Elizabeth Carter

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Jeremy Archer research; Had further issue (not shown) with her second husband.


Carter's Grove;
When Robert Carter's eldest daughter, Elizabeth, born in 1688, married Nathaniel Burwell of Fairfield in Gloucester County in 1709, Carter bought the James River acreage and designated the income it produced for Elizabeth, but he retained ownership of the property.
By that time it seems that all traces of Wolstenholme Towne, a settlement founded on the tract by 1620 by London Company of Virginia investors, had vanished. Archaeologists began to unearth the town site in 1976, and part of it has been schematically reconstructed. Once the administrative center of Martin's Hundred plantation, Wolstenholme Towne was the Jamestown outpost hardest hit in the Uprising of 1622 – a Virginia-wide Indian uprising against the English settlers. The property was still known as Martin's Hundred – the name sometimes corrupted to "Merchant's Hundred" – when Robert Carter bought it.
Carter supervised the farm's operations; Elizabeth lived with her husband at her father-in-law's home north of the York River. Colonel William Byrd saw her there and wrote, "Mrs. Burwell is a very pretty, good humored woman." Widowed in 1721 with four minor children, she married Dr. George Nicholas of Williamsburg in April 1724 and died in 1734. By Robert Carter's will, the plantation passed to Elizabeth's son Carter Burwell, born October 8, 1716, when he turned 21. Carter's will also provided that "This estate in all times to come to be called and to go by the name of Carter's Grove."

Elizabeth married Major Nathaniel Burwell, son of Col. Lewis# Burwell and Abigail Smith, ~1709 in Corotoman. (Major Nathaniel Burwell was born in 1680, christened on 14 Oct 1680 in Abington Church, Gloucester Co., Virginia and died in 1721.)

Elizabeth next married George Nicholas M.D. in 1722 in Date Guess To Get Marriages In Correct Order!.