Carrington family.

Judge Paul Carrington (1733-1818) was clerk to the parish vestry, burgess, and member of the State Conventions from Charlotte County, Virginia. He became a member of the General Court in 1788, and one of the first five members of the Supreme Court of Appeals. He married Margaret Read (1739-1776) in 1755 with whom he had eleven children, five of whom lived past infancy, at their Mulberry Hill plantation in Charlotte County.

Clement Carrington (1762-1847), son of Paul and Margaret Read Carrington, married Jane Watkins Poage and had three children.

James Taylor (1769-1845), born in Caroline County, Virginia, was a farmer, land speculator, and officer of the Kentucky militia during and after the War of 1812. He founded and settled in Newport, Kentucky.

Lettice and Walter Coles were Paul and Margaret Read Carrington's daughter and son-in-law.

Robert Carrington (1802-1845), the youngest son of Paul and Margaret Read Carrington, married Joanna Bouldin (1800-1870).

Clement Read's daughter Margaret married Paul Carrington.

William Morton Watkins (1773-1865), son of Joel Watkins, married Elizabeth Woodson Venable (1782-1858), daughter of Samuel Woodson Venable and Mary Carrington, Paul and Margaret Read Carrington's daughter.

James Venable (1734-1814) was a Justice of the Peace in Charlotte County, Virginia. He was a founder, writer, and trustee of Hampden-Sydney Academy in 1775. He married Judith Morton (1739-1826) ca. 1757; they moved to Kentucky in 1796.

Nancy Cabell McPhail (1811-1880) was an daughter of Clement Carrington. She married John Blair McPhail.

Court property tax receipts; tithable lists and receipts; certificate to Clement Carrington for four shares in Upper Appomattox Company.

From the description of Papers: Lunenburg and Charlotte counties, Virginia, 1756-1843. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122464376