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1772-1798 Spotsylvania County, Virginia Will Book E; [William Armstrong Crozier];
CARTER, EDWARD, Fredericksburg, d. Feb. 21, 1792, Executors Bond dated June 6, 1792.
Wit. Charles Carter, Jr., Charles Carter, George Carter, George Gilman.
Ex. sons Charles and Edward Carter, William Champe.
Leg. wife Sally Carter, house and lots in Fredericksburg, plantation and house in Albemarle Co, known by the name of "Blenheim," also tract of land purchased of Col. William Champe, late of Culpeper, during her widowhood;
sons Charles and Edward Carter, land in Amherst Co., near where my son John lives;
son John and his wife Apphire Carter;
son Charles, and his wife the daughter of Col. Fielding Lewis;
son George, land in Amherst Co;
sons Whitacre and Hill, land in Amherst Co;
son William Champe Carter, plantations called "Dicks" and "Wheelers," and land in Albemarle Co;
son Robert Carter, plantation in Albemarle, known by the name of "Gloucester" and "Chathams"; daughters Mary Champe and Ann Williams;
daughter Elizabeth Stanard;
daughter Jane Bradford, wife of Majr. Samuel K. Bradford, and their children;
daughter Sally Carter, wife of George Carter. Page 1156)
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http://revwarapps.org/w4608.pdf
State of Virginia } S.S County of Culpeper } on this sixteenth day of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the peace, and a Judge of a court of record, Jane Vermonette a resident of the county and state aforesaid aged seventy eight years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836, and the act explanatory to said act, passed March 3d 1837. That she was married to Samuel K. Bradford – who was a captain of Artillery in the Virginia Continental line, and Aid-de-Camp to General Weedon [George Weedon BLWt2418-850] for two or more years, and served as a captain, or Aid-de-Camp to the end of the war. She has no recollection of the battles in which said Samuel K. Bradford was engaged – nor has he any documentary evidence in support of the claim, But refers to the record evidence herewith presented. She further declares, that she was married to the said Samuel K. Bradford, in the month of May or June one thousand seven hundred and eighty one. That she left her Fathers house and was married without her parents consent, it being a runaway marriage. She has no knowledge of any record or register of her marriage or of the births of her children., That her Husband the aforesaid Major Samuel K. Bradford performed service after she was married, and died in seventeen hundred and ninety three That she afterwards married John Vermonette who died on the [blank] in the year 1815 and that she was a widow on the 4th of July 1836, and still remains a widow Jane Vermonnet formerly a widow of Samuel K Bradford
NOTES: On 11 Oct 1843 M. C. Brooke, recalled the marriage of her sister, Jane Vermonette, as follows: “[T]he evening before her sister eloped with Major Bradford, her mother (Mrs Carter) and the family were eating strawberries, when an expression of happiness, was made by her mother in having her family around her, that night her sister Jane eloped, and married Major Bradford; the year I remember, because it was the same year, that Col. Tarleton of the British Army, made an excursion into Virginia.” On 3 Aug 1843 William Jones, 93, of Wilderness in Orange County VA, (brother of Maj. Churchill Jones) gave the following account: “Major Samuel K. Bradford of the continental army eloped (with Miss Carter, the daughter of Edward Carter Esqr. deceased,) to Maryland just before the news reached Fedricksburg [sic: Fredericksburg] of the approach of a detachment of Col’n. Tarlton Light-horse of the British Army. – A few days after, the couple left Fedricksburg for Maryland to be married. Mrs. Edward Carter the mother of Miss Carter, who with many others fled from Fedricksburg upon the intelligence of the alarm above alluded to, came to my house and communicated to my wife the circumstances of Major Bradford having eloped with her daughter, and left word for them when they came back from Maryland to follow her to Blenhem, Albemarl County [sic: Blenheim in Albemarle County], Virginia: wither she was going. Major Samuel K. Bradford and his wife (Miss Carter who was) arrived at my house a short time after Mrs. Carter left for Albemarl, They spent several days with my family, and cohabited as man and wife, and left together for Blenhem as requested by Mrs. Carter.
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Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck Counties
1764 - Aft 1843 (> 80 years)