Biography of James Carteret

CARTERET, JAMES (d. 1682), New Jersey Rebel. Second son of Sir George Carteret, Treasurer of the Navy (q.v.), and Elizabeth De Carteret, his wife. Chalmers in his Annals calls James illegitimate, and other writers have repeated this, but it is incorrect. A Royal Warrant of 11 Febr. 1680 grants "to Elizabeth, widow of the late …