Mary Carter Braxton died on September 17, 1736, following the birth of her son Carter, the future signer of the Declaration of Independence. She was about twenty-four years old and had been married to George Braxton for only a few years. The surviving family account places her death in the immediate aftermath of childbirth, making the confinement and its consequences the central documented circumstances of her final days. It does not, however, establish a medical diagnosis or a precise sequence of complications. Hemorrhage, infection, and other obstetric conditions cannot be selected retrospectively merely because the death followed a delivery. Mary left two young sons, George and Carter, and her death came four decades before Carter's public role in independence. The loss belongs to the private history of the Carter and Braxton households, rather than to a Revolutionary death scene. Carter family papers and the established family chronology identify the woman securely, while details of her treatment, attendants, and final words remain unrecorded in the account available here.