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William Carr (d. 1790)

Role

William Carr did business with George Washington, Bushrod Washington, and John Augustine Washington.

Description

William Carr was a Dumfries, Virginia, agent for London merchant James Russell, dealing primarily in wheat and flour. He also was a rent collector for Robert Carter, a Prince William County justice, and a Dumfries trustee. Carr had a daughter and two sons. He died in Stafford on 25 November 1790. 

Citations

"[October 1770]," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/01-02-02-0005-0027. [Original source: The Diaries of George Washington, vol. 2, 14 January 1766 – 31 December 1770, ed. Donald Jackson. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976, pp. 276–284.]

"To George Washington from William Carr, 17 December 1770," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-08-02-0281. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Colonial Series, vol. 8, 24 June 1767 – 25 December 1771, ed. W. W. Abbot and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, pp. 412–413.]

"To Thomas Jefferson from Mann Page, enclosing Court Proceedings against a Slave, together with Jefferson’s Reprieve, 13 May 1781," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-05-02-0777. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 5, 25 February 1781 – 20 May 1781, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952, pp. 640–643.]

William Carr in Virginia, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 16521900 (Ancestry.com). 

William Carr in Isabell Dora Weaver Ancestry Family Tree (Ancestry.com).

Thomas Lee Sr. to Robert Carter, 26 November 1790, Lee Family Digital Archive.