Elizabeth Carter Burwell Nicholas
(c. 1688-1734)
BIRTH
c. 1688
PLACE
NAME
Elizabeth Carter
DEATH
1734
PLACE
FAMILY
MOTHER
Judith Armistead Carter
(1665-1699)
BROTHER
John Carter
(1695 or 1696-1742)
SISTER
Judith Carter Page
(1695-c. 1750)
BROTHER
Landon Carter
(1710-1778)
SISTER
Mary Carter Braxton
(1712-1736)
CHILDREN
Robert King Carter I
(1664-1732)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth Carter Burwell Nicholas (1688–1734), daughter of Robert Carter and Judith Armistead, married Nathaniel Burwell in 1709 and was widowed with four children in 1721. She married physician George Nicholas in 1724 and moved to Williamsburg. Her father gave her life use of Merchant’s Hundred, including its enslaved workforce and income; it was to pass to her son Carter Burwell as Carter’s Grove. Her remarriage complicated estate management, documented in Carter’s letters.
EARLY LIFE
Elizabeth Carter was born about 1688, the eldest daughter of Robert “King” Carter and Judith Armistead Carter. Colonial Williamsburg’s research places her in the Carter family of Corotoman. No reliable detailed account of her childhood or schooling was found in the reviewed material.
Elizabeth Carter married Nathaniel Burwell and, after his death, George Nicholas. Estate records document property rights and income provided for her, including a lifetime benefit from the Merchant’s Hundred plantation under her father’s will. These records establish her place in family property arrangements; no reliable evidence of a separate professional career or public office was found.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth Carter Burwell Nicholas married physician George Nicholas in 1724 and moved to Williamsburg. Elizabeth Carter married Nathaniel Burwell and, after his death, George Nicholas. Elizabeth Carter Burwell Nicholas died in 1734. 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.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Elizabeth Carter Burwell Nicholas, Robert Carter of Corotoman’s daughter and wife of Nathaniel Burwell and later George Nicholas. 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. Letters of Robert Carter, 1720–1727: The Commercial Interests of a Virginia Gentleman — Robert Carter; Louis B. Wright (editor). [Primary family and business correspondence] Find on Amazon
3. Carter’s Grove: The Story of a Virginia Plantation — Mark R. Wenger. [Related family and plantation history] Find on Amazon
4. Some Prominent Virginia Families — Louise Pecquet du Bellet. [Family biographical reference] Find on Amazon
5. Old New Kent County: Some Account of the Planters, Plantations, and Places, Volume II — Malcolm Hart Harris. [Related family and local history; collected work] Find on Amazon
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