[3] He had an elder brother George (who died at age 16 in 1654), and a slightly older sister Elizabeth, who would marry prominent Maryland colonists.
He sent his half brother Robert (who was only six when their father died) to England to be educated for six years, during which the boy lived with a tobacco merchant named Mr. Bailey and likely also learned about that trade as well.
[13] Carter began serving in the House of Burgesses in 1676, the year of Bacon's Rebellion, which changed the colony's relationship with the Board of Trade in London.
[14] Carter died in 1690, possibly of malaria contracted three years earlier, and which had necessitated his replacement as justice of the peace at that time.
[17][18] John Carter's will also provided that his brother Charles (then in England) would only receive 3 pounds sterling (as did Robert) to buy a mourning ring.
Moreover, after the widow's remarriage, her husband, Wormeley, sued on her behalf for her dower rights (which one descendant considered a formality), but lost after she died in 1693.
Thirty years later the Court of Chancery in England ordered them sold to pay the debts of Lloyd's estate, and Robert Carter purchased them.
[23][24] The second provision of John Carter's will freed four slaves—Richard and his wife Chriss and their two daughters—and gave them a piece of land, cattle, barrels of corn and peas, and lumber to build a cabin.