There is considerable information on the Shirley of the Civil War. Does 
anyone have a source for the activities of this family in the 
pre-revolutionary and early American period?

Richard Dixon



On 7/15/2010 9:41 AM, Jon Kukla wrote:
> Someone will want to reconsider the phrase from the second paragraph of the
> blog entry marked below with inserted asterisks :
>
> In 1863 this hand-drawn family tree was entered into the case to note the
> lineage on [Mary Walker] Cabell’s father’s side.  Cabell was the paternal
> granddaughter of Charles Hill Carter (1733-1802) of Shirley Plantation.
> Charles Hill Carter was the grandson of Robert “King” Carter (1663-1732),
> *a former governor of the Commonwealth*  and one of the richest men in 17th
> century colonial America.  His parents, John Carter and Elizabeth Hill,
> built Shirley Plantation in 1723.  The home, a private residence in Charles
> City County, remains in the family today.
>
> After the death of lt-gov Drysdale in July 1726, Robert "King" Carter _was_
> president of the Council until the arrival of lt-gov Gooch in September 1727
> and de facto acting governor of the colony - but never "of the
> Commonwealth," which was created with independence in 1776
>
> Jon Kukla
> www.JonKukla.com
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Dale Dulaney<
> [log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Trees grow in the strangest places! Take a look at the latest entry on
>> the "Out of the Box" blog from the LVA's archival staff. It is about the
>> discovery of a hand-drawn family tree from the 1860s in a chancery court
>> case in Nelson County that charts the branches of the powerful Carter
>> family.
>> Though this example is of a prominent family, most chancery suits concerned
>> ordinary Virginians and some even document the lineage of the enslaved.
>>
>> http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/
>>
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