Individual Details

Samuel was a Revolutionary War Veteran.

Posted on the Giles_Carter Yahoo Group, 6 Mar 2013:
Thomas and Nancy Thompson probably named their fourth child in honor of her brother
Samuel Carter. Samuel distinguished himself in the military, in politics, and as a businessman. A
member of the 1st Virginia Regiment during the Revolutionary War, he and seven other officers
were granted the honor of personally welcoming the Marquis de Lafayette during the great soldier and statesman's visit to Richmond in October, 1824 (Richmond Enquirer, October 29, 1824, page 3). Samuel at various times held the county offices of sheriff, magistrate, and coroner; in 1805- 1806 he represented Prince Edward County in the Virginia Assembly. In the late 1790s he was a trustee of a company which improved navigation on the Appomattox River. Later, he became a charter trustee of the Junction Canal Company. In 1825 the company constructed a canal which linked the Appomattox and Little Roanoke rivers. John Wood's map of Prince Edward County shows Samuel's mill at the mid-point of this canal.
The May 4, 1830 issue of the Richmond Gazette carried the following notice of Samuel's
death:
Died, on the 29 ult. at his residence in Prince Edward county, Capt. Samuel Carter, in
the 76th year of his age. The disease which terminated his existence was of long standing
and grievous; but he bore it with the utmost patience, and met death with a firmness that
had characterized him throughout his long and useful life.
It cannot be necessary to lay before the public a particular detail of the useful part he
acted, during an arduous struggle for Liberty and Independence: let it suffice to say, he
embarked in the cause of freedom at the earliest period of our conflict with the Mother
County, and his zeal never abated or tired in its defence. He was in the battles at
Germantown, Long Island, Brandywine, and, in short, most of the hard-fought actions to
the North, in which he distinguished himself as an undaunted, intrepid officer and soldier.
His conduct and services after peace was established proved his ardent attachment to
pure republican principles, and is worthy of all praise. He was soon called to fill, and did
then also distinguish himself by a most happy, judicious exercise of his superior, natural,
mental endowments. No one knew man better than Capt. Carter; and no one did, or can
excel him in the possession of those rare qualities, which so pre-eminently fits man for
usefulness to his fellow man.
As a man, he was scrupulously just-- His hospitality was proverbial, and his charity,
which was exercised for charity's sake, knew no bounds. As a husband and a father, he
was affectionate and tender, almost to a fault-- As a master, he was kind and humane; and
his superior he has not left behind him,

Death

1830

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	Anne Waddill "Nancy" Carter (1749 - )
Sibling	Waddill Carter ( - )
Sibling	Molly Carter ( - )
Sibling	Sarah "Sally" Carter ( - )