That is great news about your cousin agreeing to do the DNA test! I look forward to
learning the results.
Where are you currently in the process? Has the Kit been ordered? Has the sample been
done? Has the Kit been returned?
From: SRogers1NM(a)aol.com
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:51:30 -0500
To: carter-dna(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [CARTER-DNA] Concerning the Carter and Trent Co.
Hi, Holly. Thanks so much for responding to my inquiry about Carter and
Trent. I was hoping there might be some documents so that I could find out
if my Rockingham Co., VA, Francis Carter might have been an employee or if
he or his in-laws the Taylors were clients. Recently, a distant cousin,
who is a son of Francis Carter has agreed to submit a DNA sample. I can
barely stand the suspense waiting to have the test analyzed.
In a message dated 2/23/2012 4:20:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
holly_carter_dunlap(a)hotmail.com writes:
Sorry, I don't know of any archived documents. The only information I
have seen on this topic is what is posted on Dick Zieman's website:
http://www.danielsfamilytree.com/focal.php?id=31411&cs=brown&lang...
================
William Tatham and the Culture of Tobacco, by G. Melvin Herndon: [see next
for errors]
"Tatham's father [of Lancaster] sent him to a branch ** of Carter and
Trent on the James
River in Amherst Co. "to be brought up in the commercial pursuits of the
tobacco trade".
"Tatham removed to the western frontier in search of adventure and
fortune ...
John Carter, a good friend and a relative of his former employer was
already well
established in the Tennessee country." Per his own notes, Tatham arrived
in 1769.
================
According to Dick's website, the Carter of "Carter and Trent Co." was
Edward Carter, son of John Carter & Elizabeth Hill. Or as Dick calls him
"Edward Hill Carter of Blenheim".
Portraits of John Carter & Elizabeth Hill can be found on the Shirley
Plantation website:
http://shirleyplantation.com/shirley's_history.html
Dick has John Carter of Watauga listed as a grandson of Robert "King"
Carter by his son John and an unknown mother which would make John Carter of
Watauga a half-brother to Edward but I do not agree with that. The Y-DNA
Haplogroup of John Carter of Watauga has been established as "E". The Y-DNA
Haplogroup of Robert "King" Carter is still disputed but I do not think it
was "E".
There has been endless speculation about the relationship between John
Carter of Watauga and Robert "King" Carter. In my opinion, no one has been
able to make a good case for defining their relationship.
> From: SRogers1NM(a)aol.com
> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:13:49 -0500
> To: CARTER-DNA(a)rootsweb.com
> Subject: [CARTER-DNA] Concerning the Carter and Trent Co.
>
> Are any of the documents pertaining to the Carter and Trent Trading
Company
> archived anywhere? If they are, I would like to find out if they provide
> any information about who the employees and customers of the firm were.
> Sylvia Rogers
>
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