Ancestry of
Richard Evelyn Byrd

(1801–1872)

Robert "King" Carter

View famous kin of Robert Carter

• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Richard Evelyn Byrd — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 20 
  • Father:
  • John Carter 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Ludlow   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1662 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Aug 1732 
  • Death Location:
  • Corotoman Plantation, Lancaster County, Virginia 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Christ Church Cemetery, Irvington, Lancaster, Virginia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Judith Armistead
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1688 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Elizabeth Carter

  John Carter (Ahnentafel No:10 )

  • Notes: 

  • aka King Carter

• Additional marriages for Robert "King" Carter

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  • Spouse:
  • Elizabeth "Betty" Landon
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1701

• Sources for Robert "King" Carter

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 06/23/2014).
  • ² Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 34-35, 105, 200.
  • ³ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 342, 345.
  • ⁴ Carter, Jeff, Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc. (2012), 9.
  • ⁵ Dorman, John Frederick, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th ed., Vol. 1, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 435, 440.
  • ⁶ Dorman, John Frederick, ed., The Virginia Genealogist, 1986, Vol. 30, p. 246.
  • ⁷ Faris, John T., Historic Shrines of America: Being the Story of One Hundred and Twenty Historic Buildings and the Pioneers Who . . ., New York: George H. Doran Company (1918), 280.
  • ⁸ Glenn, Thomas Allen, ed., Some Colonial Mansions: and Those Who Lived in Them, Vol. 1, Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates and Company (1898), 225-235, 426.
  • ⁹ Hardy, Stella Pickett, Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy of Colonial Families Who Settled . . ., New York: Tobias A. Wright (1911), 22, 84, 109-110.
  • ¹⁰ Jamestowne Society, Qualifying Ancestors, A1407, Record for Robert (King) Carter.
  • ¹¹ Keith, Charles P., The Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America 1889-1893 . . ., Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1893), 14-15, 36, 88.
  • ¹² Landon, James Orville, Landon Genealogy: The French and English Home and Ancestry with Some Account of the Descendants of . . ., New York: Clark Boardman Co., Ltd. (1928), 31.
  • ¹³ Pecdquet du Bellet, Louise, Some Prominent Virginia Families. Volume II, Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Company (1907), 199, 233.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 662.
  • ¹⁵ Seversmith, Herbert Furman, Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut, Washington, D.C.: typed manuscript (1939), Vol. 5, p. 2097.
  • ¹⁶ Watson, Annah Robinson, Of Sceptred Race, Memphis, TN: Early Printing and Publishing Company (1910), 242.
  • ¹⁷ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 18.
  • ¹⁸ Wikipedia, "Robert Carter I", (accessed 03/03/2010).