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Matthew Carter

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  • Name Matthew Carter  [1, 2
    Birth 1750  North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Death 2 Apr 1812  Mississippi, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Burial Carter Cemetery No 1, Jackson, Mississippi, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Person ID I1772  tng Genealogy

    Father Matthew Carter,   b. 1710, Bertie, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1780, Camden District, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 70 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Patience Lamb,   b. 1715, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F2636  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Cassandra Barbour,   b. 1760, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1833, Jackson, Mississippi, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Cassandra Carter,   b. 2 Jan 1789, Bulloch, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 1860, Mississippi, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 70 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +2. Naomi Nancy Carter,   b. 1788, Duplin, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Oct 1829, Jackson, Mississippi, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +3. Jane Carter   d. UNKNOWN  [Father: Adopted]  [Mother: Adopted]
    Family ID F822  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1750 - North Carolina, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 2 Apr 1812 - Mississippi, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Headstones
    Carter Cemetery No 1, Jackson County, MS/Matthew Carter gravestone.jpg
    Carter Cemetery No 1, Jackson County, MS/Matthew Carter gravestone.jpg

  • Notes 
    • Revolutionary Soldier

      Matthew Carter
      Son of Matthew
      http://members.tripod.com/~mallen4896/Carter/Carter-Matthew2.html
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      Matthew Carter was a Veteran of the Revolutionary War and served from the State of North Carolina. He was born 1745 in Cumberland Co North Carolina. He died in the Mississippi Territory on the 2nd of April, 1812. One year after he moved to the area from Georgia. All of Matthew Carter's children came to Mississippi with the exception of a daughter, Susanna.

      The wife of Matthew was Cassandra Barbour (Barber), daughter of Lt. William Barbour. She lived with and among her children in Jackson Co. until her death in 1836.

      The following was copied (exactly not altered for spelling) from a letter that Matthew Carter wrote to Griffin Mizelle and Susannah his wife.

      Directed to Mr. William Williams, living in the new purchase of Georgia, Jones Co. in Clinton, politeness of Mr. Neel by hand. Dated 11 June, 1811.

      Dear Mr. William Williams, sir: After my compliments to you, please to send this few lines to Mr. Griffin Mizelle my son-in-law by first opportunity.

      Dear Son and Daughter: In answer to your request I embrace this opportunity of informing you that we are all in common health at present. hopeing that these will find you well. In five weaks and 2 days we arrive to Chickashwhay without any loss or disappointment of note.

      We expect in a few days to set out for Pascagoula where I have choosed me a place and there expect to settle myself and son William and William Goff all neare together. Matthew has gone on to Pearl River but expects to return at fall without he likes there extraordainary well. I am well pleased with the prospect of the country for I think it good, that is the cain land, water and range, and how the trade is will be unknown. Now things can be got reasonable. Provisions is hi (high) but we have lade (laid) in a supply of corn and 20 cows and calves.

      Let this suffice for the present and when I have got more perfectly acquainted I'll rite more fully. No more at present, but remain bound to you in parential affection. signed Matthew Carter.

      Since Matthew and his family was considerable north of the Pascagoula, it is most likely that he was near his brother, Isaac who was in Perry Co. MS.

      Matthew and Cassandra were the parents of six known children.

      1. Susannah Carter, was born 1780 SC., and died 31 August, 1848 in GA. She married 29 May, 1797 in GA., to Griffin Mizelle.

      2. Matthew Carter Jr. 1781, and died 1852 in Jackson Co. MS. He married Mary Rester and Ann Nancy Goff.

      3. William Barbour Carter, born 13 June, 1783 and died 10 October, 1852 in Jackson Co. MS.

      4. Naomi Carter, born about 1788 She married 30 November, 1807 in Bullock Co. GA., to William Goff son of Thomas and Tomsin Mathis Goff.

      5. Cassandra Carter, was born 1790 in Bulloch Co. GA. She married Edmond Goff, son of Thomas or William Goff, brothers and sons of John Goff of Duplin Co. North Carolina. Have seen ref. to both. Eight known children.

      6. Jane Carter born 1795 Bulloch Co. GA. died 1856 Jackson Co. Jane lived mostly with her sister Cassandra. She had two sons, Noah and Seborn. From Probate records in Mobile Co. AL., Edmond Goff her brother in-law, names them as "MY SONS", Noah and Seborn Carter.

      If there were more children born to Matthew Carter they have not been identified and would have remained in GA.

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      mallen96@flash.net"

      Matthew Carter

      Unveiling of his Revolutionary Stone, the 6th of November, 2010 in Jackson County, Mississipp. Matthew was born about 1745 to 1750 in North Carolina and died 2 April, 1812 in the Mississippi Territory now known as Jackson County, Mississippi. Matthew came in 1811 from Bulloch County, Georgia with family and died one year after his arrival. He is buried on a portion of land that he owned and his descendants fell heir too his land holding after his death. Matthew served under the Swampfox General Francis Marion of South Carolina. He will have full honors by the Sons of American Revolutionary and the Daughters of American Revolutionary, plus other Dignitaries and speakers. If you are a descendant of Matthew Carter or of his wife Cassandra Barbour and would like for your family to be included in a family History book, please send email.

      Send to melbaallen36@bellsouth.net or
      1genealogyresearcher@gmail.com

  • Sources 
    1. [S234] Folks Huxford, Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia, Vol. 3, (Name: 1957;), Page 414.

    2. [S541] Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40542718/matthew-carter.
      Record for Matthew Carter Sr
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FindAGraveUS&h=13631011&indiv=try
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=FindAGraveUS&h=13631011&indiv=try

    3. [S142] Gravestone.
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