George Braxton (Carter’s father)
(c. 1705-1749)
BIRTH
c. 1705
PLACE
NAME
George Braxton
DEATH
1749
PLACE
FAMILY
WIFE
Mary Carter Braxton
(1712-1736)
CHILDREN
George Braxton (Carter’s elder brother)
(1734-1761)
CHILDREN
Carter Braxton
(1736-1797)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
George Braxton (c. 1705–1749) was a Virginia planter of Newington and husband of Mary Carter, daughter of Robert “King” Carter. Their sons were George, born in 1734, and Carter, the future Declaration signer, born in 1736. Mary died after Carter’s birth, and George died in 1749, leaving the boys orphaned. His family held commercial and plantation wealth, but his offices and ventures are not securely separated from his father’s. His birth and personal career remain qualified.
EARLY LIFE
George Braxton, Carter Braxton’s father, was born about 1705, a son of the older George Braxton and Elizabeth Pallin. The biographical material distinguishes him from both his father and his son of the same name and reports attendance at the College of William and Mary in 1720. No reliable fuller account of his childhood was found.
George Braxton lived at the family’s Newington plantation and participated with his father in maritime commerce, including the transport and sale of enslaved people. The reviewed account does not securely separate every commercial activity or legislative term of the two older George Braxtons. Offices held by his son, born in 1734, must not be assigned to him.
CAREER
DEATH
George Braxton (Carter’s father) died in 1749. George Braxton was a Virginia planter of Newington and husband of Mary Carter, daughter of Robert “King” Carter. Their sons were George, born in 1734, and Carter, the future Declaration signer, born in 1736. Mary died after Carter’s birth, and George died in 1749, leaving the boys orphaned. His family held commercial and plantation wealth, but his offices and ventures are not securely separated from his father’s. His birth and personal career remain qualified. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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