
Robert "King" Carter I
BIRTH
1664
Lancaster County, Virginia
DEATH
August 4, 1732
Lancaster County, Virginia
FAMILY
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Carter, Robert "King" 1
(1664-1732)
Robert “King” Carter was one of colonial Virginia’s wealthiest planters, land agents, and political leaders. He served as speaker of the House of Burgesses and acting governor, and his vast estates and family connections shaped the Tidewater elite from which many Revolutionary figures emerged.
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DIED:
Lancaster County, Virginia
Aug 4, 1732
The exact date and place of Robert "King" Carter I’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. 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.
The available biographical record identifies Robert "King" Carter I with work or public activity as a statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Robert "King" Carter I died on Aug 4, 1732 in Lancaster County, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.














