Charles Carter of Cleve was a son of Robert "King" Carter who inherited the Cleve estate on the Rappahannock River and served in the Virginia House of Burgesses. Among his marriages was one to Anne Byrd, the daughter of William Byrd II. Carter lived at Cleve and managed his plantation with enslaved labor. He served in the House of Burgesses for King George County and held local offices there. In 1761, Wyche wrote Carter about the poor quality of American grapes and how another winemaker had failed, but offered to send Carter European vines. The Society awarded Carter a gold medal for his effort, and in August 1763, Governor Francis Fauquier reviewed a report of several eminent men who visited Cleve and praised both the red and white wines made from European stock. Carter died on April 26, 1764, leaving behind a widow and several children, some under legal age. His nephew William Fitzhugh (son of this man's sister) had more success both as a planter and politician, and represented King George County during the American Revolutionary War. 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.