Robert Carter was born in 1764 in Lancaster County, Virginia to parents Thomas and Elizabeth Carter, an area the Carter family had been living in since the previous century. In the 1780s, he moved to what is now Jefferson County, West Virginia and that is where he married Elizabeth Griggs. Robert and Elizabeth made their home in Jefferson County, where all of their eleven children were born. Robert was a well to do farmer in the area, living on an estate known as "Snow Hill." His brother-in-law Thomas Griggs also lived in Jefferson County, and helped to manage some of the lands the Washington family owned in the area. Despite the life they had established for themselves, on October 6, 1811, the couple made a big change in their lives, setting out to Bourbon County, Kentucky where they lived until Elizabeth passed away in 1819. After the death of his first wife, Robert married again, this time to Susanna Clark Robinson, a widow. They lived in Bourbon County, Kentucky where Robert passed away on April 6, 1829.
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