Papers of the Joseph Carrington Cabell family, 1790-1890.

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Papers of the Joseph Carrington Cabell family, 1790-1890.

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The collection consists primarily of the correspondence of Joseph Carrington Cabell and other family and allied members including Anne Blaws Cocke Cabell, Elizabeth Nicholas Cabell, Hannah Carrington Cabell, Dr. J.L. Cabell, John Grattan Cabell, Mrs. Margaret C. Cabell, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Philip Barraud Cabell, Sally F. Cabell, William H. Cabell, John Coalter, Charles Cary Cocke, John B. Cocke, John Hartwell Cocke, and Philip St. George Cocke. Other correspondents, many of whom are represented by single letters, include William S. Archer, John Roy Baylor, William M. Blackford, Walter Blair, William Bolling, Colonel William Boulware, John R. Bryan, the Rev. George Bush, Mathew Carey, John Coalter, Isaac A. Coles, the Reverend Richard De Charms, Thomas R. Dew, Charles Ellis, Thomas H. Ellis, the Rev. James McElroy, Harrison, William H., John P. Hungerford, William J. Lewis, Daniel H. London, and James Lyons. Also Thomas S. McLelland, Charles F. Mercer, Hugh Mercer, William Nelson, Wilson Cary Nicholas, J.W. Pegram, James P. Preston, General John Preston, Isaac Read, Robert Rives, Wyndham Robertson, Merritt M. Robinson, Edmund Ruffin, Frank G. Ruffin, Robert Skipwith, George W. Spooner, N.B. Tucker, George Tucker, Henry St. George Tucker, Judge Francis Nathaniel Watkins, the Rev. J.P.B. Wilmer, the Rev. R.H. Wilmer, William Wirt, H.N.B. Wood, William H. Wycoff, and Charles Yancey. The papers also include the correspondence of the Bolling family of Goochland County, Va., some relating to the James River & Kanawha Canal Company. Other legal and financial papers concern the estates of Bolling, Lownes, and Newburn family members. The collection also includes newsclippings, particularly regarding George Bush of the New Jerusalem Church; Nathaniel Francis Cabell manuscripts; poetry; and school reports for Sallie F. Cabell and Fannie G. Cabell. Of interest are Philip B. Cabell's letters written while serving as a volunteer aide to Philip St. G. Cocke and a copy of a draft report on the first battle of Bull Run, submitted by P. St. G. Cocke to General Beauregard. Topics in the correspondence include domestic and family concerns; family slaves, including purchases and run-aways; agriculture, and plantation life and management, particularly at "Corotoman" and "Liberty Hall"; domestic life during the Civil War and Reconstruction; recreational and business travel; the New Jerusalem Church; and John Randolph of Roanoke. There are brief references to George Washington; Henry Lee; James Madison and the Virginia resolutions; the College of William and Mary; the War of 1812; Thomas Jefferson; the University of Virginia and its Board of Visitors; James Monroe's gubernatorial race; Claudius Crozet and railroad interests; U.S. and Virginia politics. Of much interest is the correspondence between Joseph Carrington Cabell and John Hartwell Cocke discussing tobacco; agricultural improvement; temperance; religion; slavery; colonization in Liberia; and the James River and Kanawha Canal and internal improvements.

4200 (ca.) items.

University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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