John Carter of The Nest - from his Date Book of 1858This Document is also known as MSS 1858 in the Draper Manuscripts[Phases of the Moon - Nov & Dec 1858][

Thomas of Lexington is proven to be the nephew of the writer

and a son of Joseph. Old

Tom is Thomas Sr. while Great Grand Father is proven to be

Capt. Thomas Carter Jr of the Barford Plantation, also at Lancaster County and which was next door to RKC at Cotoromon. Remember

this was Thomas Jr. who was the Manager of Accounts for Robert, and who was not to be questioned in the settlement of the RKC estate].

This was transcribed from images posted by Mimi Long on the RKC site atMyFamily.com.Special Note: I have checked 99% of the information contained herein, and it is at least99% accurate - based on everything we know to date, some one hundred and fifty yearslater.

As a consequence, we all now have the complete and accurate first two generationsof Daniel Carter Sr. ..... and ..... some supporting evidence for the Uncles Joe, Tomand John who “went south”, John to Carolina

. This is a beginning to resolve theconfusion of the Thomas Carters of South Carolina and Georgia, including the allegedancesters of Teddy Roosevelt.January - Sunday 10 – 1858[Monday 11]Our old Ancestor"Our ancestors came to Virginia about two hundred years ago & settled in LancasterCounty. The first one of the Carters was my grandfather's grandfather Thomas Carter sonof a London merchant of good family.”I have heard said there was two brothers of them the other being a John Carter whosettled south of the river in Essex but further I can't say. And I have heard said we are kinto old Robert Carter who is buried at old Christ Church in this County but have neverfound out how. He was very rich-some say the richest man in Virginia.”Thomas Carter was just about 21 years old when he came to Lancaster and he was a manof substance and position as [Tuesday 12] a planter and tobbacco trader. He was marriedtwice First to an English woman whose name I’ve never heard. They had 2 or 3 childrenwho[January - Saturday 16 - 1858]She could talk by the hour about our people and I could tell you a great deal she said if you was here that is to relations? to put on paper. A few years agter aunt Fanny died Itried to write down what I could remember that she said about the Carters who they

married and where they lived. and about the same time I hunted up the wills of some of them one day at the Court HouseIt would appear that Uncle Tom is the subject of the missing section betweenWednesday, 10 February 1858 and Tuesday, 2 March 1858:“They had 6 sons and 3 daugh-“ which skips to “Wm. Panil the oldest, John, Bob, Joeand Daniel the youngest who was my father”, which is only five sons, of course.January - Friday 22 - 1858:Joe, Peter, James, Edward Dale, Charles, and Daniel my grandfather - your greatgrandfather - who was 3rd? son I think. The girls was [sic] Peggy and KatyGrandfathers bro. Tom was the oldest. [Saturday 23] of the family. He married a MifsJane Miller and died in 1735 and his will is at the c. house. He had 2 sons Jefse andTom. Aunt Fanny said they both went to Cumberland County when [Sunday 24] whenshe was a girl of fifteen or twenty and if they are like most of the others I guess? Thereare a good many Carters in Cumberland now. Joe Carter married a[January - Thursday 28 - 1858]in Westmoreland and had big families. James married a MiFs __________ and had JaRobert, Tom and Edward and 3 or 4 others. Tom of the Neales and Popes are descended[Friday 29] from him. Edward married a Mif Bettey (H) Neales and had sons George,John, Edward and Charles who all moved away after the [Saturday 30] War of Independence. I’ve forgotten where Aunt Fanny said they ??? Charles the youngest of Great grand fathers sons hadPage 3. of 7.twice. The first one I think was a MiFs Edwards and was the mother of his children. Thelast one was a widow I think but I don’t know her name. He had [Thursday 4] 6 sons and3 daughters named Jeduthan Augustine John Jesse Billy and James. The girls was [sic}Bell, Fanny and Ann. Jed. went south and I don’t know [Friday 5] whatever? became of him. Augustine and Aunt Fanny were engaged to be married but she got mad one timewhen he danced 2 or 3 times

* a disconnect in the photocopied pages - Uncle Tom, alleged ancestor of Teddy Roosevelt?

February - Tuesday 9 – 1858no wife or children - James died in his county 25 or 30 years ago bearing sons Hum-phrey, James, Dale and John.Wednesday 10Grandfather Daniel Carter had a good plantation of about 250 acres and about a dozenservants. He died in 1759 in his 59

year. He [Thursday 11] married a widow who was adaughter of William Pannill of Richmond county She died at the age of 81. They had 6sons and 3 daugh- *

Page 4. of 7.March - Friday 5 – 1858western part of the state & is reported to have been killed by Indians Uncle Joe and UncleTom after grandfather died moved to the southern counties Mecklenburg I think &[Saturday 6] John later on to Carolina They had big families but I don’t know anythingabout them. Robert had a quarrel with his father & left home before grandfather died andwas never heard of [Sunday 7] again The youngest son Daniel was my father & yourgrandfather. He married late in life Rac.... Smith & died Octo. 1?

[t.r. Uncle Tom is alleged ancestor to Teddy Roosevelt, although there is much confusionin GA]

March -Thursday 11 – 1858Company in the last war with England.Friday 12Page 5. of 7.March - Wednesday 17 – 1858was his cousin Kitty Rogers but I have forgotten the names of the other two. He had twosons Moses & Aaron and two or three daughters Kity * was one. They lived in St.Mary’s Parrish not far from old White Chaple Church. Aaron’s will is at the C. H. Hedied in 1779 and names his Martha and children Kitty, Molly, Willy, BettyFriday 19and Aron the girls all married here in the county and and their children are some of themhere yet Aron moved away I don’t know where.

Special Note: this section on the ancestors of Mr. Norborn Sutton is priceless!

March - Tuesday 23 - 1858Lancaster before the county was formed. He did not know the name of John’s father butI believe it was from Old ancestor Tom who had a son John. He said his John was married 3 times [Wednsday 24] – first to a Mifs Ball who was a sifter or a cousin to Gen.Wafing ton’s mother. She died and left him no children. He next married a Mifs Payneand had several daughters and a son Henry and [Thursday 25] none of these married hethinks. After she died he married a Mifs Tod from King and Queen and settled in thatCounty. She was anPage 6. of 7. March - Monday 29 – 1858married Curtis, Betty married Thomas and Sally married Sutton and was the mother of Mr. T. S. The last wife had son Robert never married and daughters [Tuesday 30] Marymarried Stevens Margaret Chow married Taliaferro Judy married Sutton, Lucy marriedTaliaferro and Lilly never married. He was [Wednesday 31] a Captn in the War of Independence and was a man of great means & fine style of living. His children all hadbig families all scattered everyhere John Carter first of Caroline