Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

The son of President Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter, Jeff Carter is a researcher for the Conflict Resolution Program at the Carter Center at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Table of Contents



Foreword by President Jimmy Carter     

Preface     

Introduction     



1. THE CARTERS     

Jamestown     

Bacon’s Rebellion     

The Thomas Carter Conundrum     

Another Thomas Carter     

Moore Carter and Jane Kindred     

Kindred Carter and Mary “Molly” Odum     

Isaac Carter and Sarah Browne     

Kindred Carter and the Rozier Mystery     

James Carter and Eleanor Duckworth     



2. THE MORRIS, COX, AND ANSLEY ANCESTORS AND THEIR ANCESTORS     

Monmouth County: A Haven for Baptists and Quakers Except for the Government     

Thomas Cox and Elizabeth Blashford—Puritanical Persecution     

Lewis Morris of Passage Point: Uncle Lewis Morris of Tinton Falls; The Monmouth Riots     

The Almys and the Cornells: They Thought Quakers Were Bad Until They Met the Antinomians     

The Very Strange Case of Thomas Cornell     

The Pottses Arrive from England     

More Scots: All Is Forgiven Between the Ansley, Cox and Morris Families     

More Taxes, the Regulators, and the Battle of Alamance     

Duckworths and Ramseys and Carters and Ansleys     

Wiley Carter and Ann Ansley     



3. ANCESTORS OF MARY ANN DILIGENT SEALS     

The Terrells: Polecat Swamp, Some Quakers Some Not, More Than One Affair     

The Burnleys: Revolutionaries, Friends, and the Battle of Guilford Courthouse     

The Barksdales: Early Virginians     

The Muses and the Seales: An Illicit Relationship     

A Tory Loyalist in the Family     

The Seals: A Muse No More, the Yazoo Land Fraud     

Littleberry Walker Carter and Mary Ann Diligent Seals     



4. ANCESTORS OF CAPTAIN JAMES PRATT     

The Kays     

Captain James Pratt and Sophronia Cowan     

5. ANCESTORS OF SOPHRONIA COWAN     

Ireland and Charles II     

Immigrations at Charlestown, Boonesborough, and the South Carolina Wilderness     

The Clinkscales from Scotland, Probably Not That Ann Buchner     

The Brownlees: More Irish Ancestors Who Marry Irish Ancestors     

The Seawrights: The Battle at Pratt’s Mill, Bloody Bill Cunningham, the Cloud’s Creek Massacre     

The Cowans: More Irish, More Revolutionaries     

William Archibald Carter and Nina Pratt     

6. ANCESTORS OF JAMES JACKSON GORDY     

Perry Scott and Captain Allen McLane     

Wilson Gordy and Mary Scott     

The Helms Family, the Waxhaw Settlement and the Revolution     



7. ANCESTORS OF MARY IDA NICHOLSON     

The Nathaniel Nunn Nicholson Line     

Patrick Jack     

The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence     

Joseph Nicholson and Lillis McAdoo Jack     

Were John Nicholson and John Candor Nicholson the Same Person?     

Nathaniel Nunn Nicholson     

The Very Interesting Dawson Ancestors     

The Nicholsons from Ireland     

The Gaines and Brown Families     

Malekiah Dawson and Mary Marcus Brown and Back to Nathaniel Nunn Nicholson     



8. ANCESTORS OF JOHN WILLIAM MURRAY     

The Provable Murrays     

The Albrittons     

The Search for Susan Champion     

The Bethunes in America     

The Legend of Martin Bethune     

The Short Ancestry of the Lawhons     

The Short Ancestry of the Parkers and the Kellys     

John William Fulwood Murray     



9. ANCESTORS OF ROSA NETTIE WISE     

If Not for Martin Luther, Half the Family Wouldn’t Be Here     

The Palatine Ancestors     

The Trip from Wittenberg     

Dutch Fork     

The Coogles and the Kleckleys, Mt. Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, More Civil War     

The Wises     

The Etheridges: In Theory, Five Names Are Enough     



10. ANCESTORS OF WILBURN EDGAR SMITH     

Colonial Maryland     

The Prathers Arrived in 1622, the Odells, Ridgelys, and Biggers a Little Later     

The Offutts and Captain Edward Brock Arrived Before 1672     

The Isaac and Pottenger Families Arrived Around 1670     

The Jacobs, Cheyneys, and Westalls Arrived in the Mid-1600s     

The Halley, Haley, Hailey, Hawley, Holly Family     

The Fulford and Bell Families     

The Smiths     

The Descendants of George Lynch Smith     

Afterword: The Quest     



Appendix A: What’s a Cousin and How Do They Get Removed?     

Appendix B: Pedigree Collapse     

Appendix C: The Search for Kindred Carter’s Wife     

Appendix D: The Bethune Lineage in Scotland     

Appendix E: Loyal “Regulators” Association     

Appendix F: Land Grant to Ellis Marcus by the Earl of Granville     

Appendix G: Wills     

Last Will and Testament of Dr. Samuel Browne     

Last Will and Testament of Francis Clinkscales, Sr.     

Last Will and Testament of Charity Dysart     

Last Will and Testament of William Nicholson     

Last Will and Testament of Wilson Gordy     

Last Will and Testament of Abel Ansley     

Last Will and Testament of Joseph Pratt     

Last Will and Testament of James Brownlee     

Last Will and Testament of George W. Carter     

Last Will and Testament of Peter Gordy     



Chapter Notes     

Bibliography     

Index