John Carter
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Better Half
N 36° 21.231 W 082° 12.209
17S E 392017 N 4023869
Elizabethton, TN
Waymark Code: WM2B40
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 10/06/2007
Published By:Groundspeak Charter Member BruceS
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Located in the Carter Family Cemetery
Location type: Section of a Cemetery/Mass Grave

Date of Birth: 1737

Date of Death: 1781

Cause of death: Died Later

Grave Marker Text:
John Carter
- 1781
Chairman of Watauga Association and of the five
Commissioners who established that first written
Compact for Civil Government by American-Born Freemen
Chairman of Committee of Safety in Revolution
Colonel of Militia and in Command Watauga For, 1776
Entry-Taker. One of the first delegates from Washington
District to north Carolina Assembly Member Two
Constitutional Conventions in North Carolina.


Ranks:
Colonel
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