John Carter in 1743

 

Made in Ideogram. John Carter. Spotsylvania, Virginia, 1743.

As far as I know, there are no surviving portraits of John Carter (1715-1783). In 1743, John was a recently married man (for the second time), with four young children, about 28 years old. During the year of 1743 he completed two land purchases in Spotsylvania County, Virginia for 290 acres. The imagined scene above shows John surveying the new land in the vast forests of the area.

There is a great resource called Colonial Virginia Portraits, which has a shortcut to portraits for extended members of Carter families. While we're still looking for maternal descendants from John Carter and his various wives, I'm using Ideogram to help visualize the time in which John and his family lived.