Elizabeth Landon Willis Carter
(1683-1719)
BIRTH
May 17, 1683
PLACE
DEATH
1719
PLACE
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Robert King Carter I
(1664-1732)
CHILDREN
Landon Carter
(1710-1778)
CHILDREN
Mary Carter Braxton
(1712-1736)
CHILDREN
Charles Carter of Cleve
(c. 1707-1764)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Elizabeth “Betty” Landon Willis Carter was Robert “King” Carter’s second wife and a daughter of Thomas Landon of Herefordshire. A widow when they married in 1701, she bore ten children, seven reaching adulthood, including the diarist Landon Carter. Their home at Corotoman stood within the vast Virginia estate her husband accumulated through landholding and public office. Betty died in 1719. Family letters and memorials preserve her household’s history.
EARLY LIFE
Elizabeth Landon was born on May 17, 1683. 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.
No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Landon is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth Landon died in 1719. Elizabeth “Betty” Landon Willis Carter was Robert “King” Carter’s second wife and a daughter of Thomas Landon of Herefordshire. A widow when they married in 1701, she bore ten children, seven reaching adulthood, including the diarist Landon Carter. Their home at Corotoman stood within the vast Virginia estate her husband accumulated through landholding and public office. Betty died in 1719. Family letters and memorials preserve her household’s history. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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