Corotoman Estate, Lancaster County, Virginia

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Lancaster County, Virginia
Surnames/tags: Carter Slavery Black_Heritage

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Introduction

The Corotoman Estate was the Virginia estate owned by the Carter family from 1653 until 1862. Christ Church was built upon it in the 1730s. For its first seventy-five years Corotoman’s fields, forests, waters, and buildings were worked by black slaves and white indentured servants. From 1735 until the end of the Civil War, Corotoman Estate was worked only by the enslaved, as the terms of the indentured had expired.

Acknowledgement

There is a great amount of research on the enslaved at Corotoman. The Corotoman Slave Histories ^[1] are an exceptional resource from which this profile has been created in part. The histories of the slaves of Corotoman were made available online in 2016 by Patrick Heffernan, Ph.D., a volunteer researcher at Historic Christ Church & Museum. Dr. Heffernan has now made available the Corotoman Servant Database. See the source below.

Owners and the Slaves of Corotoman

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John Carter, aka Col. John Carter 1613 - 1670

See Slaves of John Carter I

John Carter II 1648 - abt. 1690

See Slaves of John Carter II

Robert "King" Carter (1663 - 1732) owned 17 plantations

See: Robert 'King' Carter Plantations, Virginia

See: Slaves of Robert Carter III, Virginia

John "Secretary" Carter (1696–1742) son of Robert King Carter

Charles and Shirley Carter (1732 - 1806) son of John "Secretary" Carter

Hill Carter (1757 - 1829) son of Charles Hill Carter

George Carter, Esq. 1761 - bef. 1788 son of Charles Hill Carter

Sources

1. ↑ https://christchurch1735.knack.com/corotomanslaves#lifestories/

• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corotoman
• Corotoman Servant Database: https://www.christchurch1735.org/research/research-room/corotoman-servant-database
• The Corotoman Slave List: https://christchurch1735.knack.com/corotomanslaves#images/