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George Carter I

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George Carter I

Birth
Hague, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA
Death
19 Jul 1846 (aged 69)
Oatlands, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Son of Robert "Councillor" Carter and Frances Ann Tasker, and great-grandson of Robert "King" Carter. George is the 15th of 17 children. Occupation: Planter

Young George's share of the Carter land empire came down to three tracts, the largest covering some 3400 acres just south of the little town of Leesburg. Oatlands currently encompasses 261 acres.

Alma mater: College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (now Brown University).

Married Elizabeth Osborne Grayson Lewis Carter on Nov 10 1825, Loudoun, Virginia. He was 58, she was 39.

Oatlands, built in 1804 outside Leesburg, Virginia by a great slaveholder named George Carter (1777-1846). Carter didn't live to see it, but in the wake of the Civil War his son, George II, was reduced to running Oatlands as a boarding house.

Children:

George Carter II (1838-1926, Middleburg, Loudoun, VA) m. Catherine W. Powell (CSA)

Benjamin Grayson Carter
Son of Robert "Councillor" Carter and Frances Ann Tasker, and great-grandson of Robert "King" Carter. George is the 15th of 17 children. Occupation: Planter

Young George's share of the Carter land empire came down to three tracts, the largest covering some 3400 acres just south of the little town of Leesburg. Oatlands currently encompasses 261 acres.

Alma mater: College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (now Brown University).

Married Elizabeth Osborne Grayson Lewis Carter on Nov 10 1825, Loudoun, Virginia. He was 58, she was 39.

Oatlands, built in 1804 outside Leesburg, Virginia by a great slaveholder named George Carter (1777-1846). Carter didn't live to see it, but in the wake of the Civil War his son, George II, was reduced to running Oatlands as a boarding house.

Children:

George Carter II (1838-1926, Middleburg, Loudoun, VA) m. Catherine W. Powell (CSA)

Benjamin Grayson Carter


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