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Descendants of Braxton Progenitor-177702

Fourth Generation

4. Colonel of King William Co VA Braxton George-13706 (George II of "Newington" King and QueenCo , George I , Progenitor ).

http mysouthernfamily. Stella Hardy, p. 84. Stella Hardy online via Google Books result.

George married Blair Mary-357878 daughter of Public official Blair John Snr-509809 and Monroe Mary Munro-509810. Mary was born in 1734.

Stella Hardy online via Google Books result. http my southern family.

George and Mary had the following children:

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Braxton Carter-357879 was born in 1736.

5. Planter of "Cheriicoke", Signer Declaration Independence Braxton Carter-7274 (George II of "Newington" King and QueenCo , George I , Progenitor ) was born on 10 Sep 1736 in King and QueenCo,Virginia. He died on 10 Oct 1797.

gapskey See website by John Marshall in US. Stella Hardy, pp. 112ff. Stella Hardy online via Google Google Books Result. He signed the Declaration of Independence, Morton, p. 22. Hardy, p. 85ff. of King William Co, Va, educt at Wm and M College, on 1775 Committee of safety, vestryman of St David's Parish, his issue by first marriage. See ADB, his uncle is Landon Carter. In 1786 Carter Braxton removed to Richmond Va where he died. He lost during the Am Rev, but the ADB entry does not mention his dealing in tobacco for the Am Rev. Cf., John Sanderson, Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, 1828. Cf Frederick Horner, History of the Blair, Banister and Braxton Families, 1898, supplements Sanderson here. Braxton Educated College of William and Mary, Signer of Declaration of Independence, in 1757-1760 he lived in England, encyc also = no mention of Rbt Morris or tobacco deals. Greene, Carter diary, Vol. 1, p. 270, he was Burgess for King William Co, 1761-1771, 1775-1776, member of the Virginia Conventions 1774-1776, delegate to the Second Continental Congress. This man took up marketing American tobacco by arrangement with Robert Morris early in the Am Rev. See Evans, Planter Indebtedness, p. 531, this man on a list of those opposed to repaying debts to British. There is also a man of similar view, probably a relation of Landon Carter's family, Robert Carter Nicholas. By contrast, George Washington opposed non-payment. See Thomson, Upper James River, p. 407, noting DC never received tobacco from Upper James River area, the 1773-1775 exporters of tobacco from Upper James included, William Allen, Jerman Baker, Burwell Bassett, Robert Bolling, Thomas Bolling, Carter Braxton, William Byrd, Charles Carter, Colonel Edward Carter, Archibald Cary, Wilson Miles Carey, Rev Wm Coutts, Francis Eppes, Charles Gilmore, John Harmar, William Harwood, Henry Henderson, William Lightfoot, Henry and Edmund Lyne, John Mayo, David Meade, Everard Meade, Richard K. Meade, Joseph Montfort, Robert Munford, Robert Carter Nicholas, John Pankey, John Paradise, John Pleasants, Thomas Prosser, Brett Randolph, John Randolph, Richard Randolph, Thomas Mann Randolph, William Randolph, Henry Skipworth, James Smith, John Throgmorton, Richard Tunstall, Robert Turnbull, Abram Venable, Banjamin Waller, John Wayles, Cary Wilkinson. See pp. 100ff of Nagel, Lees of Virginia, Braxton here by 1776 allied with one Benjamin Harrison. http on Descendants of Thomas Holcombe of Connecticut.

Carter married (1) wife2 Corbin Elizabeth Tayloe-7259 daughter of Colonel Of Laneville Rec-General Va Corbin Richard-13709 and Twin Tayloe Elizabeth-12107 in May 1761 in England. Elizabeth was born in 1763.

Update per Carolyn Whitaker of 3-8-2009. Here Hardy contradicts herself (?). Stella Hardy, p. 84, pp. 112ff. Hardy, p. 175.

Carter and Elizabeth had the following children:

	9	M	i	Braxton George-122333 was born in 1762. He m to Mary Walker Carter, dr odf Hon Charles Carter and Mary Walker Carter. USA/Virginia http by John Marshall at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/%7Emarshall/esmd207.htm and in series, for Carter.
				George married Carter Mary Walker-11397 daughter of Planter of Corotoman Carter Charles-3604 and wife1, of Cleves, Chas City Co, Va Carter Mary Walker-3605. No notes.
+	10	F	ii	Braxton Elizabeth-367523 was born in 1775.

Carter married (2) wife1 of Midx Co Robinson Judith-13710 daughter of Planter of Midx Co Va at "Herwick" Robinson Christopher II-13711 and Wormley Judith Griffin-Beverley-13712 on 16 Jul 1755. Judith died in Dec 1757 in Virginia.

She is a cousin of Loyalist Sir William Henry Robinson qv. Stella Hardy, pp. 84-85. Stella Hardy online via Google Books result.

Carter and Judith had the following children:

	11	F	iii	Had issue Braxton Mary-13714. Stella Hardy, p. 85.
				Mary married Robert "Broadneck Hse" Hanover Co, Va Page-7196 son of Of Broadneck House Page Robert-72661 and Walker Sarah-72662 in 1779. Robert was born in 1752. He died in 1794. Try name Braxton on IGI. Had issue. Stella Hardy, p. 85.
+	12	F	iv	Braxton Judith-13715 was born in 1757.
+	13	M	v	Planter King Wm Co Braxton Carter II-13717 was born in 1765.
	14	M	vi	Colonel King William Co Va Braxton George-13718 was born on 10 Sep 1736. This man's father-in-law Charles Carter had 23 children by two wives. Stella Hardy, p. 85. He signs Declaration of Independence. George King Wm Co Va "Chericoke"/Braxton/ Colonel.
				George married Carter Mary-7207 daughter of Planter of Corotoman Carter Charles-3604 and wife1, of Cleves, Chas City Co, Va Carter Mary Walker-3605. Mary was born in 1763. She m to George Braxton of Chericoke. Stella Hardy, p. 85, p. 112.
+	15	M	vii	Braxton John Tayloe-7205 died in 1811.

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