Papers of the Cabell family, 1727-1875.

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Papers of the Cabell family, 1727-1875.

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The papers include correspondence and other papers of William Cabell, a son Nicholas Cabell and a great-grandson Nathaniel Francis Cabell, including records relating to a legal action of William Cabell against William Mayo and George Carrington; a grant of land, 1739, Goochland County, Va., to William Cabell, signed by William Gooch; a tobacco storage book; records of the Minute Men of Amherst County, Va., a militia company under the command of Nicholas Cabell, 1774-1785. The papers also include a bond, 1763 April 15 between William Cabell, John Moore, John Frye and John Lewis to build a courthouse for Albemarle County, Va., a Civil War pardon signed by William H. Seward, slave lists, a letter re discipline and a permission to marry, fragments of books by George Berkeley and Soame Jenyns and a printed essay on inland navigation, 1766. Also of interest are lyrics of some Revolutionary War songs; book lists; minutes of Warminster Academy, Nelson County, Va., 1795; letters patent for a medical remedy, 1795; Liberty Hall furniture lists and graveyard plans; a list of emigrants from Virginia to the West and Southwest; a description of thefts by the Union army; and a Cabell family genealogy. Correspondents and persons named include Edward Carrington, John Hartwell Cocke, Joshua Fry, Peter Jefferson, St. George Tucker, and Thomas Walker. The material is related to the library's other Cabell collections (including Joseph C. Cabell papers, 1731-1917) and to its Cocke and Jefferson collections.

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Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

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Carrington, Edward, 1748-1810

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Edward Carrington (February 11, 1748 – October 28, 1810) was an American soldier and statesman from Virginia. During the American Revolutionary War he became a lieutenant colonel of artillery in the Continental Army. He distinguished himself as quartermaster general in General Nathanael Greene’s southern campaign. He commanded artillery at Monmouth and Yorktown. He was also present at Cowpens, Guilford Court House, and Hobkirk's Hill. During the war he became a close friend of George Washington....

Albemarle County Courthouse (Charlottesville, Va.)

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Walker, Thomas, 1715-1794

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Virginia state legislator. From the description of Letter to Reuben Lindsay [manuscript], 1775 December 2. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647857784 ...

Virginia. Militia

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Carrington, George, fl. 1730-1766.

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Tucker, St. George, 1752-1827

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St. George Tucker (1752-1827), was born in Bermuda and emigrated to Williamsburg, Virginia where he attended the College of William and Mary. He served in the Revolutionary War, as a judge of the General Court of Virginia, and as professor of law at the College of William and Mary. He was elected to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia. Tucker was appointed to the federal district court for Virginia. He married, firstly, Frances Bland Randolph who was the mother of John Randolph of Roanoke. ...

Cocke, John Hartwell, 1780-1866

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Gooch, William

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Frye, John, fl. 1763.

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Fry, Joshua, approximately 1700-1754

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Colonial Virginia educator, landholder, and surveyor. From the description of Bill, 1753. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 443060771 ...

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Cabell, Nicholas, 1750-1803.

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Mayo, William, fl. 1731-1740.

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Jefferson, Peter, 1708-1757

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Peter Jefferson (1708-1757), Virginia planter, cartographer and surveyor, father of Thomas Jefferson, married Jane Randolph 1739. In the 1740s, the family moved to Shadwell Plantation in Albemarle County. In 1744 Jefferson became the Goochland County surveyor. In 1745, he was appointed guardian of the children of his friend and kinsman, Col. William Randolph of Tuckahoe (1712-1745). The Jefferson family soon moved to Tuckahoe, in Goochland County, returning to Shadwell in 1752. Peter Jefferson d...

Cabell, William H., 1772-1853

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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...

Cabell, Joseph C. (Joseph Carrington), 1778-1856

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Cabell, William, 1687-1774.

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Moore, John, fl. 1763.

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Berkeley, George, 1685-1753

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Title: Baron and (1679) 1st Earl of Berkeley British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001243.0x00039a Bishop and philosopher. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gravesend, probably to the Bishop of London [Edmund Gibson] just before sailing for Rhode Island, 1728 Sept. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133394 ...

Cable family.

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Liberty Hall (Estate : Nelson County, Va.)

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Warminster Academy.

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Jenyns, Soame, 1704-1787

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Soame Jenyns is best known for his Free enquiry into the nature and origin of evil (1757) which received savage treatment by Samuel Johnson in his review published in the Literary magazine. Jenyns was widely admired, however, for his easy prose style. From the description of Memorandum of agreement with James Dodsley, 1782 February and May 25. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 34072986 Epithet: of Add MS 38306 British Library Archives...

Lewis, John, fl. 1763.

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