from A History and Genealogy of Northeastern Nelson County, Kentucky

Carter Family

Edward Carter of Loudoun County, Virginia, died c. 1812, Nelson County, Kentucky, son of Peter Carter and Amelia Veale of Loudoun County, Virginia, married Margaret Mason, daughter of Benjamin Mason and Elizabeth Berkeley.  Peter Carter was the son of Job Carter of Fairfax County, Virginia, who is probably the son of Edward Carter of Lancaster County, Virginia, son of Captain Thomas Carter and Katherine Dale.  Amelia was the daughter of Morris Veale, died 1750, Prince William County, Virginia.  Obviously Edward’s descendants are associated with several of the Nelson County pioneer families.  Edward had at least eight children, two of whom married their Mason cousins.  In Nelson County in 1810, Edward’s daughter Elizabeth married John O’Neal, Jr., another resident of the Plum Run area between Bloomfield and Fairfield, and moved to the Jackson Purchase area of far western Kentucky.  They still have descendants in that area.  Many articles have been written about various branches of this family, and the best-known book is Descendants of Captain Thomas Carter of “Barford,” Lancaster County, Virginia, Joseph Lyon Miller, 1912, which is in the holdings of the Kentucky Historical Society.

1.  Susanna Carter married by c. 1789, Hugh Talbott, born c. 1766, Loudoun County, Virginia, died July 27 1833, Bourbon County, Kentucky, son of Henry Talbott and Hannah King.

2.  Morris Carter married May 13, 1813, Nelson County, Kentucky, Nancy Brown, daughter of Joseph Brown.

3.  Margaret Carter married January 1, 1810, (bondsman Edward Mason), Nelson County, Kentucky, Benjamin S. Mason, son of Burgess Mason and Nancy Stark (daughter of William Stark and Susanna Trammel).

4.  Mason Edward Carter, born probably before 1779, died 1849, buried on the old Gengelbach farm, Perry County, Indiana, married (1) May 27, 1817, Margaret DeWitt of Perry County, Indiana, buried with husband, daughter of Elisha DeWitt, (2) February 23, 1827, Margaret Artman, died 1853, daughter of John Artman and Elizabeth DeWitt.  Margaret married (2) Thomas Goatley, Sr.

5.  Amelia Carter married December 31, 1812 (bondsman Mason Carter), Nelson County, Kentucky, William T. Mason, died c. 1840-41, son of Burgess Mason and Nancy Stark.

6.  Nancy Carter, born November 4, 1784, Loudoun County, Virginia, died November 12, 1870, married January 19, 1809, Nelson County, Kentucky, John Hughes, born 1779, died April 27, 1868, Spencer County, Kentucky.  Both are buried in Hughes-Daugherty Cemetery, Nelson County, Kentucky, near Spencer County line, about three miles from Bloomfield.

7.  John Carter, married August 19, 1815, Nelson County, Kentucky, Mrs. Sarah (Murphy) Redmon, born c. 1780 (probably Montgomery County, Maryland), widow of John Redmon.  She was the daughter of Charles Murphy, who gave bond.  She appears with some young Redmons in the 1850 census of Spencer County, but there are no other Carters in her household besides herself.

8.  Elizabeth Carter, married January 2, 1810, Nelson County, Kentucky, John O’Neal, Jr., son of John O’Neal, Sr., who probably came from Fairfax County, Virginia.  Elizabeth and John (and some of his half-brothers by his father’s third wife, Margaret Mills) moved to the Jackson Purchase area of western Kentucky, where John was deeded land on Mayfield Creek in 1838 by Jerome Hobbs.