Individual Details

Nancy married Thomas Thompson

Posted on the Giles_Carter Yahoo group, 6 Mar 2013:
Theodrick Carter, II and Anne Waddill were the parents of Nancy Waddill Carter.
Anne Waddill was baptized January 24, 1713, according to the register of St. Peter's parish,
which encompassed New Kent County. Her parents were William and Susanna (maiden name
unknown) Waddill. [not certain that she was Susanna...] William was elected vestryman of St. Peter's, on June 1, 1704, and served in
this capacity for at least thirty-five years. Susanna died March 7, 1720 or 1721. [A Susanna Waddill died, but no other names suggested - she may or may not have been William's wife.]
William's parents were John and Agnes (maiden name unknown) Waddill. John appears in
the records of New Kent County as early as 1689. He died December 20, 1709; Agnes died
February 8, 1716.
The author James Branch Cabell was a descendant of John Waddill. He discussed the
Waddills in his book The Majors and Their Marriages.
Theodrick Carter and Anne Waddill lived for a time in New Kent County. According to the
register of St. Peter's parish, their first child John was baptized on October 30, 1737.
Theodrick appeared in the Amelia County tithables list of June 10, 1747 in John Nash's
district (this area became part of Prince Edward County in 1754); he is absent from the list Nash
compiled for the same district on June 10, 1745. He must therefore have migrated from New
Kent County to present-day Prince Edward County sometime between these two dates.
Nancy was born June 15, 1749, probably at her father's estate "Hickory Hill" (also known as
"Hickory Grove"). According to tradition, the house was built around 1750; however, it may have
been built three years earlier, since we know that Theodrick was living in John Nash's tax district
on June 10, 1747.
John Wood's 1820 map of Prince Edward County shows the location of Hickory Hill. Two
miles west of Hampden-Sydney College is the notation "Capt. Carter's." Captain Carter was
Samuel Carter, Nancy's brother. Samuel inherited Hickory Hill from his father in 1777.
Destroyed by fire in 1933, Hickory Hill was described four years later in the Works Projects
Administration survey of Prince Edward County homes:
Hickory Hill was not a show place except for its splendid boxwood and cedar hedge
and lovely gardens. It was a plain frame house, or rather two houses connected by a little
square room. The first of these traditions says it was built in 1750, a story and a half with
small rooms except for one large reception room, which was beautifully paneled, and with
one side of carved oak.
The other part of the house was built by William H. Venable, when he bought the
plantation in 1853 from Edward Alexander Carter [Samuel's son]. Mr. Venable built a
large, square, two-story frame building, with large rooms and ample halls. The many
outbuildings around the mansion house made the place quite a little settlement. The large
grove of hickories flanking it on the south gave the place its name.
Nancy's father was one of Prince Edward County's most prominent planters. He purchased
975 acres in old Amelia County on September 20, 1748, and bought and sold other parcels of land up to the time of his death. A member of the Anglican church, Theodrick offered 300 acres of land to St. Patrick's parish for its use as a glebe, or plot of land granted to the local clergyman as part of his benefice during his tenure of office.

Birth

15 Jun 1749

prob Prince Edward County, Virginia

Father	Theodorick Carter II ( - 1778)
Mother	Anne Waddill ( - )
Sibling	Susannah Carter ( - )
Sibling	John Carter (1737 - 1781)
Sibling	Theodorick Carter III ( - 1805)
Sibling	William Carter ( - )
Sibling	Richard Carter ( - )
Sibling	Waddill Carter ( - )
Sibling	Molly Carter ( - )
Sibling	Sarah "Sally" Carter ( - )
Sibling	Samuel Carter ( - 1830)