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Dabney Carr (October 26, 1743 – May 16, 1773) was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and was married to Martha Jefferson, the sister of Thomas Jefferson. He introduced the Committee of correspondence in Virginia which was a leading factor in the formation of the Continental Congress in 1774.
Dabney Carr (April 27, 1773 – January 8, 1837) was a Virginia lawyer, writer and a justice of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. [1] Early and family life. Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Dabney Carr, 1826. Library of Congress.
Correspondence concerns Jefferson’s recommendations to Carr for reading law (1793-1794); the burning of Washington, D.C. and national politics (1812-1815), and memorializing the contributions, during the Revolution, of Carr’s father and Jefferson’s friend Dabney Carr (in William Wirt’s biography of Patrick Henry). *This site is no ...
Dabney Carr (October 26, 1743 – May 16, 1773) was one of Thomas Jefferson's closest friends. Carr was born at Bear Castle, a thousand-acre farm in Louisa County, Virginia, though other details of his childhood are largely unknown.
Dabney Carr (April 27, 1773 – January 8, 1837) was the son of Thomas Jefferson's sister Martha (1746-1811) and his close friend Dabney Carr (1743-1773). [1] Following his father's death in 1773, young Dabney spent much of his early life at Monticello under Thomas Jefferson's care.
No known portrait painting; photograph of a graphic reproduction of an 1808 drawing of Carr by Charles Balthazar Fevret de Saint-Mémin, 1808, in the photo-archive of the Frick Art Reference Library in New York; for more information, see the record in the Frick Research Catalog Online.
Dabney Carr Born on October 28, 1743, at Bear Castle, the family home near Elk Creek, Carr graduated from William and Mary, became a lawyer, and represented Louisa in the House of Burgesses. Although little is known of his early life, he was educated at the Rev. James Maury's School.
