Col. Nathaniel Burwell

  Notes:

Info from Jeremy Archer research; Member of the Committee of Safety 1776, Burgess for James City County. Built Carter Hall, Clarke County (formerly Frederick County) 1797-98.


Carter's Grove;
Burwell's son Nathaniel inherited the property when he came of age on April 15, 1771. He graduated the next year from the College of William and Mary, where he won a prize for his scholarship, and married Susannah Grymes.
By then the house was well known. Helen-Louise de Chastenay Maussion, a French traveler, visited in 1787, and wrote: "While on our journey, we stopped at a famous place called Carter Grove, near James River, one of the most elegant habitations in Virginia. It is really a beautiful house."
Susannah Burwell bore seven children, five of whom survived infancy, before she died in 1788. Her husband married widow Lucy Page Taylor in 1789 and fathered eight more offspring. They moved to Carter Hall in Clarke County, where he died in 1814.

Nathaniel married Susanna Grymes, daughter of Philip Grymes and Mary Randolph, on 28 Nov 1772 in Brandon, Middlesex County, Virginia. (Susanna Grymes died on 24 Jul 1788 in Carter's Grove, Williamsburg, Virginia.)