Cabell Family papers [manuscript], 1731-1917.

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Cabell Family papers [manuscript], 1731-1917.

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The collection contains accounts and correspondence of Nathaniel Francis Cabell, much of it concerning the New Jerusalem Church (Swedenborgianism); agricultural notebooks of Joseph C. Cabell; papers of Philip B. Cabell concerning his Hopewell, Ala., plantation and his life as a teacher in the Greensboro, (Ala.) Female Academy, the Warminster (Va.) Classical School for Boys, his Select School for Young Ladies in Lexington, Ky. and at Urbanna (Ohio) University. The collection also contains a series of essays, notes, extracts, and letters, 1853-1868? on the Cabell family, compiled by Nathaniel Francis Cabell, and recopied by him in 1872, as "Cabellana," which was later used as the basis of "Cabells and their Kin." Items of interest include a journal of travels to the West (Ohio and Kentucky) in 1832 kept by John Hartwell Cocke, Jr.; and a letter from William Leigh to Frank N. Watkins, 1856 June 5, regarding the destruction of the correspondence of John Randolph of Roanoke. Correspondents include Arthur Lee, Richard Henry Lee, Bishop James Madison, Wilson Cary Nicholas,

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Lee, Arthur, 1740-1792

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Arthur Lee (20 December 1740 – 12 December 1792) was a physician and opponent of slavery in colonial Virginia in North America who served as an American diplomat during the American Revolutionary War. He was educated in medicine and law at the University of Edinburgh and in London, respectively. After passing the bar, he practiced law in London for several years. He stayed in London during the Revolutionary War, representing the colonies to Britain and France and also serving as an American spy ...

Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794

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Richard Henry Lee (January 20, 1732 – June 19, 1794) was an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia, best known for the June 1776 Lee Resolution, the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain leading to the United States Declaration of Independence, which he signed. He also served a one-year term as the president of the Continental Congress, was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation, and was a United States Senator fro...

Greensboro Female Academy.

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Cocke, John Hartwell, 1804-1846.

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Madison, James, 1749-1812

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First Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia. From the description of James Madison papers, 1792-1970s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 659814628 President of the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., and bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia. From the description of Papers, 1787-1808. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19902858 First Episcopal bishop of Virginia and president of the College of William and Mary. ...

Randolph, John, 1773-1833

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Randolph served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1799-1813, 1815-1817, 1819-1825, 1827-1829), the U.S. Senate (1825-1827), the Virginia Constitutional Convention (1829-1830), and as Minister to Russia (1830-1831). From the description of Letter of introduction, 10 July 1813. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 235133950 U. S. Congressman from Virginia. From the description of Letter [manuscript] : Liverpool, England, to Jacob Harvey, Cork Irela...

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

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Public official of Virginia and businessman. From the description of Joseph C. Cabell correspondence, 1853. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79452442 Legislator from Virginia. From the description of Joseph C. Cabell papers on the founding of the University of Virginia, 1810-1857. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067601 Aided Jefferson in founding University of Virginia. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Warminster, to Thomas Je...

Prof. P. B. Cabell's Select School for Young Ladies (Louisville, Ky.)

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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...

Warminster Classical School for Boys.

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Urbanna University.

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