Landon Carter
(1710-1778)
BIRTH
August 18, 1710
PLACE
Corotoman, Lancaster County, Virginia, British America
DEATH
1778
PLACE
Sabine Hall, Richmond County, Virginia, U.S.
FAMILY
BROTHER
John Carter
(1695 or 1696-1742)
SISTER
Mary Carter Braxton
(1712-1736)
CHILDREN
Robert King Carter I
(1664-1732)
HOMES
POLITICAL VIEWS
AMERICAN STAMP ACT OPPONENT
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
ANGLICAN
MEMBERSHIPS
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY MEMBER, LUNENBURG PARISH VESTRY MEMBER
AWARDS
Landon Carter (1710–1778), son of Robert “King” Carter, was a Virginia planter, legislator, and political writer. From Sabine Hall he managed extensive lands and hundreds of enslaved people. A burgess from 1752 to 1768, he defended the assembly’s authority and opposed the Stamp Act. He chaired Richmond County’s revolutionary committee and eventually supported independence. His diary records farming, household conflicts, slavery, and the anxieties of Virginia’s elite.
EARLY LIFE
Landon Carter was born on Aug 18, 1710. 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 Landon Carter 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
Landon Carter died in 1778, in Sabine Hall, Richmond County, Virginia, U.S. Landon Carter, son of Robert “King” Carter, was a Virginia planter, legislator, and political writer. From Sabine Hall he managed extensive lands and hundreds of enslaved people. A burgess from 1752 to 1768, he defended the assembly’s authority and opposed the Stamp Act. He chaired Richmond County’s revolutionary committee and eventually supported independence. His diary records farming, household conflicts, slavery, and the anxieties of Virginia’s elite. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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