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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
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© 2012 Jeff Carter. All rights reserved
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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;
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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
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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
