Charles Carter of Ludlow

Charles Hill Carter Jr

• Colony of Virginia, England

Col Charles Carter (1733-1796) of Ludlow, Stafford County, was the eldest son of Mary Walker and Charles Carter of Cleve (1707-1764). The grandson of Robert "King" Carter of Corotoman, Carter married Elizabeth Chiswell (1737-1804), daughter of Hanover County burgess John Chiswell and Elizabeth Randolph Chiswell. Carter himself served in the Virginia House of Burgesses from the 1760s through 1790, representing King George County and then Stafford County. His reckless extravagance earned him the contemporary nickname of "The Blaze," as well as the lasting disappointment of his father, who in his will left Cleve to a younger son and exacted Charles's written acknowledgment that he had already received "ample provision" from his father. Carter bought the 2,200-acre Nanzatico estate in King George County from Thomas Mann Randolph in 1767 but was forced to sell it in the 1770s and he removed his family to the Ludlow quarter he had inherited from his father. His pressing creditors forced Carter to sign the title to the property over to trustees in 1788, but he continued to reside there. Carter provided George Washington with experimental seeds on various occasions, and the two often exchanged visits. - United States national Archives

Lineage

• Father Col Charles Carter of Cleve

• Sister: Mary Walker Carter
• Sister: Elizabeth Carter Churchill