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Note: Notes for DAVID CARTER: David Carter was born about 1785 in Colleton District, S.C., a son of George Carter R.S., (Vol.III). He came with his parents to Tattnall County, Ga., soon after he was grown, and was married there to Rachel Cooper, born 1790, daughter of Richard Cooper, R.S., of that county. David Carter continued living in Tattnall after marriage, until 1819 when he was among the first to move over the Altamaha River into the new County of Appling. There he acquired land, built his home and cleared up a farm out of the virgin forests. In the hard work incidental to doing so he lost his health by overwork and prostration, and for the last four or five years of his fife he was virtually an invalid. He died about 1825. His "orphans" in 1826 registered for the State land lottery that took place the next year, and drew land. A few years later the widow and children moved back across the river to Liberty County to live, induced to do so by the hardships of frontier life. The children grew up and married there. The widow died there about 1835.
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