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Marshall Carter

(1791-1820)
Vermont

Marshall Carter "[w]as born in Buckland, Massachusetts, but moved to Vermont early in life. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced at Bennington. He died Sept. 5, 1820, at the age of 29 years." [A.J. Sanborn (ed.), Green Mountain Poets 163 (Claremont, New Hampshire: Claremont Manufacturing Co., 1872)][online text] [Walter John Coates, in A Bibliography of Vermont Poetry and Gazetteer of Vermont Poets 66 (Montpelier: Vermont Historical Society, 1942) provides a verbatim description of Marshall Carter.]