Documentation of Land Purchases
•“In November 1835, he
married Anne Willing Page, daughter of William Byrd Page and his wife,
Evelyn Byrd Nelson, of "Page Brook," in
Clarke.17 Around this time Mr. Carter added to
Pampatike by purchasing Goodwin's Island, a tract of land
consisting of 900 acres, lying in the Pamunkey marshes.
“ (Deep Water article)
•He,
about this time, went to live at ‘Pampatike which he took under
the will of his father, Robert Carter. He took, also, under
the said will, about twelve hundred acres of land of “Hickory Hill”, Hanover
County, which he sold to Mr. William F. Wickham, his
brother-in-law, and bought that part of the present
“Pampatike Farm” known as Goodwin’s Island, and added it
to Pampatike which is now 2250 acres of land in King
William County, Va. on the Pamunky River, between New
Castle Ferry and Piping Tree Ferry, about seven and a half
miles from the court house and about twenty five miles from
Richmond. (1915 Thomas N Carter Letter)