VI. Dabney Carr (882) born in Virginia, Oct. 20, 1743, married Martha Jefferson, a sister of Thomas Jefferson, one of the presidents of the United States. He was a member of the house of Burgesses, and introduced and carried a bill of rights, which was regarded as the entering wedge to the separation
of the colonies from England. His speech on that occasion was regarded by Mr. Jefferson as a "master-piece of patriotic eloquence," and he was considered the ablest man of his age in America. (See Wirt's Life of Patrick Henry, p. 108.) On this subject Mr. Jefferson writes: "I well remember the pleasure expressed in the countenances and conversation of the members generally on this debut of Mr. Carr, and the hopes they conceived as well from the talent as the patriotism manifested.  But he died within two months after, and in him we lost a powerful fellow laborer. His character was of a high order.  Of spotless integrity, sound judgment, handsome imagination, enriched by education and reading; quick and clear in his conceptions, his correct and ready elocution impressed every hearer with the sincerity of the heart from which it flowed. His firmness was inflexible in whatever he thought was right, but when no moral principle stood in the way, never had man more of the milk of human kindness, of indulgence of softness, of pleasantry in conversation and conduct." He died at
the age of thirty, in Charlottsville, Virginia., May 13, 1773, leaving a family of six children as follows:
1638x1. Peter Carr, b. about 1764.
1639x2. Samuel Carr, b. „ 1766.
I640x3. Dabney Carr, b. „ 1767.
I641x4. Virginia Carr, b). „ 1769.
1642x5. Jane Carr, b). about 1771, m. Cary.
1643x6. Mary Carr, b. ,, 1773, d. unm.
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