Charles Hill Carter
(1732-1806)
BIRTH
1732
PLACE
Charles City County, Virginia, USA
DEATH
June 28, 1806
PLACE
Charles City County, Virginia, USA
FAMILY
FATHER
John Carter
(1695 or 1696-1742)
MOTHER
Elizabeth Hill Carter
(1703-1771)
HOMES
POLITICAL VIEWS
BRITISH NONIMPORTATION ADVOCATE, COLONIAL EXPORT CONTINUATION ADVOCATE
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
ANGLICAN, EPISCOPALIAN
MEMBERSHIPS
CHRIST CHURCH PARISH VESTRYMAN, COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY BOARD OF VISITORS MEMBER, VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL CONVENTION LAY DELEGATE, VIRGINIA REVOLUTIONARY CONVENTION DELEGATE
AWARDS
Charles Carter (1732–1806) was a Virginia planter who managed Corotoman before moving to Shirley Plantation. He represented Lancaster County in the House of Burgesses from 1758 through the imperial crisis and attended Revolutionary conventions, but declined a seat on the new state’s Council. His wealth rested on extensive landholdings and hundreds of enslaved people. His daughter Anne Hill Carter married Henry Lee and became Robert E. Lee’s mother. He died there in 1806.
EARLY LIFE
Charles Hill Carter was born in 1732 in Charles City County, Virginia, into the Carter family of Shirley Plantation on the James River. He was the son of John Carter and Elizabeth Hill, and Shirley came to the Carters through the Hill family.
Carter owned and ran Shirley, one of the oldest and largest plantations on the James, worked by enslaved people. He represented Charles City County in the colonial legislature and was active in local affairs.
His daughter Anne Hill Carter married Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee in 1793, and their son was Robert E. Lee. Carter died at Shirley in 1806.
CAREER
DEATH
Charles Carter was a Virginia planter who managed Corotoman before moving to Shirley Plantation. He represented Lancaster County in the House of Burgesses from 1758 through the imperial crisis and attended Revolutionary conventions, but declined a seat on the new state’s Council. Carter owned and ran Shirley, one of the oldest and largest plantations on the James, worked by enslaved people. He represented Charles City County in the colonial legislature and was active in local affairs. Charles Hill Carter died on Jun 28, 1806, in Charles City County, Virginia, USA. 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
Shirley Plantation
501 Shirley Plantation Road, Charles City, VA
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Charles Hill Carter (1732–1806), the Virginia planter associated with Shirley, distinct from Charles Carter of Cleve. 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. A Genealogy of the Known Descendants of Robert Carter of Corotoman — Florence Tyler Carlton. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
2. 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
3. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Volume I — Lyon Gardiner Tyler (editor). [Biographical reference] 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. The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family — Paul C. Nagel. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
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