The Carter Deeds

Movement of Colored People

Deed Book 3S, page 186   Date: 15 Apr 1829   Returned to court: 11 Jun 1829

Margaret SPENCER of Holmes Co Ohio to Samuel CARTER of Ldn. Bargain and sale of 15a Lot #7 in div. of Jasper POULSON dec'd. Wit: Jesse MORGAN, Thos. POULSON. Delv. to CARTER 20 Jun 1846.

Deed Book 5M, page 241              Date: 28 Sep 1855     Returned to court: 15 Oct 1855

Samuel Carter the elder of Ldn to Samuel Carter Jr of Belmont Co Ohio. Bargain and sale of house and 15a lot now in possession of grantor, adjoining Samuel Beans, Anna Gooding & others, as described in deed from Margaret Spencer (widow’s dower, Lot No. 7 in division of estate of Joseph Poulson dec’d) to said Carter.

Deed Book 5W, page 269              Date: 20 Mar 1867     Returned to court: 29 Mar 1867

Samuel Carter Jr & wife Mary Jane of Belmont Co Ohio to William H. Green and Daniel Elliott of Ldn. Bargain sale of above 15a.

Samuel Carter, Sr. bought land in Belmont and neighboring counties in Ohio. He apparently handed this land over to his son Samuel Carter. Jr,.  Along with Samuel Carter. Jr.,  came Joseph and their sister Eleanor Thornton-Carter. Eleanor had received the blessing of her father Samuel Carter Sr,. to marry Abraham Thornton according to Loudoun County's governmental website.