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BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY . ^ ■ 1 't --- Property of the Boston Public Library ■ ' ‘ ^ . V *’ * t •’< A 4 - < ^ f Ir ' * V : ' ' y.'.' < ' (■■ -W"* ■ * , li ■ ‘t*? • ' ‘ ' f ♦* « " •.j * # ■•, \ '■■f < ■' •'. •> •: , •' ; > .' . ■* I j V ■' w**' mm . '"t .*■ ‘.-f ,H J»'-V s f‘ •• y r- .* #. < -i .w i ' * >1^, (• i -**!■' - - - r * * * . • - ■' I Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter To my wife, Annette, thank you for your help and support and for enduring too many stories too many times. And to my children, Joshua, Jeremy, and James, may you have as many descendants as you have ancestors. Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Jeff Carter Foreword by President Jimmy Carter McFarland Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina, and London Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Carter, Jeff, 1952- Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter / foreword by Jeff Carter. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7864-6810-2 illustrated case : acid free paper 1. Carter family. 2. Carter, Jimmy, 1924- —Family. 3. Carter, Rosalynn — Family I. Title. CS71.C323 2012 929'.20973-dc23 2012018468 British Library cataloguing data are available © 2012 Jeff Carter. All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Front cover: John William Fulwood Murray’s family. Left to right, possibly Alethea Lawhon (1814-1883), Nathan Murray, J.W.F. Murray (1833-1921) seated, Alma (1879) standing behind him, daughter Anna, Alethea Josephine (1842-1905) seated, John William (Papa) Murray (1871-1966) standing behind her; background © 2012 Shutterstock Manufactured in the United States of America McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Box 611, Jefferson, North Carolina 28640 mcfarlandpub.com WWW. 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 4l 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. 62 Ancestors of Mary Ann Diligent Seals 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 V vi Table of Contents 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