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BARBARA3 OVERTON (JAMES2, WILLIAM1)1 was born April 20, 17201, and died December 17941. She married JOHN CARR2 December 27, 17373. He was born December 26, 1706 in King William County, Virginia3, and died June 17, 1778 in Louisa County, Virginia3.
More About JOHN CARR:
Probate: August 10, 1778, Louisa County, Virginia3
Property: Louisa County, Virginia4
Public Office: Justice of Louisa County, 1742-1778; High Sheriff 1753-'545
Residence: "Bear Castle," Louisa County, Virginia6
Will Dated: July 22, 1773, Louisa County, Virginia7
Children of BARBARA OVERTON and JOHN CARR are:
i. DABNEY4 CARR, SR8,9,10, b. October 26, 174311; d. May 16, 177311; m. MARTHA JEFFERSON12, July 20, 176513; b. May 29, 1746, "Tuckahoe," Goochland County, Virginia14,15; d. 181116.
More About DABNEY CARR, SR:
Residence: "Bear Castle," Louisa County, Virginia17
More About MARTHA JEFFERSON:
Residence: "Montcello," Albemarle County, Virginia18
ii. MAJOR SAMUEL CARR19, b. 174520; d. 177720.
More About MAJOR SAMUEL CARR:
Military service: Served in the Revolutionary War20
iii. ELIZABETH CARR20, b. 174720; d. Unknown; m. NATHANIEL ANDERSON20; d. Unknown.
iv. OVERTON CARR20, b. 175220; d. Unknown; m. ANN ADDISON20; d. Unknown.
More About OVERTON CARR:
Residence: Maryland20
v. GARLAND CARR21, b. 175422; d. 183722; m. MARY WINSTON23, 178324; d. Unknown.
More About GARLAND CARR:
Residence: Albemarle County, Virginia24
vi. MARY CARR24,25, b. September 14, 175626,27; d. July 07, 179727; m. JAMES MINOR28, June 20, 1773, Louisa County, Virginia29; b. February 18, 1745/4630; d. June 07, 179131.
More About JAMES MINOR:
Residence: Albemarle County, Virginia32
Endnotes
1. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 589.
2. Hayden, Horace Edwin, M. A., Rev, Virginia Genealogies, Lewis Family, (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1891.), 385.
3. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 589.
4. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 591, "In the same deed-book (1742-'53), under date of February 25, 1750, is an indenture between John Minor, of the county of Spotsylvania, gent., and John Carr, of the county of Louisa, gent., which recites a clause from the said Thomas Carr's will, 'duly proved in the county of Caroline at a court held for said county on the 14th day of July, 1738.' 'Item I give unto my said son Thomas Carr the half of my James River lands in Hanover and Goochland county, etc., . . but if it please God he should die before he marries, or afterwards, without child or children, then and in that case only I give and bequeath the said land to my son John and his heirs forever, with residue to Agnes and Sarah;' and so on other lands with cross remainders between his said several children, etc., etc., and continues, 'After whose death Thomas Carr, eldet son and heir to the said testator, made his last will and testament, bearing date the 5th day of July, 1743, and in a short time afterwards died, and by a clause therein contained the said John Minor (party hereto) laid claim to 3,441 acres as deivised to him by said Thomas, Jr.,' etc.etc."
5. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 589.
6. Hayden, Horace Edwin, M. A., Rev, Virginia Genealogies, Lewis Family, (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1891.), 385.
7. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 589.
8. Bell, Landon C, The Old Free State, Volume II, (The William Byrd Press, Inc, Richmond, Virginia, 1927), 290.
9. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume II, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 643, "They were grandparents of Dabney Carr, 1743-73, of King William County."
10. Hayden, Horace Edwin, M. A., Rev, Virginia Genealogies, Lewis Family, (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1891.), 385.
11. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 590.
12. Notes from the Records of Albemarle County, 6.
13. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 590.
14. Bell, Landon C, The Old Free State, Volume II, (The William Byrd Press, Inc, Richmond, Virginia, 1927), 290.
15. Brodie, Fawn M., Thomas Jefferson An Intimate History,(W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1974.), 48.
16. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume V, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 27.
17. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 590.
18. Brodie, Fawn M., Thomas Jefferson An Intimate History, (W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1974.), 53, "When his sister Martha ran into financial difficulties some years after the death of her husband, Dabney Carr, he [Thomas Jefferson] brought her to Monticello and for a time raised her six children along with his own."
19. Hayden, Horace Edwin, M. A., Rev, Virginia Genealogies, Lewis Family, (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1891.), 385.
20. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 590.
21. Hayden, Horace Edwin, M. A., Rev, Virginia Genealogies, Lewis Family, (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1891.), 385.
22. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 590.
23. Hayden, Horace Edwin, M. A., Rev, Virginia Genealogies, Lewis Family, (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1891.), 385.
24. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 590.
25. Du Bellet, Louise Pecquet, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Volume II, (J P Bell Company Publishers, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1907), 408.
26. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 590.
27. Wingfield, Marshall, A History of Caroline County, Virginia, (Trevvet Christian & Co, Richmond, VA 1924), 448.
28. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 590.
29. Wingfield, Marshall, A History of Caroline County, Virginia, (Trevvet Christian & Co, Richmond, VA 1924), 448.
30. Hayden, M. A., Horace Edwin, Rev, Virginia Genealogies, Holladay Family, (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1891.), 371.
31. Wingfield, Marshall, A History of Caroline County, Virginia, (Trevvet Christian & Co, Richmond, VA 1924), 448.
32. Barnes, Robert, Indexed by, Genealogies of Virginia Families, Volume I, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1981.), 590.
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