the western reaches of Virginia, which would soon separate to form West Virginia. Carr died on July 26, 1855, in Charleston, later the capital of West Virginia, at age 83. Career Carr served, from 1792 to 1802, as Captain of Cavalry in Albemarle County's First Battalion, 47th Regiment. During the War of 1812, he again served a Captain of Cavalry, this time with the Albemarle Volunteers, First Elite Corps, under Colonel Thomas Mann Randolph, his second cousin once removed. This unit's mission was to defend Norfolk, but they saw little, if any, action. Carr was discharged in Richmond on September 20, 1814. Carr served in the Maryland House of Delegates during the 1801–1802 and 1802–1803 terms, representing Prince George's County, Maryland, before his return in 1803 to Virginia. He later served in both the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate, and as a magistrate for Albemarle County, Virginia. Jefferson-Hemings controversy In 1802 journalist James Thomson Callender claimed that Thomas Jefferson had fathered children with one of his slaves, Sally Hemings. These claims were given credence due to several factors such as Jefferson's presence at Monticello during the time periods that the children were conceived and the lack of pregnancies when he was not present. Theories that Carr and his brother Peter could have fathered the children surfaced in the mid-1800s due to secondhand accounts where Thomas Jefferson Randolph claimed that Peter and Samuel Carr were responsible. These claims are still given credence by some scholars, even though DNA tests in 1998 ruled that the Carrs could not have fathered one of Hemings's children, Eston. References 1771 births 1855 deaths Members of the Virginia House of Delegates Members of the Maryland House of Delegates Virginia state senators People from Goochland County, Virginia People from Prince George's County, Maryland People from Kanawha County, West Virginia People from Monticello Virginia colonial people Burials at Monticello