017, Chapter One: Thomas Thompson and Nancy Waddill Carter. Archive.org, archived 31 Jan 2017.
7. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1810 United States Federal Census #[2]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.
8. ↑ "BUTLER COUNTY, KY.—ORDER BOOK B." Register of Kentucky State Historical Society 42, no. 140 (1944): 187-214. Accessed May 20, 2021. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23378276., Butler County Order Book B
9. ↑ Vicksburg (Miss.) Whig. September 27, 1837. Page 3. see image: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Thompson-3147
10. ↑ Carter Thompson Family Bible Records. Be it known and remembered: Bible records. Louisiana Genealogical & Historical Society (Baton Rouge, Louisiana). Baton Rouge, Louisiana : Louisiana Genealogical & Historical Society, 1960-1967, 1992. Vol. 2, pages 208-210.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} Find a Grave, database and images : accessed 20 May 2021), memorial page for Carter Thompson (12 Apr 1773–16 Dec 1838), Find A Grave: Memorial #143601886, citing Darlington Methodist Church Cemetery, St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, USA; Maintained by Jack Mitchell (contributor 46600245).