Landon Carter (August 1710 – December 22, 1778) was a planter from Virginia, best known for his account of colonial life leading up the American War of Independence, The Diary of Colonel Landon Carter. A loyal British subject, the diary shows his gradual conversion to the cause for independence, becoming what some historians call, "the reluctant rebel".
Read more about Landon Carter: Early Life and Schooling, Marriages
Famous quotes containing the words landon and/or carter:
“Ah tell me not that memory
Sheds gladness o’er the past;
What is recalled by faded flowers
Save that they did not last?”
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838)
“I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)