Ancestry of
Richard Evelyn Byrd

(1801–1872)

John Carter

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Richard Evelyn Byrd — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 40 
  • Father:
  • (probable) John Carter 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Bridget Benion   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1613 
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  • Death Date:
  • 10 Jun 1669 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Corotoman Plantation, Lancaster County, Virginia 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sarah Ludlow
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1663 
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  • Child:

  Robert "King" Carter (Ahnentafel No:20 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources claim John Carter was the son of William Carter of Casstown, Hereford, but most sources lean towards John and Bridget (Benion) Carter of London as his parents.

• Additional marriages for John Carter

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  • Spouse:
  • Elinor Eltonhead

• Sources for John Carter

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 1985, Vol. 61, p. 179.
  • 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), 105, 200.
  • ³ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 345, 724.
  • ⁴ Browning, Charles H., The Magna Charta Barons and their American Descendants, Philadelpha: (1898), 133.
  • ⁵ Carter, Jeff, Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc. (2012), 9-10, 16, 24-32.
  • ⁶ 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, 109.
  • ⁷ Jamestowne Society, Qualifying Ancestors, A1406, Record for John Carter.
  • ⁸ Keith, Charles P., The Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America 1889-1893 . . ., Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1893), 87-88.
  • ⁹ Pecdquet du Bellet, Louise, Some Prominent Virginia Families. Volume II, Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Company (1907), 199.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 662.
  • ¹¹ Seversmith, Herbert Furman, Colonial Families of Long Island, New York and Connecticut, Washington, D.C.: typed manuscript (1939), Vol. 5, pp. 2096-2097.
  • ¹² Watson, Annah Robinson, Of Sceptred Race, Memphis, TN: Early Printing and Publishing Company (1910), 242.
  • ¹³ 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.
  • ¹⁴ Wikipedia, "Robert Carter I", (accessed 03/03/2010).