Hilda,
Subject: Re: Carter-Warren Connections
Joe,
Sorry to take so long to respond, but I have been out of town, out of state, and off the
air.
Southwark Parish, Surry Co., VA records (church records) are virtually nonexistant.
Albemarle Parish records are alive and in print.....too bad our subjects spent most of
their lives in the former.
I have not found a marriage record for Richard CARTER (@1720) and Mourning ?. Dr. Barry
Hayes, retired prof of history at Sam Houston U, has been laboring over a manuscript
covering the first seven generations of Carters and related families in the New World.
His theory was that Mourning Carter was the daughter of Mourning BRYAN and Henry
Crafford. Henry left his will in Southampton in 1771, not mentioning daughter Mourning.
Barry took the problem to a Crafford kinsman, Lyndon Hart of the Virginia State Library.
Mr. Hart's reply; "I am also twice descended from the Craffords. Henry
Crafford's will does not mention but four children and there are suits in Southampton
regarding his property - only those four children are given as his heirs. This eliminates
Mourning from any consideration as a Crafford."
The Carters, Craffords, Kearneys, Gwaltneys, Warrens, Judkins, Bells, Newsoms, Cookes,
Moores, Littles, Browns and many other related families lived in an area known locally as
Pocatink. Parsons Creek is shown today as a tributary of Mill Swamp; it flows into Mill
Swamp from the east and roughly parallel to the Surry-Isle of Wight border. Just to the
east of Mill Swamp is Pouches Swamp and its tributary, Passenger Swamp, mostly in Surry.
Two centuries or so ago Mill Swamp and Pouches Swamp were connected to the Main Blackwater
by Rattlesnake Swamp which is today, however, only a swampy area about a mile wide.
I will try to reconnect with my "mentors" to see if more can be gleaned.
Chuck
Chuck,
I'm starting to follow-up on the Richard Carter- Mourning Crafford Marriage,
possible son Henry and then Crafford Carter, my known line. You had sent me a report
earlier in which you did not list Henry as the son of Richard and Mourning as you do on
the DNA web site. And I see you mentioned to Hilda (below)a Warren-Carter neighbor
connection. Hilda is also a descendent of Crafford Carter of Lincoln Co. Tn, still lives
in LCT and does the local research on the family.
So a few questions if you can help.
1) Where were Richard Carter- Mourning Crafford married or where did they live. This
may help narrow the search for Henry. I'm assuming Surry Co va but any specifics you
have may help. Or any way you have of identifying these vs the so many Carters in the
area.
2) Can you supply any information on the Carter Warren connection. Crafford Carter of
LCT married Mourning Warren, daughter of Willis Warren.
3) Do you know or speculate the parents of Mourning Crafford?
4) Why did you initially think Henry was the son of Richard and Mourning? I'd
like to check out and verify/disprove what you once speculated.
5) Would it be possible to contact directly your Carter mentors about some of these
questions.
I know this is a lot as I get a fair number of questions on the LCT branch myself and
sometime feel overtaken.
I'll be happy to share all that I have on the LCT line and Thanks in Advance.
Joe Carter
Aiken SC
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From: "Charles Carter" <crcarter(a)shentel.net>
Subject: Re: [CARTER] Carters from England
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Hilda,
The Warrens were neighbors of the Carters in the Blackwater Swamp
borderlands between Surry and Isle Of Wight counties of VA for centuries.
There must be a tie to Lincoln Co., TN but my thoughts on the subject were
disproved by ??? Will check to see what and who was disproved. My Carter
branch that journeyed from VA to Morgan Co., AL via NC, could very well have
spent some time in the Lincoln Co., TN area.....but I can't prove it.