Dabney Carr (Virginia assemblyman)

Dabney Carr (October 26, 1743 – May 16, 1773) was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and longtime friend, since boyhood, of Thomas Jefferson.

Carr descended from early settlers and men who performed public service and had large landholdings throughout Virginia.

The school was conducted in a log cabin in Albemarle County where he taught geography, history, mathematics, literature, classics, manners, and morals.

[2][7][3] Their children were:[1][8] Impressed with the Carr's family life, Jefferson wrote, "...in a very small house, with a table, half a dozen chairs, and one or two servants... [Dabney] is the happiest man in the universe.

"[11] As a young man, in 1763, Carr served in the Volunteer Rangers under Captain Phillips and received a land bounty for his service.

[2] Relations between the colonists and the King of England were contentious by 1773 and a special session of the House of Burgesses was held by John Murray, Lord Dunmore, the governor of Virginia.

[2] On March 12, 1773, Carr proposed the creation of an inter-colony Committee of correspondence to help coordinate communication between Virginia and other colonies.

[2][12] He died of a fever soon afterward, on May 16, 1773,[2] a few weeks after the birth of his sixth child, Dabney Carr, and Thomas Jefferson finished his legislative term.

Wren Building , College of William & Mary . With a construction history dating back to 1695, it is part of the college's ancient campus.
Martha Jefferson Carr (May 29, 1746 - September 3, 1811)
Thomas Jefferson's gravesite, alongside which Dabney Carr was buried. As boys, Thomas Jefferson and Dabney Carr hiked up the summit of the mountain near Jefferson's parents’ Shadwell plantation. They sat for hours under an oak tree on the land that would later become the Monticello estate, reading and planning their futures. They made a pact that they would be buried under that oak tree. [ 13 ]