Miscellaneous Cabell family papers, 1795-1885, n.d.

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Miscellaneous Cabell family papers, 1795-1885, n.d.

The collection contains a handwritten transcript of "Pleas before the Commonwealth's Justices of the County of Amherst," 1795, Reuben Thornton against William Lee Harris in Trespass Assault & Battery & False Imprisonment. The collection also contains Appendices A and B of "Address to the Isolated Members of the New Church" outlining church history, speculating on the future, and listing pertinent book titles, n.d. With these is a clipping "Free Schools in France" about the French Educational Department delegate to the New Orleans Exposition, 1884-1885.

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University of Virginia. Library

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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...

Thornton, Reuben.

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Harris, William Lee.

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