Col. Edward Carter fought in what became known as the French and Indian War, and afterward operated several plantations in Albemarle as well as neighboring Amherst and Nelson Counties using enslaved labor.
Both Charles and Edward were underage when their father died in 1742, so they became wards of their uncle Landon Carter, who raised them with his children at Sabine Hall.
[5] Sarah Champe definitely preferred living in Fredericksburg, Virginia, the nearest town to where she had been raised, rather than still-rural Albemarle County, even if it was nearer her husband's vast inherited acreage.
Robert Carter received the Redlands plantation in Albemarle County and married neighbor Mary Eliza Coles (1776–1856).
William Carter inherited "Viewmont" in Albemarle County from his parents and named his other plantation "Farley" to honor his wife's family.
[6] John Carter had patented (claimed) 9350 acres of land immediately south of Monticello plantation in Albemarle County in 1730.
Both parcels would become Edward's inheritance, and he acquired additional adjacent land in Albemarle County, on which he built a house known as "Blenheim".
[9][10] In 1768, Edward Carter joined with local notables Thomas Walker, William Cabell and Alexander Trent to finance John Wilkerson, who founded the Albemarle Iron Works (Wilkinson holding 1/3 of the stock and each of the rest owning 1/6 of the corporation)[11] In 1776 Carter was among the signers of a petition against subversion of religious freedom (alongside George Gilmer, Filippo Mazzei, Jacob Moon and others).