(Including Ripon Hall, home of Edmund Jenings)
Portraits of Byrd, Carter
...of Robert Carter III of Nomini:
In 1772 Carter abruptly retired from Williamsburg to his plantation, Nomini Hall, on the Potomac River. In time he repudiated the major institutions of colonial gentry society: he abandoned politics, he gave up life as a planter, and he deserted the Anglican Church, becoming a Baptist in 1778. Carter was ambivalent about many aspects of Virginia life, including slavery, at times defending it and at others calling it a depravity; he eventually freed his nearly 500 slaves. In the end, he escaped rural Virginia for residence in the city of Baltimore, the family home of his wife, Frances Ann Tasker. There he became a Swedenborgian disciple.
VA/NY Genealogy
VA and NY SurnamesHenry Corbin, Jennings, etc...
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