2 i. William Cartwright was born on 4 Jul 1746
in Princess Anne Co., VA. He died in 1747 in Princess Anne Co.,
VA.1. Robert Cartwright was born on 22
Feb 1721/22 in Princess Anne Co., VA. He died on 24 Dec 1809 in
Davidson Co., TN. He was buried in Cartwright Cem.,
Goodlettsville, Davidson Co., TN. Robert Cartwright was a native
of Princess Anne Co., VA; he later served in military companies
in both VA and NC. He joined the expedition that left Ft. Patrick
Henry on the Holston River in Dec., 1779 and arrived at what is
now Nashville, TN in April, 1780 after one of the most perilous
voyages in the annals of history.
The land of which the graveyard in which he is interred was
granted by the state of NC as a "Preemption."
Another graveyard is located about half a mile distant on the old
turnpike on land which was inherited by his son Jacob.
His tombstone reads:
2/22/1722-12/24/1809
A wit's a feather
A chief's a rod;
But an honest man
Is the noblest work of God.
He was married to Anne Huggins in 1745 in Princess Anne Co.,
VA. Anne Huggins died before 1749 in
Princess Anne Co., VA. Robert Cartwright and Anne Huggins had the
following children:
2 i. William Cartwright was born on 4 Jul 1746
in Princess Anne Co., VA. He died in 1747 in Princess Anne Co.,
VA.
He was married to Mary Hunter in 1749 in Princess Anne Co.,
VA. Mary Hunter died in Princess Anne
Co., VA. Robert Cartwright and Mary Hunter had the following
children:
3 i. Martha Cartwright was born on 14 May
1750.
4 ii. Mary Cartwright was born on 11 Aug 1753.
She was married to James Wallace.
5 iii. Anne Cartwright was born on 2 Jun 1755.
She was married to Thomas Nelson.
6 iv. Susanna Cartwright was born in Sep 1757
in Princess Anne Co., VA. She died in Aug 1759 in Princess Anne
Co., VA.
7 v. Robert Cartwright was born on 7 Dec 1759
in Princess Anne Co., VA. He died on 23 Mar 1776 in Princess Anne
Co., VA.
8 vi. John Hunter Cartwright was born on 26 Feb
1762 in Princess Anne Co., VA. He died in 1780 in TN.
Murder of John H. Cartwright (an account by Alexander Cartwright)
A negro man, one of the party that was captured by the Indians and afterwards made his escape saw them murder John with their tomahawks and heard him beg them to spare his life. They heeded not his entreaties. I have often when a youth heard Aunt Aliph, an old negro servant of our family who remembered John and who was probably 10 years old at the time of his murder, relate the circumstances of his death as told by the escaped prisoner, who was also a servant of Robt. Our family never doubted the truth of Aunt Aliph's story.
He was married to Anne Pembroke Hunter in 1764 in Princess
Anne Co., VA. Anne Pembroke Hunter was
born in 1741 in Princess Anne Co., VA. She died in 1825 in
Davidson Co., TN. Robert Cartwright and Anne Pembroke Hunter had
the following children:
9 i. Pembroke (Pemmy) Cartwright died in 1765 in
Princess Anne Co., VA. She was born on 28 Feb 1765 in Princess
Anne Co., VA.
+10 ii. Jacob
Cartwright.
11 iii. Thomas Hunter Cartwright was born on 20
Nov 1768 in Princess Anne Co., VA. He died in Sumner Co., TN. He
was married to Nancy Christian in 1791 in Sumner Co., TN. Nancy Christian died in Sumner Co., TN.
+12 iv. Robert
Cartwright.
+13 v. James
Cartwright.
14 vi. William Cartwright was born on 4 Oct 1773.
He died about 1774.
+15 vii.
Elizabeth
Cartwright.
+16
viii. David
Cartwright.
17 ix. Jesse Cartwright was born in 1787 in
Davidson Co., TN. He was married to Patsy Rawlings. He was
married to Anne Gray.
