Carter Burwell
BIRTH
1716
Gloucester County, Virginia
DEATH
James City County, Virginia
FAMILY
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Burwell, Carter
(1716-1752)
Carter Burwell was a Virginia planter, burgess, and builder of Carter’s Grove near Williamsburg. A member of the influential Burwell and Carter families, he helped define the plantation society and political leadership of Virginia in the generation before the Revolution.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Colonial Williamsburg | 101 Visitor Center Dr, Williamsburg, VA 23185 | MUSEUM |
DIED:
James City County, Virginia
The exact date and place of Carter Burwell’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Carter Burwell with work or public activity as a statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.