Carter Burwell
(1716-1752)
BIRTH
1716
PLACE
Gloucester County, Virginia
DEATH
1756
PLACE
James City County, Virginia
FAMILY
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
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MEMBERSHIPS
VIRGINIA HOUSE OF BURGESSES COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES AND ELECTIONS CHAIRMAN, VIRGINIA HOUSE OF BURGESSES COMMITTEE OF PROPOSITIONS AND GRIEVANCES MEMBER
AWARDS
Carter Burwell (1716–1756) was a Virginia planter and burgess who built Carter’s Grove on land inherited from his grandfather Robert “King” Carter. Representing James City County from 1742 to 1755, he chaired the Committee of Privileges and Elections and allied with Speaker John Robinson. His Georgian mansion was completed in 1755 on an estate worked by over ninety enslaved people. He died in 1756; the master’s 1752 death year conflicts with his will.
EARLY LIFE
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.
CAREER
DEATH
Carter Burwell was a Virginia planter and burgess who built Carter’s Grove on land inherited from his grandfather Robert “King” Carter. Representing James City County from 1742 to 1755, he chaired the Committee of Privileges and Elections and allied with Speaker John Robinson. His Georgian mansion was completed in 1755 on an estate worked by over ninety enslaved people. He died in 1756; the master’s 1752 death year conflicts with his will. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
MUSEUM
Colonial Williamsburg
101 Visitor Center Dr, Williamsburg, VA 23185
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Carter Burwell (1716–1756), the Virginia burgess associated with Carter’s Grove, distinct from the contemporary composer. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Collective biography, family reference, primary writings and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members — Cynthia Miller Leonard (editor). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
2. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I — Lyon Gardiner Tyler (editor). [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
3. Carter’s Grove: The Story of a Virginia Plantation — Mark R. Wenger. [Household, architectural and biographical history] Find on Amazon
4. A “Topping People”: The Rise and Decline of Virginia’s Old Political Elite, 1680–1790 — Emory G. Evans. [Related political and biographical history] Find on Amazon
5. Some Prominent Virginia Families — Louise Pecquet du Bellet. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
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