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CAKR FAMILY WECOKDS—SIXTH GKMEKATION. Ill
all the i:;anie upon il; for a barren niountain tract twenty miles
away, where game was abundant. He married and had a family,
one of whom was.
HVAlxi. Samuel Carr, 1). about 17()0.
\'I. Dahxey Cakk (882) l)orn in Viririnia, Oct. 20, 1743, married
Martha Jefferson, a sister of Tliomas Jefferson, one of the
presiilents of the United States. He was a meml)er of the
house of Burgesses, and introduced and carried a bill of rights,
\vhich was regarded as tlie entering wedge to the separation
of the colonies from England. His speech on that occasion
was regarded b}' Mr. Jefferson as a "master-piece of patriotic
eh)(]uence," and he was considered the ablest man of his age
in America. (See Wirt's life of Patrick Henr}', p. 108.) On this
subject Mr. Jefferson writes: "I well remember the pleasure
ex])ressed in the countenances and conversation of the meml)ers
generall}' on this deJmt of Mr. Carr, and the hopes they
conceived as well from the talent as the patriotism manifested.
Htit he died within two months after, and in him we lost a
])owei ful fellow laborer. His character was of a high order.
Of spotless integrit^^ sound judgment, handsome imagination,
enriched 1>y education and reading; quicl-i and clear in his concej)tions,
his correct and ready elocution impressed every hearer
Avith the sincerity of the heart from which it flowed. His
firmness was inflexible in whatever he thought Nvas right, but
when no moral principle stood in the way, never had man
more of the milk of human kindness, of indulgence of soft-
ness, of pleasantry in conversation and conduct." He died at
the age of thirty, in Charlottsville, \^a., Maj' 1(3, 1773, leaving a
famil}' of six children as follows:
1038x1. Peter Carr, b. about 1764.
1(539x2. Samuel Carr, b. „ 17(i6.
I(i40x3. Dabney Carr, b. „ 17(37.
I(:41x4. Virginia Carr,
1). „ 17(;9.
1(:42 .'). Jane Carr, 1). about 1771, m. Cary.
1(!43 6. Mar}^ Carr, b. ,, 1773, d. unm.
VI. JoHX Cakk (887) born in Virginia, July 17, 1853, married
and had a family as follows:
1()44 1. Nellie Carr, m. her cousin, Samuel Carr, (1G39)
1(14.") 2. Betsey Carr, m. „ Dabney Carr, (1640)
\'l. (iAKLAM) Cakr (888) l)orn in Virginia, July 10, 1754, mar-