Genealogical notes, ca. 1574-1875.

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Genealogical notes, ca. 1574-1875.

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Includes letter, 1932 December 30, written by John Bennett Boddie to Earl Gregg Swem (enclosing extract from parish register of Stottesdon, typescript of will, 1587, of Thomas Cocke of Pickthorne in Stottesdon); letter, 1932 August 19 to Boddie, written by J. W. Greaves (enclosing typescript of letter, 1679 April 12, of Alice Corbin to her brother concerning Bacon's Rebellion). Also includes newspaper clippings, ca. 1880, concerning the Cocke family written by N. F. C. [i. e., Nathaniel Francis Cabell], Alexander Brown, Robert Alonzo Brock, T. W. [otherwise unidentified], and T. M. C. [otherwise unidentified] and a printed pamphlet, The Founding of a Virginia Family by William Ronald Cocke (Richmond, 1931).

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Cocke, Thomas, d. 1587.

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Cocke, William Ronald, 1893- .

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Greaves, J. W.

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Cabell, Nathaniel Francis, 1807-1891

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Nathaniel Francis Cabell, 1807-1891, of Nelson County, Virginia, published numerous essays on agriculture and Swedenborgianism, edited the Jefferson and Cabell correspondence and the Lee papers, and wrote Cabell family histories. He married Anne Blaws Cocke, daughter of Gen. John Hartwell Cocke, and later married Mary M. Keller. See Alexander Brown, The Cabells and Their Kin (Harrisonburg, Va.: C.J. Carrier, 1978), pp. 657-660. From the description of Collection of papers relating to...

Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1914

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Wirt County was named for William Wirt, who gained fame in Virgtinia as a lawyer and perhaps is best known for his role in the prosecution of Aaron burr for treason. It was created in 1848 from sections of Wood and Jackson Counties. Wirt County was one of the fifty western Virginia counties to form the state of West Virginia in 1863. From the guide to the Wirt County (W. Va.) plat and land survey, 1860, (The Library of Virginia) Northumberland County was formed in 1645 from ...

Corbin, Alice Cocke.

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Boddie, John Bennett, 1880-

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Cocke family.

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Swem, E. G. (Earl Gregg), d 1870-1965.

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Brown, Alexander, 1843-1906

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Born at Glenwood, Nelson County, Va., Alexander Brown was deafened while serving in the Confederate Army in the explosion of a powder-boat near Fort Fisher, N.C. He married Caroline Augusta Cabell and after her death, Sarah Randolph Cabell. He was the author of The Genesis of the United States, The First Republic in America, The Cabells and Their Kin and other works. From the description of Papers, 1748-1900. (College of William & Mary). WorldCat record id: 21062305 Alex...