This info is very sketchy and should not be taken as documentation. Better, more complete lines of these individuals appear elsewhere on the Internet.

Generation 1

Parents, names unknown

• John Carter, Sr.
• Joseph Carter
• Caleb Carter

These brothers are said to have left New Jersey in the early 1760s traveling over the old wagon road from Conestoga, PA to Opeckon, VA. They visited relatives along the way. John, Joseph and Caleb Carter took up land along the north branch of the Potomac River, Hampshire Co VA.

An additional brother, listed in some accounts:

• Levy Carter

 

Carters Station - A very early pioneer settlement. An early Fort was built upon an old Indian campground at this location and near a good spring. Some of the foundation and evidences still remain, but are privately owned.

Being the center of the Lick Creek fertile soils and creek travel, it became the center for a very important trading post. The Lick Creek valley nearby became known as Carters Valley. Because of Carters Station in Hawkins County, the post office often confused mail between the two locations.  It was thought best to change the name of Carters Valley.

A Methodist circuit rider working the local circuit and his route of churches was known as Albany, so some people began to call the location Albany.No one objected to this. However, habits are hard to break. It is often called Carter's Station today.

 

Carter Generation 2:

John Carter, Sr.
b. abt. 1720-1730, NJ
d. 1811, Greene Co TN

Uncertain number of marriages; one wife listed as Dorcas; his last wife seems to have been named Dorotha. One wife, the mother of John Carter Jr, is said to Rebecca Stuart, whom he married in Brunswick Co VA on Jan. 23, 1754, with James Jones, bondsman.

• John Carter
• Abraham Carter
• Daniel Carter
• Jacob Carter
• James Carter
• Rebecca Carter
• Penelope Carter

By 1770 John Carter and his family had made his way west from Morriston, NJ to Monongalia Co VA (now WV). By 1777 to Surrey Co NC. Between 1777 and 1780 the Carter's entered what would become Tennessee. John Carter constructed a fort called Carter's Station, noted above.

John Carter is said to have moved to the Greene Co TN area along with Nathaniel Carter, relationship unknown.

Before leaving Surrey Co NC, John and Dorotha sold land there. There is a marriage recorded in Brunswick Co VA between a Rebecca Stuart and John Carter on 23 Jan 1754. But because of there being so many men with the name John Carter it cannot be proven as ours (although he did have a daughter named Rebecca).

Carter Generation 3:

John Carter, Jr.
b. Sept. 1, 11756, Brunswick Co VA
d. Sep. 10, 1845, Carters Station, Greene Co TN

+ Rebecca

• Isaac Carter, 1784
• Jacob Carter, 1786
• Benjamin Carter, 1787
• Sarah Carter, 1789
• Albert Carter, 1791
• John Carter, 1795
• Beersheba Carter, 1797
• Rebeckah Carter, b. May 20, 1793, d. Sept 7, 1876; + Samuel Keller, July 5, 1815
• Metilday Carter, 1799
• Elam Carter, 1805
• Caty Carter, 1807
• Ezekiel Carter, 1807

John Carter Jr's will was dated 7 Sept 1837, proved 1 March 1847.

In 1768 they moved to Mononghalia (now WVa). They are my ancestors. This is proved.
I don't know where that Dorcus name showed up but Dorcus was not John Carter Jr.'s mother.

Abraham Carter
b. 1753 NJ
d. 1832, Carters Station, Greene Co TN

+Rebecca Edmonds, Mar. 15, 1821, Greene Co TN

• Ezekiel Carter, b. Mar. 25, 1780
• Elizabeth Carter, b. 1781; + King
• Nancy Carter, b. 1782; + Weems
• Robert Enoch Carter, b. Dec, 16, 1785, Carters Station, Greene Co TN, d. June 20, 1855, Valley Home Farm, Jefferson Co TN; + Lucretia Clayton, Oct. 13, 1793, MD.
• Mashac Carter, b. 1788
• Joseph A. or John A. Carter, b. 1790
• Temperance Carter, b. 1791; + Malone
• Eleanor Carter, b. 1793; + Keller
• Sarah Sally Carter, b. 1802; + Edmonds

Abraham recieved a grant of 275 acres of land from the State of North Carolina, the land being then in Greene County, 1787. The Carter Farm was located between Morristown and Dandridge. John Hardin of Greene County sold 400 acres to Abraham Carter in 1810.

Greene County, Tennessee Wills 1783-1890 by Goldene Fillers Burgner:
ABRAM CARTER 26 oct 1832
To Wife, Rebecca, fifty dollars and small spinning wheel the old man bought for her, a side saddle and 10 pounds coffee. Other property to be sold and money divided between my heirs inc. Rebecca, my wife. Children: Nancy Weems, Temperance Malone, Elenor Keller, Elizabeth King, Sarah Edmonds. Executors: Ezekiel Carter, John Carter. Will dated: 22 mar 1832 Witnesses: John Pogue, Henry Simpson. Signed Abraham Carter (his mark)

Daniel Carter
b. 1758

Per Toni Prevost:
Reverend Daniel Carter was a Methodist preacher "Circuit Rider" and a charter member of the Wesley Methodist Church of Dandridge, Jefferson County, Tennessee. He was a Union Captain during the Civil War in the Local "Home Guard". He served as a judge in the County Court. Marriage Record, Jefferson County, Tenn. Will of Daniel Carter Bk 8, pg. 176, 10 March 1886. Will of Robert Enoch Carter, Will Bk 5, pg. 194 March 29 1856, Jefferson County, Tennessee.

Daniel Carter may be a match to the Daniel Carter who administered the estate of a John Carter Sr.

Jacob Carter

Eventually settled in Mississippi.

James Carter
b. Jan 1. 1768
d. Fannin Co TX

+ Phoebe Bullard, May 2, 1791, Greene Co TX

• Minatree (Menifee) Carter
• Rebecca Carter, , b. 1795; + James Whitson Jr of Kingsville, Barren Co KY
• Synthia Carter; + Francis Shoemake, a wagon maker who lived in Bolivar, Hardeman Co TN in 1830 and who lived next door to Green B. Carter (son of Jesse Carter) and near William Levi Carter.
• Eleanor Carter; +John Barrer
• Anna Carter; + Henery Murray
• Elizabeeth Carter; + Montgomery Robertson
• Sophia Carter; + Robert Paisley Russell, who moved to Fannin Co TX

The date of birth for this James Carter comes from his Rev. War pension application. He is said to have lived as early as 1811 in Jackson Co TN and as early as 1838 in Fannin Co TX, where he received a Republic of Texas land grant.

Rebecca Carter

Penelope Carter

Carter Generation 2 continued:

Joseph Carter

Caleb Carter
b. abt. 1750

Levi Carter -- possible, but undocumented brother to the above
b. abt. 1736, Wales
d. Apr. 22, 1811, Albany, Greene Co TN

+ Susanna
b. 1740, Ammettsville VA
d. 1818, Albany, Greene Co TN

• Rachel Carter, b. abt. 1754 NJ
• Caleb Carter, b. abt. 1756 NJ, d. aft 1840 Monroe Co, TN
• Levy Carter, b. abt. 1758 NJ
• John Carter, b. abt. 1760, Arnettsville, Monongolia Co VA
• Joseph Carter, b. abt. 1776 Surry, NC
• Susannah Carter, b. abt. 1780, Washington Co NC (now Greene Co TN)
• Nathan Carter, b. abt. 1780, Greene Co TN, d. abt 1830 Greene Co TN
• Elija Carter, b. 29 Mar 1786, Greene Co TN, d Nov. 13, 1858 Howard Twsp, Gentry Co MO, buried Carter Cemetary Gentry Co MO
• Jesse Carter, b. abt. 1774, Arnettsville, Monongolia Co VA, d. 1849 McMinn Co TN; + Susanna Harmon.

"According to family legend, Levy was said to have been born in Wales of Irish parentage... Levy served 1774, Dunmore's War in Monongalia Co, VA; he also served in Rev War in that VA militia in Morgans' Co & in Haymond's Co, in which John Carter, Jr also served. In 1775, Levy claimed 400 acres near present day Arnettsville, W VA. 1780 Levy in Washington Co, NC tax roll. By 1793 Levi owned 175 acres in Greene Co, TN. Levy died before 1832. Levi's close association with the John Carter family via their same migration routes from NJ, PA, VA, NC, then TN indicates [or rather, suggests] kinship."
--Paula Carter, Carter genforum, July 14, 1999