Dabney Carr (Virginia assemblyman)

Dabney Carr (October 26, 1743 – May 16, 1773) was a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and longtime friend, since boyhood, of Thomas Jefferson. When he was 21, he married Martha Jefferson, Thomas' younger sister. He introduced the Committee of correspondence in Virginia which was a leading factor in the formation of the Continental Congress in 1774. Following Carr's early death at the age of 29, Jefferson buried Carr on Jefferson's Monticello estate in a newly created graveyard at the location of a particular tree where they had made a boyhood pact to do so. His sons included politicians Peter and Samuel Carr and Judge Dabney Carr.