Mary (Hepworth) Carter (1714 - aft. 1774)

Born 1714 in Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina [uncertain]

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Died after 8 Mar 1774 after age 60 in St. John Parish, Georgia [uncertain]

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Biography

Family of Origin

Thomas Hepworth [Mary's father] was buried in Charleston 13 May 1728. He was survived by his wife, Anne, and five children: Anne (m. John Barksdale), Elizabeth (m. James Kilpatrick), Mary (m. Robert Nesbit & Thomas Carter), Sophia [m. Joshua Toomer], and Thomas.^[1]

Family of Consent

First, Mary Hepworth and Robert Nesbit were married in February 1730 in St Philip's Parish, Charles Town, South Carolina.^[2]

With some citation notations, the following related website, Thomas Carter of Liberty County, provides an informative history of land transactions of Mary's second husband. Among the timeline entries that have not been independently verified are that Mary Hepworth was the widow of Robert Nesbit, daughter of Thomas Hepworth and Ann Rawlins.

Thomas Carter married Mary Hepworth. She is named in his will as Mary Carter.^[3] It would be unusual for their son Hepworth Carter to have the forename that he does had his mother not been Mary Hepworth. Since Mary was alive at the time of the will, her birth date is adjusted accordingly.

Mary Hepworth was born in Charleston, South Carolina, a daughter of Thomas Hepworth and Anne Rawlins. Thomas was Recorder of the City of Charleston, in 1723, and was Chief Justice of the Province of South Carolina. ^[4]

The home that Mary grew up in is the oldest house in Beaufort County, and listed on the National Historic Register. Photographs of the home are readily available online, and a write up is found here: https://www.cityofbeaufort.org/DocumentCenter/View/610/Hepworth-Pringle-House-Historic-Sites-Survey-1997-PDF

In February, 1730, in the St Phillips Church in Charleston, Mary married Robert Nisbett. Mary was about 16 years of age at the time. Robert died and was buried on February 11, 1732, in the churchyard of the St Philips Church.

Mary married, secondly, Thomas "of Liberty County" Carter. Legal document identify Thomas Carter's wife as "late Mary Nisbett" November 19 & 20, 1747, BUYS PROPERTY IN BERKELEY COUNTY SC "Book D-D, p 330 (Land & Records). John Moultrie, surgeon, of Charleston, to Thomas Carter, planter, of St. John's Parish, Berkeley County, for 300 SC money, 400 a. in Berkeley County., bounding SW & SE on vacant land; N on John Nelson; NW on Peter De St Julien. Witnesses: Richard Butler, Leopold Boudon. Before James Mickie, J. P. John Beale, D. P. R." [SOUTH CAROLINA DEED ABSTRACTS 1719 - 1772 VOL II, Abstracted by Clara A. Langley, Southern Historical Press, p 165.] More witnesses, from p343, same source, James Russell and Stephen Toussiger, Jr.

Children of Mary and Thomas Carter are:

• Ann Carter, born circa 1748, died in 1809, married Joseph Oswald, of Liberty County, Georgia, mother of Thomas Hepworth Oswald ^[5]

• James Samuel Carter, born circa 1749, died in 1806, married Martha Donnom 1759-1823

• Hepworth Carter, born 1750, died 1815

• Edward "Alexander" Carter, born 1751, died 1821

• Enoch Carter, born circa 1753

• Catherine Carter, born circa 1757, died circa 1819

• Charles Thomas Carter, born circa 1759, died 1788

• Isaiah Carter, born 1764, died 1817

• Mary Carter, born circa 1770, died circa 1800

Mary (Hepworth) Carter died in 1775, in Liberty County, Georgia, at the age of 60. ^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Edgar, Walter B, ed and Bailey, N Louise, assoc ed. Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives: Vol II: The Commons House of Assembly, 1692-1775. 1977, p. 314-5. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, as cited at Joan Marie Gross Doughty Geneanet entry from Thomas Hepworth, Chief Justice South Carolina (ca. 1680-1727).
2. ↑ Salley, A S Jr, editor. Register of St Philip's Parish, Charles Town, South Carolina, 1720-1758. 1904, p. 161. Charleston, SC: Walker, Evans & Cogswell Company for A S Salley, Jr.
3. ↑ Carter, Thomas (1774-03-17). Wills, Colony of Georgia, RG 49-1-2, Georgia Archives. Will date 8 Mar 1774.
4. ↑ Biographical Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Carolina, by John Belton, O'Neall, Volume I, Charleston, South Carolina, 1859 page xiii
5. ↑ https://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A214071
6. ↑ https://gw.geneanet.org/cousinjeanne?lang=en&pz=joan+marie&nz=gross&p=mary&n=hepworth

Acknowledgments

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