His farm in Rye Cove, initially the furthest west in the Clinch Valley, became a militia garrison sometimes known as "Carter's fort" as late as 1792.
Also his cousin John Carter, despite settling four miles from Fort Blackmore, lost his wife and six children to raiding native Americans in 1787.
However, fellow justices of the county court kept proposing him for the office of sheriff many times, before a Thomas Carter (likely his nephew) finally accepted the commission in 1803, the year of this man's death.
[11] Carter also served in Richmond (part-time) as one of the first two representatives for Russell County in the Virginia House of Delegates, and continued to win re-election several times.
While Carter did not speak during debates, the vote count indicates he was in the minority that opposed ratification, although two days later he was in the majority that proposed an amendment limiting the new government's taxation power.