Robert Carter III
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Robert Carter III was an American planter and politician from the Northern Neck of Virginia. During the colonial period, he sat on the Virginia Governor's Council for roughly two decades. After the Am
Portrait by Thomas Hudson, 1753
First Families of Virginia
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The First Families of Virginia are a group of early settler families who became a socially and politically dominant group in the British Colony of Virginia and later the Commonwealth of Virginia. They
Robert Carter III
…County, Virginia authorities, and settled many freedmen on land he gave them. Carter died in Baltimore, Maryland in 1804. Carter was born into one of the First Families of Virginia, as a grandson of Virginia land baron Robert "King" Carter of Corotoman. In 1732, both his father and grandfather died within four months of each other…
Mann Page II of Rosewell, painted by John Wollaston. The Rosewell plantation was called one of the finest homes in colonial America and built of brick imported from England.
Pocahontas by Simon de Passe
James Blair
Richard Bland