Col. Carter Burwell

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Info from;
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~marshall/esmd42.htm

Info from Jeremy Archer research; Burgess for James City County 1742-55. Built Carter's Grove near Williamsburg 1750-55. Educ; William & Mary Colllege.


Carter's Grove;
Carter Burwell moved to the property about 1737, the year before he married Lucy Grymes of Brandon in Middlesex County. She bore nine children, the first, Nathaniel, arriving April 15, 1750. Her husband served in the House of Burgesses and ran a farm that produced foodstuffs instead of tobacco. He counted among its customers royal governors and Williamsburg innkeepers.
Soon after he moved there in 1737, Burwell began to build a two-and-one-half story, five-bay Georgian brick mansion between an earlier brick kitchen and brick office. Williamsburg bricklayer David Minitree was among the workmen and may be responsible for the rubbed brick around the doorways.
Burwell brought artisan Richard Baylis, family and all, from London to do the interior woodwork. Baylis paneled the home in walnut and pine, providing its most distinctive features, particularly in the 28-foot-wide hall. A 20th-century admirer noted the grand stairway "in three runs with carved balusters and parquetry of light and dark wood on the half landings, the nail heads on the nosings covered by plugs of holly or box in three designs, the elliptical arch, the carved brackets, the Sienna marble mantled, fluted Ionic pilasters, and dentilled cornices."
Part of the residence appears to have been modeled after illustrations in William Salmon's "Palladio Londinensis," an architecture book Burwell bought at the Virginia Gazette in December 1751.
The house was completed around November of 1755, but Burwell lived to enjoy it for just six months. He died in May 1756 at age 41.

Carter married Lucy Grymes, daughter of The Hon. John Grymes and Lucy Ludwell, on 5 Jan 1737 in Christchurch, Middlesex Co, Va.