Marriages
"King" Carter died in 1732, and Landon inherited a portion of his father's estate. Shortly thereafter, Carter married Elizabeth Wormeley, daughter of John Wormeley. She died in 1740. In 1742, he married Maria Byrd, daughter of William Byrd II. She died in 1744. Carter married his third wife, Elizabeth Beale, in 1746.
Shortly after his first marriage, Carter had settled on lands he had inherited in Richmond County. His mansion house, Sabine Hall, which he built about 1734, stood at the heart of his plantation there. At his death he left to his heirs 50,000 acres (200 km²) of land and as many as 500 slaves.
The personal papers of the Carter family are held by the Special Collections Research Center at the College of William and Mary.
Carter's daughter, Maria, married Colonel William Beverley and Elizabeth Bland's son, Robert Beverley. He was named after his paternal grandfather. The Beverleys were descendants of Pocahontas.
Carter's interment was in Warsaw, Virginia's Lower Lunenburg Parish Church's cemetery.
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