Samuel Carr (1771–1855), the middle son of TJ’s sister Martha and his close friend Dabney Carr (1743–73), was born in Goochland County and raised in Maryland by his uncle Overton Carr. He eventually returned to Virginia and settled at Dunlora plantation. In 1806 Carr became a captain of cavalry in the Albemarle County militia and a county magistrate. He represented Albemarle in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1818–19, and sat in the Senate of Virginia, 1835–39. Carr died in Kanawha County (now West Virginia) and was buried at Monticello (WMQ description begins William and Mary Quarterly, 1892– description ends , 1st ser., 15 [1906]: 118; MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends , esp. 1:523; Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901 description ends , 160, 377; Lay, Architecture description begins K. Edward Lay, The Architecture of Jefferson Country: Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia, 2000 description ends , 126; TJ to Carr, 1 May 1801 [ViU: TJP-CC]; CVSP description begins William P. Palmer and others, eds., Calendar of Virginia State Papers . . . Preserved in the Capitol at Richmond, 1875–93, 11 vols. description ends , 9:491; Leonard, General Assembly description begins Cynthia Miller Leonard, comp., The General Assembly of Virginia, July 30, 1619–January 11, 1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members, 1978 description ends ; Shackelford, Descendants description begins George Green Shackelford, ed., Collected Papers to Commemorate Fifty Years of the Monticello Association of the Descendants of Thomas Jefferson, 1965 description ends , 1:253; Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser, 7 Aug. 1855).