Robert Carter II
(1704-1732)
BIRTH
January 20, 1704
PLACE
Corotoman, Lancaster County, Virginia
DEATH
1732
PLACE
Nomini, Westmoreland County, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER
Robert Carter I
(1664-1732)
MOTHER
Elizabeth Landon
(1683-1719)
BROTHER
John Carter
(1695 or 1696-1742)
SISTER
Judith Carter Page
(1695-c. 1750)
BROTHER
Landon Carter
(1710-1778)
SISTER
Mary Carter Braxton
(1712-1736)
SISTER
Elizabeth Carter Burwell Nicholas
(c. 1688-1734)
SISTER
Lucy Carter
(c. 1715-1763)
HOMES
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AWARDS
Robert Carter II (c.1704–1732), son of Robert “King” Carter and Elizabeth Landon, was a Virginia planter at Nomini. He married Priscilla Churchill, and their son Robert later became known as Councillor Carter. His father appointed him naval officer for the Rappahannock customs district in 1727. A 1731 business letter names him in a family mining venture that sought skilled workers from England. He died young; his papers survive, though accounts disagree on his exact dates.
EARLY LIFE
Robert Carter II was born on Jan 20, 1704. 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 Carter II with work or public activity as a planter. 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. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Robert Carter II died in 1732, in Nomini, Westmoreland County, Virginia. Robert Carter II, son of Robert “King” Carter and Elizabeth Landon, was a Virginia planter at Nomini. He married Priscilla Churchill, and their son Robert later became known as Councillor Carter. His father appointed him naval officer for the Rappahannock customs district in 1727. A 1731 business letter names him in a family mining venture that sought skilled workers from England. He died young; his papers survive, though accounts disagree on his exact dates. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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