The Dictionary of Virginia Biography is published online through a partnership with Encyclopedia Virginia. Biographies that do not also appear in the three print volumes (surnames Aaroe�Daniels) link to lists of sources consulted.
Sources consulted for the biography of:Peter Jacob Carter (1845–1886)
Primary Sources
- Birth and death dates on gravestone in family cemetery near Franktown, Northampton County.
- Family history information and documents, including discharge papers (copies in Dictionary of Virginia Biography Files, Library of Virginia), provided by grandson, Arthur Treherne Carter (2004).
- Student Record Index Card (with middle name), Hampton University Archives, Hampton, Virginia.
- 1860 sale (age fifteen on Dec. 5, 1860) in Northampton Co. Deed Book, 36:115.
- Compiled Service Military Records, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, Record Group 94, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Marriage Register, Northampton Co. (1884), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- The Debt Question: Speech of Hon. Peter J. Carter of Northampton County, in the House of Delegates, Va., February 7th, 1878 [1878], first quotation on 3.
- Carter letters to William Mahone (third quotation in Oct. 16, 1882) in Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C.
- Herbert Aptheker, ed., A Documentary History of The Negro People in the United States (1951), 1:636–637, 731–734.
- Northampton Co. Order Book, 47:520.
- Northampton Co. Will Book, 39:257–259.
Secondary Sources
- Luther Porter Jackson, "Peter J. Carter of Northampton County, Va.," Norfolk Journal and Guide, Feb. 17, 1945.
- Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 7, 52 (portrait).
- Brooks Miles Barnes, "Triumph of the New South: Independent Movements in Post-Reconstruction Politics" (Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1991), esp. 99–105, 125–132, 142, 166, 167, 182, 207, 208.
Newspapers
- Washington New Era, May 5, 1870.
- Richmond Enquirer, July 30, 1873; July 31, 1873; Aug. 1, 1873.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 31, 1873; Aug. 21, 1875; Aug. 23, 1875; June 17, 1880; Dec. 14, 1883.
- New-York Times, Aug. 22, 1875.
- Lynchburg Daily Virginian, April 13, 1876; April 14, 1876; Aug. 11, 1881; Aug. 12, 1881.
- Fredericksburg News, Sept. 4, 1876.
- Richmond Daily Whig, April 22, 1880; April 23, 1880; April 26, 1880.
- Richmond Southern Intelligencer, April 26, 1880 (second quotation).
Obituaries
- Death notice and brief obituary in Norfolk Public Ledger, July 21, 1886.
- Death notice and brief obituary in Norfolk Landmark, July 22, 1886.
- Accomack Court House Peninsula Enterprise, July 24, 1886 (reporting death "last Tuesday," July 20, 1886).
Return to biography on Encyclopedia Virginia.