Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
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About the Book
During his presidency, Jimmy Carter received a comprehensive analysis of his family’s genealogy, dating back 12 generations, from leaders of the Mormon Church. More recently Carter’s son Jeff took over the family history, determined to discover all that he could about his ancestors. This resulting volume traces every ancestral line of both Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter back to the original immigrants to America and chronicles their origins, occupations, and life dates. Among his forebears Carter found cabinet makers, farmers, preachers, illegitimate children, slave owners, indentured servants, a former Hessian soldier who fought against Napoleon, and even a spy for General George Washington at Valley Forge. With never-before-published historic photographs and a foreword by President Jimmy Carter, this is the definitive saga of a remarkable American family.
About the Author(s)
Bibliographic Details
Jeff Carter
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 224
Bibliographic Info: 20 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Copyright Date: 2017 [2012]
pISBN: 978-1-4766-7229-8
eISBN: 978-0-7864-8954-1
Imprint: McFarland
Table of Contents
Foreword by President Jimmy Carter 1
Preface 3
Introduction 5
1. THE CARTERS 9
Jamestown 10
Bacon’s Rebellion 20
The Thomas Carter Conundrum 24
Another Thomas Carter 32
Moore Carter and Jane Kindred 34
Kindred Carter and Mary “Molly” Odum 36
Isaac Carter and Sarah Browne 37
Kindred Carter and the Rozier Mystery 39
James Carter and Eleanor Duckworth 41
2. THE MORRIS, COX, AND ANSLEY ANCESTORS AND THEIR ANCESTORS 44
Monmouth County: A Haven for Baptists and Quakers Except for the Government 44
Thomas Cox and Elizabeth Blashford—Puritanical Persecution 46
Lewis Morris of Passage Point: Uncle Lewis Morris of Tinton Falls; The Monmouth Riots 48
The Almys and the Cornells: They Thought Quakers Were Bad Until They Met the Antinomians 52
The Very Strange Case of Thomas Cornell 53
The Pottses Arrive from England 54
More Scots: All Is Forgiven Between the Ansley, Cox and Morris Families 55
More Taxes, the Regulators, and the Battle of Alamance 56
Duckworths and Ramseys and Carters and Ansleys 57
Wiley Carter and Ann Ansley 58
3. ANCESTORS OF MARY ANN DILIGENT SEALS 62
The Terrells: Polecat Swamp, Some Quakers Some Not, More Than One Affair 62
The Burnleys: Revolutionaries, Friends, and the Battle of Guilford Courthouse 64
The Barksdales: Early Virginians 65
The Muses and the Seales: An Illicit Relationship 66
A Tory Loyalist in the Family 67
The Seals: A Muse No More, the Yazoo Land Fraud 68
Littleberry Walker Carter and Mary Ann Diligent Seals 70
4. ANCESTORS OF CAPTAIN JAMES PRATT 71
The Kays 72
Captain James Pratt and Sophronia Cowan 72
5. ANCESTORS OF SOPHRONIA COWAN 74
Ireland and Charles II 74
Immigrations at Charlestown, Boonesborough, and the South Carolina Wilderness 76
The Clinkscales from Scotland, Probably Not That Ann Buchner 77
The Brownlees: More Irish Ancestors Who Marry Irish Ancestors 79
The Seawrights: The Battle at Pratt’s Mill, Bloody Bill Cunningham, the Cloud’s Creek Massacre 80
The Cowans: More Irish, More Revolutionaries 82
William Archibald Carter and Nina Pratt 84
6. ANCESTORS OF JAMES JACKSON GORDY 86
Perry Scott and Captain Allen McLane 87
Wilson Gordy and Mary Scott 89
The Helms Family, the Waxhaw Settlement and the Revolution 91
7. ANCESTORS OF MARY IDA NICHOLSON 95
The Nathaniel Nunn Nicholson Line 95
Patrick Jack 97
The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence 97
Joseph Nicholson and Lillis McAdoo Jack 99
Were John Nicholson and John Candor Nicholson the Same Person? 99
Nathaniel Nunn Nicholson 102
The Very Interesting Dawson Ancestors 103
The Nicholsons from Ireland 105
The Gaines and Brown Families 106
Malekiah Dawson and Mary Marcus Brown and Back to Nathaniel Nunn Nicholson 109
8. ANCESTORS OF JOHN WILLIAM MURRAY 112
The Provable Murrays 113
The Albrittons 115
The Search for Susan Champion 116
The Bethunes in America 119
The Legend of Martin Bethune 121
The Short Ancestry of the Lawhons 122
The Short Ancestry of the Parkers and the Kellys 122
John William Fulwood Murray 123
9. ANCESTORS OF ROSA NETTIE WISE 127
If Not for Martin Luther, Half the Family Wouldn’t Be Here 127
The Palatine Ancestors 130
The Trip from Wittenberg 132
Dutch Fork 133
The Coogles and the Kleckleys, Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, More Civil War 134
The Wises 135
The Etheridges: In Theory, Five Names Are Enough 137
10. ANCESTORS OF WILBURN EDGAR SMITH 140
Colonial Maryland 140
The Prathers Arrived in 1622, the Odells, Ridgelys, and Biggers a Little Later 142
The Offutts and Captain Edward Brock Arrived Before 1672 145
The Isaac and Pottenger Families Arrived Around 1670 147
The Jacobs, Cheyneys, and Westalls Arrived in the Mid-1600s 148
The Halley, Haley, Hailey, Hawley, Holly Family 150
The Fulford and Bell Families 150
The Smiths 152
The Descendants of George Lynch Smith 160
Afterword: The Quest 163
Appendix A: What’s a Cousin and How Do They Get Removed? 165
Appendix B: Pedigree Collapse 165
Appendix C: The Search for Kindred Carter’s Wife 167
Appendix D: The Bethune Lineage in Scotland 168
Appendix E: Loyal “Regulators” Association 172
Appendix F: Land Grant to Ellis Marcus by the Earl of Granville 172
Appendix G: Wills 174
Last Will and Testament of Dr. Samuel Browne 174
Last Will and Testament of Francis Clinkscales, Sr. 175
Last Will and Testament of Charity Dysart 176
Last Will and Testament of William Nicholson 176
Last Will and Testament of Wilson Gordy 177
Last Will and Testament of Abel Ansley 177
Last Will and Testament of Joseph Pratt 178
Last Will and Testament of James Brownlee 179
Last Will and Testament of George W. Carter 179
Last Will and Testament of Peter Gordy 179
Chapter Notes 181
Bibliography 203
Index 211
