Marriage deed for William and Frances

 

Spotsylvania Deed Book F, P. 75.

Picking up from the Carter family research prior to the vacation, above are two sections from an indenture of 157 acres between Rice Curtis and William Carter, dated November 1761. The deed indicates it was made following the marriage of William to Rice's daughter Frances Curtis. William's sister (or half-sister depending on the outcome of the research into the first wife of John Carter), who was also named Frances, married Rice Carter 3rd, brother of Frances Curtis. These families were then doubly connected.

Spotsylvania Deed Book F, P. 77.

William and Frances resided in Spotsylvania County, and had at least the following children (according to William's 1802 will and various chancery cases):

• Rice Curtis Carter
• Frances Carter
• Sarah Carter
• William Aylett Carter
• Abraham Carter
• Kenyon Carter
• Guilford Dudley Carter
• John Carter
• Elizabeth Belinda Carter
• Lucy Aylett Carter

William and Frances' children were named in some of the chancery cases I cited last week.