The Cabells and their kin. A memorial volume of history, biography, and genealogy
THE CABELLS AND
THE IK KIN
a iflemorial Volume
OF
HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, AND GENEALOGY
BT
ALEXANDER BROWN, D. C. L.
it
Author op " The Genesis of the United States "
- -
nlfl ,
' * ) 141
o • • - o o o \ 1*1 '■";'• J » *t '
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
Ciie KtiJcrsiUc Press, Cambrt&se
MDCCCXCV
7
ao
n
II
Copyright, 1895,
By ALEXANDER BKOWN,
All rights reserved.
, ,. .
• . ■ . . • . •
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. 0. Houghton and Company.
PREFACE.
" Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which
the Lord thy God giveth thee."
The interest of people in their kindred is one of the meas-
ures of the distances between the races of men. The cul-
tivation of family history is one of the essentials to the wel-
fare of society. The continued existence and prosperity of
every nation depends upon the love of country and pride of
race, which is true patriotism.
We are commanded to honor our forefathers, that our
days may be long. Our religion, civilization, and patriotism,
alike require us to rescue their memory from oblivion, so
that they may not perish forever as though they had never
been born. And it is our sacred duty to " gather up the
fragments that remain " before their past history has been
obliterated by the effacing fingers of destruction and decay.
I will give something of " the Cabells and their kin " in
England as an introduction ; but my especial object will be
to give an outline history of an American family in its vari-
ous branches, showing the contribution of the various mem-
bers to the history and advancement of their section and
of their country. And as Americans are a mixed race, I
shall sometimes trace back to emigrant ancestors, and will
give the " Seize Quartiers " sufficiently often to convey a
fairly approximate idea of the actual percentage of English,
Scotch, Huguenot, and other blood flowing in the veins of
the kindred, especially of this section, which sent out so
many emigrants to other sections of our country.
iv PREFACE
Much has been written of the first settlements of the
tide- water regions which lay within the reach of shipping,
while comparatively little has been published about the cut-
ting loose from the moorings, and the first advancement of
the settlements " within the land " to the westward. For
the first three generations, this work will be largely devoted
to an outline of this movement up the James River valley,
and to the earliest settlements within the north and south
branches of James River.
When young Dr. William Cabell emigrated with his
fortunes from the land of his forefathers to become the
founder of a new family in the New World, he cast his
lot for his new beginning in the frontier forests of Vir-
ginia along the upper valley of the James. And it came
to pass that the new family and the new country grew up
together, — the founder of the one was to some extent the
founder of the other, — and the interests of both were in
many ways, for many years, the same.
The earlier members of this new family were men of
affairs rather than of letters, — the times and the task
before them required them to be so. They were not only
among the most active founders of this region, but also
among the most active builders-up of this region. They
not only made the hunting-ground of the savage — a wil-
derness of wild woods — to feel the yoke of the plow and to
blossom as the rose, but, from the time when this section
was first represented in the colonial government to the
beginning of the Revolutionary period, Cabells were in the
House of Burgesses, looking to its interest in the public
councils. During " the time that tried men's souls," Ca-
bells and their kin were in the conventions guarding the
rights of their home land. And from the war between
the mother country and the Colonies to the war between
PREFACE V
the States, the Cabells and their kin were constantly rep-
resenting this region in the House of Delegates, the State
Senate, or the House of Representatives of the United
States.
But the Cabells and their kin were not among the
founders of this section only, and their services have not
been confined to this region alone. Many of them are
found among the leading founders of the West and other
portions of the Union. They have had their full share in
the public and domestic affairs of nearly every portion of
their country, and in shaping its destiny both under the
crown and under the Republic.
I have made a special effort to give to the part of the
work which relates to those born prior to 1825 (" three-
score years and ten " ago), and to many of those born since,
who have gone before us, something of a memorial charac-
ter, going somewhat into details. But of " the living gen-
erations " it is mainly in the nature of a record. And I
have made no effort " to trace back " those intermarried
with after 1825, because the increasing number of these
people, and the increasing length of these lines, would fill
volumes. So it was necessary to leave much of the family
history of the present generations for the future historians
of the family.
I have been more disposed to make use of matter still in
manuscript than to give matter already preserved by the
art preservative of arts.
The material I have had to work with is necessarily un-
equal. Some public (church and state) records have been
preserved, others have not. The records of some counties
have been destroyed. Some families have preserved their
family memorials fairly well, others have not preserved
them at all. Some individuals have led active lives, others
vi PREFACE
have lived quietly. Some have devoted themselves to pub-
He, others to domestic affairs. And thus, while each one
may have done his duty equally well in the life task assigned
to each, — whether it was the opening up of a new country
to civilization, the founding of a new republic, the estab-
lishment of a new State, or the clearing of a new ground
for the plow, — our knowledge of them and of their acts
must be very unequal. It has been said that " the man
who makes two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of
ground where only one grew before, deserves better of man-
kind than the whole race of politicians put together." Yet
no class is more apt to be forgotten than the farmer, who
seldom leaves any material for the biographer.
Of some of the past generations I have sufficient material
to make volumes ; of others I have found but little, and of
others nothing. " There be some of them that have left
a name behind them that their praises might be reported.
And some there be who having no memorial are perished
as though they had never been born."
Of the present generations, some wish to have a full rec-
ord of their families preserved, and have furnished ample
material. Others only wish brief outlines, and have fur-
nished but little. Others are willing to give names, but not
dates of birth, etc. Others " do not wish to be in print at
all," etc. At least half a dozen have taken the trouble to
prepare and send me quite interesting sketches of their
families " for my own perusal," coupled with the request
that " they should not be published." " There are many
men of many minds."
These differences in material and of opinion have made
it impossible to give the work an entirely uniform character.
But the main object, considering all things, — for the way
of the genealogist is proverbially hard, — has been fairly
PREFACE vii
well accomplished. The memory of the forefathers has
been preserved ; an outline of the past history of the past
generations of the family has been given ; the spread of
the descending stream has been shown ; the names of the
descendants have been recorded quite completely down to
1861 ; and thus the initial step for the future historian of
the present generations has been taken.
I wish to express my especial thanks to the Hon. Edward
Carrington Cabell, of St. Louis, Mo. ; Hon. George L. Rives,
of New York ; Dr. Julian M. Cabell, U. S. A. ; and Edmond
L. McClelland, of Washington, D. C, — the especial patrons
of this book, — and to other members of the family who
have patronized the work, and to all who have aided me
with material for the book, or in any other way. I wished
to mention each one in these premises by name, but find
that I cannot do so in a satisfactory way. Some have done
a great deal ; others, very little. Therefore to name all on
the same footing would not be fair ; while to state what
each one did would be to draw comparisons, and " compari-
sons are odious." But each one can rest assured that I am
very grateful to all, and I hope that all may continue to
take an earnest interest in the welfare of " the Cabells and
their kin."
Alexander Brown.
"Union Hill," May 23, 1895.
CONTENTS.
" Monuments themselves memorials need."
A good edition of a book — the work of the Art preservative of arts — secured in many libraries, is
the most enduring memorial.
PART I.
PAGES
The Cabells and their Kin in England 1-23
A brief account of Dr. William 1 Cabell's younger brother,
Joseph x , and his descendants in England 23-30
PART II.
The Cabells and their Kin in America. " Others of the name " . 31, 32
Dr. William 1 Cabell, the founder of the family in Virginia,
with some account of the earliest settlement (1726-1774) of
the upper valley of James River 32-72
Henrico County to 1728 34-36
Goochland County, 1728-1744 36-47
Albemarle County, 1745-1761 ....'. 48-60
Amherst County, 1761-1774 60-66
A Summary, 1724-1774 66-72
PART III.
The Founder's children and those allied to them by marriage, with
much of the history of the upper valley of James River (1750-
1800), especially during the Revolution 73-171
I. Mary 2 Cabell and William Horsley, of " Centre Hill " . . 73-75
II. Col. William 2 Cabell and Margaret Jordan, of " Union Hill " 75-130
III. Col. Joseph 2 Cabell and Mary Hopkins, of " Sion Hill " . . 130-141
IV. Col. John 2 Cabell and Paulina Jordan, of "Green Hill" . . 141-145
V. Col. Nicholas 2 Cabell and Hannah Carrington, of " Liberty
Hall" 145-171
PART IV.
The Founder's grandchildren and those allied to them by marriage,
with some historical data, mainly of the Revolutionary period,
and a good deal of Virginia and Kentucky biography and gene-
alogy 172-273
I. Mary 2 Cabell Horsley's children 172-176
X CONTENTS
6. William 3 Horsley and Martha Megginson 172, 173
7. Robert 3 Horsley and Judith Scott, d. s. p 173, 174
8. Elizabeth 3 Horsley and Roderick McCulloch .... 174, 175
9. John 3 Horsley and Fanny Starke 175,176
H. Col. William 2 Cabell's children 176-227
10. Col. Samuel J. 3 Cabell and Sarah Syme 176-190
11. Col. William 3 Cabell and Anne Carrington .... 190-209
12. Paulina 3 Cabell, Major Edmund Read, and Rev. Nash
Le Grand, d. s. p 209-212
13. Landon 3 Cabell and Judith Scott Rose 212-216
14. Hector 3 Cabell and Paulina Cabell (26), d. s.p. . . 216
15. Margaret J. 3 Cabell and Robert Rives 216-226
16. Elizabeth 3 Cabell and William H. Cabell (27) . . . 226, 227
III. Col. Joseph 2 Cabell's children 227-241
17. Elizabeth 3 Cabell [1st] and William Megginson . . 227
18. Joseph 3 Cabell, Pocahontas R. Boiling, and Mrs. Anne
E. Duval 227-232
19. Mary H. 3 Cabell and John Breckinridge 232-236
20. Ann 3 Cabell and Robert C. Harrison 236-240
21. Elizabeth 3 Cabell [2d] and William J. Lewis . . . 240,241
IV. Col. John 2 Cabell's children 241-249
22. Dr. George 3 Cabell, St., and Sarah Winston .... 241-243
23. Frederick 3 Cabell and Alice Winston 243,244
24. Dr. John J. 3 Cabell and Henry Ann Davies .... 244-247
25. Samuel J. 3 Cabell and Susanna Ewing 247-249
26. Paulina 3 Cabell, Hector 3 CabeU (14), and William
Daniel, d. s. p 145, 216
V. Col. Nicholas Cabell's children 249-273
27. William H. 3 Cabell, Elizabeth Cabell (16), and Agnes
S. B. Gamble 226, 249-258
28. Dr. George 3 Cabell, Jr., and Susanna Wyatt . . . 258-260
29. Elizabeth 3 Cabell and William B. Hare 261-263
30. Joseph C. 3 Cabell and Mary W. Carter, d. s. p. . . . 263-267
31. Nicholas 3 Cabell, Jr., and Margaret R. Venable . . 267-272
32. Mary A. 8 Cabell and Benjamin Carrington .... 272, 273
PART V.
The Founder's great-grandchildren, their descendants, and those
allied to them by marriage; containing much history, biography,
and genealogy subsequent to the Revolution; coming down to the
present time, and relating to citizens of nearly every State of the
Union, and of several foreign countries 274-610
I. Mary 2 Cabell Horsley's Branch 274-304
6. William 3 Horsley's descendants 274-281
33. William 4 Horsley's family and alliances .... 274, 275
34. Mary C. 4 Horsley Pendleton's family and alli-
ances 275, 276
35. Robert 4 Horsley's family and alliances .... 276
CONTENTS x i
36. Samuel C. 4 Horsley's family and alliances . . . 276
37. John 4 Horsley's family and alliances .... 277-281
8. Elizabeth 3 Horsley McCulloch's descendants .... 282-300
38. Mary 4 McCulloch Thornton's family and alliances 282-285
39. Elizabeth 4 McCulloch Da vies' family and alli-
ances 285-288
40. Frances 4 McCulloch Shackelford's family and alli-
ances 288-291
41. Isabella 4 McCulloch Waugh's family and alliances 291, 292
42. Nancy E. 4 McCulloch Glasgow's family and alli-
ances 292,293
43. William H. 4 McCulloch's family and alliances . . 293-300
9. John 3 Horsley's descendants 300-304
44. Jane 4 Horsley Roberts' family and alliances . . 300, 301
45. John 4 Horsley, Jr.'s family and alliances . . . 301-304
II. Col. William 2 Cabell's Branch 304-446
10. Col. Samuel J. 3 Cabell's descendants 304-324
46. William Syme 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . 304-306
47. Mildred Meriwether 4 Cabell Green's family and
alliances 306-314
48. Samuel Jordan 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . 314-316
49. Paulina R. 4 Cabell Whitlock's family and alliances 316
50. Margaret Washington * Cabell Higginbotham's
family and alliances 316-318
51. Patrick Henry 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . 318-320
52. George Washington 4 Cabell's family and alliances 320-323
53. Emeline S. 4 Cabell Scruggs-Hart, d. s. p. . . . 323, 324
11. Col. William 3 Cabell, Jr.'s descendants 324-397
54. Elvira 4 Cabell Henry-Bruce's family and alli-
ances 324-339
55. Margaret 4 Cabell McClelland's family and alli-
ances 339-354
56. Ann Carringtou 4 Cabell Flournoy's family and
alliances 354-364
57. William Jordan 4 Cabell, d. s. p 364, 365
58. Mary Elizabeth 4 Cabell Callaway's family and
alliances 365-369'
59. Clementina 4 Cabell Irvine's family and alliances . 369-376.
60. Sarah Carrington 4 Cabell Massie's family and
alliances 376-379
61. Edward A. 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . . 379-384
62. Paul Carrington 4 Cabell's family and alliances . 384-388
63. Mayo * Cabell's family and alliances 388-396
64. Patrick Henry 4 Cabell, d. s. p 396, 397
13. Landon 3 Cabell's descendants 397-401
65. Landon R. 4 Cabell-Marion F. Cabell (111), d. s.p. 397
66. Robert Henry 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . 397-399
67. Elizabeth 4 Cabell Preston's family and alliances . 399-401
15. Margaret J. 3 Cabell Rives' descendants 401-446
XU CONTENTS
68. Landon Cabell 4 Rives' family and alliances . . 401-406
69. Margaret Jordan 4 Rives, d. s. p 406, 407
70. William Cabell 4 Rives' family and alliances . . 407-425
71. Lucy Shands 4 Rives Brown's family and alliances 425-433
72. Paulina Cabell 4 Rives Pollard's family and alli-
ances 433-438
73. Robert 4 Rives' family and alliances 438, 439
74. Henry 4 Rives, d. s. p 439
75 . George 4 Rives' family and alliances 439-442
76. Alexander 4 Rives' family and alliances .... 442-440
III. Col. Joseph 2 Cabell's Branch 446-531
17. Elizabeth 3 Cabell Megginson's descendants .... 446-452
77. Joseph Cabell 4 Megginson's family and alliances 446-452
18. Joseph 3 Cabell Jr.'s descendants 452-486
78. Sophonisba E. 4 Cabell Grayson's family and alli-
ances 452-154
79. Sarah Boiling 4 Cabell Meredith's family and alli-
ances 454-462
80. Joseph M. 4 Cabell, d. s. p 462
81. Edward Blair 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . 462-169
82. Benjamin W. S. 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . 469-177
83. Mary P. R. 4 Cabell Doswell's family and alliances,
extinct 477,478
84. Jane Randolph 4 Cabell AlUn's family and alli-
ances 478, 479
85. John Breckinridge 4 Cabell's family and alliances 479, 480
86. Elizabeth R. 4 Cabell Pollitt-Dixon's family and
alliances 480-483
87. Robert Boiling 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . 484,485
88. George Washington 4 Cabell's family and alliances 485, 486
89. Mary A. H. 4 Cabell Willard's family and alli-
ances 486
19. Mary H. G Cabell Breckinridge's descendants . . . 486-515
90. Letitia Preston 4 Breckinridge Grayson-Porter's
family and alliances 486—489
91. Joseph Cabell 4 Breckinridge's family and alli-
ances 489-497
92. Mary Anne 4 Breckinridge Castleman's family and
alliances, extinct 497
93. John 4 Breckinridge's family and alliances . . . 497-500
94. Robert Jefferson 4 Breckinridge's family and alli-
ances 500-511
95. William Lewis 4 Breckinridge's family and alli-
ances 511-515
20. Ann 3 Cabell Harrison's descendants 515-531
96. Susanna Randolph 4 Harrison Lewis-Brent, d. s. p. 515
97. Mary Hopkins 4 Harrison Richardson's family
and alliances 515-519
98. Joseph Cabell 4 Harrison's family and alliances . 519, 520
CONTENTS xiii
99. Carter Henry 4 Harrison's family and alliances . 520-524
100. Ann Cabell 4 Harrison Brown's family and alli-
ances 524,525
101. Robert Carter 4 Harrison's family and alliances 525
102. Elizabeth Lewis 4 Harrison Devore's family and
alliances 525, 526
103. Sarah Randolph 4 Harrison Lansdale-Bulkley's
family and alliances 526
104. Virginia 4 Harrison Castleman's family and alli-
ances 526-531
105. Pocahontas R. P. 4 Harrison Sloane's family and
alliances 531
IV. Col. John - Cabell's Branch 531-557
22. Dr. George 3 Cabell, Sr.'s descendants 531-539
106. Paulina * Cabell Henry's family and alliances . . 531, 532
107. George Kuhn 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . 532,533
108. Alice 4 Cabell Carrington's family and alliances . 533-535
109. John Breckinridge 4 Cabell's family and alliances . 535-539
110. William J. Lewis 4 Cabell's family and alliances,
extinct 243
111. Marion F. 4 Cabell-Dr. Landon R. Cabell (65),
d. s. p 397
23. Frederick 3 Cabell's descendants 539-544
112. Mary Mildred 4 Cabell Horsley. See under 37.
113. Frederick M. 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . 539, 540
114. Edmund W. 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . . 540
115. Clifford 4 Cabell's family and alliances .... 540-542
116. Paulina Virginia 4 Cabell Mosby's family and
alliances 542, 543
117. Louis Warrington 4 Cabell's family and alliances . 543, 544
24. Dr. John J. 3 Cabell's descendants 544-549
118. Judith Scott 4 Cabell Cralle"s family and alli-
ances 544-546
119. Sarah Winston 4 Cabell Ward's family and alli-
ances 546,547
120. Frances Whiting 4 Cabell Friend's family and alli-
ances 547,548
121. Henry Ann 4 Cabell Early's family and alliances . 548, 549
25. Samuel J. 3 Cabell's descendants 550-557
122. Paulina J. 4 Cabell McCormack-Lackey's family
and alliances 550
123. William E. 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . . 550-552
124. Jennetta 4 Cabell Simpson's family and alliances 552, 553
125. Elizabeth 4 Cabell McElroy's family and alliances 554
126. Madison 4 Cabell's family and alliances .... 554, 555
127. Elvira A. 4 Cabell Anderson's family and alliances 555, 556
128. Frederick 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . . 556, 557
V. Col. Nicholas 2 Cabell's Branch 558-610
27. William H. 3 Cabell's descendants 558-591
x iv CONTENTS
129. Louisa Elizabeth 4 Cabell Carrington's family and
alliances 558-567
130. Emma Catherine 4 Cabell Carrington's family and
alliances 567-571
131. Robert Gamble 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . 572-574
132. Elizabeth Hannah 4 Cabell Daniel, d. s. p. . . . 574
133. Edward Carrington 4 Cabell's family and alliances 574-584
134. John Grattan 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . 584, 585
135. Henry Coalter 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . 586-591
28. Dr. George 3 Cabell, Jr.'s descendants 591-597
136. John Nicholas 4 Cabell's family and alliances . . 591, 592
137. Elizabeth C. 4 Cabell Alexander's family and alli-
ances 592-596
138. James Lawrence 4 Cabell, d. s. p 596, 597
29. Elizabeth 3 Cabell Hare's descendants 597-601
139. Hannah Heningham 4 Hare Crawford d. s. p. . . 597
140. Sarah Elizabeth 4 Hare Reid's family and alliances 597-601
31. Nicholas 3 Cabell, Jr.'s descendants 601-605
141. Nathaniel Francis 4 Cabell's family and alliances . 601-605
32. Mary A. 3 Cabell Carrington's descendants .... 605-610
142. Joseph Nicholas 4 Carrington's family and alli-
ances 605-607
143. Sophonisba 4 Carrington Powell's family and alli-
ances 607,608
144. James Lawrence 4 Carrington's family and alli-
ances 608
145. Gilbert Paul 4 Carrington's family and alliances . 608, 609
146. Elizabeth Hannah 4 Carrington Hartsook's family
and alliances . . . . 609, 610
Index 611-641
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
[There is, I believe, no authentic portrait of Dr. William Cabell, the emi-
grant, and there are no good pictures, so far as I know, of any of his children.
I could not assume the responsibility of selecting for insertion the likenesses
of those of later generations. The portraits in this "memorial volume " have
been inserted by relatives or friends as memorials for those who are dead, and
as tokens of affection for those who are living ; thus they have an especially
appropriate value.]
PAGE
The Cabell Window in the Chapel of St. Nicholas. 1517.
See page 8 Frontispiece
Church of St. John Baptist, Frome, Somersetshire, England . . 6
buckfastleigh abbey, devonshire, england 16
Fac-simile of Commission of Col. William Cabell, Sr., as
County Lieutenant of Amherst, Va. 1761 80
V. Mrs. Hannah Carrington Cabell 156
From a St. Memin portrait. 1807-1808. (Inserted by her
grandson, Hon. E. C. Cabell, and her great-grandson, Dr. J. M.
Cabell, U. S. A.)
11. Mrs. Anne Carrlngton Cabell 204
From a portrait by George Cooke. 1834. (Inserted by her
granddaughter, Mrs. Sarah Randolph Brown.)
27. Judge William H. Cabell 250
From a portrait by Jarvis. About 1832. (Inserted by his son,
Hon. E. C. Cabell, and his grandson, Dr. J. M. Cabell, U. S. A.)
(27.) Mrs. Agnes S. B. Gamble Cabell 252
From a portrait by Jarvis. About 1832. (Inserted by her son,
Hon. E. C. Cabell, and her grandson, Dr. J. M. Cabell, U. S. A.)
(27.) Col. Robert Gamble 256
From a St. Memin portrait. 1807-1808. (Inserted by his
grandson, Hon. E. C. Cabell, and his great-grandson, Dr. J. M.
Cabell, U. S. A.)
30. Hon. Joseph Carrington Cabell 264
From his portrait at the University of Virginia. (Inserted by
his nephew, Hon. E. C. Cabell, and his grand-nephew, Rev. P.
B. Cabell.)
31. Nicholas Cabell, Jr 268
From a St. Memin portrait. 1807-1808. (Inserted by his great-
grandson, J. Hartwell Cabell.)
148. Dr. William A. Horsley 278
From a daguerreotype. (Inserted by his widow, Mrs. Eliza G.
Perkins Horsley.)
xvi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
42. Mrs. Nancy Ellis McCulloch Glasgow 292
From a miniature. 1854. (Inserted by her daughter, Mrs.
Hobson Johns.)
(42.) Joseph Glasgow, Esq 292
From a daguerreotype. (Inserted by his daughter, Mrs. Hob-
son Johns.)
168. Hon. Champe Carter McCulloch 298
From a photograph. (Inserted by his son, Dr. C. C. McCulloch,
U. S. A.)
199. Mrs. Sarah Bruce Seddon 332
From a portrait painted about 1849. (Inserted by her son,
Thomas Seddon, Esq.)
(199.) Hon. James Alexander Seddon 334
From a photograph taken about 1864. (Inserted by his son,
Thomas Seddon, Esq.)
210. Mrs. Anne Seddon Bruce Page 338
From a photograph. (Inserted by Thomas Nelson Page, LL. D.)
(55.) Hon. Thomas Stanhope McClelland 340
From a portrait by George Cooke. About 1833. (" Inserted by
eight of his descendants.")
(211.) Mary Greenway McClelland 346
From a photograph taken about 1887. (She died at half past
two o'clock on Friday morning, August 2, 1895, at Elm Cot-
tage, and this portrait was inserted as a memorial to her by
her cousins, Thomas S., Edmond L., and J. Bruce McClel-
land, Hon. W. W. Henry, and William D. and Louis W.
Cabell.)
63. Mayo Cabell, Esq 388
From a portrait by George Cooke. 1832-1834. (Inserted by his
son, Edward Marshall Cabell.)
66. Dr. Robert Henry Cabell 398
From a miniature. (Inserted by his daughter Virginia.)
70. Hon. William Cabell Rives 408
From a lithograph by Fenderich. 1839. (Inserted by his grand-
sons, Hon. George L. and Dr. William C. Rives.)
76. Judge Alexander Rives 442
From a photograph. (Inserted by his daughter, Mrs. Adela
Bertha Rives Skinker.)
377. General John Cabell Breckinridge, C. S. A 494
From a photograph. (Inserted by his children.)
93. Rev. John Breckinridge, D. D 498
From an engraving by J. Serz. (Inserted by Mrs. Virginia
Harrison Castle man Breckinridge.)
394. Judge Samuel Miller Breckinridge 500
From a photograph. (Inserted by his widow, Mrs. Virginia
H. C. Breckinridge.)
94. Rev. Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, D. D., LL. D. . . . 502
From an engraving by C. Burt. (Inserted by his son, General
Joseph Cabell Breckinridge.)
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS X vii
406. General Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, U. S. A 510
From a photograph. (Inserted by his sons.)
104. Mrs. Virginia Harrison Castleman 526
From a photograph taken in her 89th year. (Inserted by her
son, Hon. George A. Castleman.)
489. Hon. William Cabell Carrington 560
From a portrait by L. M. D. Guilliaume. (Inserted by his
daughter, Mrs. R. A. Lancaster.)
493. Col. Henry Alexander Carrington, C. S. A 566
From a photograph. (Inserted by his children.)
133. Hon. Edward Carrington Cabell 576
From a photograph taken in his 77th year. (Inserted by Alex-
ander Brown.)
(133.) Mrs. Anna Maria Wilcox Cabell 580
From a photograph taken in her 40th year. (Inserted by her
husband, Hon. E. C. Cabell.)
135. Col. Henry Coalter Cabell, C. S. A 586
From a photograph. (Inserted by his daughter, Mrs. Herbert
A. Claiborne.)
138. Dr. James Lawrence Cabell 596
From a photograph. (Inserted by his nephew, James W. Alex-
ander.)
141. Nathaniel Francis Cabell 602
From an ambrotype taken in his 50th year. (Inserted by his
son, Rev. Philip B. Cabell.)
THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN.
PART I.
THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN IN ENGLAND.
" tract of Tyme, that all consumes to dust,
We hold thee not, for thou art hald behinde :
The fairest sword, or mettall, thou wilt rust,
And brightest things bring quickly out of minde.
The trimmest towers, and castles great and gay,
In processe long at length thou doest decay ;
The bravest house, and princely buildings rare,
Thou wasts, and weares, and leaves the walls but bare."
Sundry papers left by Dr. William Cabell, the emigrant,
in Virginia, together with sundry documents which I have
found in England, make it certain that he was a grandson
of William Cabell, who came to Warminster, England, about
1664, and died there in 1704. I have been at some ex-
pense in the effort to find out where this William Cabell
came from, but I have not been entirely successful. It
seems certain that he was of the Frome-Selwood family,
and probable that he came from Buckfastleigh. However,
the object of this work is to treat of the founding of a new
family in the New World and to trace down the descen-
dants, rather than to treat of an old family in the Old
World and to trace back the ancestors. And therefore
some general remarks on the Cabells and their kin in
England, with some particulars of several branches, will be
sufficient for the introductory purposes necessary in these
premises.
In addition to Dr. William Cabell's papers, I have had
2 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
reference to copies of sundry documents brought from Eng-
land by the Hon. James Alston Cabell of Richmond, the late
Rev. H. C. Alexander, D. D., and others. A faithful re-
search has been conducted there for me by the Rev.
Charles Herbert Mayo, M. A., in Dorset, Somerset, and
Wiltshire ; the late Rev. Beaver H. Blacker, M. A., in
Gloucestershire ; and by Col. William Cabell and others in
London and elsewhere in England. One of the most in-
teresting documents that I have found is a book of about
100 pages, still in manuscript — " Memoirs of the Cabells
or Cabbells" — which was compiled, as I understand, for
the late Benjamin Bond Cabbell (1781-1874), of Cromer
Hall, Norfolk, by Gabriel Ogilvey, Fellow of the Society of
Antiquaries of Normandy, in 1867-1869. It relates to the
family in England and in Normandy, 1066-1675. I will
give extracts from it from time to time. It begins : " The
history of this family may be traced from the beginning of
the eleventh century when Walter Cabel witnessed a charter
of Bradenstone in Wiltshire. This Walter Cabel appears
to have come over to England at the time of the Conquest
with Walter d'Evreau, Earl of Rosmare and Nantu in
Verein [indistinct], whose great grandson Patrick d'Evreau
was created Earl of Salisbury in the time of King Stephen.
That Walter Cabell settled at once in Wiltshire is proved
by the fact that, some time after the Conquest, he sold his
^demesne to Adam Turgot, another Norman. This demesne
was called Radeclive, which name may be now Radcliff.
The successors of Walter Cabel continued in the counties
of Wilts, Dorset, Devon, and Somerset. There is some con-
fusion in the arms of this family : the old historian of De-
vonshire attributes to the Cabells of Buckfastleigh, Sable,
a horse upright argent, bridled or ; and to others of the
same name, Vert a fesse argent, fretted gules. It might be
that the horse must have been the ordinary arms of this
family, the etymology of the name being evidently Ca-
ballns as will be seen hereafter.
" Gabriel Ogilvey, F. S. A., of Normandy."
IN ENGLAND 3
Farther on Mr. Ogilvey writes : " It is a fact that the
Normans did use the Latin term of ' Caballus ' instead of
that of ' Equus ' for the noblest of quadrupeds in the
world, and it is another that some Norman families took
such a name from some of their ancestors having thus been
designated from their strength and courage, or from some
other allusion we know not. It is a fact yet that there was
existing in Normandy until very recently a family of some
note, bearing the name of Cheval and Queval.
" This ancient family had also taken a part in the conquest
of England in the person of Robertus Cabalus, who settled
himself in the county of Norfolk ; and his successors ap-
pear under various alterations of the name in the rolls of
the Tower and Exchequer. Thus we find there recorded
Cheval, Chevall, Chivall, etc. In 1131, the great Roll of
the Exchequer mentions ' Hugo Chivillus.' In 1165, the
Black Book of the Exchequer, ' Henricus Chevel.' I have
thus quoted these few examples in order to show that, if
the families of Cabell and Chevall, which both took part in
the Conquest, are not identical (and this might fairly be
inferred from the above quotations) at least the etymology
of both names is the same.
" I have said in the first pages of this book that Walter
Cabel had come over to England with Walter d'Evreau,
with whom he settled in Wiltshire. In fact, Walter Cabel
must have been a ' Vavasseur ' of the same Walter d'Evreau
in Normandy, if I may infer it from the following facts :
There is in the vicinity of the tower of Evreau a locality, or
rather a hamlet, depending from the Common of Bois-
Arnand, now called Le Chable ; the name of this locality
frequently appears in Norman Charters as Chablun and
Chaablan. It is fairly presumable that this locality, which
we find first mentioned in 1219, owed its name to the family
of Cabell, a branch of which subsisted for some time in
Normandy. Gabriel Ogilvey."
The word " Caballus " is used for " horse " in Domesday
4 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Book, and it seems certain that the family derived its sur-
name from that word. As surnames were introduced into
England by the Normans at the Conquest, and as they had
but recently come into use in Normandy, the family, hav-
ing been traced to 1066, has been traced back about as far
as it could be with any certainty. Men took their surnames
in various ways. Some took them from the arms which
they or their ancestors had made illustrious ; and the white
horse rampant, with its bit and bridle of gold, on the war-
rior's black shield, may have been carried to the front on
many a hard fought field of battle before it gave to its
owner his name.
The learned Camden, referring to the oldest mottoes he
ever met with, mentions the old seal of Sir Thomas Cavall,
who bore for his arms a horse, and for his motto, " Thomse
credite, cum cernitis ejus equum."
As the name is derived from Caballus, I suppose the
correct way of spelling to be Cabal or Caball, Cabel or
Cabell ; but I have found it spelled in almost every con-
ceivable way : Cabbie, Cable, Cabel, Cabell, Cabbel, Cabbell,
Cabal, Caball, Cabbal, Cabball, Cabyll, Cabbil, Caable,
Cabul, Cabull, Chaable, Cavall, Cavel, Capel, Capell, Caple,
Cabelle, etc. ; Kaable, Kable, Kabell, Kabel, Kabbel, Kebel,
Kebell, Kebyll, Keble, Kebble, Kebbel, Kebbell, Keeble,
Kyble, Gabble, Gabbell, Gable, etc., etc. In French, I find
the names Cabal and Cheval; in Spanish, Caballero and
Cavallero ; in Dutch, Cabel and Kabel ; in Italian, Cabal-
lero, Caballinus, Caballis, Caballo, and Caballus; and in
Genoese, Caballo. In a list of foreign Doctors of the 16th
century, I find the following : Francesco Caballo or Ca-
ballus, Italian physician and medical writer, died 1540 ;
Guillaume [William] Cappel [Cabell?], French Doctor of
Medicine, born 1530; and Pierre Cabal, French surgeon
and writer, who flourished in 1570.
But we must return to the family in England. Mr.
Ogilvey says: "Walter d'Evreau, or Salisbury, having
founded the Austin Priory of Bradenstone in Wiltshire,
IN ENGLAND 5
about the beginning of the reign of Henry I. Adam Tur-
got (a Norman who was certainly one of the Conquerors of
1066) was one of the benefactors, and stands recorded as
having given to the said house of Bradenstone a demesne,
called Radeclive, which he had previously bought of Walter
Cabel. (Monastrion Anglicanum, nova editio, Vol. 6, p.
340\ Brit. Mus. 2062 e.) Such a fact and charter prove
that Walter Cabel had been present at the conquest of
England in 1066, and had obtained for his share the land
of Radcliffe in Wiltshire." Mr. Ogilvey's Memoranda,
extracted from sundry records, etc., go on to show that :
Walter Kabell owned land in Wiltshire in 1110.
Jeffrey Cabell owned land in the county of Caux, Nor-
mandy, in 1180.
Gilbert de Cabel owned land in Caux in 1181-1198.
Walter Cabell owned a forest in Buckinghamshire, Eng-
gland, in 1198.
Evermere Cabell owned land in the same shire in 1205.
" That is about the time of the secession of Normandy
from England. Soon after must have lived Ranulf Cabel
de Careby (what I take to be Cadeby [Cadbury] in Somer-
setshire). He married a lady of the name of Sybil, who
was a relative of William de Jumieges. This William de
Jumieges belonged to a Norman family of some note which
had settled in Somersetshire at the time of the Conquest
and had come originally from the little boro' of Jumieges
also in the county of Evreau, from which had the Cabells
originated, as has been previously shown. This Ranulf
Cabel de Careby had a son and heir of the name of Hugh
Cabel, who in the year 1253 was wrongly accused of having
been instrumental to the death of a certain Thomas de
Skendelby, when it was clearly established that this last
named had been killed by Richard son of Humfray of
Edenham. [Here follows the quotation in Latin.] . . .
De anno 37th Hen. III. Hugo Cabellus alias Kabel de
Kareby . . . (Calendarium Genealogicum, Vol. I. p. 90.
Brit. Mus. 2075. C. 80. London, 1866.) "
6 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
North Cadbury is about fifteen miles from Frome-
Selwood or Froome-Selwood.
There are sundry other references to sundry other Ca-
bells, in several other parts of England ; but I must con-
fine myself to the Cabells of Frome-Selwood in the county
of Somerset, England, from which stock the Cabells of
Virginia are descended.
In 1350, John Cabel, son of John Cabel of Frome, and
several others, were allowed by the king for a designated
sum of money to give certain tenements with their appurte-
nances in Frome, to be held in mortmain, to the chaplain of
that place. How long the family had then been settled at
Frome I do not know ; but we may readily suppose that
John Cabel, the father, was born prior to 1300. In 1408,
John Cabel of Frome (possibly the same giver, but more
probably his son), after an " inquisition ad quod damnum,"
gave four messuages and certain lands, etc., with their ap-
purtenances, in From e-B rami che, Somerset, to the chaplain
there. An " inquisition ad quod damnum " was held when
a person wished to endow a chantry or monastery with
land, to ascertain if it would be to the king's hurt or loss
if he did so.
About this time, and for some time thereafter, the family
seem to have been taking an especial interest in religious
matters, and we find them mentioned chiefly in connection
with gifts to the church, or as priests, - monks, etc., in
Somerset, in Dorset, in Devon, in Norfolk, etc.
" Frome in Somersetshire, only a few miles from Trow-
bridge, county Wilts, was the headquarters of the Cabell
family. The church contains a chapel, called the chapel of
Saint Nicholas, which was founded by John Cabell in 1517."
I have found no description of this chapel as it originally
was, but I am assured that the windows were filled with
stained glass coats of arms, etc. Collingson, in his history
of Somerset, describes the church of S. John of Frome as
it was in 1791. It was for a time neglected, but is now
a most beautiful church, splendidly decorated, restored in
CHURCH OF S. JOHN BAPTIST
Fro me. So m ersetxh ire
IN ENGLAND 7
1862-1866, by the Rev. William James Early Bennett,
who was Vicar of the church from 1852 to his death in
1886.
On entering: the church, there will be seen on the north
side, nearest the door, the sculptured figure of S. Aldhelm,
the founder of the church. He is represented as founder,
according to ancient custom, by carrying the model of the
church in his hand. Underneath his statue is a brass plate
commemorating: the foundation and the restoration of the
church, with a Latin inscription, which may be translated
th as :
^ Saint Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, as tradition
tells us, laid the foundation of this sacred house of God
about the year of our Lord 680, and after many vicissi-
tudes and decay, the Parishioners, with certain friends of
the church, at their own cost, in the name of the Holy
Trinity, offered to Almighty God its Restoration, which
was begun in the year 1862, and brought to a happy con-
clusion on the Feast of the Patron Saint, John Baptist,
in the year of our Lord 1866. It was in the reign of
Queen Victoria. Robert John was Bishop; William
J. E. Bennett, Parish Priest ; Edmund Baily and
William C. Penny, Church Wardens. Glory be to God
alone in Christ. *%*
The full particulars of the restoration, etc., are given in
a little book called " The Old Church of S. John Baptist,
Froome-Selwood, ... by the Rev. W. J. E. Bennett, with
a preface by the Rev. the Hon. A. Hanbury-Tracy, Vicar.
Third Edition. Froome : W. C. & J. Penny. 1888." A
copy of this was sent to me from Frome by the Rev.
Mayo Cabell Martin, when he was on a visit there several
years ago. This book also describes the chapel of S.
Nicholas, which was founded by John Cabell in 1517.
The large north window of this chapel (of six lights) is
filled with handsome modern stained glass, chiefly in memo-
rial of S. Nicholas, to whom the chapel is dedicated, and
the apostolic commission of Baptism, — the chapel being
8 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
now used as the baptistery. But in the lower part of the
two middle lights are inserted four shields of arms, ancient,
which were in the chapel before the restoration. These
four panels constitute all that was left of the original old
glass in the church. The remainder was destroyed by the
Puritans in 1649-1659, when much of the old stained glass
of England shared the same fate. The splendid glow of
mediaeval glass is now comparatively rare in England ; even
the smallest fragments of it are put together in odd places
in the lights, and preserved with a jealous devotion.
The Vicar in his little book described these arms thus :
" The intervening four medallions contain the armorial
bearings of the founder of the chapel, whose name was
Cabell. Observe carefully the curious play upon the name.
There is the letter K with a bell attached to it, and the whole
surrounded by a rope or cable. The dolphin, sea-horse, and
cable as appertaining to the sea, agree with S. Nicholas, pa-
tron of sailors, and with our present use of the chapel, which
is for the waters of Baptism. These armorial bearings are
the sole remains of painted glass throughout the whole
church saved from the destruction of the Puritans."
The four shields of arms may be emblazoned thus : —
I. Sable, a horse rampant Argent, bitted and bridled
Or; impaling — Sable, a, chevron between three dolphins
embowed Argent: on a chief Glides, a leopard's head
[face] jessant-de-lis Or.
II. Sable, a horse rampant Argent, bitted and bridled
Or ; impaling. Argent [I think this should be Azure~] —
Collingson says, " a pillar," but it is also like " a tall altar
candlestick," " a taper candlestick," and " a market cross " —
Or, between two human heads, couped respecting each
other, crined Or the last. [Two human heads in fess
respecting, proper, the heads crined Or.~\
III. Sable, a chevron between three dolphins embowed
Argent : on a chief Gules, a leopard's head [face] jessant-
de-lis Or.
IV. Sable, a horse rampant Argent, bitted and bridled
IN ENGLAND 9
Or ; impaling — Argent, the Cabell Rebus, viz : A text
letter K and a Bell, intertwined with a Cable, all proper.
It may be that this impaling device should be read,
Azure, a text letter K and a Bell intertwined with a Cable,
Or. The colorings on the old glass are so old as not to be
clear.
The impaling arms on the I. and II. shields belong to
families with whom the Cabells had intermarried prior to
1517.
[I will insert here what I am told is the correct " Coat "
for the Frome branch of the family at present.
Crest : "An arm in armour embowed grasping a sword,
all proper"
Arms : " Sable, a horse rampant Argent, bitted and
bridled Or."
Motto : "Impavide."]
The late Rev. H. C. Alexander, D. D., saw this window
in 1878, and described it as being " as fine as anything of
the sort to be found in England." I at once tried to
obtain a photograph of it, but none had ever been taken.
The Vicar and church wardens were not willing for a pho-
tographer to take his camera within the church, and conse-
quently no photograph could be taken ; but in February,
1879, the Rev. Charles Herbert Mayo of Sherborne obtained
permission from the Vicar of Frome (Rev. W. J. E. Ben-
nett), and had these arms photographed (for the first time)
for me.
Dr. Alexander wrote in 1878 : " Mr. Penny, the anti-
quary of Frome, is satisfied that the old Cabells lie buried
under the chapel floor ; that they were unquestionably, at
one time, by all odds the best people about Frome ; that
there can be no doubt they were one of the oldest families
in England," etc.
" The Grove," a most ancient house near Frome, is
pointed out as one of the old residences of the Cabells.
10 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
This is now the property of Lord Cork (of the same family
as Robert Boyle, a benefactor of William and Mary College,
and Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery, the friend of Colonel
William Byrd of Virginia), whose seat is at Marston
House, near Frome. " Whatcombe " (another Cabell prop-
erty) in 1880 belonged to Mr. Duckworth, and was
called the Orchard Leigh Estate. I do not know to whom
Caford, Foxbourne, and other old Cabell properties now
belong.
" Richard Cabell of Cayford and Frome in the county
of Somerset, gentyleman," was a man of considerable means,
as the various remaining records of his buying lands, etc.,
from 1510 to 1528 amply prove. The last deed Mr. Ogil-
vey found of him was dated in 1528, about which time he
may have died ; but from 1545 to 1557 we find a " Richard
Cabelle of Cayforde and Frome, gentyleman," (either the
same Richard or his son) buying, and leasing to others,
lands near Frome.
The Parish Register of Frome commences in 1538, and
on May 2d, 1561, it is recorded that Richard Cabell,
" generosus " (gentleman) was buried there.
In 1562, Richard Cabell was elected a member of Parlia-
ment for the borough of Heytesbury in Wiltshire, and sat
in Parliament for that borough from January 11th, 1563,
to January 2d, 1567. And he was again elected for the
same borough to the next Parliament, which sat from April
2d to May 29th, 1571. Heytesbury is some twelve miles
from Frome, and about five miles from Warminster. From
Frome to Warminster by the old London road was 7|- miles.
The present Caford is about 1| miles from Frome. The
distance to Buckfastleigh in Devonshire is about 100 miles.
Many Cabells were baptized, married, and buried in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Frome and in the
region round about. In 1655, Walter Cabell was married,
and in 1696 he died, at Frome. He bore the name of the
original Norman who settled in the adjoining shire of Wilts
six hundred years before.
IN ENGLAND 11
I am sure that William Cabell, the ancestor of the Vir-
ginia Cabells, who (probably born about 1630) went to
Warminster about 1664, and died there in 1704, was of the
original Frome stock, and that he descended from the
founder of the chapel of St. Nicholas there ; but I do not
know certainly whether he went to Warminster from
Frome, from one of the near-by parishes, or from Buck-
fastleigh in Devonshire. Richard Cabell, the first of Ca-
ford, may have been the son of John Cabell, the founder
of the chapel ; and the said Richard may have been the
father of John Cabell, buried at Frome in 1586 ; who may
have been the father of another John (a benefactor of the
parish), buried there in 1630 ; who may have been the
father of William Cabell, baptized at Frome in 1588, mar-
ried to Sarah prior to 1636, and died in 1665 ; and
this William and Sarah Cabell may have been the parents
of our William of Warminster, but I have found no evi-
dence of it. The only evidence which T have is circum-
stantial, and it points to the parish of Buckfastleigh as the
place of his nativity.
Mr. Ogilvey says that Richard Cabell of Cayford, Somer-
set, was the M. P. for Heytesbury, Wilts, in 1571 ; that he
married Susannah, daughter of John Peter of Buckfast-
leigh in the county of Devon, and finally settled there.
And this may be correct, but the Heralds Visitations do
not locate him so distinctly. The best pedigree of this
family that I have seen was obtained by the Hon. James
Alston Cabell in 1878, from Mr. William L. Cabell of Lin-
coln's Inn, London, who claimed to be a descendant. It
is headed " Cabell of Brooke in the Parish of Buckfast-
leigh in the County of Devon, showing the match of the
son and heir in 1655 with Elizabeth second, daughter of the
Rt. Hon. Sir Edmond Fowell of Fowell's Comb in the
Parish of Ugborough in the County of Devon, Knight
and Baronet, and M. P. for the Shire." Note at the end :
" From my collection towards the Genealogies of the sev-
eral ancient families of the County of Devon, which fur-
12 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
nished members of Parliament durins* the Period of the
Civil wars and Commonwealth, and in which the Title of
Baronet has become extinct. . . . Richard S. M. Sprye. 1
London, 10th of Nov'r, 1835."
This pedigree, with several corrections and many addi-
tions from other sources, will furnish the basis for the
following sketch of this family.
" Richard Cabell of manor of Brooke in the Parish of
Buckfastleigh in the County of Devon, Esquire, eldest son
and heir of Richard Cabell of Frome-Selwood in the County
of Somerset, Esquire, was born at ; died at , Feb-
ruary 17th, 1612 [0. S.], and was buried in the sepul-
chre of his family in the churchyard of Buckfastleigh on
March 4th, 1612 [0. S.]. He married prior to 1581, Su-
sannah, daughter of John Peter of in the Parish of
Buckfastleigh aforesaid Esquire. She was born at ;
died at Buckfastleigh August 7th, 1597, and was buried
in the Cabell sepulchre there. She was related to the very
celebrated Sir William Peter (or Petre), Secretary of State
under Henry VIII. , Edward VI., Mary and Elizabeth. A
man of wonderful tact. ' Under Henry " he observed his
humour ; ' in Edward's time " kept the law ; " in Mary's
" intended wholly State affairs ; ' and in Elizabeth's was
" religious." As one of ' the visitors ' he acquired, and
had wit enough to keep, a great deal of wealth in the disso-
lution of the religious houses."
Westcote, in his history of Devonshire, written about
1630-1640, says : " Buckfast, Buckfaster, or Buckfastleigh,
where Duke Alford erected a fair Abbey of White Monks
of the Cistercian Order, dedicating it to the Blessed Vir-
gin : valued at the surrender at ,£466 lis 2od, where
now is to be seen the skeleton of a huge body, where the
lM A captain in the Indian army, Captain Sprye devoted many years to
Madras Presidency, and in 1833, dep- collecting material for a history of the
uty judge-advocate-general of its Parliamentary families of his native
Northern Division ; son of the Rev. county, Devon. He married Henrietta-
John Sprye, Vicar of Ughorough, in Digby-Fowell." — Burke.
Devon. On his return to England
IN ENGLAND 13
beholder may both pity and wonder to see the ruins thereof.
Now [1630-40] the possession of Cabell."
Worth, in his history of Devonshire (1886), says : " The
Abbey of Buckfast, Buckfastleigk, or, as in 'Domesday,'
Buckfestre, is a foundation of great age, one of the very
few religious houses in Devon which had existence before
the Conquest. The early history of Buckfast is lost in
remote antiquity ; but the monks claimed, in the reign of
Edward I., to hold the manor of Zele Monachorum by the
gift of Cnut ; and ' Domesday ' shows the Abbey a flourish-
ing institution with considerable possessions. . . . Origi-
nally, so far as can be ascertained, Benedictine, Buckfast,
became a daughter-house of Savigny, united to the Cis-
tercian Order in 1148. . . . The last abbot was Gabriel
Doune or Downe, who was appointed in 1535, and sur-
rendered in February, 1538. He was probably ' the author
of the plan which resulted in the capture, imprisonment,
and death of Tyndale ; ' and Mr. J. Brooking Rowe thinks
that he was foisted upon the monks of Buckfast better to
carry out the designs of the King. . . . The remains of
the Abbey, with the modern house built upon the site and
in part with its materials, are now (1886) once more the
home of monks of the Benedictine order, who are success-
fully engaged in its reconstruction upon the ancient lines."
Mr. Worth says that the Abbey and the adjacent lands
were at one time " the property of Sir Richard Baker, the
historian." But should this not be Sir Richard Baker,
the uncle of the historian, and one of the executors of
Sir William Peter?
Richard Cabell and Susannah Peter, his wife, had two
sons, Richard (of whom hereafter) and Samuel, and three
daughters.
Richard Cabell, the eldest son, matriculated at Exeter Col-
lege, Oxford, December 12, 1600, aged 18 ; was a student of
the Middle Temple in 1604, as son and heir of Richard of
Buckfastleigh, Devon, gentleman. He succeeded his father
at his death in 1613 ; was arrested with other gentlemen by
14 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
writ out of the Honorable Court of Star Chamber in 1614
(Devon's Issues of the Exchequer, p. 171) ; in 1618 he held
the manor of Maynebow in Warnecombe, County Somer-
set, and in the same year he bought of John Caseleigh
one quarter of the lands that this John held in Bowdon,
Colleton, Buckfastleigh, and Ashburton ; in 1620 he gave
in the pedigree of his family at the Herald's Visitation of
Devonshire ; in 1639 he lent to Sir Henry Rosewell of
Forde County, Devon, Knight, the sum of £2500, which
must have been at that time a very considerable sum of
money. In the original deed he is styled " Ricardus Ca-
bell de Brooke." Sir Henry Rosewell was one of the
original grantees in 1628 of the company of the Massachu-
setts Bay. From the " Transactions of the American Anti-
quarian Society," Vol. III., pp. xlv., etc., I extract : " The
position of Roswell, as a man of wealth, is indicated by an-
other circumstance. In 1639, while Charles I. was on his
way to suppress the rebellion in Scotland, the Privy Coun-
cil made out a list of persons ' fit for their ability to lend
the King money.' Some contributed ; others excused them-
selves on the ground of previous contributions ; others took
no notice of the requisition. Among the latter we find
the name of Sir Henry Roswell, of Devonshire."
If Sir Henry did not borrow the money from Cabell for
the King, he may have borrowed it for use in founding
Massachusetts.
On January 29, 1642 (?), Richard Cabell and his bro-
ther, Samuel Cabell, as church wardens, certified that
"the thirtye nine articles were publiquely read in the
Church at Buckfastleigh by the Vicar." " Richard Cabell
of Brooke, Esq, died Augt 24th, 1655, and was buried
in the family sepulchre at Buckfastleigh on Augt. 25th
1655." He married prior to 1620, Maria, daughter of
George Prestwood of Whitcombe, in the parish of North
Huish in the county of Devon, Esquire, by his wife, the
daughter of Sir Nicholas Martyn, Knight of Oxton, in
that shire, M. P. for the county of Devon, in the long Par-
IN ENGLAND 15
liament, in whose daughter's house [Mrs. George Prest-
wood's?], in Watlin Street, London, the five members were
concealed when King Charles followed them into the city.
Sir Nicholas Martyn was knighted in 1625, and was sheriff
of Devon in 1640.
Richard Cabell of Brooke, Esq., and Maria Prestwood,
his wife, had issue two daughters and five sons,
i. Richard, eldest son and heir, of whom hereafter.
ii. Samuel, 2d son, baptized at Buckfastleigh, May 4, 1623.
iii. George, 3d son, baptized at Buckfastleigh, September
15, 1628 ; buried there March 8, 1631.
iv. William, 4th son, baptized at Buckfastleigh, January
4, 1630 [0. S.]. [Whom I believe to be the ancestor
of Dr. William Cabell of Virginia.]
v. John, 5th son, baptized at Buckfastleigh, December
27, 1636.
Richard Cabell, the eldest son and heir, matriculated at
Balliol College, Oxford, November 15, 1639, aged 19;
son of Richard of Buckfastleigh, Devon, Armierer. He
was of the Middle Temple, 1649 ; was sheriff of Devon-
shire (various authorities give the various dates, 1658,
1664, and 1670). I do not know which is the correct
date. He may have been sheriff more than once. I have
an original receipt, dated December 28, 1669, showing
that he paid George Reynell of Malston in the county of
Devon, Esq., £104, on that day. In 1672, he gave £20
towards constructing the pile of buildings between the
public gate and the chapel of Exeter College at Oxford.
He was living in 1675. (See Lyson's Devonshire, vol. vi.
" Cabell of Buckfastleigh. About six descents ; not ex-
tinct in 1675. Arms : Sable, a Horse upright, Argent :
bridled Or.") He died prior to 1693. He married in Janu-
ary, 165*, Elizabeth, 2d daughter of the Rt. Hon. Sir Ed-
mond Fowell of Fowell's Comb, in the parish of Ug-
borough in the county of Devon, Knight and Baronet, and
M. P. for the Shire, by Margaret, his wife, sister of John,
16 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
the first Lord Paulett of Hinton St. George in the county
of Somerset.
Elizabeth Fowell was born at Fowell's Comb ; bap-
tized at Ugborough, September 6, 1622. The purpose
of marriage between herself and Richard Cabell was pub-
lished in the parish church of Ugborough on the 14th,
21st, and 28th days of October, 1655, without exception,
and they were married by a Justice on January 2, and by
the Vicar on January 7 following ; she died , and was
buried in linen September 17, 1686, at Buckfastleigh.
Her father, Sir Edmond Fowell, of a very ancient Anglo-
Saxon family, was born at Fowell's Comb in 1593 ; knighted
at the Palace of Greenwich by James I., November 3,
1619 ; elected M. P. for Ashburton in the long Parlia-
ment, and for the county of Devon in 1656. He was
also one of the Parliamentary committee and deputy lieu-
tenants of that shire, and was president of the commit-
tee for sequestration. He was created a Baronet April 30,
1661. He died in October, 1674, aged eighty-one. (See
Burke's Extinct Baronetcies.) His wife, Margaret Paulett,
was a sister to Capt. Thomas Paulett of Virginia (see The
Genesis of the United States, p. 962), and first cousin to
Francis Lord Norreys of the Virginia Company of London.
Richard Cabell of Brooke, Esq., and Elizabeth Fowell,
his wife, had at least two sons (Richard and George), both
of whom died without issue ; and their daughter, Elizabeth,
became the sole heir to their property.
Elizabeth Cabell, the eldest child and final heir, was
born at , November 12, 1656, and baptized at Buck-
fastleigh, December 9, 1656. There is a long account of
some of her troubles in the "Account of the house of
D'Oyly, by William D'Oyly Bailey, London, 1845." Sir
John D'Oyly, the first baronet, by Margaret, his wife,
daughter of Sir Richard Cholmley of Whitby Abbey, in
Yorkshire, had issue twelve children. About 1692, he was
in quest of a wealthy heiress for his eldest son, Chohn-
[onde]ley D'Oyly of Cheslehampton, Oxfordshire, to replen-
>
111
CO
CO
<
3
u
IN ENGLAND 17
ish the empty coffers of the family. " Soon after, Sir John
D'Oyly met with a wealthy heiress for his son, viz : Eliza-
beth, only child of Richard Cabell, Esq., of Brooke County
Devon, heiress to him, and eventually also to her uncle,
Samuel Cabell, Esq., of South Petterton, Somersetshire.
The lady was an heiress of landed property to the amount
of £20,000, besides a considerable personal estate, and the
intrigues by which her marriage with Cholmley D'Oyly
was brought about, could scarcely be exceeded in skill and
contrivance by the imagination of the novelists of the pre-
sent day." They were married in August, 1693, and
Cholmley D'Oyly bound himself to pay to his father the
sum of £10,000 out of his wife's estate. But the worst of
it Avas, " this gay young man " had previously (in May,
1692) privately married Margaret, daughter of Rev. An-
drew Needham of Beverston, Gloucestershire ; which mar-
riage " was preserved a profound secret 'till Cholmley
D'Oyly's death." In the language of Mr. Bailey, "both
wives were bring;in£ him children at the same time." He
had two sons by Elizabeth Cabell, both of whom pre-
deceased him. The eldest was named Cabell D'Oyly.
" Cholmley D'Oyly died about March 19, [%%> much in
debt and having two wives. It may be supposed a pretty
tumult ensued. Old Needham immediately went to his
widow, Elizabeth, and divulged her husband's marriage
with his daughter Margaret, who then put in claims for a
dower." Elizabeth immediately possessed herself of all
his property she was able, and then commenced chancery
proceedings to upset the settlements made on her mar-
riage. About 1701, she married secondly Richard Fownes,
Jr., Esq., of Stapleton, County Dorset (see Burke's Com-
moners, Vol. I.), and "with this gentleman she engaged
in all her proceedings against the D'Oylys." But it is
needless to wade through the details of these disgraceful
proceedings. The Fownes were at last completely beaten ;
firstly, by a decree of dismission in the Court of Chancery,
March 1, 1703, from which they appealed in November,
18 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
1704, to the House o£ Lords ; and, secondly, by a dismis-
sion of their petition and appeal by the Lords in January,
1705, thus ending the contest in favor of the D'Oylys.
The Fownes had to pay the £10,000 to Sir John D'Oyly,
as well as the heavy costs of the long suit.
In 1715, Richard Fownes, Esq., and Elizabeth (Cabell),
his wife, sold property in Frome-Selwood to George Hooj^er
and others, and on September 20, 1721, William (the
Virginia emigrant) and his brother, Joseph Cabell, by
indenture relinquished any claims which they might have
on this property. This indenture is not now to be found
preserved in full in the papers of Dr. William Cabell, the
emigrant ; but it is referred to in an indenture of July
20, 1731, which has been preserved. It shows a relation-
ship to the Cabells of Buckfastleigh, and it shows that he
was still in England (had not settled in Virginia) in Sep-
tember, 1721. It may be that he was then making his
arrangements to emigrate.
I do not know when Elizabeth Cabell and Richard
Fownes, her husband, died ; but in 1739 and 1744, their
son, Thomas Fownes, was selling off the old Cabell estates
— "for payment of his and his father's debts" — near
Frome and Warminster. And in 1758, he sold the seats of
the family, "The Manor of Brooke Mainbow, with Buck-
fastleigh and Button," to Sir Thomas Clarke, Master of the
Rolls, who gave it to the Earl of Macclesfield.
Samuel Cabell, the 2d son of Richard and Maria Prest-
wood Cabell of Buckfastleigh, died at South Petterton in
Somersetshire, in April, 1699, without issue. He owned
lands in Devon, Somerset, and Wilts, some of which were
in the parishes of Frome and Warminster. One of his
heirs, his nephew, Samuel Wotton, Esq., of Englebourne,
Devon, married a daughter of Sir John D'Oyly, who seems
to have had a special eye on the old Cabell estates.
William Cabell, the 4th son, and John Cabell, the 5th
son of Richard and Maria Prestwood Cabell of Buckfast-
leigh, have not been located with certainty by me ; but, as
IN ENGLAND " 19
I have said, I believe that the 4th son was the William Ca-
bell who settled at or near Warminster about 1664. Not
only because the Buckfastleigh Cabells owned land in War-
minster parish, and Dr. William Cabell was in some way
related to Mrs. Richard Fownes ; but, also, because the
late Benjamin Bond Cabbell (1781-1874) of Cromer Hall,
Norfolk (F. R. S., J. P., M. P., etc.), a man well versed in
his own genealogy, not only claimed descent from Buck-
fastleigh (see Burke's Landed Gentry), but, also, that the
emigrant to America was of the same family as his. Ac-
cording to one account, he said that the emigrant was " his
grandfather's brother;' 5 according to another, "his grand-
father's cousin."
We find William Cabell, and Mary, his wife, living near
Warminster, probably at " Bugley," in 1664. They were
then the parents of seven children. William Cabell was
buried at Warminster, September 4, 1704. A copy of the
inventory of his household chattels (valued at £321), taken
September 29 following, was found among Dr. William Ca-
bell's papers. His widow, Mary Cabell, was buried at
Warminster, December 5, 1704. Her will, dated September
29, 1704, and proved in the court of the Archdeacon of
Sarum (Salisbury), left remembrances to all of her sur-
viving children and grandchildren. Her sons were : 1, Wil-
liam ; 2, Anthony ; 3, Christojiher ; and, 4, Nicholas.
William, the eldest son, never married. He died in De-
cember, 1734, and his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Yeatman,
administered on his estate ; she died in February, 1739,
and on May 23, 1739, Dr. William Cabell of Virginia,
then in England, gave bond "to administer on his [Wil-
liam's] effects, left unadministered on by Mrs. Elizabeth
Yeatman."
Anthony, the 2d son, married twice, but left no chil-
dren.
Christopher, the 3d son, baptized at Warminster, Feb-
ruary 21, I665, had a son John, who, in 1765, made some
claim to Bugley, near Warminster, England, then the prop-
20 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
erty of Dr. William Cabell of Virginia ; but, on exami-
nation, the claim proved to be invalid. I have some reason
to think that this John was Benjamin Bond Cabbell's
grandfather (he spelt the name with two b's, as the War-
minster Cabells usually did), and that he was the father of
John Cabbell of Warminster, afterwards Mayor of Taunton,
and justice of the peace for Somerset. He was a doctor ;
married Mary Burridge. His son, William Burridge Cab-
bell, banker, of Glasgow, was the father of John Bond
Cabbell (1808-1878), who was the heir to his cousin, Ben-
jamin Bond Cabbell of Cromer Hall, whose three elder
brothers, Richard (a soldier), Thomas (a lawyer), and
George (a doctor), had all died before him, without issue.
Nicholas, the 4th son, was baptized at Warminster,
England, May 29, 1667; "died July 30, 1730, aged
64" (from mourning ring); buried at Warminster, Au-
gust 2, 1730 ; inventory taken September 11, 1730, of his
household chattels, valued at ,£375 ; will dated July 9,
1730, was proved in the court of the Archdeacon of Sarum,
October 26, 1730. He married at Frome-Selwood (it may
be in the Cabell chapel of St. Nicholas there) on Novem-
ber 15, 1697, Rachel Hooper, daughter of George Hooper
of Frome. She was buried at Warminster, October 27,
1737, and the inventory of her household chattels was
taken November 11 following. She died intestate, and
her estate was administered on by her " eldest son, William
Cabell of Virginia, who was then in England. His father's
household chattels were valued at <£375, equivalent to
about $7,000 in present values, and he owned a place
called " Bugley, near Warminster " ; a small property
called " Little Colledge " ; certain " houses and lands at
Frome," a small freehold estate at Road in the Parish of
North Bradley, near Frome ; and other property which has
not been located by me ; neither have I any idea as to the
value of it. He was probably a dissenter from the church
of England. The Rev. Charles Herbert Mayo says : " Just
at this time (1690-1720) there were some separate pages in
IN ENGLAND 21
the Register for the ' Births and Bcqrfisms of the Chil-
dren of Dissenters ' — a thing I have never noticed in a
Register before — and here I found the children of Nicholas
Cabell." They were: —
i. William, b. August 24, 1698 ; d. December 8 (buried
December 12), 1698.
ii. William \ b. March 9, 1699 [i. e., March 20th, 1700,
present style]. He emigrated to Virginia.
iii. Joanna, b. February 16, 1702; d. July 2, 1728.
iv. Mary, b. December 21, 1704 ; married Mr. Christopher
Carter. He died in 1771. Dr. Cabell corre-
sponded with him.
v. Joseph 1 , b. March 14, 170?, of whom hereafter.
vi. Elizabeth, b. July 5, 1709 ; d. October 12, 1709.
vii. Sarah, b. December 26, 1710 ; buried August 9, 1715.
viii. Elizabeth, b. January 30, 171| ; d. 1741 ; married Mr.
Davis of Wilts or Somerset.
ix. Sarah, b. August 6, 1715.
John Hooper, Bishop of Gloucester, was born in Somer-
setshire in 1495 ; an English reformer and Protestant
martyr, he was burned at the stake in 1553. He left a
daughter, Rachel Hooper ; and Rachel Hooper, who married
Nicholas Cabell in 1697, was probably of the same family ;
but I have made no effort to trace back her ancestry. Her
father, George Hooper the elder, was living in or near
Frome in Somersetshire in 1693. Her brother, Hugh
Hooper, had a son, Joseph Hooper, who settled in Gooch-
land County, Virginia, probably near Hooper's Rock, prior
to 1729. I have made no effort to trace his descendants.
Her sister, Elizabeth Hooper, married first Mr. Joseph
Mayo, and secondly Mr. Styles. Two of her sons by her
first marriage, William and Joseph Mayo, emigrated to Vir-
ginia. I have collected a great deal about their descendants.
Mrs. Styles died May 20, 1740, when her nephew, Dr. Wil-
liam Cabell, was in England, and he looked after the inter-
ests of her sons, William and Joseph Mayo, in the settlement
22 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
of her estate. Mrs. Rachel Cabell's sister, Joan Hooper,
married first Mr. Rundell, and secondly Mr. Edward Grant
of Trowbridge. She died without issue in February,
1733. She was a woman of large means in her own right,
and left legacies to her numerous kin and to divers chari-
ties, amounting in present values to over $50,000, and
" the residue of her estate as sister Rachel Cabell shall
direct." She left to her four nephews in Virginia about
$3,000 each. Her sister, Rachel Cabell, was the adminis-
tratrix of her will, and after Mrs. Cabell's death in 1737,
Dr. William Cabell attended to the winding up of that
estate also ; and papers relative to all these estates were
preserved by him.
He also preserved two printed sermons among these
papers, one a funeral sermon on his aunt, Susannah Hooper,
who married, about 1690, Mr. John Allen of Frome, and
died prior to 1729. The title-page and first leaf being
now missing, the name of the preacher and date of his
sermon do not appear. He spoke of her in terms of the
highest praise. He said: "Like Saul, she was the Head
and Shoulders above the common level of Christians," etc.
" I must in justice to the deceased, and to the Glory of God
declare ; that by the Praise of God uttered from her lips,
my Soul hath been often refreshed ; she was a kind and
unwearied monitor to me in my youth. . . . That I so
early begun with God, and ingaged in the work I am now
imployed in, was, in a great measure, owing to her faithful
discharge of this duty," etc.
The other, "A sermon preached at Haresfleld in the
County of Gloucester ; by the late Reverend Mr. Richard
Capell, Vicar of Haresfleld," was printed in 1727. In old
characters and in faded ink, there is written on this, " Mr.
Richard Cabell's sermon." He died at Haresfield in 1712,
aged 63. He was probably a nephew of the Rev. Daniel
Capel, theologian and physician, who died in 1679, and a
grandson to Rev. Richard Capel, who died in 1656, aged
75, a celebrated divine and physician. His grandson,
IN ENGLAND 23
Samuel Capel, Esq., married, about 1710, Miss Mayo, the
sole heiress of " The Grove, Painswick," County Gloucester.
The Rev. Richard Capel (1581-1656) and his son, Rev.
Daniel Capel, are classed as Puritan divines. They gave up
their livings for nonconformity to the Established Church,
and practiced medicine. The Rev. Richard Capell (1649-
1712), Vicar of Haresfield, was a member of the Church
of England ; but his views seem to have been very liberal.
Nicholas Cabell may have been a follower of these Capells
or Cabells, and this fact may account for the entering of
his children among the dissenters in the parish register.
And the facts that Richard Cabell of Buckfastleierh lent
Sir Henry Roswell £2,500 in 1639, 'and that the Puritans
spared the arms of the family in the window of the chapel
at Frome in 1649-1659, go to show that the Cabells may
have been regarded as what was then considered liberal in
their views. At the same time it must be remembered
that Richard Cabell of Buckfastleiffh was a church warden
of the Church of England, and that Nicholas Cabell of
Bugley evidently became a member of that church before
his death. His kin, the Hoopers and the Mayos, were also
of that church. William Mayo, the elder brother of
Joseph Mayo, the first husband of Dr. William Cabell's
aunt, Elizabeth Hooper, was M. A. of New College, Ox-
ford, and Vicar of Romsey, Hants, and his uncle, Joseph
Mayo, who matriculated at Oxford, May 31, 1655, was also
a minister of the Church of England.
A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF DR. 1 WM. CABELL'S YOUNGER BROTHER,
JOSEPH \ AND HIS DESCENDANTS IN ENGLAND.
Joseph 1 Cabell of Warminster, England, m. (1st) 9th
Novr, 1730, Miss Prudence Colton, and had by her 2 daus,
both of whom married. She d. 22. Dec, 1737.
Joseph l Cabell, m. (2nd) 3rd July, 1738, Miss Isabella
Harris. She died 4. Augt, 1740, s. p.
Joseph 1 Cabell, m. (3rd) Miss Anne (date of m. and
24 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN"
surname of wife not known to me). She d. in Jan'y, 1777.
He d. 10. July, 1762, leaving by his last wife 2 sons and 2
daus. (1) William 2 and (2) Joseph, Elizabeth and Mary.
I know nothing of the daughters. Of the sons, (2) Joseph
had a correspondence with Col. William Cabell of Union
Hill after the Revolution, with reference to " the estate at
Bugley which your father left in the hands of several Trus-
tees, all of whom are now dead," etc. He was empowered
to wind up the estate for the American heirs. They wished
him to buy it himself, " because it had been so long in the
family ; " but he sold it to others. In 1805, himself and
wife were living near Bradford in Wiltshire, England. He
was b. 11. June, 1753, and d. 17. Nov., 1827. I do not
know that he left descendants. (1) William 2 Cabell, his
elder brother, was b. 21. March, 174|, in the parish of
North Bradley, Wiltshire ; went to London in 1760 and
entered a school at Black-heath. On reaching manhood,
he went into the mercantile business, but failed, and about
1771 became a clerk at the East India House. "The
various attempts which had been made to bring the East
Indian possessions under the more immediate management
of the State, after greatly agitating the Public mind, and
occasioning a total change of ministry, at length terminated
in the institution [Sept. 3rd, 1784] of a Board of Com-
missioners for the affairs of India. This Board consisted
of the first officers of the State ; but the" most active mem-
ber was the Right Hon'ble Henry Dundas." Mr. Cabell,
on account of his especial competency, was selected as clerk
to this new commission, in September, 1784, and " was
continually about Mr. Dundas, who always employed him in
the most confidential manner." On the death of Mr. Beau-
foy, the secretary, in 1794, Mr. Cabell was appointed chief
clerk ; and in January, 1797, he succeeded Mr. Bradley as
assistant secretary, in which station he continued until his
death, May 23, 1800. " Mr. Cabell had a memory which
retained almost everything, and it was so well stored with
whatever related to Indian affairs that a leading member of
IN ENGLAND 25
the Board denominated him " The Walking Index to the
Board of Control." A memoir of him was published in
" The European Magazine and London Review " for Sep-
tember, 1800, with a portrait engraved from a miniature by
Mr. Matthews.
Henry Dundas, under whom Mr. Cabell served for so
long, made his first speech in the House of Commons on
February 20, 1775, and it was in opposition to "Lord
North's propositions for conciliating the American colo-
nists." He was created Viscount Melville in 1802, and
died in 1811.
(1) William 2 Cabell (1746-1800), m. (1st) Augt 22nd,
1768, Elizabeth Watts; had three children by her, who
died young. She d. Aug. 24, 1773.
(1) William 2 Cabell, m. (2nd) Sept. 22nd, 1774, Martha
Scutt (b. Sept. 11, 1748; d. June 19, 1810), sister of
Thomas Scutt of Brighton, Esq., by whom he had thirteen
children, but only four lived to marry.
vii. Mary Turner 3 Cabell (b. 15 Mar., 1779; d. 24
Jan'y, 1821), m. 19 May, 1813, Mr. George Mor-
rison.
3. xiii. William 3 Cabell.
4. xiv. Thomas Scutt 3 Cabell.
xvi. Robert Davis 3 Cabell, b. 17 Jan'y, 1791 ; d. 31
Jan'y, 1817, at Calcutta, India, and was buried
there. He m. 16 Ap'l, 1814, Elizabeth Jones
(she d. 26 Nov., 1839), and had 1 child, Eliza-
beth 4 Cabell, b. at Calcutta, 31 Mar., 1816; d. at
sea, 24 Feb'y, 1818.
3. William 3 Cabell, born 30 Dec, 1784 ; was appointed
a clerk at the India Office before his father's death. He
is frequently favorably mentioned in the minutes of the
Board of Commissioners, and in Lord Ellenborough's Diary.
He had charge for ten years of the Military Department ;
was afterwards appointed to the Secret and Political De-
partment ; and then became assistant secretary. In 1841
26 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
his salary was £1,200 a year, and he received frequent
" gratuities " for special services. His health became im-
paired about this time, and after a continuous service of
over 41 years, he was retired on an annuity of £1,000.
He died May 29, 1853.
He was married on Feb'y 4th, 1826, to Elizabeth Savage
(b. 18th April, 1808) at Christ Church, Blackfriars Road,
Surrey, by the Rev. Rowland Hill. She was the only
daughter of William Henry Savage and Mary Ann Nedriff.
She married secondly Alfred Longsdon, Herr Krupp's Lon-
don agent ; he died Nov'r 27th, 1893 ; she died Feb'y
22d, 1892. Her children by (3) William 3 Cabell were : —
5. i. William 4 Cabell.
6. ii. Elizabeth 4 Cabell.
iii. Martha 4 Cabell, b. 15 Nov, 1832 ; d. 18 July, 1834.
iv. Mary Ann 4 Cabell, b. 5 March, 1834.
7. v. Ellen 4 Cabell.
8. vi. Robert George 4 Cabell.
vii. Louisa 4 Cabell, b. 2 Nov., 1838.
viii. Ada 4 Cabell, b. 24 Sept., 1841 ; d. 4 June, 1843.
ix. Thomas Scutt 4 Cabell, b. 22 Nov., 1843.
4. Thomas Scutt 3 Cabell, b. 13 Feb'y, 1787; was
accountant general to the late East India Company, Leaden-
hall Street ; he died 6th Oct., 1847. He m. 8 Nov, 1825,
at Parish Church, Clapham, Surrey, Anna Lloyd, daughter
of Thomas Gore Lloyd. She was born 28 July, 1800 ;
died 11 Jan'y, 1860, and was buried at Hasting's Cemetery.
Their issue were : —
i. A male 4 child, stillborn, 11 May, 1827.
9. ii. Wm. Lloyd 4 Cabell.
iii. Thos. Scutt 4 Cabell, b. 18 Jan'y, 1830; d. 15 Ap'l,
1842.
10. iv. Anna 4 Cabell.
5. William 4 Cabell, born 6 Oct., 1831; a retired Lt.-
Colonel of the Bengal Staff Corps; m. 8th Augt, 1867,
IN ENGLAND 27
at Parish Church, Fremington, N. Devon, Adelaide Lloyd
(b. 23 Jan'y, 1834), daughter of Rev'd Mr. Lloyd, Rector
of Tustow, N. Devon. Their children are : —
i. Adelaide W. H. 5 Cabell, b. 23 Augt, 1868, at Freming-
ton, N. Devon,
ii. Elizabeth Savage 5 Cabell, b. 6 Ap'l, 1872, at Bukloh,
Dalhousie, Punjaub, East India,
iii. Emily Lloyd 5 Cabell, b. 31 Mar., 1874, at Fort Michui,
Punjaub, East India,
iv. Wm. Forster Lloyd 5 Cabell, b. 1st Nov., 1875, at
Northam, N. Devon.
6. Elizabeth 4 (twin sister to Martha 4 ) Cabell, b. 15 Nov.,
1832 ; m. 27 Sept., 1854, F. A. Sheppard, Civil Engineer,
widower, of 46 Angell Road, Brixton, son of C. Sheppard
and Eleanor Hammond of Horsham, Sussex. He was b. 21
Dec, 1819, and d. 18 Augt, 1884. Issue : —
i. Walter Cabell 5 Sheppard, b. 19 June, 1855, at Suther-
land Street, Walworth,
ii. Herbert 5 Sheppard, b. 22 July, 1856 (at same place
as above) ; m. 16 Jan'y, 1889, Maude Sangster
(b. 20 Jan'y, 1867).
i. Muriel 6 Sheppard, b. 22 Mar., 1890.
iii. Percy Augustus 5 Sheppard, b. 9 Nov., 1857, at Suther-
land Street, Walworth,
iv. Bessie 5 Sheppard, b. 3 Mar., 1861, at Cape of Good
Hope ; d. 10 July, 1861.
v. Rosa 5 Sheppard, b. 25 Feby, 1862, at Capetown;
m. 27 Augt, 1892, T. Abercrombie Welton.
i. Norman Abercrombie 6 Welton, b. 17 Dec, 1893.
vi. Eleanor 5 S., b. 16 Sept., 1865, at Capetown ; d. 29
Nov., 1867.
vii. Arthur H. 5 S., b. 13 Oct., 1867, at Holland Street,
Clapham Road ; d. Feby, 1869.
viii. Elizabeth Cabell 5 S., b. 15 Nov., 1874, at Holland
Street, Clapham Road.
28 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
7. Ellen 4 Cabell, b. 4 July, 1835 ; m. 23 June, 1858,
J. Thugar Jerrard, bachelor, Artist (b. 30 Jan'y, 1836), of
27 Gresham Road, Brixton. Issue all born on Surrey side
of London, except the 4th (iv.), who was born at Ramsgate,
Kent.
i. James Cabell 5 Jerrard, b. 10 June, 1859; m. 2 Jan'y,
1889, Edith Bachelor (b. 28 Oct., 1859).
i. a dau., Garnet Longsdon 6 Jerrard, b. 13 May,
1892.
ii. a son, Alfred Clive 6 Jerrard, b. 8 June, 1893.
ii. Ellen Florence 5 Jerrard, b. 15 July, 1860; d. 23
Augt, 1861 ; bur'd at Margate,
iii. Ellen Ada 5 Jerrard, b. 19 Sept., 1861; m. 11 Mar.,
1882, Alfred Towry Piper,
i. Winnifred Longsdon 6 Piper, b. 11 Nov., 1882.
ii. Hilda c Piper, b. 17 Augt, 1884.
iii. Mabel 6 Piper, b. 9 Mar., 1886.
iv. Stephen Harvey 6 Piper, b. 21 Oct., 1887.
v. Reginald 6 Piper, b. 14 Feb'y, 1891.
iv. Wm. H. Cabell 5 Jerrard, b. 3 Sept., 1862; d. in Wel-
lington, New Zealand, 6 April, 1892.
v. Ellen Elizabeth 5 Jerrard, b. 26 Sept., 1863.
vi. Alfred Cabell 5 Jerrard, b. 25 Nov., 1865; m. in Syd-
ney, S. Australia, about July, 1891, to Nellie
Negus. She died about June, 1893.
vii. Ellen Louisa 5 Jerrard, b. 8 Jan'y 1867.
viii. Fred. Paul Cabell 5 Jerrard, b. 19 Feb'y, 1868.
ix. Ellen Julia 5 Jerrard, b. 10 Mar., 1869.
x. Robert Cabell 5 Jerrard, b. 30 April, 1870.
xi. Thomas Cabell 5 Jerrard, b. 26 April, 1871; d. 17
May, 1871.
xii. Ellen Jessie Savage 5 Jerrard, b. 18 April, 1873.
xiii. Ellen Eva 5 Jerrard, b. 9 April, 1874.
xiv. Ellen May 5 Jerrard, b. 14 Feb'y, 1879.
8. Robert George 4 Cabell of 5 Camberwell New Road,
London, S. E., was born 22 July, 1837, and died 30 Augt,
IN ENGLAND 29
1887. He m. 28 July, 1858, Elizabeth Fanny Walbancke
(b. 16 Sept., 1838 ; d. 9th Augt, 1868). Issue all born on
Surrey side of London,
i. Fanny Ada 5 Cabell, b. 7 Nov., 1859; m. 8 Sept.,
1888, Alan Clifford Fogden (b. 24 Dec., 1859).
i. Fanny Mabel 6 Fogden, b. 31 July, 1890.
ii. Ada Constance 6 Fogden, b. 11 Sept., 1892.
ii. Annie Elizabeth 5 Cabell, b. 24 Dec, 1860 ; m. 5 June,
1886, John Tombleson. He d. 18 Apl, 1893.
i. Evelyn Mary G Tombleson, b. 10 June, 1887.
ii. Harold Cabell 6 Tombleson, b. 11 Feby, 1889.
iii. Bertram Rodolph Hermann 6 Tombleson, b. 26
June, 1890.
iv. Marjorie Elizabeth 6 Tombleson, b. 27 Feby,
1893.
iii. Edith 5 CabeU, b. 20 April, 1862 ; m. 1st Dec, 1883,
Edward Rudolph Warrens,
i. Gladys Theresa 6 Warrens, b. 6 Oct., 1884.
ii. Edward Robert Cabell 6 Warrens, b. 16 Oct., 1886.
iii. Dorothy Edith 6 Warrens, b. 25 July, 1888.
iv. Louisa Ellen 5 Cabell, b. 27 June, 1863 ; m. Douglas
Walter Money,
i. Doris Aurelia 6 Money, b. 20 Mar., 1891.
v. Robert William 5 Cabell, b. 3 April, 1865; d. Mar.,
1866.
vi. George Henry 5 Cabell, b. 6 July, 1866.
vii. Thomas Alfred 5 Cabell, b. Augt, 1868 ; d. Sept., 1868.
9. William Lloyd 4 Cabell of West Hill, Highgate, Lon-
don, and 6 Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, was b. 29 May,
1828; was educated at home; graduated at Cambridge,
coming out 24th Wrangler ; is now [1881] law reporter to
the Chancery Bar. He m. 12 Sept., 1861, at Parish
Church, Pitminster, Fanny Harriet Lawson, daughter of
Rev. G. R. Lawson, Vicar of Pitminster, Somerset. She d.
22 Dec, 1890, having had issue : —
i. a female 5 child, stillborn, 28 Apl, 1870.
30 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
ii. Wm. Henry Lawson 5 Cabell, b. 20 Feb'y, 1872.
iii. Emma Frances 5 Cabell, b. 27 Feb'y, 1875.
10. Anna 4 Cabell, b. 3 Mar., 1832; m. 30 Sept., 1862,
at St. Michael's Church, Highgate, Middlesex, to the Rev.
Henry Geldart, now [1881] Vicar of Hellingsly, Sussex.
Issue : —
i. a child, 5 stillborn, March, 1863, at Hastings.
ii. Henry Waller Cabell 5 Geldart, b. 13 Feby, 1864, at
Hastings.
iii. Florence Anna 5 Geldart, b. July, 1865, at Hastings ;
d. Augt, 1866, at Hellingsly.
iv. Ethel Mary 5 Geldart, b. 29 June, 1867, at Hellingsly.
v. Wilfred Charles 5 Geldart, b. 9 Sept., 1869, at Hellingsly.
vi. Ella Maude 5 Geldart, b. 13 Oct., 1870, at Hellingsly.
PART II.
THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN IN AMERICA.
" What was in its lifetime mere moss, becomes in the lapse of ages, after being
buried in its peat bed, of some value as fuel ; it is capable of yielding both light and
heat. And so even the most worthless pieces of the literature of a remote period
contain in them both instruction and amusement. The historical student should
consult such of these as time has spared." Arnold.
Before continuing the history of the family of which I
am writing, it seems well to give the following memoranda
of others of the name in America.
John Cabell came to New England in 1631 or earlier ;
living at Springfield, 1636 ; had son John, b. 12 Jan.,
1641, and soon after removed to Fairfield, where both father
and son are in the list of freemen in 1669. He m. (2dly)
Ann, widow of Roger Betts of Branford. The son, who
wrote his name Cable, d. in 1673.
Samuel Cabell of New Haven, 1646.
George Cabell of Boston, 1695. (See " Families of New
England.") Some of the name also settled in Maine. (See
Eaton's History of Thomaston, Rockland, etc., Maine,
p. 170.)
George Cable patented 200 acres of land in Milford
Haven, Virginia, 25 Nov., 1653. I suppose this to be the
George Keeble who was living in Middlesex Co., Va., in
1698, who bore arms somewhat similar to the Capels.
John Cable patented 250 acres of land in Lancaster Co.,
Va., 4 Oct., 1653, and received other patents in 1655 and
1664.
Thomas Chapell (Capell in Index) patented 904 acres
in Charles City Co.,Va., 21 April, 1690.
32 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Edward Cabell, a soldier in Capt. Andrew Lewis's
Company in Col. George Washington's regiment, was
wounded in the Battle of the Meadows, 3 July, 1754.
Henry Chaple (Caple in Index) patented 347 acres in
Brunswick Co., Va., 14 Feby, 1761.
William Cabbie, Jr., patented 1703 acres in Brunswick
Co., Va., in 1761. I think that this was Col. William Ca-
bell, Sr., of " Union Hill," but I have no conclusive evi-
dence that it was.
Some of the foregoing evidently left descendants. Dr.
William Cabell was not the ancestor of all of the name in
America. I find at various later dates a good many of the
name in Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, North Carolina,
etc., who evidently do not trace back to him. But he was
the founder of the family of which I am writing.
DR. WILLIAM 1 CABELL, THE FOUNDER OF THE FAMILY IN
VIRGINIA.
With Some Account of the Earliest Settlement {1726-171 '4) of the
Upper Valley of James River.
The eminent English historian, the late Edward A. Free-
man, in an exhaustive article on Pedigrees and Pedigree-
makers, which appeared in " The Contemporary Review,"
and was reprinted in " Littell's Living Age " (July 14,
1877), shows that even Sir Bernard Burke was prone to
begin, or introduce, his pedigrees with romance. And this
is also the case with many old Virginia pedigrees. In fact,
there has been a penchant for beginning with a fairy-tale a
history, whether of a nation, of a city, or of a family.
And thus, as is so frequently the case in old history and
genealogy, we find much romance mixed up with the begin-
ning of the old traditional Cabell family history (as well as
with the same of many of the kin), and it is not always
possible to separate the facts from the fictions.
According to tradition, " Dr. William Cabell, the common
IN AMERICA 33
ancestor of the Cabell family in Virginia, was a native of
the town of Warminster, England ; but graduated in the
Royal College of Medicine and Surgery in the city of Lon-
don, and practiced his profession there during several years
with distinguished success and with great profit. He then
entered the British Navy as a Surgeon, and in that char-
acter went to Spain with the forces commanded by the Earl
of Peterborough, or Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovel, in the
amphibious Spanish campaign of the former. But, how-
ever that might have been, it is certain that he was on
board of a British man-of-war when an engagement took
place with a French ship, which the British captured, and
that a splinter, broken from a mast of the vessel by a
cannon ball from the enemy's gun, struck him across his
forehead and greatly injured one of his eyes, the sight of
which was never restored. It produced the singular effect
of considerably enlarging the injured eye, and of disfigu-
ring his otherwise handsome and benevolent countenance.
" He was a man of science and of some literary preten-
sion. There was an engraved likeness of him in a Maga-
zine published in London, England, in which the enlarge-
ment of the eye was clearly represented.
" The British man-of-war on which he was Surgeon came
to Norfolk, or Jamestown, Va., and being detained there
for a time, Dr. Cabell got leave of the commander to make
an excursion into the interior of the Colony. After visit-
ing Williamsburg, he went further up the country, and was
so much pleased with what he saw and heard, that he deter-
mined to make it his future home. He accordingly re-
signed his post, returned to England, married a wife, and
after settling his affairs there, immigrated to Virginia. This
was about the year 1724 or 1725.
" He appears to have made some stay at first in Williams-
burg, afterwards at the Falls of James River (now known
as Richmond), and at length to have settled temporarily at
Dover in Goochland, where he became a land-owner."
But little of this collated tradition is traceable farther
34 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
back than his grandchildren. He was certainly not with
the Earl of Peterborough in 1705, as he was then only five
years old. It seems equally certain that his eye was
injured and one side of his face disfigured some years after
his settlement in Virginia, by a gun bursting in his hand.
The engraved likeness referred to was not of him, but of
his nephew, William Cabell, Esq., of the East India Board,
which appeared in " The European Magazine and London
Review " for September, 1800. I am familiar with the ori-
gin of this mistake, and it was not an unnatural one under
the circumstances ; but it requires some stretch of the imagi-
nation to see " the enlargement of the eye " in the engrav-
ing. The tradition that he was a surgeon in the British
Navy, or on some British ship, is probably correct, as it is
traceable to his children, and as he practiced that profession
from time to time after his settlement in Virginia, and prob-
ably acquired his knowledge of it before coming over.
I am led by circumstances to think that the brothers Wil-
liam and Joseph Mayo, and their first cousins, Dr. William
Cabell and Joseph Hooper, came to Virginia about the same
time, and about the year 1723 ; and I am sure that Dr.
William Cabell did not marry until after his arrival ; but
nearly all the data of consequence which I have seen rela-
tive to him from 1700 to 1726 is traditional. The records
which I have of him begin in 1726, and with them my
sketch of him must begin.
HENRICO COUNTY.
As his whole life, from this date, was identified with the
westward growth of this part of our country, it will be
necessary to preface my sketch with an outline of the sec-
tion prior thereto.
In 1634 the Colony of Virginia was divided into eight
counties or shires, modeled after the English shires. The
county or shire of Henrico then formed had previously re-
ceived its name from the celebrated Henry, Prince of Wales,
son of James I. It extended from the present west line of
IN AMERICA 35
Charles City County to the westward, on both sides of
James River, being bounded on the south by the Appomat-
tox River, and on the north by the Chickahominy. James
River was the central or main artery (so to speak) of this
county, which extended through the centre or heart of Vir-
ginia. Within its bounds were eleven whole counties of the
present day, and parts of three others. The sites of Rich-
mond, Lynchburg, Charlottesville, etc., were included.
The original boundary lines were sufficient for all pur-
poses until 1710, when, some settlements having been made
on the north side of James River beyond the head-waters of
the Chickahominy, it became a question whether they were
in the then county of New Kent (now Hanover), or Hen-
rico, and on the 15th of November the House of Burgesses
ordered a westward line to be run from the head of the
main branch of Chickahominy Swamp, the said line to be
equidistant from James River, and from the main branch
of the Pamunkey River (South Anna), " which line shall
be adjudged and taken to be the line dividing the said
County s."
The line then run is, I suppose, the present northern
boundary of the lower half of the present county of Gooch-
land. Henrico County and Parish were in the same bounds.
In 1720 the parish was divided into Henrico and St. James
parishes, the latter covering the bounds afterwards formed
into Goochland County. In those days, Church and State
went hand in hand ; a new parish was apt to be the fore-
runner of a new county, a new court-house meant a new
church.
In 1726 we find Dr. William Cabell in St. James Par-
ish, Henrico. He was then under-sheriff, or deputy sheriff,
to Capt. John Redford, high sheriff of Henrico. The
high sheriff, the shire-reeve, was a very important official
under the shire system of England and Virginia. The
position was generally filled by one of the leading elderly
citizens, but the active duties were frequently performed in
Virginia by younger men as deputies, under-sheriffs, or
36 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
second sheriffs, as they were variously called. The office
is of great antiquity in England. King Edward I. served
as high sheriff of Bedford and Buckinghamshire. Many
prime peers of the land have graced the place, and the
principal gentry in every shire, of most ancient extractions
and best estates, were deputed for that place. The duties
were chiefly ministerial, the term brief. But the sheriff
was, " by his office, the first man in his county, and supe-
rior to any nobleman while he held office."
The office of lieutenant of a county in Virginia was
similar to that of lord-lieutenant of a county in England.
He was at the head of the magistracy, the militia, and the
yeomanry ; the chief executive authority, forming the settled
channel of communication between the government and the
civil and military authorities of his county, over both of
which he presided as the local representative of the Crown.
The right of the Crown to issue such commissions to the
lord-lieutenants was denied by the Long Parliament, this
question proving the immediate cause of the breach be-
tween Charles I. and his subjects. Their legality was
reestablished at the Restoration by a declaratory act.
This being a new country, for cogent reasons the offices
of clerk and surveyor were of peculiar importance.
GOOCHLAND COUNTY.
In 1728, the settlements having extended so far west-
ward as to be inconveniently situated for attendance on the
county court at the old Court-House (" Varina "), the
House of Burgesses determined to form another county
from Henrico. Dr. William Cabell had married about two
years before this Miss Elizabeth Burks, and they were then
living on Licking-Hole Creek, in the upper part of the
present Goochland County.
The present line between Henrico and Chesterfield,
Goochland and Powhatan counties was then run. All
east of this line remained in Henrico, and all west of it was
made a new county called Goochland (for Governor Gooch).
IN AMERICA 37
It was bounded on the south by the Appomattox River, and
on the north by the present line between Fluvanna and
Louisa counties extended to the Blue Ridge, striking the
mountain south of the present " Brown's Gap."
The first Goochland County court was held g*?; 1728.
The county records from that day to this are fairly well
preserved, and they are now in charge of the most compe-
tent and obliging clerks in Virginia. The first justices
were Col. Thomas Randolph of Tuckahoe, presiding ; John
Fleming, Allen Howard, William Mayo, John Woodson,
Tarlton Fleming, and Edward Scott. To these were added
in 1728-1729, William Cabell, George Payne, and James
Holman.
Col. Thomas Randolph was the first lieutenant of the
county ; Henry Wood, first clerk ; William Mayo, first sur-
veyor ; Daniel Stoner, first sheriff, with Thomas Walker
as sub-sheriff. Thomas Prosser was first deputy king's
attorney.
At June court, 1728, it was decided to locate the court-
house on the north side of James River, near Atkinson's
Ferry, and William Mayo and Allen Howard, gents, were
appointed to make necessary arrangements.
September Court, 1728. County Levy.
Tobacco. Cask.
To Henry Wood, Clerk, 1.000 80
" Daniel Stoner, Sheriff, 1,000 80
" Richard Randolph, Gent, Burgess, 3.400
" John Boiling, Gent, Burgess, 3,400
" Josias Payne and John McBi-ide for counting
1.795.286 tobacco Plants, 1,496
" Wm. Cabell and Norvell Burton for counting 1,850,-
906 tobacco plants, 1,542
" Joseph Bingley and David Le Seur, do., 449,800
plants, 375
" Jacob Michaux and Joel Chandler, do., 1,104,663
plants, 920
" Joseph Ashlin and James Nevill, do., 349,156 plants, 291
The total crop of tobacco for the year 1728 being 5,549,811 plants,
and there were 1132 tithables.
38 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
At November court, 1728, the first grand jury met, and
William Cabell was a member.
At October court, 1729, 1165 tithables were reported in
the county. At December court following, Tarlton Flem-
ing and William Cabell qualified as coroners of the county,
a position requiring medical knowledge. At January court,
1730, a petition for a town at Warwick was presented to
the court by William Mayo, gent, and ordered to the Gen-
eral Assembly. A proposition was at the same time pre-
sented for a town at or near the falls of James River, on
the north side of the river. This was the beginning: of
Richmond, the natural seaport for the upper valley of the
James. The settlers of this section and their descendants
were the makers of Richmond.
In 1730, Tarlton Fleming qualified as sheriff; William
Mayo, as major ; Allen Howard, Henry Wood, and James
Holman, as captains. Col. Thomas Randolph died in this
year, and Col. John Fleming succeeded him as county
lieutenant and presiding justice of the peace.
The following justices of the peace were added to the
commission from time to time during 1730-1744. In
1730, Daniel Stoner and Anthony Huggatt ; 1731, George
Raine ; 1733, James Skelton ; 1734, John Netherland,
Isham Randolph, and George Carrington ; 1735, Peter Jef-
ferson, Thomas Turpin, William Randolph (of Turkey
Island, who d. 1742 ?), Dudley Digges, and Thomas Dick-
ins ; 1737, Arthur Hopkins ; 1741, Wade Netherland, Rich-
ard Mosby, Nicholas Davies, Isaac Bates, Joseph Thompson,
Stephen Bedford, John Hodnett, Charles Lynch, Ben Cocke,
and William Megginson ; 1742, James Daniel, William Allen,
and John Woodson, Jr. ; 1744, William Randolph (of Tucka-
hoe ?), John Cannon, and John Hunter.
In 1732, John Fleming and Dudley Digges were the
Burgesses; in 1736, Edward Scott and James Holman;
in 1740, Capt. James Holman and Capt. Isham Randolph.
The sheriffs were John Woodson, 1732-1734; George
Payne, 1734-1737; Peter Jefferson, 1737 and 1739;
IN AMERICA 39
Robert Payne, 1738 ; Arthur Hopkins, 1739-1741 ; Thomas
Turpin, 1741-1743 ; James Daniel, 1743-1744 ; and Isaac
Bates, 1744.
The James River valley, from the Falls to the Blue Ridge,
belonged to the Monacan Indians, known to history as the
Tuscaroras, one of the Six Nations. In 1670, their head-
quarters in Virginia were near the Forks of James River
(now Columbia), and although they had been gradually
forced back by the colonists, they continued to frequent
their old hunting-grounds for many years, and to hold on
most tenaciously to the valleys between the Southwest
Mountain range and the east side of the Blue Ridge. One
of their last trails east of the Blue Mountains crossed the
present ford of James River at Norwood Island (there are
remains of Indian towns at this ford, and on the Union Hill
estate just below), and went along the valley between the
Buffalo Ridge and Findlay's Mountain (known to the first
hunters as good hunting-grounds ; to the first settlers as
" The Savannahs " ; and to us as " The Glades of Nelson
County ") to Rockfish River, and thence up Rockfish valley
through Rockfish Gap of the Blue Ridge. There was a
buffalo trail along the Southwest Mountains to the waters
of the Rappahannock, and the buffaloes seen by Capt. Ar-
gall in the spring of 1613 evidently belonged to this trail.
During the seventeenth century the settlements were con-
fined to the tide-water region. In the first quarter of the
eighteenth century they were gradually extended up James
River to the threshold of the so-called "happy hunting-
grounds " of the wary savage, and there, before making an
advance into the unbroken forest of " the broken lands,"
civilization paused for a time in its " Westward, Ho ! ' :
No one, save the boldest paleface hunter, dared " to beard "
the Indian in his mountain defiles. From May 1, 1728, to
May 31, 1730 (two years and one month), Maj. William
Mayo only made forty-nine surveys (for forty-three persons)
in the county of Goochland, which then extended to the
Blue Ridge. There were but few, if any, regular settlers
above the mouth of the Rivanna River in 1730.
40 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Dr. William Cabell was the first Englishman to enter the
then wild mountain region west of the mouth of Rockfish
River for the purpose of locating lands for actual settlement.
This fact is proven by sundry evidences in my possession.
At sundry times between 1730 and 1734, he located, by
chopping out for entry, all the low grounds on both sides
of James River from the present Fish Pond estate of Col.
Buford, above Howardsville in Nelson County, to the pre-
sent Riverville station, C. & 0. R. R., in Amherst County,
a distance of over 20 miles, and over 120 miles above tide-
water as the river runs. In one of his expeditions for
"chopping out" these lands, the doctor's party was sud-
denly surrounded by a large body of Indians, who had fol-
lowed up his "chops" through their woods, and were much
incensed about them; but the doctor, who was a very
quick-witted man, explained to the Indians that they were
only intended to enable his party to find their way back,
and so pacified the Indians that they spared the lives and
scalps of the English, but took everything they had from
them and made them £0 back.
Dr. Cabell " entred for " these lands on the books of
Maj. William Mayo, the surveyor of Goochland (in which
county the land then was) in 1733 ; but before he had
secured his legal rights to the lands, he was called to Eng-
land on urgent business, and was obliged to leave his affairs
in Virginia in the hands of his attorneys. The following
is a true copy of his power of attorney : —
" Virginia :
" I, William Cabell of the County of Goochland do appoint
my loving wife Elizabeth Cabbell and my loving Friends
William Mayo and George Carrington to be my Lawfull
Attorneys in Virginia for me and in my Name to my Use
to receive any Sums of money that shall be owing unto
me, to prosecute and defend suits in Law or Equity, im-
prison or discharge or do any other Act or Deed which I
could lawfully do were I present — ratifying and holding
IN AMERICA 41
firm, all whatsoever my said Attorneys or either of them
shall lawfully do or cause to be done in or about the
premises.
" Witness my hand and seal this 27th August, 1735.
William Cabbell, Seal.
" Witness.
Jos. Scott.
John Brown.
"At a court held for Goochland County August 22d,
1739. This Letter of Attorney was proved by the Oath
of Joseph Scott to be the act and Deed of William Cabbell,
which was ordered to be recorded.
" Test. Henry Wood, Clerk."
Maj. William Mayo first surveyed the entries and after-
wards made a plat of them, which still remains, bearing
this legend : "A Plat of 6320 acres of Land in Gooch-
land County, surveyed for Wm. Cabell, gent, Anno Domini
1737, by William Mayo, Surv'r." It included only « the
first-choice lands," the low grounds, on both sides of James
River. 1
When this survey was made in 1737 (the same year in
which Maj. Mayo laid off Richmond Town), although it
extended for over twenty miles along both sides of James
River, there were no neighbors ; the lines joined no one
else's line. I have examined Maj. Mayo's entry and survey
books, and Dr. Cabell's were the^rs^ entries, and this was
the first survey in all this region. Of course hunters had
previously penetrated it and had named some of the moun-
tains and watercourses ; thus, the creek which winds
around the present "Union Hill," and the mountain in
1 1 use the present names, but in vanna or South Fork of James river."
those days the James River proper only Branches of the same river, they then
came up to the Point of Fork (Colum- virtually bore the same name. Riv'-
bia), the Rivanna being then known anna, i. e. River Anna ; and Fluv'-
as "The Rivanna or North Fork of anna or Fluvius Anna, i. e. River
James river," and the present upper Anna.
part of James River, as " The Flu-
42 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
which its head springs are, were then called " Findlay's
Creek " and " Findlay's Mountain," for John Findlay, the
noted hunter, who, it is said, afterwards piloted first Dr.
Thomas Walker, and then Daniel Boone, to Kentucky ; and
Tye River bore its present name, for Allen Tye, another
noted hunter, who, in continuing his westward way, became
one of the pioneers of Tennessee.
Gov. William Gooch issued a patent for, or grant of, 4800
acres of these lands to William Cabbell, gent, on September
12th (0. £.), 1738, and on September 22d (0. S.), 1739, he
issued a grant for 440 acres more ; a grant for the remain-
der was not secured until after the doctor's return from
England, of which hereafter. Although he left other attor-
neys in Virginia, the chief responsibility for protecting the
first English patent in the last hunting-ground of the In-
dian east of the Blue Ridge in Virginia rested for several
years on " his loving wife, Elizabeth Cabbell," a colonial
dame, who, mounted on her good steed and attended by
her trusty men, rode fearlessly into the wild woods, when-
ever occasion required, to overlook these lands — the plant-
ing of them, and the preventing of encroachments upon
them. She paid the quit-rents, taxes, etc., attended to all
legal requirements within her power, and, on her husband's
return in 1741, turned his affairs over to him in compara-
tively good shape.
Before going on the voyage to England with Dr. Cabell,
we will consider another very interesting tradition, which
has it that Mrs. Elizabeth Cabell was descended from an
Indian princess of the Powhatan tribe (some accounts have
it " of the Catawba tribe," but this is not tenable), and that
it was the knowledge among the neighboring Indians of
this descent which protected her husband while locating
these lands, and herself when she was managing them in his
absence. It was more probably owing to her relationship to
members of the Society of Friends, with whom the Indians
were on friendly terms. However, the story is interesting,
and " the evidences of its truth " are said to " have been
IN AMERICA 43
carefully collected" in several branches of the Breckin-
ridge, Floyd, and other families. I cannot vouch for it,
but I will give it as I find it in the Floyd tradition.
" Opechancanough, the celebrated chief of the Pow-
hatans, who was brutally murdered, while a prisoner, in
1644, left a lovely young daughter, the child of his old
age, the Princess Nicketti — ' she sweeps the dew from the
flowers.' Some years after this graceful Indian maiden had
reached the years of mature womanhood, a member [the
name is not given] of one of the old Cavalier families of
Virginia ' fell in love with her and she with him,' and the
result was a clandestine marriage, and a half-breed Indian
girl who married about the year 1680 a Welshman (others
say a native of Devonshire, England,) named Nathaniel
Davis, an Indian trader, and, according to some accounts,
a Quaker ; and from this alliance many notable people in
the East and in the West have descended. Their daughter,
Mary Davis (born about 1685), married Samuel Burks of
Hanover (the ancestors of the Burks family of Virginia),
and their daughter, Elizabeth Burks, married Capt. Wil-
liam Cabell, the ancestor of the Cabells ; Martha Davis,
another daughter, married Abraham Venable, the ancestor
of the Venables. Robert Davis, Sr., a son (the ancestor of
' the black Davises ' of Kentucky, and from whom Jefferson
Davis descended), had a daughter, Abadiah (or Abigail)
Davis, who married William Floyd, the ancestor of the
Floyds of Virginia and of the West. A daughter, or
granddaughter, of the Quaker, married Gen'l Evan Shelby
of Maryland, the ancestor of the Shelbys of the West.
Samuel and Philip Davis of the Blue Mountains were sons,
and there may have been other sons and daughters.
" William Floyd left the eastern shore of Virginia, went
up the country as far as the present Amherst County, which
was then a very wild region, where he met with this family
of Davis, who had traded with the Indians and had gotten
much property in that way. [The Quakers were much
given to friendly trading with the Indians.]
44 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
" William Floyd and his wife's brother, Robert Davis,
Jr., with their families, emigrated to Kentucky with the
first settlers, and finally located in the Bear-grass region,
near Louisville, where the kinsmen (Floyds and Davises)
had a fort, called ' Floyd's Station.' "
But it is not necessary to follow the Floyd narrative
farther. It seems well to say, however, that I have seen a
Davis pedigree which asserts that " the Indian blood first
entered the family through the marriage of Abby Davis
with William Floyd, a half breed Indian." Other Davis
pedigrees and traditions do not deny the Indian blood,
while every Floyd with whom I have corresponded has
asserted positively that " it was through Abby Davis the
Indian blood came."
The Princess Nicketti's name (it may be because the mar-
riage was clandestine) has not been popular among her
traditional descendants. The first Governor, John Floyd
of Virginia, named one of his daughters for her. I know
of no other namesake ; but if the tradition is true, no more
lovely women than some among her descendants ever
" swept the dew from the flowers."
Dr. William Cabell's father (Nicholas) died in England,
August 10, 1730; his aunt, Mrs. Joan Grant, a wealthy
lady, died there in February, 1733, without issue, leaving
her property to her relatives (including four nephews in
Virginia) ; and his father's eldest brother, William, died
without issue in December, 1734. In all of these estates
he was interested ; but the death of his oldest uncle, without
issue, made it necessary for him to go over in person, and
as soon after hearing of it as he could arrange his affairs in
Virginia, he did do. He sailed for England in September,
1735. The date of his arrival is not known to me. A
letter from him to his wife, written January 30, 1737 (present
style), has been preserved, in which " he begs of her to keep
his children to their books, and tell them if they are diligent
that I will well reward them when I come home." He also
IN AMERICA 45
tells his wife in one of his letters : " I would not have you
take my stay here so long amiss, or think it occasioned by
any want of respect or affection ; for I assure you it is
occasioned alone by affairs in which both our interests are
involved," etc.
His mother, Rachel Cabell, who had been left " the sole
executrix " of his father's will, died in October, 1737, and
this made it necessary for him to prolong his stay, in order
to wind up her affairs. In February, 173^, his aunt, Mrs.
Yeatman, died, and in May following he qualified to admin-
ister on her estate. In May, 1740, his Aunt Elizabeth
(the mother of William and Joseph Mayo of Virginia) died,
and he looked after the interest of the Virginia Mayos in
the winding up of her estate.
During his absence, letters to him were addressed to
" Mr. Wm. Cabell, at Warminster, Wiltz, Bristol" He
resided for the most of the time at his seat, " Bugley."
There is still preserved a dog's collar of brass about 1^
inches wide, bearing the inscription " Wm. Cabell, Bugley,
near Warminster, 1740."
In June, 1741, he was at last able to return to Virginia ;
he paid his passage-money, and secured his berth at that
time, and some time thereafter sailed from the port of
Bristol, reaching Virginia late in September or early in
October, 1741, after an absence of about six years.
From the following receipt preserved by him, I infer that
William Dale was the captain or master of the ship on
which he came over : " Hanover Court House, Novr 5th,
1741. Received of Mr. Wm. Cabell the sum of fifteen
pounds, a balance, in full of all accounts for freight.
Pr me. Wm. Dale."
During his absence, his wife had sold to William Meggin-
son 580 acres of his land on the south side of James
River, about four miles above the mouth of Tye River.
On October 1 ^, 1741, he executed a deed conveying this
land to Megginson ; and this seems to have been his first
legal act after his return home.
46 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Although his wife had sold some of his lands, and had
failed to obtain grants from the Governor for some of his
entries, she was able to turn over to him, with a clear right
and title, 7,952 acres, with all levies, quit-rents, clerk's and
sheriff's fees and taxes paid in full to September 4, 1741.
November 13, 1741, he wrote to a friend in England
informing him of his " safe arrival in Virginia after a long
passage of near one fourth of a year."
Dr. Cabell now appealed to the Governor and Council in
regard to the entries made by him before he went to Eng-
land, for which he had failed to obtain patents, and they
issued an order, " To caveat Hugh Denham's land and Ben
Mim's [Meem's] and all others joyning on to Win. Cabell's
lines on the Fluvanna until he is first heard."
He then prepared a petition for one of his entries, in-
dorsed : " Wm. Cabell's petition to the Councel for 1,200
acres in Goochland County, in one or more surveys on both
sides of Fluvanna River, joining his Patent of 4,800 acres
and to be included with the same in one patent." Among
other things he asserts in this petition that, " / was the
occasion of carrying the settlements at least 50 miles to
the westward ivhen no other man would attempt it. . . .
In one of my attempts to locate those outlands I was robbed
by the Indians of little less than £90., as I am able to
prove." His petition was acknowledged and allowed, as
the following paper proves : —
" An Order of Council of May 6th 1743. — Leave is
granted Wm. Cabell to take up 1200 acres in Goochland
on both sides of the Fluvanna River adjoining his patent for
4800 acres, and to have an inclusive patent for the whole.
(Signed) Robt. Staunton."
[Indorsed] " Ent'd in Auditors Office.
Oct. 29th 1744. John Blair."
I do not know who his lawyers were in his land cases,
but the following attorneys qualified to practice in Gooch-
land, 1728 to 1744 : Thomas Prosser, 1728 ; Edward Ben-
IN AMERICA 47
nett, Robert Rogers, and Clement Read, 1733 ; William
Battersby, 1735 ; John Scott, John Tildsley, 1736 ; William
Waller, 1737; William Bellamy, 1739; Bartelott and
Matthew Anderson, 1740 ; Dudley Digges, 1741 ; Michael
Cadet Young and Gideon Marr, 1742; Philip Scudamore
Monson, 1743, and John Longdon and John Wales in
1744.
The neighboring county of Hanover had been taken from
New Kent in 1720. The early records of both Hanover
and New Kent have been destroyed. In 1742 the county
of Hanover was divided, and the upper portion was formed
into a new county called Louisa, for the Princess Louisa,
daughter of George II. The records of this county are " for
the most part preserved, but in a very dilapidated condi-
tion." The first court was held on December JJ 1742, with
the following justices: Robert Lewis (presiding), Christopher
Clark, Ambrose Joshua Smith, Abraham Venables, Charles
Barret, Richard Johnson, Thomas Merriwether, Robert
Harris, John Carr, Joseph Bickley, Joseph Fox, John
Starke, Joseph Shelton, and John Poindexter, Gents. The
upper portion of this county was added to Albemarle in
1761.
Soon after returning from England, Dr. Cabell removed
from his place on "Licking-Hole Creek" to his lands up the
river, and settled at the mouth of Swan Creek, in the pres-
ent county of Nelson, where he had erected dwelling-houses,
a mill (the first in that quarter), a warehouse (also the first),
a depot of produce, a store, etc., — calling the place War-
minster, for his old English home ; from whence a regular
line of batteaux was run to Westham. For over fifty years
Warminster (now one of our dead towns) was one of the
most important points in our internal commerce. And so
internal commerce has naturally received the especial atten-
tion of the Cabells from the first.
48 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
ALBEMARLE COUNTY.
The number of tithables in Goochland County in 1728
were 1132 ; in 1744 they were 3512. The settlements had
now extended so far to the westward that the formation of
a new county and a new parish became necessary.
In September, 1744, the Assembly passed an act for the
division of the old parish of St. James into three parishes :
St. James Northam (on north side), St. James Southam (on
south side), and St. Anne (on both sides of James River).
They also passed an act for the division of the old county.
The dividing" line was to be run from the Point of the Fork
of James River, N. 30° E. to Louisa County line (now the
line between Fluvanna and Goochland), and from the said
Point of Fork southward, a direct course to Brook's mill, and
from thence the same course continued to the Appomattox
River. All east of said line to remain as Goochland County,
and all west of it to be the new county of Albemarle. The
bounds of the new parish of St. Anne were the same as the
new county bounds. Rev. Robert Rose, a native of Scot-
land, was the first minister of this parish, 1745, to his death,
1751. The county was named for William Anne Van Kep-
pel, second earl of Albemarle, and then governor-in-chief
of Virginia. The act was to take effect after December 31,
1744. The first court was to meet on the fourth Thurs-
day in January, 1745. It was the first regularly organized
county in the James River valley, every part of which was
over a day's journey above tide-water. It included the
whole of the present counties of Fluvanna, Buckingham,
Nelson, and Amherst ; the most of Albemarle and x\ppo-
mattox, with parts of Campbell, Bedford, and Cumberland.
The first court of Albemarle County met ft^gg. The
records are not complete. The court minutes between 1748
and 1783, a very important period, are missing. The first
justices were : Joshua Fry, presiding ; William Cabell,
Allen Howard, Edwin Hickman, Thomas Ballow, Peter
Jefferson, Joseph Thompson, Charles Lynch, and James
IN AMERICA 49
Daniel. To these were added, in 1746 and 1747, Samuel
Jordan, David Lewis, John Reid, William Harris, Edmond
Gray, John Anthony, Valentine Wood, Charles Lewis, Jr.,
Isaac Bates, and James Nevil. Matthew Jordan and Wil-
liam Megginson were added soon after, in 1748, I think.
The first county lieutenant, Joshua Fry ; the first county
surveyor, Joshua Fry ; the first clerk, William Randolph,
of Tuckahoe, who died in the fall of 1745 and was suc-
ceeded as clerk by Peter Randolph, one of his executors,
who held the place until 1749, with Ben Harris as his dep-
uty. In 1749 and after, John Nicholas was clerk, with
John Fleming as his deputy. The first king's attorney was
Edmond Gray; he was succeeded by Gideon Marr. The
first practicing lawyers were James Meredith, John Harvie,
Clement Read, and William Battersby. First sheriffs, Jo-
seph Thompson, 1745-1747 ; Edwin Hickman, 1747-1749;
Charles Lynch, 1749-1751; James Daniel, 1751-1753;
Samuel Jordan, 1753-1755 ; John Reid, 1755-1757 ; John
Hunter, 1757-1759.
February court, 1745, William Cabell, J. P., and Pat-
rick Napier, securities for Joseph Thompson, Sheriff.
May court, 1745, Joshua Fry and William Cabell, Gents,
to purchase weights, scales, and measures for the county.
William Cabell one of the justices to take list of tithes
(for the ensuing year) on north side of the Fluvanna. I
have this list : there were 106 white tithes, 117 negroes, and
1 Indian ; the names of the whites are given.
June court, 1745. Samuel son of Edward Scott, and
William Allen, to build the court house, near the site of
the present Scottsville. William Cabell, Charles Lynch,
and others produced commissions from the governor as cap-
tains, and took the usual oaths.
August court, 1745. Charles Lynch given leave to keep
a ferry from his land across the North River [Rivanna] to
the opposite side. William Cabell his security.
June court, 1746. William Cabell and others to take
the list of tithes for the ensuing year on north side of the
50 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
river. There were 160 whites and 200 negroes. I have the
list.
August court, 1746. William Cabell and Thomas Bal-
low, gentlemen, produced their commissions and took their
oaths as coroners of Albemarle.
September court, 1746. William Cabell produced his
commission from the president and masters of the College
of William and Mary, and qualified as assistant surveyor of
the county.
May court, 1747. William Cabell, Samuel Jordan, and
other Justices of the Peace to take lists of tithes the ensuing:
year. I have Mr. Cabell's list : 180 whites and 205 negroes.
November court, 1747. " William Cabell, coroner for
an Inquisition on George Jack."
March court, 1748. William Cabell procured a license
for an ordinary at his ferry, Benjamin Harris his security.
He also gave a ferry bond.
In 1749, Goochland County was again divided, the part
of it on the south side of James River being formed into
a new county called Cumberland, for William-Augustus,
Duke of Cumberland, the second son of George II., who
had defeated the Pretender at Culloden April 16, 1746.
The first court of this county was held on May 22, 1749.
(Powhatan County was not formed from Cumberland until
1777.) The records have been preserved. The first jus-
tices were : George Carrington (presiding justice and county
lieutenant), Archibald Cary, Thomas Turpin, Creed Haskins,
Nicholas Davies, James Terry, Wade Netherland, Benjamin
Harris, Alexander Trent, and William Bernard.
I do not deny that Dr. Cabell was a man of science, etc.,
as many of his descendants have claimed, for the library
which he left shows the bent of his mind that way ; but it
must be remembered that from the first he was a frontiers-
man, a pioneer, a pathfinder in a new world, and in faithfully
fulfilling this, his destiny, he was ready to turn his hand
and mind to whatever turned up before him, whether it was
dispensing justice, chopping out entries, surveying lands,
IN AMERICA 51
amputating a limb, curing a wound, physicking his neighbor,
trading for tobacco, bartering or righting with Indians, or
what not. In the early spring, before the leaves put out,
in the late autumn, after they had fallen, and in the winter,
when the weather would permit, from 1746 to 1753, he
was almost constantly employed in surveying. During this
period, 1209 entries for land were made with the surveyor,
and nearly all of the good land in old Albemarle which had
not previously been located was taken up.
The starting-points of these original entries before local-
ities, etc., had been named are frequently curious and inter-
esting : " Beginning on Bridle creek where Thomas Turpin,
John Patterson and Thomas Phelps drank a dram." " On
the Dutch path where Capt. Lynch' s mare died." " On
Buffalo creek where Job Thomas killed a deer." " In the
Buck's elbow, where John Thornton killed a wolf." " At
a Bear's Wallow." " At a Beaver pond." " At a Wolf
trap." " At a large rock which we called Hercules Pillar
on Moorman's river." " At the Devil's Elbow on Appo-
mattox river," etc. " April 29th 1752. Thomas Grubbs
and James Harris, chain-carriers, killed an angry rattle- v
snake which they cooked and ate the next morning."
November 24, 1747, Dr. Cabell surveyed for Captain
Charles Lynch two tracts, one of 425 acres, the other 165
acres, both granted by patents of September 20, 1745, to
Col. John Boiling, and by him conveyed to Capt. Lynch,
located on James River, at the mouth of Blackwater Creek,
including the present site of Lynchburg, " being one half
barren, the other plantable."
April 26, 1748, he surveyed for Major George Carring-
ton 3,374 acres on Harris Creek of James River (just above
Lynchburg in Amherst County), which had been granted by
patent dated December 28, 1743.
July 2, 1748, with the Rev. Robert Rose, he surveyed
Rose's " Piney woods being 1870 acres." Rev. Robert
Rose was the parson of St. Anne's parish, and a very re-
markable man. I have a copy of the survey of Rose's ori-
52 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
ginal entry which bears this indorsation : " A plat of twenty-
three thousand seven hundred acres of land in Goochland
County surveyed for Rev. Robert Rose and certified March
23rd 1741. William Mayo, Survr."
" March 23rd 1741 " is old style, equivalent to April 3,
1742, present style. The lands were granted to the Rev.
Mr. Rose by patent dated August 30, 1744. They were
on the Piney and upper Tye rivers, and the waters thereof.
Dr. Cabell was long a member of the vestry, a church-
warden, etc., the Rev. Robert Rose and himself were good
friends, and he is frequently mentioned in Rose's Diary,
which is now preserved by the Virginia Historical Society.
He frequently preached at and stayed at " Capt Cabal's."
" Jan'y 23rd 174g stayed at Capt. Cabal's reading the Lit-
eral Scheme and viewing his low grounds — Saw Martin
Duncan's wife making: su^ar."
Dr. Cabell brought Martin Duncan a 16-gallon still from
England in 1741, but I suppose this still was for making
something stronger than sugar.
"May 13, 1751. Called at Capt. Cabal's." This, I be-
lieve, is his last reference to " Capt. Cabal " in his diary. He
was then on his way to Richmond, where he died on June
30 following, and lies buried in old St. John's churchyard.
On June 6, 1751, Capt. Cabell " laid off Beverly Town,
at Westham," on James River, six or seven miles above
Richmond. The streets were three poles wide. Each lot
contained half an acre, and was two chains and twenty-four
links square. There were 156 lots, and the plan covered
91 acres, 50 acres low, and 41 acres high ground. It may
be that the Rev. Robert Rose assisted Capt. Cabell in lay-
ing off this town, as, like the captain, he was much inter-
ested in advancing the interests of internal commerce, etc.
The lots were taken by 77 persons. Of those who took
more than one, William Cabell took 6 ; Carter Braxton and
Arthur Hopkins, 5 each ; Andrew Anderson, Peter Jeffer-
son, and Rev. Robert Rose, 4 each ; Povall Carter and
Joshua Fry, 3 each; and John Boiling, Harden Burnley,
IN AMERICA 53
John Chiswell, James Grey, John Hood, Limsford Lomax,
William Megginson, John Nicholas, Archibald Rich, and
Samuel Spencer, 2 each. The plan was " recorded June 1,
1752." It is now one of the dead towns of Virginia.
At Albemarle court, in August, 1751, Dr. Cabell re-
newed his bond as assistant surveyor, with John Harvie and
Benjamin Harris as his securities. And at the same court
he became one of the securities for Capt. James Daniel as
Sheriff of Albemarle, as he had done when Daniel was
Sheriff of Goochland in 1743.
I find the following note on one of Dr. Cabell's surveys :
" May 2, 1752. Surveyed while the sun was in the great
eclipse." The survey was for James Harris, on Moor-
man's River, Albemarle.
The first entry above Dr. Cabell in the James River valley
on the south side of the river was made by Col. John Boi-
ling. The first above on the north side was made by
George Braxton. His grant is dated November 25, 1743,
but the entry was made several years before this. He died
in 1749, and left these lands to his son, Carter Braxton,
who was afterwards a signer f the Declaration of Inde-
pendence. Secretary John Carter, about the same time as
his brother-in-law, George Braxton, located lands in this
section on Tye River, adjoining Rev. Robert Rose. Speaker
John Robinson, Col. John Chiswell, and other non-residents
located lands about the same time, being represented on
their lands by their agents. Col. John Boiling's grants
were on both sides of the river. Above him (also on both
sides of the river) was the large grant of Nicholas Davies.
In one of the Davis pedigrees, which I have seen, it is
stated that " Robert Davis, Sr., entered about the year
1720 a large tract of land bounded by the James and Ped-
lar rivers." But no entries were made in that section prior
to 1740. However, if the Floyd tradition is correct, his
father or himself may have had a station there as early as
1720 for trading with the Indians ; because in Dr. Cabell's
first survey in that section, and in several of his subsequent
54 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
surveys, he uses as a landmark in his field-notes " the old
stone-chimney" which then stood on the Amherst side, near
the bank of James River, about half a mile above the
mouth of Otter Creek, which may have marked the site of
their station. This " old stone-chimney," which I find as a
landmark in the first entry made by a white man in this
wild region, has always had a peculiar fascination for me.
I have often wondered when and by whom this lone
sentinel of civilization in the wilderness was built. What
tales it could tell ! Around it in fancy many a romance of
the Indian and the pale face could be woven, with the chil-
dren and grandchildren of the Princess Nicketti for heroes
and heroines.
Robert Davis, Sr., had certainly settled here prior to
1753 ; had cleared a plantation about the mouth of Law-
rence's Creek, built some houses, and made other improve-
ments. In October, 1753, Dr. Cabell surveyed the entries
of Nicholas Davies, on both sides of James River, for
31,450 acres of land, beginning about four miles above
Lynchburg, extending up the river to Otter Creek, and
naturally including the plantation of Robert Davis, Sr.,
to which, for some reason, he had neglected getting a title.
Out of friendship, and owing to relationship, Dr. Cabell
tried to protect Robert Davis by making a prior survey for
him and entering it in the secretary's office before he sur-
veyed Davies's entries. But Nicholas" Davies brought suit
against Davis and Cabell in " ye general Court " on the
ground of the right of prior entry, took the plantation of
Davis away from him, and caused Dr. Cabell a great deal
of trouble. Davis, with his second wife and their sons,
then removed to North Carolina. The children by his first
wife (Miss Hughes) remained in Virginia, but several of
them were afterwards among the first settlers of Kentucky.
Dr. Cabell, partly owing to this trouble, determined to
give up the surveying business, and in December, 1753, he
turned it over to his son William. He had utilized the
position to increase his possessions by some 26,000 acres of
IN AMERICA 55
picked lands, the best of which he held and gave to his
children ; the rest he sold at an advanced price, and rein-
vested in other lands from time to time. At first, his neigh-
bors had been few and far apart. The settlements had
now become quite numerous, and he resumed the practice
of his profession. He was successful both as a physician
and as a surgeon, practicing in his own and neighboring
counties (the then counties of Albemarle, Augusta, Prince
Edward, and Bedford) with great acceptability. His
charges per visit were from £1 to £5, Virginia currency,
according to the distance traveled. In his practice, he used
various purges, boluses, cordials, pills, blisters, drops, pow-
ders, plasters, sweats (a favorite remedy), emetics, etc., and
the following specifics : " Turlington's Balsam," " Bate-
man's Drops," " Stoughton's Bitters," "Anderson's Pills,"
etc. Rhubarb seems to have been a favorite remedy. He
seldom used calomel. He imported much of his material,
conducted his own "apothecary shop," and compounded
most of his remedies, many of which were entirely vege-
table, prepared by himself from various native plants, roots,
and barks. I have no memoranda of his ever bleeding
any one, though he may have done so, as it was then very
customary.
For the convenience of patients from a distance, he con-
ducted a private hospital near his residence, which seems to
have been quite perfect in its arrangements. In this estab-
lishment, from his record, it appears that he treated a wide
range of diseases difficult to relieve. He also performed
many surgical operations. The ordinary charge for ampu-
tating a leg or arm was £1 10s., but with a guarantee of
cure it was from twelve pounds to fifteen pounds. The
doctor's artisans made the wooden legs, price ten shillings.
All patients paid for board and necessaries furnished,
whether they were cured or not ; but his professional ser-
vices were generally contracted for on the "no cure, no
pay " plan. If the patient was cured, the sum agreed upon
was paid. These guarantees ranged from five pounds to
56 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
one hundred pounds or more. If the patient died, the
doctor's artisans made the coffin, dug the grave, and buried
the subject. " To coffin, sheet, and interment, £2 lis. 6d."
There was no charge for medical services. In those days
of poor roads and rude conveyances, each of these services
— hospital, undertaker, and graveyard — was a great charity.
The following is a copy of the indenture of a white ser-
vant : " This Indenture made the 28th day of October
in the year of our Lord God one thousand, seven hundred
and fifty two, between William Cabell of the parish of St.
Anne in the County of Albemarle, gentleman, of the one
part, and of the parish and County aforesaid — Wit-
nesseth, that the said is bound by an order of Court
to the said Cabell from the day of the date of these pres-
ents 'till he shall arrive to the age of twenty one years old.
During which term the said is faithfully to serve
his said master, his lawful commands gladly everywhere
obey, his secrets keep, not to waste nor embezzle wilfully
his said master's goods, nor to frequent ordinaries or any
such place without leave. Cards or Dice he shall not play,
but in all things behave himself as a faithfull apprentice or
servant ought to do. Neither shall he contract matrimony,
during the said term, without leave. For which service
said Master doth hereby covenant and agree to find him,
the said , during the said term, sufficient meat, drink,
washing and lodging fitting for such "an apprentice or ser-
vant ; to have him taught to read and virite ; to give him
sufficient apparel during the said term, — and to have him
taught the Tanner's trade. For the true performance of
which we do hereby bind ourselves to each other as witness
our hands and seals the day and year above written.
Wm. Cabell [Seal.]
[Seal.]
" Signed, sealed and delivered
in presence of
Guy Smith,
James Nevill."
IN AMERICA 57
The following shows "the net duty" on slaves at the
same period : —
" October 23rd, 1752. Received of Capt. William Ca-
bell, £15 8 shillings, the Nett Duty on 13 slaves sold him
by Mr. James Graham. For the Treasurer,
£15.8. George Webb."
"A head right " of 50 acres was granted for every person
imported into the colony, without regard to nationality, etc.
Dr. Cabell used about 300 head rights in his numerous
entries for land; but there were "transfers" and "re-
moves," and under various pretexts the same " rights " were
used so often, it is not possible to say how many were im-
ported by him, especially during his stay in England and
soon after his return. But a large number of the first set-
tlers here were from Somerset and Wilts, and many of them
are said to have been brought over by him, or came through
his instrumentality. Among his numerous employments
from the first was the locating of tenants, or retainers, on
his grants, having the lands cleared and prepared for
cultivation, necessary houses erected thereon, dwellings,
mills, etc.
There are also evidences that the doctor had " his rubs."
There are traces of a long dispute with Mr. James Dickie
of the upper Tye River, which began in 1750, when he
was surveying on Castle Creek. Dickie sued him " for hav-
ing used abusive language towards him." In his reply, Dr.
Cabell says : " Mr. Dickie came there as I was surveying
George Rust's and my entries . . . and after I had told
him if he was agreeved he might be remedied by Caveat,
he stopt the chain and endeavored to break it, which caused
me to apply the words of Solomon to him, and this is all
the scurrillity I was guilty of."
In December, 1756, John Cowley entered into an agree-
ment " to serve him in every lawful employment." To
which contract the doctor has appended the following note :
" He lay abed next morning till near sun up j then sits by
58 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
the fire about 2 or 3 hours, then comes out, stretches him-
self, and asked where the negroes and tobacco was. I told
him in the tobacco house, etc. He caught his horse and
went off without taking leave."
I do not know what " words of Solomon " were applied
to Dickie, nor what were included in the " e£c." addressed
to Cowley ; but I am afraid that the doctor's applications
were not mild. In 1757 he whipt James Spears, for which
he had to pay on a suit for assault and battery 1045 lbs. of
net tobacco and £1 lis. cash.
The Cabell papers are almost entirely confined to busi-
ness transactions. They convey but little information as to
events and occurrences of note, and prior to 1750 history is
equally silent as to these things in this section. There are,
however, traditions of Indian forays, and stories of conflicts
and troubles with them. It is said that Capt. Cabell's and
other companies of the county " saw service more than once
in raids against the Savages in which the Indians came by
the worst," and we know that there were many noted Indian
fighters in this region. When the French and Indian war
came on in 1754, the doctor was too old for active service.
He had retired from nearly all public employments, and his
sons were coming to the front.
At the November session, 1753, the Assembly passed an
act forming Bedford from Lunenburg County, to take
effect May 10, 1754. At the October session, 1754, they
passed an act to take effect from January 1, 1755, adding
all that part of Albemarle on the south side of James River
lying above a line drawn from the mouth of Stonewall Creek
to the head of Falling River to the new county of Bedford.
The previous line between the counties was (approximately
the watershed line between the waters of the James and
Staunton rivers) " inconvenient," and this act made James
River the line.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cabell died September 21, 1656, and Dr.
Cabell made a note, which was found among his papers, that
she " died of a coma and bilious fever, on Monday, about
IN AMERICA 59
an hour by sun in the evening — and was interred by the
side of my son George — according to her desire — and join-
ing to her, I desire to be laid." Her parents, Samuel and
Mary Davis Burks, were from Hanover (when that county
extended to the Blue Ridge Mountains), and as the records
have been destroyed, the only account which I have of her
ancestors is traditional ; but the evidence that she was an
excellent mother, wife, and woman is ample. Her only sis-
ter, Mary Burks, married Obadiah Smith (who died Feb-
ruary 18, 1777, in Chesterfield County, Va.), and became
the mother, inter alios, of Peartree Smith whose descend-
ants went to Kentucky, of William Smith who married
Elizabeth Mayo, of Lucy Smith who married James Powell
Cocke, and of Elizabeth Smith who married Isaac Winston.
At the April session, 1757, the Assembly passed an act
to take effect July 20 following, adding the upper part of
St. Anne's Parish, Albemarle (north of a line run up the
Rivanna River, from King's Ford to the Secretary's Ford,
and thence by the main road leading to Wood's Gap in the
Blue Ridge) to Fredericksville Parish, Louisa, and making
the part of St. Anne's south of James River a new parish,
called Tillotson.
On October 4, 1757, Dr. Cabell sold to John Smith, Jr.,
his old tract of 1200 acres on Licking-Hole Creek in Gooch-
land County. He continued for some years to own lands
in that county, and in the present Albemarle, but since
1734 his landed interests had been mostly within the bounds
of the present counties of Nelson, Amherst, and Bucking-
ham.
The following extracts from his memoranda are interest-
ing : —
" Oct. 31. 1757. Agreed to rent Watt's creek tract to
Devereux Gerard alias Jarret, for 5 years at 1200 lbs to-
bacco. — Self and two negroes." Jarret paid this rent for
1758, 1759, and 1760, after which year he probably left.
Was this the afterwards celebrated Rev. Devereux Jarratt ?
" On Wednesday night, ye 22d. of March 1758, between
60 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
9 and 10 of the clock, I felt a very severe shock of an
Earthquake preceded about by something like lumbering
thunder. In the morning I asked one of my negroes if he
heard the noise or felt the shaking? He told me he did,
and the reason thereof, he said — the ground was sick."
In 1759, corn was ten shillings per barrel, dressed pork
twenty shillings per 100 lbs., beef a penny a pound, and
Dr. William Cabell had a meadow of Timothy hay. St.
Anne's Parish had been divided in 1757 ; it was now
necessary to divide Albemarle County.
AMHERST COUNTY.
The March Assembly, 1761, passed an act, to take effect
from May 1, 1761, dividing Albemarle County. The por-
tion south of James River was made a new county, called
Buckingham. The portion north of the James was divided
by a line up Rockfish River " to the mouth of Green Creek
and thence a straight line to the house of Thomas Bell con-
tinued to the Blue Mountains ' : ' (the present line between
Albemarle and Nelson). East of this line remained Albe-
marle ; west of it was formed a new county called Amherst,
for General Jeffery Amherst, the hero of Ticonderoga
(1759) and governor-general of British North America.
Amherst Parish, with the same bounds as the county, was
taken from St. Anne's at the same time, and Rev. Ichabod
Camp from Middletown and Wallingford in Connecticut
was the first minister thereof. Dr. William Cabell had lo-
cated lands in the present county of Amherst, thirty years
before old Amherst County was formed.
At the same session the present line between Albemarle
and Louisa was ordered to be run, and the portion west of
this line was added to Albemarle. And so after May 1,
1761, this strip of land, from seven to ten miles wide and
about twenty-five miles long, containing the seats of some
of the Walkers, Meriwethers, Lewises, etc., became for the
first time a part of Albemarle.
The records of Buckingham County have been destroyed.
IN AMERICA 61
The records of Amherst are not complete, but I am able to
give quite a full list of the first officials. The first court
was held at Henry Key's ordinary on Monday, June 1,
1761. The first court house was on the main road just
above the present Arlington, Nelson County. It was lo-
cated on land which was afterwards purchased by Dr.
Cabell's eldest son and called Cabellsburg. The first offi-
cials were : —
Magistrates : Col. William Cabell the elder (see sketch
of him), presiding, and John Rose, John Reid (died 1763),
James Nevil, Daniel Burford, George Stovall, Jr., Cornelius
Thomas, David Crawford, Jr. (died 1766), John Howard,
Francis Meriwether, James Dillard, and Ambrose Lee ;
County Lieutenant : Col. William Cabell the elder ; Colo-
nel : John Rose ; Lieutenant-Colonel : John Reid ; Major :
James Nevil ; Clerk : George Seaton, 1761-1765, Edmund
Wilcox, 1766-1776 ; King's Attorney : John Harvie,
1761-1768. Among the other attorneys prior to the Revo-
lution were Peter Hogg, George Walker, William Watts,
Dabney Carr, Edmund Winston, Thomas Madison, Charles
Rose, Luke Boyer, John Aylett, Ephraim Dunlop, Bernard
Moore, Thomas Miller, and William Cowan. And among
the other colonial justices or magistrates were Zacharias
and Charles Taliaferro, Hugh and Henry Rose, Daniel
Gaines, Ambrose and Ben Rucker, Charles Rodes, Alexan-
der Reid, Jr., Thomas Wyatt, Roderick McCulloch, William
Horsley, David Crawford (died 1802), Joseph Cabell, Ga-
briel Penn, John Dawson, and John Digges.
On September 30, 1762, Dr. William Cabell married
Mrs. Margaret Meredith, the widow of Samuel Meredith,
Sr., of Hanover. On October 25, 1764, he gave Geddes
Winston, Esq., a power of attorney to look after his inter-
est in the Meredith estate.
In April, 1763, he made sundry deeds to his sons, Wil-
liam, Joseph, and John, and to the children of his deceased
daughter, Mary Horsley, for various tracts of land.
62 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
In 1765, he used " scythes and cradles " in cutting his
spring wheat, and furnished " the timber for the frame of
Key's Church."
In 1766, owing to age, etc., he resigned from the vestry
of the upper part of the parish, and " Henry Rose, Esq., was
appointed in his room."
Although the old doctor was a good churchman, he was
also a dear lover of a good horse, kept a good stable, looked
after his horses himself, and was always ready to risk a
small stake like the following- on them : —
" Sept 7th 1767 made a race with Mr. Campbell, with
pleasure, against his Seaton mare, for 40 bushels of hemp-
seed, a barbecue, and 20 gallons of Punch. To be run in
April next, at my race course."
In 1767, he had a mill on Slicker's Run. Isaac Read
and Edmund Winston were his lawyers.
In 1768, " an unusually large amount of tobacco was
shipped from his Swan Creek warehouse."
Mrs. Margaret Cabell (his second wife) died without issue
by him, February 26, 1768.
January 3, 1769, he wrote his last will, in a few lines,
leaving (with certain reservations) his whole remaining
estate to his youngest son, Nicholas, whom he appointed
his whole and sole executor. It was signed in the presence
of Samuel Burks, John Savage, Robert and John Horsley.
He had conveyed to his other children their portions of his
estate by deeds in 1763.
Some time prior to 1771, a company called " The Al-
bemarle Furnace Company " was organized to work certain
iron mines on and near Hardware River, consisting of the
following gentlemen : —
James Buchannon, <£300
Dr. William Cabell, 200
Col. William Cabell, 200
Col. Joseph Cabell, 100
Col. Edward Carter, 300
Maj. Allen Howard, 200
IN AMERICA
Thomas Jefferson
100
Nicholas Lewis,
100
John Scott,
100
John Walker,
100
Dr. Thomas Walker,
300
63
Total, £2,000
John Old, of Berks County, Province of Pennsylvania,
owned a half interest in these mines, which Dr. Cabell
bought from him September 15, 1771, for "730 pounds
Pennsylvania currency, equivalent to 584 pounds Va." The
stockholders met from time to time "about the Iron
Works." A furnace and a forge were built. In 1772,
Rev. Charles Clay was a stockholder. Dr. Cabell soon
transferred all of his stock to his son Nicholas.
His health began to fail in 1772. He died April 12,
1774, " after a long and tedious illness, which he bore with
the most Christian fortitude, and with resignation to the
Divine Will." His remains, in accordance with his wish,
were laid in his burial-ground at Warminster, next to those
of " his loving wife Elizabeth Cabell," on the present " Lib-
erty Hall " estate, where they now lie under a monument
erected with means bequeathed for the purpose by his grand-
son, Joseph Carrington Cabell, under the direction of his
great-grandson, the late N. F. Cabell, Esq. The monument
is just by an old elm-tree, which is said to be exactly over —
that is, to grow out of — their graves. It bears these in-
scriptions : On side 1. " Near this spot lie the earthly
remains of Dr. William Cabell. A native of Wiltshire, Eng-
land, and the Founder of the family in Virginia which bears
his name.
" Those of Elizabeth Cabell his wife and the mother of
his children, who died Sep. 21, 1756, lie by his side."
On side 2 : " William Cabell emigrated from War-
minster, England to the Colony of Virginia about 1723-4.
Born, March 9, 1687.
Died, April 12, 1774.
Aged 87 years."
64 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
On side 3 : "In honour of their memory was this stone
erected by the piety of their grandson, Joseph C. Cabell."
There is no inscription on side 4.
It will be observed that the date of his birth is not cor-
rectly given on his monument. When I received the
attested copies of the parish and other records from Eng-
land showing that he was born " on Saturday March 9th
1699 " (0. S.), I carried them down and showed them to
Mr. N. F. Cabell. After he had read them, he acknow-
ledged that the date on the monument was wrong". He
said that " when he began to look into the matter, the old
family Bible was not to be found anywhere, and that the
only data in the premises that he did find was a MS.
note in the handwriting of Mr. Joseph C. Cabell, as fol-
lows : 'Dr. William Cabell died April 12 1774 — aged 87
— from March 9th, 1774.' Which, if it had been correct,
would have placed his birth on March 9, 1687."
The late N. F. Cabell, Esq., who made almost a life study
of the Cabell family history, published a sketch of Dr. Ca-
bell in " The Amherst Enterprise " of December 14, 1876,
from which I extract : —
" In person he was tall, much above the common height ;
of figure rather spare, but lithe and active, and with great
powers of endurance. In feature he was decidedly aqui-
line, with a piercing black eye. His face, which was said
to have been handsome in early life, was afterwards disfig-
ured on one side, with the loss of the sight of an eye. Of
this mishap two accounts have been given ; [I have men-
tioned these.] . . . While he was ever amiable and affec-
tionate in his family, the ancient awe and filial reverence
were extended to him by his sons long after the latter had
themselves attained to middle life and an assured position
in society. He had mingled freely with all ranks in the
colony, from the highest to the humblest, and probably
no man of his day had a more extensive acquaintance
throughout this middle region of Virginia, from the moun-
tains to the metropolis ; and so often had he traversed it
IN AMERICA 65
that but few of its highways, or even byways, were un-
known to him. While he was accessible to all, among his
equals he was a genial companion, and his store of know-
ledge made him the life of the social circle wherever he
went. Hundreds of his quaint or pithy sayings were long
current in this region, and numberless anecdotes were also
related of him, some of which spread far and wide. But
these were better left to tradition, as some were probably
apocryphal and others exaggerated.
" He was a man of method, economical of time and dili-
gent in business. . . .
" His courage — physical and moral, was undoubted. . . .
He was both just and liberal, faithful in the discharge of
all public trusts, and an enemy to all abuse.
" On feeling the approach of age he resigned his several
posts and withdrew from his more distant practice. His
study became his sanctum, and he left behind him a good
library for his day.
" The frequent addition to his library of approved medi-
cal works as they were issued in England authorize the
belief that he pursued this study not solely as a source of
profit, but as a branch of liberal science, and that without
any neglect of other branches of physical science, as well as
history and the belles-lettres generally.
" He assisted in building churches and supporting the
clergy, and acted both as vestryman and churchwarden ;
though — as I have often heard, and as many of the books in
his library would go to prove — his own way of thinking on
such subjects was what, in those days, was called i free.' . . .
Thus, in his library were found several books of English
' freethinkers,' so called, as Collins, Toland, Mandeville,
Bolingbroke, and one or two of Spinoza. All these seem
to have been read, but with discrimination, and not con-
demned in the gross, as such contraband articles generally
were by the orthodox. In his collection were also found
other and standard works of approved Divines. From these
and other indications, as well as certain traditionary anec-
66 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
dotes, I infer that the general cast o£ his sentiments on this
subject was what would now be called ' liberal/ although
he conformed to the Established Church."
That the old doctor was willing " to hear both sides "
may not be denied. Yet it must be remembered that he
was not only a vestryman and churchwarden, but also an
active and liberal churchman, — prominent in building
churches, supporting the clergy, etc. At the same time, as
some of his immediate ancestors were dissenters, — followers,
perhaps, of the Rev. Richard Capel (or Cabell), — it is
natural to suppose that his feelings were liberal towards
them. And this feeling was shared by his eldest son, Col.
William Cabell, as the historic meeting at " Union Hill " in
November, 1774, just seven months after his death, amply
demonstrates.
A SUMMARY.
Dr. Cabell's life from 1724 to 1774 covers a most impor-
tant half century in our history, and he was not an unim-
portant actor therein. When he arrived in Virginia, the
settlements generally were within easy reach of tide-water.
When he settled on Licking-Hole Creek, about 1726, his
home was on the frontiers. Westward to the mountains
was an almost unknown region, — a wilderness of wild
woods, filled with wild animals, wild Indians, and wild le-
gends. When he died, this forest was a fairly settled coun-
try. The old Indian warpath through the Rockfish gap of
the Blue Ridge, and the Buffalo trail along the Buffalo
Ridge, had become public roads, and the Indian himself was
"a memory and no more." Much of the preliminary and
rough work of society for this section had been done. The
lands were generally occupied. Many plantations were set-
tled and partially cleared. Necessary buildings — includ-
ing mansions of more or less comfort — had been erected,
and roads opened for public and social intercourse. The
country exhibited flocks and herds, fields of grain and to-
bacco, gardens, and orchards. A foundation had been laid
for a respectable and advancing society. And that society,
IN AMERICA 67
inhaling the free air from the mountains, was even then
preparing to assert its own independence.
I have the names of about 3000 of the first settlers of
this region, including, I believe, nearly all of the first land-
owners, and I know more or less about the most of them.
Many were natives of Virginia, some few of Maryland,
Pennsylvania, and other colonies. Many were emigrants
from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and the British
West Indies. Some were Huguenots, and a few Dutch
made a settlement, called " Nassau," in the present county
of Nelson. These settlers came by different routes, one
stream coming up James River, a second up the York and
its tributaries, until it joined a third coming down Pied-
mont, Va., on the east side of the mountains ; while a
fourth stream came down the valley, west of the mountains,
through Wood's (now Jarman's) and Rockfisk gaps. These
streams met and mingled their breeds along the waters of
" the two branches " of James River, and scattered their
race from Kentucky to California. The University of Vir-
ginia is now on the waters of the North Branch, and the
Washington and Lee University on the waters of the South
Branch of James River, and " the Cabells and their kin "
were instrumental in founding 1 both of these Universities.
Although for so long unsettled, the section was an inter-
esting objective point from the first. Capt. Christopher
Newport, in the first voyage to the Falls of James River in
the spring of 1607, was told that " after a daye's jorney or
more, this river devyds itselfe into two branches, which
both wind from the mountaynes Quirauck," and he wished
to march on up the river. But Navirans, his Indian guide,
told the English, " It was a daye and a halfe jorney to
Monanacah ; and, if we went to Quirauck [the Blue Ridge],
we should get no vittailes, and be tyred ; and sought by all
meanes to disswade our Captayne from going any further."
In 1608, however, Newport marched about forty miles above
" the Falls," to the eastern gold belt of Virginia, and possi-
bly to where " this river devyds itselfe." In 1612, William
68 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Strachey, describing James River, writes : " Forty miles
above the Falls, it hath two branches, or other rivers, that
fall into it; the head of the northermost [the Rivanna]
comes from certaine steepe mountaines that are said to be
impassable ; the head of the other [the Fluvanna, now the
James] comes from high hills afar of, within the land, from
the topps of which hills, the people [Indians] say they see
another sea — and that the water is there Salt." This was
an Indian legend.
The earliest settlers named one of the chief tributaries
of the Rivanna River " Machumps " Creek, which was the
name of an Indian who told the earliest settlers of Virginia
much about the country. It is now called "Machunk,"
or " Ohmychunk " Creek, and there is a Virginian legend
as to the origin of the name. 1
The part taken by most of the religious denominations
in the development of this section is comparatively well
known, 2 but as we have had no adequate idea of the part
taken by the Quakers, it is necessary to make some especial
mention of the Society of Friends in this summary. They
are scarcely mentioned in our public records, but I am for-
tunately able to give a brief outline of the advancement of
their settlements to the westward from their own records :
" Being remote from the monthly Meeting of Friends held
in Henrico," the Quakers of Hanover constituted a Meeting
on Cedar Creek. " The first of which" was held the 12th of
the 3rd mo. [i. e. May, 0. S.] 1739. . . . Which was at-
tended with the comfortable ministry of our well beloved
friends Thomas Pleasants and William Lacld. . . . Where
also was read the Yearly Meeting printed Epistle from Lon-
don for the year 1738, to the mutual comfort of Friends."
[At a later day John Payne, the father of Mrs. President
Madison, was the clerk of this Cedar Creek Meeting.]
In 1744, or prior thereto (the early records are missing),
a Meeting was settled on Camp Creek in the " Green
1 See The Quick or the Dead? pp. 1, 2.
2 See Meade's Old Churches, Foote's Sketches of Virginia, Turpiu's History
of Albemarle Baptist Association, etc.
IN AMERICA 69
Springs" section of Louisa, with Charles Moorman and
Thomas, his son, as overseers of the same. [Charles Moor-
man came from Isle of Wight in England and settled on
" the Green Springs " land in the present county of Louisa.
Moorman's River, Albemarle, was named for him.]
In 1749, a Meeting was settled near " the Sugar Loaf
Mountains," with Christopher Clark, Sr., and Boling Clark
as overseers. This Meeting (then in Louisa) was in the
present Albemarle, near Stony Point. The road between
the Camp Creek Quakers and the Sugar Loaf Mountain
Quakers was called " Clark's Track." It went across Ma-
chumps Creek, through the gap in the Southwest Moun-
tains, between "Castle Hill" and " Grace Church." The
Clarks were among the first settlers beyond the Chestnut
Mountains.
" 10th 8 mo., 1754. Friends at South River in Albe-
marle County petition that they may have a Meeting estab-
lished among them." It was granted, and on " 12th 10
mo., 1754, Bowlen and Edward Clark were appointed Over-
seers of the week day Meeting at South River." This
Meeting was south of the river (some three or four miles
southward of the present Lynchburg) on Lynch's Creek of
Blackwater. It was then in Albemarle, but after January
1 following, in old Bedford (now Campbell) County. It
was located on the lands of Mrs. Sarah Lynch (sister of
Bowlen and Edward Clark, the overseers), widow of Maj.
Charles Lynch, the emigrant, sometime Burgess from Albe-
marle, for whom Lynch's River was named. He was not a
Quaker. His wife, a daughter of Christopher Clark, Sr.
(one of the first overseers of Sugar Loaf Meeting), joined
the Society in 1750, about which time he removed from
his former home near Lynch's Ferry on the Rivanna (the
North Fork), and settled on his lands near the future Lynch's
Ferry on the Fluvanna (the South Fork of James River),
where he died in 1753. His widow qualified as the execu-
trix of his will May 10, 1753, with John Anthony, William
Cabell, and Joseph Anthony as her securities. Joseph An-
70 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
thony was her brother-in-law. Her son, John Lynch, then
about fourteen years old, was afterwards the founder of the
city of Lynchburg.
In 1756, a Meeting was established on Goose Creek of
Staunton or Stanton River in Bedford. Owing to " the
Indians being troublesome," it was abandoned in 1758, but
reestablished in 1760.
[This river may have been named for a Quaker, as
Staunton or Stanton was a Quaker name, from one of
whom the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War under
President Lincoln, descended. Hon. Edward Bates, Attor-
ney-General, was also partly of Quaker origin, as was Presi-
dent Lincoln himself. And Hon. James Speed (his other
Attorney-General) descended from both Col. Joshua Fry
and Dr. Thomas Walker, of Albemarle.]
It is not necessary to follow these Meetings any farther
to the west. They had more or less constant intercourse
with Philadelphia ; with " The Yearly Meeting at Nanse-
mond," " The Yearly Meeting on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland," and other Yearly Meetings ; with " The Quar-
terly Meeting at White Oak Swamp in Henrico," " The
Western Quarterly Meeting," etc. ; with other monthly
Meetings in Virginia, and with about a dozen in North and
South Carolina. And, at a later day, with " Cincinnati,"
" Short Creek," and other Meetings in Ohio.
The Quakers were sober and industrious. Many of them
were wealthy, — the Adamses, Clarks, Cobbs, Davises,
Lynches, Pleasants, Terrells, and many others. They were
nearly or remotely connected by blood or by marriage with
many of the leading families of the Established Church, —
Bates, Cary, Cabell, Fleming, Harrison, Jefferson, Jordan,
Randolph, Venables, Woodson, and hundreds of others.
Their influence in the foundation of Piedmont, Va., and
on its future, was decided. Every year, on the record of
every Quaker meeting-house, there was placed under the
heading of "Friends' Sufferings" a statement of the various
amounts of the enforced payments made by each one of
IN AMERICA 71
them to " Priests' wages," to " Church-rates, so-called" etc.
It was more that they were opposing the existing laws than
that the law was against them ; but it is easy to make taxes
unpopular, and their continual practical protests against
these taxes were very instrumental in bringing on " the
Revolutionary spirit." On the other hand, they were also
opposed to war, and as continually recorded their protests
against " Militia fines," etc. And this fact, after " the
Revolutionary spirit " was aroused, operated against the So-
ciety. Many of them were patriots, and when the troubles
with the mother country began, those of them who were for
war had finally to go out of the Society. Among the first
of the leading men to leave was Charles Lynch, Jr., one
of the founders of South River Meeting, and clerk of that
meeting from 15th 7th mo., 1758, to about 1767, when he
left the Society, and afterwards became a colonel in the
Revolutionary army and the founder of " Lynch law."
The Revolution, however, was not the only cause of
their decline. They were not only opposed to war, but to
slavery also. Mrs. Sarah Terrell, daughter of Maj. Charles
Lynch, the emigrant, and sister of Col. Charles Lynch above-
said, died 10th 5 mo., 1773. Just before dying, she gave
out some expressions against slavery, which were afterwards
read at the Meetings in this section, producing a decided
effect. Slaves had often been set free by Friends (and
others) in Virginia, but the Quaker discipline then in force
only prohibited buying or selling slaves, and encouraged
(not required) the gradual emancipation of those inherited.
" The Last Sayings of Sarah Terrell " were against slavery
in toto. On the 15th 1st mo., 1774, Christopher Johnson
and Micajah Terrell (Sarah's cousin and husband) informed
the South River Meeting that they had set their negroes
free. Anions others who from time to time did likewise
was Charles Moorman, the father-in-law of Christopher
Johnson aforesaid, and also of John Venable and Christo-
pher Anthony. About 1780, the Yearly Meetings finally
adopted the minute, making the holding of slaves a dis-
72 THE -CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
missible offense. And this was another cause for the great
decline of Friends in the Southern States. Many gave up
the Society and held on to their slaves. Many held on to
their Society, gave up their slaves, and moved north to
Ohio, or some other non-slaveholding State. Thus Quakers
almost disappeared from this section. And thus this sec-
tion, which sent so many emigrants to the country south of
the Ohio, sent many north of the Ohio also.
It has been said of the Friends : " Whether we regard
them as defenders of the liberties of the people, as opposers
of slavery, of oaths and tithes, of the abomination of war,
the cruel treatment of the aborigines, etc., we find them
everj'where in advance of their contemporaries."
Patrick Henry, the advocate of the vestries in the Par-
sons' Cause, was called by some "a real half Quaker."
One of the churches of Rev. James Maury, a plaintiff in
this cause, was in the present county of Albemarle, on the
south side of the Southwest Mountain. " The Sugar Loaf
Mountain ' meeting-house was on the north side of the
same mountain. When reading the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, it should be remembered that Jefferson was
brought up in the midst of Friends, and that many of his
first cousins were members of that Society. In brief, if we
wish to arrive at correct conclusions in the premises, it is
necessary to consider the Quakers, as well as other denomi-
nations, and the multitude of others of no denomination.
None of the Cabells were members of the Society, but
many of their kin were, and this is my special reason for
calling especial attention to the Quakers in this book.
Dr. William 1 and Elizabeth Burks Cabell had issue : —
I. i. Mary 2 Cabell.
II. ii. William 2 Cabell.
III. iii. Joseph 2 Cabell.
IV. iv. John 2 Cabell.
v. George 2 Cabell, d. young.
V. vi. Nicholas 2 Cabell.
PART III.
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN AND THOSE ALLIED
TO THEM BY MARRIAGE, WITH MUCH OF THE
HISTORY OF THE UPPER VALLEY OF JAMES
RIVER (1750-1800), ESPECIALLY DURING THE
REVOLUTION.
" The present is founded on the past, and is inseparably connected with it ; neither
can it be properly understood or fully appreciated, and certainly no idea of the prog-
ress of civilization can be arrived at, unless there is an intimate acquaintance with
the history of the past." Batty.
" 'T is opportune to look back upon old times, and contemplate our forefathers.
Great examples grow thin, and to be fetched from the passed world."
Sir Thomas Browne.
I. MARY 2 CABELL HORSLEY, OF " CENTRE HILL."
I. Mary 2 Cabell, the only daughter of the old doctor,
was born February 2, 1726 (0. S.), that is February 13,
1727, present style. I know nothing of her childhood,
save the fact that she could read and write prior to 1737.
On May 15, 1739, her mother wrote to her father, who
was then in England, asking him to send his daughter " a
prayer-book, one red silk petticoat, a very good broad silver-
laced hat and hat band, one pair of stays (17 inches round
the waist), two pair fine shoes, 1 dozen pair fine stockings,
1 hoop petticoat, 1 pair ear-rings, 1 pr clasps, 3 pr. silver
buttons set with stones, 1 suit of head clothes, 4 fine hand-
kerchiefs and ruffles suitable, a very handsome knot and
girdle, and a fine cloak and short apron."
I once saw a letter from Mrs. Elizabeth Kennon to Mrs.
Elizabeth Cabell respecting her daughter, who was then on
a visit to Mrs. Kennon, in which Miss Mary was very highly
spoken of.
74 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
In her youth and early womanhood she was celebrated in
this region as a horsewoman, and her descendants preserve
many anecdotes of her fearless riding, swimming streams
on horseback, etc. She married prior to April 3, 1744
(the exact date is not known to me), William Horsley, who
had been a tutor in Dr. Cabell's family, and probably was
still holding this position at the time of his marriage.
It is said that the old doctor opposed the union, and that
it was " a runaway match," in which Miss Cabell's fearless
riding was put to the test ; but I doubt this tradition, be-
cause the fathers in those days were not apt to forget such
acts of disobedience, and it is certain that there was no
estrangement between the two families. In fact, Mrs. Hors-
ley lived with her father for several years after her mar-
riage, although her husband had lands of his own in Han-
over and Goochland. They afterwards lived at " Centre
Hill," the estate on which the present Gladstone station,
C. & 0. R. R., is built. Dr. Cabell gave this tract to kis
daughter, but having failed to give her a title during her
life, he gave her children a deed to the lands on April 30,
1763, after the death of their parents. William Horsley
made his will June 24, 1760 ; his wife was then dead ; he
named her brothers, William and Joseph Cabell, as his
executors. His will was recorded in Albemarle court, July
10, 1760. He was (a brother of Roland Horsley, of Han-
over, and of Fanny Horsley, who married in 1739 Richard
Burks, a brother of Mrs. Dr. Cabell, and) a son of Robert
Horsley, of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover, who was granted
lands on the north side of the Rivanna River as early as
September 17, 1731, and who died in 1734. It is tra-
ditional that Robert Horsley and his family came from
England with Dr. Cabell, and this may be so, because the
Horsley family had been long seated in Wiltshire, and I
have evidence that the doctor and himself were friends
and acquaintances as early as 1730. But as he was settled
in Hanover, and as the records of that county have been
destroyed, I have made no effort to " trace him back." It
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 75
may be that he was descended from the Robert Horsley
who patented lands in Northumberland County, October 6,
1655.
I. Mrs. Mary 2 Cabell Horsley had six children, but two
of them died in infancy prior to June, 1760. The sur-
viving children were : —
6. i. William 3 Horsley.
7. ii. Robert Horsley.
8. iii. Elizabeth Horsley.
9. iv. John Horsley.
II. COL. WILLIAM 2 CABELL THE ELDER, OF UNION HILL,
NELSON COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
II. William 2 Cabell was born March 13, 1730 (present
style), probably near Dover, on Licking-Hole Creek, in
Goochland County, Virginia. Almost the only record of his
youth is preserved in letters between his parents written
during his father's absence in England, 1735-1741. These
letters prove that the education of their children was a sub-
ject of continual solicitude to his parents, who, having
cast their fortunes in the frontier forest of a new world,
must have found many impediments thereto, which, how-
ever, were all overcome, and Dr. Cabell lived to see every
one of his sons occupy honorable positions in society and
become the foremost men of their section.
When William was eight years old, he " read well and had
commenced learning to write ; " and his father sent him
from England a prayer-book, a Bible, and a small gun. I
have no positive source to draw upon regarding him from
1741 to 1749, but it is traditional that his education was
completed at William and Mary College. On January 25,
1749, the Rev. Robert Rose in his diary mentions spending
the night with him at Mr. John Hunter's. In December,
1749, he began to assist his father with his surveying busi-
ness, and continued to do so from time to time until his
father quit the business.
Soon after becoming of age, in 1751, he was appointed
76 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
a vestryman of St. Anne's Parish, Albemarle County, and
so continued until 1761. From a reference in his papers I
infer that he was appointed a captain of militia about the
same time. On September 20, 1751, his father paid John
Hunter twenty pistoles " for William and Joseph Cabell's
having the benefit of the Sheriff's Office on the north side
of the Fluvanna River in the County of Albemarle during
Capt Daniel's sheriffdom." Capt. James Daniel was the
sheriff 1751-1753, and William and his brother Joseph had
charge of the business on the north side of the river in the
present counties of Fluvanna, Albemarle, Nelson, and Am-
herst. This manner of farming out the office to young
men was customary at the time, and it furnished them with
a good practical basis for business on which to begin life.
They were generally called second sheriffs.
I find receipts for horses and negroes purchased in 1752,
and sufficient memoranda to show that he had commenced
farming on his own account at that time. I will give one
of these : " Rec'd of Mr. Wm. Cabell Jr. £37 10 current
on acct, and in full of a Negro boy sold him by the Rev.
Mr. Hall. 9th Novr 1752. Wm. Megginson." The horses
purchased were all branded with marks, described in the
bills of sale. He was appointed major of Albemarle militia
prior to September 10, 1753. He was also an assistant sur-
veyor to Col. Joshua Fry in 1753, and did a great deal of
work in that line in the fall of that year! He again qualified
as an assistant surveyor of Albemarle in February, 1754.
" The French and Indian War " had begun, the fron-
tiers of Virginia were threatened, and on February 14,
1754, the House of Burgesses made preparations for meet-
ing the enemy. On the 19th, Gov. Dinwiddie issued a
proclamation for encouraging men to enlist in the service of
the crown for the security of the colony. I have the names
of sixty-one soldiers who enlisted under this proclamation.
About this time Maj. William Cabell raised a troop of horse
for actual service, and at February court (second Thurs-
day), 1754, he " made oath to his Captain's commission of
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 77
a Troop." February 25, the governor commissioned Col.
Joshua Fry (the surveyor of Albemarle) commander-in-chief
of the forces sent from Virginia " to erect and maintain a
fort at the Monongahela and Ohio rivers." George Wash-
ington, another surveyor, was second in command. Col.
Fry left Albemarle, to take command of these forces, in
March or April, and it is traditional that the troop of his
assistant surveyor (William Cabell, Jr.) went with him ; but
I have no positive evidence of it. Col. Fry died in May.
The Battle of the Meadows was fought July 3. Soon after
this the governor divided Virginia into four districts and
"appointed an Adjutant to each, to teach the Officers and
men the Art of War, and Exercise of their Arms." No-
vember 22, 1754, Thomas Walker was appointed adjutant
of the frontier counties. On July 9, 1755, Braddock was
defeated, and on the same day Gov. Dinwiddie ordered
Peter Jefferson, who had succeeded Fry as county lieuten-
ant, to furnish men for Col. Patton's ranger company, etc.
Maj. William Cabell became a lieutenant-colonel of Albe-
marle militia about this time, and served as such until 1760,
when he was made colonel. He was also a justice of the
peace, and did his duty both in his military and civil capa-
city in those trying times on our frontiers.
He married, early in 1756, Margaret, daughter of Col.
Samuel Jordan by his first wife, Ruth Meredith. The fol-
lowing account of his courtship was written years ago by
one of his granddaughters : —
" My grandfather was a young man of great promise and
worth. When he commenced visiting Col. Jordan's family,
it caused quite a sensation among the daughters of the
house. One of the older sisters thought that she was the
attraction, and was very peremptory in keeping her sister
Margaret, who was very young, in the background. On
one of his visits, he was pleased with some very nice
mince-pies (of which he was very fond), and Mrs. Jordan
told him ' the pastry was made by her step-daughter Mar-
garet, whom he had not yet seen.' In those days, it was
78 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
customary to ask the father's permission before addressing
his daughter ; and he soon after astonished the family by
asking Col. Jordan for permission to address his daughter
Margaret — the elegant pastry-maker, whom, it was sup-
posed, he had not seen. He had managed, however, to get a
glimpse of her before asking for permission to address her.
This Cinderella-like tale, whether strictly true or not, always
invested my grandmother with a peculiar interest to me."
Col. Cabell was a member of the House of Burgesses from
Albemarle from 1757 to 1761.
In 1758, sixty persons were murdered by the Indians in
the county of Augusta. I know that the county of Albe-
marle furnished soldiers to this war, and that is about all.
The part taken by them is almost left blank in our state
histories, and, prior to 1769, the Cabell papers are mainly
confined to " pounds and pence," business papers, etc.
In 1758, Col. Cabell made sundry payments to the militia
of the county of Albemarle, under the act of September,
"for the defence of the Frontiers of this Colony " (Hening's
Statutes at Large, vol. vii. pp. 171, 202). And the same
House of Burgesses passed an act appointing " William
Cabell, Junior, John Nicholas, and Samuel Jordan, gentle-
men, commissioners for Albemarle to examine and state the
accounts of provisions, and the pay of the militia, and of
the damages done the inhabitants of this colony by the
Cherokee and Catawba Indians."
October 11, 1760, he was appointed colonel of the militia
for the county of Albemarle by Gov. Francis Fauquier.
October 30, 1760, himself and other burgesses (George
Washington among the number), and others, subscribed to
the premium to be given for the encouragement of making
wine and silk in the colony. The subscriptions were pay-
able every year, for eight years, on the 30th of October.
February 14, 1761. " Wm. Cabbie, Jr., was granted
460 acres in Brunswick Co., Va., and prior to 1762 he was
granted 1243 acres additional." Was this Col. William
Cabell, Jr. ?
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 79
At the first Amherst court, on the 1st day of June, 1761,
Col. William Cabell qualified as the first presiding magis-
trate (the chief executive office) ; as the first county
lieutenant (the chief military office) ; as the first county sur-
veyor (one of the most (if not the most) important offices in
a new country) ; and as the first coroner of the county.
He continued to hold these offices until 1775. He was
also a burgess (the chief legislative office) from Amherst
County from 1761 to 1775 ; a churchwarden (an impor-
tant secular and civil office), and vestryman of Amherst
Parish from 1761 to 1775. He was appointed surveyor
by William and Mary College. He was appointed to some
of the other offices by the governor, and was elected to
others by the people. He held all of the leading offices
of Amherst County during the colonial era, from its first
formation in 1761 to the Revolution of 1775. Of course
he could not perform all the work, etc., of so many offices ;
but it was all done by himself, or by his agents, and assist-
ants or deputies, under instructions from him.
The first court ordered him to run the dividing line be-
tween Amherst and Albemarle. The line was completed on
June 20 following. It was, as now, up Rockfish to the
mouth of Green Creek ; thence north 23 degrees, 30 min-
utes west, 21 miles and 296 poles to the end, on the top
of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The county allowed the
surveyor for running this line, "and for expenses of the
same to chain-carriers, etc., £3 lis. 8d. and 384 lbs. of
tobacco. The surveyor's fee was 1596 lbs. gross tobacco
(equal to 1117 lbs. net), the sixth part of which (186 lbs.)
was paid to John Blair, Junr., the bursar for William and
Mary College, rated at 16s. 8d. per 100."
The site for the court house was chosen by the magis-
trates in June, 1761, and it was located on land belonging
to Col. Lunsford Lomax, which had been by him mortgaged
to the Hon. Philip Grymes, Esq., deceased, and which was
finally bought by Col. William Cabell, who at that time
(June, 1761) offered to build the same. "The place
80 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
chosen was approved of by the Governor and Council, pro-
vided that the court house be built at the expense of the
county ; for they cannot agree to have it done at the costs
of a private person, as it would prove an obstacle to re-
moving it, should the place now proposed be hereafter
adjudged inconvenient."
At March court, 1762, the first grand jury was sum-
moned for old Amherst County.
In September, 1762, William Cabell, Jr., and Cornelius
Thomas, churchwardens, purchased from Aaron Higgin-
botham 204 acres of land at <£120, and from Carter Brax-
ton 50 acres for five pounds, — 254 acres in all, at £125, —
as and for a olebe for Amherst Parish. Rev. Ichabod
Camp was the first minister of the parish. He was living
on this glebe in 1763, which was situated near the present
village of New Glasgow. He baptized Col. Cabell's chil-
dren. In 1778, he went West with George Rogers Clark,
and was the first Episcopalian minister to officiate as such
on the banks of the Mississippi. His granddaughter, Su-
sanna Marguerite de Reilhe, married Alexander McNair,
the first governor of Missouri.
On February 16, 1761, old Dr. Cabell gave bond in
£20,000 to his sons Will and Joe to convey, or bequeath
by will, to them their share of land. Prior to 1763, he
had not given his son William any land, but on the 2d of
May in that year, he made him a deed to " 1785 acres of
land in Amherst County on the north side and adjoining
the Fluvanna River, from just above the Swift Islands
[Midway station, C. & O. R. R.] to the mouth of Tye
River [Norwood station, C. & O. R. R.], which is part of a
tract of 4800 acres granted my father by patent bearing
date on the 12th day of September, 1738," the first grant
in the county. Some of this land is still owned by his
descendants, but most of it has passed into the hands of
others. Although his father did not make him a deed to
the tract until 1763, he had occupied the land from about
1752. On August 20, 1760, he had patented 460 acres
)
FRANCIS FAUg
Lieutenant-Governor, and
Colony and Dominion of
■<\& }ya&a?iv
B
Y Virtue of the Authority and Powenta me^p
{ Dominion, I, repofmg fpecial Tmft and ^
rJ annnint vnu the faid Jvw^>/*->^
and Chief Commander of all His Majefty's Mihtia* .jHorfe 1
And I do give unto you full Power and Authority |x> Coni
fhall be liable to be levied and lifted in the faid Coutty. %
of Lieutenant and Chief Commander of the Militia* fy ; ^
belonging, particularly by taking Care that the faid Militia|
of this Colony directs : And that all Officers and Soldiers |
And in Cafe of any fudden Difturbance or Invafion, I do |
Part of the faid Militia, as to you mall feem meet, for re|
all the Officers and Soldiers of His Majefty's Militi%An M
Commander ; and you are to obferve and follow futli 0|
from me, or the Commander in Chief of this Coloiy, .fijjj
according to the Rules and Difcipline of War.
GIVEN under my Hand, an dTftfte
Z/?\/
J~
.,
■?■■
'*•«,
/&— / . 0^ WV^x^^f^/
UJER, Efq; His Majefty's
Commander in Chief of the
VIRGINIA.
l^ef^^as^Cpfrtmander in Chief of this His Colony and
ir^uf Loyalty/ Courage and Conduct, do hereby conilitute_
^ tibe Lieutenant of the County of /Zf^^^^V
id Fo#, in the faid County of ^r??£^2^^-
nand,Levy, Arm, and Mufter, all Perfons which are or
^ a^herefbre carefully and diligently to difcharge the Duty
yifrd performing all, and all Manner of Things thereunto
>§|Nil provided with Arms and Ammunition as the Law
duj^ exercifed and kept in good Order and Difcipline.
Lewit: impower you to raife, order, and march all, or fuch
ting tnd fubduing the Enemy : And I do hereby command
lid County, to obey you as their Lieutenant, or Chief
rs wd Directions, from Time to Time, as you fhall receive
he Sme being, or from any other your fuperior Officer,
nOi«p' t at- Williqm&uzg) the r^'^r*:? &&> - — -Day of"
— Al^Year of his Majefty's Reign, A?inoque Domini 17&/.
T2&n ■
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 81
" on both sides of Findlay's Creek, joining the back lines "
of the above tract, and near the middle of it. The 1785-
acre tract was all low grounds ; the 460 acres extended
back to the hio-h land. These two tracts formed the basis
for the old Union Hill estate. His residence was located
on the high land tract. He added 579 acres in 1764, and
continued to add thereto until it became a princely pos-
session.
The first land that he really owned was a tract of 2700
acres on the east side of the Tobacco Row Mountains,
granted to him by the crown on December 6, 1753, for
the sum of <£12 15s. cash, a yearly quit-rent of one shilling
on every fifty acres or fraction thereof, " payable on the
feast of Saint Michael the Arch- Angel," and on condition
that three acres of every fifty should be cultivated and
improved within three years from the day of the grant.
Failing in either of these contracts, the land would revert
to the crown. These were also the terms of Dr. William
Cabell's first grant in 1738, and of all of the old grants in
this region.
October court, 1763. The county surveyor was ordered
to survey and lay off ten acres of land, to include the court
house and prison, as bounds for debtors. Col. Cabell was
in his place as presiding justice and chairman of his Ma-
jesty's commission of Oyer and Terminer for the county.
The grand jury fined sundry persons for swearing rash
oaths at the rate of five shillings per oath.
In January, 1764, he was appointed by act of the Gen-
eral Assembly one of the commissioners for the counties of
Augusta, Louisa, Orange, Albemarle, Amherst, Bedford,
and Halifax, to examine and state the accounts of the
militia lately ordered into actual service against the Indians.
In October following, he was appointed to the same pur-
pose for the counties of Augusta, Bedford, Halifax, and
Amherst. And the same General Assembly (October,
1764) also appointed him one of the trustees to solicit and
receive subscriptions for clearing the Great Falls of James
River.
82 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
The disputes between the colonies and England became
pronounced about the year 1763. But the Stamp Act,
which became a law on the 22d of March, 1765, although
it was not to go into effect until the 1st of November fol-
lowing, was possibly the first real overt act on the part of
the mother country.
The House of Burgesses met May 1, 1765. Col. Wil-
liam Cabell was a member from old Amherst. " The
Stamp Act and the scheme for taxing America by the Brit-
ish Parliament " reached Virginia during the session and
" caused a great commotion." On May 29, Patrick Henry
offered his famous resolutions ; they passed the next day,
and on June 1 the governor dissolved the House.
The colonial courts " refused to sanction the Act by sit-
ting." The act was repealed in March, 1766, and notice
of the repeal reached this country in May, 1766. There
was no court held in Amherst from November, 1765, to
June, 1766. So the magistrates of Amherst disapproved of
the act, and William Cabell was the presiding magistrate.
Howe, in his " Historical Collections of Virginia," says :
" After the passage of Henry's resolutions the Governor
dissolved the Assembly, but the people reelected the friends
and excluded the opposers of the resolutions." William
Cabell was reelected by the people. Mr. Jefferson said that
" the members from the upper counties invariably supported
Mr. Henry in his revolutionary measures." Mr. Jefferson
says : " Till the beginning of our revolutionary disputes we
had but one press in Virginia, and that having the wdiole
business of the government, and no competitor for public
favor, nothing disagreeable to the governor could find its
way into it. We procured Rind to come from Maryland
to publish a free paper, . . . open to all parties but influ-
enced by none." Col. William Cabell declined taking the
government organ in 1761 ; but he took Rind's " Virginia
Gazette " from its first issue, May 16, 1766, and he may
have been one of those whom Jefferson alludes to as " we,"
who " procured Rind to come," etc. We can judge a man's
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 83
politics very well by the politics of the paper which he
subscribes to.
Although I have no actual record of the fact, yet for the
foregoing reasons I am very sure that Col. William Cabell
supported Henry's resolutions; but I do not think that he
had any idea of an actual rebellion against Great Britain at
this early date. And after the repeal of the Stamp Act,
there is evidence that he " had strong hopes that the griev-
ances of the Colonies would be redressed and the dispute
adjusted."
The first session of the next House of Burgesses began
on November 6, 1766, and Col. William Cabell was again
one of the members from old Amherst. This House ap-
pointed Cols. William and Joseph Cabell and others, trus-
tees for winding up the estates of Col. John Chiswell and
Speaker John Robinson. The latter estate was very com-
plicated, and they were still fulfilling this trust so late as
May, 1791.
On December 12, 1766, Col. Peter Randolph, of the
Council, the escheator for the colony of Virginia, appointed
Col. William Cabell his deputy-escheator for the counties of
Albemarle, Amherst, Buckingham and Bedford. It was
necessary, I suppose, for this office to be filled by a friend
to the crown. Col. Cabell declined the office.
Mr. Grigsby alludes to his dress in " The Virginia Con-
vention of 1776," p. 118, note. The following bill of arti-
cles bought in England for him in 1767 will give some idea
of his outfit at that time. The prices are in English, not
Virginia, money : —
1 pr. single channel'd boots, with straps, etc.
1 " strong buckskin breeches
1 man's best beaver hat
2 pr. men's best buckskin gloves @ 5/-.
1 " neat fashionable chain silver spurs, 6 oz.
1 best silver button twig whip
1 man's saddle, best, with all tackle
£
1
Sterling
S.
2
a.
6
1
10
1
1
10
2
10
6
1
15
12
4
6
2
84 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
1 fine Mazarine blue cloth housing, laced, etc.
1 strong double rein'd bridle front lapt.
1 chair whip with long 4 plat lash, etc.
6 prs. men's fine silk hose, black, white, and
gray @ 14/-. 4 4
4 yds. best superfine drab cloth @ 22/-. a yard,
2| dz. worked coat buttons @ 18d. per doz,
6 vest buttons at 9d., twist and silk 2/-.,
thread 3d., | yd. velvet 8/-., for 1 suit, total
cost 5 2 4|
8 yds. best | Mantua @ 6 / 6, and 6 yds. super-
fine garnet ingrain cloth @ 21/-., 3-|- dz. new
gold basket coat buttons @ 7 / 6 pr. doz., 5 dz.
do. vest buttons @ 3 / 9 pr. doz. 1] oz. twist @
2 /4 pr. oz., 1| oz. silk @ 2 /4 pr. oz., Buck-
ram-thread 1|., 3 pr. straps 18d. j>r. and 1^
yds. shalloons @ 2/-., for 1 suit and 1 great
coat, total 11 19 2
1 pr. men's best pumps 12
[Also, knee-garters, knee-buckles, shoe-buckles,
etc.]
1 chair with harness, etc., complete 47 2 6
The tailor's price in Virginia, at that time, for making a
suit of clothes was from fifteen to thirty shillings, and for
a greatcoat from six to twelve shillings Virginia currency.
In 1767, Peyton Randolph, Esq. (the speaker), the exec-
utor of the will, etc., of the Hon. Philip Grymes, Esq., de-
ceased, gave Col. William Cabell " a power of attorney to
sell 7800 acres of land in Amherst County, formerly the
property of Col. Lunsford Lomax and by him mortgaged to
the late Philip Grymes, Esq. deed, to secure payment of
<£1714 lis. 2d. sterling." After the November session,
1766, the House of Burgesses was continued by several
prorogations to March 31, 1768, when the second session
began.
The joy in America over the repeal of the Stamp Act
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 85
was premature. Almost immediately another bill was
passed by Parliament levying duties on the colonies, and
" the flame of resistance soon burst forth afresh ; " and for
this reason Gov. Fauquier had felt that it was best to pro-
rogue the House during 1767. The governor died early in
1768, and the aforesaid March session was convened by
John Blair, president of the council and acting governor.
Col. William Cabell's diary and most of his papers prior
to 1769 are missing. I have his diary from January 2,
1769, to December 21, 1771, complete. In 1769, Lord
Botetourt, the new governor of Virginia, called another As-
sembly. Charles Campbell, in his " History of Virginia,"
says the Assembly was convened on the 11th of May, and
dissolved on the 17th. Col. Cabell's diary shows that he
was absent from home from the 1st to the 22d of May.
The entries are devoted to sundry business transactions with
Peterfield Trent, William Grayson, James Buchanan, and
others.
" May 12th. Paid Mr. Craig £2 16 4 in full for my
board, horses etc. to Saturday morning the 13th."
" May 16th. Paid Col. Archibald Cary 6/3 for my expense
with Mrs. Todd at the Rocky Ridge [Manchester], for pro-
visions, etc. when we were viewing the Great Falls." He
left Williamsburg on the 19th, and on the 20th he was
at Richmond. " Paid Lewis Ball £8 3s. for carting 34
hhds. tobacco to the inspection, and for carting my goods to
Westham." On the 22d, he made this particular entry :
" Came home from the Assembly, which met on Monday
the 8th of May and was dissolved on Wednesday the 17th
of May."*
The next day, the burgesses met in the Raleigh Tavern
and drew up " the Articles of the Mercantile Association."
Col. William Cabell signed these articles, and he was so
heartily supported by his constituents that, at the next elec-
tion, " Sept. 12th 1769, he was chosen by the view and con-
sent of the People, without polling, there being no opposi-
tion."
86 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Jefferson says that " nothing of particular excitement
occurred after the May session, 1769, until our session in
the spring of 1773."
Under December 17, 1769, there is the following double
entry in the diary : —
" The Assembly met the 8th day of May and was dis-
solved the 17th. Sat 10 days."
" The Assembly met Tuesday the 7th day of November
and I attended 'till Sunday the 17th of December, in all
41 davs."
I infer that he was thus particular in repeatedly noting
the time he had served, because there was some doubt
about the payment of their wages to the burgesses. On
December 16, there is the following entry : " Gave Major
David Mason an order on the Treasurer for <£10 in part of
my wages for this session, which if received he is to repay
me." " June 18th 1770, the Treasurer paid me the bal-
ance of £27 18s. in full of £37 18s. my wages for the
May and November sessions, 1769." Thus again proving
that he served fifty-one days during these two sessions, and,
by his various entries, that the session of May, 1769, began
on the 8th and not on the 11th, as has been supposed.
Unfortunately, no public acts of, or events connected with,
either Assembly are mentioned in his diary. In fact, the
so-called diary is more of a day-book or pocket business
memoranda than a diary. Still, there are but few things in
it which might not be at one time or another, or under
some circumstances, of some use to the future historian of
this region, or to those interested in the early settlers
thereof. The extracts which I give in this work will gen-
erally have some especial reference to the Cabells or their
kin ; but there are many references to many others " of
hio;h or low degree."
" October 13th 1769. Exchanged horses with Col. Carter
Braxton and gave him 46 shillings and three pairs of shoes
to boot:'
" Finished my limes and all my arrack except two bot-
tles."
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 87
" Octr. 14th. Sent the Standard of Weights and Meas-
ures to Capt. Key's for Gabriel Penn."
" Delivered Wm Loving, Dan McBane's survey."
But the following continuous extract will give a better
idea of its general character : —
" 1770, Jany. ljf. Looked over my stock at Trice's and
counted 11 cows, 13 heifers and young steers, 5 year-
lings and 4 calves — 11 sows, 30 barrows and spaded sows
(small) and 40 pigs.
" 15. Sold Dreadnaught to George Barclay for £20.
and a small sword. £5. of which and the sword I rec'd,
and if £13. is paid me by the tenth of June next it is to
discharge the £15. Swaped with Geo. Barclay my sorrel
mare for a Roan horse, and if the mare brings a foal he is
to give me £5. to boot, and if it is not convenient to pay
it in June next I am to wait 'till June come twelve month
— all in presence of Major Higginbotham.
"Reed an order from Charles Tuley to transfer his entry
on Indian Camp Creek to Robert Johnston, which through
mistake I flung into the fire. Present Majr Higginbotham
and Mr. Geo : Barclay.
" Delivered Robert Johnston two certificates for land
which was surveved for him in the Fall of 1769.
" 16. Delivered Majr Higginbotham, Rachel Morrison's
receipt from the Secretary's office.
" 17. Sent, by Majr. Higginbotham one of the late Edi-
tions of the laws to Capt Meriwether and one to Alexander
Reid Jr. [Major Higginbotham was his assistant surveyor.
Meriwether and Reid were magistrates.]
" 19. By Wm. Loving £17. 6. 6. in fuU of his acct.
" 20. Gave the following negroes hats, viz : — Mingo,
Pompey, Yellow Will, Tye River Will, Charles, John, True-
blue, Caesar, Roger and Simeon." etc.
Hening's "Statutes at Large," vol. viii. p. 493, states
that the Assembly of November, 1769, was continued by
several prorogations to July 11, 1771, " being the second
session of this present General Assembly." The May ses-
88 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
sion, 1770, is not given by Hening. The diary shows that
he left home for Williamsburg, via Richmond, on May 19,
1770 ; that the Assembly met on May 23, and that he
remained in Williamsburg until after dinner, June 27. He
does not give the day on which the Assembly adjourned or
was prorogued, but the inference is that it was on June 26,
because on June 25 there is the following entry : —
" By the Treasurer £23. 15 for my Burgess' wages for
the May Session, 1770," which shows that he had served
about thirty-five days. The following is the first reference
to Washington in the portion of the diary still preserved : —
" 1770. May 31st. Delivered Henry Bailey's certificate
and his discharge to Col. George Washington, which he
thought sufficient to entitle him and his brother William
Bailey's heir to their proportion of the land granted by
Govr Dinwiddie's proclamation."
William Bailey was killed in the battle of " The Mead-
ows," July 3, 1754.
It was during this May session that the burgesses and
merchants of Virginia met, and entered into the association
of June 22, 1770, which was signed by Col. William Cabell
and his brother Joe. He boarded with Thomas Crai<r from
May 23 to June 27, 1770, and I have Craig's receipt for
the bill. Board and lodging for himself three shillings and
sixpence per day, for his man Harry one shilling and three-
pence, and for his two horses four shillings, total, 8s. 9d.
per day ; but with the exception of four days, there was
not a day on which he did not pay extra for a " club of
Punch," or something of the sort, either at dinner or sup-
per, or both ; never at breakfast. The burgesses were
social with the merchants.
" 1771, Jan'y 24. My nose bled for the first time."
" May 26. The greatest flood in the river that has been
known by 12 feet perpendicular, at least, — it carried away
almost every house on the low grounds, destroyed all the
orchards — many people were drowned — fences entirely
carried off — and all the stacks of every kind — and the
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 89
land when uncovered with the water presented the most
melancholy appearance, everything being entirely swept off
and the land to all appearances ruined."
From June 4 to June 12 he was absent in Richmond
attending- to business connected with the flood, — looking
after the tobacco destroyed in Byrd's and Shockoe ware-
houses, etc.
" July 11th the Assembly met."
" July 20th. Rec'd of the Treasurer £11 4s. in full of
my wages for the present session."
" July 23d. Returned home from the Assembly."
The burgesses were paid " ten shillings a day, besides
ferriages, for coining to, attending at, and returning from
every session of Assembly." The burgesses from Amherst
were allowed " six days for coining and six days for return-
ing," £6, and ferriages from four to five shillings. So the
Assembly of July, 1771, sat ten days. It aprjointed com-
missioners to meet in Richmond on September 1 to review
the claims of the people for damages by the freshet, etc.,
on tobacco stored in public warehouses, and authorized the
emission of £30,000 (in paper currency), treasury notes, —
James River Bank money as it is named on its face, — to
enable the colony to give this relief to the sufferers.
" The commissioners met on Thursday the 1st day of
Sept'r in order to review the further claims of the people."
Col. Cabell was absent from home September 1 to Septem-
ber 7 in Richmond attending this commission. He was
allowed £254 17s. Id. damages.
Col. Cabell made his last shipment of tobacco to England
prior to the Revolution in July, 1771, and he sent only four
hogsheads to pay a small balance due his merchant (John
Backhouse, of Liverpool), and to get some shoes and books,
" By The John, Captain John Breakhill." Previous to
this he had sent from 15 to 20 hogsheads, and his orders
had amounted to about £200 sterling per annum. He
seems always to have sold the most of his tobacco to the
merchants of Richmond, — James Buchanan, Neil Campbell,
90 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
and others. His orders to England generally included
fifty or more books. I will give an extract from an invoice,
in order to show the character of the books then taught
and read in the backwoods of old Amherst, and their prices
in England : —
£ s. d.
1 Phcedrus' Tables with notes 2
1 Sallust with notes 4
1 Lucius Florus with notes 3
1 Terence's Comedies in Usum Delphini 5
1 Buchanan's Latin Psalms 3 6
1 Tully's Orations in Usum Delphini 6
1 Juvenal and Persius in one volume, do. 4
[1 Tully's Epistles, ditto, and 1 Livy in one
volume with Marginal Notes. Out ofjwint^
1 Horace in Usum Delphini 6
2 Setts of the most usefull Books for Stu-
dents in Learning Latin. Vizt.
' 2 Clarkes Ovid 10/-. 2 Clarkes Corde-
rii, 2/- 12
2 Clarkes Erasmus, 2/-. 2 Patrick's Eras-
mus 7/- 9
2 Ruddiman's Grammr 5/-. 2 Ruddiman's
Rudiments, 2/- 7
2 Smarts Horace 4 vols, 40/- 2
2 Corderii Coloq : 2/-. 2 Philips's Latin
L'res, 6/- 8
2 Boyces Pantheon 7/-. 2 Baileys Exer-
cises 2/- 9
2 Mair's Tyro's Dictionary 8
2 Lillies Latin Gramrs 3
2 Sterlings Virgil — one in 2 vols, the other
in 1 vol — without Clavis Virgiliana 16
2 Cornelius Nepos 7/-. 2 Rhetorick, 8d. 7
2 pounce Boxes Is. Pounce for Do. 6d. 1 6
6 papers best Ink Powder 3
1 Gentns Magazine for 1767, bound in Calf
and Letterd 7 6
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 91
2 Ainsworths Dictionarys Quarto. Calf and
Letterd 2 12
1 Salmon's Geographical Gramr 6
1 Bowen's Atlas Folio, bound in Calf and Let-
terd 1 7
1 Bacon's Abridgement. 5 Volumes, bound
in Calf and Letterd 7 17 6
2 Kennetts Roman Antiquities 10
1 Milton's Paradise Lost and Regained. 4
vols. 1 4
1 Shakespeare's Plays. 9 vols. 1 7
1 Congreeve's Plays. 2 vols. 6
Col. Cabell had had previous correspondence with Back-
house regarding some plan on which he might continue his
dealings with him, but they could come to no agreement.
Col. Cabell (July, 1771) wrote him : " From the increase of
my family, had you adopted my plan, I should have been
under the necessity of enlarging my consignments."
On October 4, 1771, he entered into the following agree-
ment with Charles Irving: "Memo. That I, Charles Ir-
ving, as Factor for Henderson, McCaul & Company, mer-
chants in Glasgow (Scotland) do oblige myself to furnish
William Cabell, Jun'r (from the store now kept by me in
Albemarle County, Va.) with all the goods which he, the
said Cabell shall have occasion of at 50 pr ct. on their first
cost, after making the proper allowance on all those articles
which have a Debenture, drawback, or Bounty on exporta-
tion. And it is further agreed by and between the parties
that the balance due either party on the first day of Sep-
tember in every year shall carry interest from that time
until paid.
" Witness my hand this fourth day of Oct'r, 1771.
Charles Irving."
[Charles Irving married Mildred, daughter of Matthew
Jordan and first cousin to Col. Cabell's wife. " He was the
son of Robert Irving, an Edinburgh (Scotland) lawyer of
92 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
some eminence, who was the brother to James Irving, the
great-grandfather of Washington Irving of New York."]
There was a bounty on Irish linen of 1| pence per yard,
on " Ozenbrigs," and on " hempen roles." A debenture
on soap of 1|- pence per pound, and on refined sugar of 12
shillings per 100 pounds.
" Nov. 8. Made 50 gallons of brandy, being my first
essay." He had previously imported this from England.
He was again elected a burgess on December 1, 1771,
when he seems to have done some treating-.
" Dec. 1st. Sent up 120 gals, of cider, and 110 gals, of
Bumbo to the election by Mr. Joplin's wagon."
"Dec. 9th. Paid Richard Alcock [the ordinary keeper
at the Court House] twenty shillings balance in full of my
expenses at the election, in presence of Hugh Rose, John
Phillips and Roderick McCulloch."
The diary from December 21, 1771, to May 1, 1773, is
missing".
The House of Burgesses met in February, 1772, and
passed an act authorizing those who had subscribed to the
fund for opening the Great Falls of James River (after cer-
tain conditions were complied with) to meet and elect a
president, trustees, and directors ; that is, to form a com-
pany " for the cutting a canal, erecting locks and other
works requisite for opening the said falls."
Col. William Cabell was one of the first subscribers to
the stock of this first James River Canal Company (see Oc-
tober, 1764), and he was a member of the House of Bur-
gesses at this time ; but his diary is missing here, and his
other papers throw no light on the result of this act, the
meeting of the subscribers, etc. ; but the inference is that
the meeting was held ; and, if so, I suppose that Col. Ca-
bell took a prominent part therein, as he certainly did in
the same line of action before and after this date. Was
the company organized about this time, in 1772 or 1773 ?
Was the work interrupted by the Revolution ? And was
the company organized in 1785 a reorganization and an
expansion of the company of 1772 ?
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 93
Col. Cabell was treasurer of Amherst County in 1772, an
office which he probably filled before that year and after.
The first mention by the diary (as preserved) of counter-
feit money being in circulation in these parts is on Janu-
ary 28, 1770. It is mentioned quite frequently there-
after. " A forgery of the paper-currency of the Colony
compelled Govr Dunmore to call the Assembly together
early in 1773, it met on March 4th ; on the 12th the reso-
lutions appointing the Committee of correspondence passed,
and Dunmore immediately dissolved the House." And
here again we have to regret the loss of Col. Cabell's diary,
for the Revolution had now begun in earnest, and every
step becomes more and more interesting. His papers show
that Thomas Jefferson was his attorney at this time.
The diary is complete from May 1 to December 7, 1773,
but it is again missing from that date to May 27, 1774.
I note that in our histories we are told that Mr. Johnson,
a member of the House of Burgesses from Louisa County,
vacated his seat in 1765 by accepting the office of coroner,
and that Patrick Henry was elected in his place. I am sure
that Col. William Cabell was both coroner of, and a burgess
from, old Amherst for many years. I should also note the
fact that, prior to his father's death in April, 1774, his
name nearly always appears in the records as " Wm. Ca-
bell, Junr," or « Col. Wm. Cabell."
The next Assembly met in May, 1774. On the 25th,
they entered an indignant protest against the Boston Port
Bill ; on the next day, Dunmore dissolved them. " The
burgesses repaired [May 27] to the Raleigh, and adopted
resolutions against the use of tea, etc., and recommended
the annual convening of a Congress " (see Campbell's " His-
tory of Virginia," p. 573). " Further news being received
from Boston, the members who remained in Williamsburg
held a meeting on the 30th, at which Peyton Randolph
presided, and they issued a circular, recommending a meet-
ing of deputies in a convention to assemble there on the
first of August."
94 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Col. Cabell was at the meeting 1 in " The Raleigh," but he
left Williamsburg on the 28th, prior to the second meeting,
arrived at home on the 30th, and observed June 1 as
" a day of fasting, prayer and humiliation."
The diary is complete from May 27, 1774, to April 19,
1776.
The tradition in the family is that, although Col. Wil-
liam Cabell bitterly opposed the oppressive acts of Great
Britain, he had strong hope of a final and satisfactory set-
tlement until the passage of the Boston Port Bill, which
was to take effect on June 1, 1774.
The following anecdote was told to the late N. F. Cabell,
Esq., many years ago, " by Mr. Richard N. Venable of
Prince Edward, and afterwards confirmed by old Mr.
James Wilson of Cumberland, substantially as follows :
When the House of Burgesses was dissolved by Dunmore,
the members repaired en masse to the Raleigh Tavern,
from whence they issued their famous circuler letter to
their constituents. Col. Cabell, when coming out of the
former House, was met by a friend, who observed that he
was much agitated and talking vehemently to his brother
Joseph, with whom he was walking arm in arm.
" ' Where now, Colonel ? ' asked his friend.
" ' To the Raleigh Tavern.'
"'And what to do?'
" ' No one can deny,' said Col. Cabell, ' that the people
of this colony have been loyal subjects ; they have borne
their grievances with patience, and have petitioned respect-
fully for their removal. All their remonstrances and me-
morials have been treated with neglect and contempt, and
now we are to be gagged. By the eternal God! we must
fight, and for one, I care not how soon.'
" The anecdote, of course, cannot be used as history, but
I give it as having made a strong impression on my mind
at the time. It was thought the more singular as he was
ordinarily a man of great prudence and self-possession ;
but being once engaged, he was not the man to carry the
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 95
spirit of peace into war." (Extract from a letter from
N. F. Cabell to William C. Rives, April 19, 1855.)
In June and July, 1774, meetings were held in the
various counties for the purpose of nominating and choos-
ing deputies to the first Revolutionary convention, which
was to assemble on "the first of August next." The real
motive of these meetings was that " Life and Liberty never
shall be parted," and " Independence " was the uppermost
thought, which was more or less publicly expressed at many
of them. It has been claimed that the "Resolves" of the
meeting at Woodstock, Shenandoah County, June 16, 1774,
presided over by Rev. Peter Muhlenberg, were, all things
considered, as pronounced as " the Mecklenburg [N. C]
Declaration of Independence of 20 May, 1775." I do not
know what "Resolves" were "Resolved" in this section;
but old Albemarle sent down Thomas Jefferson and John
Walker, while old Amherst sent Col. William and Col. Joe
CabeU.
" July 25th, 1774, the election of Burgesses for Amherst
took place, when myself and brother Joseph were elected
without ojjposition."
. " July 28th. Set off on my way to Williamsburg to the
general meeting of Deputies the first of August next."
This was the first Revolutionary convention held in Vir-
ginia. The first state delegates to Congress were elected
by it. "Amherst County's proportion for the use of the
Deputies sent from this Colony to the General Congress "
was fifteen pounds.
"August 7th. Paid Col. Pendleton £15, being Am-
herst County's proportion allotted by the late meeting of
Delegates. £5 2s. part of which Joseph Cabell paid."
" August 10th. Came home from the meeting of Dele-
gates after being absent 14 days. 6 days the Convention
sat."
This convention, among other things, recommended that
committees be chosen in each county to carry out the con-
tinental association, etc.
96 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
"Augt 19th. Paid Mr. John Nicholas £4 in part of
£10, which I subscribed for the clearing of the Seven
Islands Falls, in presence of John Rose, Charles Irving and
Cornelius Thomas."
"Augt 27th. Patrick Rose desired me in the presence
of John Rose, Hugh Rose, Charles Rose and Win. Fon-
taine, to set his name to my subscription paper for opening
the Great Falls of James River, and to put £50, which
amount he was willing to subscribe."
The Presbytery of Hanover met on the 2d Wednesday
of November (the 11th), 1774, at the house of Col. Wil-
liam Cabell, of Amherst, to remonstrate against certain
provisions of a bill entitled "A bill for extending the
benefit of the Act of Toleration to his Majesty's subjects
dissenting from the Church of England in the Colony
of Virginia," which had been passed by the Assembly in
1772. The Presbytery drew up a petition "in behalf of
themselves, and all the Presbyterians in Virginia in par-
ticular, and all Protestant dissenters in general," to " the
Honourable Speaker and the Gentlemen of the House of
Burgesses," which was signed by David Rice, moderator,
and Caleb Wallace, clerk. This very interesting paper was
found by the Hon. W. W. Henry early hi May, 1888, and
printed for the first time in " The Central Presbyterian,"
Richmond, May 16, 1888.
The fact that this celebrated meeting was held at " Union
Hill " shows that Col. Cabell favored " Religious Liberty; "
but the burgesses from old Amherst, like most of the Revo-
lutionary leaders, were members of the Church of England.
All of the Cabell family were members of that Church at
that time, but the standing of the Church in America was
much affected during and after the Revolution, owing to
the fact that it was regarded as an English institution.
The amount of business done by Col. Cabell — public,
state, county, and personal — was enormous, and although
I believe that an account of his personal and private affairs
would be of interest to most of his descendants, I find that
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 97
to ero into these details would make this sketch too longf,
and therefore I am obliged to confine myself in the main to
his more public acts.
Although an Assembly met in June, 1775, there was
really an interregnum, or lack of regular form of govern-
ment, in Virginia, from the dissolution of the colonial
Assembly in May, 1774, to the meeting of the state As-
sembly on October 7, 1776. The colony was governed in
a manner by conventions, by county committees, and by the
state Committee of Safety. It is true that Patrick Henry
qualified as governor on July 5, 1776, and that the first
year of the Commonwealth of Virginia began on that day ;
but the government first assumed a regular form with the
meeting of the first state Assembly.
Col. William Cabell was chairman of the county com-
mittee of Amherst, 1774-1776. (See sketch of Col. George
Carrington, p. 159.)
" March 18th, 1775. Set off on my way to the Conven-
tion at Richmond, which sat from the 20th to the 27th
inclusive."
" On the 27th of March, it was resolved that the utmost
endeavours be used to establish salt works." Col. Cabell
had, already, on " the 24th inst. paid James Tait £10 for
the encouragement of making salt."
He is said to have supported the scheme of a regular
army, presented in this convention by Robert Carter
Nicholas.
On the 25th inst., the Convention recommended that so
much money should be collected " as will be sufficient to
purchase half a pound of gunpowder, one pound of lead,
necessary flints and cartridge paper for every tithable per-
son.
Col. Cabell reached home from the Convention on March
30, and by May 15 had collected and sent down Amherst
County's proportion (£63 3s. 9d.) of the above fund.
On May 28, he set off on his way to the Assembly.
"June 10th paid Thomas Jefferson Esq. £25. for the
98 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Bostonians, which he is to deliver Mr. Adams one of the
Delegates for the Massachusetts Bay." " The Assembly
met on June 1st, and I continued until Friday the 16th
and got home on Monday the 19th." (Diary.)
On June 6, Gov. Dunmore consulted his safety by going
<©n board the Fowey man-of-war. The Assembly determined
that he had voluntarily left his post, and that the presi-
dent of the council should act as governor. June 16, the
burgesses adjourned to October 12, and a convention was
called to meet July 17. The burgesses met in convention
at the appointed time, but this was the last meeting of the
House of Burgesses, as such, in Virginia.
" July 17. Set off on my way to the Convention." " The
Convention sat 41 days and to charge 100 miles @ 4d.
travelling to and from Richmond."
In this convention, Col. Cabell was a member of " the
committee appointed to prepare and bring in an ordinance
for raising and embodying a sufficient force for the defence
and protection of this Colony." The flight of Dunmore left
Virginia without an executive, and rendered it necessary to
vest its powers elsewhere for a time ; and it was resolved to
lodge these powers in a Committee of Safety, the ordinance
appointing the same passing the convention on August 16.
It was designated as a committee " for the more effectual
carrying into execution the rules and regulations estab-
lished by this Convention for the protection of this Colony."
In order to prevent favoritism in the distribution of offices,
etc., it was resolved that " No member of the Committee of
Safety shall hold any military office whatsoever after the
end of this session of the Convention." On August 17,
Col. Cabell was elected a member of the Committee of
Safety. The resolution of the 16th inst. prevented him
from taking the field, but it did not prevent him from
taking a most active part in the civil list during the whole
war. The Convention also appointed him as one of the
commissioners for settling the militia accounts, etc., in the
Indian wars, in the counties of Fincastle, Botetourt, Cul-
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 99
peper, Pittsylvania, Halifax, Bedford, and that part of
Augusta which lies eastward of the Alleghany Mountains.
He returned home from the Convention on August 28.
The Revolution had begun, and old Amherst gave the
event a " jarring " reception. On March 16, the day before
Col. Cabell set off for the Convention, about a quarter after
two in the afternoon, a severe shock of an earthquake was
felt ; a quarter after seven there was another, and a third
just before day. On August 30, two days after he returned
from Convention, there was another shock of an earth-
quake about two in the morning, " which continued for a
considerable time ; the lumbering noise was greater than
any of the kind I have ever heard, and continued longer."
The ordinance for raising and embodying a sufficient
force for the defense and protection of this colony, prepared
by the committee of the July-August Convention, divided
the colony into sixteen districts, and each district was or-
dered forthwith to raise one company for active service.
The company from this district (Buckingham, Amherst,
Albemarle, and East Augusta) was ordered to be composed
of " expert Riflemen." The county committees of each
county in the district were to appoint three of their number
as deputies, to meet in one general district committee, to
appoint the officers (one captain, two lieutenants, and one
ensign) to command the company to be raised in that dis-
trict, as well as to regulate matters pertaining to the min-
ute-men (see sketch of Col. Nicholas Cabell) from the same
district. Col. William Cabell was one of the deputies from
the Amherst committee to the district committee which met
on September 8, 1775, at the house of James Woods in
Amherst. They elected the officers for this first rifle com-
pany to be raised in the district, and selected Charlottesville
as the place of rendezvous for the reception and review of
the " regulars to be raised in the district."
The names of the officers are not given in the Cabell
papers, but I am very sure that William Fontaine was the
captain ; that it was attached to the 2d Virginia Regiment,
100 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
and that it was on duty near Williamsburg early in Novem-
ber, 1775. Several citizens of Amherst were members of
Captain Fontaine's company, and several others furnished
rifles to the company, for which they were allowed £4 each
by the Committee of Safety. Capt. William Fontaine was
a tutor at " Union Hill " from the spring of 1774 to Sep-
tember, 1775. He was the son of Col. Peter Fontaine, and
brother to Maj. James Fontaine, who was afterwards killed
at Harmer's defeat. He was present at the surrender of
Cornwallis, for a graphic and interesting account of which,
given in a letter from him, see the " Virginia Historical
Register," vol. ii. p. 34. He was then Col. William Fon-
taine.
Col. William Cabell went direct from the meeting of Sep-
tember 8 to Augusta County, where he was engaged for
forty-one days in settling the militia accounts pertaining to
the Indian wars on the frontiers, a service in which he had
been several times employed before. In 1775, there were
5296 whites and 2750 negroes in old Amherst. Forty
years before, Dr. Cabell and his men were alone in these
woods, chopping out the lines for the first entry for land in
this region.
The county committees under the Continental associa-
tion (August, 1774) had not been uniformly organized as
to their numbers, etc., and there was no definite limit as to
their term of service. Therefore the' Convention of July-
August, 1775, ordained that they should thereafter be com-
posed of twenty-one members, to be elected annually, in
November, for one year. The second committee for Am-
herst County was elected at November court (first Monday),
1775. It was composed of " twenty-one of the most dis-
creet fit and able men of the County," namely : " Col. Wm.
Cabell (chairman), Zacharias Taliaferro, Ambrose Rucker,
Alexander Reid, Roderick McCulloch, Col. James Nevil,
Daniel Gaines, David Crawford, Col. John Rose, James
Dillard, Sr., Hugh Rose, John Dawson, William Horsley,
John Digges, Benjamin Rucker, Col. Joseph Cabell, Gabriel
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 101
Perm, Lucas Powell, Dr. James Hopkins, David Shepherd,
and Francis Meriwether." Gabriel Penn was paymaster of
the district. Charles Rose was clerk to the district com-
mittee, and also to the Amherst County committee.
Col. William Cabell was absent from home, attending the
state Committee of Safety, from the 9th to the 19th of No-
vember.
" Novr. 22nd. Delivered Col. Nevil the commissions for
the militia officers for Amherst County."
" Novr. 23. Delivered Col. John Cabell the commissions
for the Militia officers for Buckingham County."
These commissions were from the Committee of Safety.
As a member of that committee, Col. Cabell was debarred
from holding any military office, because that committee
had the appointment of such officers. Col. James Nevil
had succeeded him as county lieutenant and chief com-
mander of Amherst, and his commission as such was also
from the Committee of Safety.
" Novr. 26th. No salt to be had in Richmond or Wil-
liamsburg."
" Novr. 28th. Set off on my way to the Convention."
This Convention met at Richmond on December 1, and
adjourned to meet in Williamsburg on Monday, December
4, 1775. Col. Cabell was a member of several important
committees during this Convention, and on December 16,
was reelected one of the " New Committee of Safety,"
which went into operation on January 18, 1776, under an
amended ordinance which increased their power, and their
pay also (from 15s. to 25s. per day).
The Convention adjourned on January 20, 1776, but the
new Committee of Safety had been in session since the 18th
inst.
" 1776, Jan'y 23d. By The Treasurer £76 15s. my
wages as one of The Committee of Safety to the 18th inst.
inclusive.
" By do. £25 14s. my wages as a Delegate to The Con-
vention.
102 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
" By do. 25s. for one day in settling the Militia accounts
at Cumberland C. H.
" Paid Mrs Vobe 16/3 my part of an entertainment
given Col. Howe, &c. In presence of Col. Paul Carrington.
"gfih. Paid Richard Charlton £25 17 4, in full of my
expenses, in presence of Col. Paul Carrington.
" Paid James Southall £9, in full of my expenses with
him as pr account and receipt delivered.
" 25th. I left the new Committee of Safety after having
set 7 days, inclusive, which I have not received for.
" 26th. By Wm. Mitchell £101, in part of my acct.
" 27th. Paid Col. George Carrington, chairman of the
Committee of Cumberland, £72, the recruiting money for
that County.
" 28th. I returned home from the Convention and Com-
mittee of Safety after being absent two months.
" 29th. Paid Col. John Cabell, chairman of the Com-
mittee of Buckingham, £72, the recruiting money for that
County."
During the previous 316 days, he had been absent from
home in the public service nearly 200 days. But he was
really in the public service the whole time, for during the
other 100 and odd days he was transacting public business
with the officers of Amherst, Buckingham, Bedford, and
Cumberland ; with the county committee and the district
committee, and with James Thompson and Edward Johnson,
of Fincastle ; collecting the ammunition tax, subscriptions
for the Bostonians and for the delegates to Congress ;
paying especial attention to the resolutions passed by Con-
vention, March 27, 1775, "for encouragement of Arts
and Manufactures," increasing his facilities for weaving,
planting most largely of cotton, flax, hemp, and corn ; pay-
ing particular attention to his sheep (of which he had a
large number), and encouraging the manufacture of iron at
his iron-works on the Hardware River. And he continued
thus to give his time to the cause during the whole of the
Revolutionary war.
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 103
As he was chairman of the committee of Amherst, he
retained the recruiting money for that county in his own
hands for distribution. Under "An ordinance for raising
an additional number of forces for the defence and protec-
tion of this colony," passed by the last Convention, six
new regiments were to be raised, and Amherst County's
proportion was one company of riflemen, — captain, two
lieutenants, an ensign, four sergeants, a drummer, a flfer,
and sixty-eight rank and file. The officers were to be ap-
pointed by the county committee ; the regular soldiers were
to be paid twenty shillings each, on enlisting. The county
committee met on February 5, 1776, and appointed the
officers. For a further account of this first rifle company
raised in old Amherst, see the sketch of Samuel J. Cabell.
" March 7th, 1776. Set off on my way to the Committee
of Safety. 10th. Came into Williamsburg. 11th. Took
my seat in Committee."
" March 24th. Capt. Samuel Cabell arrived in Williams-
burg with his Company [from Amherst], after a march of
12 days, all well."
" March 28th. General Lee arrived in Williamsburg: and
dined with the Committee of Safety, which was the first day
of their having a full board since their institution."
" April 17th. Returned home from the Committee of
Safety."
" May 2nd. Set off on my way to the Committee of
Safety and Convention."
" May 6. Attended the Committee, and the same day
the Convention met." This is known in state history as
" The " Convention. On May 15, appealing to " The
Searcher of Hearts," the Convention instructed our dele-
gates in the General Congress " to declare the United
Colonies free and Independent States." On the same day
a committee was appointed " to prepare a Declaration of
Rights," and form of government, and Col. Cabell was a
member of this celebrated committee, and also of " The
Committee of Propositions and Grievances." He was also
104 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
appointed one of the trustees " for erecting a blast furnace
for making pig* iron (for moulding cannon) in the county
of Buckingham ; ' : but being " inconveniently situated "
for attending to the matter, his father-in-law, Col. Samuel
Jordan, was appointed to the place.
July 4. The Convention " laid off the Colony into dis-
tricts for choice of Senators."
July 5. Patrick Henry took the oath as the first governor
of the commonwealth. The Committee of Safety was dis-
solved. The Convention adjourned, to meet " the first
Monday in October next." Thus the Colony of Virginia
passed away, and the State of Virginia was born.
" July 10th. I returned home from the Convention, hav-
ing been absent since the 2nd of May."
The new commonwealth was now to be organized, the
courts of justice which had been suspended were now to be
formed. On August 5, 1776, the old officials met at Am-
herst Court House, in obedience to an order of the last con-
vention, to qualify, make oath, etc., to the new government,
" so as to enable them to continue the administration of
justice and to settle the general mode of proceedings in
criminal and other cases, until the same could be more
amply provided for."
" Wra. Cabell, Esqr., the first-mentioned gentleman in the
commission of the peace [the presiding justice] for this
county, took the oath prescribed by "the said ordinance of
the last Convention," and the other county officials did like-
wise. Then William Cabell, Joseph Cabell, Hugh Rose,
and the other vestrymen of the church took the oath pre-
scribed for them by an ordinance of Convention.
On the first Monday in September, the first election for
the first state senator from the old eighth district (Bucking-
ham, Albemarle, and Amherst) took place, under the first
constitution (known as "the George Mason Constitution"),
and Col. William Cabell was elected.
" Octr 3rd. Set off on my way to the Senate."
"Oct. 7th. The Senate met." The first General As-
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 105
sembly of the State, — Governor and Council, Senate and
House of Delegates — (the members of the late Convention
acting for the present as a House of Delegates). There
was a great deal of work to be done, and the session was a
long one. Col. Cabell was at home attending; to various
public affairs in the county from the 1st to the 22d of
November. On the 23d, he returned to the Senate. The
Assembly adjourned on December 21, but Col. Cabell had
left Williamsburg two days prior thereto, on the evening
of the 19th, arriving at home on the 22d.
" Dec. 2nd, 1776." Col. Cabell " signed a bond to the
Masters and Professors of The College for and in behalf
of James Higginbotham for his appointment as surveyor of
the County of Amherst, and paid 26 shillings for him for
his commission."
"Jan'y 6th, 1777. Delivered Maj'r James Higgin-
botham a Surveyor's Commission, which I procured for
him, in consideration of which he is to resign at any time I
require him, either to myself or any one of my sons," etc.
Col. Cabell never filled the position again, but his son
"William did.
Col. Cabell was now a state senator, the presiding justice
of Amherst, a vestryman of Amherst Parish, and, since
November 8, 1775, a trustee of Hampden Sidney School.
Unfortunately, many pages of the diary for 1776 are
missing, including the following dates : April 20-26, May
7-21, July 21 to October 2, and October 8 to November 1
inclusive. From July 1 to December 16, 1777, is also
missing; but from December 17, 1777, to February 28,
1782, is complete.
Col. Cabell was frequently absent from home on public
business during the Revolution, and while at home he was
always working for the cause, — superintending the collect-
ing of supplies and money for the support of the wives and
children of poor soldiers, and the widows of deceased
soldiers, being himself the most liberal contributor thereto ;
managing the drafts of militia ; raising men for recruiting
106 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
our regiments ; laying off the county in districts and the
militia in divisions ; supplying the convention prisoners and
barracks in Albemarle with provisions, and the army with
guns, clothes, provisions, wagons, boats, etc.
" 1777, April 6th. Received of Lieut. Valentine a letter
from His Excellency the Governor [Patrick Henry], also
<£236 16s. for the County Lieutenant, the money for the
recruiting service in this Commonwealth, and the letter
respecting the appointment of the officers, both of which I
sent Col. Nevil by my son William, and have his receipt,
which is filed among my papers." Under an act of the
last General Assembly for raising six additional battalions,
Amherst was to furnish another company, and the fore-
going has reference to this second company of regulars.
" April 7th. Our Election took place." He was again
elected senator.
" April 27th. Just recovering from the most severe indis-
position, I ever labored under."
May 5, he was " recommended by the County Court to
the Treasurer to receive <£20 from the State for the sup-
port of the wives and children of such poor soldiers as have
enlisted from this County in the service of the United
States of America." This sum was paid to him by the
treasurer on the 10th of June following.
He left home " to give his attendance on the Assembly,
May 26th," and returned some time in July. Most unfor-
tunately his diary is missing for the very interesting period
between June 30 and December 17, 1777, at which time he
was attending the fall and winter session of the Assembly.
Burgoyne surrendered on October 17 ; on the 30th, the
Assembly and citizens of Williamsburg celebrated the
event, and we may rest assured that the old Amherst com-
pany (which fought under Dan Morgan at the battle of
Saratoga) was not forgotten on that occasion by Col. Wil-
liam Cabell. He returned home from the Assembly on
January 28, 1778. For further reference to the military
acts of the period, see the sketch of Col. Joseph Cabell,
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 107
who was at this time the county lieutenant or chief com-
mander of Amherst.
" Jan'y 30. Note that XXX dollar bills of the Emission
of July 22nd, 1776, have been forged."
" Feb'y 3rd. By William Walton twelve shillings in full
for the Journals and Acts of the last May session."
"Feb'y 24th. Delivered Col. Joseph Cabell a subscrip-
tion, for clearing the Seven Islands Falls, for £125, in
presence of Col. Nevil and John Lewis."
" Feb. 26th. Delivered Col. Joseph Cabell £8, the bal-
ance of my own and my son Sam's subscription to the Rev.
Mr. Camp for the year 1777-78."
" Paid Col. Joseph Cabell four D. Doubleloons and four
pistoles to purchase furniture from Mr. Camp for me."
Mr. Camp was leaving the parish and going West with
Maj. George Rogers Clark.
Col. Cabell was very busy at home in the spring of
1778, and only attended the May session of the General
Assembly from May 28 to June 5. At which time, he
probably brought to Amherst the first news of the treaty
with France.
From July 25 to July 31 he was " going to, attending
at, and returning from, Prince Edward Court House," as
one of the managers of the Hampden Sidney Lottery.
On October 5, petitions for the division of the parish,
and for the support of the clergy, were presented in Am-
herst court, and ordered to be certified to the General
Assembly. Col. Cabell was the presiding magistrate of the
county and senator from the district. On October 8, he set
off on his way to the General Assembly (which had met on
the 5th inst.), and took his seat in the Senate.
Amherst Parish was divided into Amherst Parish (same
bounds as the present county of Nelson) and Lexington
Parish, with the same bounds as the present county of Am-
herst. It was named, I suppose, in honor of the first battle
of the Revolution. There was no provision made for the
support of the clergy. On December 6, Col. Cabell re-
turned home from the Assembly.
108 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
The parish was divided in the spring of 1779. Col. Ca-
bell and his brother Nicholas were members of the first
vestry of the new Amherst Parish. On April 28, he set
off to the Assembly, took his seat in the Senate on May
3, remained until May 22, and got home on the 24th.
June 7, he distributed the late acts of Assembly among
the justices of the county. He was absent attending the
October session of the Assembly from October 9 to Decem-
ber 12, 1779.
1780 was, as usual, a very busy year with him. In the
spring, he was paying particular attention to increasing the
number of his cattle and sheep, and the size of his crops
of corn, cotton, flax, and hemp.
Flax-wheels were £16 apiece. Cotton and wool cards
were distributed by the public among the people at about
cost prices. " May 21st, 1779. Paid Mr. Win. Armistead
£31 10s. for 21 pair Cards allotted Amherst County the
24th of December, last."
On May 1, the General Assembly met for the first time
in Richmond, the future capital of the State. From May
12 to July 16, Col. Cabell was attending the Senate.
Charleston, S. C, had fallen on May 12.
This General Assembly passed " an Act to embody
militia for the relief of South Carolina." Amherst Coun-
ty's proportion of the troops ordered to the relief of South
Carolina was 135 men.
And, also, early in July, " an Act for speedily recruiting
the quota of this State for the continental army," under
which the county was to furnish one 15th man of the
militia, which was to be laid off into divisions (each division
to recruit a man) by the field officers of the militia, the
four senior magistrates, and the commissioners of the tax.
"If not recruited in thirty days, the men were to be
drafted."
"August 14th, 1780. Went to the Court House, in
order to lay off the County and militia into Districts and
Divisions."
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 109
The militia for South Carolina, and the continentals for
Gen. Washington, were furnished by Amherst without
being: drafted.
"Delivered Thomas Jopling 25 pieces of Bacon (221
lbs.), which Henry Martin, the commissioner, took on ac-
count of the Public, agreeable to Act of Assembly at $8
per lb. = $1768."
" August 30th. Sold the public 20 head of bullocks and
barren cows, taken by Henry Martin, commissioner, and
appraised by Young Landrum and Ellis Putney, who were
chosen and sworn for that purpose, at .£7390."
Late in October and in November, he was busy with
sundry military matters "occasioned by the present inva-
sion," — Gen. Leslie's, — from October 20 to November 17,
1780.
On December 9, he set off on his way to the Assembly.
On the 31st, they were informed in Richmond of the arrival
of a fleet of twenty-seven sail in our bay ; but it was not
certainly known that it was a hostile fleet until January
2, 1781. Gov. Thomas Jefferson at once called out one
fourth of the militia from Amherst and many other coun-
ties. Col. Cabell set out for home on the evening; of that
day, and, I suppose, brought the governor's order to the
county with him, as he took an active interest in the execu-
tion of it. He arrived at home on January 4, 1781.
The militia of Amherst, from January, 1776, to January,
1781, numbered about 1200 men. Of these, about 350
had entered the continental service, and about 200 of the
remainder had seen actual service as militia in the state
service. But between January 4 and October 19, 1781,
probably every able man remaining in the county was em-
ployed in one way or another in the defense of the State.
On January 5, Arnold reached Richmond, and Simcoe
destroyed the foundry, etc., at Westham on the same day.
And the British continued upon the sacred soil of the Old
Dominion from this time until after the surrender of Corn-
wallis at Yorktown.
110 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Prior to the governor's order of January 2, the Assembly
had passed another " Act for recruiting this State's quota
of Troops to serve in the Continental Army," under which
Amherst was to furnish fifty-five more men. And also,
" An Act for supplying the army with clothes, provisions,
and wagons," under which Amherst was to furnish thirty-
eight suits of clothes, etc. " The four senior magistrates
and the field officers to divide the county into as many dis-
tricts as there are suits of clothes, and each of such districts
to furnish one suit."
" Jan'y 30th 1781. Sent my son Will to William Lov-
ing's to get him to act as clerk to the Justices in the exe-
cution of the Act for supplying the army with clothes,
provisions and wagons."
" Jan'y 31st. William Loving came down and agreed to
undertake the office of clerk in the presence of Abraham
Warwick, altho' the Act had not been sent up."
" Feb'y 3rd. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon I received by
John Brown express an extract of the Act," etc.
" Feb'y 5th. Received at the Court House the above
Act in full and there being a sufficient number of Justices
present, I immediately proceeded to the execution of it."
(Col. William Cabell, in his Diary.)
The taxes of 1781, for supplying the army with men,
clothes, provisions, etc., were enormous. The regular land
and personal property taxes were very, high, and there were
special taxes on brandy, whiskey, tobacco, plate, specie,
paper money, slaves, horses, cattle, carriages (wheels), glass
windows, billiard tables, marriage and ordinary licenses,
conveyances, etc. ; poll-taxes, specific taxes, taxes payable
in certain enumerated commodities — tobacco, corn, bacon,
flax, hemp, etc. There was not just a single tax ticket per
annum, but there were taxes for January, April, Septem-
ber, etc. Taxes were not due to the county alone, but sev-
eral of them were due in the several districts of the county.
Col. William Cabell paid taxes to Amherst County, as well
as in the third, fifth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-ninth dis-
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 111
tricts of Amherst; and also on property in Buckingham
and Henrico. Most of his tax receipts are now missing,
but enough remain to give an idea of the amount paid by
him in Amherst in 1781. In March, he paid 1232 pounds
of tobacco on " the tax payable in certain enumerated com-
modities," and ninety-four bushels of corn on account of
his " Specifick tax " to William Loving, commissary.
" April 29th, delivered Hugh Rose, the County Lieu-
tenant, a suit of clothes for a soldier, agreeable to the Act
of Assembly for that purpose."
" May 7th. Paid James Dillard Jr., Collector in the 5th
District, my tax of £243. therein."
"July 24th. Paid John Loving £1058.— for Alexr
Reid Jr. my proportion of raising a man for the 5th
D. . . ,,
lvision.
" Septr 3rd. Paid Alexr Reid Jr. £424. — my propor-
tion of money for the hire of a soldier for the 5th District
for 18 months."
" May 7th. Paid Thomas Hawkins, Collector in the 3rd
District my tax of £5225. — therein, agreeable to the Act
for recruiting this State's quota of troops to serve in the
Continental Army."
"May 10th. Paid James Matthews, Collector in the
29th district 306 dollars, for my proportion of the beef in
that district, also, one hat, and pair stockings."
" May 11th. Paid John Loving, Deputy Sheriff, the
county tax, £3370. — , including the January tax, and
£370. for the purchase of a Wagon."
" May 26th. Finished distilling 152 gallons of whiskey
liable to taxation."
" July 2nd. Delivered Wm. Loving the Treasurer's re-
receipt for taxes on Marriage and Ordinary Licences, and
on Conveyances to the 10th of May last."
"July 10th. Let Anthony Rucker have for the public
service 507 lbs bacon."
"July 13th. Sent by Ambrose Baber 59 lbs bacon to
Capt. Bohannon on an order from Thomas Anderson for
the public service."
112 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
" July 24th. Paid John Loving, Deputy Sheriff, the
County tax (including the April tax), £2.285. — ."
" Augt 25th. Let John Newman, a disabled soldier, have
a middling of bacon for my subscription to him." " Made
Daniel Conner a present of 20 shad and a middling of
bacon as he was a poor man, who left his family and has
been three years in the service of his country." " Made a
present of my old mare, Reynolds, to Jesse Bryant, who
appeared to be an object of charity, and assured me that
he had three sons in the service," etc., etc. " Paid Henry
Harper £31. — allowed his son Henry (a soldier) for defi-
ciency in clothing."
" Sept. 14th. Killed a steer for the militia which are
now on their march to join the Marquis " (Lafayette).
" Oct. 13. Delivered Hendrick Arnold, assistant Com-
missary, 3 beeves for the use of the Public, also, a beef for
the 26th district, in presence of John Bibb and Wm.
Gillespy."
" Paid John Loving, Deputy Sheriff, £2042. — being
the September tax, and £64. — the tax on glass Win-
dows."
" Delivered John Biggs 200 lbs of drest pork in lieu of
400 lbs of beef allowed the wife and children of John
BiofPfs Jr., one of the 18 months drafts from the Militia of
Amherst County."
It is true that the money was not worth much (the scale
of depreciation in values at the beginning of the year was
75, at the end 1000), but many of the taxes were payable
in commodities only ; and I think there were at least four
county taxes paid during the year, and at least four dif-
ferent taxes in each of the districts, as well as the numerous
private appeals to his charity.
[February 14, 1781. The prisoners of the Cowpens were
at New London (Bedford Court House), and Cornwallis was
at Boyd's Ferry on Dan River.]
" Feb'y 23rd. Let Capt. Young Landrum have two
smoothe bore guns, well fixed, for the Militia, which were
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 113
ordered from this county, against the enemy, near Dan
River." " Feby 27th. Capt. Landrum with about 30 men,
who had been at the mouth of Tye River from friday last,
marched by my house on their way to join Genl Greene
to the Southward. The remainder of the lower Battalion
(of Amherst) were ordered to Stovall's Ferry, at least
50 miles out of their way, to Moore's Ordinary in Prince
Edward, where they were ordered to Rendez-vous. Strange
orders and conduct when the enemy are almost at our
doors."
Several other companies went from this county at this
time.
The Assembly met in Richmond on March 1. Arnold's
forces were in and near Portsmouth.
" March 3rd. Set off on my way to the Assembly."
" March 5th. Gave my attendance in the Senate."
"March 22. By the Treasurer £1078. 12s., my wages as
a Senator for the March Session 1781."
" March 24th. Came home from the Assembly."
His time as senator expired with this session, he having
occupied the position since September, 1776, as long as he
could under the rule of " Rotation " in office laid down in
the first constitution of Virginia. On the 2d of April fol-
lowing, he was elected a delegate from Amherst " by the
voice of the whole County."
The 7th of May was the day appointed by law for the
meeting of the Assembly at Richmond. The British Gen-
eral Phillips and his army were then near City Point, ready
to swoop down upon them. On the 10th, the few members
who had arrived, upon the information of the approach of
the enemy, adjourned the Assembly to meet at Charlottes-
ville on the 24th.
"May 12th. Set off on my way to the Assembly and
went to Col. George Carrington's [in Cumberland County],
where I was informed the Assembly had adjourned to Char-
lottesville to the 24th inst. — and I returned home the
13th."
114 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
" May 18th. Our Draft took place and the people behaved
very orderly on the occasion."
" May 27th. Set off on my way to Charlottesville on the
Assembly, distance 40. miles."
" May 28th. Took my seat in the House of Delegates."
This was the first day on which the Assembly was formed
to proceed to business.
" June 4th (Monday). The Assembly was put to flight
by the enemy's light-horse. Adjourned to Staunton in Au-
gusta, as a place of greater safety."
There is no entry in the diary between June 4 and June
7, but it is traditional that Col. Cabell and several other
gentlemen (Mr. Jefferson being one of them) arrived at
" Union Hill " before day on the morning of June 5. Mr.
Jefferson remained a day, and then went on to his seat in
Bedford. Wirt's " Life of Patrick Henry " states that the
Assembly met in Staunton on June 7, and, on a false report
of Tarleton's approach, again broke up, and dispersed on
the 10th. This is true as far as it goes, but they returned
the next day (the 11th).
The diary says : —
" June 12th. Set off on my way to Staunton on the
Assembly."
" June 13th. Took my seat in the House of Delegates."
" June 23rd. The Assembly broke up. Paid Wm. Lewis
1500 Dollars, my expenses for boarding with him."
" June 24. Returned home from Staunton."
" June 25. The Speaker of the Senate and of the House
of Delegates went from my House."
On June 12, before he reached Staunton, he was elected
a member of the Council of State. The following is a
copy of the original resolution, notifying him, which I
have : —
" In The House of Delegates
The 12th of June 1781.
" Resolved that William Cabell, Samuel Hardy, and
Samuel McDowell Esquires be appointed Members of the
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 115
Privy Council, or Council of State, in the room of those
who have resigned. They having been so elected by joint
ballot of both Houses of Assembly.
Teste.
John Beckley, C. H. De.
" 12th June 1781.
Agreed to by the Senate.
Will. Drew, C. S."
He could not hold seats in the Council and in the House
of Delegates at the same time. It was optional with him
which he should take. When he arrived on June 13, he
decided to decline the Council seat, and took his seat in the
House of Delegates. I do not know what reasons brought
him to this conclusion. He probably thought that he
could render his constituents (who had so recently elected
him unanimously) and the cause more service in the Assem-
bly. After his return from Staunton, he spent much of his
time in " raising men " for the army, collecting provisions,
wagons, boats, etc. These were the darkest days of the
Revolution in Virginia, but " the darkest hour is just be-
fore day."
" October 29th 1781. Killed my stag, and invited com-
pany to rejoice over the surrender of Cornwallis and his
army. On the 17th instant, Cornwallis and his army sur-
rendered to his Excellency General Washington."
[The Articles of Capitulation were signed on the 19th.]
" Novr. 4th. Received the Governor's (Nelson) proclama-
tion for convening the Assembly on the 5th instant."
He was absent from home in attendance on the Assem-
bly from November 10 to December 17, 1781.
" Jan'y 5th 1782. Set off on my way to the Assembly
and went as low as Westham where I heard it had broken
up — and returned home the 9th."
" Feb'y 4th 1782. Signed a License for Benjamin Cole-
man a Baptist minister to celebrate the rites of matrimony —
pr order of Court."
The diary from February 28, 1782, to July 15, 1783, is
116 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
missing. It is this part of the diary to which Mr. Grigsby
refers in his " Virginia Convention of 1776," p. 116, note.
Col. Cabell was a member of the House of Delegates in
the Assemblies of May and October, 1782, and May, 1783.
By the last of these he was appointed one of the trustees of
Hampden Sidney College.
His diary is complete from July 15, 1783, to December
31, 1795. '
He was absent from home attending the Assembly from
November 24 to December 25, 1783.
"Amherst County, May Court 1784. William Cabell
Esq. is appointed Treasurer for this County, and to receive
from the Sheriffs the balance that is, or may become, due
from them to this County, and return an account thereof to
the Court." He continued to hold this office until about
1792. The county government had been rather on a mili-
tary footing ; it was now assuming a more civil shape, under
the guidance of its officials. Col. Cabell was the presiding
magistrate, treasurer, etc.
The news of the treaty of May 13, 1784, at Paris, was
first received by him (in Amherst) on August 22 (over 100
days ; it could now be received on the same day).
January 5, J. 785, the Assembly incorporated " The James
River Company " " for clearing and extending the naviga-
tion of James River from tide-water upwards to the highest
parts practicable on the main branch thereof." Col. Cabell
was appointed one of the managers of this company, for
opening subscription-books, etc.
The parish had been divided in 1778, and it was cus-
tomary to divide the county soon after ; but Col. Cabell
was opposed to this, and it was not done during his life,
although organized efforts to do so were made in the fall
of 1785 and several times thereafter.
September 19, 1785, he was one of the vestrymen
appointed by Amherst Parish to settle the proceeds of the
sale of the glebe with Lexington Parish.
On October 20, 1785, the stockholders of the James
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 117
River Company met and elected George Washington presi-
dent; and John Harris, David Ross, William Cabell, and
Edmund Randolph, directors. How long he continued to
hold this office, I do not know. The shares of the company
were $200 each. He subscribed for two, made the first
payment thereon on December 26, 1785, and the last on
December 1, 1791, at which time he was still a director.
His diary shows that he went twice every year to Rich-
mond, — early in the summer and late in the fall. Those
who favored the division of the county, in 1785 having
failed to carry their point, in October, 1786, made an effort
to have the court house removed from Col. Cabell's land ;
but they failed in this also.
In 1787, he was again elected a member of the House of
Delegates, with his son Sam as the other (the two members
being members of the same family). " June 19 to 25 in
Richmond." " Oct 12th. Set off to the Assembly." " Oct
15th. Gave my attendance in the House of Delegates."
" Jan'y 8th 1788, The Assembly broke up after setting 12
weeks and 1 day."
" Jan'y 13th, 1788, Returned home from the Assembly."
Washington, writing to Madison * on October 22, 1787,
reports that Col. William Cabell was one of the few mem-
bers of the General Assembly opposed to the Constitution.
" March 3rd. Samuel J. Cabell and myself nearly unan-
imously elected members of Convention."
This was the Convention which was to ratify or reject the
Constitution of the United States. Some of the leading
men in the State opposed, while others favored ratification.
The elections were more hotly contested on the hustings
and at the polls than any previous thereto. Yet such was
the popularity of, and confidence in, Col. Cabell and his son
Sam — both of whom opposed the Constitution as it was —
that they were " nearly unanimously elected," when the
neighboring counties were either carried for their party by
a close vote, or by the opposition.
1 See Rives' Madison, vol. ii. p. 535.
118 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
"May 30th 1788. Set off on my way to the Conven-
tion."
" June 2nd. gave my attendance in the Convention."
This was the day on which the Convention first met, and on
the same day Col. Cabell was appointed one of " the Com-
mittee of Privileges and Elections." Day after day the
Convention, in " Committee of the whole Convention," re-
viewed the Constitution clause after clause, and the debate
at times was warm. The most severe personal quarrel to
which the discussion gave birth occurred on Monday, June
9, between Edmund Randolph and Patrick Henry. On the
evening of that day, Col. William Cabell, " as the friend of
Henry, waited on Randolph," and settled the affair amica-
bly. " On Tuesday morning, when it became known that
the unpleasant affair had been settled without a resort to
the field, and that a reconciliation between the parties had
been effected, both the great divisions in the House were
sensibly relieved." On June 25, after the whole Constitu-
tion had in this way been carefully reviewed, it was moved :
" Resolved, that it is the opinion of this Committee, That
the said Constitution be ratified."
Then a counter-motion was made to substitute in lieu of
this resolution the following; : —
" Resolved, that previous to the ratification of the New
Constitution of Government, recommended by the late Fed-
eral Convention, a Declaration of -Rights, asserting and
securing from encroachment the great principles of Civil
and Religious Liberty, and the unalienable rights of the
People, together with amendments to the most exception-
able parts of the said Constitution of Government, ought to
be referred by this Convention to the other States in the
American Confederacy, for their consideration."
This last resolution " passed in the negative." Ayes, 80.
Noes, 88.
The Cabells voted Aye.
The first resolution then " passed in the affirmative."
Ayes, 89. Noes, 79.
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 119
The Cabells and the majority of their kin voted No.
Although the minority failed in having the amendments,
etc., referred " to the other States " as they wished to do,
by resolutions which passed on June 27 they succeeded
in having: them " recommended to the consideration of the
Congress, which shall first assemble under the said Consti-
tution." It was then moved to strike out the third article
(relative to the laying of direct taxes by the Congress) in
these amendments ; but this motion " passed in the Neg-
ative." Ayes, 65. Noes, 85. The Cabells voting No,
and Paul Carrington for the first time voting with them.
A great deal has been written about this very important
Convention. Except for the influence of Washington in
favor of the Constitution, it would not have been ratified
in Virginia ; a change of six votes would have defeated it.
A majority of the members from east of the Blue Ridge
were opposed to it, as it was, without amendments. It was
carried by the vote from over the mountains.
The Convention adjourned on June 27 ; but the Assem-
bly had met on the 23d, and Col. Cabell remained in Rich-
mond in attendance in that body until July 1. He returned
home prior to July 6.
" Octr. 19th 1788. Set off on my way to the Assembly."
" Octr. 21. Arrived in Richmond.
" Octr. 22. Took my seat in the House of Delegates."
The Assembly reassembled on October 20, but no quorum
appeared in either house on the first day. The House of
Delegates was able to organize on the second day. On
October 27 both houses met for the first time " in the new
Capitol on Shockoe Hill," and have continued to meet there
ever since. The Senate had a quorum for the first time on
October 28, and this was the first day on which the General
Assembly went into full operation in the new Capitol. Col.
Cabell was chairman of " the committee of propositions and
grievances."
November 13, the town of Warminster was established
by Act of Assembly on the land of Nicholas Cabell, the
120 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
trustees being William Cabell, Samuel Jordan Cabell, Wil-
liam Cabell, Jr., and nine others.
December 3, Col. Cabell was on " the committee of the
House of Delegates to meet a committee from the Senate in
the conference chamber and jointly with them to examine
the ballot boxes and report to the House on whom a major-
ity of votes should fall for Governor." Beverley Randolph,
Esq., received the majority. Col. Cabell " set off from the
Assembly on his way home" on December 16, and got
home on the 19th. This was the last Assembly he ever
attended. He had represented his county, or his district,
in the public Assemblies for thirty years. He was now in
his fifty-ninth year. He had been for many years giving
his services to the public, and it was almost necessary for
him to devote the remainder of his life to putting his nu-
merous and extensive private interests into a proper shape
for management and distribution.
On January 7, 1789, Col. William Cabell was before the
people as a candidate, I think, for the last time. On that
day the election took place for a presidential elector from
this district, " when every man in the county who was
polled voted for him."
He was long afterwards the presiding magistrate of the
(county, and vestryman of the parish, and held other posi-
tions of trust, mostly private ; but I think that the last
public act of his life was to cast his vote as an elector for
George Washington as our first President.
He had served his country when her trials were but com-
mencing ; he had served her to his utmost when she was in
her sorest travails ; he had served her until he saw her
safely through the tempest, till he saw her " rise superior to
the storm ; " and when he saw Washington at the helm, he
knew the Ship of State was safe, and felt that he could
safely retire and take his rest. Although he retired from
active politics, he continued to take the most earnest inter-
est in the public welfare, and almost to the day of his
death was a stirring, busy man, devoting his time, his
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 121
energy, his talents, and his means to the advancement of
education, of agriculture, of manufacture, and of internal
navigation. And although he favored religious liberty, he
was a true friend to his own church, and during life was a
constant liberal contributor to her support and to the sup-
port of her clergy.
Mr. Grigsby had reference to many men who had known
him, was in full possession of the material necessary for its
preparation, and I believe that the sketch of Col. William
Cabell in Grigsby's " Virginia Convention of 1776 " (pp.
114-119) is a fair one. He was thrown upon " the times
which tried men's souls," and he passed the ordeal fully to
the satisfaction of every public man's most scrutinizing crit-
ics, his constituents. He held positions of trust and respon-
sibility from his twenty-first year until the day of his death.
His great popularity with his people and their implicit con-
fidence in him were wonderful ; they never wavered. For
thirty-odd years they gave him, almost with one voice, the
very highest offices to which their votes could elect him.
From his entrance into public life until he retired there-
from, he was elected whenever he stood for office, without
opposition or almost unanimously.
He died March 23, 1798. His attending physician dur-
ing his last illness and one of the witnesses to his will was
Dr. James Murray Brown, a native of the shire of Gallo-
way, Scotland, and an elder brother of Dr. Thomas Brown
the metaphysician. His will was written October 7, 1795,
and admitted to record June 18, 1798. William and Lan-
don Cabell, the executors, giving bond in the sum of <£30,000,
with Samuel Jordan Cabell, Robert Rives, and William B.
Hare as securities.
After disposing of about thirty thousand acres of land
(he had already given most of his children fair estates), a
large number of slaves, and personal property, the will ends
with the following lines, better than great riches : " Item —
as my estate is free from debt and every other incumbrance,
it is my will and desire that it may not be appraised. . . .
122 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
And thus having set my house in order by settling my
temporal affairs, I cheerfully submit my eternal concerns
to the wise and merciful Disposer of All Things, and
'patiently wait his mandate for my great change."
Let the mind consider the status of this region and of
this country in 1730, — the year of his birth, — then let it
come down with him and view all the various changes which
he saw take place before his death in 1798, in this region
and in this country, and it will be seen that his life covered
one of the most important and critical eras in our history.
The following extracts from a letter written by the late
Hon. Joseph C. Cabell to the late N. F. Cabell, Esq., on
September 28, 1854, will explain themselves : —
" In compliance with the request of Mr. William C. Rives,
communicated to me lately by you, I will give you my rec-
ollections of Col. William Cabell, Senr., of Union Hill, and
particularly as to his personal appearance and habitual
dress.
" That gentleman died in the spring of 1798, when I was
in the second year of my attendance as a student at William
and Mary College. But although upwards of a half cen-
tury has elapsed since I was in the habit of seeing him, yet,
as he was a very remarkable personage, who made a strong
impression on all who approached him, my recollections
respecting him are very distinct.
"He was about six feet high, with large frame, well
formed, erect carriage, and rather corpulent in the latter
part of his life. His features were remarkable for strength,
his nose slightly aquiline, his forehead was capacious and
well developed ; his head became bald as he advanced to
old age.
" There was nothing peculiar in his dress, being that of
the planters of good condition in his day, namely : a round
hat, a white cambric stock buckled behind, a long-tail
coat, a single-breasted waist-coat with flap pockets, short
breeches buckled at the knee, long stockings, and shoes
with large buckles.
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 123
"I never saw him with a square or cocked hat, and
never heard of his wearing one, although for aught I know
he may have done so previous to and during the Revolu-
tion. Such hats were commonly worn by country gentle-
men previous to the Revolutionary war, but fell into disuse
shortly after that period.
" The habitual expression of his countenance was grave,
thoughtful, and dignified. - He was generally taciturn, but
in entertaining his friends and acquaintances he became
affable and communicative ; and he possessed the happy
talent of adapting his conversation to the ages and condi-
tions of his associates. His thoughts were, however, always
very briefly expressed, and bore the impress of the sound
judgment and powerful mind with which he was gifted.
" His appearance was eminently dignified and command-
ing ; in this respect he was equal, if not superior, to any one
I have ever seen, save Mr Jefferson and Mr. Clay.
" His father, the first Dr. Cabell, was a man of rare
endowments and extensive learning ; but I do not know
that Col. Cabell was much given to literature. He lived in
revolutionary times, and his active mind was chiefly occu-
pied with men and things.
" In the private relations of husband, father, and brother,
no one could be more respected and beloved than he was.
But the display of his virtues was not limited to his family
circle, and no man ever received a warmer popular admira-
tion than he did ; an admiration which sometimes amounted
to adoration, for the late Judge Cabell assured me that men
had been known to stoop down and kiss his feet, for which
they were gently, but firmly reproved, for no man was in
heart more opposed to the spirit of man-worship than he.
" I leave to others to render account of his course of ser-
vice in the public bodies of the State previous to, and dur-
ing the Revolutionary struggles. Although not an orator,
he was a member of great weight and efficiency, and one of
the leaders of the public councils in those stormy and per-
ilous times.
124 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
" He was a man of very methodical habits, and kept a
Diary, written in his own neat and beautiful hand, of the
daily operations and occurrences on the various plantations
on his home estate, all of which, in the active period of his
life, he visited twice in the course of the day.
" He was a man of considerable wealth for the region of
country in which he lived. I remember to have heard it
stated that he held 25,000 acres of the best lands in his
county (now Amherst and Nelson). He resided on his river
estate, which occupied the beautiful and fertile valley of
James river, from the mouth of Tye river down to the head
of Swift Islands, a distance of some six miles. About mid-
way of this valley, on a fine swelling hill overlooking it, he
erected his spacious dwelling in a position commanding a
view of the rich bottoms, the ivy cliffs on the opposite side,
the gentle river flowing between them, and the distant
mountains sinking down and disappearing in the south-
western horizon. The selection was as creditable to him
as a man of taste, as his methodical habits were to him as a
man of business.
" His dwelling was the theatre of a magnificent hospital-
ity embracing his poorer as well as his more wealthy coun-
trymen. He was singularly gifted with the talent for enter-
taining large companies ; attending personally to them in
succession, quietly and without seeming effort ; providing
for all, and making all feel easy, contented, and happy.
" The ashes of this admirable citizen, statesman, and
patriot repose beside those of his most excellent wife, and
others of the family, in the burying-ground at t Union
Hill,' the place of his residence."
I will append the following notes to the foregoing descrijD-
tion, because " Union Hill " was in many respects an exam-
ple of many of the old homes of the Cabells and their kin.
The low grounds in front of the present " Union Hill "
house were granted to Dr. William Cabell by patent from
the Crown of Great Britain (through its representative, the
governor of Virginia) on September 12, 1738, and deeded
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 125
by the old doctor to his son William on May 2, 1763. The
ground on which the house stands was granted by royal
patent to Col. William Cabell the elder, on August 20,
1760. To this original estate he continued to add, up
to, during, and for some years after the Revolution, by
grants from the crown, and by purchase from sundry per-
sons, namely : Carter Braxton, Esq. (a signer of the Decla-
ration of Independence), Lunsford Lomax, Sr., Esq., Hon.
Philip Grimes, Col. James Nevil, Peter Cartwright (ancestor
of the celebrated Rev. Peter Cartwright, of the Illinois Con-
ference), David Shepherd, escheator of the commonwealth
(the escheated lands of Walter King, Esq., and John Har-
mer, Esq., of Bristol, England, loyal British subjects), Hon.
Peyton Randolph (first president of Congress), and others.
This tract, when completed, extended for about six miles
along James River, east of Tye River, and back about ten
miles in a northwesterly direction, some distance beyond
the present Montreal station, and contained at least 25,000
acres. I have a complete list of these lands, showing how
and when every acre was acquired, and to whom and in
what way it was distributed by him to his heirs or assigns.
The building of the present mansion house began about
1775. The country soon became entirely cut off from the
original source of supply (the mother country) ; Col. Cabell
was obliged to change some of his first plans ; the work
was in various ways delayed by the war then waging ; and
so the house was plainly, but substantially built. There is
no carved oak or other fancy work as there was in his first
dwelling. The frame is of wood, the underpinning, cellar
walls, and chimneys of brick. The wood is " of the heart
of the oak, the pine, the poplar, and the walnut." Every
foot of this timber was cut on Col. Cabell's land, and sawed
by the hands of his servants. The bricks were made and
the lime was burnt by his servants on his land. Every nail,
from the largest spike to the smallest lathing nail, was made
by hand, and most of them in his own blacksmith-shops. Of
course the brass locks, manufactured hardware, etc., pur-
126 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
chased from merchants, came from England or elsewhere ;
but in the main, the old home was home-made. The build-
ing was not completed until February 25, 1778, on which
day Col. Cabell tells us in his diary that " Mrs. Nicholas, her
daughter Betsy, and Judith Jones," were the first persons
who spent the night within its walls.
This old house, built in the early years of the Revolution,
received then the name " Union Hill," and it is now an
interesting relic of that historic period of the struggle be-
tween the Union of States and the Crown of Great Britain.
Save that the original shingle roof has been replaced by
tin, two porches and two of the chimneys repaired, the
house to-day, " the usual wear and tear excepted," is about
as Col. Cabell left it.
The house could not be considered larofe now : but for
the period when it was built, and for the part of the country
in which it was built, it was large — forty by sixty feet,
two stories, a basement and an attic, with wainscoted rooms
and halls, and ample cellars.
While the mansion houses of those days were not espe-
cially large in themselves, to the rear of the mansion, con-
veniently arranged, were many appendages. Of these, the
following buildings were under the especial charge of the
mistress, " the Colonial Dame," namely : the picking, spin-
ning, weaving, and dyeing houses ; the sewing-rooms and
laundry ; the dairy, the store-room, the smoke-house, the
kitchen, the poultry-houses, the coach-house, the ice-house,
the cow-houses, and stable of horses for use of the family ;
the park or grounds around the dwelling, the garden,
etc. ; the female servants, the house servants, the butler, the
gardener, the carriage driver, etc. Of course, the master
also had an eye to these, but the manor and its belongings
was under the especial jurisdiction of the mistress.
The master's especial charge was the plantation and the
appendages thereof which were generally built near the over-
seer's or manager's house, some distance from the mansion
house. These were the various farm-stables, barns, corn-
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 127
houses, tobacco-houses ; shops for shoemakers, blacksmiths,
wheelwrights, carpenters, coopers, masons, and other arti-
sans ; the servant-quarters, the tannery, distillery, etc. ; the
mills, etc., the laborers, the teams, the farming implements,
the crops, the orchards, the fruits, etc. The mansion and
its outbuildings had the appearance of a village. The mis-
tress and the master of a large plantation in old Virginia had
their hands full. Nearly all of these appendages to " Union
Hill" have now crumbled to decay; but very many of them
were still standing within my own recollection.
Many years ago, an old Virginia matron said to me :
" When I first recollect ' Union Hill,' we bought, compara-
tively speaking, very little. Every kind of provision was
raised in the greatest abundance, and large orchards sup-
plied quantities of fruit. We raised an ample supply of
cotton, wool, flax, hemp, etc., to clothe the negroes comfort-
ably in winter and summer. This was all picked, spun,
woven, and dyed beautifully at home. Every trade and
occupation was carried on there. This old system was
laborious, but it made an up-country home in Virginia a
very interesting place. But this system, which had been in
vogue in the colonial era, gradually passed away ; the for-
mer white servants became scarcer and scarcer, and it was
thought to be cheaper to buy the manufactured articles
than to manufacture with negro labor at home."
I have seen it stated that the landed gentry of Virginia
were indolent. The facts are certainly to the contrary so
far as this section of Virginia is concerned.
Mrs. Margaret Jordan Cabell survived her husband four-
teen years. Dr. George Cabell, Jr., who married her niece,
was her physician in her last illness. She died in March,
1812, at " Union Hill," and was buried there. She is
always referred to in the letters of her children and rela-
tives with the greatest reverence and respect. Her father,
Col. Samuel Jordan, settled at " the Seven Islands," on the
south side of James River, in the present county of Buck-
ingham, where he owned a considerable body of land. He
128 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
also owned 5250 acres on Jordan's Creek in Halifax County,
and 4699 acres in Albemarle. He was a justice of the
peace for Albemarle, 1746-1761 ; a captain in 1753 ; sheriff,
1753-1755 ; presiding justice of the peace and county lieu-
tenant of the new county of Buckingham in 1761. The
records of this county having been destroyed, I have but
little material to base a sketch upon. He is said to have
been a burgess from Buckingham, 1761-1766. He was
certainly a burgess from that county in 1767 and 1769.
I find this entry in Col. Cabell's diary : " Aug. 28th.
1775. Returned from the Convention. . . . Delivered Mr.
John Nicholas £61. for himself, and £43. for Col. Samuel
Jordan which Mr. Turner Southall sent them. In presence
of Patrick Rose." I suppose that this money was paid for
some public service.
Although an old man at the beginning of the Revolu-
tion, Col. Jordan served as colonel of the militia of his
county, and as a member of the county committee. After
June, 1776, he was " State Commissioner of the States
Foundry for casting of cannon in Buckingham." 1
"July 21st 1789. Col. Samuel Jordan, who had been
long ill, departed this life at a very advanced age. He
bore his illness with great fortitude and resigned himself to
the Divine will with the greatest composure." (William
Cabell's Diary.)
I do not know the names of Col. -Samuel Jordan's par-
ents, I only know that his mother was the daughter of Col.
Charles Fleming, of New Kent, who died about 1728, and
sister of Col. John Fleming (county lieutenant of Gooch-
land), who married Mary Boiling. The early records of
New Kent and Hanover are missing. The Flemings were
originally from Scotland.
According to one tradition, Col. Samuel Jordan was
descended from Samuel Jordan, of Jordan's point, who
came to Virginia at an early date. 2
1 See Journals of Convention, May 22, June 14, and June 21, 1776.
2 Genesis of the United States, p. 933.
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 129
According to another tradition " the Jordans were of
Hugfuenot descent."
Solomon Jonrdan was certainly one of the French refu-
gees who arrived at Jamestown in September, 1700, and
were sent up to Manikin-Town, some fifteen miles above the
falls, where " Jourdan and his wife " were living in 1701.
I know nothing of the descendants of this couple ; but in
June, 1744, " Samuel Jordins " had three tithables and
other interests in " King William Parish," which was the
Huguenot parish, and this was prior to his second marriage.
However, " several English families had settled among
them" before this. And, from a merchant's account of
1742, it seems certain that there had been business transac-
tions between Samuel Jordan and the Huguenots, and pos-
sible that he may have been of Huguenot origin himself ;
but I have found no direct evidence. In connection with
this tradition, however, the following from the account of
" The Huguenots," by Samuel Smiles, is interesting : —
" One of the most eminent scholars of Huguenot origin
was the Rev. Dr. Jortin, Archdeacon of London. He was
the son of Rene Jortin, a refugee from Brittany, who served
as secretary to three British admirals, successively, and
went down with Sir Cloudesley Shovel in the ship in which
he was wrecked off the Scilly Isles in 1707." Was our
ancestor, so persistently connected by tradition with Sir
Cloudesley, Rene Jortin ? It was certainly not Dr. William
Cabell. But see also under IV. and 52.
Col. Samuel Jordan married (first), prior to 1740, Ruth
Meredith (daughter, by his first wife, of Samuel Meredith
the elder, of St. Paul's Parish, Hanover, who died April 14,
1762). She died prior to June, 1744, leaving at least three
daughters. The eldest married John Hunter; Mary mar-
ried Geddes Winston, of Hanover, and Margaret married,
when very young, Col. William Cabell.
II. Col. William 2 and Margaret Jordan Cabell left sur-
viving issue seven : —
10.
i.
11.
ii.
12.
iii.
13.
iv.
14.
v.
15.
vi.
16.
vii.
130 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Samuel Jordan 3 Cabell.
William 3 Cabell.
Paulina 3 Cabell.
Landon 3 Cabell.
Hector 3 Cabell.
Margaret 3 Cabell.
Elizabeth 3 Cabell.
IH. COL. JOSEPH 2 CABELL THE ELDER, OF " SION HILL,"
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, VA.
III. Joseph 2 Cabell was born September 19, 1732, prob-
ably at his father's home on Licking-Hole Creek, near
Dover, in the present county of Goochland. In 1737, he
" began to go to school ; "' in 1739, he " could read well,"
etc. ; in 1740, at his request, his mother wrote to his father
to bring him a Bible from England ; in 1741, he was going
to school to Mr. William Ward. Some time after his
father's return from England in 1741, he removed with his
parents to their Swan Creek estate, in the present county of
Nelson. It is traditional in his family that " he was edu-
cated and instructed by his father for the medical profes-
sion, in which he acquired great celebrity, and was partic-
ularly eminent as a surgeon." It is of record that he
performed many difficult surgical operations with skill and
success, in cases of emergency, etc. " I do not know that he
ever followed medicine or surgery as a profession. All of
the old doctor's sons acquired some knowledge of medicine,
and made use of it when occasion required ; but Joseph, I
believe, was the only surgeon among them.
On September 20, 1751, he was entered in the sheriff's
office as one of the deputy sheriffs " on the north side of the
Fluvanna in the county of Albemarle during Capt. Daniel's
sheriffdom," which expired in 1753 ; but he continued to
act as deputy under Capt. Daniel's successor, Col. Samuel
Jordan, until 1755, and possibly later under Col. John Reid.
He was married in 1752, soon after reaching his twenty-
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 131
first year, that is, when he was twenty years and one month
old. I will give a copy of his marriage bond, etc., as exam-
ples of the old modes of proceedings in the premises : —
" I, Wm. Cabell do hereby signifie to Henry Wood, clerk
of Goochland County that I do consent to the marriage of
my son Joseph with Mary Hopkins. Given under my Hand
and Seal this xvii Day of October MDCCLII.
Wm. Cabell [Seal]
" Witnesses —
W. Cabell Junr.
John Hopkins."
[These letters from parents were required when their
sons were under twenty-one years of age.]
" Know all men by these presents that AVe, Joseph Cabell
and John Hopkins, are held and firmly bound unto our
Sovereign Lord King George the Second and to his suc-
cessors in the sum of fifty Pounds Current money of Vir-
ginia, to the which payment well and truly to be made We
bind US and Either of us our and Either of our Heirs,
Executors and Administrators Joyntly and Severally and
Firmly by these presents.
" Sealed the xviii day of October MDCCLII.
" The condition of this obligation is such that if there is
no Lawf ull Cause to obstruct a Marriage intended to be had
and solemnized between the above bound Joseph Cabell and
Mary Hopkins then this obligation to be void Else in Force.
Jos Cabell [Seal]
Jno. Hopkins [Seal]
" Signed, Sealed and
Delivered in the
Presence of
Val. Wood."
On the receipt of the letter from the parent and the bond
from the principal, the clerk of the court issued the mar-
riage license, and the ceremony was performed by the min-
ister of the parish. 1
1 See Hening's Statutes at Large, vol. vi. pp. 81-85.
132 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Mary Hopkins was the daughter of Dr. Arthur Hopkins,
of Goochland. I do not know where the young couple
resided when they first began " to keep house," but I think
that it was within the bounds of the present county of
Fluvanna.
I think that Joseph Cabell was a justice of Albemarle as
early as 1755 ; I know that he was in 1760. His lands
were more scattered than those of his brothers. After the
division of Albemarle in 1761 into Albemarle, Amherst,
and Buckingham, he owned land in each of the three coun-
ties, and at different times lived in each county ; first in
Albemarle, then in Buckingham, then in Amherst, and,
lastly, again in Buckingham. He was one of the securities
for John Reid, the first sheriff of Amherst ; on June 1,
1761, he owned land in the county, but was not then a
citizen thereof. His father had not then deeded any land
to him, but " on Feb'y 16th, 1761, he had given bond in
£20,000 to his sons Will and Joe to convey to them by
Deed, or to bequeath to them by will their share of land,"
and Joe's father-in-law, Dr. Arthur Hopkins, was a witness
to this bond.
On August 21, 1762, he was a major of militia in Albe-
marle County.
" Feb'y ye 9th, 1764. By teaching John Cabell, John
Clay, Nicholas Cabell and Joseph Cabell the Art of Defense
one Quarter of a year £10. — . Then received of Joseph
Cabell ye above account of ten pounds, In Full of all De-
mands. James Hughes,
Fencing Master."
At the October session, 1764, of the House of Burgesses,
he was appointed by act one of the trustees for benefit of
Allen Jones. (Hening, viii. p. 62.) I think that he was
at this time a citizen of, and a burgess for, Buckingham
County. The few family papers that I have seen of his
are correct, but very indefinite. For instance, they state
that " he served upwards of twenty years in the House of
Burgesses and in the General Assembly," without giving
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 133
any idea as to how many more years than twenty ; how
many in the House of Burgesses ; how many in the General
Assembly ; what counties represented, or whether he served
in the Assembly as a delegate, or as state senator.
February, 21, 1765. He had four children then living.
At the November session, 1766, the House of Burgesses
established by act a public ferry, from his land in Bucking-
ham to his father's land in Amherst. (This was his Sion
Hill estate, on which, I think, he was then living.) And
during the same session he was appointed one of the trus-
tees to sell certain lands in Albemarle, Amherst, and Au-
gusta, in winding up the estates of John Chiswell, deceased,
and the late speaker, John Robinson, a trust which he held
until 1792.
In 1768, he was a burgess from Buckingham (and, as I
have said, I think that he had been since 1764, if not
before), and continued to represent that county until 1771.
He was a signer of the non-importation articles of 1769,
and of June 22, 1770. See the sketch of his brother Wil-
liam, and, from time to time, of his other brothers, for
many items of mutual interest which it was not necessary
for me to repeat in the sketches of each of them.
There are many references to Col. Joe in his brother
William's diary. " March 6th, 1769. Received of Richard
Woods 2 schemes of his Lottery and 12 tickets one half of
which for Jos. Cabell."
" March 10th. Delivered Jos Cabell a scheme of Richd
Woods' lottery, together with twelve tickets, at Doctr Ca-
bell's."
" May 16th. James Buchanan bought 23 hhds of tobacco
(28,058 lbs nett.) from me at Byrd's warehouse, and is to
allow me the same price pr. 100 lbs. that will be allowed by
N. Campbell to Col. Joseph Cabell."
Col. Joe had an interest in the Albemarle iron works
prior to 1771. He moved to Amherst in 1771, to his es-
tate called " Winton," near the present New Glasgow
station.
134 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
In December, 1771, he was elected a representative of Am-
herst in the House of Burgesses, which met in February,
1772, and was continued in that office until the final disso-
lution of that House in 1775.
"Dec. 7th 1772. Joseph Cabell, gentleman, who had
been appointed a vestryman of Amherst Parish in the room
of John Rose, gent, appeared in Amherst Court and took
the usual oaths."
" July 25th, 1774. My brother Joseph and myself were
elected Burgesses without opposition."
They had been sent home by the governor on May 26,
and were now returned by the people " without opposition."
The first body which they (Cols. William and Joseph Ca-
bell) attended, however, was not the House of Burgesses,
but the first of the Revolutionary conventions, which sat
from August 1 to August 6 inclusive.
Col. Joseph Cabell and his brother William attended the
Convention of March 20-27, and the last meeting of the
House of Burgesses in Virginia, June 1-16, 1775.
" June 29th. To Cash paid The Treasurer for the use of
the Delegates £15. — . one half of which was paid by
Joseph Cabell."
" By Jos. Cabell £26 6s. for my Burgess wages for May,
session 1774 and June session 1775." (Diary.)
They also attended the Convention of July 17- August
26, 1775. On August 8, Col. William Cabell " purchased
for Joseph Cabell of Carter Braxton, a mill and 50 acres
adjoining, on Buffalo River, in Amherst County, for
£155. _.»
" Octr 21st. Delivered Col. Joseph Cabell a pocket book,
which was sent by some of John Grill's family [of Au-
gusta?] to Wm Megginson."
[Col. William Cabell had just returned from settling
militia accounts on the frontiers.]
" Novr 28th. Paid Joseph Cabell £30 2s., which I re-
ceived of the Treasurer for him, in presence of Wm.
Spencer."
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 135
Col. Joseph Cabell and his brother were again the mem-
bers from Amherst of the Convention of December 1,
1775-January 20, 1776.
On December 8, the Convention " Resolved, That Joseph
Cabell, Thomas Randolph, and Jerman Baker, gentlemen,
be appointed commissioners to receive for and pay to the
several claimants, in the southern district, for services in the
late expedition against the Indians, whatever may be due
them from the publick, and not called for at the Treas-
ury." On December 21, this resolution was rescinded; but
on the same day, William Cabell, Joseph Cabell, and others
were appointed on a committee for considering the petitions
of Sampson and George Matthews, and of William Ingles,
regarding supplies, etc., furnished the expedition.
On December 26, the Convention " Resolved, That John
Bowyer, gentleman [of Botetourt], be appointed a commis-
sioner to receive for, and pay to, the several claimants in
the counties of Pittsylvania, Augusta, Botetourt, Fincastle,
and Bedford, whatever may be due to them from the pub-
lick, and not called for at the Treasury ; and that he enter
into bond, with sufficient security, for the due performance
thereof, and return an account to the Treasury within six
months from the time he shall have received the money
from the Treasury."
On January 8, 1776, the Convention rescinded this reso-
lution, and Resolved, " That Joseph Cabell, gentleman, be
appointed the commissioner in his [Bowyer' s] stead, for the
purposes aforesaid, giving bond as aforesaid, . . . and that
he be allowed the sum of £150 for his trouble and expenses
in discharging the said Trust."
On January 13, the Convention required Capt. Samuel
McDowell to render an account to Joseph Cabell, Esq., of
the payment of the wages, etc., of his (McDowell's) com-
pany.
As soon as the Convention adjourned, Col. Joe left Wil-
liamsburg to make arrangements for fulfilling his trust.
On January 23, Col. William Cabell received for him from
136 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
the treasurer £17 14s. on account of his wages as a dele-
gate. He was ready for his journey in March.
" March 7th, 1776. Paid Gabriel Penn £56 14 7£, for
Joseph Cabell to pay James Thompson of Fincastle £16
14 7^d. and Edward Johnson £40. — ." (Diary.)
The amount paid out by Col. Joe was £33,600. The
money was carried under guard to Fincastle Court House,
and there paid out. Of the £150 allowed him for his ser-
vices by the Convention, he paid the guards and his clerk
£93 8s. 6d. ; so he received only £56 lis. 6d. himself.
The following is the account of this transaction by his
grandson, Gen. B. W. S. Cabell : " Col. Joseph Cabell was
paymaster to the troops commanded by Gen. Andrew Lewis
(and his brother, Col. Charles Lewis, who was mortally
wounded and died on the field), who fought the celebrated
battle of Point Pleasant. By whom appointed, I know not,
and whether his was a regular military commission or a
special civil appointment, I cannot now tell. But this I
know, that he paid them, and paid them in specie. For I
saw and read many of the receipts the soldiers had given
him, and which when I was a youth were in the possession
of my father, who was one of the executors of his estate.
The money was paid at Fincastle Court House, when that
county embraced the whole of what is now the State of
Kentucky and all the southwestern part of Virginia. It
was transported there in wagons, the- first that ever turned
a wheel in that part of the country, and was attended by a
strong military guard."
He made his report to the Convention late in May or
early in June, 1776, and presented claims stating reasons
why the £93 8s. 6d. paid by him to the guards should be
repaid him by the public. The committee of public claims,
to whom the matter was referred, reported on June 3
against the reimbursement ; but in favor of allowing him
£21 15s. 6d. for his trouble in collecting from sundry per-
sons indebted to this country and paying into the treasury
the sum of £217 15s.
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 137
On June 10, the Convention considered this report, cut
the pay for collecting, etc., one half, and allowed him only
£10 17s. 9d. therefor. Which amount was paid to him by
his brother William on July 20, following, " for his receiv-
ing public money in Fincastle."
August 5, 1776, Joseph Cabell, vestryman of Amherst
Parish, took the oath prescribed by an ordinance of Con-
vention for vestrymen.
He was a member of the House of Delegates from Am-
herst from 1776 to 1779.
He was a justice for Amherst in 1777 (if not before),
and was one of those appointed to make a tour of the
county and administer the oath of allegiance to the Com-
monwealth of Virginia prescribed by act of (May-June,
1777) Assembly to every freeborn male person above the
age of sixteen years, in the county of Amherst.
At the fall session of the General Assembly, "an Act
was passed for speedily recruiting the Virginia Regiments
on the continental establishment," etc., under which thirty-
two men were to be raised in Amherst, who were allowed
£15 bounty. Time of draft, 2d Monday in February,
1779. Mode : The county lieutenant, the field officers, the
captains and first lieutenants of militia were to assemble
the unmarried men and let them draw lots.
On January 23, 1778, the treasurer delivered Col. Wil-
liam Cabell £144 for the thirty-two drafts to be raised in
Amherst County ; on January 28, he returned home from
the General Assembly ; and on February 18, delivered the
money to Col. Joseph Cabell (who was then the county
lieutenant or chief commander of Amherst County), to be
by him paid to the said drafts. He now had charge of
military affairs in the county.
May 4, the county court appointed " Joseph Cabell, Hugh
Rose, and Gabriel Penn, gentlemen, to inquire into the
cases of the wives and children of such men from this
county as had enlisted in the Continental service, or in the
service of this State, and to furnish them with such neces-
138 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
saries as they shall think reasonable, and to render an
account thereof to this court, agreeable to an Act of As-
sembly in that case made," etc.
The General Assembly of May-June, 1778, passed " an
Act for raising Volunteers to join the Grand Army,"
under which the proportion of Amherst County was one
captain, one lieutenant, and forty-five non-commissioned
officers and privates. They were to receive a bounty of
thirty dollars and a complete suit of regimentals, to consist
of a coat, jacket, a pair of breeches, two pairs of shoes,
two pairs of stockings, two shirts, and a hat. This act was
executed in Amherst, under the supervision of Col. Joseph
Cabell, the county lieutenant.
He was in Williamsburg in November, during the fall
term of the General Assembly, and was possibly a member
thereof. This Assembly passed " An Act for speedily
recruiting the Virginia regiments on continental establish-
ment," under which each county was to furnish one twenty-
fifth of their militia. The counties were to be laid off into
the necessary number of districts by the county lieutenant,
the four senior justices, and the field officers, and each dis-
trict was to furnish a man.
" Feby 20th, 1779. Went to the Court House and in
part laid off the militia in Divisions to raise men for re-
cruiting our regiments on the Continental Establishment."
" Feby 22nd. Enlisted John Johnson Jr. for the sec-
ond Division of Amherst County and paid him 400 dol-
lars in presence of Mr. Lamont, John Williams and Majr
Saml. J. Cabell, whereupon he took the oath and gave a
receipt."
" Feby 24th. Delivered John Johnson Jr. to Joseph Ca-
bell, County Lieutenant, and took his receipt in presence of
Ambrose Rucker, George Penn and many other gents."
(From Col. William Cabell's Diary.)
The General Assembly of May, 1779, passed several acts
for raising men for the continental service and for the
state service, under which Amherst had to furnish her due,
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 139
which was done under the supervision of Col. Joseph Ca-
bell, the county lieutenant.
The British were in South Carolina. In May, a force
had landed at Norfolk. For the rest of the war Virginia
was constantly threatened, and her militia was more and
more in demand.
July 30, 1779, Col. William Cabell went to Amherst
Court House, and assisted Col. Joe and others in laying
off the divisions of the militia, agreeable to the act of
Assembly for raising men for the defense of the common-
wealth.
Col. Joseph Cabell sold Winton, his Amherst estate,
to Col. Samuel Meredith, in April, 1779, and removed to
his farm near Buckingham Court House, called " Variety
Shades," late in 1779, or early in 1780. Col. Hugh Rose
succeeded him as county lieutenant of Amherst. He rep-
resented Buckingham in the House of Delegates, 1780-
1781.
" He commanded a Regiment of militia at the siege of
Yorktown, and was present at the surrender of Cornwallis.
The students of William and Mary College [of whom his
son Joe was one] were formed into a company, and it was
attached to his Regiment."
" After our Independence was achieved and peace estab-
lished, we again find Col. Cabell serving in his legislative
capacity in the General Assembly of Virginia." [He was
the senator from his district in the state Senate, probably
continuously, from 1781 to 1785, and he represented the
county of Buckingham in the House of Delegates in 1788-
1790.]
"He was a man of unbounded popularity and great
influence with the people among whom he lived. He was
a devoted Patriot and made large contributions in pro-
visions, hemp, tobacco, and horses, and advanced consider-
able sums to the public cause during the trying periods of
the Revolutionary struggle, for which he never received
any compensation. He acquired great celebrity as a sur-
140 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
geon. As a justice of the peace he was the terror of evil-
doers. He was a lion when aroused, but naturally he was
as gentle as a lamb, and as generous as a Prince."
How long he continued to reside at " Variety Shades,"
I do not know ; but it is probable that he soon removed to
"Sion Hill" (now called "Yellow Gravel"), as that had
long been his principal estate. He died there on March 1,
1798, and himself and wife lie buried in the Sion Hill
family cemetery, under a tombstone bearing this inscrip-
tion : —
" Sacred to the memory of Joseph Cabell.
Born Sept. 8th, 1732, died March 1st, 1798, aged 65
years, 7 months.
Mary his wife, born Jan'y, 1735, died July 12th, 1811,
aged 76 years.
Erected by Eliza Lewis, their daughter."
He was born September J, 1732, and was therefore 65
years, 5 mos., and 11 days old.
Dr. Arthur Hopkins, the father of Mrs. Joseph Cabell,
was probably born in New Kent County, about 1690. He
married, about 1710-1715, Elizabeth Pettus, of New Kent ;
bought land on " ye Byrd Creek " in Goochland County, in
1731 (in the deed he is styled "Arthur Hopkins of St.
Paul's Parish Hanover county physician "), and moved to
that county prior to 1734. He was appointed a justice of
the peace for Goochland in 1737; was high sheriff, 1739-
1741 ; and was a member of the vestry of St. James
Northam Parish. There are several references to him in
old Dr. Cabell's papers, going to show that they were very
good friends. He entered for, patented, bought, and sold
much land in the present counties of Albemarle, Fluvanna,
and Goochland, during 1731-1750. In 1751, he bought
lots in the new town of Beverley at Westham. He was a
colonel in 1752, and a citizen of Albemarle in 1762. His
will, dated May 31, 1765, recorded March 12, 1767, men-
tions wife Elizabeth, sons Samuel, John, Arthur, William,
and James, " my married daughters and their husbands
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 141
[names not given], . . . my single daughter Isabella, my
son-in-law Col. Joseph Cabell to be her guardian," etc.
His son Samuel was the father of Gen. Samuel Hopkins,
of Kentucky. His son James, who died in this county in
1803, left the most remarkable will I ever read, naming
many of his relatives, emancipating his slaves, many of
whom could then read, and requiring his executors to have
the others " taught enough to enable them to read the
word of God."
Elizabeth Pettus, the wife of Dr. Arthur Hopkins, de-
scended from " Col. Thomas Pettus, who settled in Virginia
in 1640, who was descended from Sir John Pettus," one of
the founders of Virginia. 1
III. Col. Joseph 2 and Mary Hopkins Cabell had sur-
viving issue : —
17. i. Elizabeth 3 , the first.
18. ii. Joseph 3 .
19. iii. MaryH. 3 .
20. iv. Ann 3 .
21. v. Elizabeth 3 , the second.
i
IV. COL. JOHN 2 CABELL, OF GREEN HILL, BUCKINGHAM
COUNTY, VA.
In the absence of direct evidence (Dr. Cabell's Bible and
family records having been lost), it is not known whether
his third son, John, was born before he went to England or
after his return. On May 6, 1743, the council granted
William Cabell, Sr., Joseph Cabell, John Cabell, and Wil-
liam Hopkins leave to locate 6000 acres of land. But the
land entry is no proof of the age of the parties thereto.
In May, 1753, Nicholas Cabell entered in his own name
" 400 acres under Findlay's Mountain," yet he was not
three years old at the time. And in May, 1743, John was
certainly not ten, and probably not one year old.
" On Tuesday, Dec. 5th, 1756, John's horse fell with
him, and on him, breaking his right thigh bone." His
1 See Genesis of the United States, p. 966.
142 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
father set the limb and bandaged it ; but John was restless
and slipped the bands " in so much that on December 20,
Dr. Cabell was obliged to rebreak and reduce the fracture,
the bone having overlapt at least three inches." After
which the old doctor kept a strict watch on his son John,
and there was no more trouble with the limb.
He was married " May 20th 1762, at 8 o'clock in the
evening, to Paulina daughter of Col. Samuel Jordan."
September 13th, 1763, he was Captain John Cabell.
At the fall session of the House of Burgesses, 1764, a
public ferry was established from the land of John Cabell,
near Bowman's warehouse in Amherst, across the Fluvanna
River to his land in Buckingham. This ferry was between
the present Green Hill and Fork Field estates, which had
then but recently been deeded to him by his father. Dr.
Cabell's papers show that at the time of giving him the
land he also paid off his debts, " giving him and his young
wife a clear start in the world."
The fact that the records of Buckingham County and
the family papers of Col. John Cabell have all been burnt
or destroyed makes it impossible for me to give the particu-
lars of his life. He is frequently mentioned in his brother
William's diary, but nearly always in connection with some
private business transaction of no public interest.
" April 14th 1769. Swap'd my blazed faced mare with
John Cabell for his grey horse."
" Novr. 30th 1769. Paid Mr. Pattison of Williamsburg
fifteen shillings for repairing John Cabell's watch."
In 1774, and probably before, Col. John Cabell was
sheriff of Buckingham County.
In 1775, he was chairman of the Buckingham County
committee, one of the deputies from that committee to the
district committee, which first met (September 8, 1775) at
the house of James Woods in Amherst, and county lieuten-
ant. (See the sketches of his brothers.)
" Novr. 23rd 1775. Delivered Col. John Cabell the com-
missions for the militia officers for Buckingham County."
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 143
" Jan'y 29th 1776. Paid Col. John Cabell, chairman of
the Committee of Buckingham £72. the recruiting money
for that county."
Col. John Cabell was one of the delegates from Bucking-
ham County to the Convention which met in Williamsburg
on May 6, 1776. On May 8, he was appointed one of the
committee of propositions and grievances. The instruc-
tions given by the freeholders of Buckingham to their dele-
gates to the Convention, Charles Patteson and John Cabell,
were published in " The Virginia Gazette " of June 14,
1776, and are referred to by Bancroft (Hist, of U. S.,
Centy. Ed. vol. v. p. 256), and by Grigsby (Col. Va. Hist.
Soc, new series, vol. ix. p. 338, note 257). See the sketch
of Col. George Carrington in this volume.
Col. John Cabell continued as county lieutenant of Buck-
ingham for several years. He also represented the county
in the General Assembly of Virginia in 1777-1778, 1780-
1781, 1783-1784, 1784-1785, and 1787-1788, and proba-
bly at other times ; but, as I have said, the records have
been destroyed. The following extracts from his brother's
diary may be of some interest to some of his descendants : —
" June 27th 1777. By Carter Braxton Esq. £282 lis.,
for John Cabell for 17,388 lbs tobacco at £1 12 6d
pr C."
" Paid Richard Charlton for John Cabell's expenses £21
8 6." "Paid John Talbot for John Cabell's bond and
interest, £51 5s." " Paid Edward Carlton for John Cabell
£29 8 6. on account of Col. Thomas Jefferson." Col.
William Cabell was at this time attending the General
Assembly, and I think that Col. John was also.
" Deer. 30th 1777. Paid John Ramsey £4 12s. for John
Cabell for the sword of Capt. Bates."
" Octr. 22nd 1778. Paid The Treasurer 70 dollars and
took up John Cabell's bond to Edmond Randolph and John
Blair, trustees of Dunmore's."
" Deer. 2nd 1779. By John Talbot £69 14s. for Joseph
and John Cabell."
144 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
"Feb'y 12th 1780. Paid John Cabell in account £34
16 9d. received of John Talbot for his part of a Privateer."
I suppose this has reference to the shares of Joseph and
John Cabell in the proceeds of some prize taken by a priva-
teer in which they were part owners.
" Feb'y 2nd 1781. By Col. John Cabell pr the hands of
my son William £3225 in full of 1282 lbs nett pork at
£250 pr. C."
" July 31st 1781. Paulina Cabell wife of John Cabell
departed this life in the year of her age. She was a
most affectionate, tender parent and humane mistress. In
short she possessed every virtue that adorns Human Na-
ture."
" Augt. 8th. Went to see Mrs. Paulina Cabell, the wife
of Col. John Cabell inter' d, and thereby to pay the last
offices to the remains of our poor departed sister."
Col. John Cabell married (second) July 19, 1787, Eliza-
beth Brierton Jones. She died October 16, 1802, without
issue by him. His will, dated April 22, was proven June
12, 1815. The late N. F. Cabell said that "he died at a
farm of his [about a mile below Green Hill], now known as
Elm Cottage, the residence of Miss M. G. McClelland, the
authoress."
Paulina Jordan (Col. John's first wife) was a daughter of
Col. Samuel Jordan (see sketch of him under II.) by his
second wife, Judith Scott Ware, widow of Peter Ware,
whose will, recorded in March, 1742, at Goochland C. H.,
mentions his loving wife, Judith, and their six children.
Her marriage bond with Samuel Jordan is dated February
29, 1745 (present style), and Thomas Ballard Smith is the
security. She also bore to Col. Samuel Jordan at least
three daughters : Paulina, who married Col. John Cabell ;
Wilhelmina, who married Col. John Wyatt ; and Caroline
Matilda, who married Col. Hugh Rose.
Mrs. Judith Scott (Ware) Jordan was an aunt of Gen.
Charles Scott, a soldier in the French and Indian war, and
in the Revolution, and afterwards governor of Kentucky.
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 145
The Scott family was a prominent one among the earliest
settlers of old Goochland. They intermarried with Hugue-
nots.
IV. Col. John 2 and Paulina Jordan Cabell had issue : —
i. John, b. September 19, 1763 ; d. in April, 1771.
ii. George, b. December 1, 1765 ; d. December 1, 1765.
22. iii. George 3 .
23. iv. Frederick 3 .
v. William, b. May 31, 1771; d. October 4, 1771.
24. vi. John J. 3 .
vii. Elizabeth, b. October 31, 1774 ; m. Dr. Tiernan, of
Richmond, Va. ; and d. August 18, 1798, s. p.
25. vii. Samuel J. 3 .
ix. Judith Scott, b. January 6, 1779 ; m., 1800, Mr.
Shields of Rockbridge County, Va. ; and d. Jan-
uary 1, 1801, s. p.
26. x. Paulina Jordan 3 , b. November 20, 1780; m. (1st)
Hector 3 Cabell (14); m. (2d) Judge William
Daniel the elder, of Lynchburg, Va. ; and d. in
1840, s. p.
V. COL. NICHOLAS 2 CABELL THE ELDER, OF "LIBERTY
HALL," NELSON COUNTY, VA.
Nicholas 2 Cabell, born October 29, 1750, baptized by
Rev. Robert Rose (who was one of his godfathers) on
December 15 following, was first sent to school on January
28, 1755, when only four years and three months old, and
" he continued his education " until his twenty-first year.
I do not know who all of his teachers were, but he went to
school to William Cox in 1762 ; to John Clay in 1763-1764
(said to have been afterwards a Baptist minister and the
father of Henry Clay) ; at the classical school of Rev. James
Maury, of Albemarle, of the Parsons' Cause fame, from
May, 1767, to May, 1769, in which year Mr. Maury died.
Thomas Jefferson, Bishop Madison, John Taylor, of Caro-
lina, Dabney Carr the elder, and numerous other distin-
guished men were educated by Mr. Maury.
146 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
On December 17, 1767, Mr. Maury wrote to Dr. Cabell
as follows : —
" Sir, ... I cannot without some injustice to my pupil
and violence to my inclinations help congratulating with
you on having a son who, should he continue to behave as
he has hitherto done since he has been here, must be one
great comfort of your declining age, and will, I hope, be a
credit to his Family and an ornament to his country. For
Nature has been no niggard to him in bestowing her gifts
and endowments, nor is he wanting in diligence to improve
them. And, Sir, you may rest assured, no pains in forming
his morals and cultivating his genius, as far as lies within
my sphere, shall be spared by
Your h'ble servant
James Maury."
On July 12, 1768, Dr. William Cabell wrote to his com-
mission merchant, John Backhouse, of Liverpool, England,
as follows : —
" Sir, — Have sent you by Capt. Breakhill 8 hhds tobacco
— Please return by the same ship, part of the nett proceeds
in the Articles in the Invoice hereto annexed — the remain-
der I shall leave in your hands for the support of my son
who comes with Mr. Trent to complete his education. . . .
I think it necessary on his arrival to have him inoculated
for the smallpox to prevent the danger of his getting it in
the natural way. Your compliance will oblige
Your Humble Servt.
Wm. Cabell."
But the Revolutionary troubles had commenced, the col-
ony was drifting away from the mother country, and so it
happened that it was decided not to send Nicholas with
Capt. Trent, but to continue him at Mr. Maury's school,
where he remained until the spring of 1769. He then
went to William and Mary College, where his education was
completed.
On July 9, 1771, his brother, Col. William Cabell, of
Union Hill, sold him " a watch for £6., which he is to pay
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 147
me for shortly." About this time he commenced " to pay
his addresses " to Miss Hannah, daughter of Col. George
Carrington, of Cumberland, who, on February 8, 1772,
wrote to Dr. William Cabell as follows : —
" Dear Sir, — I rec'd yours by your son Nicholas, whose
intended nearer alliance to my family is agreeable to me.
I have referred him to my daughter and he can inform you
what progress he has made. He is a young man that I
have a good opinion of, and if they get together, I am in
hopes that you will find her a dutiful child and a satisfac-
tion to you the remaining part of your time here.
I am with respect —
Yr very hum'l Servt.
George Carrington."
They were married on April 16, 1772, and lived with
the old doctor, at Swan Creek, to his death in April,
1774.
So early as 1763, his father had given him by deed the
profits of the plantation which lay next below his residence,
" as well for affection, as for his better maintenance and
support ; " to which, in 1773, he added by other deeds all
the residue of his lands and personality not previously
deeded to his other children, except the tract on which he
lived, which tract was also given to him by his father's
will, dated January 3, 1769, and proved by him, as his
father's executor, on June 6, 1774. These lands extended
from above Midway Station, C. & 0. R. R., down the
James River for more than five miles. They were then
known as " The Swan Creek Estate," and afterwards as
" Liberty Hall."
Under " an ordinance for raising and embodying a suffi-
cient force for the defence and protection of this colony,"
passed by the Convention of July 17 to August 26, 1775,
the colony was divided into sixteen districts, and each dis-
trict was required to organize a battalion of minute-men,
who were to drill and prepare themselves for the regular
service. This district was composed of the counties of
148 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Albemarle, Amherst, Buckingham, and East Augusta. The
district committee (see Col. William Cabell the elder) in-
trusted with carrying out this ordinance met for the first
time on September 8, 1775, at the house of James Woods
in Amherst County. Present, Charles Lewis and George
Gilmer, from Albemarle ; William Cabell, John Rose, and
Hugh Rose, from Amherst ; John Nicholas, Charles Patte-
son, and John Cabell, from Buckingham ; Samuel Matthews,
Alexander McClanahan, and Samuel McDowell, from East
Augusta ; Thomas Jefferson from Albemarle being the only
absentee. The committee chose John Nicholas as chair-
man, Charles Rose as clerk, and proceeded to divide the
district according to the advice of the late Convention:
Albemarle, Amherst, and Buckingham two companies of
minute-men each, and East Augusta four. These ten com-
panies of fifty men each were to be organized into a battal-
ion under George Matthews (of Augusta), colonel ; Charles
Lewis (of Albemarle), lieutenant-colonel ; Daniel Gaines (of
Amherst), major, and Thomas Patterson (of Buckingham),
commissary. The Amherst companies were under (1st)
Nicholas Cabell, captain; John Gilmer, lieutenant, and
Benjamin Taliaferro, ensign ; (2d) Gabriel Penn, captain ;
David Heffer, lieutenant, and James Pamplin, ensign.
The ordinance ordained " that the minute-men, as soon as
enlisted and approved, shall be formed into the battalions,
and shall be kept in training under their Adjutant for
twenty successive days." This battalion met on November
17, 1775, at a place unknown to me, " within three miles
of Rockfish Gap of the Blue Ridge," and were kept in train-
ing until December 6 following. (November 17, the same
day that the battalion met, John Ackiss was killed in an
engagement near Norfolk, the first blood shed in Virginia.)
Each company of the battalion was required to muster once
a fortnight (except in the months of December, January,
and February), and " continue to exercise for four successive
days."
Capt. Nicholas Cabell mustered his company March 18-
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 149
21, April 1-4, and continued thus to exercise them each
fortnight, until the company was called into actual service
by resolution of Convention on May 10, 1776, for sending
two battalions of 650 men each to the assistance of North
Carolina. One of these battalions was to be raised in the
counties of Albemarle, Amherst, Bedford, Buckingham,
Charlotte, Halifax, Lunenburg, and Pittsylvania : Charles
Lewis, of Albemarle, colonel ; Haynes Morgan, lieutenant-
colonel, and John Glenn, major. The quota of Amherst
County, one company of fifty men, was enlisted in the ser-
vice on May 25 ; Nicholas Cabell, captain ; James Pamplin,
lieutenant ; William Spencer, ensign ; Jesse Allen, first ser-
geant ; Clough Shelton, second sergeant ; Robert Horsley,
third sergeant, and fifty men.
On May 29, the Convention " ordered that the march of
the minute-men and militia ordered to the assistance of
North Carolina be for the present countermanded ; and
that the Committee of Safety do give such directions
respecting them as they shall judge most beneficial for the
public service."
"June 18. Resolved, That the two battalions of minute-
men and militia lately ordered to the assistance of North
Carolina be called down to supply the place of such regular
forces as may be ordered to the southward."
This resolution was received by Capt. Nicholas Cabell's
company on the 22d, and the next day they set off down
James River, going in canoes to Westham, and thence by
land to Jamestown. They remained in service to Septem-
ber 12, 1776. In October, the services of minute-men were
dispensed with, and they were encouraged to enter the
regular continental army.
From first to last there were 103 men on the pay rolls of
Capt. Nicholas Cabell, five of whom died while under him ;
nearly all of the others entered the regular army ; forty of
them did so prior to May, 1776.
The following extracts from Col. William Cabell's diary
have reference to this company : —
150 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
"July 20, 1776. Paid Col. Nevil £3 10s. for a rifle fur-
nished by Captain Thomas's estate to Capt. Nicholas Ca-
bell's company of minute-men." " Paid Joseph Cabell £10
2s. for the guns he furnished Capt. Nicholas Cabell's com-
pany with."
[The diary from June 20 to November 2 is missing.]
" Novr 2, 1776. Paid Captain Nicholas Cabell £237 in
part of his own and company's pay to the 12th of Septr.
last."
" Novr 6th. Paid William Pollard £6 4s. 9d., for pro-
visions furnished Capt. N. Cabell's company of Minute-men
and for carrying their baggage to the river."
" Jan'y 6th, 1777. Paid Capt. N. CabeU £82 15s. 7d. in
full of £319 15s. 7d. received for his own and company's
pay to the 12th of September last as Minute-men."
But under the resolution of Convention of May 10, 1776,
" a month's pay was advanced and forwarded to the com-
mittees of the counties from whence the said troops are to
march."
The pay rolls of Capt. Cabell's minute-men and his ac-
counts with the public are still extant. The pay per day
was, for a captain, six shillings ; lieutenant, four ; ensign,
three; sergeant, two; corporal, drummer, and fifer, one
shilling and eightpence each, and a private one shilling
and fourpence. A captain was allowed to keep two horses,
and was allowed one shilling and sixpence per day for for-
age for his horses, and one shilling, two and a half pence
for his own rations. Hunting-shirts were 12s. 6d., and leg-
gings 4s. each. Smooth-bore guns and muskets were pur-
chased at a cost of from £1 10s. to £4 10s. each, and
rifles from £3 to £5 15s.
On October 2, 1776, Capt. Cabell delivered to Capt.
Samuel Higginbotham for Capt. Sale, on Maj. James Frank-
lin's order, seven pots and one kettle, six rugs, one tent,
twenty-two rifles, and eight shotguns, which his company
of minute-men had when in the service. On the next day,
Major Franklin and his command marched from New Glas-
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 151
gow ; where to, I do not know. Capt. John Sale had been
the sergeant-major of Col. Byrd's regiment in the Indian
wars prior to 1763, and it may be that his command was
now to march against the Cherokees on the frontiers. Old
Amherst sent her sons as soldiers to the north, south, east,
and west, during the Revolution, and she was called upon
more than once to aid in the protection of our frontiers.
The references to Capt. Nicholas Cabell in his brother's
(Col. Will's) diary are nearly all of a business character.
Like his father and his brothers, he was fond of horses, and
at this time he owned a horse, called " The Maccaroni,"
which was celebrated for his fine looks, etc. There are sev-
eral references to this horse in the diary.
" June 12th, 1777. By Col. Paul Carrington £8 12 6
for Nicholas Cabell on account of Thomas Hargfet."
"June 16th. Paid for Nicholas Cabell, 7s. 6d., for 2
boxes of Dockyer's pills."
" June 21st. paid Mooney for painting Nicholas Cabell's
[riding] chair 30 shillings."
" Jan'y 30th, 1778. Paid Nicholas CabeU £400 in pres-
ence of Young Landrum and Daniel Dunakin — also paid
him £4 4s. which Daniel Dunakin paid James Bell, the
fuller, for fulling 16f yards of cloth."
It being of the greatest importance that a speedy rein-
forcement should be sent to General Washington, on May
15, 1778, the General Assembly of Virginia " resolved that
2000 volunteers, rank and file, shall be raised ... in the
speediest manner, who are to join the Commander-in-chief
of the American army when ordered so to do . . . and
that they serve till Jan'y 1st, 1779, unless sooner discharged.
That said volunteers, when raised, be formed into four dis-
tinct battalions [of ten companies of fifty men], . . . and
that each battalion be under command of a Lt.-Colonel com-
mandant and one Major — and the whole under a Briga-
dier General. . . . The Governor and Council to appoint
and commission the field officers. . . . Enlistments under
this Act to cease Augt 1st 1778." This act is also referred
152 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
to in the sketch of Col. Joseph Cabell (Assembly of May to
June, 1778). On June 5, Col. William Cabell, Sr., returned
from the Assembly and " delivered Nicholas Cabell two cer-
tificates of the Treasurer's for £400 8s. or thereabouts,"
for the recruiting service, I suppose.
On June 25, the governor and council appointed Nicholas
Cabell, lieutenant-colonel, commandant of the fourth bat-
talion aforesaid.
" Dec. 6th, 1778. Delivered Colonel Nicholas Cabell 26
tickets in the 2nd Class of the United States Lottery, which
I received of the Treasurer for his 500 and 20 dollar
prizes in the first Class." (Diary.)
In 1779, Col. Nicholas Cabell was one of the first vestry-
men for the new Amherst Parish. He was also one of the
members of the House of Delegates from Amherst County
in 1779-1780 and 1780-1781.
He was appointed a colonel of the militia of Amherst
County some time prior to September, 1780. " On Septr.
4th, 1780, Amherst County Court certified, that Nicholas
Cabell, early in the contest with Great Britain, did actual
service as Captain of a minute company ; that since by
recommendation from this Court, he received a colonel's
commission, in which capacity, he has acted for some time
past; that lately this Court has recommended him to his
Excellency the Governor [Jefferson] as a proper person for
Colonel of the 1st Battalion of Militia of this County ; that
in all of the different public capacities in which he has
acted heretofore, the Court entirely approves of his con-
duct."
A force for the southern department was being raised in
Virginia at this time, which was to rendezvous between
September 10 and 25. I know that Capt. Azariah Martin
of the first battalion of militia of Amherst marched his
company to the relief of South Carolina about this time ;
but I do not know that Col. Cabell and the whole battalion
went. It is true, however, that from the arrival of Gen.
Leslie in Virginia in October, 1780, to the surrender of
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 153
Cornwallis in October, 1781, the Virginia militia saw about
as much active actual service as the regulars.
Lafayette was at the head of his forces in Virginia from
March to November, 1781. According to one account,
Col. Nicholas Cabell served in command of a regiment
under Lafayette. According to another account, he served
on Lafayette's staff at Yorktown. He probably did both.
I reoret very much not having a particular account of his
Revolutionary services; but the official records are not
complete, and I cannot find that any particular account of
his services has been preserved by his family.
After the Revolution he was a member of the Virginia
Society of the Cincinnati.
He was for many years a vestryman of his parish and a
justice for his county. He also represented his county in
the House of Delegates in the sessions of 1783-1784 and
1784-1785.
The late N. F. Cabell said that " he determined to intro-
duce the order of Freemasonry into his neighborhood in
1784, and a lodge was established that year." I suppose
this was "The George Lodge," which was chartered in
1791.
In April, 1785, he was elected state senator from his
district, composed of Albemarle, Amherst, and Buckingham
counties. The records of the Senate are not complete, but
I am quite sure that he continued to represent this district
until his death in 1803. It has been sometimes stated that
he retired from public life in 1800 on account of declining
health ; but he was certainly a state senator in 1801-1802
and 1802-1803. " He was a member of what was then
known as the Republican Party, and was a man of influence
in the councils of the State."
On November 13, 1788, the town of Warminster was
established on his lands by act of Assembly.
On April 14, 1791, " The George Lodge " was chartered
by the Grand Lodge of Masons of Virginia, to be held in
the town of Warminster. The Rev. Isaac Darneille was
154 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
the first Master of this lodge. In 1794-1795 a Masonic
hall was erected in the town.
On December 7, 1791, the Assembly passed an act
authorizing William Cabell, Sr., Samuel Meredith, Joseph
Cabell, Sr., Nicholas Cabell, Sr., Hugh Rose, William Ca-
bell, Jr., John Breckenridge, Roderick McCulloch, Joseph
Cabell, Jr., Robert Rives, Samuel Jordan Cabell, Nathan
Crawford, and others, to raise by way of lottery a sum not
exceeding £2000, to be by them applied towards erecting
an academy in the town of Warminster. At a meeting of
the trustees in the town on June 23, 1795, Col. William Ca-
bell, Sr., was unanimously elected president, and to supply
the places of those dead, declined, and removed, Landon
Cabell, William B. Hare, William H. Cabell, William Hors-
ley, and others were added to the board. " And Robert
Rives, Landon Cabell and Saml. J. Cabell were appointed
a committee to suggest and prepare a scheme of a Lottery
for raising the sum of pounds for the Academy, and
report the same to the next meeting of a board of Trus-
tees."
The lottery was a favorite institution in those days for
erecting academies, churches, etc.
In December, 1790, the Assembly passed an act author-
izing the trustees of Warminster to raise £200, " by one
or more lotteries, to be by them applied towards building a
church in the vicinity of the said Town."
On September 7, 1794, Col. Nicholas Cabell's daughter
Hannah died, and on the next day, his daughter Henning-
ham. Their funeral sermon was preached by the Rev.
Charles O'Neal, who had previously resided in the family of
Col. Cabell, and taught a classical school near by. 1
Col. Nicholas Cabell was one of the trustees of "The
College of Washington in Virginia " in 1796-1797.
For many years Col. Cabell was a constant attendant
on the Grand Lodge (Masons) of Virginia, in which he at
several times filled several positions of trust and honor.
1 See Bishop Meade's Old Churches, etc., vol. ii. pp. 62, 63.
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 155
In 1792, he was grand treasurer, pro tern. ; in 1795, lie
was grand senior warden ; and in 1796, he presided over
the Grand Lodge of Virginia as acting Grand Master.
He was a member of the state Senate in the General
Assembly of 1798, and voted for the famous resolutions of
that session on the Alien and Sedition laws.
He was a progressive farmer, encouraged improvements
in the cultivation of land, and in stock, — importing fine
horses, etc. He owned " The Maccaroni," " The Grena-
dier," and other horses of note in their day.
" In 1800, his health began to decline. In 1802, he made
a trip to the Virginia Springs, where he received sufficient
benefit to encourage his return in 1803. While on this
second trip, in descending the western slope of the Blue
Ridge, on foot, he trod on a stone, which turning caused
him to fall, whereby he was much bruised and received
quite a serious wound. He was conveyed to a house
near by, received such attention, medical and other, as the
neighborhood afforded ; but the shock to his then feeble
system was so great as to produce a fatal result in a few
days.
" He died Augt. 18th, 1803, in the 53d year of his age,
and his remains were brought home and laid in the family
cemetery at Warminster, next to those of his father.
" In person he was tall, well proportioned, of erect car-
riage in earlier life, though stooping somewhat with advan-
cing years. His features were regular, with high forehead,
aquiline nose, and a brilliant black eye. Much of the
manly beauty for which he had been distinguished when
young had faded, but his eye remained undimmed, and his
countenance retained its highly intellectual expression to
the last.
" While he was noted for his personal intrepidity and
decision of character in private life, he was most amiable in
all the domestic relations, warm in his friendships, kind to
the poor, tenderly sympathizing as a woman with all objects
of suffering or distress."
156 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
His will was written on July 10, 1799. He added a
codicil on February 3, 1802. It was proved at Amherst
court on November 21-22, 1803 ; and William H. Cabell
and William B. Hare qualified as executors on April 20,
1807.
Mrs. Hannah Carrington Cabell, born March 28, 1751,
survived her husband nearly fourteen years. She resided
mostly with Dr. Hare at his seat " Harewood," where she
could be more constantly with her granddaughters, the
children of Mrs Hare, of whom she had taken general
charge since the death of their mother.
Mrs. Cabell died August 7, 1817, was buried in the family
cemetery at Liberty Hall, and her funeral sermon was
preached by Bishop Richard Channing Moore, September
11, 1817.
The following obituary notice is thought to have been
written by the Hon. William Wirt : —
"Died, on the 7th Instant, at Montevideo (the seat of
Judge Cabell in Buckingham County) Mrs. Hannah Cabell
(widow of the late Col. Nicholas Cabell and mother of the
judge) in the 67th year of her age ; after a severe illness
of six and thirty days.
"This venerable matron possessed, in a high degree, that
uncommon strength of character that distinguishes the Car-
rington family, to which she belonged ; a spirit, frank,
erect, firm, and independent ; with a solid understanding,
a sound judgment, a most inflexible integrity, and a warm,
kind, and affectionate heart, which carried her on steadily
and cheerfully to a good old age, in the faithful discharge
of every duty, social and domestic. She was, moreover, a
sincere Christian, and displayed its genuine character not
only through life and in health, but in the trying time of
sickness, and above all, in that awful hour in which she
met and even welcomed the approach of Death.
" Nor were these excellent qualities without their earthly
reward ; for among other blessings, she lived to rear and
see established around her one of the most respected and
MRS. HANNAH CARRINGTON CABELL
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 157
truly respectable families in Virginia; and although now
removed from the contemplation and enjoyment of a spec-
tacle which must have been so truly grateful to her mind
and heart, yet her friends have the well-founded conso-
lation that she is gone to reap that still brighter and im-
perishable reward which crowns the death of the righteous ;
They are told by an Authority which cannot err, ' Blessed
are the dead that die in the Lord.'
" A friend, not related to Mrs. Cabell, but who had the
happiness of her acquaintance and an opportunity of know-
ing her uncommon worth, offers this voluntary, but feeble
and unavailing tribute to her memory." *
Col. George Carrington (her father) was born in Saint
Philip's Parish in the island of Barbadoes, in the year
1711 ; emigrated therefrom to Virginia with his brother-in-
law, Joseph Mayo (he married, in 1716, Ann Carrington),
who bought land in Henrico County (where Hooper's Rock,
Cumberland County, now is), in September, 1723.
Mr. Mayo had been a merchant in Barbadoes. After his
arrival in Virginia, he purchased and settled the ancient
seat of the chiefs of the Powhatan tribe of Indians, near
the foot of the falls of James River, where he opened a
store, and George Carrington resided with him for some
years as an assistant storekeeper.
Prior to June 26, 1732, George Carrington married
Anne, the daughter of Maj. William Mayo, the surveyor,
by his first wife, Frances Gould.
The following deeds, recorded at Goochland Court
House, have reference to this marriage : —
Deed dated June 26, 1732. William Mayo of Goochland
County conveyed to his daughter, Anne Mayo, six negroes
which he hath at his plantation on Willis River, alias
Willis Creek.
Deed dated June 26, 1732. William Mayo, of Goochland,
conveyed to George Carrington and Anne Mayo (daughter
of said William) a tract of land on Willis River, alias
1 From the Richmond Enquirer of August 26, 1817.
158 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Willis Creek, containing 2850 acres, bounded as by patent
to said Mayo, dated August 25, 1731. Anne Mayo, the
second wife of the said William, joined in the deed.
The young couple settled on this estate, which they called
"Boston Hill." Their residence was located about two
miles from the mouth of Willis River in the present county
of Cumberland.
At November court, 1734, George Carrington, who had
been commissioned by the president and masters of the
College of William and Mary, qualified as an assistant sur-
veyor of Goochland County. He also qualified as a justice
of the peace for the county at the same time.
In 1743, he patented 5650 acres of land along the pres-
ent line between Buckingham and Cumberland, and on
December 17 of the same year, in partnership with his
brother-in-law, Edmund Gray, he entered with Maj. Wil-
liam Mayo, the surveyor, for 6000 acres on Harris Creek in
the present county of Amherst, above Lynchburg. Of this
land, 3374 acres was surveyed for Maj. George Carrington
by Dr. William Cabell, April 15, 1748. Edmund Gray
married in July, 1743, Mary, daughter of Maj. William
Mayo. He was the first king's attorney for Albemarle,
1745-1746, and a justice of the peace for that county,
1747-1749. In October, 1749, he made sundry deeds of
record in Albemarle to William Gray, of New Kent. On
one of Dr. Cabell's papers I find this note : " Edmund
Gray, has run away." His part of the entry on Harris
Creek was finally surveyed for George Carrington on June
15, 1750, turning ont 3350 acres.
On June 22, 1744, Carrington entered for 3000 acres
" adjoining Philip Mayo, on Bridle Creek and Piney Moun-
tain," to which tract he added 2000 acres in 1747. In
1745, he entered for 9997 acres on Randolph Creek, adjoin-
ing Isaac Bates, John and William Cannon, Thomas Ed-
wards, and Job Thomas. He made several other entries for
small quantities of land, and also bought land from others.
He was a burgess from Goochland in 1747-1749, and
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 159
probably prior thereto. He was a burgess from the new
county of Cumberland in 1749, 1752, 1753, 1755, 1756,
1757, 1758, 1759, 1761, 1762, 1763, 1764, and 1765.
These are the only certain dates which I have, but I am quite
sure that he was a burgess from 1747 to 1765 inclusive,
and probably for years after 1765. I have seen it stated
that " he was a Burgess up to 1775, and a member of the
General Assembly [for what years, not stated] after 1776."
He was a vestryman, or churchwarden, from early man-
hood to his death.
He was a captain in 1740 ; a major in 1743 ; and after-
wards lieutenant-colonel and colonel of Goochland County.
On May 22, 1749, on the organization of the new county
of Cumberland, he was the first county lieutenant and
presiding justice. At the coming on of the Revolution
he was the chairman of the Cumberland County committee
of 1774-1776.
These committees, first recommended by the Convention
of August, 1774, were soon chosen in each county. They
met at varying dates, and their proceedings became of con-
stantly increasing importance. Col. William Cabell was
chairman of the Amherst committee ; Thomas" Jefferson of
Albemarle ; Col. John Cabell of Buckingham ; Col. Paul
Carrington of Charlotte ; Col. James Callaway of Bedford,
etc. I have naturally taken an especial interest in these
old patriotic county committees, the nurseries of our Revo-
lution in Virginia, which have not received the considera-
tion due them. I have but few particulars of their earliest
meetings, but I have the fragment of the report of the
Cumberland committee from February 18, 1775, to October
28, 1776, and I have " scraps " enough of the rest to show
that the acts of this committee are fair samples of the acts
of the other committees in this section. Therefore I will
give an outline of the proceedings of this committee.
The preserved record of their proceedings begins with
their meeting at Cumberland Court House, February 18,
1775, from which I make the following extracts : —
160 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
" Resolved, That Friday the tenth day of March next be
appointed for the Freeholders to meet at the Court House
to elect Delegates to attend the Convention to meet at Rich-
mond, the 20th March, and it is recommended to all the
Freeholders to attend accordingly."
Three shillings per pound offered for the first fifty
pounds of good gunpowder manufactured in America
" wholly of American materials."
" Resolved, That the defenceless state of this country
renders it indispensably necessary that a quantity of ammu-
nition should be immediately provided," — being for the
public benefit, should be provided by a general and equal
contribution. And as " no method hath been adopted nor
powers created to levy monies to put this Colony in a Pos-
ture of Defence against the oppressive measure of the Brit-
ish Parliament : — It is the opinion of this committee that
William Fleming, John Hyde Saunders, Edward Carrington,
and Carter Henry Harrison do draw up and prepare proper
Instructions empowering the Delegates " to the Convention
of March 20 to take the proper steps in the premises. That
each member of the committee shall take a copy of these
instructions and prevail on the freeholders of the county to
sign it ; and if any one refuses to sign, his name to be given
in at the next committee meeting " to the End that the
Enemies of America may be known."
They approve the proceedings of the Continental Con-
gress, held at Philadelphia, September 5, 1774, and order
the above select committee to draft an address to be pre-
sented to the members thereof from Virginia.
The £15 due from the county for the support of the
provincial delegates to the Continental Congress of May
next must be handed to the county delegates to the Conven-
tion on or before March 20.
To see that the merchants of the county do not " infringe
the Association of the late Continental Congress."
" Friday, March 10th, 1775." (The next meeting.)
The addresses of thanks " To the Honorable Peyton Ran-
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 161
dolph Esq., Richard Henry Lee, George Washington, Pat-
rick Henry, Jr., Richard Bland, Benjamin Harrison, and
Edmund Pendleton, Esquires, the delegates from the colony
who attended the Continental Congress held at Philadelphia
Sept. 5th, 1774," was read and approved, and ordered " to
be transmitted to the Printers to be published in ' The Vir-
ginia Gazette.' It is very patriotic. They thank the dele-
gates, pledge their cooperation, advise "to prepare for every
contingency," and assure them, " that we shall be ready to
risque our Lives and Fortunes in your Defence whenever
any personal insult shall be offered you by the Tools of an
incensed and corrupt Administration."
The instructions to the county delegates were also read
and approved.
The election was held under the supervision of Joseph
Carrington, Rev. Mr. Saunders, and Henry Macon, of the
committee. John Mayo and William Fleming were chosen.
" Friday, April Wth, 1775." (The next meeting.)
They approve of " the Proceedings and Resolutions of the
late provincial Convention [March 20 to 27]. ... In com-
pliance with their recommendation, one shilling and three
pence to be collected from every tithable person [per the
list taken on June 10, 1774), for providing ammunition and
other articles of military preparation." To avoid any fur-
ther request for money, the members of the committee under
take to collect the same without charge. " Mr. Littleberry
Mosby, Mr. Richard James, Mr. Joseph Carrington, Mr.
George Carrington, Jr, and Mr. Edward Carrington to
divide the county into 24 Districts and allot to each mem-
ber his District for collection." Those refusing to pay, to
be reported to the committee, " in order that the Foes to
the cause of Freedom may be known." The chairman,
Col. George Carrington, was appointed treasurer, to receive
this money when collected. Mr. John Mayo, Mr. James
Pleasants (a Quaker), and Mr. Charles Woodson, Jr., were
appointed as a select committee to procure at once 500 lbs.
gunpowder, 1000 lbs. lead, and 2000 flints for the use of
162 . THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
the county. Wednesday, May 17, appointed for the elec-
tion of delegates to represent the county in the provincial
convention. "The bestowing any Victuals or strong
Liquors by way of Treat " at elections forbidden.
The battle of Lexington was fought on April 19, 1775.
On May 1, the committee met, and Col. George Carring-
ton, " the chairman, opened the Business of the day by lay-
in^ before the Committee the Information received from
the Northward, respecting the attack lately made by the
British Troops on the Inhabitants of Massachusetts Bay,"
and, after the maturest deliberation, the committee passed a
very patriotic resolution thereon, regarding assisting " our
Brethren of the Massachusetts Bay," etc., and appointing
May 10 for a general muster of the militia equipped with
whatever arms and ammunition they can procure.
May 3. The committee thank " Capt. Charles Scott and
his Independent company for their spirited offers of their
service in defending this Colony against wicked Invaders,"
etc.
May 10. Col. George Carrington, the chairman, informed
the committee that he as treasurer had received £158 3
(2532 tithes), a free contribution of the inhabitants for the
purchase of ammunition, etc. Edward Carrington was
empowered to invest the money to the best advantage.
Mr. Carter Henry Harrison and Mr. William Fleming
were appointed to prepare an address to the inhabitants of
the lower parts of this colony inviting them to remove to
this county in case of an invasion, etc.
" May 17, 1775. Mr. Chairman opened the Business of
the Day by laying before the Committee the Information
lately received by Express from the Northward respecting
the government of New York, among which is a Resolution
of the Maryland Provincial Convention, for immediately
suspending all Exportations from that Province to Quebec,"
etc. After deliberation thereon, the committee passed a
resolution urging Robert Carter Nicholas, Esq, " to call a
Colony Convention as speedily as possible, provided The
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 163
General Assembly, now called to meet on the first Thurs-
day in June, shall be prorogued to a further day." They
recommend that the public treasury o£ the colony should be
removed nearer the centre, where it would be more secure.
The address to the inhabitants of the lower parts was
read and approved. Like all the expressions of the com-
mittee, it was remarkably patriotic. I do not know that
any of the old Virginia county meetings declared openly
for out and out independence so soon as this, as the Meck-
lenburg, N. C, meeting is said to have done, May 20, 1775,
but the handwriting was certainly on the wall of these old
committees as early as February, 1775.
June SO. Mr. Edward Carrington and Mr. Richard James
report that they have not been able to find any gunpowder.
Mr. Richard Eggleston and George Carrington, Jr., of this
committee, to apply to the committee of Amelia ; Mr. John
Mayo to that of Chesterfield ; Mr. William Fleming to
Goochland, and Mr. Edward Carrington to the committees
of Buckingham and Prince Edward ; " and request them to
join this committee by way of subscription in erecting a
powder Mill with six Beaters on each side." Mr. William
Fleming and Mr. Edward Carrington to draw a scheme for
the purpose aforesaid. Then a long and most patriotic
" Address to the Inhabitants of this County was proposed
and unanimously agreed to." They tell the people plainly
that there is no " prospect of an accommodation with the
parent state." " For instance we need only to refer you to
the late conduct of that Mercenary, ministerial Tool, Lord
Dunmore, within your own colony." " You may indeed
consider yourselves as in a state of War with Great Britain,
for several engagements have been between her Troops and
the Inhabitants of your sister Colony of Massachusetts Bay,
and each power still stands in opposite military Array. All
the American Colonies have long since united in opposing
British oppression, a Blow, therefore, struck at one, must
be considered as struck at all. ... In your arms, under
divine Providence, rests your security. We entreat you
164 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
therefore by that Regard you have for the safety of your
own persons ; for your Liberties, civil and religious ; for
everything which can render your Being on Earth happy ;
for what is of more weighty consideration — the Happi-
ness of your Posterity for endless Ages to come — under
sanction of that confidence you repose in us — that without
delay, you take up your arms; put them in the best condi-
tion ; get acquainted with military Discipline ; and stand in
readiness for actual service, upon the first sound of the
Trumpet of War."
July 20 was to be observed as a day of " publick Hu-
miliation, Fasting and Prayer." And the address was to
be read by the ministers to their congregations, and printed
by Mr. Purdie.
In reply to " a Letter dated the 27th June," it was
" Resolved that Captain Charles Scott be in the most re-
spectful manner requested to detach 25 men from his Com-
pany to join a Body for the Protection of Williamsburgh."
''August 28, 1775" Mr. Chairman, Mr. James Pleas-
ants, and Mr. Carter Henry Harrison, with Mr. Littleberry
Mosby, Mr. George Carrington, Jr., and Mr. Charles Wood-
son as alternates, were appointed to attend as deputies
" the Amelia District Committee." This was similar to
" The Buckingham District Committee," which met in Am-
herst, September 8, 1775. (See Cols. William and Nicho-
las Cabell.)
Se])tember 26. The committee elect Col. George Car-
rington, county lieutenant ; William Fleming, colonel ;
Beverley Randolph, lieutenant-colonel ; and Henry Skip-
with, major.
October 17. The committee elect proper persons for cap-
tains, lieutenants, and ensigns of the militia of the county.
The meetings of October 23, November 3 and 18, were
especially devoted to military matters, — inspecting the
minute-men, administering oaths to officers, etc., etc.
November 27. The election of a new committee, under
the ordinance of the July, 1775, Convention, took place.
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 165
Twelve of the old committee retired, namely : Joseph
Carrington, Richard James, Robert Smith, Benjamin Wil-
son, Joseph Calland, Edward Carrington, John Woodson,
John Hyde Saunders, Henry Macon, Richard Eggleston,
William Smith, and Peter Stoner. (Some of these had
entered the army.) Twelve of the old committee were
reelected, namely : George Carrington, William Fleming,
John Mayo, Littleberry Mosby, Garter Henry Harrison,
George Carrington, Jr., John Netherland, Maurice Lang-
horne, Frederick Hatcher, Charles Woodson, Jr., James
Pleasants, and Edward Haskins. To these were added nine
new members to make twenty-one, the fixed number,
namely : Beverley Randolph, Seymour Scott, Thomas Har-
ris, Henry Skipwith, Arthur Moseley, John Harris, Miller
Woodson, Archer Allen. For the ninth place there was
a contested election case between Thomas Davenport and
Bartlett Thompson. The latter finally got the place. The
trouble was owing to William Daniel and several others
voting by mistake for " Bartholomew " Thompson.
December 7, 1775. The new committee met for the first
time. They reelect Col. George Carrington, chairman, and
Thomas Miller, clerk.
The next meetings were devoted to military matters, etc.
February 29, 1776. Mr. Carter Henry Harrison read a
very patriotic paper, concluding with the following reso-
lution, which passed unanimously : " Resolved that it be
recommended to the Inhabitants of this County in par-
ticular, and the Colony in general, that all Distinction of
Colonies and Counties be laid aside ; that there be no other
name known among them than that of Americans, and that
every man, who will heartily join in this common and ever
glorious struggle for Liberty, be considered and treated as
an American born."
On February 5, Thomas Miller had been directed to
purchase some patriotic literature for the use of the county.
On the 29th, he reported that he had purchased of Dixon
& Hunter sundry speeches of the bishop of St. Asaph, and
166 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
pamphlets of " one Sharp " (Granville Sharp ?), and " that
agreeable to the Resolution of this committee " he had
encouraged the reprinting of the speech of Edmund Burke,
Esq., on the " American Question."
April 5. Carter Henry Harrison, James Pleasants
(a Quaker), William Fleming, and George Carrington, Jr.,
were ordered to draw up instructions for the delegates in
convention to be chosen for this county on next court day,
directing them what line of conduct to pursue in their
future deliberations. The instructions drawn up by this
sub-committee were reported to the whole committee by
Mr. Harrison at the meeting of April 22. Having been
agreed to by the people, they were now approved by the
committee and handed to the chosen delegates, John Mayo
and William Fleming, Gents.
The instructions contain about 800 words, and every
word has the regular Revolutionary ring. " We therefore
your Constituents instruct you positively to declare for an
Independency ; that you solemnly abjure any Allegiance to
his Britannick Majesty, and bid him a good night forever."
" That no Terms of accommodation be now listened to from
the British Court, without a previous Renunciation from
the King of Great Britain of all Right, Title, or Authority
in and over these Colonies, and a formal and solemn Recog-
nition of our Rights and Independency," etc. Among the
grievances against the king was his having "forced the
slave Trade on us for several years."
They advise the issuing of paper money as necessary to
meet the expenses of the war.
" They recommend that so much of the Liturgy of the
Church as respects the King be altered ; that a prayer for
the Preservation, Happiness and Union of the Colonies be
substituted, and that the Clergy be directed to use the same
on pain of an immediate Removal."
It was ordered that May 17, 1776, be observed as " a
Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer."
The subsequent meetings, May-October, continued to
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 167
be of the same character. But little, however, was done
by the county committees, after the reorganization of the
county courts in August ; and after the adjournment of the
General Assembly, December 21, 1776, they were generally
dissolved. " The Court of the County, and the Court
Martial of Field Officers and Captains taking by the Consti-
tution and Frame of Government the Business into their
hands which heretofore had belonged to the County Com-
mittees in the unsettled State of Affairs.'*
The services rendered by these old county committees
cannot be overestimated. For nearly two years the colony
was really governed by them, and the destinies of the State
were virtually in their hands. Composed of the most dis-
creet, fit, and able men of each county, — the landed gentry,
the aristocrats, so-called, prominent in Church and State, —
many of them had personally more to lose than to gain by
the change. They sacrificed their interests to their coun-
try's cause, and proved themselves true patriots.
The following obituary of Col. George Carrington and
his wife was found in the pocketbook of their daughter,
Mrs. Joseph Watkins, after her death.
" Departed this life at their seat in Cumberland County,
Monday the 7th of February 1785, Colonel George Car-
rington in his 74th year ; and on Tuesday the 15th his
Consort, Mrs. Ann Carrington in her 73rd year ; whose
eminent characters in piety, patriotism, justice and benevo-
lence are too generally known to require a particular rela-
lation. On Monday the 21st their remains were interred
attended by their numerous family, whose ardent affections
they had attached by a constant anxiety and care to con-
duct them to reputation, propriety and happiness ; and a
great concourse of the neighborhood, and County. Whose
zealous friendship and regard had grown upon the experi-
ence of their long spent lives : his, in the most faithful
exercise of the offices of representative, magistrate, and
many others which his county conferred on him. Hers, in
168 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
doing all the good she could, in acts of charity and tender-
ness. It is remarkable that this happy pair, who lived 53
years married, have often in their latter days been heard to
wish that the same period might terminate their lives."
They were buried at "Boston Hill," and their funeral
sermon was preached by Rev. Christopher Macrae. 1
Col. George Carrington was a son of Dr. Paul Carrington,
of Barbadoes, by his second wife, Henningham Codrington,
who lies buried in St. Philip's Parish, under a monument
thus inscribed : . . . " Henningham Carrington, widow of
Paul Carrington, . . . Obit. Jan. 28, 1741, JEt. 69."
This date is old style. She was born in 1673, a grand-
daughter of Christopher Codrington, Esq. (who removed in
the time of Charles I., with his entire property, to the
island of Barbadoes), the second son of Robert Codrington,
Esq., of Didmarton, Gloucestershire, the son of Simon Cod-
rington, a member of the Virginia Company of London,
who was, I believe, so far as the records now preserved
show, the first individual Englishman to own in his own
rio-ht a foot of land in America. His grant from the Vir-
ginia Company, according to the memoranda now preserved
in the British Museum, was for 100 acres of land, and
bore the date " March 6th, 1615 ; " i. e., March 16, 1616,
present style. He was the son of Simon Codrington, the
elder, by his wife, Mary Callaway, through whom he was
probably related to the Drakes, Gilberts, Harringtons, and
others. 2
Mrs. Anne Mayo Carrington was born in the island of
Barbadoes in 1712. Her father, Maj. William Mayo (first
cousin to Dr. William Cabell), was baptized at Poulshot,
Wiltshire, England, November 4, 1684 ; emigrated to the
Barbadoes prior to 1712, where he married Frances Gould,
the daughter of Enoch Gould, who was transported to that
island for participation in Monmouth's rebellion of 1685,
and sold to Maj. Abell Allen for a term of years, under
1 See Meade's Old Churches, etc., ii. pp. 34, 37, 38.
2 See The Genesis of the United States, pp. 774, 85G, etc.
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 169
the decree of Judge Jeffreys. After his term of service
he became a leading merchant of Bridgetown in that
island.
During 1717-1721, William Mayo made a careful survey,
and a plat or map, of the Barbadoes, which is now pre-
served in King's College Library. He came to Virginia
with his wife and four daughters prior to September, 1723.
Rented land from Thomas Randolph in Henrico County, in
December, 1723.
November 13, 1727, sold eight negroes to Daniel Stoner.
May 21, 1728, qualified as one of the first justices for
the new county of Goochland, and as the first surveyor of
that county under appointment from Peter Beverley, Esq.,
surveyor-general of the colony.
In the spring and fall of 1729, he was one of the sur-
veyors on the part of Virginia in running the dividing line
between that State and North Carolina. On October 22,
Mayo's River was named for him. He is frequently men-
tioned in Col. William Byrd's " History of the Dividing
Line."
He was appointed major in 1730.
In 1731, he ran the line between Goochland and Han-
over ; this was before Louisa County was formed, and the
line extended beyond the inhabited parts towards the Blue
Ridge Mountains.
June 15, 1731, William Mayo, Gentleman, of Goochland
County, conveyed to William Randolph, son and heir of
Thomas Randolph, late of said county, Gent., deceased,
1600 acres land on south side of James River. His first
wife was then dead. In August, 1731, he wrote to Miss
Ann Perratt of Barbadoes to come to Virginia and marry
him (see his letter in Maxwell's " Virginia Historical Regis-
ter," vol. iv. pp. 84-86), and she did so.
In 1733, he went on " The Journey to the Land of
Eden " with Col. William Byrd, and surveyed for him his
20,000-acre North Carolina tract of land. On September
19, he offered to lay off for Col. Byrd the future cities of
170 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Richmond and Petersburg " without fee or Reward." See
Byrd's account of this " Journey."
January 17, 1736, William Mayo, of Goochland, Gent.,
conveyed to John Perratt, of the island of Barbadoes, mer-
chant, 2000 acres of land on the south side of James
River, being part of 3000 acres granted said William Mayo
by patent dated August 21, 1734. This was his second
wife's brother ; he owned an estate in Virginia called " Per-
ratt's Nest " prior to this.
Mrs. Mayo's father, Mr. John Perratt, died June 7, 1729,
aged 74 ; and Mrs. Ann Perratt, his wife, died March 16,
I72g, aged 63. They are buried in the parish of St. Philip,
Barbadoes, under a monument bearing apparently the same
arms as those borne by Sir John Perrott (natural son of
Henry VIII.), lord of Carew Castle, lord deputy, lieuten-
ant-general, and governor of the kingdom of Ireland, ad-
miral of England, lord of the Privy Council, and Knight
of the Bath, who died November 3, 1599. One of his
sons, Sir James Perrott, was a member of " The Virginia
Company of London." 1
In September, 1736, Maj. Mayo was appointed one of
the surveyors for His Majesty, in the Northern Neck boun-
dary controversy between Fairfax and the crown. He was
engaged in making this survey in October, 1736, and after.
In 1737 (June-September), he " formed a very elegant Map
of the whole Northern Neck by joining all the particular
Surveys together." In the early part of this year, 1737, he
laid off Richmond, and made a survey of Dr. Cabell's
James River lands.
In 1738, Mr. Joshua Fry, Maj. Robert Brooke, and Maj.
William Mayo made a proposition to the House of Bur-
gesses for making an exact map of the colony of Virginia.
In 1739, Mayo's Creek, at the present Midway Mills,
Nelson County, where he had a grant of 1400 acres of
land, was named for him.
He was appointed a colonel of Goochland militia in 1740.
1 See The Genesis of the United States, p. 965.
THE FOUNDER'S CHILDREN 171
The last entry for new land made with him as surveyor
was dated October 17, 1744. It was the 1240th entry in
Goochland County.
His will, dated jRfiggjgg, was recorded November 20,
1744. He is said to have died at Richmond, Va., October
20, 1744. His widow, "Madame Anne Mayo," died in
1773. " He patented about 30,000 acres of land, and
lived on Fine Creek in the present county of Powhatan."
V. Col. Nicholas 2 and Hannah Carrington Cabell had
issue : —
27. i. William 3 .
28. ii. George 3 .
29. iii. Elizabeth 3 .
30. iv. Joseph C. 3 .
31. v. Nicholas 3 .
32. vi. Mary Anne 3 .
vii. Mayo Carrington, b. August 25, 1784 ; d. Septem-
ber 21, 1784.
viii. Hannah, b. March 27, 1786; d. September 7,
1794.
ix. Heningham, b. November 16, 1787 ; d. Septem-
ber 8, 1794.
x. Paul C, b. May 8, 1791 ; d. June 23, 1791.
PART IV.
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN AND THOSE
ALLIED TO THEM BY MARRIAGE, WITH SOME
HISTORICAL DATA, MAINLY OF THE REVO-
LUTIONARY PERIOD, AND A GOOD DEAL OF
VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY BIOGRAPHY AND
GENEALOGY, ENDING WITH THE DEATH OF
MRS. ATTORNEY-GENERAL BRECKINRIDGE, OF
KENTUCKY, IN HER NINETIETH YEAR, THE
LAST SURVIVING GRANDCHILD, IN 1858.
" Family history is a subject of surpassing interest. Now that men have come to
know that genealogy is a branch of science which, if rationally pursued, will be pro-
ductive of important knowledge, it is ceasing to be degraded by being a mere slave
to those who possess rank and title." — Athen^um, September 29, 18S8.
I. MARY 2 CABELL HORSLEY'S CHILDREN.
6. William 3 Horsley, born about 1745 ; married prior
to January 13, 1768, Martha, daughter of Col. William
Megginson, of " Clover Plains." He was one of his majes-
ty's justices from Amherst from 1770 to 1775, and one of
the justices under the commonwealth from 1776 ; and a
lieutenant in the Revolution, 1778 to 1781, inclusive.
" May 25th 1779. Delivered Wm. Horsley the Acts of
the last session of the General Assembly."
" April 25, 1780. Delivered Wm. Horsley a patent for
1575 acres of land which was granted to my father for the
land whereon his brothers and himself now reside. Also
my father's deed to them for the same."
" Feby 15th 1781. Delivered Wm. Horsley his 4 grants,
to wit : 300, 275, 245 and 250 acres." (William Cabell's
Diary.) Grants for military service, I suppose. He resided
on the farm above " Centre Hill," near the present Glad-
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 173
stone station. Was sheriff of Amherst in 1788. His will,
dated April 15, 1791, was proved September 5, 1791. His
wife survived him only a few years. Her father, William
Megginson, was a justice of the peace of Goochland, 1741 ;
a captain prior to 1743, when he " laid the levies " in the
upper part of St. Anne's Parish ; was, after, a justice of the
peace for Albemarle. He purchased 580 acres from Mrs.
Elizabeth Cabell in 1739, on the south side of James River
at Greenway station, to which he afterwards added over
2000 acres, and called the estate " Clover Plains." After
1761, his lands were in Buckingham County. His wife,
Martha, was a daughter of John Goode, of " Falls Planta-
tion," Chesterfield County, Va., who was born about 1675,
at "Whitby," and killed by Indians about 1725. His
father, John Goode the emigrant, was born in Cornwall,
England, emigrated to the Barbadoes, and from thence to
Virginia, prior to 1660. His memory has been preserved
by Dr. G. Brown Goode in his " Virginia Cousins," pp. 24,
27-37, etc.
6. William 3 and Martha Megginson Horsley had
issue : —
33. i. William 4 .
34. ii. Mary 4 .
iii. Joseph, never married,
iv. Judith, never married.
35. v. Robert 4 .
vi. Martha, m. Richard Phillips, Esq.; d. s. p.
36. vii. Samuel Cabell 4 .
viii. Elizabeth, died young.
37. ix. John 4 .
x. Nicholas, m. Miss Scott, of Kentucky; d. s. p.
His widow m. (2d) United States Senator Bibb,
of Kentucky.
7. Robert 3 Horsley, baptized by his godfather, Rev. Rob-
ert Rose, March 27, 1749 ; married, August 22, 1771, at
" Winton," Miss Judith Scott ; resided at " Centre Hill ; " a
lieutenant in Revolution in 1778 ; died in June, 1786, s. p.
174 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
8. Elizabeth 3 Horsley, born March 22, 1749 ; baptized
five days thereafter by the Rev. Robert Rose ; married,
prior to September 2, 1768, at " Union Hill," to Roderick
McCulloch, Esq. " She was prepossessing in person and
manners, and domestic in her habits. Her health declined
some years before her death, and she became subject to
severe attacks. On April 7, 1821, while sitting at the
dinner-table, she swooned, and in less than five minutes was
dead."
Roderick McCulloch, her husband, was born November
6, 1741 (0. S.), in Westmoreland County, Va. ; "educated
at a school in Rockfish Gap and elsewhere in Va." In
1768, he was a tutor in the family of Col. William Cabell,
Sr., of " Union Hill," and Miss Horsley is said to have
been at one time one of his scholars. From 1770 to 1775,
one of his majesty's justices for Amherst ; and from 1776
he held the same office for many years under the common-
wealth. In 1772, he was a churchwarden, and was long a
vestryman.
July 15, 1775, he subscribed to the patriotic fund for the
use of the delegates, and for the aid of the Bostonians. He
was a soldier in the Revolution, sheriff of Amherst in 1783-
1784, vestryman of Lexington Parish, 1785-1809 (before
and after), and a lay delegate, in 1786, to the Episcopal
convention from his parish.
After his marriage, he settled on his wife's farm, which
they sold during the Revolution for- continental money,
ultimately of no value. He afterwards bought the " Ver-
dant Vale " estate, on James River, a little below Waugh's
Ferry, in Amherst County, a valuable property, first owned
by Capt. Cornelius Thomas.
Notwithstanding his Revolutionary losses, his own and
his wife's estate afforded ample support, and, being neither
ambitious nor covetous, he was content. Loving home and
domestic life, he accepted no offices which duty did not
force upon him. He supplied himself with the best authors
of the period. He was a fine scholar, with high literary
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 175
culture and strong religious feelings ; lofty ideas of the
principles and duties of life ; pure and refined in every sen-
timent, lie devoted himself much to the society and cultiva-
tion of his children, and " they remembered him as superior
to all the world." His descendants cherish many lessons
and memories handed down to them about him.
Late in life, about 1819 or 1820, he had the misfortune
to have his dwelling burned, with all the valuables, papers,
family records, etc., and his wife and self passed the remain-
der of their days with their daughter, Isabella Waugh, on
an adjoining farm. He died November 1, 1826, and was
buried by the side of his wife in the family burying-ground
at " Verdant Vale."
He was the son of Rev. David McCulloch, of Scotland,
who was educated at Cambridge, England, emigrated to
Virginia, and became the minister of Round Hill Church,
Washington Parish, Westmoreland County, Va. He was
related to Elizabeth McCulloch, who married Thomas Scott,
Esq., brother of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., of Abbotsford.
8. Elizabeth 3 Horsley and Roderick McCulloch had
issue : —
38. i. Mary 4 .
39. ii. Elizabeth 4 .
iii. Belinda, b. June 21, 1775 ; m. James Waugh,
Esq., and died in 1817, s. p.
iv. Roderick, b. October 20, 1777 ; a lawyer ; d. a
young man, unmarried.
40. v. Frances 4 .
41. vi. Isabella 4 .
vii. Robert Horsley, b. May 1, 1786 ; served in War
of 1812; moved to Callaway County, Mo., in
1834 ; d. October 9, 1839, unmarried.
42. viii. Nancy Ellis 4 .
43. ix. William H. 4 .
9. John 3 Horsley was baptized December 15, 1752, by
Rev. Robert Rose. His brother Robert and himself were
witnesses to their grandfather Cabell's will, January 3,
176 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
1769, and it was proved by his oath June 6, 1774. He
was a private in Capt. Nicholas Cabell's company of minute-
men in 1775, and a sergeant in 1776 ; a lieutenant of mili-
tia in 1778, and a lieutenant in the army in 1781. He
resided on the estate below " Centre Hill," which embraced
the present Bolton station, C. & 0. R. R., and owned lands
there on both sides of James River. By Act of November
10, 1792, the town of Diuguidsville (now Bent Creek) was
established on his land. His will, dated October 22, 1804,
was probated September 19, 1808. He married, about
1780, Miss Fanny Starke, and had issue four : —
44. i. Jane 4 .
45. ii. John 4 .
hi. Hector 4 , M. D., never married,
iv. Elizabeth 4 , died young.
II. COL. WILLIAM 2 CABELL'S CHILDREN.
10. Col. Samuel Jordan 3 Cabell, of Soldier's Joy, Nel-
son County, Va., was born December 15, 1756. Began
going to school at an early age, as was then the custom.
In December, 1765, " Sam and William came home from
school." I do not know what school. Sam had broken
his arm in some way, and was taken to his grandfather's to
have the member attended to. In 1768, he was going to
school to Roderick McCulloch, and in 1769, to William
Cheeke, the parish clerk. In 1768, his father wrote to his
commission merchant in England about employing a tutor
there for his sons, and in 1770, he procured from a friend
in England an estimate of the expenses, etc., at sundry
schools, and was advised to send his son either to Eton or
Westminster. But the times were becoming unsettled ;
Col. Cabell's sympathies were with the colonies ; so his
plans for educating his sons in England were finally abol-
ished. From 1770 to 1772, his sons were sent to school
at Col. Peter Fontaine's, where they were also taught to
dance by Mrs. Lewis.
" March 15th 1770, carried my two sons [Samuel and
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 177
William] to Col. Peter Fontaine's to school, and am to pay
him at the rate of <£20 per annum for each 'till Christmas.
Also for lodging and mending whatever shall be thought
reasonable."
In 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775, Sam was a student at
William and Mary College.
On November 17, 1775, there was an engagement near
Norfolk between Dunmore's forces and a body of Prince
Anne County militia, being the occasion of the first Revo-
lutionary bloodshed in Virginia. On December 9, the bat-
tle of the Great Bridge was fought. Col. William Cabell
was then attending the Committee of Safety and Conven-
tion in Williamsburg, and he at once sent his son Sam
home (from college), where he arrived about December 13.
The Convention adjourned January 20, 1776 ; Col. William
Cabell left the Committee of Safety January 25, and got
home January 28. The convention had passed "An ordi-
nance for raising; an additional number of forces for the
defence and protection of this colony." * Under which
Amherst County was required to furnish " one company of
expert riflemen," consisting of one captain, two lieutenants,
one ensign, four sergeants, one drummer, one fifer, and sixty-
eight rank and file. The captain had to recruit twenty-
eight men ; the first lieutenant, twenty-one men ; the sec-
ond lieutenant, sixteen, and the ensign, nine men, before
the last day of February, under the penalty of running the
risk of losing their commissions ; and the company had to be
completed and ready for marching orders by March 25, 1776.
On February 5, the county committee selected Samuel
Jordan Cabell for captain ; Alexander Rose, first lieutenant ;
Benjamin Taliaferro, second lieutenant, and James Barnett,
ensign ; and they immediately went to work to recruit their
quota of men.
Col. John Rose and Mr. Lucas Powell were the members
of the county committee selected " to review the men to be
enlisted," to examine them to see if they were healthy,
1 See Hening's Statutes at Large., ix. pp. 75-92.
178 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
" had been regularly sworn and attested according to the
directions of the ordinance," etc. As soon as received, the
recruit was paid £1 out of the fund for the recruiting ser-
vice.
"Feb'y 26th 1776. Paid Mr. Ben. Taliaferro £8, and
Mr. Alexr Rose £7 for the recruiting service in presence
of Col. Rose and Mr. Lucas Powell, which was in their
and my presence paid fifteen soldiers, who were regularly
enlisted, received and passed by them." (Diary.)
The company was duly completed, and, on March 4, the
officers were commissioned, and the company was received
into the service by the county committee.
"March 4th 1776. Capt. Saml. Cabell, Lieut. Alexander
Rose [son of Col. John Rose], Lieut. Ben Taliaferro [son
of Zacharias Taliaferro], and Ensign James Barnett pur-
chased Matthew Snooks, a servant of Gabriel Penn for a
fifer, for whom they gave £20 — and Mr. Penn is to give
up his indenture to them. They enter him in the service
and receive his wages among them. I paid £5 for Saml.
J. Cabell ; £5 for Alexr. Rose, and £5 for Ben. Taliaferro,
which they are to repay me — and James Barnett paid £5."
(Col. William Cabell's Diary.)
As Snooks was afterwards appointed fife-major of the 6th
Virginia Regiment, and his wages amounted to about £30
per annum, the investment was not a bad one.
" The Company rendezvoused at Key's old church," now
known as Fairmount Church, in the present county of Nel-
son. On March 12, they began the march for Williams-
burg.
" March 24th. Capt. Cabell arrived in Williamsburg with
his company after a march of twelve days. All well."
The rifle companies were "allotted two to each regi-
ment, to be employed as light infantry." Capt. Cabell was
assigned to the 6th Virginia Regiment. Each man was
armed with " one good rifle and a tomahawk." When these
were furnished by the soldier himself, he was allowed " 20
shillings by the year, at the expense of the publick." The
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 179
officers wore hunting-shirts, short and fringed ; sergeants,
ditto, short and plain, with a small white cuff ; drummers
and fifers, with a dark cuff, and privates, without cuffs.
These shirts cost 12s. 6d. each. Both officers and men
wore hats " cut round and bound with black, with brims
two inches deep, cocked on one side, with a button, loop,
and cockade worn on the left." They were required " to
wear their hair short and as near alike as possible."
The field officers of the 6th Regiment were : colonel,
Mordecai Buckner ; lieutenant-colonel, Thomas Elliot ; and
major, James Hendricks. The regiment was attached to
the brigade of Brig.-Gen. Andrew Lewis, which remained
in the region round about Williamsburg for some time.
The remaining officers of the regiment were : adjutant,
Simon Summers ; surgeon, Robert Rose ; chaplain, Rev.
William Dunlap ; captains, Nathaniel Fox [vice Thomas
Ruffin, died April 11, 1776], Nicholas Hobson [vice Capt.
Gregory, died June 19, 1776], Samuel J. Cabell, Samuel
Hopkins, Thomas Patterson, James Johnson, Oliver Towles,
Thomas Massie, Thomas Hutchins, and John Jones ; ser-
geant-major, James Dillard, Jr. (of Capt. Cabell's company) ;
William Croker, drum-major; Matthew Snooks (of Capt.
Cabell's company), fife-major ; and John Hawkins, sutler.
" General Orders. Williamsburg. March 27th. Capt.
Cabell's Comp'y to draw Ammunition to-day for the trial of
their rifles to-morrow between the hours of 8 and 10 in the
forenoon ; the men are to provide a target to-day."
" Officer for the day, to-morrow, Captain Cabell."
Col. William Cabell was then in Williamsburg, attending
the Committee of Safety, and the following extracts are
from his diary : —
" March 27. Paid Dixon and Hunter £1 3s. 3d. for 2
blank books and 1 quire of paper for Sam. Cabell for the
use of his Company — which was allowed him by the Com-
mittee of Safety, and which he has paid me."
"By Saml Cabell £4 10s. for 30 gallons of whisky
found this company on their march, and which was allowed
him by the Public in the settlement of his accounts."
180 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
"March 30. Reed, a warrant from Com. of Safety for
£23 9s. for Wm. Pollard for 469 rations furnished the
Amherst Company.
"By do. for Hugh Rose £10 15s. for 400 lbs. bacon
& 1\ barrels of meal for do.
"By do. for 394 lbs. Flour had of John Nicholas @ 12/6
= £2 9. 3."
As Amherst County had opened the Revolution with
earthquakes, the arrival of the Amherst company in Wil-
liamsburg was not allowed to remain long unnoticed by the
elements.
"March 31st. The whole night one continued gust of
wind, rain, hail and almost constant thunder and light-
ning.
" April 12. Paid Saml Jordan Cabell £6 7. 6. which I
received of the Treasurer on a warrant from the Committee
of Safety for nine hunting shirts at 12s. 6d. each ; and
makino; five do. at 3s. each."
On May 15, the Convention of Virginia passed resolu-
tions instructing their delegates in Congress to propose to
that body " to declare the United Colonies free and inde-
pendent States."
" Some gentlemen made a handsome collection for the
purpose of treating the soldiery, who next clay [May 16]
were paraded in Waller's Grove, before Brigadier-General
Lewis, attended by the gentlemen of the Committee of
Safety, the members of the General "Convention, etc. The
resolutions being read aloud to the army, the following
toasts were given, each of them accompanied by a discharge
of the artillery and small arms, and the acclamations of all
present : —
" 1. The American Independent States.
" 2. The Grand Congress of the United States and their
respective Legislatures.
" 3. General Washington and victory to the American
arms.
" The Union Flag of the American States waved upon
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 181
the Capitol during the whole of this ceremony ; which being
ended the Soldiers partook of the refreshments prepared
for them by the affection of their countrymen, and the
evening concluded with illuminations and other demonstra-
tions of joy ; every one seeming pleased that the domina-
tion of Great Britain was now at an end, so wickedly and
tyrannically exercised for these twelve or thirteen years
past, notwithstanding our repeated prayers and remon-
strances for redress." 1
On June 11, Col. William Cabell paid James Geddy of
Williamsburg for Capt. Samuel Cabell's sword.
June 12, the Declaration of Rights passed the Virginia
Convention.
"June 29. Paid Capt. Sam. Cabell £32 17s. which I
rec'd of the Treasurer for him to pay his company for the
time they furnished themselves with provisions."
On the same day, " The Constitution or plan of govern-
ment " passed the Virginia Convention by an unanimous
vote, and Patrick Henry was elected the first Republican
governor in America of an independent State.
"July 2nd. Paid Saml Cabell £11, which I received
of Col. Weedon on account of Brigr-General Mercer."
"July 4th. Delivered Saml Cabell, Alexr Rose, Ben
Taliaferro, and James Barnett (officers of the Amherst Com-
pany) warrants on the Treasurer for £4 10s. each, allowed
for one tent, each."
Since the first part of June (while these things were
going on in Williamsburg), Dunmore with his forces and
fleet had been at Gwynn's Island, about thirty miles away,
threatening invasion. On the evening of July 8, Gen. An-
drew Lewis, at the head of his forces, arrived before this
island ; erected a battery that night, and drove Dunmore
away the next day. I suppose that Capt. Cabell's company
was in this action, but I do not know.
" On July 25th the Declaration of Independence was
proclaimed to the rejoicing troops at Williamsburg."
1 Extract from Williamsburg Gazette, May 17, 1776.
182 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Soon after this, the 6th Virginia was ordered north,
marching through Virginia by Fredericksburg and the
Northern Neck, through the upper part of Maryland into
Pennsylvania by Lancaster, leaving Philadelphia to the
right, crossed the Delaware River above Trenton, and
through Jersey to Perth Amboy, where the regiment was
posted to defend that point until further orders.
I have not the particulars of Capt. Cabell's various ser-
vices ; I only know that he fought at Trenton and at
Princeton, and that his command did their duty in both
battles. He was at home on furlough, February 17 to
March 11, 1777.
During the retreat of Gates before Burgoyne, his army
was greatly distressed by the Indians with the British, who
hung upon the flanks and excited great alarm by their
merciless cruelty. Washington, aware of the disadvantage
under which the militia lay in their apprehension from this
cause, on the 20th of August, 1777, dispatched Col. Daniel
Morgan to the assistance of Gates, with a corps of 500
riflemen, which had been selected from his entire army for
their proficiency in the use of the rifle and the Indian mode
of warfare. They arrived on the 23d of August, and
Gates thanked Washington warmly for this valuable assist-
ance, and for his advice concerning the use to be made of
them.
Col. Morgan, with his rifle corps, supported by Maj.
Dearborn's light infantry, opened the" battle of September
19. In his report to Congress, Gates accorded the glory of
this action entirely to the valor of the light infantry and
Morgan's riflemen.
October 6. Adjutant Wilkinson reported to Gates that
the enemy were disposed to offer battle. " Well, then,"
said Gates, " order on Morgan to begin the game." In his
report to Congress on the 12th, Gates, while commending
all of the troops engaged for their spirit, again gave espe-
cial praise to Morgan's riflemen.
On October 16, Burgoyne surrendered. This series of
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 183
engagements, known as the battle of Saratoga, has been
styled one of the fifteen decisive battles of the world. How
many are there now living among the Cabells and their
kin who know that the first company in this famous corps
d'elite, so distinguished in this celebrated battle, was raised
in old Amherst and commanded by Capt. Samuel Jordan
Cabell, who was not then twenty-one years of age? He
was promoted major for his gallant services at this time.
Some of the acts of Dan Morgan's men are given in Max-
well's " Virginia Historical Register," vol. vi. p. 210. It
would be interesting to know that Gen. Fraser was killed
by one of Capt. Cabell's riflemen.
Morgan, with his rifle corps, returned to Washington's
army prior to November 24, 1777 ; and in December went
into winter-quarters at Valley Forge.
Joseph Newman (who had served at Braddock's defeat),
a member of the Amherst Rifles, was at home on furlough
in the spring of 1778 ; and when he returned, on April 18,
Col. Cabell sent by him several articles of clothing to his
son Sam. On June 10, he again sent clothes and money
by John Howard to Maj. Samuel Cabell.
Maj. Cabell served in Washington's army (at Monmouth,
I suppose, and elsewhere) during the campaign of 1778.
He was at home on furlough a second time in February,
1779.
" Feby 24th. Major Saml Cabell set off on his way to
the northward to join the continental army. Exchanged
horses with Major Cabell and gave him seven hundred
dollars." (Col. William Cabell's Diary.)
He served in Washington's army during the campaign of
1779, and was promoted lieutenant-colonel prior to Novem-
ber. From a reference to him in Jefferson's correspondence
(vol. i. p. 170), I infer that he was with one of the conti-
nental regiments, commanded by Lord Stirling.
He was with the Virginia troops, under Brig.-Gen. Wood-
ford, who entered Charleston, S. C, on April 7, 1780,
after a forced march of 500 miles in thirty days.
184 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
When Col. William Cabell learned of this march to the
southward, on March 9, he "sent by Isham Valentine, a
free negro, 1 pair silver mounted pistols and bullet moulds
to Col. Sam'l J. Cabell, also, one blue broad cloth coat, one
white do. vest and pr breeches with silver oval buttons, one
pair musketo curtains, seven shirts (5 of which ruffled at
the hands), 2 pr sheets, 4 towels, white Jeans to make him
2 vests and 2 pr breeches, 5 bands, 6 pr thread stockings
and 4 pocket handkerchiefs," but the British soon relieved
Col. Sam of his new clothes.
On May 12, Charleston surrendered, and Col. Samuel
Cabell was taken prisoner.
" Septr 24th. Sent by George Gillespie 26] pistoles, one
coat, 4 shirts, 2 bands, three pair silk stockings and 3
pr thread do. for my son Sam, to be delivered to James
Buchanan to be by him delivered to Capt. Henry Young
to be sent by the Flag. Also, a letter for Sam."
He remained a prisoner for about fourteen months.
" August 15th, 1781. Sent Harry to Hanover, with a
chair and horses for my son Sam."
" August 21st. Col. Samuel J. Cabell returned home on
parole from Haddrell's Point, South Carolina." Having
been absent, — save two brief furloughs (one early in 1777,
and the other early in 1779), — in the army or as a pris-
oner of war, for nearly five and a' half years. He was not
exchanged, but was still on parole when the war ended.
One of Col. Sam's old soldiers told "the late N. F. Cabell,
Esq., that " he was an impetuous man ; that almost the only
time he was really cool and collected was when in battle ;
and that his command was not t Go on, boys ! ' but ' Gome
on, boys ! ' "
The following extracts from Col. William Cabell's diary
will explain themselves : —
" Sept. 18th 1781. Col. Sam. Cabell set off on his way to
Col. John Syme's in Hanover, with some intention of pay-
ing his addresses to his daughter Sally. By whom I wrote
to Col. Syme a letter purporting my approbation, in case he
made her fortune equal with his other children."
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 185
" Novr. 15th. Samuel Jordan Cabell was married to Miss
Sally Syme."
" Deer. 31st. Sam. J. Cabell and his wife came home."
u Jan'y 1st 1782. Mr. Jopling's Tumbler [a negro man]
set off with my Hemp in his wagons to Richmond, and
from thence is to bring up Sam. Cabell's negroes from Col.
byme s.
"Jan'y. 15. Mr. Jopling's Tumbler returned with his
wagons from New Castle with Sam. Cabell's negroes in
which business he was engaged 12 days — besides coming
here and returning home which makes 2 or 3 days more.
He had two of my horses. I am to settle with Mr. Jopling
for his services."
" Feb'y 15th. Sam and his wife set off to her father's in
Hanover."
Her father, Col. John Syme, was half brother to Patrick
Henry.
" Augt 16th 1783. Agreed with James Roberts of Gooch-
land to build Saml Cabell a dwelling house, kitchen, smoke-
house and dairy, which he is to begin in October next."
" Dec. 22nd. Delivered Col. Sam. J. Cabell's warrants for
land to Mayo Carrington (one for 6000 acres, the other for
1000 acres. The first No. 9, dated 30 Sept. 1782 — the
latter No. 1177 — dated 25 June 1783) in order to enter
with the surveyor in six surveys."
These warrants were for military service.
" Feb'y 9th 1784. Capt John Syme set off on his way to
Rocky Mills, in order to inform his father of an agreement
drawn up, agreeable to himself and Saml J. Cabell, respect-
ing his sister's fortune. A copy of which was delivered him
and a letter sent by him to Col. Syme respecting the same.
For which purpose he came up."
" Feby 28th. The agreement with James Roberts to
build sundry houses for Sam Cabell, was signed and put
into the hands of my son William by mutual consent.
" The said houses and every part thereof shall be finished
and completed in a good, neat, sufficient, substantial, and
186 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
workmanlike manner, of the heart of the pine and poplar,
and of the best materials, on or before Deer. 25th 1785.
The said Cabell to pay £100 presently, and £535 when
the work is completed."
At Amherst County May Court, 1784, the following
minute was entered : —
" The United States Dr.
" To Samuel Jordan Cabell as deputy Adjutant General
for forage for 2 horses, 431 days at 5 shillings pr. day —
it appearing to the Court that on account of the scarcity
of forage, he was compelled to pay exceeding high for that
article. £107 15s.
" May 3rd 1784."
He must have held this office since early in 1783, but
how long he held it, I do not know.
June 7, 1784, he was recommended by the county court
to the governor of Virginia as a proper person to execute
the office of county-lieutenant. He was appointed, but how
long he held the office, I do not know.
" April 4th 1785. Hugh Rose and Saml. J. Cabell elected
Delegates for Amherst County." He may have served as a
delegate before this. He certainly continued to serve as
such until 1795.
" July 7th 1785. Saml. J. Cabell set off on his way to
the Sweet Springs." His constitution had been undermined
by his treatment while a prisoner at Haddrell's Point, S. C,
and his health continued precarious for" many years. His
house was completed before the appointed time.
" Oct. 1st 1785. My son Sam and his wife went home '
to his residence, which he named " Soldier's Joy." They
had been living with his father, at " Union Hill," since
December 31, 1781.
At the fall session of the General Assembly, in 1785, an
act was passed for establishing the town of Cabellsburg
(now New Glasgow) in Amherst County, with Col. Samuel
Cabell as one of the trustees.
July 1st 1787. Delivered Sam. J. Cabell his certificates
u
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 187
for his commutation which I received of Thomas Prosser."
(Col. William Cabell's Diary.)
March 3, 1788, his father and himself were nearly unani-
mously elected members of the Convention of 1788. After
the election they treated the voters at Lucas Powell's ordi-
nary to ninety-eight gallons of toddy and ten gallons of rum.
In this Convention, he acted throughout with his father (the
sketch of whom, see).
" May 1st 1791. My son Sam sent me some Ice from his
ice-house, of which I had a Bowl of Punch. The first Ice-
punch I ever drank."
" Feb'y 13th 1793. My son Hector and others set off
with Capt. John Syme's corpse to New Castle — who de-
parted this life at my son Sam Cabell's on the night of the
10th inst., after a very short illness."
In 1795, Col. Samuel J. Cabell was elected from this
congressional district to the United States House of Repre-
sentatives, which he continued to represent until 1803. He
was a Republican in politics, — an ardent, really an impetu-
ous follower of Jefferson, — a firm believer that " the Fed-
eralists" were always wrong, and "the Republicans" always
right.
It was long a custom for the representatives of the
county in the United States Congress and Virginia Assem-
bly to send circular letters relating to the politics, the news,
etc., of the period, with the current prices of tobacco, corn,
and wheat in Richmond, to their constituents, to be read on
the court green at the monthly courts. I have many of
these letters from Col. Sam and others. They are of real
interest and not without historic value.
Col. Sam was long one of the justices of Old Amherst,
and when, in 1808, the county was divided into Amherst
and Nelson, he was one of the first justices for Nelson.
He was one of the original members of the Virginia Soci-
ety of the Cincinnati.
He retired from active politics in 1803, but continued to
take the interest of a good citizen in public affairs. He
188 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
gained for himself a remarkable reputation for hospitality.
In 1858, the late Gen. B. W. S. Cabell wrote to the late N.
F. Cabell (I have other letters to the same purport) : " I
knew Col. Samuel J. Cabell of Soldier's Joy. He was a
magnificent man before the people, the greatest man on a
court green, in a crowd, or on the electioneering arena that
I ever met with, except, perhaps, John Randolph of Roa-
noke. His people idolized him. For a long time they
regarded him as next to Gen. Washington. When in his
prime, he swayed them at will, speaking to a crowd with
decisive effect. No man had a more melting charity, and
his hospitality, though it may have been equalled, was never
excelled."
He died August 4, 1818, at "Soldier's Joy," and was
buried there.
His wife, Sarah Syme Cabell, born November 5, 1760, at
" Rocky Mills," in Hanover County, died May 15, 1814, at
" Soldier's Joy," in Nelson County. Her husband never
recovered from her loss, and after her death seemed to give
himself up to despair. She was the daughter of Col. John
Syme, Jr., by his first wife, Mildred Meriwether. Col.
Syme was born about 1729, married about 1756, was fre-
quently a member of the House of Burgesses from Han-
over, and was a member of all the Revolutionary conven-
tions of 1774-1776.
Gen. William Campbell of the Revolution, " the Hero of
King's Mountain," who married his half-sister, Elizabeth
Henry, died at his house, at Rocky Mills, on August 22,
1781 ; and Col. Samuel J. Cabell, one of the heroes of Sar-
atoga, married his daughter there on November 15 follow-
ing.
The date of the death of Col. John Syme, Jr., is not
known to me. He was the son of Col. John Syme, Sr., the
emigrant, by his wife, Sarah, daughter of Isaac and Mary
(Dabney) Winston. Col. Syme, Sr., served in the House of
Burgesses, for several terms, I believe. He died in 1731,
or early in 1732. His widow is mentioned by Col. William
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 189
Byrd in his " Progress to the Mines " in October, 1732.
She married, secondly, Col. John Henry, and became the
mother of Patrick Henry, the orator, and others.
Mildred Meriwether, the first wife of Col. John Syme,
Jr., born May 19, 1739 ; died in 1764, was the daughter of
Nicholas Meriwether, Jr. (by his wife Mildred. She mar-
ried (2d) in 1741, Dr. Thomas Walker, of Louisa ; was born
March 19, 1721 ; died November 16, 1778), whose will was
dated December 4, 1738, not long before his death. He
was a son of William Meriwether (to whom David Craw-
ford, his grandfather, deeded the "Assasquin" estate in
New Kent in 1693), the eldest son of Nicholas Meriwether,
the elder, by his wife, Elizabeth Crawford. Nicholas Meri-
wether, the elder, was born about 1660 ; patented at various
times over 40,000 acres of land ; on July 9, 1730, he
patented 17,952 acres extending along the Chestnut (the
Southwest) Mountains, entirely across the then county of
Hanover, from the line of the then county of Goochland to
the line of the then county of Spottsylvania. He was then
styled " of Hanover County, Gent.," and this patent was on
the frontiers of that county, which had been taken from
New Kent in 1720. He married about 1682, Elizabeth
Crawford (daughter of David Crawford, of New Kent, a
native of Scotland) ; moved to New Kent from James City
County about 1693 ; vestryman of St. Paul's Parish from
1704; justice of the peace and coroner of New Kent for
many years; member of the House of Burgesses, 1710-
1714, and probably before and after. His will, dated
December 12, 1743 ; witnesses : Peter Jefferson, Samuel
Dalton, George Taylor, and Charles Lynch, was proved at
Goochland County court, November 20, 1744. During his
long life he had accumulated a vast property ; but when he
came to die it was a case of long division between his
numerous descendants. He left Mildred, the daughter of
his grandson, Nicholas Meriwether, deceased (the only great-
grandchild mentioned in his will), one negro girl. He was
probably the son of Nicholas Meriwether, who patented
lands in Virginia between 1651 and 1667.
190 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
10. Col. Samuel J. 3 and Sarah Syme Cabell had issue : —
46. i. William S. 4 Cabell.
47. ii. Mildred M. 4 Cabell.
48. iii. Samuel J. 4 Cabell.
49. iv. Paulina R. 4 Cabell.
50. v. Margaret W. 4 Cabell.
51. vi. Patrick Henry 4 Cabell.
vii. Nicholas Meriwether Cabell, d. s. p.
52. viii. George W. 4 Cabell.
53. ix. Emeline S. 4 Cabell.
11. Col. William* Cabell, the younger, of "Union
Hill," was born March 25, 1759. From 1765 to 1772, he
was educated with his brother Sam. He boarded at Mr.
John Nicholas' (brother to the Hon. Robert Carter Nicho-
las), and went to school to Mr. John Johnston from May
17, 1772, until the death of Mr. Johnston in August, 1773.
In the spring of 1774, William Fontaine, the son of Col.
Peter Fontaine, commenced teaching at " Union Hill," and
taught Col. Cabell's children, his brother, James Fontaine,
John Nicholas, Jr., and one of Col. James Nevil's sons.
It seems well to say here that the custom with the landed
gentry of this region with their minor children, before the
Revolution, was this : First one and then another of a circle
of friends would employ a tutor, and take the young sons
of the others as boarders. Thus, in 1768-1769, the tutor
was at " Union Hill ; " in 1770-1771, at Col. Peter Fon-
taine's ; in 1772-1773, at Col. John Nicholas' ; in 1774-
1775, again at " Union Hill." From these private tutors,
or from such classical schools as those of the Rev. Mr.
Maury or the Rev. Mr. Douglas, the boys were sent to Wil-
liam and Mary College, or to England, or to Scotland, to
complete their education.
There were also teachers of music, of dancing, of fen-
cing, etc., who gave lessons by the month or by the quarter.
Most of the sons of the wealthier class received a classical
and polite education, and the daughters were not neglected.
For people of moderate means there were other grades of
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 191
schools, in some of which " schooling was only a penny a
day," and education (or rather, the ability to read and
write) was much more general than usually supposed. I
have orders for entry, or transfer, of lands from nearly one
thousand different persons, and it was rare indeed that they
were not able to write their own orders. It is true that
some of the writing is very bad, but much of it is very
good.
Mr. William Fontaine gave vacation on April 14, 1775.
On May 5 following, he began his second year, " and is to
teach my children, his brother James, and Johnny Nicholas."
(Col. William Cabell's Diary.) He did not complete his sec-
ond year, but gave up his school on September 9, 1775, in
order to enter the army as captain of a rifle company.
" Novr 7th, 1775. The Rev. Mr. Robert Buchan began
his school at my house, and all my children are put under
his tuition. At the end of the year I am to pay him what
I think his services deserve, which is the footing he chooses
to be on. His horse is to be fed with mine." (Col. Wil-
liam Cabell's Diary.)
The Rev. Mr. Buchan continued at " Union Hill " for
several years. In 1779, he went to Overwharton Parish,
Stafford County, where he became a tutor in the family of
Travers Daniels, Sr., Esq. ; taught Judge Peter V. Daniel,
John Thompson Mason, and others. He was still in this
parish, I believe, so late as 1802. He was, I am quite sure,
nearly related to Helen Buchan, who married John Glassell
(an old Fredericksburg, Va., merchant), and whose only
daughter, Johanna Glassell, married John, 7th Duke of
Argyle, and became the grandmother of the Marquis of
Lome, who married Princess Louise, the daughter of Queen
Victoria.
William Cabell, Jr., remained under the Rev. Robert
Buchan's tuition until the summer of 1777. From August,
1777, to April, 1779, he was at Hampden Sidney Academy,
in which school his father had been interested since March,
1775. From May, 1779, to September, 1780, he was a
192 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
student at William and Mary College, and while there he
was treasurer of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
October 1, 1780, he set off to Col. Paul Carrington's to
see his fiancee, Miss Nancy.
" Novr 3rd. My son William set off on his way to join
the army below on account of the present invasion."
This was Gen. Leslie's invasion of October-November ;
but Leslie soon sailed away to reinforce Cornwallis in
South Carolina, and William returned home in about two
weeks.
On November 18, he set off on his way to Col. Paul
Carrington's to marry his daughter Nancy. His marriage
bond, sealed in the presence of Samuel W. V enable, with
Thomas Read as his security, was given on November 20.
He was married at the residence of the bride's father in
Charlotte County, the 21st of November, and came to
" Union Hill " with his wife on December 4. (I have an
interesting account of this wedding in a letter from Col.
S. W. Venable, of Springfield, Prince Edward County, Va.,
to his friend, John Witherspoon, of Philadelphia.) On
January 27, 1781, they " began housekeeping for them-
selves" in the house that Col. Cabell lived in before he
built the present " Union Hill " house ; but the traitor
Arnold was in Virginia ; young William could not remain
idle at home. On January 30, he went to work aiding
his father in the execution of " the Act for supplying the
army with clothes, provisions and wagons ; " and he con-
tinued to ffive his services to the cause until the surrender
of Cornwallis.
March 27, Gen. Phillips reinforced Arnold at Ports-
mouth, and on May 19, the forces were joined by Corn-
wallis at Petersburg. They at once prepared to ravage the
State. May 24, Cornwallis was at Westover ; the 26th, on
his way to Richmond ; 28th, at Bottom Bridge ; 30th, at
Hanover Court House; and on the 31st, crossed North
Anna River. He destroyed all stores, provisions, etc., as
he went. He sent Lieut.-Col. Simcoe to the Point of Fork
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 193
(Columbia) to destroy the stores there ; and Tarleton to
Charlottesville to capture the Assembly.
June 2. Simcoe marched toward Point of Fork. Lafay-
ette near Spottsylvania Court House. June 3. Tarleton at
Louisa Court House. Lafayette near the Wilderness. June
4. Tarleton at Charlottesville. Lafayette crossed the Rapid
Ann. June 5. Simcoe at Point of Fork. June 6. Tarleton
near Point of Fork, on the east side of Rivanna. Lafayette
recrossed the Rapid Ann at Racoon Ford.
June 7. Cornwallis, with his army, joined Simcoe and
Tarleton at Jefferson's and Ross's plantations, near Point of
Fork, and remained there until the 13th, sending out his
light troops from time to time to destroy warehouses, etc.,
in the region round about.
For some time, William Cabell, Jr., had been major of
Lieut.-Col. John Pope, Jr.'s battalion of Amherst militia.
On June 9, Col. Hugh Rose, the county lieutenant, sent
him the following letter, indorsed " Public Service : " —
" Sir, — There is a probability of our getting two or three
hundred stand of good arms from below, as soon as our
Militia can possibly assemble ; they will probably be at
Key's Gap to-morrow evening. You will therefore exert
yourself to the utmost to hasten the meeting of those allotted
to duty, and in addition to them solicit all within your reach
to turn out as volunteers to take the arms for a day or two
until those ordered on duty can join. Much depends on
your activity and the ardour of the people at this juncture.
'T is not certainly known that the enemy are nearer than
the Point of Fork [Columbia] ; but yet the stores at Albe-
marle Court old Court House [near Scottsville], and Ir-
ving's store are an object and may be, indeed certainly are,
in danger. For the security of those stores our force must
be employed. No jealous Whig will refuse to turn out on
such an occasion. In the woods and such defiles as we
have, a few musquet men will be an overmatch for any
number of horse. And Horse alone can penetrate far
enough from the enemy's main body to endanger our
194 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
stores. If the People have arms and ammunition let them
bring them on. Such as choose to act on horseback,
whether it be their tour of duty or not, if they will mount
on their own good horses, will be admitted as Horsemen,
and their services now, for the tour the other militia are to
serve, shall exempt them from their tour of duty when it
arrives. You will do well to get two or three good riders
to assist you to-morrow. Do not alarm the People, but
rather encourage to activity by representing the prospect of
success as sure, if they are zealous and spirited.
Your Obt Servt
Hugh Rose.
"New Glasgow
Saturday 8 o'clock p. m.
" Send me such intelligence, as you may have received,
concerning the enemy's movement, by express. H. R."
The enemy did not venture within the woods and defiles
of " the broken lands " of Old Amherst.
June 10. Lafayette was near Gordonsville, marching to-
ward Albemarle old Court House.
June 12. Lafayette was under the Southwest Mountain,
near the Rivanna River. June 13. He was near the head
of Licking-Hole Creek, and on the same day Cornwallis left
the Point of Fork and marched toward the lower country.
July 14, Lafayette follow him. On the 16th, Cornwallis
arrived in Richmond ; the 19th, Lafayette join Steuben ;
and the 21st, Cornwallis was at Bottom Bridge.
I have a list of militia ordered into service from Amherst
County, under Lieut.-Col. John Pope, Jr., and Maj. William
Cabell, Jr. The list contains the names of five captains,
six lieutenants, three ensigns, and 277 non-commissioned
officers and privates, and is indorsed on the back, —
" March to join the army commanded by the Honorable
Major-General the Marquis de la Fayette.
Daniel Gaines, Colonel Militia, Amherst.
" June ye 21st 1781."
June 22. Cornwallis was at New Kent Court House.
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 195
On June 23, Col. Daniel Gaines sent the following letter
to Maj. William Cabell, Jr., by express : —
" Dr. Sir, — I, this Instant, rec'd your favour of yester-
day's elate. Previous to which, I had sent pr. Express, the
Return you write for. I am exceedingly concerned at the
Tardiness of our Militia. I have done, and shall continue
to do, everything in my power to bring them to a sense of
their Duty ; towards which nothing, I believe, will contrib-
ute so much as the Court Martial to be held on Monday
next [25th].
" You will receive my Dispatches before this can possibly
reach you ; it is therefore unnecessary for me to repeat any-
thing therein contained.
I am with much esteem, Sir,
Your hble Servant,
Dan. Gaines."
Major William Cabell was then on the march to join
Lafayette. On the 25th, Cornwallis was at Williamsburg.
On the same day, Col. William Cabell wrote the following
letter to his son, William : —
" Sir, — I am just returned home from Staunton, and
have to inform you that the militia are now to be paid by
an Act of the last session : — for which purpose you are to
direct the captains to make out pay-rolls at the end of their
tour, to commence from the time of their joining the army ;
which are to be signed by the commanding officers of the
regiment they are in. They are to receive nothing more
for marching to and from the army than their rations.
Their pay is now the same as Continental Soldiers, and the
depreciation of the money to be made up. The Field
Officers are to get certificates of the time they are in ser-
vice from the commanding officer of the regiment they are
in — to entitle them to pay also. Tours of duty are fixed
by law, at two months from the time of joining the army,
and in no case to continue longer, unless the relief should
be prevented from coming in time by some unavoidable
accident.
196 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
" The mode of paying the militia is by certificates from
the auditors, which are made payable in taxes ; for had
money been emitted for this purpose, the sum would have
been so enormous as to have destroyed the fabrick of our
paper money altogether. I hope this will satisfy the mili-
tia. We have done everything for them that the situation
of our country will admit of.
" Pray be careful in directing the Captains to keep
proper Pay-rolls and have them certified, as before men-
tioned, in order that the men may have justice done them.
" Genl. Stevens has promised me to give you every assist-
ance in his power. You will find him to be a very worthy
officer.
" The family are all well and desire to be remembered to
you. I wish you success in your first essay in the military
department.
Your affectionate father,
W. Cabell."
June 26. Lafayette at Tyre's plantation, twenty miles
from Williamsburg. Cornwallis at Spencer's ordinary.
27th. Lafayette near Jamestown. 28th. Cornwallis was at
Yorktown, and, July 4, he marched to Jamestown. July 4.
Lafayette's army consisted of Stevens' and Lawson's bri-
gades of 8000 Virginia militia, and about 3,500 continen-
tals. The Amherst militia were in Stevens' brigade. July
6. Lafayette attacked Cornwallis near Green Spring. 9th.
Cornwallis crossed the James. Ta'rleton left Cobham on
James River, via Petersburg, Amelia Court House, Prince
Edward Court House, etc., to New London. 12th. Tarle-
ton at Amelia Court House. 13th. At Prince Edward Court
House. On the 14th, Maj. William Cabell, Jr., was in
Amherst on " Public service," and sent a letter to Col.
Hugh Rose by Harry (his body servant), which has not
been preserved. The next morning, Col. Rose set off to
Bedford, and was employed there until Thursday the 19th.
Tarleton reached New London about the 16th, and left on
the morning of the 18th (I think) via Lunenburg, Dinwid-
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 197
die, etc., and joined Cornwallis at Suffolk on July 24. On
the same day, Col. Hugh Rose sent the following letter to
Maj. Cabell by Col. Patrick Rose : —
" Dear Sir, — In a few minutes after the receipt of yours
by Harry, I received an express from Prince Edward in-
forming me of Tarleton's extraordinary march to that Court
House, with the conjecture that his Intentions were to
destroy the stores at Peytonsburg [Pittsylvania], New Glas-
gow [Amherst], and New London [Bedford] ; to prevent
which I concluded was a matter of the first Importance and
was busied in endeavouring to effect it until Thursday even-
ing [19th], when I returned home, and immediately issued
orders to the several officers of your Battalion to meet at
Capt. J. Loving's on Wednesday next [25th] for the trial
of delinquents. I have likewise ordered the three last Divi-
sions to hold themselves in readiness to march immediately
to the relief of those now upon duty. The reason that I did
not ascertain [fix ?] the time of their march was because I
was desirous that your Court Martial should first determine
the number of delinquents, which will be your guide in call-
ing upon as many of those Divisions as will amount to the
fourth of your Battalion, which is 127 men. [Private
affairs: His wife, Maj. Cabell's aunt, was taken with a
fever on the morning that he set out to Bedford, which has
not intermitted since, etc.] I am
Your affectionate friend,
Hugh Rose.
" Geddes
Monday morning." [July 23.]
" Dr. Sir — I wrote the above yesterday morning, not in
the least doubting but that you would receive it in the
course of the day, by some of our officers, who promised to
call upon you ; but their disappointment in wagons, has
caused the like effect in your letter. This supplement
therefore is intended as an apology, in which light I hope
you will properly receive it. I am sorry to inform you of
Caroline's continued illness. I congratulate you upon the
198 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
safe arrival of your brother [Col. Sam. Cabell], which I
was informed this evening of by the guard sent to James-
town with the British prisoners. Ut Super,
Hugh Rose.
" Tuesday [July 24].
"P. S. The deserters of your battalion ought to be
immediately apprehended. H. R."
I have but little relative to the acts of the Amherst
militia when off on service. In William Cabell, Jr.'s pa-
pers there are, in his handwriting, two " Returns of officers
and men at present in service from the County of Amherst,
to-gether with such as are furloughed, sick, gone home,
etc." These returns are drafts of the pay-rolls made out
at the end of two tours of duty, — one in August or Sep-
tember, and the other in October or November. It is quite
certain that they served at Yorktown. A body of militia
left Amherst to join Lafayette, as we have seen, on June
21 ; another body about July 25 ; and another body on
September 14 ; and other divisions, battalions, etc., I sup-
pose, at other times.
Cornwallis landed at Yorktown on August 2; Gen.
O'Hara and the rest of the British army on August 22,
and they surrendered on October 19. Lafayette and the
Virginia militia were generally almost in sight of the earl
from the time that he first crossed James River to the fall
of Yorktown. Although I have no particular account of
the Amherst militia, I know that Maj. William Cabell was
under fire, and I have no reason to suppose that his com-
mand did not do their duty. Darkness was over the land
of Virginia for the greater part of 1781 ; but the sun rose
clear and bright at Yorktown, and shone over " The United
States."
On the 6th of October, 1783, William Cabell, Jr., was
appointed surveyor of Amherst County by William and
Mary College, which office he continued to fill until De-
cember 1, 1788, when he resigned, " and procured the
appointment of Col. James Higginbotham."
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 199
In October, 1783, the house in which he had been living
in the " Union Hill " yard since January, 1781, was moved
to its present location on " the Colleton " estate, which had
been previously given to him by his father, and he moved
there on October 25.
July 5, 1784, he qualified as one of the justices of old
Amherst County, an office which he continued to hold until
the county was divided in 1808. He was a contributor to
the James River Company prior to 1787. He was a mem-
ber of the General Assembly in 1789, 1790, 1791, 1793,
1794, 1795, 1796, 1797, and possibly after ; but political
life was never congenial to him. Like his father and
uncles, he was fond of fine horses, and was a patron of the
Warminster and New Glasgow race courses when he was a
young man.
June 25, 1781, Col. Clem. Carrington, his wife's brother,
wrote him a letter, from which I extract the following
reference to Washington : " The beloved President passed
lately though the county [Charlotte]. He rested a day
with Mr. Coles. He is in perfect health. We did not
address as is the custom ; but the laborer forsook his work
and the lame forgot his crutch to gaze on him as he passed,
and we looked at him without mercy."
Rev. Isaac Darneille was minister of Amherst Parish in
1789 (possibly before), and until 1793 (probably after), to
whose salary the Cabells subscribed. In 1790, William
Cabell, Jr., was a vestryman, and on June 6, his father,
agreeable to an order of the vestry, turned over to him the
subscription paper for Mr. Darneille.
Col. William Cabell, Jr., was one of the trustees for
establishing an academy in the town of Warminster, from
October, 1791, to June 23, 1795, and after ; for how long,
I do not know.
On March 1, 1792, Judge Paul Carrington, Sr., con-
veyed by deed 2000 acres of land in Lincoln and Nelson
counties, Ky., to William Cabell, Jr., and Samuel W. Ven-
able (whose wives were daughters of Judge Carrington).
200 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
John Breckenridge attended to this land for them, which I
think they sold prior to 1800.
One who knew William Cabell, Jr., wrote of him that
" college friendships in general are not lasting, but many of
his fellow students were his friends through life." And
this is attested by letters to him, still preserved, from the
Hon. John Brown, Judge Archcl. Stuart, Judge Spencer
Roane, John Nicholas, Lunsford Lomax, and others. Most
of his letters prior to 1802 are lost, but enough remain to
show that these friendships were continuous. October 13,
1792, John Nicholas wrote to him from Charlottesville,
urging him to be a candidate to represent the district in
Congress. He says : " I had hoped, that I should have
had it in my power, once in my life, to have bestowed my
vote where private friendship and a variety of public mo-
tives had united to demand it. But that unconquerable
backwardness, which has always circumscribed the circle of
your intimates, will forever leave them, I fear, to lament
that they only have been favoured with your private friend-
ship. [After insisting that he is the man for the times
and place, he concludes.] I should feel a great gratifica-
tion in being one who had assisted in dragging you thus
against your will, into public view. At least, let us hear
from you ; and if you consent to be elected, nay, do more
— let us see you. Come down and ' tangle eye-beams '
with us, as Dr. Gilmer says, at Novr Court, and take your
stand, while in the neighborhood, at my House.
" Please make my best respects to Mrs. Cabell, and be-
lieve me to be, as I ever have professed and been
Your Sincere friend, and Humle Servt,
John Nicholas."
Col. Cabell, regardless of the wishes of his friends, re-
fused to become a candidate.
This John Nicholas was the son of the Hon. Robert
Carter Nicholas. He was an officer in the Revolution ;
member of the House of Delegates ; member of Congress,
1793-1801. Removed to New York in 1803, and was
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 201
judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Ontario County
from 1806 to his death in 1819. The letter to Cabell was
sent by Capt. John Jouett, who had conveyed to the Gen-
eral Assembly the timely information of the approach of
Tarleton on June 4, 1781, for which service he had been
presented by the executive with an elegant sword and a
pair of pistols.
On March 22, 1796, William Cabell, Jr., "paid Nathan
Crawford fifteen shillings, it being one-twelfth part of a
sum due from Amherst Parish to the Episcopal Conven-
tion ; and which the vestry agreed to pay at Court." I
infer from this entry that the parish was regularly organ-
ized at this time, with twelve vestrymen and a minister ;
but the interest in "the old established church" was cer-
tainly on the wane, and it scarcely began to rally from the
effects of the Revolutionary period prior to 1820.
He was one of the trustees of " The College of Washing-
ton in Virginia " in 1796-1797.
On August 11, 1796, William Cabell, Jr., was appointed
sheriff of Amherst County. He was again appointed No-
vember 16, 1797, and continued to hold the office until Au-
gust, 1798. The gross amount of muster fines (28th and
90th regiments), Amherst militia, in 1796, was $355.25 ; in
1797, $373.25. The revenue tax for 1796, due in 1797,
was, on land, $1235, and on other property, $1335.89;
total, $2570.89. For 1797, due in 1798, on land, $1868.10,
on other property, $1832.15, and on merchants' licenses,
$265 ; total, $3965.25.
I do not know when he became a lieutenant-colonel ; but
he was addressed as Col. William Cabell, Jr., as early as
1791. In 1798, at the time of the threatened difficulty
with France, he was lieutenant-colonel, commanding the
28th regiment of Virginia militia ; and in the summer and
fall he was active in drilling his men, teaching them a
proper knowledge of discipline, the use of arms, etc., in
order to be prepared for the emergency.
After the death of his father, in 1798, and the removal
202 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
of William H. Cabell to Midway in 1801, Col. William Ca-
bell, Jr., removed, about 1803, from " Colleton " to " Union
Hill," and his widowed mother lived with him.
In 1796, he bought two pianos, music, extra strings, etc.,
of W. Southgate, of Richmond. The pianos cost $200
each ; the music, and extras for both, $50. In 1800, he
bought additional "music books, and strings for piano-
forte." Col. William Cabell, Sr.'s daughters were taught
to play on the guitar; but they grew up in the Revo-
lutionary period, and I doubt if they ever owned a piano.
I believe these pianos bought for Col. William Cabell, Jr.'s
daughters to have been the first at Union Hill.
On December 23, 1801, Mr. John C. Pike received a
recommendation from Col. Cabell as " a teacher of music."
In 1796, he was one of the executors of Col. Hugh Rose,
deceased. In 1804, Patrick Henry, Jr. (son of Patrick
Henry, the orator), who had married his eldest daughter,
died, and he had much to do with the management of his
estate. And so it happened that many of the Rose and
Henry family papers were once at " Union Hill ; " but none
of them are here now. Many of Col. Cabell's own papers
have been preserved, including his diary for 1787-1798,
and many letters to him written during 1802-1822.
In 1806, he paid £1 10s. on his contribution to New
Glasgow Academy. In 1807, he paid £15 lis. more; but
the exact amount of his contribution is not evident.
The act dividing the county passed the General As-
sembly on December 25, 1807. On December 28, William
B. Hare, the state senator, wrote to him in reference
thereto, and on January 5, 1808, David S. Garland wrote
him a letter, from which I will extract : —
"Before this you will have heard that the county of
Amherst has been divided by the Parish line. The lower
county is called Nelson, the upper retains the original name.
The temporary seat of Justice in the lower county is at the
Old Court House [" Cabellsville"]. And in the upper
county at New Glasgow [or " Cabellsburg"]. Commis-
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 203
sioners from the adjacent Counties are appointed to fix the
permanent seat of Justice in both Counties. The law will
go into operation the first day of June next. Passed in
the House of Delegates 101 to 53, and in the Senate 13
to 5.
" We have done very little business this session. We
have a number of young lawyers, and you know that they
must talk a great deal."
A few days after this, William H. Cabell, who was then
governor of the State, wrote to him on the same subject.
Since 1778, the Cabells had opposed the division ; but the
county was large, it had become populous, and the division
was now necessary. Col. William Cabell, Jr., was appointed
the first presiding justice of Nelson, as his father had been
of Amherst in 1761, and he continued to fill this office to
the satisfaction of the people, as his father had done, during
the remainder of his active life, some ten years or more.
The first Nelson court was held at Cabellsville on June
27, 1808. Five of the first magistrates were Cabells, and
five were of their kin, or allied by marriage. There were
thirty-seven justices in all.
Col. William Cabell, Jr., was one of the subscribers to
the original endowment of the " Central College," which
was afterwards expanded into the University of Virginia.
He died November 22, 1822, and the following notice
appeared in " The Richmond Enquirer " of December 12 :
"Died on Novr 22d. in the 63d. year of his age, Col.
William Cabell of < Union Hill ' in the county of Nelson.
Seldom has a man lived so highly respected, or died so
deeply regretted by all who knew him. His moral char-
acter was purest among the pure. In all the private rela-
tions he was conspicuous for his virtues ; the most dutiful
son ; the most affectionate husband ; the most tender father ;
the kindest master ; the most friendly neighbor. His man-
ners were bland, dignified, and prepossessing. His judg-
ment was strong, clear, and uncontrolled by passion or
prejudice. His mind, naturally vigorous, was embellished
204 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
by classical education, improved by subsequent study, and
strengthened by experience."
Mrs. Ann Carrington Cabell (his wife) was born June
9, 1760, in Charlotte County, Va., and baptized by Rev.
James Craig, of Cumberland. Her character is well de-
scribed in the following extract from an obituary notice : —
" Departed this life on the 30th of March, 1838, at Union
Hill, Mrs. Ann Carrington Cabell, in the 78th year of her
age. . . . Mild and unassuming in her manners, with dig-
nity and Roman firmness, she commanded the respect and
gained the love of all who knew her. Her health had been
feeble for some time ; but the illness which caused her death
was sudden in its attack. She believed that her hour had
come : at first the idea of dissolution — the separation of
Soul and body — was appalling ; but soon the Christian
faith was superior to Death and the Grave. And she pre-
sented again the sublime spectacle, which has so often
cheered the Christian, of a frail feeble worm of the dust
struggling- with the agonies of dissolving nature, and the
separation of every earthly tie, so upheld by the Strong
Arm and supported by the Holy Spirit of Jehovah, as to
be able to say — Oh ! Death, where is thy sting ! Oh !
Grave, where is thy Victory ? Let us honor her memory
by imitating her virtues. She was for more than 40 years
a follower of the meek and lowly Jesus, and died in the
Communion of the Protestant Episcopal Church."
The sons and daughters of this old - lady were in many
respects among the most remarkable men and women ever
produced in Virginia ; and the respect with which she her-
self inspired all classes and races was wonderful. As an
amusing illustration of this : Many years ago, I was talking
to a very religious old colored man, who formerly belonged
to her, and he remarked that in his whole life he had
never known but two persons in this life, who were cer-
tainly sanctified. I asked him who they were, and his
reply was, " Me and Miss Ann."
Judge Paul Carrington, the elder (Mrs. Cabell's father),
MRS ANNE CARRINGTON CABELL
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 205
was born March 5, 1732 (0. S.) j that is, March 16, 1733,
present style. About 1748-1750, he went to that part of
Lunenburg which is now Charlotte County, Va., to write in
the clerk's office of Col. Clement Read, which was located
at his seat, "Bushy Forest," and to study the law under
him. He began to practice at twenty-one, and having
practiced in his county as an attorney for twelve months,
he was recommended by his county court as worthy, etc.,
and in May, 1755, he received a license to practice, signed
by Peyton Randolph, John Randolph, and George Wythe.
He met with success in his profession from the first.
He was married October 1, 1755, by Rev. William Kay,
to Margaret, second daughter of Col. Clement Read. They
resided at " Mulberry Hill," near the junction of the Little
Roanoke with Staunton River, on an elevated and beautiful
site. He was appointed king's attorney of Bedford County,
May 3, 1756 ; major of Lunenburg militia in 1761 ; and
colonel of Charlotte militia, December 3, 1764. He repre-
sented Charlotte in the House of Burgesses from its first
formation from Lunenburg in March, 1765, until 1775.
His first wife died May 1, 1766, and he left a record that
" she was the best of wives and a woman of innumerable
virtues." He was appointed king's attorney of Mecklen-
burg, November 3, 1767 ; of Botetourt, May 4, 1770 ; and
of Lunenburg, October 18, 1770 ; county lieutenant and
presiding justice of Charlotte, April 11, 1772 ; and clerk
of Halifax County, November 17, 1772. He was for many
years a vestryman and churchwarden of Cornwall Parish.
He was a member of the Mercantile Asssociation of
1770 ; of the Convention of August, 1774 ; and chairman
of the Charlotte County Committee, 1774-1776. This
committee, at its meeting on January 13, 1775, indorsed
the resolutions of the late Continental Congress, and at its
meeting on February 6, passed strong resolutions respecting
persons suspected of disloyalty to the American cause.
He was a member of the Convention of March 20-27, 1775,
and of that of July 17 to August 26, 1775. He was a
206 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
member of the first state Committee of Safety, August to
December, 1775 ; of the Convention of December 1, 1775,
to January 20, 1776; of the second state Committee of
Safety, January to July, 1776; and of Convention of May
6 to July 5, 1776. 1 He is frequently mentioned in the
papers of Col. William Cabell, the elder, of " Union Hill."
He was a member of the House of Delegates from 1776 to
1778.
He was elected a judge of the first General Court of the
new republican form of government on January 23, 1778,
under the act of October session, 1777, and commissioned
on February 28, 1778, and so continuing, became one of
the judges of the court of appeals, as organized by the act
of May session, 1779, which exalted position he continued
to fill until the constitution of the court of appeals was
changed by the act passed by the General Assembly on
December 22, 1788. He was again chosen under the new
constitution a member of the same court, and continued to
discharge the duties thereof until 1807, when he resigned.
He was a member of the celebrated Convention of June
2-27, 1788, and voted for the Constitution. 2
He married (2d) March 6, 1792, Miss Priscilla Sims, aged
16 ; she died in September, 1803, and he records that her
loss was irreparable to him and to her family.
His letter of resignation, dated January 1, 1807, ad-
dressed to Gov. William H. Cabell, begins thus : " Having
served my country for forty-two years, without intermission,
— twenty-nine of those years devoted to the judiciary De-
partment, — and being now in the seventy-fifth year of my
age, I think it time for me to retire from public business
to the exalted station of a private citizen."
On August 1, 1807, he wrote to his son-in-law, Col. Wil-
liam Cabell : " I had served the public a great many years,
and I know with faithful integrity, I had arrived to a time
1 See The Virginia Convention of 1776, by Grigsby, pp. 97-105.
2 See " The Virginia Convention," Virginia Historical Collections, vol. iv.
new series.
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 207
of life that every man ought, in my opinion, to retire, and
not remain and die at his post as some of my brethren did."
He died on Tuesday, January 23, 1818, at his seat in
Charlotte. A notice of him in " The Richmond Enquirer,"
July 7, 1818, begins : —
" This venerable and highly respected gentleman was
perhaps the oldest of the few surviving patriots who took
an active part in the Councils of his Country, in her first
struggle for Liberty."
He was the son of Col. George Carrington (the sketch of
whom, see).
Col. Clement Read, the father of Judge Paul Carring-
ton's first wife, was born in 1707 in Virginia. It has been
said that John Robinson, known as " President Robinson,"
was his guardian, and superintended his education, which
was completed at William and Mary. He was educated to
the law. He married Mary Hill in 1730 ; qualified as an
attorney in Goochland at the September county court, 1733.
He is said to have obtained a patent for lands on the Little
Roanoke about 1733, and to have settled on these lands
soon after. He qualified as an attorney in Albemarle at
March court, 174?.
On January 17, 1743 (0. S.), Maj. William Mayo deeded
400 acres of land " on the branches of Rockfish River near
the Blue Mountains " to Samuel Hairston, and the deed
was attested by George Carrington, Samuel Cobbs, and
Clement Read.
In 1745, William Battersby, attorney-at-law, and Clement
Read entered for an island called Rock Island, in the
James River, below the mouth of Ballinger's Creek.
In February, 1746, he became the first clerk of the new
county of Lunenburg, which office he held for seventeen
years — that is, to his death. He was also the county lieu-
tenant ; presiding magistrate ; member of the vestry ; fre-
quently a burgess, and one of the most influential men in
the county.
He died January 2, 1763, and was buried at his seat
208 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
called " Bushy Forest," in the present county of Charlotte,
which, however, was not formed until the year after his
death.
His widow, surviving him, died on November 11, 1780,
in her 69th year. Mrs. Mary Hill Read was a wealthy
and most accomplished lady. She lived at " White Bank,"
one of the old Robinson homesteads in King and Queen
County, and it was there that Clement Read, the adopted
son of John, or " President " Robinson, first saw her.
" Madam Read," as she was called, was one of the most
imposing characters in the beginning of Charlotte. The
county seat was named in her honor, Marysville, and many
anecdotes of this spirited old dame, her stately bearing,
her strong family pride, her zealous support of the church
of her forefathers, etc., are still preserved. She is said to
have been " the only daughter of William Hill, an officer
of the British Navy of the same family as the Marquis of
Downshire, by his wife Priscilla Jenings, daughter of Gov-
ernor Edmund Jenings of Virginia. "
The records of King and Queen County having been
destroyed, I have not been able to verify the parentage of
Col. Clement Read, or of his wife.
11. Col. William 3 and Anne Carrington Cabell had
issue : —
i. Paul C, b. November 10, 1781 ; d. September 14,
. 1783.
54. ii. Elvira 4 .
55. iii. Margaret 4 .
56. iv. Anne Carrington 4 .
57. v. William Jordan 4 .
58. vi. Mary Elizabeth 4 .
59. vii. Clementina 4 .
60. viii. Sarah Carrington 4 .
61. ix. Edward 4 .
62. x. Paul Carrington 4 .
63. xi. Mayo 4 .
xii. Mildred Coles, b. March 19, 1802 ; d. June 5, 1802.
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 209
xiii. Mildred Howell, b. May 24, 1803 ; d. September
15, 1803.
64. xiv. Patrick Henry 4 .
12. Paulina 2, Cabell was born in 1763; her age is given
as six years in 1769. She was educated by tutors at home,
— Col. William Fontaine, Rev. Robert Buchan, and others.
She was taught to dance by Mr. Jeter in 1779 ; his terms
were £25 per scholar a session.
" Oct. 1st 1781. Major Edmund Read asked liberty to
court my daughter Paulina." (Col. William Cabell's
Diary.) This was the harbinger of the first marriage sol-
emnized in the present " Union Hill " house, which took
place in 1782. Maj. Read and his wife continued to reside
at Union Hill for several years.
" Sept. 22nd 1783, a son born to Paulina Read and her
husband, died in a few hours."
"July 7th 1785. Majr Read and his wife set off on
their way to the Sweet Springs."
" Feby 1st 1787. Majr Read, his wife and Peggy set off
on their way to Charlotte." (Col. William Cabell's Diary.)
They settled on her husband's estate, called " Retire-
ment," on the Little Roanoke, about three miles from Char-
lotte Court House.
" About the year 1788, during the great religious revival,
she was brought to the knowledge of the truth and made a
public profession of her faith in the Presbyterian Church at
Briery, Va., under the ministry of that eminent and highly
favored servant of God, the Rev. John Blair Smith, D. D."
Maj. Edmund Read died in December, 1802.
Having no surviving children of her own, she adopted
her deceased sister's daughter Louisa. In 1805, she wrote
to her brother William that she " had no company but little
Louisa." In November, 1806, that she was " taking Louisa
to school at Winchester," etc. Here she met the Rev.
Nash Le Grand, to whom she was married after 1808 (I
think), and lived with him in Winchester for a time ; but
finally removed to her residence in Charlotte. Mr. Le
210 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Grand died in October, 1814, while on a visit to Frederick
County. Mrs. Le Grand continued to reside at " Retire-
ment " for some years, but when growing old, in order to
be near church at Charlotte Court House, she purchased
the residence in the village which was ever after one of the
chief resting-places of the clergy and religious persons of
all persuasions who happened to visit the county during her
life. She died on February 5, 1845, and was buried with
her first husband in the family cemetery at " Retirement."
I have a long obituary notice of her, written it is said by
the Rev. Mr. Osborne, commending her Christian character
and many virtues, from which I will give an extract : " Her
Christian career was begun with a zeal corresponding to the
peculiar strength of her character, and she held on her way
in a manner that secured the confidence of the church in
the deep solemnity of her religious professions.
" She was a steady and liberal contributor to the funds
of the Bible, the Tract, the Sabbath School, Education,
Missionary, and Colonization Societies. To the Union The-
ological Seminary, Va., besides various liberal donations
made during her life, she bequeathed the sum of $2000.
Her charitable contributions to the poor were numerous,
large, and promptly made."
" Aunt Le Grand," as she was universally known in her
later years, was one of the most noted of the Union Hill
family. I have long sketches of her, written for me by the
late Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby and Judge Asa D. Dicken-
son. She was " a burning and a shining light " in the
Presbyterian Church. It was in her house at " Retire-
ment " that Dr. Archibald Alexander lived while he was the
pastor of the Briery Church, and the oak beneath which he
was wont to study may still be seen in the yard. And
many years later, the Rev. Dr. James W. Alexander was
the guest of " Aunt Le Grand " during his entire term of
service in Charlotte.
The following sketches her as she appeared to one of her
young nieces at " Union Hill : " —
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 211
" Aunt Le Grand was a woman of great energy, benevo-
lence, and intellect. Her whole mind seemed to be absorbed
in the subject of religion. Unfortunately she was inclined
to take the gloomy view of life. She thought her Episco-
pal relatives in Nelson lost in worldliness and devoid of all
true Christian virtue ; but she still loved her relatives and
each year paid them a missionary visit. These visits were
generally looked forward to with dread by the younger
members of the family, and not without some sinkings of
the heart by the older ones. On one of these visits she was
greatly shocked to find that her brother (Col. William
Cabell, Jr.) had actually employed a dancing-master in his
family, and she did not hesitate to give vent to her feelings
accordingly. Yet, withal, the old lady's mind had a very
practical turn, and when she found that the master was giv-
ing only one lesson per day, she took her brother again to
task. She told him that she was bitterly opposed to dan-
cing, but if he would employ a teacher for his children that
he certainly ought to get the worth of his money, and in
order to do this, he should make the dancing-master give
at least three lessons a day.
" I remember well her last visit to Union Hill ; Mrs.
Bruce was there with her two daughters, in the height of
their reign, surrounded by crowds of admirers. All dreaded
Aunt Le Grand's visit, for the mirth of so many young peo-
ple could not be easily restrained ; but by keeping the two
parlors open all passed off very quietly. For the young
people would go, two or three at a time, from their parlor
to sit with the old lady in hers and listen to her admoni-
tions. So that she left without seemingf to have been as
much shocked as usual at the wickedness of her young rela-
tives in Nelson."
Maj. Edmund Read, a soldier of the Revolution, was a
son of Col. Clement Read, of Charlotte County, and a
brother of Margaret Read (who married Judge Paul Car-
rington, the elder), of Thomas Read (who is sketched in
Grigsby's " Virginia Convention of 1776," pp. 105-109),
212 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
and of Col. Isaac Read (ibid. p. 107), of the 4th Virginia
Regiment, who died and lies buried in Philadelphia. Maj.
Read was a widower when he married Paulina Cabell ; his
first wife was a Miss Lewis, but he left no surviving issue.
Rev. Nash Le Grand was the son of Peter Le Grand, of
Prince Edward County, in whose family old Dr. William
Cabell practiced in 1760. He was of Huguenot descent.
His mother was sister to Col. John Nash, of Templeton, of
the same family as Judge Frederick Nash, of Hillsboro',
North Carolina. For a sketch of Rev. Nash Le Grand, see
Foote's " Sketches of Virginia," first series, pp. 530-542.
13. Landon 3 Cabell was born prior to February 21,
1765. From May, 1772 to 1777, he was going to the same
schools with his brother William (the sketch of whom see).
From 1777 to 1778, he remained at Union Hill under the
tuition of the Rev. Robert Buchan ; from July 30, 1778
to 1780, he was at Hampden Sidney Academy ; and at Wil-
liam and Mary College from March, 1780, to May, 1781,
when the exercises at the college were suspended on account
of the occupation of that part of the State by the enemy.
While at college, he became a member of the Phi Beta
Kappa Society. It is traditional that he served at York-
town in the college company attached to his Uncle Joe's
regiment of militia.
" Jan'y 25th, 1782. Landon set off on his way to Gen-
eral Watts' to be inoculated."
" Feby 26th 1782. Landon returned from Mr. Watts' in
Prince Edward, where he had been twice in order to get
inoculated, by Dr. Rose, who disappointed him by going
Southward."
" Feb'y 28th. Landon went to Col. Coles' for his sister
Paulina." (Col. William Cabell's Diary.)
Landon had reentered William and Mary College in
1783, where he continued until May, 1785.
"Deer. 17th 1785. Landon set off on his way to Dr.
Thomas Walker's where he intends to stay some time study-
ing the law with his son Francis."
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 213
" May 5th, 1786, my son Landon set off on his way to
North Carolina, in order to practice the law. I gave him
£250 cash, a pair of fine horses, a negro servant, and
every other necessary of clothing, etc, etc." He was in-
volved in an affair of the heart at the time ; he was restless,
and did not remain in North Carolina, but soon returned
home. On August 31, 1786, his father made this entry in
his diary : " Landon Cabell set off on his way to Camden,
South Carolina." He was still restless. The affair was
with a " Miss C," of whom he always writes in the most
affectionate way ; but her full name does not appear in any
of his letters, and I have no idea who she was. The affair
did not run smoothly ; but whether this was owing to the
opposition of herself, or her family, or of his family, does
not appear. It is only evident that there was some diffi-
culty in the way, and that this fact so preyed upon his
mind as to make him resolve to seek relief in absence and
obscurity. From August 31, 1786, his whereabouts was
entirely unknown to his family and friends until May,
1792, when, " after searching the wide world over," he was
found by Mr. Myers, living in obscurity, as a clerk in a
lawyer's office, in Kingston, Jamaica. His brother William
wrote to him at once, urging him to return home, to which
letter he replied on September 2, 1792, declining to come.
In December following, his father wrote to him command-
ing him to come home, and he came ; but he continued to
lead a retired life until his death.
" Oct 28th 1793, gave my son Landon my Nassau Plan-
tation." He had arrived at home only a few months before
this. He married, in 1794, his cousin, Miss Judith Scott
Rose. He lived first at " Spring Hill " (now known as
"Montezuma "), until he removed to his Nassau plantation
(which his father had bought from the first Dutch settlers),
then called "Job's Valley," now "Huntley." He after-
wards sold this plantation to his brother-in-law, Robert
Rives, and lived for a time in Lynchburg, and finally on his
wife's estate, " Rose Hall," in Amherst County, where he
214 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
died in January, 1834, and is buried. June 1, 1804, he
was one of the three commissioners appointed by Gov. John
Page to supervise the election of presidential electors in
Amherst County.
He was long a justice of the peace, prior to 1808, in
Amherst, and from 1808 for many years in Nelson, of
which latter county he was sheriff in 1815 and 1816. Gen.
B. W. S. Cabell, who knew him, wrote of him: " Landon
was esteemed, generally, to have been the most literary man
of his family ; with talents and attainments qualifying him
for any position, he resisted all the efforts of his friends to
draw him into public life."
There is a brief sketch of him in " Sketches and Recol-
lections of Lynchburg," pp. 217, 218.
Another, not of his name, who knew him long and well
thus wrote of him : —
" Landon Cabell was one of the noblest men we ever
boasted of in Virginia. He was a man both of brilliant
genius and high cultivation, particularly excelling in the
art of conversation. He was offered a place in his cabinet
by President Madison, to whom he was allied by marriage,
[his wife's brother, who was his first cousin, married Madi-
son's sister], but he declined this, as he did many offices of
distinction in his State. He spent the life of a hermit,
charming all who enjoyed his hospitality with his elegant
manners and instructive conversation."
His wife, Judith Scott Rose, was the daughter of Col.
Hugh Rose and his wife, Caroline Matilda Jordan (died in
1809), the daughter of Col. Samuel Jordan by his second
wife, Mrs. Judith Scott Ware.
Col. Hugh Rose was born September 18, 1743 ; he was
a justice of the peace for Amherst from 1765, I believe, to
his death ; a member of the County Committee, 1775-1776 ;
a vestryman of Amherst, and after 1779, of Lexington
Parish ; was sheriff of his county in 1776 ; colonel of mili-
tia ; county lieutenant in 1780 and after ; member House
of Delegates, 1785-1786; a trustee of Warminster Acad-
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 215
emy in 1791-1795, etc. His will, dated October 16, 1794,
was probated January 19, 1795. Col. William Cabell, Jr.,
was one of his executors.
" Feb'y 2nd 1795. To cash paid Wm. S. Crawford for
the Rev. Charles Crawford for the funeral sermon of Hugh
Rose, £3."
Col. Hugh Rose was the son of the celebrated Rev.
Robert Rose by his second wife, Anne Fitz Hugh, who
descended from well-known Eastern Virginia families. She
was born March 8, 1721, and died April 18, 1789. Her
father, Henry Fitz Hugh, born January 15, 1687, died
December 12, 1758 ; married February 24, 1718, Susanna
Cooke (born December 7, 1693, died Nov. 21, 1749),
daughter of Mordecai Cooke, of Gloucester. Henry Fitz
Hugh was a son of Col. William Fitz Hugh*(1651-1701),
the emigrant from England, by his wife, Sarah Tucker, who
was born August 2, 1663, in Westmoreland County, Va.
Rev. Robert Rose, born at Wester Alves in Scotland,
February 12, 1704, was ordained by the bishop of London,
came to Virginia about 1725, was minister of St. Anne's in
Essex 1726-1747, and of St. Anne's in Albemarle 1747-
1751. He died June 30, 1751, in Richmond, Va., and was
buried in old St. John's churchyard. He was an active
business man, pioneer, and preacher. He was never idle,
but always doing his duty in all ways. He was a friend
and an administrator of Gov. Alexander Spotswood ; an
inventor of a great improvement in the navigation of the
mountain streams ; one of our earliest and best citizens.
His will was probated November 12, 1751, when his wife,
Anne Rose, qualified as the executrix with Peter Jefferson,
John Harvie, and John Nicholas as her securities. The
inventory of his estate was made in January, 1752. He
was of the fifteenth generation from Hugh Rose of Easter
Geddes, who died in 1333 ; and of the eighth generation
from Hugh Rose (died 1517) of Kilravock, and his wife,
Lady Margaret Seton, daughter of Alexander, first earl of
Huntley, and sister to George, the second earl, who married
216 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
the Princess Joanna, daughter of James I. of Scotland, and
relict of James, Earl of Angus.
13. Landon 3 and Judith Scott Rose Cabell had issue : —
i. Elvira, d. infant.
ii. Alfred, d. infant.
65. iii. Landon 4 .
66. iv. Robert H. 4 .
67. v. Elizabeth 4 .
14. Hector* Cabell, born about 1768, was first taught
at home by tutors; from 1778 to 1780, he was at Hampden
Sidney ; in 1782, he was going to school to the Rev. Mr.
John Holmes at Col. John Coles' in Albemarle ; from 1784
to 1787, he was again at Hampden Sidney College ; and
"vk 1788, he was being taught by Mr. James Morrison, the
private tutor at Union Hill.
Hector was " the wild oats of the family." He rode a
horse of Ambrose Nelson's to death, and his father had to
pay for it ; he got into trouble at Hampden Sidney, and
his brother William paid his way out ; he got on a big
spree at Lucas Powell's ordinary in Amherst Court House,
and raised old Nick generally — and so on. "He burnt
his candle at both ends," and died without surviving issue.
He married about 1798, his double first cousin (26) Pau-
lina 3 , daughter of Col. John 2 Cabell. They lived at
" Spring Hill " (now called " Montezuma "). He died Jan-
uary 6, 1807. Robert Rives was the administrator of his
estate. His widow became the second wife of Judge Wil-
liam Daniel, Sr., of Lynchburg, Va.
15. Margaret Jordan 3 Cabell was born late in 1769 or
early in 1770. She was educated entirely by private tutors
in her father's family, — Mr. Fontaine, Rev. Mr. Buchan,
Mr. James Morrison, and others. She was taught music by
Mr. Wall, and dancing by Mr. Jeter. There were other
teachers, whose names are not known to me. Margaret, or
" Peggy," as her father called her, completed her education
early in 1789.
She went with her brother William and his wife to Judge
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 217
Paul Carrington's in Charlotte, in August, 1784. After
her sister, Paulina Read, moved to " Retirement," she paid
frequent visits there. Early in February, 1789, she attended
a Society meeting at Hampden Sidney College, and from
there she went to Maj. Read's in Charlotte. On these visits
she met with Mr. Robert Rives, who was then in business
with Blow & Barksdale at Charlotte Court House, and,
although she had many admirers, she finally determined to
join her fate with his. For a time in 1789, she was en-
gaged to the Rev. Samuel Houston (1758-1839), who had
been prominent in the history of the " State of Franklin,"
and who was afterwards prominent in the history of Wash-
ington College, and of the Presbyterian Church in Virginia.
She was evidently much attached to him, and the fact that
Mr. Rives finally won the victory was largely owing to his
" resolute energy of will and purpose which enabled him
always to reach the goal he aimed at." As an illustration
of this, the late Andrew White, Esq., who was in business
with Mr. Rives from 1804 to 1845, told his son, Dr. John
F. White (who wrote it to me), that " when Mr. Rives was
addressing Miss Cabell, he once rode from Richmond to
' Union Hill ' to dinner on the same day — doubtlessly
dinner was late at a fashionable home, but not so late as is
the custom now, and Richmond was 105 miles away. The
horse was put into the stable and taken out dead." Mr.
Rives kept fine horses, and during life was a very rapid
rider. He frequently left his home at Warminster in the
morning ; rode to Charlottesville, about 40 miles away ;
attended the court ; transacted his personal business inter-
ests there, and returned home that night. He imported
Gouty (foaled 1796), by Sir Peter Teazle, a famous horse
of this section.
The following entries are from Col. William Cabell's
diary : —
" Jan'y 25th, 1790. My daughter Peggy was married to
Mr. Robert Rives by the Rev. Mr. Isaac Darnielle at Union
Hill."
218 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
" May 27th. Paid Robert Rives £242. — the bal. due
Alex. Donald for money sent me to purchase tobacco — pr.
Mr. Donald's order. For which I have Mr. Rives' receipt
and Mr. Donald's letter to warrant the payment."
" August 20th. Mr. Rives and wife visit Charlotte
County."
" Octr 23rd. My daughter Rives delivered of a son about
5 o'clock in the evening."
" Octr 28th. Doctor George Gilmer left this place after
being here six days with my daughter Rives, who is in a
most distressing^ situation." This was the celebrated Dr.
George Gilmer, of Pen Park, Albemarle, the father of the
first Mrs. William Wirt. The life of his patient " was
almost despaired of ; " but he came again and again, giving
her the closest attention, and she finally recovered. The
child was the first male born in the present "Union Hill '
mansion, who left descendants. He was named for his
uncle, Landon Cabell, whose disappearance was then a
source of great distress to the family.
" Jan'y 19th, 1791. Mr. Robert Rives and his wife went
home [to Warminster] after living with me about twelve
months." But, as usual in those days, Mrs. Rives came to
" Union Hill " for several years to be under the care of her
mother at trying, and, in her case, dangerous times. And
in her father's diary we find the following entries : —
" Jan'y 9th, 1792. My daughter Peggy Rives delivered
of a daughter about ten o'clock at night. [Margaret J.
Rives.] "
" May 4th, 1793. In the morning my daughter Peggy
Rives delivered of a son." This was William Cabell Rives.
The rest of her children were born at " Warminster " and
at " Oak Ridge."
In 1790, Mr. Rives had built the central portion of what
is now known as "the Edgewood House," adjoining the
then village of Warminster, and this was his home from
January, 1791, to January, 1803. It was afterwards sold
to the late Hon. Joseph C. Cabell, Sr.
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 219
In 1798, his wife inherited from her father a portion of
the Oak Ridge estate ; he afterwards purchased the remain-
der from the other heirs, and in 1801-1802, built thereon
the present " Oak Ridge " mansion, which was the resi-
dence of his wife and himself from January, 1803, as long
as they lived. This fine estate was originally the property
of John Harmer and Walter King, and was " escheated "
and sold daring the Revolution.
" March 23rd, 1780. Purchased of David Shepherd, Es-
cheator, 2380 acres of land in Amherst County on both
sides of Rucker's Run, being part of a larger tract lately
the property of John Harmer, Esq., a British subject ; and
1070 acres adjoining, on the south branches of Rucker's
Run, being part of a large tract, lately the property of
Walter King, Esquire, a British subject. Purchased agree-
able to two Acts of Assembly passed in the year 1779.
The one entitled an Act concerning Escheats and Forfeit-
ures from British subjects ; the other, an Act concerning
Escheators. For which land I paid the sum of £27,140."
Of this amount, £12,957 was paid " by orders on John
Hawkins for corn, beeves, muttons, etc., sold Alexander
Gordon and the said Hawkins for the Barracks in Albe-
marle, where the Convention [Saratoga] prisoners were ; "
£1070 by a loan office certificate, and the remainder " by
Cash." [John Harmer was of Bristol, Eng. He came
to Virginia, possibly with Dr. Cabell, in 1741, or soon after,
resided here for some years, and then returned to England.
He gave much of his property in Virginia to George
Harmer, as Walter King did to Walter King Cole, and a
certain restitution was made to them by acts of Assembly
in May and October, 1780.]
The following obituary notice appeared in "The Rich-
mond Enquirer " of August 30, 1815 : —
" Departed this life in the 45th year of her age on Satur-
day morning the 19th Last. [August, 1815] Mrs. Margaret
Rives, daughter of the late Col. William Cabell and consort
of Mr. Robert Rives of the County of Nelson.
220 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
" The endowments of the deceased were of superior
order. Her mind was masculine and sentimental, her heart
generous, benevolent and kind. Charity, too, had its place
in her bosom. Although surrounded by wealth, although
abounding in affluence, self-enjoyment was the least of her
considerations. How to be useful to her family, how to
render services to the indigent, were the first wishes of her
soul. She was the most affectionate of mothers, the most
devoted of wives, and among the best of friends to the
poor. The superiority of her intellect did not desert her in
her afflicting; and incurable disease. She evinced in her
last moments a resolution and fortitude seldom witnessed
in her sex. She was resigned to the will of God and recon-
ciled to the mandate of death."
Robert Rives, born March 11, 1764, in Sussex County,
Va., joined the army in 1781, and served as a private at
Yorktown ; after the war he entered the store of Col. Rich-
ard Baker at South Quay. The late Hon. Sterling Clai-
borne, of Amherst, used to say that this was done against
his mother's wishes, but her old friend and legal adviser,
Col. Augustine Claiborne, told her to let him alone, as he
felt sure that he was amply able, not only to make his own
way in the world, but to achieve fortune and fame also.
In the course of a few years he entered the store of Blow
& Barksdale, ajt Charlotte Court House. Here he is said
to have worked very faithfully and energetically, laying the
foundation of his commercial education.
In the autumn of 1789, Mr. Alexander Donald (the
friend of Jefferson), of the firm of Donald & Burton, Lon-
don, England, spent some time at " Union Hill." He was
very favorably impressed with the tobacco grown in this
section for shipping purposes, and induced Col. William
Cabell, Sr., to arrange to have all the good tobacco that
came to Warminster warehouse bought up for him. Mr.
Rives married Col. Cabell's daughter in January, 1790.
Prior to May 27 following, Col. Cabell turned this valuable
agency over to him, and wrote a letter of recommendation
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 221
to which Mr. Donald replied from Richmond on June 18 :
" I think as you do of Mr. Rives, and as you have promised
your friendly assistance to him, I cannot doubt of his con-
duct answering my expectations."
The house of Donald & Burton was one of the largest
commission houses in London.
Mr. Rives had commenced business on his own account
at Warminster before his marriage. After accepting this
agency he located stores, from time to time, as the opportu-
nity presented itself, all over this shipping tobacco section,
wherever there was a public warehouse for the inspection of
tobacco. At Warminster, at New Market (now Norwood
station), at Diuguidsville (now Bent Creek, near Bolton sta-
tion), at Lynchburg, at Milton in Albemarle, at Ca Ira in
Cumberland, etc. Prior to 1794, these stores were con-
ducted on his individual account ; but after this the busi-
ness increased so rapidly and was so scattered that partners
were taken in from time to time. The object was " to kill
two birds with one stone : " to buy the tobacco and pay for
it in merchandise as far as possible, to obtain the English
commission on the tobacco purchased, and a profit on the
goods sold.
The warehouse at New Market belonged to Col. William
Cabell, the elder. In 1794, Mr. Rives bought 720 hogs-
heads of the tobacco sold there, and, on September 27, he
paid Col. Cabell £54 for the warehouse charges thereon.
In the same year, Mr. Rives bought as much more tobacco
at each of five other warehouses, and his purchases increased
from year to year, until his partners and himself virtually
controlled the tobacco trade of all this section.
He transacted a great deal of business with Mr. James
Brown, of Richmond, from 1790, both being agents in Vir-
ginia for the house of Donald & Burton, London, and
they afterwards became partners, under the style Brown &
Rives, in one of the foremost commission houses in the
State.
Mr. Burton, of the London firm, died about 1807, which
222 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
made necessary a full adjustment of all accounts in the
Rives branch in America, and the settlement was satisfac-
tory to all parties.
The firm was doing an especially large business about
1809-1812, owning or employing many ships in trade with
the West Indies, England, Scotland, and Spain. The mem-
bers in Virginia were Thomas Higginbotham, James Brown,
and Robert Rives.
On February 14, 1812, the General Assembly of Vir-
ginia incorporated " The Nelson and Albemarle Union Fac-
tory, for the laudable purpose of manufacturing wool and
cotton." Mr. Rives was much interested in this enterprise.
In May following, himself and others bought of Col. Wil-
liam Cabell, Jr., the present Variety Mills estate, on which
Col. Cabell had already a corn-mill, a tannery, and a shoe-
maker's shop, and to which the company soon added a large
flour-mill, a saw-mill, a store, and the " Union Factory for
wool and cotton." In the course of time Mr. Rives bought
up the shares of the others and became the owner of the
whole plant.
During the Peninsular war (about 1813, I think), James
Brown made a large shipment of flour on his own account
to Cadiz in Spain, which was lost, and caused his failure.
In settling the business of Brown and Rives, a great law-
suit arose between the parties. Mr. Chapman Johnson and
his son, William C. Rives (then a young man), attended to
the suit for Mr. Rives, and gained it after great alarm,
the amount involved being over $100,000, a large sum in
those days.
After this suit, and after the death of his wife, he grad-
ually retired from active commercial affairs, and began to
devote himself more and more to his farms ; but during life
he retained an interest in (furnished funds to partners in)
the country stores at Bent Creek, Variety Mills, and possi-
bly elsewhere, and in the commission business in Richmond,
of Rives, Clarke & Co., to the retirement of Mr. Clarke,
then Rives & Ferguson to the death of Mr. Ferguson in
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 223
1833, and then Rives & Harris to the death of Mr. Rives in
1845.
Mr. Rives was a communicant of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church, and in 1833 or 1834 he built a brick church for
that denomination on land given by him just west of Oak
Ridge. It was long called Rives' Church, and it should
have been preserved as a memorial to him. It is now called
« Trinity Church."
" He was a small man about 5 feet 9 inches high, well
set ; very neat in dress ; very inquisitive and talkative ; very
polite ; very hospitable ; very much respected by all who
knew him ; and very much beloved by his slaves, of whom
he owned a large number."
In the division of his father's estate after the death of
his mother early in the present century, he received a good
many slaves, and their advent in this region was an event
in colored society. In many respects the low-country
negroes differed from those of the mountains, and these
were long designated in the county as " Sussex negroes ; ' :
indeed, the grandson of one of them living near me is even
now known as " Sussex George."
Mr. Rives owned a large estate in Albemarle, of which
I know but little. He also owned between 10,000 and
15,000 acres of land in Nelson, all of which, I believe, has
passed out of the hands of his descendants, and of these I
am the only one now living in the county which was for so
long his home.
He was one of the first justices, and was for many years
the presiding magistrate of the county. Although remark-
ably well versed in political information, and an ardent poli-
tician, he yet never would allow himself to be a candidate
for a political office, and the magistracy was almost the only
public office held by him. Many thought, however, that he
would have been as successful in the political arena as he
was as a merchant and farmer. Many of the old people
have told me that they thought he would have been more
successful in politics even than his son William. This was
the opinion of his contemporaries.
224 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
The following obituary notice of him appeared soon after
his death : —
" On Sunday the 9th of March, 1845, at Oak Ridge, his
residence in the county of Nelson, Robert Rives, Esq., in
the 81st year of his age. All who knew this venerable and
remarkable man (and he was well known personally or by
reputation throughout the State) will unite in the senti-
ment that few, if any, in their day and generation, have led
more useful and honorable lives, or left behind them more
enduring testimonials of the high moral and intellectual
qualities, which distinguished his career on Earth. Bred
in the school of strenuous and self-denying virtue, which
ushered in the era of our Revolutionary struggle, in the
closing scene of which he was just old enough to take a
part as a volunteer on the plains of Yorktown, he moved
forward in the paths of life with that firm and undeviating
step, and with that resolute energy of will and purpose,
which enabled him always to reach the goal he aimed at.
Throwing himself at an unusually early period of life, with
a manly self-reliance, on the resources of his own industry
and genius, he engaged, while yet a youth, in commercial
pursuits, which he continued to prosecute for many years
on a scale of extended enterprise, amid the vicissitudes and
hazards of the unsettled state of the commercial world
which attended the period of the wars of the French Revo-
lution, and with a skill, sagacity, judgment, and success,
which placed him deservingly in the first rank of American
Merchants.
" Retiring from the more active scenes of commercial
adventure, while his faculties of mind and body were yet in
full vigor, he devoted the last thirty years of his life mainly
to the care and improvement of a large landed estate, in
which the same perseverance, guided by intelligence, liber-
ality, and taste, was crowned with like success. His coun-
try seat, which he loved to beautify and surround with
every useful and tasteful improvement, was the abode of an
elegant and munificent hospitality. Nowhere were its rites
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 225
administered with a more genuine and warm-hearted Vir-
ginia Welcome, as the many who have received and enjoyed
that Welcome, can testify.
" But the crowning grace of his life was that which gilded
with a heavenly sunset its closing scenes. In the midst of
the blessings, with which he was surrounded, he recognized
the bountiful Hand, from which they all proceeded. He
professed the religion of our blessed Lord and Saviour,
Jesus Christ, and ' the peace, which passeth all understand-
ing ' was brightly and abundantly manifested in the seren-
ity, elevated composure, and divinely inspired hopes and
faith of his last moments. Surrounded by his numerous
family, and bestowing his blessing on each and all of them,
he was gently gathered, like the Patriarchs of old, to his
fathers, in favor with God, and in charity with all the
world."
He was a son of William Rives, of Sussex County, Va.
(by his wife, Lucy Shands), who died about 1775. He was
of the same family as Hon. Francis E. Rives, M. C. Their
ancestors came in the cavalier emigration of 1649-1659
from Blandford in England, and settled first at or near Bland-
ford in Surry County, Va. ; from thence they went to Sus-
sex, Prince George, and Brunswick counties, Va., and to
Granville County, N. C, owning many thousand acres of
land by purchase and by patent. There is a good pedigree
of the English branch of the family in Hutchins' " History
of Dorset," 3d edition, vol. iv. pp. 96, 97, to which I have
added somewhat from other sources. Mary Rives married
William Eaton, a vestryman of old Blandford church near
Petersburg, and they removed in 1725, with other members
of their families, to North Carolina, where Eaton became a
very prominent man. Their son, Hon. Thomas Eaton, mar-
ried Anna Bland, a sister of Frances Bland, who married
(first) John Randolph (and became the mother of John
Randolph of Roanoke), and (second) Judge St. George
Tucker, and became the mother of Judges Henry St.
George and Nathaniel Beverley Tucker.
r him. He married, Au-
gust 1, 1728, Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Archibald Blair
(of the House of Burgesses), and niece of Commissary
James Blair, D. D., founder of William and Mary College.
He died September 6, 1757. He was the son of Col. John
Boiling, of " Cobbs " (born 1676), " who engaged in com-
merce, and conducted an extensive and gainful trade with
his countrymen, and a yet larger one with the Indians
(equally his countrymen)." He was a member of the
House of Burgesses ; married, in 1697, Mary, daughter of
Richard Kennon, of "Conjuror's Neck" (also a member of
the House of Burgesses), and died in 1729. He was son
230 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
of Col. Robert Boiling (1646-1709), the emigrant, by his
wife, Jane Rolfe, daughter of Thomas Rolfe, son of John
Rolfe, by his wife, generally incorrectly called " Pocahon-
tas," which was not her name ; her Indian name was " Ma-
toaka," and her baptismal name was " Rebecca." She was
a daughter of " Wahunsenacawh," the chief of the Pow-
hatan tribe of Indians, commonly called "King Powhatan"
by the English.
" Matoaka " was " the first fruit of the English church
among the Virginians," and as such occupies a position of
unique attraction in our earliest annals. Her husband,
John Rolfe, was one of the founders of Virginia. He
wrote one of the most accurate accounts of the enterprise,
and devoted his life to the establishment of the colony.
Archibald Boiling, of "Red Oak," and of "The Re-
treat," the father of the second wife of Col. Joseph Cabell,
Jr., is said, in the work just referred to, to have been born
March 20, 1750. But on the 9th of May, 1743, Maj.
John Boiling- entered for his son Archibald 600 acres of
land on Possum Creek of the Fluvanna (James) River.
So the major must have had another son by this name, who
died young, or the foregoing date of birth is wrong, as,
although entries were made in the names of infants, we
cannot suppose the major to have taken time so vehemently
by the forelock as to make the entry seven years before the
child was born.
Archibald Bollinsf died about 1829. He was a brother
of Col. Robert Boiling, of " Chellowe," aforesaid, and his
ancestry was the same. He was married four times. The
mother of Mrs. Anne Everard Duval Cabell was his second
wife, Jane Randolph, the daughter of Richard Randolph, of
Curls (member of the House of Burgesses), and his wife,
Anne Meade. Which Richard was an uncle of John Ran-
dolph of Roanoke, and a son of Col. Richard Randolph, of
" Curies " (1690-1748), member of the House of Burgesses,
and treasurer of Virginia, who married Jane Boiling (1703-
1766), the daughter of Col. John Boiling, of Cobbs (1676-
1729), aforesaid.
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 231
Anne Meade was the daughter of David Meade by his
wife, Susanna Everard, the daughter of Sir Richard Ever-
ard, governor of North Carolina, by his wife, Susanna Kid-
der, daughter of Rt. Rev. Richard Kidder, D. D., bishop of
Bath and Wells, England.
Sir Richard Everard was the son of Sir Hugh Everard,
the son of Sir Richard Everard, the son of Sir Richard
Everard (created a baronet by Charles I. in January, 1629)
by his wife, Joan Barrington, daughter of Sir Francis Bar-
rington and his wife, Joan Cromwell, aunt of the Protector,
Oliver Cromwell, and daughter of Sir Henry Cromwell, the
son of Sir Richard Williams (eldest son of Morgan Wil-
liams by his wife, Catherine Cromwell, sister of Thomas
Cromwell, the great Earl of Essex), who assumed at the
desire of Henry VIII. the surname of his uncle, Crom-
well, and, through the influence of that once powerful
relative himself and his family, obtained great wealth and
station. 1
18. Joseph 3 and Pocahontas Rebecca Boiling Cabell had
issue : —
78. i. Sophronisba E. 4 .
79. ii. Sarah BA
iii. Robert Boiling (1st), b. in 1787 ; M. D. ; m. in
1808, Eliza Walthall, of Chesterfield County,
Va. ; d. October 7, 1808, s. p.
80. iv. Joseph MA
v. Archibald, d. infant.
81. vi. Edward Blair 4 .
82. vii. Benjamin W. SA
viii. Archibald B. 4 , b. at Repton in May, 1795 ; lost
his sight in early youth ; a musical genius,
excelling on all instruments, but especially
the violin and harp ; d. in 1822 in Henderson
County, Ky., unmarried,
ix. Nicholas, d. infant.
83. x. Mary P. RA
1 See The Genesis of the United States, vol. ii. pp. 826, 868.
232 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
18. Joseph 3 and (his 2d wife) Anne Everard Boiling
(Duval) Cabell had issue : —
84. xi. Jane Randolph 4 .
85. xii. John Breckinridge 4 .
86. xiii. Elizabeth R. 4 .
87. xiv. Robert B. 4 (2d).
88. xv. George Washington 4 .
xvi. Joseph H., b. November 23, 1815 ; d. May 15,
1816.
xvii. William Nicholas, b. November 1, 1817 ; d. Sep-
tember 10, 1820.
xviii. Richard R., b. March 9, 1822; d. October 9,
1843, unmarried.
89. xix. Mary A. H.\
xx. George C, b. April 16, 1825 ; d. infant.
And several others who died in early infancy
without names. " There are said to have
been by both wives 39 children in all."
19. Mary Hojjhins 3 Cabell, born February 22, 1769,
was married at her father's residence to John Breckinridge
on June 28, 1785. They lived first at " The Glebe," in
Albemarle County, a few miles northwest of Warren. They
moved to Kentucky in 1793, two years after its admission
to the Union, and three years before Wayne's treaty
secured to the white settlers peace with the Indian tribes.
" Before the crack of the rifle or the war-whoop of the
Indian had died away in that still bloody ground, an
assault was made on Bryant Station Block-House, only 5
miles distant, just at the moment at which, having plodded
his weary way through the old wilderness" track (for there
was no road), he arrived at Lexington with his young wife
and three infant children. When the news came of the
defeat of the Indians, the hearts of all were raised in thank-
fulness to a merciful God. These facts were stated in a
letter from Mr. Breckinridge written in 1793 to Joseph
Cabell, of Repton, in which he refers to the almost defense-
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 233
less state of Lexington at that time." " He was amply
rewarded for his enterprise, for emigrating at that early
day enabled him to acquire a princely domain of 30,000
acres of land for his descendants." After the death of her
husband in 1806, Mrs. Breckinridge visited her relatives in
Virginia at least five times ; her last visit, I think, was in
1838. She died in Louisville, Ky., at the residence of her
son, Rev. W. L. Breckinridge, on March 26, 1858, in her
ninetieth year.
Her old Kentucky home, near Lexington, in Fayette
County, was called " Cabell's Dale."
The Rev. Dr. E. P. Humphrey, in a discourse delivered
in 1876, referring to Mrs. Breckinridge, said : " Of the
mother upon whom the care of this family was laid, nothing
more need be said than this : She reared her sons and
daughters in such a manner as to prepare them for the
career which was set before them. The four sons were
noted for their will power to the end of their lives. It is
right to imagine that this quality in their boyhood took the
form of willfulness. If this was so, they needed restraint as
well as guidance. All honor to the venerable mother, who
was made equal to her task by extraordinary firmness, judg-
ment almost unerring, and a maternal tenderness whereby
she was able to reconcile in her household the law of right
obedience with the law of love."
MRS. MARY H. BRECKINRIDGE.
" Ah ! never pen in woman's praise I ween
More fitly than for thine, O matron pure !
Was put to paper ; thou who did secure
The love of loving hearts from morn till e'en
Of lengthened life, and still in memory green
Thy acts, being seven ages, must endure ;
Wife's, mother's, friend's thy role, and no one truer
To self and trust through every changing scene, —
Cornelia of our land, who down the vale
Of years was hostess of that dear abode,
234 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Thy husband named it for thee Cabell's Dale ;
Thy sons with mother's teaching upward trod,
Armed with this precept as with coat of mail,
' Fear not the face of man but only God.' " 1
R. Richardson.
•
John Breckinridge was born near Staunton, Va., Decem-
ber 2, 1760, removed with his parents to Botetourt, and
was educated at " The Augusta Academy ' : (now Wash-
ington and Lee University), and at William and Mary Col-
lege. While at the college, and before he was twenty-one
years of age, he was elected by the people of Botetourt to
represent that county in the House of Delegates. He was
a subaltern in the Virginia militia in the latter part of the
Revolution. He was really acting as a lawyer on April 14,
1780 (before he was twenty-one), when he was at " Union
Hill " attending to some business for Mrs. Howard, before
Col. William Cabell, Sr., justice of the peace. On April
20, 1781, Hon. John Brown (grandfather of the late Hon.
B. Gratz Brown) wrote from Botetourt to his brother, Phi
Beta Kappa, Mr. William Cabell (No. 11), and sent the
letter to "Union Hill" by "Mr. John Brackenridge,"
whom Mr. Cabell was to assist in some business connected
with the Howard estate, near the present Howardsville, and
not far from the " Sion Hill " estate of Col. Joseph Cabell
the elder, and I infer that he first met his future wife while
attending to this business. " June 28, 1785. Polly Cabell
was married to John Brackenridge." (William Cabell's
Diary.) The young couple settled at " The Glebe " in
Albemarle, an estate given to them by Col. Joseph Cabell.
Mr. Breckinridge was Col. William Cabell, Sr.'s lawyer
from this time until his removal to Kentucky, and he is
frequently mentioned in Col. Cabell's papers. He practiced
law in the several neighboring counties, "at the bar of
which he met the world-renowned Patrick Henry in many
encounters, and grew in reputation by the ability he dis-
1 Dr. Davidson, in his history of the Presbyterian Church of Kentucky,
quotes this maternal and impressive injunction.
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 235
played in those forensic contests ; " and after his removal to
Kentucky he represented the interests of the people of this
section in that State. On April 8, 1796, in a letter from
"Fayette," Ky., to William S. Crawford (who married
Sophia, daughter of Gabriel and Sarah Callaway Penn), of
Amherst, relative to the estate of Col. Richard Callaway,
he makes the following personal reference : " I have been
but 15 months where 1 now live. I found all things nearly
in a state of nature. I shall however by Octr. complete
my buildings, and put my farm in such a condition as to
afford us plenty of Bread and Meat."
His life soon became so incorporated with the history of
Kentucky as to make it impossible to go into the details
in a brief sketch like this. He was a member of the legis-
lature ; attorney-general of Kentucky ; Speaker of the
House of Representatives ; member from Fayette County of
the Constitutional Convention at Frankfort, August 17,
1799 ; author and advocate of the celebrated resolutions of
1798-1799 ; United States Senator from Kentucky, 1801-
1805 ; Attorney-General of the United States under Jeffer-
son, December 23, 1805, to his death. He died December
14, 1806, at " Cabell's Dale," near Lexington, Ky. Breck-
inridge County, Ky., was named for him. Some of his re-
ports as Senator and as a commissioner of the sinking fund,
some of his opinions as attorney-general, a few of his
speeches and other public utterances, etc., have been pub-
lished, and Collins, in his history of Kentucky, gives an
appreciative sketch of him. He was a son of Robert Breck-
inridge (by his second wife, Letitia, daughter of John Pres-
ton, the progenitor of one of the Preston families of Vir-
ginia), who took a prominent part in the Indian wars ; one
of the trustees for the new town of Staunton, 1761 ; after-
wards removed to the " Upper Country," and when the
county of Botetourt was formed in November, 1769, he was
the first presiding justice and county lieutenant of that
county. He died in 1772, in Botetourt.
He was a son of Alexander Breckinridge, who emigrated
236 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
from Ireland to Pennsylvania in 1728, and afterwards
removed to Augusta County, Va., and settled near the pres-
ent site of Staunton. " His ancestors were orioinallv from
CD «/
Scotland."
19. Mary H. 3 Cabell and John Breckinridge had issue : —
90. i. Letitia Preston 4 .
91. ii. Joseph Cabell 4 .
iii. Mary H., b. at " The Glebe," in Albemarle ; d. in-
fant.
iv. Robert H., b. at " The Glebe," in Albemarle ; d.
infant.
92. v. Mary Anne 4 .
93. vi. John 4 .
94. vii. Robert Jefferson 4 .
95. viii. William Lewis 4 .
ix. James Monroe, b. July 11, 1806 ; d. in 1819.
20. Ann Cabell, born February 15, 1771 ; married at her
father's residence on February 14 or 15, 1788, to Robert
Carter Harrison. The young couple first settled on the
estate known as " Ampt Hill," in Cumberland County, Va.,
in the fork of Willis and James rivers " on lands which had
come down to that branch of the Harrison family from
Robert Carter, commonly called ' King Carter.' In the lat-
ter part of 1806, they emigrated to Fayette County, Ky.,
with their nine children (the tenth being not yet born),
and settled on North Elkhorn, on the larger portion of that
noble tract of land which had been awarded to Shadrack
Vaughan for military services in Braddock's war. (Harri-
son exchanged his Virginia lands for Vaughan's Kentucky
lands. Captain Shadrack Vaughan married Mary Meri-
wether ; their daughter Kitty married Dr. Andrew Kean ;
and their son, John Vaughan Kean, was the father of the
Hon. R. G. H. Kean, of Lynchburg.) They called their
new home Elk Hill, and at this last abode it was that their
children were reared. They were educated, if not liber-
ally, well, and in accordance with the then condition and
views of the country. The family mansion was the abode
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 237
of hospitality. The rich and the poor, the young and the
old, the serious and the gay, all met on this welcome
theatre, and there communicated to each their views, sen-
timents, and emotions. There was, in the circle of friends,
no distinction made on the score of inequality of prop-
erty, the only passport to it being real or supposed per-
sonal merit. Family and connections were indeed held in
their true regard, but others were also. Nor did there
ever anything happen that did at all mar the enjoyment or
the friendship of this social circle. Several of the mem-
bers had been raised in the Old Dominion, and none of
them cared to depart from the maxims of the family train-
ing. They were all resolved that the blame should not rest
on them if Kentucky should sink below the virtues of Vir-
ginia, or if the sons and daughters of Kentucky should
ever degenerate from the high character of Virginia's own
children." (Rev. Joseph C. Harrison, 1858.) Mrs. Ann
Cabell Harrison died at Elk Hill, Fayette County, Ky., on
July 27, 1840.
Her husband, Robert Carter Harrison, — born at " Clif-
ton," Cumberland County, Va., June 14, 1765, died at
"Elk Hill," Ky., September 9, 1840, — was the son of Car-
ter Henry Harrison and Susanna Randolph his wife.
Carter (Henry) Harrison was probably born at Berke-
ley, on James River, about 1729, as he was the next brother
to Benjamin Harrison, " the signer," who is said to have
been born in 1726. He was a captain in the war of 1755.
In September and October, he was laid up with the fever
and ague, and in December, 1755, Capt. Carter Harrison,
by persuasion of his friends, and to serve his brother
(Henry), who had served under Gen. Braddock, resigned
his commission in his brother's favor, and in May, 1756,
Capt. Henry Harrison was serving under Washington. He
was first named Carter, and Henry was added on the death,
in infancy, of his next brother, who bore that name. (Capt.
Henry was the fourth son.) He was a very active mem-
ber of the Cumberland County Committee, being the
238 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
author of several most patriotic resolutions. (See under
Col. George Carrington.) He afterwards served in the
House of Delegates. The dates of his marriage and death
are not known to me. He was buried at his seat, " Clifton."
He was the son of Benjamin Harrison, of Berkeley, born
between 1696 and 1706 ; married, prior to 1725, Anne,
daughter of Robert, called King Carter, of Corotoman. He
served as high sheriff of his county, and in the House of
Burgesses. Himself and his two daughters were killed at
Berkeley, by the same flash of lightning, in the summer of
1745. He was son of Benjamin Harrison, born in 1673 ;
was settled at Berkeley, in the county of Charles City ; at-
torney at law, an assistant in the revisal of the laws of the
colony in 1700 ; " Treasurer of the Impositions on Liquors
and Slaves " in 1706 ; " the Treasurer of the Public impo-
sitions of this Colony ; " Speaker of the House of Burgesses,
1706 to 1710. He married Elizabeth Burwell, daughter of
Lewis Burwell, of Gloucester; died April 10, 1710, and was
buried at Westover. He was the eldest son of Benjamin
Harrison, of Surry, born in the parish of Southwalk, Va.,
September 20, 1645 ; a commissioner for Surry County in
1667 ; a member of the House of Burgesses as early as
1692, and of His Majesty's Council of Virginia as early as
1696, in which office he continued until his death, on Jan-
uary 30, 17i|. He was the son of Benjamin Harrison, the
emigrant. As Carter Henry Harrison, the father of Robert
Carter Harrison (1765-1840), was brother to Benjamin
Harrison, the signer, their ancestry is the same. 1
Susanna Randolph, the wife of Carter Henry Harrison,
was a daughter of Isham Randolph, probably the youngest,
as she was the only unmarried daughter at the date of her
mother's will, December 5, 1760. Isham Randolph, born
about 1690, was sometime agent for the colony of Virginia
in England ; married, in 1717, Jane Rogers, of Shad well
Street, London ; returned to Virginia ; appointed adjutant-
1 See The Ancestry of Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States,
1889-1898, by Charles P. Keith. Philadelphia, 1893.
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 239
general o£ Virginia, 1738 ; colonel of Goochland County
militia, 1740 ; member House of Burgesses, etc. When
he built his seat, which he called " Dunge Ness," or " Dun-
geoness " (the river forming the shape of a nose there), on
James River, some twenty odd miles above " The Falls,"
it was on the frontiers, and, I suppose, at first had some-
thing of the character of a fortress. His will, dated April
6, 1741, was proved December 21, 1742. He provided for
a promised payment " to Peter Jefferson upon his inter-
marriage with my daughter Jane of the sum of <£200," and
appoints Jefferson one of the guardians of his children.
His widow's will, dated December 5, 1760, was proven
July 21, 1761. She was related to " William Lilburne
Esquire of Kenton in the Byshoprick of Durham." Her
daughters married as follows : —
Jane, m. Peter Jefferson ; marriage bond dated October 3,
1739. (The parents of Thomas Jefferson.)
Mary, m. Charles Lewis, Jr. ; marriage bond dated July
15, 1746.
Elizabeth, m. in 1750 John Railey.
Dorothea, m. John Woodson ; bond dated October 28,
1751.
Anne, m. (1) Daniel Scott, bond dated November 26, 1751 ;
(2d) John Pleasants ; and (3d) James Pleasants, of " Con-
tention." The last two were Quakers.
Susanna, m., after 1760, Carter H. Harrison.
It would be interesting to know the relationship between
Thomas Jefferson and John Lilburne (1618-1657), of Dur-
ham, first a Puritan, then a Quaker, whom Hume designates
as "the most turbulent, but the most upright and cour-
ageous, of human kind."
Isham Randolph was a son of William Randolph (1651-
1711), the emigrant; clerk of Henrico, 1673-1683; justice
of the peace of Henrico, 1683-1711 ; burgess ; attorney-
general ; member Council, etc. He married Mary, daugh-
ter of Henry and Catharine Isham, of Bermuda Hundred,
on James River. His father, Richard Randolph, of Morton
240 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Hall, Warwickshire, was half brother to Thomas Randolph,
the poet. 1
20. Ann 3 Cabell and Robert C. Harrison had issue
ten : —
96. i. Susanna Randolph 4 Harrison.
97. ii. Mary Hopkins 4 Harrison.
98. iii. Joseph Cabell 4 Harrison.
99. iv. Carter Henry 4 Harrison.
100. v. Ann Cabell 4 Harrison.
101. vi. Robert Carter 4 Harrison.
102. vii. Elizabeth Lewis 4 Harrison.
103. viii. Sarah Randolph 4 Harrison.
104. ix. Virginia 4 Harrison.
105. x. Pocahontas R. P 4 . Harrison.
21. Elizabeth* Cabell (2d), born about 1772, and named
for her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Cabell Megginson, who died
in 1771. She married Col. William J. Lewis, of Mount
Athos, Campbell County, Va. They resided at this seat, on
James River, some ten miles below Lynchburg. After the
death of her husband, in 1828, she moved to Kentucky,
and lived with her sister, Mrs. Breckinridge. " In 1838,
these two old ladies visited Virginia; being fearful of
steam, they came all the way in a carriage driven by Col.
Lewis' nephew, Thomas Towles." This is one account sent
me, but I do not know what steam route in 1838 the
reference is to. Another account says : " They could then
reach Kentucky by stage, but preferred to make the jour-
ney in their own carriage. Mrs. Breckinridge said she had
traveled backwards and forwards between Virginia and
Kentucky many times on horseback, attended by armed
men, as the country was then full of Indians, sometimes not
friendly." Mrs. Lewis died in Louisville, Ky., on February
6, 1855.
Col. William J. Lewis, born in Augusta County, July 4,
1766 (brother to Agatha Lewis, who married Col. Oliver
1 See New England Historical and Genealogical Register, October, 1894,
p. 489.
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 241
Towles, whose daughter married Landon Cabell Rives), was
the son of Col. William Lewis, of the Sweet Springs, and
grandson of John Lewis, "the first European settler of
Augusta County, Va." The genealogy of the family is
preserved in Peyton's " History of Augusta County, Vir-
ginia."
Col. William J. Lewis was many years a leading member
of the Legislature of Virginia, and in 1817-1819 repre-
sented his district in Congress. One who knew him said
that he was " a Legislator, Statesman, Philanthropist, and a
Patriot of the first water." He died at Mount Athos, Oc-
tober 26, 1828, and was buried at the summit of the moun-
tain he had lived on and loved so well, on the spot selected
by himself, in a vault blasted out of the solid rock.
Col. and Mrs. Lewis left no children.
IV. COL. JOHN 2 CABELL'S CHILDREN.
22. Dr. George Cabell, Sr., born November 1, 1766;
at Hampden Sidney Academy, 1777-1779; completed his
medical education at the University of Pennsylvania, and
became one of the most successful physicians and surgeons
in the Lynchburg section of Virginia.
He was the personal friend and physician of Patrick
Henry, the orator, — attended him in his last illness, and
was present at his death. There is a sketch of Dr. Cabell
in "Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg, by the
Oldest Inhabitant," pp. 207-211, and of his wife, pp. 174-
176.
He lived on his farm, now a part of, but then adjoining,
Lynchburg, in the fork of Black water Creek and James
River, known as " The Point of Honor."
He married Sarah, the eldest daughter of Judge Edmund
Winston by his first wife, Alice Winston, who was his
cousin. Judge Winston married secondly the widow of
Patrick Henry, the orator. He practiced law in this sec-
tion prior to 1767, and was a judge of his district for
many years after the Revolution. He died at an advanced
242 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
age in 1813. His father, William Winston, noted as a
hunter, Indian fighter, and orator, was called " Langaloo
Billy," and there are many anecdotes of him. He was the
son of Isaac Winston, the emigrant. There are several
published pedigrees of the Winstons in books, viz., Slaugh-
ter's " St. Mark's Parish," Brock's " Vestry Book of Hen-
rico Parish," Henry's " Life of Henry," etc.
Alice Winston, the first wife of Judge Edmund Winston,
was the daughter of Anthony Winston by his wife, Alice
Taylor, the daughter of Col. Edmund Taylor, of Caroline
(by his wife, Anne Lewis), son of John Taylor (by his wife,
Catherine Pendleton, daughter of Philip Pendleton (1650-
1721), from Norwich, England), son of James Taylor, who
emigrated from Carlisle, England, and died in 1698 in Vir-
ginia.
The Winston family is very ancient, having been long
seated in Wales and the neighboring shires of England.
Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury (a leading manager of our
foundation), was notably proud of his " Wynston " ances-
try. The Virginia Winstons are said to have emigrated
from Wales, but I take them to be of the same family as
Dr. Thomas Winston, who was of Panswick in Gloucester-
shire. 1
Mrs. Sarah Winston Cabell died early in the spring of
1826, and Bishop Richard Channing Moore thus alludes to
her in his report made to the Council of the Episcopal
Church on May 20, 1826 : " During the past year St.
Paul's Church, Lynchburg, has been .called to mourn the
death (a death, however, too full of the Christian hopes
and consolations to be mourned) of one whose amiableness
and purity of manners, whose elevated rank in society,
whose ardent attachment to the Church, and splendid liber-
ality in its advancement, made her the ornament and sup-
port of our suffering cause, — the late Mrs. Sarah Cabell."
Dr. George Cabell, Sr., died about two years before his
wife, in December, 1823.
1 See The Genesis of the United States, vol. ii. pp. 849, 1056.
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 243
22. Dr. George 3 and Sarah Winston Cabell had issue : —
106. i. Paulina 4 .
ii. Edmund Winston, never married.
107. iii. George Kuhn 4 .
108. iv. Alice 4 .
109. v. John Breckinridge 4 .
110. vi. William J. Lewis 4 , b. 1806; Hampden Sidney
College, 1825 ; University of Virginia, 1826 ;
m. January 3, 1828, Eliza, daughter of Judge
William Daniel, Sr. ; d. s. p.
111. vii. Marion Fontaine 4 , b. 1809; m. her cousin, Dr.
Landon R. Cabell (65) ; d. in 1834, s. p.
viii. Sarah, d. young.
23. Frederick 3 Cabell was born December 13, 1768.
Devoted himself to business in early manhood. He was
remarkable for energy and perseverance, honesty and integ-
rity, and made nearly all of a large fortune through his
own efforts, by a long course of industry and economy,
getting nothing from his father's estate till he did not need
it. His father bequeathed to him the estate on the north
side of James River, just above Buffalo station, known
as "Struman." He also acquired, in the course of time, a
large part of his father's estate by purchase from the other
heirs, — " Green Hill," with all the lands attached thereto,
including the farm below, now known as " Elm Cottage,"
with Hughes' (now Norwood) Island, opposite, from his
brothers ; and after the death of his sister, Paulina, he
bought the " Fork field " estate, in the fork of Tye and
James rivers, from her executors.
In 1801, he married Alice Winston (sister to his brother
George's wife, see 22), second daughter of Judge Edmund
Winston, then of " Chesnutt Hill," below Lynchburg
(in the present county of Campbell), afterwards of " Hunt-
ing Tower," in Buckingham County. 1 Judge Winston was
a son of William Winston (a great hunter, Indian fighter,
1 See Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg, by the Oldest Inhabitant, pp.
220-225.
244 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
and orator, a lieutenant in the French and Indian war, etc.)
by his wife, " a sister of Col. William Dabney, of Aldring-
ham, Hanover," and daughter of George Dabney, son of
Cornelius Dabney, a churchwarden of St. Peter's Parish,
New Kent County, in 1685. Dabneys owned land in this
county prior to 1678.
Mrs. Edward Dabney wrote me in November, 1878 :
"I have seen letters directed to 'York River' as early as
1655, to Dabneys of Gloucester." The several pedigrees
of this family, which I have seen, differ in the early genera-
tions, and I have no means of ascertaining which is cor-
rect ; but it is certain that Dabneys were members of the
Virginia Company of London, that members of the family
came early to Virginia, and probably that all were of the
same family connection. 1
Alice Winston Cabell was an elegant woman, of talent
and culture. She died suddenly in 1814, soon after the
birth of her youngest child. Her husband never married
again. He died February 15, 1841, and was buried at
" Struman."
23. Frederick 3 and Alice Winston Cabell had issue: —
112. i. Mary Mildred 4 , m. John 4 Horsley (37).
113. ii. Frederick Mortimer 4 .
iii. Sarah Syme, b. August 27, 1804 ; d. July 16,
1821.
iv. Alice Winston, b. April, 1806 ; d. infant.
114. v. Edmund Winston 4 .
115. vi. Clifford 4 .
116. vii. Paulina Virginia 4 .
117. viii. Louis Warring-ton 4 .
24. John Jordan 3 Cabell was born November 30, 1772 ;
graduated in medicine in Philadelphia ; established himself
as a physician in Lynchburg ; and on February 24, 1803,
married Miss Henry Ann, daughter of Henry and Ann
Davies. He lived mostly in Lynchburg, but had a country
residence on his farm in Bedford, where most of his chil-
1 See Dabneys of Virginia.
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 245
dren were born. He was a man o£ remarkable energy, and
during life followed diverse pursuits. While practicing
medicine with much success, he also managed his large
landed estates, and for many years owned a store in Lynch-
burg. I have some of his store accounts during 1806-
1812, from which it seems that the business was chiefly
conducted by his clerks. He was also successively the
proprietor of more than one political paper, and occasion-
ally wrote for each. " The Jeffersonian Republican," of
Lynchburg, was established by John A. Wharton and him-
self, but it was only in existence a few years. He pur-
chased a large tract of valuable lands, with salt wells, on
the Kanawha River, above Charleston, and later in life
" established himself there permanently, carrying on with
great energy and perseverance an extensive salt manu-
factory."
Dr. John J. Cabell was probably one of the first in Vir-
ginia to become a convert to Swedenborgianism, — certainly
the first of the Cabell name. I believe that he became a
member of the New Jerusalem Church prior to 1819.
In 1830, he moved to his salt-works in Kanawha County,
where he died August 7, 1834. 1
His wife, Henry Ann Davies, " one of the most pure-
minded excellent women," died March 18, 1843, at her
residence in Lynchburg, in her 63d year. She was a
daughter of Henry Landon Davies (by his first wife, Ann
Clayton), son of Nicholas Davies, the emigrant, a native of
Wales and a merchant in Henrico County prior to 1733,
who married (1st), in December of that year, Mrs. Judith
Randolph, nee Fleming, the widow of Col. Thomas Ran-
dolph, deceased, of Tuckahoe. Her brothers, John and
Tarleton Fleming, were her trustees in her marriage con-
tract, or bond, with her second husband.
Davies was a large dealer in lands, locating, entering,
patenting, transferring, buying, and selling them during
life. The Rev. William Stith, the historian, married his
1 See Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg, pp. 115, 116, 212-215.
246 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
wife's daughter, Judith Randolph, on July 13, 1738 ; and
six days thereafter Mr. Stith and himself entered, with
Maj. William Mayo, the surveyor of Goochland, for 10,000
acres of land adjoining John Boiling and George Braxton
& Co., and on August 4, 1739, they entered for 10,000
acres more adjoining the abovesaid. These lands were
below Lynchburg. His various entries extended from
Muddy Creek in Cumberland to the Scotch-Irish Falls, near
the Blue Ridge in Bedford. These entries were finally all
transferred to the country above Lynchburg ; and in Octo-
ber, 1753, Dr. William Cabell made him an inclusive plat
of his lands on both sides of James River, between Judith's
Creek and the Scotch-Irish Falls, the same being 31,850
acres. The Davies-Stith entries were transferred above
Lynchburg in 1743. In the division, Stith received 1711
acres of the original Poplar Forest tract ; he added 2289
acres to this in 1745, and 2000 acres more in 1749, " to
make it 6000 acres," of which he had an inclusive plat
made. Stith died in 1755. I do not know how the " Pop-
lar Forest " was acquired by Thomas Jefferson ; but, be-
ginning with December 31, 1744, his father, Peter Jeffer-
son, entered much land in the same region.
Nicholas Davies was still living in Henrico Parish, Hen-
rico County, in 1740, but had moved to St. James Parish,
Goochland, in 1745, when he was living on a large tract of
land (which he afterwards sold) on Muddy Creek, on the
south side of James River. In April, 1745, he was a mem-
ber of the grand jury in Williamsburg which presented
Rev. John Roan (a Presbyterian minister), Thomas Wat-
kins, and Joshua Morris for " reflecting on the Established
Religion." In 1747 he was a churchwarden of Southam
Parish, and in 1748 a justice of the peace for Cumber-
land. He probably moved to the upper country prior to
1754. He was still living in August, 1793. The date of
his death is not known to me. He had no issue by his
first wife, Mrs. Randolph, who died prior to 1743. He
married secondly his first cousin, Miss Catharine Whiting,
by whom he had Henry Landon Davies aforesaid.
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 247
Ann Clayton (who married her first cousin, H. L. Davies,
January 15, 1767) was a daughter of John Clayton (1693-
1773), "the botanist" (by his wife, Elizabeth Whiting,
sister to Catharine Whiting, the second wife of Nicholas
Davies), son of John Clayton (1665-1737), for many years
attorney-general of the colony of Virginia ; son of Sir
John Clayton by his wife, Alice, daughter of Sir William
Bowyer, of Denham, Bucks, baronet, by his wife, Margaret,
daughter of Sir John Weld, of Arnolds, son of Sir Hum-
phrey Weld. Both of these Welds were of the founders of
Virginia. Sir William Bowyer's mother, Anne, was the
daughter of Sir Nicholas Salter, another founder. She
married secondly Sir Arthur Harris, another founder, and
nephew to Sir Thomas Smith, the chief manager of the
business portion of our first foundation. The founders of
the nation continued their interest in the new country
from generation to generation. The descendants of Atty.-
Gen. Clayton have a right to feel a pride in being of
Founder's kin. 1
24. Dr. John J. 3 and Henry Ann Davies Cabell had
issue : —
i. Mary Elizabeth, b. March 11, 1804; d. April
13, 1822.
ii. Catharine Ann, b. June 14, 1805 ; d. infant,
iii. John Henry, b. November 20, 1806 ; d. infant.
118. iv. Judith Scott 4 .
v. Frederick Augustus, b. May 18, 1810 ; d. infant.
119. vi. Sarah Winston 4 .
120. vii. Frances Whiting 4 .
viii. Paulina J. H., b. April 5, 1818 ; d. May, 1835.
ix. John Emanuel Swedenborg, b. July 23, 1819 ;
d. infant.
121. x. Henry Ann 4 .
25. Samuel Jordan 2, Cabell, born in Buckingham
County, Va., January 19, 1777 ; went to Monroe County,
Va. (now West Virginia), when a young man, where he
1 See Genesis of the United States, pp. 913, 991, 1044.
248 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
married, in 1796, Susanna Ewing. They removed to Casey
County, Ky., in 1808, and lived there until December,
1824, when he purchased a large tract of land in Green
County, Ky., where he continued to reside until his death,
February 28, 1854. His first wife died about 1820, and
he married secondly Mrs. Montgomery (nee Wakefield), of
Green County, Ky., but had no issue by her.
" Samuel Jordan Cabell was of a very individual char-
acter, strong-minded, austere, and of a very rash temper,
yet a man of scrupulous integrity and very religious. He
was very plain, yet full of pride. He was to the day
of his death the ruler of his domain, and this fact none
dared question. He started to the West when a very
young man, and he was just such a man as will always suc-
ceed under such conditions as usually confront the early
settlers of a new country, and a sketch of his life with the
changes which he saw in his ' Westward ho ! ' would be
very interesting. At his death he left quite a fortune,
which he had amassed in his new home. He only visited
his brothers in Virginia a few times, but, judging from
their old letters, some of which still remain, their natural
affection for each other was never diminished.
" While in him there were some things it may be not to
be admired, yet his strong traits (he had no weak ones)
had much in them that is admirable, and certainly he was
full of interest as a character.
" He became deeply indoctrinated with Presbyterian prin-
ciples, was long an elder in that church, and his children
and grandchildren have followed in his footsteps. His
descendants have been followers of agricultural pursuits,
but few of them going into the professions. They have
been conspicuously absent from politics, and such vocations
as are calculated to bring one's life into notice. Yet they
have with scarcely an exception been recognized as among
the most worthy and respectable of those among whom
they have lived. They have advocated and practiced the
religious as well as the mental education of their children
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 249
and the children of their fellow-men. In politics they
have been and are of the Jeffersonian school and modern
Democracy."
25. Samuel Jordan 3 and Susanna Ewing Cabell had
issue : —
122. i. Paulina Jordan 4 .
123. ii. William E. 4 .
iii. John, b. March 1, 1800; d. March 7, 1821,
unmarried,
iv. Edwin, b. October 28, 1801 ; d. September 10,
1823, unmarried.
124. v. Jennetta 4 .
125. vi. Elizabeth 4 .
126. vii. Madison 4 .
127. viii. Elvira A. 4 .
ix. Samuel R., b. June 7, 1814; d. in 1851 of
cholera, in the South, unmarried.
128. x. Frederick 4 .
xi. George Winston, b. 1817 ; d. 1836.
V. COL. NICHOLAS 2 CABELL'S CHILDREN.
27. William H. 3 Cabell wrote the following sketch of
himself in 1846 : —
" I was born December 16, 1772, at ' Boston Hill,' in
Cumberland County, Va., the residence of my maternal
grandfather, Col. George Carrington, whose wife was a
daughter of Major William Mayo, who lived in that part
of old Goochland which is now Powhatan County. c Bos-
ton Hill ' is within five or six miles of Cartersville.
" From the spring of 1782 to the spring of 1783, I went
to school from my father's to George Lambert, a teacher of
English. From February or March, 1784, to the next
Christmas, I went to school at my maternal grandfather's,
' Boston Hill,' to Mr. James Wilson, where I commenced
the study of the Latin language. In the month of Feb-
ruary or March, 1785, I went to Hampden Sidney College,
where I continued until September, 1789. In the month
250 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
of February or March, 1790, I went to William and Mary
College, where I continued until July, 1793. In the fall of
1793, I went to Richmond to complete the study of the
law, and remained there until June 13, 1794, when I was
licensed to practice law, after an examination by Judges
Joseph Prentis, James Henry, and William Nelson.
" In July, 1794, commenced the practice of the law.
"On the 9th of April, 1795, I married Elizabeth Ca-
bell, the youngest daughter of Col. William Cabell, of
Union Hill. I lived in his family till his death in 1798,
and afterwards with his widow, at Union Hill, till the
29th of January, 1801, when I moved to my own house at
Midway.
" I was elected to the Assembly in the spring of 1796.
I was also in the famous Assembly of 1798, and voted for
the famous resolutions of that session. I was an elector at
the first election of Mr. Jefferson, and filled the same office
on one or two subsequent occasions.
" My first wife died November 5, 1801, shortly after
which I went to Charleston, S. C, but returned the follow-
ing spring.
" I was a member of the Assembly in the years 1802,
1803, and 1804.
" On the 11th of March, 1805, I was married to Agnes
S. B. Gamble, oldest daughter of Col. Robert Gamble, of
Richmond.
" In April, 1805, I was again elected to the Assembly,
and attended as a member (December,- 1805) ; but within a
few days after the commencement of the session I was
elected governor, in which office I continued for three
years, till December, 1808, when I was elected by the
Legislature a judge of the General Court (commissioned by
Gov. John Tyler on December 15, 1808), which office I
held until April 3, 1811. I was appointed to the Court of
Appeals by Gov. Monroe and the Privy Council on March
21, 1811 ; qualified April the 3d following ; was elected by
the Legislature to the same judgeship on December 11,
JUDGE WILLIAM H. CABELL
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 251
1811, and commissioned by Gov. George William Smith,
which office I continue to hold.
" After the adoption of the new Constitution of Virginia
(1830), I was reelected a judge of the Court of Appeals on
April 11, 1831, and commissioned by Gov. John Floyd.
On the 18th of January, 1842, I was elected president of
that court, and commissioned by Lieut.-Gov. John Ruther-
ford. I qualified and took my seat January 20, 1842, and
am now occupying the same position."
To Judge Cabell's sketch of himself I will add the fol-
lowing from various sources : He is frequently mentioned
in the papers of Cols. William Cabell, Sr. and Jr., of
" Union Hill." Col. William, Sr., notes in his diary, April
26, 1785, that his brother, " Col. N. Cabell, went to Hamp-
den Sidney to see his son William."
" Oct. 1st, 1789. Lent my nephew, Wm. Cabell, Jr.,
Boyer's French Dictionary, and Vertot's History of the
Revolution of Sweden (2 vols.), in French. Sallust he had
some time ago."
After leaving Hampden Sidney in September, 1789, he
continued his studies at home until his entrance at Wil-
liam and Mary in the spring of 1790, where he took the
degree of L. B.
He told his son, the Hon. E. C. Cabell, that " his name
was originally simply William Cabell, and that he had
inserted the letter H. — which did not stand for any partic-
ular name — to distinguish himself from others of the same
name."
Prior to 1795, he signed his letters " William Cabell,"
and Col. William Cabell, Sr., always writes of him as " my
nephew, William Cabell, Jr.," or as " Cousin Billy Cabell."
He married, April 9, 1795, Col. Cabell's daughter, and
when he came to " Union Hill " to live he made the third
William Cabell of the same household. It was at this time,
I suppose, that he inserted the " H." The first reference to
him in which this letter is used, in Col. William Cabell's
diary, is the following : —
252 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
"June 26th, 1795. Sent by Wm. H. Cabell £5. to
Bushrod Washington to defend the relatives of Col. Samuel
Jordan deed, in their respective claims to a tract of 2400
acres on Grassy Creek in Henry County."
I have a good many of Judge Cabell's letters to his
brother-in-law, Col. William Cabell, Jr. ; they are all inter-
esting, but, of course, too long for insertion in a work of
this character.
When he removed from Union Hill to "Midway," in
January, 1801, his wife's health was not good. In August,
he took her to her sister, Mrs. Read, in Charlotte, where
she improved for a fortnight, and then her disease (con-
sumption) took a very unfavorable turn. On September 10
they returned to Amherst, and November 5, 1801, his wife
died, probably at " Union Hill," where she was buried.
Fearing that he was threatened with consumption him-
self, on December 19, 1801, " he set out to Charleston, S. C,
and perhaps farther south, to remain until the middle of
February." He returned in due time, resumed his practice,
was elected a delegate from the county for the sessions
1802-1803, 1803-1804, 1804-1805, and 1805-1806, but
in the early part of the last-named session (December, 1805),
was elected governor, which office he filled until December,
1808. Among the most memorable events during his ad-
ministration were the trial of Aaron Burr ; the firing on the
United States frigate Chesapeake by the British sloop-of-war
Leopard, on June 22, 1807 ; and the blockading of Hamp-
ton Roads, on July 3, by the British squadron under Com-
modore Douglass. His message of December 8, 1807, to
the General Assembly reviews these acts of the British,
breathes war or retraction, and urges the in-time-of-peace-
prepare-for-war idea, the establishment of military schools,
etc.
His second wife was sister to Hon. William Wirt's sec-
ond wife, and there are many pleasant references to him in
Mr. Wirt's excellent letters.
On January 2, 1809, the county of " Kenawha ' : was
MRS. AGNES S. B. GAMBLE CABELL
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 25
o
divided and a new county formed therefrom, which was
named " Cabell," for Gov. William H. Cabell. His home
was at " Midway " from 1801 to 1809 or 1810, when he
bought " Repton," in Buckingham County, from his cousin
Joe. He removed there prior to May 31, 1810, and prior
to August, 1811, William Wirt and himself had changed
the name of the place to " Montevideo." Mr. Wirt was
an enthusiastic admirer of the view from the residence.
Judge Cabell sold "Montevideo" in 1822, and removed
to Richmond. He was president of the Court of Appeals
of Virginia from 1842 until he retired from the bench in
1851.
His acts as a member of the House of Delegates are pre-
served in the journals of that body, 1796-1805 ; his mes-
sages, etc., as governor, in the legislative journals of 1805-
1808 ; his opinions, etc., as a judge, in the respective
court reports of 1808-1811 and 1811-1851.
" He died at his residence in Richmond, on Wednesday
night, January 12, 1853, aged 80 years and 27 days."
On Friday, January 14, on motion of Mr. Saunders, the
Senate of Virginia adjourned as a mark of respect to his
memory. On motion of Mr. Rives, the House of Delegates
did likewise.
On the same day, at a meeting of the judges of the Court
of Appeals, of the members of the bar, and officers of the
court, in the court-room of the state court house in the city
of Richmond, held to express their sense of the exalted
character of the Hon. William H. Cabell, and their condo-
lence with his family for his decease, the Hon. John J.
Allen was called to the chair, and Mr. G. N. Johnson
appointed secretary. Mr. Macfarland delivered a brief but
touching eulogy upon the deceased, and submitted the fol-
lowing among other resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted : —
" Resolved, that we cherish, and shall ever retain, a grate-
ful remembrance of the signal excellence of the Hon. Wil-
liam H. Cabell, as well in his private as in his public life.
254 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
There were no bounds to the esteem which he deserved and
enjoyed. Of conspicuous ability, learning, and diligence,
there were combined therewith a simplicity, uprightness, and
courtesy which left nothing to be supplied to inspire and
confirm confidence and respect. It was natural to love and
honor him ; and both loved and honored was he by all who
had an opportunity of observing his unwearied benignity or
his conduct as a judge. In that capacity wherein he labored
for forty years in our Supreme Court of Appeals, having
previously served the State as Governor and Circuit Judge,
such was his uniform gentleness, application, and ability,
so impartial, patient, and just was he, of such remarkable
clearness of perception and perspicuity, precision, and force
in stating convictions, that he was regarded with warmer
feelings than those of merely official reverence. To him is
due much of the credit which may be claimed for our judi-
cial system and its literature. It was an occasion of pro-
found regret when his infirmities of age, about two years
since, required him to retire from the bench ; and again are
we reminded by his death of the irreparable loss sustained
by the public and the profession."
A copy of the resolutions were sent to his family, and
they were also entered upon the records of the Court of
Appeals.
The meeting resolved to attend his funeral, and to wear
for one month the usual badofe of mourning".
His funeral took place from St. Paul's (Episcopal) Church,
of which he was a member, on Saturday morning, January
15. The sermon was preached by Rev. Alexander Jones,
from the twelfth verse of the ninetieth Psalm : " So teach
us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto
wisdom." He alluded to Judge Cabell's great integrity
and loveliness of character, the clearness of his opinions, the
extent of his acquirements, the uprightness of his purposes,
his uncommon mind, etc., and asked : " If men placed faith
in his decisions upon points of law, should they not also
have faith in his opinions and judgment with regard to the
subject of religion ? "
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 255
He was buried in Shockoe Hill Cemetery, in the section
with his grandson, William C. Carrington (489).
There were many complimentary notices of him in the
newspapers of the day. The notice in the " Richmond
Whig " concludes as follows : " The eminent ability with
which he performed his judicial functions won for him the
appellation of the ' Mansfield of Virginia,' the admiration
of the bar, and the universal esteem and confidence of the
people of the State. A purer and better man in all the
relations of life never lived in the State, and a fairer speci-
men of the perfect gentleman could not be found any-
where."
Agnes Sarah Bell Gamble, the second wife of Gov.
Cabell, daughter of Col. Robert Gamble, was born August
22, 1783, and died February 15, 1863, at the residence of
her son, Dr. J. G. Cabell, in Richmond. A woman of the
loveliest character, she had been for many years a devout
member of the Presbyterian Church. She continuously
urged her husband to accompany her to church, but with
only occasional success. He had been brought up in the
Episcopal faith. On one occasion, about twenty years
before his death, in a spirit of pleasantry he replied to her
urging : " You know I don't consider yours the true faith.
Now, if you will join my church, The Church, I will always
go with you." She smiled, but said nothing then. The
next Sunday she said : " Now, husband, you must go with
me to church to-day. I have united myself with the Epis-
copal Church, — your church, — and have taken a pew for
us in Bishop Moore's church."
The judge kissed his devoted wife, and after that at-
tended service with her regularly, becoming a communicant.
On his death-bed he called all of his children around
him, and said to them : " My children, ever love and honor
your dear mother. She richly deserves your tenderest
affections. She and I have been married nearly fifty years,
and every day has been a wedding day."
Col. Robert Gamble (her father) was born September 3,
256 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
1754, in Augusta County, Va. ; educated at the " Augusta
Academy," which has developed into the Washington and
Lee University ; began life as a merchant ; entered the
Revolutionary army as a lieutenant, and soon became a
captain in the Continental line ; fought at Princeton, Mon-
mouth, Stony Point, and in other battles of the Revolution,
both in the Northern and Southern departments.
He was a captain in Col. Febiger's Virginia regiment,
and at Stony Point led a company in the select body of
150 men under Lieut.-Col. Fleury. He claimed that his
men entered the fort first ; that after the capture, and while
he was attending to securing the prisoners, Fleury came up,
and, seeing the flag still flying, hauled it down, thrust it in
his bosom, and gained great eclat by the act. Believing
that the gallant action of his command should have been
mentioned in Wayne's report, Capt. Gamble complained to
Gen. Washington, who, while admitting the injustice,
appealed to his patriotism, saying that it was of the last
importance to prevent any discord or jealousy from arising
either among our own troops or our French allies, and
therefore Capt. Gamble urged his complaint no further.
He was permanently deafened by the concussion of the
guns at Stony Point, and was taken prisoner in South Caro-
lina, where he served under Greene, and for a time on the
staff of Baron De Kalb. He was a member of the Virginia
Society of the Cincinnati.
He married Catharine Grattan, and, after the war,
entered the mercantile business, in. partnership with his
brother-in-law, Robert Grattan, on Main and Augusta
streets, Staunton. In 1787, he was a lieutenant-colonel of
Augusta militia. In 1790, he removed to Richmond, and
became one of the most prosperous merchants and influ-
ential citizens of that city. Gamble's Hill was named for
him. His death, which resulted from being thrown from
his horse, occurred on April 12, 1810. He was buried in
St. John's Burial Ground, in Richmond, Va., where memo-
rials of stone have been erected by his children to him and
COL. ROBERT GAMBLE
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 257
to his wife. Many references to him have been preserved in
Kennedy's " Memoirs of William Wirt," in " Richmond in
By-gone Days," and in various histories, etc., of that city.
He was the son of James Gamble (born 1729), the son of
Robert Gamble, who left Londonderry, Ireland, his native
place, and emigrated to Augusta County, Va., about 1735.
The Gambles were originally from Scotland.
Catharine Grattan (the wife of Col. Robert Gamble) was
born in Ireland in 1753, and came with her parents to
America when she was eight years old. She possessed
great energy and decision of character, and a degree of
moral and physical courage equal to any emergency. Once,
while living on the frontiers, she rode thirty miles in one
night, with her sister's infant in her lap, to notify the settle-
ments of the approach of the Indians. She died December
24, 1831, in her seventy-ninth year, and was buried by her
husband in St. John's Burial Ground, Richmond, Va. Her
father, Maj. John Grattan (the emigrant), and his wife
were born and married in Ireland, near the city of Belfast.
" The great orator and patriot, Henry Grattan, was his
kinsman." He settled in the present County of Rocking-
ham, on the north branch of the Shenandoah, about 1761,
having come from Ireland via Philadelphia. In 1774,
he was a churchwarden of Augusta Parish. At the first
court of the new county of Rockingham, April 27, 1778,
he was one of the first justices of the peace, and one of the
first coroners. He built the first good flour-mill in the val-
ley ; was a merchant engaged in a large trade and barter
business, with Philadelphia as his seaport.
27. William H. 3 and (his first wife) (16) Elizabeth 3
Cabell had issue : —
i. Nicholas Carrington, b. February 9, 1796, at
"Union Hill;" William and Mary College,
1816; lawyer; d. October 13, 1821, at "Mon-
tevideo ; ' buried at " Liberty Hall ; " unmar-
ried.
129. ii. Louisa Elizabeth 4 .
258 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
iii. Abraham Joseph, b. April 24, 1800, at " Union
Hill ; " William and Mary College, 1818 ; doc-
tor ; d. in October, 1831, at " Dulce Domum,"
his residence in Florida ; buried at Attalulga,
Jefferson County, Fla.
27. William H. 3 and (his second wife) Agnes S. B. Gam-
ble Cabell had issue : —
iv. Catharine Ann, b. August 12, 1806 ; d. October
12, 1807.
130. v. Emma Catharine 4 .
131. vi. Robert Gamble 4 .
132. vii. Elizabeth Hannah 4 .
viii. William Wirt, b. November 1, 1813, d. unmar-
ried.
133. ix. Edward Carrington 4 .
134. x. John Grattan 4 .
135. xi. Henry Coalter 4 .
28. George 3 Cabell, born October 5, 1774, at Warmin-
ster; studied medicine in Lynchburg, under Dr. George 3
Cabell, Sr. (22), and " completed his medical education in
the Medical Department of the University of Penn." He
was known as Dr. George Cabell, Jr., to distinguish him
from his first cousin, Dr. George Cabell, Sr. (22), the son
of his uncle, Col. John 2 . It is sometimes hard to distin-
guish between the two in the Cabell papers.
Dr. George Cabell, Jr., married (first) January 15,
1798, Susanna Wyatt. His father gave him the estate just
below Midway, and he built the "Bon Aire" mansion
house, where he lived and practiced his profession with
much success in the surrounding country, as well as in
Lynchburg.
He was in partnership with his brother-in-law, Dr. Wil-
liam B. Hare, for some years, and, I think, until about
1804, when Dr. Hare moved from " Warminster " to " Hare-
wood."
On September 22, 1804, Patrick Henry, Jr., died, and
four days after Dr. Cabell wrote from Lynchburg to Col.
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 259
William Cabell, saying : " Our distress on receiving yester-
day the melancholy intelligence of Mr. P. Henry's untimely
death may be more easily imagined than expressed. We
sincerely sympathize with his distressed relatives on the
unhappy event, and shall always cherish with peculiar pleas-
ure the fond remembrance of his many amiable and endear-
ing good qualities and virtues."
I infer from the letter that he was then practicing in
Lynchburg. I have a note from Gustavus A. Rose, dated
October 5, 1806, showing that he was then studying medi-
cine under Dr. Cabell, in Lynchburg. From 1807 to 1817,
inclusive, I have medical accounts showing that he was
practicing in this neighborhood during this period. In
1816 and 1817, he was in partnership with Dr. Southall.
I have several of his letters, but they relate to his profes-
sion or practice, mostly.
His wife died in July, 1817, about which time he removed
to Richmond. He was an earnest Mason, a member of
Richmond Randolph Lodge No. 19, and frequently repre-
sented that lodge in the " Grand Annual Communication
of the Grand Lodge of Virginia." He served the Grand
Lodge on many important committees. In 1820 and 1821,
he was a District Deputy Grand Master; in 1822, Grand
Senior Warden pro tern., etc. His book-plate bore a Ma-
sonic device.
He married, secondly, Eliza Fitzhugh May (born Decem-
ber 13, 1794, died January 20, 1859), "at Col. Wm.
Mayo's Plantation." She was the daughter of George and
Anna Fitzhugh May, and sister of Judge John F. May, of
Petersburg. He had no issue by her.
He sold " Bon Aire " during his life, but the date of the
sale is not known to me. He died February 22, 1827.
Susanna Wyatt, his first wife and the mother of his chil-
dren, was a daughter of Col.- John Wyatt by his wife Wil-
helmina Jordan, a daughter of Col. Samuel Jordan by his
second wife, Mrs. Judith Scott Ware.
Col. John Wyatt, whose elder brother, Col. Thomas
260 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Wyatt, came to Amherst some years before the Revolution,
was from King and Queen County, Va. He was a soldier in
the Revolution ; after the war he resided on his plantation
in Amherst ; he removed to Lynchburg soon after its estab-
lishment, about 1787, " where to the day of his death, he
continued a useful and revered resident." He was mayor
of Lynchburg town in 1806.
He was appointed, by the Episcopal Convention of 1814,
on the committee to aid in " providing for the raising of a
fund to be applied to the support of clergymen in vacant
parishes of this State." His will was dated February 17,
1827, and proved March 5, 1827. His wife survived him
some years, and died at the residence of her son-in-law,
Capt. William Norvell, in Lynchburg. (See "Sketches and
Recollections of Lynchburg.") " Col. Wyatt was descended
from the family of that name which was especially promi-
nent in the earliest days of the Colony of Virginia." I
suppose that he descended from Rev. Hawte Wyatt (for
several years minister at Jamestown), the brother of Sir
Francis Wyatt, the last governor of Virginia under the
Company (1621-1624), and the first under the crown
(1624-1626). A grandson of Sir Thomas Wyatt, the
rebel ; son of Sir Thomas Wyatt, the poet.
28. Dr. George 3 and Susanna Wyatt Cabell had issue : —
i. William H., b. in September, 1799 ; d. infant,
ii. Camilla Anne, b. February 7, 1802 ; d. August 9,
1803.
136. iii. John Nicholas 4 .
iv. George Mortimer, b. September 17, 1806 ; d.
October 1, 1806.
137. v. Elizabeth C. 4 .
138. vi. James Lawrence 4 .
29. Elizabeth* Cabell was born May 5, 1776. She was
married at Liberty Hall on July 11, 1793, to Dr. William
B. Hare.
Dr. Hare was born in King and Queen County in 1760.
"Although of the medical profession, like most men of
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 261
education at that day, he took much interest in politics,
being an ardent Republican," and is said to have represented
his native county before his removal to Amherst. To
which county he came prior to 1791, in which year he prac-
ticed in the family of Col. William Cabell, Jr., at Colleton.
He resided in Warminster, and after his marriage repre-
sented the county of Amherst in the House of Delegates in
1799-1801, and possibly in 1802, during which time he
was practicing his profession in partnership with his brother-
in-law, Dr. George Cabell, Jr.
His wife, Elizabeth Cabell, died November 28, 1802, and
some time thereafter he removed to his estate, called " Hare-
wood," on one of the upper tributaries of Tye River, in the
present county of Nelson.
He represented this district in the state Senate from 1805
to 1810 inclusive, and probably in 1803-1804. He was a
man of complaisant, agreeable manners, friendly and affa-
ble, and very popular. His letters to Col. William Cabell,
Jr., of " Union Hill," are of the kindest, most cordial char-
acter : " It affords me real pleasure to render you any ser-
vice at any time." Even when busily engaged in the state
Senate, he finds time to see that Col. Cabell's groceries are
properly packed and properly shipped. And if Col. Cabell
wants an advance on his tobacco, he " immediately ' : sees
Col. Gamble, secures the funds, and remits at once. I have
many of his letters.
In 1808, he was one of the first justices for the new
county of Nelson, serving as such the remainder of his life.
In 1810, he was chosen a member of the Council of
State, and served as such during the usual term.
May 24, 1810, he wrote to Col. William Cabell from
Richmond relative to Mrs. Elvira A. Henry's interests in
the Henry estate : " Should any steps be taken in opposi-
tion to the decision of the Chancellor, Mr. Wirt has been
engaged to assist Col. Wm. Daniel and promised to pay the
strictest attention to Mrs. Henry's interest." In this letter
he alludes to his long-continued bad health.
262 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Dr. Hare is frequently mentioned in the letters of Wil-
liam Wirt.
After the expiration of his term as councillor, he retired
from public life, as he had long before from professional
life, and thereafter resided on his farm until his death, a
notice of which in the " Richmond Enquirer " begins as
follows: " On June 28, 1818, died Dr. Wm. B. Hare in his
58th year, at his seat in Nelson Co. This inestimable man
exhibited throughout life the most spotless example of moral
worth, and died without a single detraction from his fame."
On Christmas Day, 1833, only eight weeks before Mr.
Wirt's death, and fifteen years after Dr. Hare's, Mr. Wirt
wrote from Baltimore to Judge Cabell in Richmond : " A
merry Christmas to you, my dear Cabell, and to all your fire-
side ! I said to Mrs. Wirt just now, ' Let us send for Dr.
Hare and Cabell to help us make egg-nog for our company.'
Poor dear Hare ! Do you remember how delighted he was
with his occupation at our sideboard, in the dining-room of
our white house in Richmond ? How he would talk and
beat away, and laugh, and walk across the room occasion-
ally to the fireplace ! I think I can see him now, every
moment hear his voice, see his dry, funny smile, and smack
of his lips on tasting the egg-nog — and the wise shake of
his head — ' It is mighty near right, but not quite : I think
it wants a little more spirit — what do you think, Mr. Ca-
bell ? ' Bless his old heart, I say again ! Alas ! How long
has it been since that excellent heart has ceased to beat !
Oh world ! world ! this poor bargain of lif e ! if bargain it
may be called, in which we had no voice. Yet what an
excellent bargain we used to think it in those days when we
were in the prime of our manhood, doing well, and all our
friends living and smiling around us ! "
And so to that noble old man's great heart came crowd-
ing upon him the fond recollections of the dearest friends
of his younger days. And with him we ask, " Where are
all these friends of those halcyon days of the past ? Where
are all their children ? What of them ? " It is to answer
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 263
such questions as these that such works as this are writ-
ten : to preserve the memories of our ancestors ; to recall
their virtues, services, and accomplishments, in " the camp,
the court, the grove," on the field, the forum, and by the
fireside, to their descendants, in order that the ancient
lights of this grand old commonwealth may not go out
forever.
29. Elizabeth 3 Cabell and Hon. William B. Hare had
issue : —
139. i. Hannah Henningham 4 .
140. ii. Sarah Elizabeth 4 .
iii. William Nicholas Cabell 4 , b. November 5, 1802 ;
d. August 6, 1803.
30. Joseph Carrington 3 Cabell was born December 26,
1778 ; was educated by tutors at home ; at Hampden Sid-
ney College in 1795-1796, and after at William and Mary,
where he took the A. B. decree.
He was still a youth when his uncle William's diary
ended in 1795, and the following, I believe, is the only ref-
erence to him therein : —
"June 22nd, 1794. Sent my brother N. Cabell several
books, including Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary of the larg-
est and best edition. Sent them by his son Joseph."
He was educated fo"r the law, but I believe never prac-
ticed it. He embarked for Europe November 23, 1802,
and returned June 1, 1806. On January 1, 1807, he
married in Williamsburg, Va., Miss Mary Walker Carter.
He had inherited from his father the Slaty Branch (now
"Laneville") estate, a mile or so below Warminster, and
after his marriage he purchased from Mr. Robert Rives the
" Edge wood " property, which was his home the rest of his
life.
In 1808, he was one of the first justices for the new
county of Nelson, and I think this was the first public office
held by him. In after years, he was offered honorable posi-
tions in the diplomatic service abroad, and was repeatedly
solicited to become a candidate for the Federal Congress ;
264 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
but he had dedicated his life to his native State, and
declined both. He is also said to have " declined Cabinet
appointments under Mr. Monroe, if not Mr. Madison."
He was a member of the state legislature, either in the
House of Delegates or Senate, for about thirty years ; of
the House in 1808-1809 and 1809-1810, and again from
1831 to 1835 from Nelson County ; of the Senate from
1810 to 1829, inclusive, from this district.
He was especially an advocate of education and of in-
ternal improvement, being Jefferson's right-hand man in
founding the University of Virginia, and " the father of
the James River and Kanawha Canal."
He was a visitor of the University of Virginia from 1819
to his death in 1856 ; the Rector in 1834-1836, and again
from 1845 to his death in 1856.
He was one of the original incorporators of the James
River and Kanawha Canal Company, chartered March 16,
1832, and at the meeting of the stockholders in Richmond
on May 25, 1835, was elected the first President of that
company, which office he continued to fill until February
10 or March 5, 1846 ; but his active interest in the com-
pany only ended with his life. He became a life member
of the Virginia Historical Society in 1848. He was a fre-
quent speaker in the state Senate, and one who knew him
well, and was well competent to judge him, thus wrote of
him : " I have heard many of the most distinguished ora-
tors in the United States ; but very few who for copious,
easy, instructive, and agreeable elocution excelled him. His
Reports as President of the James River and Kanawha
Canal Company, and as Rector of the University of Vir-
ginia, were as much admired for their style as for their
fullness and accuracy of information. Judge Allen, late
President of the Court of Appeals, is reported to have
said that he considered Mr. Cabell's ' Defence of the Water
line,' one of the ablest arguments he had ever read on any
subject."
His acts as a legislator will be found in our legislative
HON. JOSEPH CARRINGTON CABELL
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 265
journals ; his " voluminous and luminous reports," in re the
university and the canal, are still preserved. Like his
brother, Gov. Cabell, he was an intimate friend of William
Wirt, and is frequently mentioned in his correspondence.
There is a sketch of him in the introduction to " The Cor-
respondence of Jefferson and Cabell." He is frequently
referred to in the lives of Jefferson. He was a man of
national reputation, and references to him will be found
in " De Bow's Review," " Southern Literary Messenger "
(1856), and in various volumes, magazines, and newspapers.
His public services are matters of history.
After his retirement from public life, he devoted himself
to the management of his large estates during the remainder
of his davs.
The following extracts are from the diary of the late
Mayo Cabell, Esq., of " Union Hill : " —
"Feb'y 4th 1856. The Rev. Thos. F. Martin of the
Episcopal Church administered the sacrament to Joseph C.
Cabell Sr. of Edge wood. He is in a most feeble state, but
perfectly resigned and in full faith in the Saviour of men.
" Feby 5th 1856. Departed this life, Joseph C. Cabell of
Edge wood in the 78th year of his age. Full of years and
full of honors. He has left a spotless name that will be
revered and remembered by all of his surviving relatives
and friends.
" Feb'y 7th. The interment of Joseph C. Cabell took
place to-day at 12 o'clock. Rev. Thos. F. Martin officiated.
Buried in his garden at Eclgewood, by the side of Judge
St. George Tucker, and his wife, and Miss Parke Carter."
The following explains itself : —
" State of Virginia, Executive Department,
February 8th, 1856.
" To the Senate and House of Delegates of the General
Assembly of the State of Virginia : —
" Gentlemen, — With emotions of unaffected grief, I
announce to you that Joseph C. Cabell, late Rector of the
University of Virginia, is no more. He died at his resi-
266 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
dence, on the afternoon of the 5th instant, as announced to
me by the accompanying letter from his relative and physi-
cian, Dr. J. L. Cabell, received here this morning.
" One with Mr. Jefferson in founding the University, a
pioneer in the State improvements, a gentleman, a scholar,
a devoted patriot and Virginian, a venerable, good man,
departing from a high public place which he filled with
ability and fidelity, I commend his example whilst living,
and submit that his memory is deserving of the honor I pay
him now that he is dead.
" With the highest respect,
Henry A. Wise.
[Governor of Virginia.]
" At Edgewood, Nelson County, Virginia, on Tuesday,
Deer. 20th 1863, of a lingering and painful disease, which
she bore with Christian resignation and fortitude, Mrs.
Mary W. Cabell, widow of the late Joseph C. Cabell. She
is buried in the graveyard in the garden, with her husband,
her mother, and other relatives. She left no children."
She was the daughter of George Carter, Esq., of Lancas-
ter, and his wife Lelia, daughter of Sir Peyton Skipwith,
Baronet. After the death of her first husband, Mrs. Lelia
Skipwith Carter married, October 8, 1791, Judge St. George
Tucker, being his second wife ; his first wife, Mrs. Frances
Bland Randolph, was the mother of John Eandolph of
Roanoke.
George Carter, Mrs. Cabell's father, was descended from
Robert, commonly called "King Carter of Corotoman,"
both through his father and mother. Mrs. Cabell had an
only brother, Dr. Charles Carter, of Corotoman, who left an
only daughter, Miss Parke Carter, who left Corotoman to
her aunt, Mrs. Cabell. Thus inheriting so much, and hav-
ing so much in her own right, " Cousin Polly," as she was
universally known in the family, left a very large estate,
and one of the most remarkable wills that ever was written,
extending with codicil after codicil until it made a large
volume. Having no faith in lawyers, every word was writ-
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 267
ten with her own hand, with an express injunction on
almost every page, and to every heir, that " no lawyer
should have anything to do with any part of her estate ; "
and the consequence was, I am told, that the lawyers got
three fourths of it.
30. Joseph C. 3 and Mary W. Cabell had no issue.
31. Nicholas 3 Cabell, Jr., was born December 24, 1780.
He was educated by tutors at home ; at Hampden Sidney
College in 1798 and 1799 ; and at William and Mary in
1800 and 1801. " Govr. Wm. H. Cabell thought that he
had naturally the best mind of any of the brotherhood."
While he was at Hampden Sidney, Dr. Archibald Alexan-
der was president, and took a great interest in this pupil.
Leaving college, he took charge of his father's private
affairs, which during his father's long public life had be-
come somewhat embarrassed. His strict business qualities,
and his practical progressive system of agriculture, soon
enabled him to clear the estate of every incumbrance.
He met his wife, Miss Margaret Read Venable, while
attending Hampden Sidney College, and married her on
October 20, 1802. They lived with his father, and at his
father's death he inherited the Liberty Hall estate proper,
and I believe the house which had been the home of his
grandfather, old Dr. Cabell.
He was a captain of the militia of his neighborhood, his
commission being dated July 22, 1805, and one of the first
justices of the county, the date of his commission being
June 21, 1808.
As early as 1801, he showed symptoms of consumption.
In 1808, while at " the Red Sulphur Springs " in Monroe
County, the waters of which were thought to be beneficial
to consumptives, he went out deer-hunting with Samuel
Hansborough, Esq. They were separated in the mountains,
when his comrade heard the report of his gun, and going to
him found him sitting on a stone, looking much fatigued
and very pale.
" In God's name, Nicholas, what is the matter ? ' :
268 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
" Sam, I have killed the deer, but I have also killed my-
self. Look here ! but do uot tell my wife."
The exertion had brought on a fresh hemorrhage, and
the leaves and ground at his feet were reddened with his
blood. He soon returned home, where he lingered until
June 25, 1809. He was a member of the Presbyterian
Church, and died in the faith and hope of a Christian. He
was buried in the family graveyard at Liberty Hall.
His wife, Margaret Read Venable, born May 11, 1782,
after the death of her husband removed with her children
to her father's. After her son Francis reached manhood,
she returned with him to Liberty Hall, and spent the most
of her' remaining days there.
"May 31st 1857, Mrs. Margaret R. Cabell of Liberty
Hall departed this life. An early, a constant and true
friend. She died as she had lived for 40 years of her life,
a member of the Presbyterian Church, a true disciple of
Christ and with the bright hope of the Christian in her
death. She will be interred on June 2nd in the Liberty
Hall Burying-ground." (Mayo Cabell.)
Her father, Samuel Woodson Venable, of Prince Edward
County, born September 19, 1756, was ensign of the Hamp-
den Sidney Academy Company in 1776, and was afterwards
a student at Princeton, N. J. Early in 1781, he was an
officer in Capt. Thomas Watkins' company of Prince Edward
dragoons, in which the famous Peter Francisco was a pri-
vate, which company distinguished itself on March 16, in
the battle of Guilford Court House. On August 15, 1781,
he married Mary, the oldest daughter of Judge Paul Car-
rington, the elder. (See under 11.)
In 1782, he was a trustee of Hampden Sidney Academy,
and, in 1783, of Hampden Sidney College. He was re-
garded as one of the main founders of the college. I have
several letters from him to his brother-in-law, Col. William
Cabell, Jr., of Union Hill ; they relate mainly to lands in
Kentucky given them by Judge Carrington, and attended
to by John Breckinridge.
NICHOLAS CABELL, JR., ESQ.
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 269
" Dr. Archibald Alexander was accustomed to speak of
him as the most remarkable instance of wisdom matured by
experience and observation that he had ever known ; in
which respect he was fond of comparing him to Franklin."
He died September 7, 1821, at the Sweet Springs, Va., leav-
ing twelve children, all of whom married and left issue.
His father, Nathaniel Venable, born November u 1733, in
Hanover County, married March 29, 1755, Elizabeth
Woodson, of Prince Edward ; member House of Burgesses ;
merchant, first at New Store, Buckingham County, and
afterwards at Prince Edward Court House; vestryman of
St. Patrick's Parish (the vestry book in his handwriting is
now at the Episcopal Seminary near Alexandria) ; " became
a rabid republican, left the establishment, and organized the
first Presbyterian Church in Prince Edward County ; " was
a justice of the peace of his county, and member of the Vir-
ginia House of Delegates. He was one of the earliest pro-
moters, and one of the first trustees (in 1775) of Hampden
Sidney Academy, and, in 1783, of Hampden Sidney Col-
lege. " He was the real founder of Hampden Sidney Col-
lege, and supported it during a portion of the time of the
Revolutionary war." He died December 27, 1804.
His father, Abraham V enables, was born " 22 March
1700" (0. S. or N. S.?) ; he married, about 1723, Martha
(or Hannah) Davis, daughter of Nathaniel Davis, from
Devonshire, England, a Quaker of Hanover County, Va.
(She was born July 14, 1703 ; died February 13, 1765.
She is said to have been an aunt to Dr. William Cabell's
first wife. They were related, but what the relationship
was, in the absence of direct evidence, I cannot say.)
Abraham Venables owned a great deal of land in this sec-
tion in Hanover, Louisa, and Goochland counties, and also
on " Ye Byrd creek " (near the present Louisa and Flu-
vanna line), on Hardware River, and in the South Garden,
Albemarle. In my papers the name is spelled " Venables "
prior to 1750 ; after, the final " s " is seldom used. He
had been a justice of the peace in Hanover, and was one of
270 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
the first justices of the peace of Louisa, from the first
County Court, December ^, 1742 ; was a vestryman of
Fredericksville Parish, 1742-1761, and of Trinity Parish,
1762-1768 ; and probably of St. Paul's, Hanover, prior to
1742. " He was a Captain in the Colonial Militia ; for a
time, County Lieutenant of Louisa, and for some 20 years
Member of the House of Burgesses from Louisa County.
He was the friend, legal client, and political supporter of
Patrick Henry. His son, Wm. Venable, nominated Patrick
Henry in the county meeting as a candidate for the House
of Burg-esses of 1765. He is said to have been the most
influential man of his name that ever lived in Virginia, and
from him all the Virginia Venables descend." His will is
dated April 11, 1768. He died December 16, 1768, and
his will was probated January 9 following. He appointed
" my friend, Patrick Henry, trustee." The executors were :
" Mr. Waddy Thompson and my sons Abraham, Nathaniel,
Hugh Lewis, and John." [This was the John Venable
(assistant to Capt. Christopher Irvine, commissioner of the
provision law of Bedford) who impressed John Hook's
steers, October 10, 1781 ; who was sued by Hook for the
same in 1783, and defended by Patrick Henry. The case
was decided " for the plaintiff, one penny damages." Ven-
able, who removed to Georgia in 1791, married Agnes Moor-
man, daughter of Charles Moorman, a Quaker, who freed
his slaves (see Hening, xii. 613) ; another of his daughters
(Judith Moorman) was the first wife of Christopher An-
thony, a Quaker preacher. The Charles Moorman who was
Venable's security, also of Quaker origin, was the husband
of his sister, Mary Venable, etc.]
Abraham Venables (1701-1768) was the son of Abraham
Venables, who emigrated from England to Virginia about
1685, where he married, about 1700, Elizabeth, daughter of
Hugh Lewis, of James City County, and widow of Henry
Nicks. He is said to have "died early, leaving an only
son," as aforesaid.
Elizabeth Woodson, wife of Nathaniel Venable (1733-
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 271
1804), was born in June, 1740; died September 29, 1791.
She was a daughter of Richard Woodson, of " Poplar
Hill," Prince Edward County, by his wife, Anne Micheaux,
daughter of Abraham Micheaux and his wife Susanna
Rochette, or la Roche, Huguenots. " In the reign of Louis
XIV., during the religious persecution consequent on the
revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Susanna Rochette lived
in Sedan, France. When about 15 years of age she escaped
to Amsterdam, where she married Abraham Micheaux (a
Huguenot), and continued in Holland until she had six
children ; they emigrated to Virginia and settled in Hen-
rico [some accounts say Stafford] County early in the 18th
century. Abraham Micheaux was the nephew of the cele-
brated M. James Saurin, minister of the French Church of
the Savoy, in the Strand, London, in the year 1703." A
prayer book, with this note in French inscribed on a blank
page, " M. Saurin, minister, has sent this Book of Common
Prayer to his nephew, Abram Micheaux, in Virginia," was
presented in 1857 by N. F. Cabell, Esq., through Bishop
Meade, to the Theological Seminary at Alexandria.
The foregoing is the family tradition, which in the course
of time has gotten somewhat mixed. Smiles says : " Jacques
Saurin was the greatest of the Protestant preachers. He
was the son of an advocate at Nismes, whose three sons all
took refuge in England, — Jacques, the pulpit orator ; Cap-
tain Saurin, an officer in William's army ; and Louis, some-
time minister of the French Church in the Savoy, and after-
wards Dean of St. Patrick's, Ardagh. From Louis were
lineally descended the Right Revd. James Saurin, Bishop
of Dromore, and the Honorable William Saurin, Attorney-
General for Ireland from 1807 to 1821. Jacques Saurin
was one of the ministers of the French church in Thread-
needle Street, London, in 1701-1705 ; he then went to the
Hague, and Weiss says : i Nothing can give an idea of the
effect produced by his inspired voice, which for twenty-five
years resounded beneath the vaulted roof of the temple at
the Hague, unless it be the profound veneration and pious
272 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
worship with which the memory of the great author, con-
tinually revived by the perusal of his writings, has remained
surrounded in Holland.' "
Richard Woodson, of " Poplar Hill," was the son of
Richard Woodson (by his wife, Anne Smith), son of Robert
Woodson (by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Fer-
ris, of Curies, in Henrico), son of John Woodson, the emi-
grant, who is said to have come to Virginia with Sir John
Harvey as surgeon to a company of soldiers.
31. Nicholas 3 and Margaret Read Venable Cabell had
only two children : —
i. Elizabeth Nicholas Hare 4 Cabell, b. August 20,
1803 ; d. July 17, 1822, unmarried.
141. ii. Nathaniel Francis 4 Cabell.
32. Mary Ann 3 Cabell, born January 2, 1783 ; married
May 3, 1804, Capt. Benjamin Carrington. They lived on
her husband's estate, near the mouth of Willis River, in
Cumberland County, Va. She died February 6, 1850, at
her son-in-law's (Daniel J. Hartsook, Esq.) in Albemarle,
and was buried in the family graveyard at Liberty Hall.
" A Christian lady greatly beloved of her family and friends
— and a pattern of domestic virtue."
Capt. Benjamin Carrington, born August 20, 1768 ; died
November 28, 1838, was a son of Joseph Carrington, born
February 6, 1741 ; married December 5, 1763, Theodosia,
daughter of Benjamin Mosby, Esq. Joseph Carrington
was a member of the Cumberland County Committee, 1774-
1776 ; member of the House of Delegates of Virginia in
1778 and 1793 ; a lay delegate to the Episcopal convention
from Littleton Parish, Cumberland, in 1793 ; died April 4,
1802. He was the sixth son of Col. George and Anne
Mayo Carrington, of " Boston Hill."
32. Mary Anne 3 Cabell and Capt. Benjamin Carrington
had issue : —
142. i. Joseph Nicholas 4 .
ii. Elizabeth Cabell, b. October 1, 1807, d. August,
1814.
THE FOUNDER'S GRANDCHILDREN 273
143. iii. Sophonisba Ann 4 .
iv. Mayo Booker, b. May 7, 1811 ; lawyer ; m. May
14, 1839, Mary A. E., daughter of Judge Wil-
liam Nelson, of Hanover County, Va. ; d. Oc-
tober 23, 1881, s. p.
144. v. James Lawrence 4 .
145. vi. Gilbert Paul 4 .
vii. George William, b. February 11, 1817 ; d. Sep-
tember 20, 1817.
146. viii. Elizabeth Hannah 4 .
ix. George Booker, b. April 10, 1822 ; never married.
PART V.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, THEIR
DESCENDANTS, AND THOSE ALLIED TO THEM
BY MARRIAGE; CONTAINING MUCH HISTORY,
BIOGRAPHY, AND GENEALOGY SUBSEQUENT TO
THE REVOLUTION; COMING DOWN TO THE
PRESENT TIME, AND RELATING TO CITIZENS
OF NEARLY EVERY STATE OF THE UNION, AND
OF SEVERAL FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
" The past and present here unite
Beneath time's flowing tide,
Like footprints, hidden by a brook,
But seen on either side.
" This memory brightens o'er the past,
As when the sun, concealed
Behind some cloud that near us hangs,
Shines on a distant field."
Longfellow.
I. MARY 2 CABELL HORSLEY'S BRANCH.
6. WILLIAM HORSLEY'S DESCENDANTS.
33. William 4 Horsley, born in 1772; a farmer; one
of the first magistrates of Nelson County. Va., in 1808 ;
married Sarah Christian (1784-1865), daughter of James
and Martha Christian ; died in April, 1855, leaving issue
three : —
i. Paul 5 Horsley, m. Elizabeth Abbott, of Buckingham
County, Va. Issue: i. Lelia 6 ; ii. Benjamin; iii.
William Horsley.
ii. Martha 5 Horsley, m. Willis Harris, of Nelson County,
Va. Issue : i. William H. 6 ; ii. Ida ; and iii. Fred-
erick Harris.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 275
iii. Mary 5 Horsley, m. Eldridge Jefferson, of Albemarle
County, Va. Issue : i. Sarah 6 Jefferson.
34. Mary Cabell 4 Horsley married Micajah Pendleton,
of Amherst County, a nephew of Judge Edmund Pendle-
ton, a soldier in the Revolutionary war, and " the founder
of the first Temperance Society in America." His father,
Philip Pendleton, had fifteen children ; the estate was a
case of long division. Micajah began life a poor man, but
a persevering one. He is said to have been discarded sev-
enteen times by Miss Horsley before he won her for his
wife. He died at a great age, loved, honored, and wealthy.
Issue seven : —
i. Martha 5 Pendleton, never married,
ii. Edmund 5 Pendleton, never married.
iii. Edna 5 Pendleton, m. Dabney P. Gooch, of Am-
herst (said to be related to Sir William Gooch,
governor of Virginia, 1727-1749). Issue : i.
Mary 6 Gooch.
iv. Joseph 5 Pendleton, never married. .
147. v. Letitia Breckinridge 5 Pendleton.
vi. Elizabeth 5 Pendleton, m. Thomas Emmet, and
left issue : i. Pendleton Emmet,
vii. Robert 5 Pendleton, m. Mary Taliaferro, of Am-
herst, and left issue : i. Rosa Pendleton.
147. Letitia B. 5 Pendleton married Hudson Martin Gar-
land, Jr. [" He was a sprightly man ; a literary man ; a
poet ; spoke well, but did not succeed very well in life."
He was a brother of the late Judge James Garland, of
Lynchburg (sometime M. C), and of Gen. John Garland,
U. S. A., so greatly distinguished in the Mexican war,
whose daughter married Gen. Longstreet, of the C. S. A.
His father, Hudson M. Garland, Sr., was a lawyer ; repre-
sented Amherst in the Virginia House of Delegates, 1805-
1806 ; captain in War of 1812 ; an intimate friend of Gen.
Andrew Jackson, who gave him a cane made of a piece of
the Constitution, and an office in Washington, which he
276 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
held until Tyler came in. He was so proud of his cane
that he carried it everywhere, and his friends called him
"the commodore." He was a son of James Garland, Jr.,
an officer in the Revolution who was killed at Albemarle
barracks, while officer of the day, by Lawrence Mansfield
(a sentinel) by accident. " James Garland, Jr., married
Annie Wing-field, whose mother was a Hudson, and grand-
mother a Royall, of Bermuda Hundred."
147. Mrs. Letitia B. Garland left issue two : —
i. Breckinridge C. c Garland.
ii. Henrietta M. c Garland, who m. Pleasant S. Dawson, of
Scottsville, Albemarle ; and had Florence Dawson, who
m. William Woodward Barrow, eldest son of John
Wylie Barrow, late secretary of the British legation at
Rome, and grandson of the late Thomas Culliford
Barrow, of the Admiralty, Somerset House. Their
children are : i. Florence Culliford Barrow, b. August
15, 1885 ; ii. Mary Evertson Barrow, b. June 27,
1890; iii. Dorothy Pendleton Barrow, b. December
3, 1893, d. December 5, 1894.
35. Robert 4 Horsley married Anna Hopkins, daughter of
John Hopkins, of Goochland County Va. Issue six : —
i. Lavinia 5 Horsley, m. Dr. J. J. Twyman ; d. s. p.
ii. Julia 5 Horsley, m. Bennet M. De Witt, a well-known
editor of Democratic papers before the war. He is
said to have assisted E. A. Pollard with his Southern
history of the war. Issue : i. Mary A. G ; ii. Louis J. ;
and iii. Bennet M. De Witt, Jr.
iii. Rebecca 5 Horsley, m. Mr. Austin ; no issue.
iv. Robert Henry Horsley, never married.
v. William N. Horsley, b. 1829 ; University of Virginia,
1850 ; graduate Richmond Medical College, 1852 ; a
doctor; captain, C. S. A.; m. Frances Megginson.
Issue : i. William 6 ; ii. Rolfe ; and iii. Anne Horsley.
vi. Archibald Horsley, never married.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 277
36. Samuel Cabell 4 Horsley ; at Washington College,
1804-1808 ; surgeon in U. S. Navy ; served in War of 1812 ;
" was in Perry's Flag ship at the battle of Lake Erie, and
when that ship went down, escaped with Commodore Perry
and others in an open boat to another vessel of the Ameri-
can squadron." His share of prize money, $3,000. He
continued in his post of surgeon until his death. He died
in the United States service at Portsmouth, Va., in 1828.
He married Mary Ann Banning-Denny of Talbot County,
Md. (daughter of Mary Tilghman Banning and Robert
Denny). Issue: —
i. William Henry 5 Horsley, d. s. p.
ii. Roderick McC. 5 Horsley, d. s. p.
iii. Samuel Cabell 5 Horsley, d. s. p.
iv. Virginia Ann 5 Horsley, m. Jacob P. Hartman, of Indi-
ana, but later of Baltimore, Md. Issue : —
i. Wilton Horsley G Hartman, m., but d. s. p.
ii. Otis Campbell G Hartman, d. s. p.
iii. Jacob Henry G Hartman, M. D., of Baltimore,
m. Mary Rose White of that city. Issue : i.
Mary Kate 7 Hartman.
iv. Mary Kate G Hartman, d. young,
v. Helen Virgina G Hartman, m. Henry Halsey, of
Pennsylvania. Issue : — i. Cabell 7 Halsey.
37. John 4 Horsley, b. September 17, 1787; merchant;
farmer ; man of affairs ; m. (first) August 4, 1814, Phila-
delphia Hamilton Dunscombe, at the residence of Maj. Wil-
liam Duval, in Buckingham County, Va. She was born in
1797 ; died in March, 1817, at the Elk Creek Mills, and
was buried at the residence of Micajah Pendleton, near her
husband's sisters. Her father, Major Andrew Dunscombe,
a soldier of the Revolution, from New York, distinguished
as a financier, was sent by the legislature of that State,
after the war, to settle her claim against the State of Vir-
ginia. Located in Richmond, and in 1787 was appointed
278 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
by the executive of Virginia commissioner for settling the
war accounts between this commonwealth and the United
States. This occupied him several years, after which he
held an office in the first bank established in Richmond,
and is also said to have been at one time a Master in Chan-
cery of Judge Wythe's court. He was mayor of Richmond
in 1795 ; died in 1804. He married Philadelphia Duval,
daughter of Col. Samuel Duval, who was in colonial times
member of the House of Burgesses from Hanover. Sister to
Col. Shepherd Duval and Maj. William Duval, soldiers of
the Revolution, and aunt to Gov. William Pope Duval, of
Florida, the original of Washington Irving's " Ralph Ring-
wood," and of J. K. Paulding's " Nimrod Wildfire." Maj.
Andrew Dunscombe's father was a Scotchman, a follower of
" Charles Edward the Pretender " at Culloden. His mother
was the daughter of an Amsterdam merchant. His daughter,
Philadelphia H. D. Horsley, left an only child, named for
his grandfathers.
148. i. William Andrew 5 Horsley.
37. John 4 Horsley married (second) February 4, 1819,
Mary Mildred Cabell (112). She was born at " Soldier's
Joy," January 15, 1802, and died March 3, 1880, at
Mountain Retreat." Her husband died at " Mountain Re-
treat," his residence, in Nelson County, September 6, 1850,
having had issue by his second wife : —
149. ii. Frederick Cabell 5 Horsley.
150. hi. Edmund Winston 5 Horsley.
151. iv. Nicholas Cabell 5 Horsley.
152. v. Alice Winston 5 Horsley.
vi. Paulina 5 Horsley, married Mr. John Baker, of
Nelson. No issue,
vii. Mary Elizabeth 5 Horsley, unmarried.
153. viii. Frances Mildred 5 Horsley.
154. ix. John 5 Horsley, Jr.
148. William Andrew 5 Horsley, born September 6,
1815 ; graduated, University of Virginia, 1837 ; graduated,
DR. WILLIAM A. HORSLEY
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 279
Medical Department, University of Pennsylvania, 1841 ;
began the practice of medicine at New Market, Nelson
County, Va., in October, 1841, and continued the practice
in that neighborhood during life. He died at "Rock
Cliff," his seat on James River, July 27, 1887. At the
time of his death he owned and occupied a large and valua-
ble estate, a part of the old Cabell domain. He was a man
of fine natural capacity ; a skillful physician ; a modest,
unassuming, and intelligent gentleman ; a diligent and suc-
cessful man of business, of uprightness and integrity; a
model husband and father ; revered by his household, and
esteemed by his friends and neighbors. He married, Octo-
ber 2, 1845, Eliza G. Perkins, daughter of George and
Eliza Richardson Perkins, of Cumberland County, Va., who
survives him. Issue seven : —
i. Eliza R. c Horsley, b. October 8, 1847.
ii. John Dunscombe G Horsley, b. April 30, 1849 ; V. M.
I. ; soldier, C. S. A. ; University of Virginia, 1868-
1869 ; lawyer ; the present judge of the fifth circuit
of Virginia ; married, February 23, 1879, Mrs. Flor-
ence Tunstall, widow of John Tunstall, and daughter
of William Massie (by his last wife, Miss Effinger),
the son of Maj. Thomas Massie, of the Revolution.
Issue : i. Catharine Dunscombe 7 ; ii. Bland Massie 7 ;
iii. Thomas Staples Martin 7 ; and iv. Eliza Perkins 7
Horsley.
iii. Mildred Cabell 6 Horsley, born February 22, 1851; m.
October 16, 1877, Charles B. Easley of Halifax. Is-
sue : i. Eliza Perkins 7 ; ii. Charles Bruce 7 ; iii. Mil-
dred Lee 7 ; iv. Andrew Horsley 7 ; v. John Duns-
combe 7 ; vi. Edmund Taylor 7 ; vii. Owen Randolph 7 ;
and viii. Ruth Cabell 7 Easley.
iv. Ann-Maria Perkins 6 Horsley, b. December 14, 1853 ;
m. June 24, 1891, Thomas Perkins Gantt, of Buck-
ingham. Issue: i. William Andrew Horsley 7 ; and
ii. Henry Dunscombe 7 Gantt.
v. Clara Lee G Horsley, b. December 21, 1855.
280 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
vi. Mary Perkins e Horsley, b. October 3, 1858 ; principal
of " The Montgomery Female Seminary," Christians-
burg 1 , Va.
vii. Philadelphia Dunscombe 6 Horsley, b. July 21, 1864.
149. Frederick Cabell 5 Horsley, born February 22,
1822 ; graduated at Washington College, and in the Medi-
cal Department of the University of Pennsylvania ; M. D.,
California; married in November, 1857, Dora Pleasants, of
California, a granddaughter of Gov. James Pleasants, of
Virginia. Issue three : —
i. Frederick 6 Horsley.
ii. Mildred Maude 6 Horsley, m. in April, 1893, Oliver
Emerson Bennett, of Massachusetts.
iii. Cabell 6 Horsley.
150. Edmund Winston 5 Horsley, born 1824 ; married in
February, 1851, Lucie Gwatkins, of Bedford County, Va.
Issue, three : —
i. Mina 6 Horsley.
ii. Edmonia Winston 6 Horsley, m. Picton Saunders, of
Bedford City,
iii. Fannie Otey 6 Horsley, m. Judge Calloway Brown, of
Bedford City.
151. Nicholas Cabell 5 Horsley, born 1826 ; married
(first) in 1852, Elizabeth Wilkes, of Bedford. She died,
leaving three sons : i. Frederick C. c ; ii." Benjamin Wilkes 6 ;
and iii. Nicholas Cabell G Horsley. He married, secondly,
Nannie Deane, of North Carolina, and died leaving issue by
her : iv. Nannie 6 ; v. Irene 6 (m. Rev. Mr. Clopton, of Man-
chester, Va.) ; vi. Kate Winstead 6 ; vii. Roland 6 ; and viii.
Mabel 6 Horsley.
152. Alice Winston 5 Horsley, married, in 1852, Rev.
Samuel W. Watkins, of Prince Edward County, Va., son of
Henry E. Watkins (and his wife, Agnes Venable, daughter
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 281
of Samuel W. Venable (1756-1821) and his wife, Mary
Carrington, daughter of Judge Paul Carrington, Sr., by his
first wife, Margaret Read), son of Francis Watkins, Sr., of
" Poplar Hill," Prince Edward County, Va., by his wife,
Agnes Woodson, daughter of Richard Woodson and his
wife, Ann Michaux. See under No. 31, etc.
152. Mrs. Alice Winston 5 Watkins is now living in
Charlotte, N. C. " Her husband died some years after the
war leaving two children : " —
i. Mildred Cabell 6 Watkins, compiler and author of a
" Primer of American Literature," 1895.
ii. Henry Edward 6 Watkins.
153. Frances Mildred 5 Horsley married, in 1869, Robert
P. Anderson, Jr., of Prince Edward County, Va. ; son of
Robert P. Anderson, Sr. (by his wife, Fanny Park Poin-
dexter), son of Rev. R. H. Anderson and his wife, Hen-
ningham Venable, daughter of Samuel W. Venable (1756-
1821). She died, leaving : i. Mary Cabell 6 ; ii. Frances
Poindexter 6 ; hi. Eliza Parke 6 ; and iv. Roberta 6 Ander-
son.
154. John 5 Horsley, Jr., V. M. I. ; member Co. H, 49th
Virginia, Early's Brigade, Ewell's Division, Jackson's Corps,
C. S. A. He afterwards joined Col. Mosby's Independent
Command. He married, in 1868, Rose Evelyn Shelton
[daughter of Dr. John Marshall Shelton (and his wife,
Mary H. Digges), of Nelson County, Va. He represented
the county in the House of Delegates, 1862-1864, as his
grandfather, Col. Joseph Shelton, had done in 1813-1818
and 1820-1824]. Issue : —
i. John Shelton 6 Horsley, an M. D. of the University of
Virginia ; a physician and surgeon, of Staunton, Va.
ii. Frederick Melville 6 Horsley.
iii. Guy Winston 6 Horsley.
282 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
8. ELIZABETH 3 HORSLEY MC CULLOCH's DESCENDANTS.
38. Mary 4 McCulloch, born February 25, 1771, died
September 19, 1851 ; married, May 17, 1792, Peter Pres-
ley Thornton. He was born in Brunswick County, Va.,
November 12, 1765, and died in Amherst County, Va.,
August 6, 1856. He had six elder brothers, all of whom
were soldiers of the Revolution. His father, William
Thornton, Sr., was born December 20, 1717, and his
mother, Jane Clack, was born January 9, 1721. His
grandfather, Francis Thornton, was born June 7, 1692,
and died February 6, 1737. His great-grandfather, Wil-
liam Thornton, Jr., was born March 27, 1649, and died
February 15, 1727. " It is said that three brothers —
Thorntons — came to Virginia in the early settlement of the
colony, and became the ancestors of the Thorntons in Va."
Jane Clack is said to have been the daughter of Sterling
Clack, and granddaughter of the Rev. James Clack, young-
est son of William and Mary Clack, of the parish of Mardin,
near Devises, in Wiltshire, England, who " came out of
England in August, 1677 ; arrived in Virginia upon New
Year's Day following ; came into the Parish of Ware,
Gloucester County, Va., on Easter, where he continued
minister near forty-five years till he died, Dec. 20th, 1723."
38. Mary 4 McCulloch and Peter Presley Thornton were
the parents of ten children : —
i. Elizabeth H. 5 Thornton, b. March 7, 1793 ; d.
November 7, 1849 ; unmarried,
ii. William S. 5 Thornton, b. November 9, 1794 ; d.
in February, 1865; unmarried,
iii. Roderick M. 5 Thornton, b. August 28, 1796, d.
June 24, 1842 ; unmarried.
155. iv. Jane Clack 5 Thornton.
v. Isabella M. 5 Thornton, b. November 9, 1800 ; d.
in February, 1849 ; unmarried,
vi. Mary Jones 5 Thornton, b. October 27, 1802 ; d.
September 11, 1823 ; unmarried.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 283
vii. Peter Presley 5 Thornton, b. February 25, 1806 ;
d. July 3, 1836; unmarried.
156. viii. James Francis 5 Thornton.
157. ix. Robert H. 5 Thornton.
158. x. Belinda A. 5 Thornton.
155. Jane Clack 5 Thornton, born August 24, 1798 ; died
May 15, 1863 ; married, August 24, 1820, Mr. William C.
Hannah, of Charlotte County, Va. (a private in Capt. George
Hannah's troop of cavalry, 1814), and had four children,
viz. : —
i. Presley T. 6 Hannah, b. June 1, 1821 ; d. January
19, 1850, in Lynchburg ; never married.
159. ii. Ann E. 6 Hannah.
iii. William S. 6 Hannah, b. November 28, 1828;
fought in the C. S. A. at Bull Run and Manas-
sas as lieutenant of a company from Lynch-
burg ; after, was elected captain of a company
from Amherst ; served under Jackson ; died in
the hospital at Richmond from the effect of a
wound received at Chancellorsville. " He was
a brave soldier."
iv. Robert A. 6 Hannah, b. April 26, 1834; d. Septem-
ber 26, 1836.
159. Ann E. 6 Hannah, born December 18, 1825 ; died in
November, 1864; married, in 1845, Robert Nicolson, a
native of Lerwick, Shetland Isles, Scotland; a soldier in
the C. S. A. Had issue : —
i. William 7 Nicolson, soldier C. S. A.; killed at Gettys-
burg,
ii. Jeanie 7 Nicolson, m. Francis J. Rockenback, a native of
Strasburg, Germany (of German and French parent-
age) ; a lieutenant in C. S. A. Issue two : —
i. Samuel D. 8 Rockenback, b. in Lynchburg, Va.,
January 7, 1869 ; graduated V. M. I., 1889 ;
appointed second lieutenant U. S. A. from
civil life, 1891 ; lieutenant 10th Cavalry, U.
284 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
S. A. ; elected commandant of Cadets at V.
M. I., 1894.
ii. Anne s Rockenback.
iii. Mary G Nicolson, m. Archibald H. Mitcham, of Lynch-
burg, Va., and has : i. John R. 8 ; ii. Elizabeth 8 ; iii.
Clarence H. 8 ; and iv. Willie Orin 8 Mitcham.
iv. Robena McC. 7 Nicolson, m. George Griffin Leckie, of
Lynchburg, Va., and has : i. Harry G. 8 and ii. Robena
A. 8 Leckie.
v. William S. 7 Nicolson, b. after his elder brother William
was killed ; m. Eva L. Dornin, of Lynchburg, and
has : i. Robert Edwin 8 Nicolson.
156. James Francis 5 Thornton (born October 24, 1807;
died in December, 1878) married, 1840, Lucy F., daughter
of Dabney Phillips, Esq., of Amherst. They had nine
children, all living November 1, 1881 : —
i. Nannie J. fi Thornton, m. 1860, Joseph Staples, Esq.,
of Amherst.
ii. Peter P. 6 Thornton, m., 1868, Emily Watts.
iii. George D. c Thornton, m., 1867, Sallie Gatewood.
iv. Mary G Thornton, m., 1864, Dr. Henry Berry, of Am-
herst.
v. William c Thornton, m., 1874, a daughter of Rev.
Thomas B. Gatewood.
vi. Jeanie G Thornton, m. Nathaniel Sandidge, Esq. He
d. 1879.
vii. Elizabeth G Thornton, m. Charles Williams, Esq.
viii. Ella 6 Thornton, m., 1883, William Dow.
ix. Ida G Thornton, m., in 1886, Marshall Williams, of
Amherst.
157. Robert H. 5 Thornton, born October 16, 1809; mar-
ried three times; married, January 27, 1853, Maria L.
Wingfield (the mother of his children), daughter of Rev.
Charles Wingfield, of the Albemarle Baptist Association.
He was a native of Hanover County. He was not only an
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 285
able preacher, but a cultivated teacher. He married a
daughter of Capt. Lewis Nicholas, and niece of Gov. Nicho-
las. He died January 24, 1864. Eobert H. Thornton was
living in 1881 ; the date of his death is not known to me.
He left issue : —
i. Charles Presley 6 Thornton, b. March 15, 1854.
ii. Mary Cary 6 Thornton, b. September 3, 1855.
iii. Camilla J. 6 Thornton, b. May 10, 1857.
iv. Robert Horsley G Thornton, b. June 3, 1859.
158. Belinda Ann 5 Thornton, born November 23, 1811;
died July 20, 1835 ; married, March 24, 1828, Francis E.
Quarles, Esq., of King and Queen County, Va., and left
three children : —
i. Mary T. 6 Quarles, b. March 28, 1829 ; d. May 4, 1849 ;
never married.
ii. Lucy D. e Quarles, b. February 11, 1831 ; married
Thomas A. Staples, Esq., of Richmond, who died in
1872, leaving his widow childless.
iii. Elizabeth Jane 6 Quarles, b. April 22, 1833; married
James J. Dornin, Esq., of Richmond and Manchester.
39. Elizabeth 4 McCulloch, born March 11, 1773, died
March 20, 1833; married, June 6, 1802, Samuel Boyle
Davies (born December 22, 1774, died February 2, 1829),
of Bedford County [son of Henry Landon Davies and his
wife, Ann Clayton (married January 15, 1767). Henry L.
Davies was a son of Nicholas and Catherine Whiting Da-
vies. His wife, Ann Clayton, was a daughter of John Clay-
ton the botanist (and his wife, Elizabeth Whiting), son of
John Clayton, for many years attorney-general of Virginia.
See under 24] . Issue : —
160. i. Anne C. E. 5 Davies.
ii. Roderick McC. 5 Davies, b. October 20, 1804; d.
s. p.
161. iii. William Brown 5 Davies.
162. iv. Elizabeth 5 Davies.
286 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
160. Anne C. E. 5 Davies (born June 12, 1803 ; died Oc-
tober 26, 1848) married, October 9, 1822, her first cousin,
Gen. Odin G. Clay. " He was born about 1800, near the
present Forest depot, Bedford County, Va ; ' moved to
Campbell. " From 1827, when he entered the Virginia
House of Delegates, from Campbell County, his busy, use-
ful, and honored life was constantly in the public eye ; "
member of the House of Delegates for about twenty years ;
active in securing' the charter for the old Virginia and Ten-
nessee Railroad, and in the construction of this important
railway ; was for the first six years its president ; appointed
a member of the board of public works in 1854, he continued
in this position several years. In his old age he was in the
habit of spending the winter months in Lynchburg, and he
died at the Norvell House in that city in his eighty-second
year. " No man ever more thoroughly deserved or more
universally received the implicit confidence of the com-
munity." He was a son of Rev. Charles Clay, ordained
by the bishop of London in 1769 ; minister of St. Anne's
Parish, Albemarle, October 22, 1769, to 1784 ; an earnest
patriot, he declared in his sermons that the " cause of lib-
erty was the cause of God." He was interested in the
Albemarle Iron Works and one of his churches was " The
Forge ; " a personal friend of Thomas Jefferson ; " nearly
related — probably a first cousin — to Henry Clay ; " went
to Chesterfield (which I think was his native county) 1784—
1785, and to Bedford in 1785, where he owned a farm
(near Mr. Jefferson's), and continued to live there until his
death in 1824. He married Editha Davies (born April 17,
1777), daughter of Henry Landon and Ann Clayton Davies.
160. Mrs. Anne C. E. 5 Clay left issue, " six sons and one
daughter. Four of her sons were in the 2d Virginia Cav-
alry, Army of Northern Virginia, C. S. A."
161. William Brown 5 Davies (born April 8, 1806; a
physician of Bedford County, Va. ; died September 1,
1846) married, April 14, 1829, his cousin, Editha Davies
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 287
(born March 4, 1807; died in 1875), daughter of Nicholas
Clayton Davies (son of Henry Landon Davies) and his wife,
Elizabeth Crawford, daughter of David (1734-1802) and
Elizabeth Henderson Crawford, and had issue : —
i. Samuel Nicholas 6 Davies, b. 1831 ; d. 1831.
ii. William Boyle c Davies, b. April 22, 1832 ; graduated
A. B., Washington College, 1851-1852 ; physician
assistant surgeon, 2d Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A.
killed in Stafford County, Va., in February, 1863
married, February 25, 1857, Sarah J. Ellis, of Am-
herst, and had : i. Sarah E. 7 ; ii. William Boyle, 7 and
hi. Eva Allen 7 Davies.
hi. Arthur Landon 6 Davies, d. infant,
iv. John Whiting 6 Davies, b. September 6, 1837 ; private,
19th Virginia Regiment, C. S. A. ; killed June 16,
1864, near Chester Station ; unmarried.
v. Henrian Elizabeth 6 Davies, b. October 18, 1839 ; d.
February 23, 1876 ; m. at Mountain View, Bedford
County, April 7, 1864, Capt. Edwin N. Wise, a sol-
dier in the C. S. A. ; son of George P. Wise, of
Alexandria, Va., and his wife, Sinah Ann Newton,
daughter of William Newton and sister to Com.
John S. Newton, U. S. N., Hon. Thomas Willoughby
Newton, M. C. from Arkansas, etc. Issue : i. Jean-
nie Stuart 7 ; ii. Editha Newton 7 ; and hi. Edwin
Wise.
vi. Roderick Henry 6 Davies, b. March 13, 1841; private,
2d Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A. ; was twice wounded ;
m., May 10, 1864, Caroline S. Jones, of Alabama.
She died in Lynchburg some years ago, and he re-
moved to Kentucky ; has one son grown : i. Alexan-
der 7 Davies.
vii. Martha Patricia 6 Davies, d. infant, 1845.
viii. Beverly 6 Davies, d. infant, 1846.
162. Elizabeth McCulloch 5 Davies, born April 4, 1808;
died April 10, 1837; married, October 4, 1835, Lodovick
288 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
A. Moorman (born April 1, 1809; died July 25, 1870), son
of John Hope Moorman (born November 13, 1783 ; died
August 29, 1862), and his wife, Elizabeth Johnson (born
January 22, 1790; died May 20, 1864). They were married
July 12, 1805, in the old Quaker meeting-house near
Lynchburg. John Hope Moorman and Elizabeth Johnson
both descended from Charles Moorman and his son Thomas,
the overseers of Camp Creek Meeting, Louisa, in 1744.
162. Mrs. Elizabeth McC. Moorman left an only child :
i. Elizabeth Ann McCulloch Moorman, born April 1,
1837, living 1894 ; married (first), January 3, 1861, James
B. Anthony (born March 19, 1838, died June 16, 1870).
Issue : —
i. Abner James Brown Anthony, b. March 27, 1862.
162. Mrs. Elizabeth A. McC. G Anthony married (second),
September 8, 1879, Morton Pannill, of Campbell County,
Va. He died August 26, 1880, s. p. Both of her hus-
bands served in the C. S. A.
40. Frances 4 McCulloch, born July 15, 1781 ; married,
in 1799, Benjamin Shackelford, of King and Queen County,
Va. ; resided in that county until about 1807, when they
removed to Amherst County, Va., which county Mr. Shack-
elford represented for one or more sessions in the Virginia
House of Delegates. The family moved to Kentucky about
1817, and settled in Richmond, Madison County, where
Mr. Shackelford died March 9, 1819, aged 45, and was
buried in the old Irvine burying-ground. He was a son of
Col. Lyne Shackelford and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of
Philip Taliaferro, of King and Queen County, Va. She
descended from the old Virginia families, Carter, Grymes,
Smith, Baytop, etc.
40. Mrs. Frances 4 McC. Shackelford survived her hus-
band many years ; removed with her daughter to Hanni-
bal, Mo., where she died and was buried. Her children
were : —
163. i. Elizabeth M. 5 Shackelford.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 289
164. ii. Frances A. Shackelford.
iii. Roderick S. Shackelford, b. June 13, 1804 ; re-
moved to Macon County, Mo. ; and once rep-
resented the county in the Missouri legislature.
iv. Benjamin T. Shackelford, b. April 12, 1807 ; a
successful merchant of Louisville, Ky. ; m.
Nannie, daughter of Judge Robert Trimble,
a native of Berkeley County, Va., for whom
Trimble County, Ky., was named ; d. about
1837, s. p.
v. Rosa T. Shackelford, d. in childhood.
vi. Belinda M. Shackelford, b. November 18, 1812 ;
m., January 24, 1839, Dr. Jerman, of Madison
County, Ky. ; moved first to Hannibal, Mo.,
then to St. Louis, where Dr. Jerman became
a physician of some note. He d. July 25,
1874 ; she d. August 14, 1879, s. p.
vii. Martha J. Shackelford, b. May 26, 1814; m.
about 1830, Alfred Warner, a native of Con-
necticut and a banker of Lexington, Ky. She
survived her marriage only a few years, and
d. s. p.
viii. George H. Shackelford, b. October 17, 1817 ;
a merchant of Hannibal, Mo. ; m. Miss Hill,
of St. Louis, and d. about 1850, leaving : i.
Emma, 6 m. John Hewitt, of St. Louis, Mo. ;
ii. David ; and iii. " Minnie " Shackelford.
165. ix. Richard C. Shackelford.
163. Elizabeth M. 5 Shackelford, born February 14, 1800 ;
married, January 26, 1819, Robert Clark, of Winchester,
Clark County, Ky. He was born July 10, 1793 ; served
in the War of 1812, in all of the battles under Gen. Har-
rison ; was an attorney at law, but owing to a duel which he
fought, retired from the bar ; was for many years clerk of
Estill County courts ; noted for great personal and moral
courage. He died in 1853, s. p.
290 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
164. Frances A. 5 Shackelford (born April 13, 1802, died
November 26, 1866) married in 1826, in Richmond, Ky.,
Patterson Clark, of Clark County, Ky., brother to Robert
Clark, who married her sister. Although but a youth, he
enlisted in the War of 1812 ; was taken prisoner at Dud-
ley's defeat ; remained seven years in captivity with the
Indians, then escaping through Ohio, he reached home in
Kentucky. He was a son of Robert Clark, a native of
Virginia, who established the first iron works in eastern
Kentucky, on " Red River." According to some accounts,
Clark County, Ky., was named for him, according to others,
it was named for Gen. George Roofers Clark.
He was brother to Gov. James Clark, of Kentucky, to
Bennett Clark (the father of Hon. John B. Clark, of Mis-
souri), and to Christopher Clark (who married a daughter of
John Hook, remained in Virginia, and represented the Bed-
ford District in Congress in 1804-1806). These brothers
(there were other brothers and sisters whose descendants are
scattered over the West) were the sons of Robert Clark, b.
(in then Louisa now Albemarle County) " 13th day, 6th
month, 1738 " (according to the register of Camp Creek
Monthly Meeting), i. e., August 13, 1738 (0. S.). He mar-
ried Susan Henderson, daughter of John Henderson, whose
will, dated June 8, 1782, recorded October 12, 1786, men-
tions sons : Bennett, John, and William ; daughters : Fran-
ces Henderson, Elizabeth Crawford, Susannah Clark, Mary
Bullock, and Hannah Bullock. Robert Clark sold out his
lands in Albemarle to John Grills and others in 1765, and
removed to the present county of Campbell, then Bedford,
and some time after 1779 he emigrated to Kentucky, where
he died. He was a son of Micajah Clark (by his wife,
Judith, daughter of Robert Adams), the son of Christopher
and Penelope Clark. (See under 52.)
164. Mrs. Frances A. 5 Clark left two surviving chil-
dren : —
i. Robert B. G Clark, b. in Irvine, Estill County, Ky., April
27, 1832 ; educated Kentucky Military Institute,
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 291
Frankfort, Ky. ; prospector and miner in New Mex-
ico in 1881.
ii. Frances 6 Clark, b. July 4, 1838; m., December 11,
1860, in St. Louis, Robert Cook, a retired merchant ;
removed to Philadelphia, where he d. in 1874. He
was b. in Delaware ; son of a physician of English
descent. He left three daughters : i. Elizabeth C. 7 ;
ii. Frances C. 7 ; and iii. " Addie " Cook.
165. Richard C. 5 Shackelford (born June 17, 1819; living
1894) married, October 14, 1846, Anna Scott, of Paris,
Ky., who was a granddaughter of Judge Robert Trimble.
He is a merchant of St. Louis, Mo. Issue, two daughters :
i. Frances 6 Shackelford, b. May 9, 1852; m., April 22,
1875, Charles W. Knapp, who has always been con-
nected with the " St. Louis Republic," formerly " Mis-
souri Republican," and is now the managing editor of
that paper. He is a native of Missouri ; his father, a
native of New York. He has one child : i. Genevieve 7
Knapp, b. March 18, 1876.
ii. Genevieve G Shackelford, b. January 10, 1857 ; m., Jan-
uary 20, 1882, Henry H. Keller, formerly of Lexing-
ton, Ky. (and a soldier in the C. S. A.), now of St.
Louis, Mo. Issue three : 5 —
i. Henry Shackelford 7 Keller, b. December 14, 1882.
ii. Genevieve 7 Keller, b. December 21, 1884.
iii. David Hayes 7 Keller, b. October 25, 1888.
41. Isabella 4 McCulloch, born January 22, 1784 ; died
June 5, 1860 ; married in September, 1815, by Rev. Charles
Crawford, to Mr. Edward Waugh, son of Thomas Waugh,
Esq., of Amherst. Mr. Waugh died January 14, 1820,
leaving an only child : —
i. Pembroke Edward 5 Waugh, b. July 17, 1816 ; d. in
November, 1885. He was at Washington College,
Lexington, Va., 1835-1836 ; lived near Big Island, in
Bedford County ; was married at " Green Bottom,"
292 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Cabell County, W. Va., January 4, 1848, by Rev. Heze-
kiah Chilton, to Miss Eustatia Jenkins. Her mother was
Janetta Grigsby McNutt, daughter of Rachel Grigsby
and Alexander McNutt, of Rockbridge County, Va.
Mrs. Eustatia Waugh died June 17, 1864. Pembroke
E. Waugh married (2d) October 5, 1870, Sarah, daugh-
ter of Launcelott Minor, Esq., of Amherst, but had no
issue by her. By his first wife he had : —
i. Eustatia Elizabeth c Waugh, d. young.
ii. Isabella Janetta Waugh, m. October 24, 1878,
James, son of Col. Thomas Woods, of Amherst
County, Va.
iii. William McCulloch Waugh.
iv. Albert Gallatin Waugh.
v. Edward Ashby Waugh.
42. Nancy Ellis 4 McCulloch, born November 27, 1788;
was christened by Rev. Charles Crawford, and " named for
her sponsors" (Mrs. Ellis and her daughter, afterwards Mrs.
Hunter). She was married at " Verdant Vale," by Rev.
Charles Crawford, on February 29, 1816, to Mr. Joseph
Glasgow, of Rockbridge County, Va. " She was accom-
panied on her bridal trip by her beautiful nieces, Elizabeth
Thornton and Elizabeth Shackelford (afterwards Mrs. Clark,
of Kentucky), making a trio of unusual beauty, long to be
remembered."
Joseph Glasgow was born at " Green Forest," his father's
home on North River, about six miles east of Lexington, in
Rockbridge County, Va., October 14 1783 ; he served in
the " Rockbridge Light Horse Cavalry," under Col. James
McDowell, in the War of 1812 ; after marriage, settled
on his farm on James River, and built a luxurious home,
named " Union Ridge " in honor of his wife's mother's
ancestral home. He was the son of Arthur Glasgow (who
emigrated to America with his father's family, coming prob-
ably from Scotland, first to Pennsylvania and thence to
Virginia) and his wife, Rebecca (widow of John McCorkle,
MRS. NANCY ELLIS McCULLOCH GLASGOW
JOSEPH GLASGOW, ESQ.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 293
who filled a soldier's grave at the battle of the Cowpens),
daughter of John McNutt and his wife, Catharine Ander-
son, emigrants probably from Scotland.
Mrs. Nancy Ellis Glasgow had been reared in the Epis-
pal Church, but after moving to the valley she joined the
Presbyterian, the church of her husband. She died May
10, 1868. Her funeral services were conducted by the
Rev. David Shanks. She had two children : —
i. Rebecca J. 5 Glasgow, b. September 13, 1817; d. July 25,
1837; " an accomplished, lovely woman."
ii. Elizabeth J. A. 5 Glasgow, b. November 1, 1819 ; m.,
July 16, 1850, Hobson Johns, Esq. He d. without
issue. She is living, 1895.
43. William H. 4 McCulloch, born December 10, 1791,
"He was a captain in the War of 1812, and although
very young, served faithfully. He married at Col. William
Nelson's, in Westmoreland County, Va., Mary Douglass,
daughter of James Douglass, of Alexandria, Va., and Sal-
lie Evans, of Delaware. James Douglass was a merchant
and mill owner. His property was twice burned by the
British during the War of 1812. His father came from
Scotland, and claimed to be of the historic house of the
Douglas."
Mrs. Mary Douglass McCulloch died eighteen months
after marriage, leaving an only child : —
166. i. Roderick Douglas 5 McCulloch.
43. William H. 4 McCulloch was a vestryman of the Epis-
copal Church for Lexington Parish, Amherst County, in
1825-1829, probably before and after. His second wife
was Mary Champe Carter, daughter of Edward Carter, Jr.,
of Blenheim, by his second wife, Lucy Wood. Edward
Carter, Jr., was the son of Edward Carter, Sr., of Blenheim
(by his wife, Sarah Champe) ; the son of John Carter, the
secretary (by his wife, Elizabeth Hill, of Shirley) ; the son
of Robert Carter, called "King Carter of Corotoman" (by
his wife, Judith Armistead) ; the son of John Carter, the
294 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
emigrant from England, by his wife, Sarah, the daughter of
Gabriel Ludlow, of England. (See the " Ancestry of Ben-
jamin Harrison," by Charles P. Keith.)
Lucy Wood, who married Edward Carter, Jr., was the
daughter of Col. Valentine Wood (son of Henry Wood, the
first clerk), of Woodville, Goochland County, Va., and his
wife, Lucy Henry (sister to Patrick Henry, the orator),
daughter of Col. John Henry, who emigrated to Virginia
from Scotland. Col. Henry's wife was a Winston, and her
ancestor is said to have come from Wales. (See under 54.)
Sarah Champe was a daughter of Col. John Champe, of
Lamb's Creek, King George. I do not know who his emi-
grant ancestor was. The other emigrant ancestors of Mary
Champe Carter — Hill, Armistead, Wood, etc. — were
from England. They are well-known old Virginia families.
William H. McCulloch inherited his father's seat, " Verdant
Vale." In 1834, he sold the place to Mrs. Isabella Waugh,
and moved to Callaway County, Mo. About 1840, he
removed to the vicinity of Osceola, St. Clair County, Mo.,
where he purchased " Westwood," a fine estate. " He
filled various political positions, although he was an ardent
Whig in a strong Democratic county." He died March 5,
1855. His widow, Mary C. McCulloch, died near Spring-
field, Mo., October 10, 1879. Issue nine : —
ii. Edward 5 McCulloch, d. infant,
iii. Robert McCulloch, d. unmarried,
iv. William McCulloch, d. unmarried.
167. v. Lucy C. McCulloch.
vi. Richard Ellis McCulloch, killed in battle of Prai-
rie Grove, Ark., 1862, in C. S. A. ; unmarried,
vii. Elizabeth McCulloch, d. December 24, 1864,
unmarried,
viii. Charles McCulloch, b. 1839 ; a planter of Texas,
near Waco ; m. Elizabeth Gee, and has two
children : i. Alice Champe, 6 b. 1886 ; and ii.
Mary McCulloch, b. 1891.
168. ix. Champe Carter McCulloch.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 295
x. George Valentine McCulloch, b. 1844 ; a planter
of Texas, near Waco ; m. Mary Emlet, and
has three children : i. Charles Carter, 6 b. 1877 ;
ii. Lotta Belle, b. 1879 ; and iii. William Lanier
McCulloch, b. 1887.
166. Roderick Douglas 5 McCulloch, born at "Verdant
Vale ; ' : went to Missouri with his father in the fall of
1834 ; went into business with Crow & Co. in Osceola,
then a frontier settlement, in October, 1836 ; married, Feb-
ruary 25, 1840, Elizabeth McC. Nash, daughter of Dr.
Gabriel Penn Nash, of Osceola, Mo., and his wife, Elizabeth
Madison McClanahan. Dr. Nash was a son of Abner
Nash, by his wife, Matilda Penn, a daughter of Col. Ga-
briel Penn, of Amherst County, Va., a first cousin to
John Penn, the signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Gabriel Penn was born July 17, 1741 ; a sergeant in the
1st Virginia Regiment, under Col. William Byrd, in 1764 ;
member Revolutionary Convention, etc. ; died in 1798. He
married, in September, 1761, Sarah Callaway, a daughter
of Col. Richard Callaway, of Bedford County, Va. Col.
Callaway was born about 1719 ; married (first) about 1740 ;
patented lands in Brunswick and Lunenburg counties, Va.,
in 1747-1754 ; sergeant, lieutenant, and major in French
and Indian War, 1755-1763 ; a trustee of the new town
of New London (then in Bedford, now Campbell County),
Va., in 1761 ; patented lands in Bedford, 1762-1770 ;
went several times to Kentucky ; possibly moved to North
Carolina between 1771 and 1774 ; went to Kentucky to
locate early in 1775; was a member of the Transylvania
Convention held at Boonesborough in May, 1775 ; his fam-
ily reached Boonesborough about September 26, 1775, in
which year he raised the first corn in Madison County, Ky.
His daughters, Elizabeth and Frances Callaway, with Jemima
Boone, were captured by the Indians July 14, 1776, and
retaken by Boone the next day. This incident is made use
of by Cooper in " The Last of the Mohicans." On August
296 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
7 following, Elizabeth Callaway married Samuel Hender-
son, one of her rescuers (a brother of Judge Richard Hen-
derson) ; and their daughter, Fanny Henderson, born May
29, 1777, was the first white child born in Kentucky of
parents married in Kentucky. Col. Callaway and Col.
John Todd were elected burgesses to the General Assembly
of Virginia from Kentucky County, on April 18-19, 1777,
at the first election held in Kentucky. He set off for Rich-
mond on May 23. He aided in the defense of Boones-
borough in the big attack in September, 1778. Evan
Shelby and himself were appointed commissioners for mark-
ing and opening a road over the Cumberland Mountain to
Kentucky, by act of Virginia Legislature, October, 1779 ;
and the same legislature placed the first ferry (at Boones-
borough) in Kentucky under his charge. He was killed by
Indians, near Boonesborough, March 8, 1780. Callaway
County, Ky., was named for him.
Gabriel Penn was a son of Robert Penn, " a relative of
Wm. Penn the Quaker," by his wife, Mary Taylor, daughter
of John Taylor (by his wife, Catherine, daughter of Philip
and Isabella (Hart) Pendleton), son of James Taylor, who
emigrated from Carlisle, England, to Virginia.
Elizabeth Madison McClanahan was the oldest daughter
of Agatha Lewis and Col. Elijah McClanahan, of Botetourt
County, Va. Agatha Lewis was the daughter of Col.
Andrew Lewis, of Bent Mountain, who was a son of Gen.
Andrew Lewis, the hero of Point Pleasant, whose statue
is among the group around the equestrian statue of Gen.
Washington, in the capitol grounds at Richmond. He was
the son of John Lewis, who is said to have been " the first
European settler of Augusta County, Va." He emigrated
from Ireland. On the paternal side he is said to have been
of Huguenot origin. On the maternal side he was Scotch.
The mother of Agatha Lewis was a Miss Madison, of Eng-
lish descent.
Mrs. Elizabeth McClanahan McCulloch died April 17,
1848. Roderick Douglas McCulloch died March 8, 1853,
at Gonzales, Texas, leaving three children : —
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 297
i. Robert 6 McCulloch, b. in Osceola, Mo., September 15,
1841 ; educated at V. M. I. ; entered C. S. A. as
lieutenant " Danville Grays ; ' : promoted captain ;
adjutant, 18th Virginia ; wounded in first and second
battles of Manassas, at Gaines' Mill, and at Gettys-
burg, where he was taken prisoner ; sent to John-
son's Island; and paroled in March, 1865. He was
married, June 18, 1868, by Rev. David Shanks, to
Emma, daughter of Thomas Preston Paxton, of
Rockbridge County, Va. ; moved to St. Louis, Mo.,
in January, 1869 ; is largely interested in the street
railways of that city. Has three surviving children :
i. Richard 7 (a graduate of St. Louis University, in
business with his father) ; ii. Roberta ; and iii. Grace
McCulloch.
ii. Mary Douglass 6 McCulloch, b. May 14, 1844; was m.,
December 24, 1867, by Rev. William F. Junkin, to
Dr. George Baxter McCorkle ; educated at W. C; a
captain in C. S. A., and a descendant from " John
McCorkle, the patriot hero, who filled a soldier's
grave at the Cowpens, in S. C, January 17, 1781."
They have four surviving children : i. George Bax-
ter 7 ; ii. Lelia Johns; iii. Mary Juliette; and iv.
Emma Strickler McCorkle.
iii. Elizabeth Virginia 6 McCulloch, b. April 1, 1848; m.
by Rev. David Shanks, on October 2, 1873, to Joseph
Rowland Echols ; educated at V. M. I. ; 4th sergeant
D Company Cadet Corps, C. S. A., at New Market,
May 12, 1864; d. in 1890, leaving four children:
i. Mary Cabell 7 ; ii. Harriet Miller ; iii. Joseph Row-
land ; and iv. Robert McCulloch JEchols.
167. Lucy C. 5 McCulloch married Col. Robert E. Acock,
of Polk County, Mo. ; " Democratic presidential elector in
1852, and many times in the Missouri state Senate." He
died in 1862, leaving an only child : —
i. Bertie 6 Acock, who was m. in Waco, Texas, in 1889, to
298 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Rev. William Wilson De Hart, then rector of St. Paul's
Episcopal Church in Waco, now rector of St. Andrew's
in Tampa, Florida, a Grand Prelate of the Knights of
Pythias, and a prominent Mason. He is a native of
Louisville, Ky., but the family were originally from
New Jersey and New York, to which belonged Abigail
De Hart, who m. Col. John Mayo, of Richmond, and
became the mother of Mrs. Gen. Winfield Scott, Mrs.
Dr. R. H. Cabell, etc.
168. Champe Carter 5 McCulloch, born February 13,
1841, at " Westwood," near Osceola, St. Clair County,
Mo. ; received his academic education at a private school
near Lexington, Va. ; was being educated for the law, but,
the war breaking out, entered the army. At the battle of
Wilson's Creek, Mo., he was captain and assistant adjutant
2d Cavalry Brigade, Missouri State Guard (C. S. A.), under
General Cawthorn. Maj. Charles E. Rogers, of St. Louis,
the adjutant of this brigade, having been killed in that bat-
tle, Capt. McCulloch was promoted major and adjutant, and
subsequently fought in the battles of Lexington, Lone
Jack, and Dug Springs, Mo., and Elk Horn and Prairie
Grove, Ark. When the Missouri State troops were mus-
tered into the regular C. S. A., he was detailed by Gen.
Sterling Price to go to Missouri with Col. Jackman, and
recruit a regiment of volunteers. He had succeeded in
organizing a company when they were taken by surprise on
Cedar Creek, in Cedar County, Mo., by a large body of
Federal troops, and the greater part of the company killed,
wounded, or captured. Major McCulloch, escaping, made
his way to Shreveport, La., where he was appointed clerk in
the ordnance department, and acted in that capacity during
the rest of the war.
After the peace, he settled in Waco, Texas ; married, May
22, 1867, Emma Basset ; was for many years a successful
merchant, having as a partner his first cousin, Edward H.
Carter (also of Virginia origin) ; for some time warden and
HON. CHAMPE CARTER McCULLOCH
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 299
vestryman at St. Paul's Parish, Waco ; his home is known
as " Columbus Place ; " he retired from business some years
ago, and was elected mayor of the city of Waco, which
position he still holds. He was tendered, in 1888, by his
friend, Gen. L. S. Ross, the office of Secretary of State of
Texas, but declined the appointment. He is a member of
Pat Cleburne Camp of Confederate Veterans. His wife,
Emma Basset, is the daughter of Louis Basset, Esq., of
Matagorda County, Texas, formerly of Sussex, England (of
an old Anglo-Norman family), and his wife, Sarah Gwin,
daughter of John Gwin and his wife, Jane Walker, of
Cahaba, Dallas County, Alabama.
168. Major and Mrs. C. C. McCulloch have had issue
ten : —
i. Charles W. 6 McCulloch, d. infant.
ii. Champe Carter McCulloch, Jr., b., 1869; A. B.,
Waco University, Texas, 1885 ; Ph. D., Baylor
University, Texas, 1891 ; M. D., University of Vir-
ginia, 1891 ; ad eiindem M. D., Columbia College,
N. Y., 1892; assistant surgeon, with relative rank of
ensign, U. S. Navy, 1892 ; at present (1894) first
lieutenant, medical department, U. S. A.; Fellow,
American Academy of Medicine ; m., October 23,
1889, Mary Azalete Gurley, daughter of Davis Rob-
ert Gurley, an extensive land-owner and planter of
McLennan County, Texas [he was major on staff of
Gen. Van Dorn, C. S. A., and is now Brig.-Gen. and
A. A. G. on staff of Gen. John B. Gordon, com-
manding United Confederate Veterans], and his
wife, Louisa Earle. Issue : i. Mary Gurley, 7 b.
1890 ; and ii. Champe Carter 7 3fcCidloch, b. 1892.
iii. Mary Roberta 6 McCulloch, d. infant.
iv. Sarah Basset 6 McCulloch, b. 1872 ; graduated, first
honor, Beethoven Conservatory of Music, St. Louis,
Mo., 1891 ; m., July 26, 1894, Charles Ferguson, a
civil engineer, of Terrell, Texas.
v. Roderick Roy 6 McCulloch, b. 1875 ; m., February
300 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
27, 1895, his double second cousin, on the maternal
side, Cora Lee Macon, of Houston, Texas. He is a
law student,
vi. Louis Basset 6 McCulloch, b. 1880.
vii. Lucy Adele McCulloch, b. 1882.
viii. Earle Cabell McCulloch, d. infant.
ix. Shirley Hope McCulloch, b. 1888.
x. Grace McCulloch, b. 1891.
9. JOHN horsley's descendants.
44. Jane 4 Horsley, born about 1780 ; married, prior to
October, 1804, John Roberts. He survived his wife many
years ; died in 1859, leaving five children : —
i. John 5 Roberts.
ii. Joseph 5 Roberts, m. Mrs. Jane Perkins, nee Harris, and
had issue,
iii. Elizabeth 5 Roberts, m. Archibald Megginson.
iv. Addison 5 Roberts, m. Miss Harris,
v. Frances 5 Roberts, m. Alexander Paxton Campbell (b.
October 15, 1816 ; A. B., Washington College,
1839 ; d. January 31, 1886) [eldest brother of the
late Prof. John L. Campbell, A. B., L.L. D., of Wash-
ington and Lee University ; and son of Robert Smith
Campbell, b. March 16, 1790; d. December 12, 1861
(bv his wife, Mary Isabella Paxton, daughter of Jo-
seph Paxton and Esther Lyle) ; son of Alexander
Campbell (1750-1806), son of Dougal Campbell, who
came to Rockbridge County, Va. (where he d. in
1795), from Pennsylvania; son of John Campbell
(and his wife, Grace Hay), son of Duncan Campbell,
of the noble house of Breadalbane (b. in Scotland),
and his wife, Mary McCoy] . Issue : —
i. Robert A. 6 Campbell, d. unmarried,
ii. Elizabeth Horsley 6 Campbell, m. Samuel Patter-
son, of Fincastle. No issue,
iii. Lavinia Brown 6 Campbell, m. Walton G. Watts,
of Roanoke, Va. No issue.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 301
iv. Frank Alexander 6 Campbell, m., in 1890, Mattie
Firly, of Roanoke.
45. John 4 Horsley, Jr., b. about 1785 ; Washington Col-
lege, 1806 ; lawyer ; first attorney for the commonwealth
of the new county of Nelson, Va., 1808 ; which office he
continued to hold until 1817, when he resigned. He mar-
ried, September 25, 1817, Mary Chambers Yancey, of Buck-
ingham, and removed to that county ; became colonel of
the county, a representative in the state legislature, etc.
He died while hunting, at a deer stand, in December, 1827.
[His wife, Mary C. Yancey, born January 22, 1792, died
in May, 1873, was a daughter of Maj. Charles Yancey,
born in Trinity Parish, Louisa County, Va., March 22,
1770; married, April 5, 1791, Anne Spencer (born May
30, 1769, died May 29, 1795), of Buckingham, and re-
moved to that county ; was high sheriff of the county,
1797-1799 ; " for 34 years in the Va. Legislature ; " mem-
ber Convention of 1829-1830 ; a noted man in his day, was
called "the Duke of Buckingham," and was "a wheel-horse
of the unterrified Democracy." He died April 18, 1857.
He was the son of Rev. Robert Yancey (rector of Tillotson
and Trinity parishes, in Louisa County, Va., from 1768 to
his death, in 1774), by his wife, Ann Crawford, whose
funeral sermon was preached at " Traveller's Rest " (Ma-
jor Yancey's old home in Buckingham County), by Bishop
Moore, of Virginia, January 1, 1815. She was a daughter
of David (1697-1766) and Ann Anderson (1708-1803)
Crawford. See " Memorials of the Crawfords."] Issue : —
169. i. Robert Yancey 5 Horsley.
170. ii. Ann Eliza 5 Horsley.
171. iii. Charles Yancey 5 Horsley.
172. iv. John 5 Horsley.
169. Robert Y. 5 Horsley, born November 1, 1820 ; mar-
ried, April 28, 1852, Cordelia S. Beasley, of Appomattox
County, Va., and had issue : —
302 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
i. Charles Yancey 6 Horsley, b. 1853.
ii. Robert Crawford 6 Horsley, b. 1856.
iii. Ann Chambers 6 Horsley, b. 1857 ; d. 1858.
iv. Rose B. 6 Horsley, b. 1859.
v. Mary J. 6 Horsley.
vi. Alice 6 Horsley.
vii. Elizabeth 6 Horsley.
170. Ann Eliza 5 Horsley, born January 22, 1822; liv-
ing; married, in 1842, Nicholas Mills, Jr., of Richmond,
Va. They had issue four : —
173. i. Mary Elizabeth G Mills.
174. ii. Sallie Payne G Mills.
iii. Ella Yancey 6 Mills, b. May 10, 1854 ; m. John
G. Friend, of Petersburg, Va. ; d. in May,
1872, in Richmond, Va., s. p.
iv. Anna 6 Mills, d. young.
173. Mary Elizabeth 6 Mills, born at "Traveller's Rest,"
March 12, 1843 ; married, March 3, 1863, Capt. Camm
Patteson ; died in 1878. [Her husband was born in Am-
herst County, Va., February 21, 1840; took the B. L.
degree, University of Virginia, 1859 ; attorney at law ;
captain, Company D., 56th Virginia Regiment, C. S. A. ;
presidential elector for Virginia on Democratic ticket, 1884 ;
member State Central Democratic Committee ; member
Board of Visitors, University of Virginia ; represents Buck-
ingham and Cumberland in Virginia House of Delegates.
Son of Dr. David Patteson, of " Sycamore Islands," Buck-
ingham, and his wife, Elizabeth Camm, daughter of John
Camm (who represented Amherst in the House of Delegates
in 1803 and after), the son, I believe, of the celebrated Rev.
John Camm, of William and Mary College.] Issue : —
i. W. D. 7 Patteson, b. January 4, 1864 ; attorney at law ;
m. January 16, 1895, Mary G. Lewis, daughter
of Zachary R. Lewis, of Nelson County.
ii. Anna Mills 7 Patteson, b. April 12, 1866; m. (first)
James Dunlop Duval, of Richmond, who was killed
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 303
in a railroad accident, August 7, 1889, leaving : i.
James Dunlop 8 Duval, Jr.
ii. Mrs. Anna M. 7 Duval, m. (second), in February, 1894,
her cousin, Otlio Mills Sutton.
iii. Mary Camm 7 Patteson.
iv. Camm Hobhouse Y Patteson.
v. Ella F. 7 Patteson.
174. Sallie Payne 6 Mills, born February 9, 1845; liv-
ing ; married, in 1868, Otlio Sutton, formerly of Baltimore,
now of " Island View," in Buckingham County, Va. Issue
four : —
i. Dorsey M. 7 Sutton, unmarried,
ii. Otho Mills 7 Sutton, m. Mrs. Anna M. Duval,
iii. Nicholas M. 7 Sutton,
iv. Sarah 7 Sutton.
171. Charles Y. 5 Horsley, born November 30, 1824;
died July 1, 1894 ; married (first), October 23, 1851, Mar-
garet E. Harris (born March 18, 1834; died April 24,
1856), daughter of Col. John Harris, of Buckingham. She
left two surviving children : —
i. John 6 Horsley, b. July 25, 1852.
ii. Charles G Horsley, b. September 11, 1853 ; both unmar-
ried in 1894. '
Charles Y. 5 Horsley married (second), in 1868, Jean
Montgomerie, of Lynchburg, Va. [daughter of Hugh
Montgomerie, a native of Scotland, and his wife (married
November 26, 1823), Ann J. Colquhoun, daughter of
Thomas Colquhoun, a resident of London, England, where
his daughter was educated; but of Scotch extraction.]
Issue : —
iii. Nannie Montgomerie 6 Horsley.
iv. Ella Tyler 6 Horsley.
v. Colquhoun 6 Horsley.
172. John 5 Horsley, St., born August 1, 1826; died
November 30, 1887; married (first), January 3, 1861,
304 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Louisa Scoville Brady, of Wheeling, W. Va. (born June
16, 1839; died December 26, 1877). [A granddaughter of
Judge Caldwell and his wife, Miss Halstead, and a grand-
niece of Capt. Samuel Brady, " the Revolutionary soldier
who made the famous leap when escaping from the In-
dians." Issue : —
i. George Brady 6 Horsley, d. infant.
ii. Alexander Caldwell 6 Horsley, b. June 28, 1863; m.,
November 12, 1890, Willie C. Gilmer, a niece of
Gov. Thomas Walker Gilmer, of Virginia ; Secre-
tary U. S. Navy, 1844, etc. Issue : i. Louise Sco-
ville 7 ; and ii. Alexander Caldwell 7 Horsley.
iii. Mary Elizabeth 6 Horsley, b. July 10, 1865 ; m.,
December 19, 1894, at " Traveller's Rest," Henry
Burton Taylor,
iv. John Sydnor 6 Horsley, b. April 7, 1867.
v. Louise Brady 5 Horsley, b. March 9, 1869.
vi. Ida Yancey 6 Horsley, b. April 7, 1871.
vii. Jeannette Neave 6 Horsley, b. January 19, 1873.
viii. Annie Dunscombe 6 Horsley, b. January 29, 1875.
ix. Mildred Louisa Scoville 6 Horsley, b. December 19,
1877.
Mr. John 5 Horsley married (second), November 20, 1883,
Mary Susan Stagg, of Richmond, Va., and died, leaving
one child by her : —
x. Fannie Eldridge 6 Horsley.
II. COL. WILLIAM 2 CABELL THE ELDER'S BRANCH.
10. COL. SAMUEL J. 3 CABELL'S DESCENDANTS.
46. William Syme 4 Cabell, born March 13, 1786 ; Wash-
ington College, 1804 ; married, June 10, 1808, Elizabeth
Dorothea Spotswood Payne ; sold his lands in Amherst and
Nelson counties, Va., in 1832, and removed to Hinds
County, Miss., where he died June 27, 1842. His wife
(born July 1, 1788 ; died January 5, 1859) was a daughter
of Col. Philip Payne, of Bedford County, Va. (see 50), by
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 305
his wife, Eliza Dandridge (born September 12, 1764), a
granddaughter of Gov. Alexander Spotswood, and sister-in-
law of Patrick Henry. Issue, an only child : —
i. William Alexander Spotswood 5 Cabell, b. June 16,
1811, in Nelson County, Va. ; removed with his father
in 1832 to Mississippi ; m., September 5, 1838, by
Rev. D. Comfort, a Presbyterian minister, to Ann
Elvira Elizabeth Payne, of Bedford County, Va.
He d. in Hinds County, Miss., January 2, 1883. His
wife (b. October 27, 1813 ; d. May 10, 1879) was the
eldest daughter of Dr. Nathaniel West Payne (son of
Col. Philip Payne), by his first wife (m. December 15,
1812) Catherine Willson Alexander, daughter of Capt.
Robert Alexander, of Virginia. He was a physician of
prominence ; went from Virginia to Clinton County,
Miss., about 1828, where his first wife d. July 26,
1833. After her death he returned to Virginia.
They had only two children : —
i. Sarah Syme 6 Cabell, b. February 18, 1841, in
Hinds County, Miss. ; m., February 4, 1864, Col.
C. L. Thomas, a cotton planter, a breeder of fine
stock, a man of fine social standing in Hinds
County, Miss., where he is now residing with his
wife ; without issue,
ii. William Alexander 6 Cabell, b. May 23, 1843;
served three years in the C. S. A., one year a pri-
vate in 4th Mississippi Cavalry, Adams' Brigade,
and two years in Bradford's Scouts, who oper-
ated on the Mississippi River between Baton
Rouge and Vicksburg ; after the war studied med-
icine, but never followed it as a profession, prefer-
ring cotton planting, to which life he has devoted
himself. He m., September 14, 1871, Miss How-
ard Jefferson, of Hinds County, Miss., daughter
of Peter Field Jefferson, a lineal descendant of
Field Jefferson, a brother of Col. Peter Jefferson,
the father of Thomas Jefferson. Issue : —
306 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
i. Syme Thomas 7 Cabell, b. June 29, 1872.
ii. William Spotswood 7 Cabell, b. June 29, 1872.
iii. Courtenay Parham 7 Cabell, b. July 8, 1874.
iv. Lilith Cabell 7 , b. October 27, 1879.
[Under the old laws of primogeniture the fore-
going twins would be the present legal represen-
tatives of old Dr. William Cabell, the emigrant,
descending as they do " from the eldest son of
the eldest son."
47. Mildred Meriwether 4 Cabell married, about 1803,
Joseph Kirkland Green, a native and resident of Jefferson
County, Miss., engaged in cotton planting, and went with
her husband to that State. He was a son of Col. Thomas
Marston Green and his wife, Martha Wills (who is said
to have descended from the distinguished Howard family
of England), both natives of James City County, Va. Col.
Thomas M. Green was a colonel in the Continental army ;
after the Revolution he removed to Georgia, which State
claimed a portion of the Mississippi territory, organized
Bourbon County out of a portion of her claim, and sent
Col. Green there with a commission as magistrate. It was
while acting in this capacity that he united in the bonds of
matrimony Gen. Andrew Jackson and Mrs. Robards, who
was visiting at his home on Coles Creek, in the present Jef-
ferson County, Miss. Col. Thomas Marston Green repre-
sented the Mississippi territory in the Seventh Congress of
the United States, 1802-1803, and it was in Washington
that his son, Joseph K. Green, first met Miss Cabell, whose
father was then the representative of the Amherst (Va.)
district.
47. Mrs. Mildred M. 4 Cabell Green had issue five : —
175. i. Martha Augusta 5 Green.
ii. Samuel Cabell 5 Green, m., in 1832, his first
cousin, Augusta Kirkland, daughter of Archi-
bald Kirkland and his wife, Jane Green (sister
of Joseph K. Green), of Jefferson County,
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 307
Miss. He owned a large cotton plantation,
worked by 150 negroes; d.in January, 1835, s. p.
176. iii. Lucy Ann 5 Green.
iv. Sarah Virginia 5 Green, m. Amnion Hancock, a
leading merchant of Lynchburg, Va., and
mayor of the town in 1829, 1837, and 1841.
She d. s. p.
v. Thomas H. 5 Green, d. young.
47. Mrs. Mildred M. 4 Cabell Green m. (second) Maj.
Levin Cartwright, U. S. A. She died June 14, 1819, at
Choctaw Agency, in north Alabama, leaving an only son by
her second husband : —
vi. Levin 5 Cartwright, d. young.
175. Martha Augusta 5 Green, born January 31, 1806;
married, January 8, 1829, Joseph Eggleston Jones ; she
died October 10, 1864. Her husband (born January 2,
1793 ; died April 17, 1852) was the youngest of twelve chil-
dren of Joseph and Anna Jones, of Albemarle County, Va.
He served with the Mississippi troops in the War of 1812,
under Maj. Thomas Hinds, who married a sister of Joseph
K. Green ; he was in the battle of New Orleans, January 8,
1815. Gen. Jackson, in a General Order, complimented the
Mississippi cavalry and their gallant leader, Maj. Thomas
Hinds. After his marriage, Mr. J. E. Jones moved to
Claiborne County, Miss., and owned at his death 2000 acres
of land, devoted to the raising of cotton. Like his father,
he had twelve children : —
177. i. Joseph Cabell 6 Jones.
ii. Thomas Henry G Jones, b. March 6, 1831 ; served
in 4th Mississippi Cavalry, under Gen. N. B.
Forrest, in the C. S. A. ; d. June 7, 1868 ; un-
married.
178. iii. Eugene Demetrius 6 Jones.
iv. Augusta 6 Jones, b. 1833; d. 1844.
v. Samuel Cabell 6 Jones, b. December 12, 1834;
"was returning home (from the Louisville
308 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Medical College, where he had graduated) on
the steamboat Princess, one of the finest on
the Mississippi River, when it blew up, Feb-
ruary 27, 1857, killing him and more than
fifty others." He never married.
179. vi. Sarah Virginia ° Jones.
180. vii. Archelaus Kirkland 6 Jones.
181. viii. William Syme 6 Jones.
ix. Meriwether Lewis 9 Jones, b. July 8, 1842 ; " the
flower and the pride of the family." When
the war began, he was at the head of his class
in the University of Mississippi ; joined Com-
pany K, 12th Mississippi Regiment, C. S. A.,
and was killed in the battle of Ellison's Mills,
near Richmond, June 27, 1862 ; unmarried.
x. James Railey G Jones, b. 1844 ; d. 1848.
182. xi. Lucy Anna 6 Jones.
183. xii. Meredith Dabney 6 Jones.
177. Joseph Cabell 6 Jones, born October 8, 1829 ;
served in Cowan's Battery, C. S. A., throughout the war ;
was with the Western army ; is now a farmer near St. Elmo
post-office, Miss. He married, January 27, 1852, Jane
Carpenter (born January 6, 1832; died September 7, 1867),
and had issue : —
i. Mary Augusta 7 Jones, b. December 3, 1852.
ii. Joseph Horace 7 Jones, b. July 25, 1854 ; m., March
27, 1884, Sallie Alba Fortenbery (b. December 9,
1864), and has : i. Eva Alba 8 ; ii. Archie C. 8 ; iii.
Virginia 8 ; and iv. Joseph Lucien 8 Jones.
iii. Archie Eggleston 7 Jones, b. October 10, 1856 ; m.,
October 23, 1888, Julia Hughes (179), and has : i.
Preston Hughes 8 ; and ii. Mary Augusta 8 Jones.
iv. Martha Henrietta 7 Jones, d. 1884 ; unmarried.
v. Claude Marston 7 Jones, b. January 25, 1861 ; m., May
17, 1889, Ida May Thompson, and has : i. Josie Ca-
bell 8 ; and ii. Ida May 8 Jones.
vi. Janie Eva 7 Jones, b. February 11, 1863 ; in., February
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 309
13, 1884, Joseph H. Little ; and had : i. Virginia
Augusta 8 (dead) ; ii. Joseph Claude 8 ; iii. Dora
Velma 8 ; and iv. William Kirby 8 Little.
vii. Lucy Ruth 7 Jones, d. 1882 ; unmarried.
178. Eugene Demetrius 6 Jones, born May 28, 1832;
was second lieutenant, Company K, 36th Mississippi Infan-
try, C. S. A. ; was in Vicksburg during the siege ; was shot
in right ankle in battle in front of Atlanta, and discharged
permanently disabled. He is now a successful planter near
Carlisle, Miss. He married (first), August 11, 1864, Anna
M. Jones, who died without issue June 17, 1865. He mar-
ried (second), January 17, 1867, Mary S. Jones, and has
one son : —
i. Eugene Demetrius 7 Jones, Jr., b. in November, 1867.
179. Sarah Virginia 6 Jones, born February 22, 1837 ;
married, February 25, 1858, Dr. William Preston Hughes
(born December 9, 1827), a native of Claiborne County,
Miss ; graduated at the Louisiana Medical College in 1854 ;
is now living in the old homestead at St. Elmo, Miss., en-
gaged in both cotton planting and the practice of medicine.
Issue : —
i. Julia 7 Hughes, b. 1863; m. Archie E. Jones (177).
ii. Helen Erna 7 Hughes, b. 1767 ; m., 1889, Samuel Ed-
ward Dudley, and had: i. Sarah Virginia 8 ; and ii.
Grace 8 Dudley.
iii. Henry Preston 7 Hughes, b. 1869.
iv. Thomas Meriwether 7 Hughes, b. 1873.
v. Mildred Virginia 7 Hughes, b. 1874.
vi. Catharine Byrnes 7 Hughes, b. 1881.
180. Archelaus Kirkland 6 Jones, born June 3, 1839 ;
graduated at University of Mississippi, 1860 ; with his two
younger brothers, enlisted in Company K, 12th Mississippi
Regiment, in May, 1861 ; reached Manassas the night after
the battle of July 21, 1861. The captain of his company was
killed at Seven Pines, May 31, 1862, when he was elected
captain. His company went into the seven days' fight near
Richmond, Va., June 26 to July 1, 1862, with four swords
310 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
and sixty-three muskets, and came out with one sword and
fourteen guns, all the rest killed or wounded. His brother,
Meriwether, was killed at Ellison's Mills, June 27 ; and his
second lieutenant, John C. Calhoun, his wife's only brother,
was killed at Frazier's Farm. He was wounded at Frazier's
Farm, June 30, 1862 ; at Bristoe Station, August 26, 1862 ;
and Yellow Tavern, August 18, 1861, and captured and
sent to Fort Delaware ; after four weeks was exchanged as
being unfit for service. Regained his health, and rejoined his
command in March, 1865. Was second officer in command
of his regiment at Fort Gregg, in front of Petersburg, April
2, 1865, " the last and most sanguinary battle of the war,
considering the number of men engaged on our side ; with
200 men we held the fort for two hours against Gibbon's
whole corps, supported by two divisions from another corps.
We killed not less than 1000 Federals. We belonged to
Featherston-Harris Brigade, Mahone's Division." From
Fort Gregg he was taken to Washington, and was confined
in the " Old Capitol " prison. " None of the prisoners slept
the night Mr. Lincoln was assassinated, owing to the howl-
ing- of the mob outside, who threatened to tear down the
walls and murder them." From thence he was taken to
Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie, detained until June 26,
when he was released ; reached his home July 4, 1865.
He participated in all the great battles fought by the Army
of Northern Virginia, except two, when he was disabled by
wounds. He was elected clerk of Claiborne County (Miss.)
Chancery Court in 1877, and still fills that office. He
married, October 21, 1867, Mary Henry Calhoun (born Sep-
tember 28, 1842), daughter of Ezekiel W. Calhoun, of
South Carolina, who was first cousin of John C. Calhoun,
the statesman. He resides at Port Gibson, Miss., and has
issue : —
i. John Meriwether 7 Jones, b. July 26, 1868.
ii. Cabell Calhoun 7 Jones, b. January 24, 1870.
iii. Anna Amelia 7 Jones, b. October 23, 1871.
iv. Archelaus Kirkland 7 Jones, b. May 8, 1873.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 311
v. William Thomas 7 Jones, b. March 19, 1875.
vi. Mary Low 7 Jones, b. April 8, 1877.
vii. Ettie Elise 7 Jones, b. May 11, 1879.
viii. Virginia Hughes 7 Jones, b. February 23, 1881.
181. William Syme 6 Jones, born November 10, 1840 ;
enlisted in Company K, 12th Mississippi Regiment, C. S.
A., May, 1861 ; discharged at Davis Ford, on surgeon's cer-
tificate of disability, December, 1861 ; again enlisted in
1863 in 4th Mississippi Cavalry ; wounded in battle near
Canton, Miss., taken prisoner, and confined in Fort Dela-
ware till close of war. He is now engaged in farming at
Meridian, Miss. He married, in 1880, Martha Patterson ;
she died, leaving one child : —
i. William Spencer 7 Jones, b. 1887.
182. Lucy Anna G Jones, born October 27, 1846; mar-
ried, April 25, 1866, James Grafton Spencer (born Septem-
ber 13, 1844), a native of Claiborne County, Miss. Left
Oakland College, Miss. ; entered, as a private, Cowan's
Battery, C. S. A., and served throughout the entire war.
He then began farming near Port Gibson, Miss. ; was
elected to the lower house of the Mississippi legislature in
1892, and on November 6, 1894, was elected, as a Democrat,
to the Fifty-fourth United States Congress from the Seventh
District of Mississippi. Issue : —
i. Sarah Marshall 7 Spencer, b. July 3, 1869.
ii. Horatio Nelson 7 Spencer, b. December 16, 1871.
iii. Elizabeth Grafton 7 Spencer, b. July 28, 1873.
iv. Meredith Jones 7 Spencer, b. July 9, 1876.
v. James Grafton 7 Spencer, b. April 12, 1888.
183. Meredith Dabney 6 Jones, born March 26, 1848;
graduated at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.,
in April, 1870; commissioned assistant surgeon, U. S. N.,
in May, 1871, and surgeon in April, 1884. Sailed as sur-
geon on U. S. relief ship Rodgers, Lieut. Berry command-
ing, in search of Capt. De Long and party, who had gone
out on the Jeannette in search of the north pole. The
Rodgers burned while blocked in the ice in the Arctic
312 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Ocean, and the crew had a most romantic experience and
wonderful escape. He resigned from the navy in May,
1885 ; is now an aurist, residing in St. Louis, Mo. ; was
elected to fill the chair of otology in the Barnes Medical
College, St. Louis, in June, 1892, which position he still fills.
He married, September 25, 1884, Arie Craig (born April 6,
1866), daughter of John Watson Craig and Caroline Cross
Craig, of Chambersburg, Pa., and has one child : —
i. Arie Niccols 7 Jones, b. September 4, 1888.
176. Lucy Ann 5 Green, born about 1810 ; married
(first), December 17, 1829, William Carpenter ; he died
February 2, 1831, and their only child, William G Carpenter,
died infant. Mrs. Lucy Ann Green married (second), April
28, 1833, Levi Cunningham Harris. He was in the War
of 1812 ; in the cavalry regiment commanded by Maj.
Thomas Hinds ; was shot through the right shoulder in the
battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815, and forever after
lost the use of his right arm and hand. Prior to the war
he was a successful merchant. He was a most excellent,
elegant, Christian gentleman. He died at his home in Clin-
ton, Hinds County, Miss., January 28, 1863. His wife
died January 12, 1854. Issue eight : —
i. Marie Louise 6 Harris, b. 1834 ; d. 1834.
ii. Levi Cabell 6 Harris, b. 1836 ; d. 1836.
184. iii. Elizabeth Savage c Harris.
iv. Mildred Green 6 Harris, b. 1841 ; d. 1855.
185. v. Mary Bradford 6 Harris.
186. vi. Lucy Ann G Harris.
187. vii. Martha Augusta 6 Harris.
viii. Charles Jordan 6 Harris, b. 1849 ; d. 1863.
184. Elizabeth Savage 6 Harris, born December 25, 1837 ;
married, August 28, 1863, John Templeton Green, of
Vicksburg, who died October 9, 1892. She died in Vicks-
burg, Miss., May 25, 1873. Issue : —
i. Thomas Marston 7 Green, b. at "White Hall," Clai-
borne County, Miss., May 27, 1864 ; living at Vicks-
burg; unmarried.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 313
ii. Elizabeth Harris 7 Green, b. in Clinton, Miss., Septem-
ber 30, 1865 ; m., April 11, 1888, in Selma, Ala.,
Junius Moore Riggs, of Montgomery, librarian, etc.,
of the State of Alabama.
iii. Sidney Stuart 7 Green, b. 1868 ; d. 1871.
iv. Harris 7 Green, b. at Goodrich's Landing, East Carroll
Parish, La., September 5, 1870.
v. Frank Templeton 7 Green, b. 1872 ; d. 1874.
185. Mary Bradford 6 Harris, b. May 14, 1843; married
H. M. Colson, a native of Port Gibson, Miss. He served
through the war as a private in Company K, 12th Missis-
sippi Regiment, C. S. A., Northern Virginia ; was severely
wounded at Frazier's Farm, June 30, 1862; now a mer-
chant of Port Gibson. Their only child : —
i. Lucy Hughes 7 Colson, b. March, 1872; m., July 20,
1893, Mr. W. G. Millender.
186. Lucy Ann 6 Harris, born July 9, 1845 ; married,
May 4, 1872, Daniel Partridge. A native of Mobile, Ala. ;
enlisted in 5th Alabama Regiment, Col. R. E. Rodes, C. S.
A., Northern Virginia ; served three years as first lieuten-
ant in the line, and the last year as captain on the staff of
Brigr-Gen. Sanders. He is a successful cotton broker at
Selma, Ala. His wife died February 4, 1884. Issue : —
i. Daniel 7 Partridge, b. March 3, 1873.
ii. Preston Hughes 7 Partridge, b. September 27, 1874.
iii. Lucy Green 7 Partridge, b. May 4, 1876.
iv. Charles Stevens 7 Partridge, b. June 30, 1879.
v. Mary Winslow 7 Partridge, b. April 29, 1881.
vi. Mildred Cabell 7 Partridge, b. 1883; d. 1884.
187. Martha Augusta c Harris, born February 9, 1847 ;
married, October 12, 1870, Dr. W. C. McCaleb, a native of
Adams County, Miss. Entered the C. S. A. as surgeon of
the 4th Mississippi Cavalry ; afterwards promoted to chief
of the medical board at the Brandon Post. He is both
physician and cotton planter. Resides in Adams County,
Miss. His wife died July 17, 1872, leaving an only
child : —
314 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
i. Lucy Augusta 7 McCaleb, b. May 10, 1872.
48. Samuel Jordan 4 Cabell, Jr., born November 11,
1787 ; educated at Mr. Lyle's school in Prince Edward
County, and at Washington College ; graduated in medi-
cine, practiced in Nelson a good many years, and then
removed to Franklin County. He married, June 1, 1827,
in the west district of Tennessee, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Harwell,
nee Avery. He died December 30, 1845, in Franklin
County, Va. His widow (who married, thirdly, Col. Mau-
rice Langhorn, of Lynchburg) died January 6, 1875. Issue :
i. Edward Avery 5 Cabell, b. May 8, 1832 ; never
married,
ii. Sally Syme 5 Cabell, b. June 13, 1834 ; m., Feb-
ruary 22, 1854, John W. Morris, of Carolina ;
d. July 19, 1855, s. p.
iii. Samuel Jordan 5 Cabell, b. August 23, 1836 ;
educated at University of Virginia ; member
25th Virginia Infantry, C. S. A. ; d. at Mon-
terey, Highland County, September 3, 1861 ;
unmarried.
iv. William Washington 5 Cabell, b. May 10, 1838 ;
an engineer ; was killed near Clifton Forge, on
the Central Railroad, by the premature explo-
sion of a blast, November 15, 1855 ; unmar-
ried.
v. Patrick Henry 5 Cabell, b. May 2, 1840 ; m., Oc-
tober 11, 1860, Lela Saunders, of Bedford ;
member 11th Virginia Regiment, C. S. A. ; d.
at Fairfax Court House, September 6, 1861,
s. p.
188. vi. Margaret E. 5 Cabell.
189. vii. Emma E. 5 Cabell.
viii. Elvira Ann 5 Cabell, b. 1846; d. 1846.
188. Margaret E. 5 Cabell, born June 5, 1842 ; married,
October 16, 1861, in Lynchburg, by Rev. William S. Ham-
mond, to George M. Waddill, of Charles City County. He
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 315
had graduated in and commenced the practice of law in the
early part of 1861 ; entered the C. S. A. as captain of " the
Charles City Southern Guards," one of the first Virginia
companies to enlist in service ; was stationed at Yorktown,
under Gen. Magruder. He was soon promoted major of
the 53d Virginia Regiment, and after the battle of Malvern
Hill was commissioned as colonel. His health failing- in
the latter part of 1864, he was assigned to special service
at Richmond until the close of the war. As there was then
not much to be done at law, he went into the sawmill busi-
ness, in Surry County, until 1871, when he removed to Isle
of Wight County, and again took up his profession. He
represented that county as a Republican in the Virginia
House of Delegates in 1879-1880. Died at Windsor, Isle
of Wight County, March 14, 1885, aged forty-seven, leav-
ing his widow, who still survives, the last of her father's
children. Issue : —
i. George Cabell 6 Waddill, b. November 29, 1862; d.
March 18, 1872.
ii. Elizabeth Avery 6 Waddill, b. November 22, 1864;
m. Edmund T. Waddill, of Charles City County,
member Signal Corps, C. S. A. ; now a farmer
and merchant. Issue : i. Samuel Cabell 7 ; ii. John
Lamb 7 ; iii. Elma Leigh 7 ; iv. George Major 7 ; and
v. Edmund Thomas 7 Waddill.
iii. Isabella Goggin 6 Waddill, b. November 25, 1866 ; m.
Samuel E. Atkinson, of Richmond, Va. Issue : i.
Robert T. 7 Atkinson,
iv. Sallie Syme 6 Waddill, b. May 21, 1868; m. William
P. Lawton, merchant, of Richmond. She d. three
years after her marriage, leaving : i. Ellen Court-
hope 7 ; and ii. George Cabell 7 Lawton.
v. Thompson Burroughs 6 Waddill, b. March 18, 1870.
Agent for the T. C. Williams Tobacco Company, of
Richmond, in Norfolk ; unmarried,
vi. Emma Cabell 6 Waddill, b. April 15, 1873 ; m. Joseph
Floyd Huxter, merchant, of Richmond, Va. ? and
has : i. Joseph Floyd 7 Huxter.
316 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
vii. Maggie Heath 6 Waddill ; unmarried,
viii. Mattie Redwood c Waddill ; unmarried.
189. Emma E. 5 Cabell, born November 3, 1843 ; mar-
ried, March 15, 1865, in Lynchburg, by Rev. William
McGee, to Davis Ayres, Esq., of Rocky Mount, Franklin
County, Va. She died July 23, 1877. Issue : —
i. Edward Cabell 6 Ayres, b. 1866; d. 1870.
ii. Elizabeth Avery 6 Ayres, b. 1867 ; d. 1867.
iii. Sallie Syme G Ayres, b. January 2, 1869 ; m. Rev. James
Minor Holladay, of Rocky Mount, and has : i. Emily
Cabell 7 Holladay.
iv. Cabell Reed 6 Ayres, b. 1871; d. 1871.
v. Samuel Cabell ° Ayres, b. July 15, 1872 ; now living at
Rocky Mount.
49. Paulina R. 4 Cabell, born in 1789 ; married, May 28,
1817, by Rev. W. S. Reid, to George Whitlock, Esq., of
Lynchburg, and died in 1827, leaving an only child, Sa-
rah C. 5 Whitlock, b. in 1819 ; married, February 22, 1838,
by Rev. Mr. Hutchinson, to Dr. Richard L. Bohannon, of
Richmond, one of the founders of the Richmond Medical
College. Mrs. Sarah C. Bohannon is still living, having
had issue : —
i. George Whitlock 6 Bohannon, d. in C. S. A. ; un-
married,
ii. Joseph 6 Bohannon, d. in C. S. A. ; unmarried,
iii. Elizabeth Pauline 6 Bohannon, living ; unmarried.
190. iv. Martha E. 6 Bohannon.
v. Charles Grattan Cabell 6 Bohannon.
190. Martha E. 6 Bohannon, born December 26, 1852;
married, March 3, 1875, by Rev. Moses D. Hoge, to Charles
Lorraine, Esq., of Richmond, Va., and has : i. Charles Ca-
bell 7 ; ii. Emma Louise 7 ; iii. Wellford Bohannon 7 ; iv.
Martha Evelyn 7 (dead) ; v. Lillian Hoge 7 ; vi. George Ber-
nard 7 ; and vii. Alfred Lennox 7 Lorraine.
50. Margaret Washington 4 Cabell, married (first), De-
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 317
cember 7, 1815, at " Soldier's Joy," by Rev. John Hendren,
to John Higginbotham (brother of Daniel Higginbotham).
He died February 23, 1822. Issue : —
191. i. WilliamThomas 5 Higginbotham.
ii. Laura 5 Higginbotham, b. 1819, d. 1821.
50. Mrs. Margaret W. Higginbotham, married (second),
September 17, 1839, at Lynchburg, by Rev. William S.
Reid, to Dr. Nathaniel West Payne, of Amherst County,
Va., whose eldest daughter by his first marriage was the
wife of William A. S. Cabell (son of 46). Mrs. Payne died
February 17, 1881, at the residence of her son, W. T. Hig-
ginbotham (191), in Upshur County, W. Va., without issue
by her second husband, who was a son of Col. Philip Payne
and his wife, Eliza Dandridge (see 46), a descendant from
Gov. John West, one of the founders of Virginia.
Col. Philip Payne was a son of Col. John Payne, of
" Whitehall," frequently a member of the House of Bur-
gesses from Goochland, who died in 1784 ; son of George
Payne, sheriff of Goochland, who died in 1744, by his wife,
Mary Woodson, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Ferris
Woodson, of " Curls," in Henrico.
191. William Thomas 5 Higginbotham, of Buckhannon,
Upshur County, W. Va., born August 19, 1818 ; married
(first), August 22, 1839, at " Soldier's Joy," by Rev. Cle-
land K. Nelson, to Mary F. Coleman (" whose mother was
a Miss Higginbotham "). She died July 31, 1871, and Mr.
W. T. Higginbotham married (second), October 7, 1875,
Mrs. Anna L. Carroll, daughter of Dr. Randolph Patterson,
of Buckingham County, Va. He died without issue by her.
191. William T. 5 and Mary F. Higginbotham had issue
seven : —
i. John Carlton 6 Higginbotham, b. November 11, 1842 ; a
student at Lynchburg College when the war began ;
entered the C. S. A. as captain in 1861 ; promoted
major and lieutenant-colonel in 1862 ; colonel, 1863 ;
brigadier - general, May, 1864, being one of the
youngest officers of these grades in the service ; was
318 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
wounded seven times, and at last killed at Spottsyl-
vania Court House, May 10, 1864, while command-
ing the 25th Virginia Regiment, Jones' Brigade,
before his commission as brigadier-general reached
him ; unmarried.
ii. Frances 6 Higginbotham, b. 1846 ; d. 1847.
iii. Coleman Cabell G Higginbotham, of " Weston," Upshur
County, W. Va., b. December 16, 1848 ; m., Sep-
tember 15, 1876, by Rev. Mr. Dana, to Mary 1 Ida
Day, daughter of Dr. R. H. B. Day. Issue : i.
Mary 7 ; ii. Jessie 7 ; iii. Lula 7 ; iv. Lottie 7 ; and v.
Jennie 7 Higginbotham.
iv. Margaret E. 6 Higginbotham, b. 1850 ; d. 1858.
v. Ella G Higginbotham, b. 1853 ; d. 1858.
vi. Lucy Caroline Higginbotham.
vii. Rosalie Anne Higginbotham, d. ; never married.
51. Patrick Henry 4 Cabell, born August 12, 1799;
graduated in medicine, and practiced in Lynchburg ; mar-
ried, February 13, 1826, Elizabeth S. Lee, daughter of
Daniel Lee, Esq., of Winchester, and sister of Judge George
K. Lee, of the Court of Appeals of Virginia. He died in
Lynchburg, June 28, 1838. His widow died February 4,
1874. Issue : —
i. Charles 5 Cabell, b. March 18, 1827 ; served in
C. S. A. ; d. May 18, 1864 ; unmarried.
192. ii. Henry L. 5 Cabell.
193. iii. Elizabeth Lee 5 Cabell.
194. iv. Virginia 5 Cabell.
v. Ellen Constance 5 Cabell, b. 1834 ; d. 1852.
vi. Cornelia 5 Cabell, b. 1836; d. 1862.
195. vii. Margaret Pauline 5 Cabell.
192. Henry L. 5 Cabell, born December 25, 1828 ; served
in the Mexican War ; graduated in Medical Department
of the University of Pennsylvania, 1851 ; located in New
Market, Nelson County, Va., to practice his profession ; in
C. S. service. Married, June 13, 1855, at Inglewood, Nelson
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 319
County, Va., by Rev. F. D. Goodwin, to Anne W. Cabell
(daughter of 52). She died December 27, 1872. He is
living in Cedarville, Warren County, Va. Issue : —
i. Mary Anne 6 Cabell, b. April, 1856; d. September,
1856.
ii. George W. G Cabell, b. August, 1857 ; d. September,
1858.
iii. Henry Lee 6 Cabell, b. June, 1859; d. August, 1861.
iv. Sallie J. L. 6 Cabell, b. March 23, 1861; living at
Cedarville.
v. Charles Curtius 6 Cabell, b. January 25, 1863; living,
Winchester,
vi. Ellen Constance Cabell, b. October 18, 1861; dead,
vii. Samuel Jordan 6 Cabell, b. August 22, 1867 ; living at
Cedarville.
viii. Patrick Henry 6 Cabell, b. April 12, 1872; d. August,
1872.
193. Elizabeth Lee 5 Cabell, b. December 2, 1830 ; mar-
ried, June 6, 1855, at Winchester, Robert Bentley, Esq.,
of Loudoun. He is dead. She is living. Issue : —
i. Edgar Bentley, b. June 27, 1859.
ii. Katherine Longden ° Bentley, b. December 31, 1860 ;
m. Dr. B. F. Noland, of Round Hill, Loudoun
County, Va., and has : i. Frank B. 7 ; ii. George
Armistead 7 ; iii. Edgar Bentley 7 ; iv. Stacy Taylor 7 ;
and v. Elizabeth Cabell 7 Noland.
iii. Cornelia ° Bentley, b. February 23, 1862.
iv. Virginia Lee ° Bentley, b. March 2, 1863.
v. Robert D.° Bentley ; dead.
vi. Henry Cabell Bentley, b. March 5, 1868.
vii. Elizabeth Lee ° Bentley, b. February 1, 1870.
viii. Mary Grey 6 Bentley, b. November 1, 1871.
ix. Sarah Pleasants ° Bentley, b. January 23, 1875.
194. Virginia 5 Cabell, born September 8, 1832 ; mar-
ried, March 15, 1860, at Winchester, by Rev. C. Walker,
to G. Smith Gilkeson. She died November 30, 1862.
Issue : —
320 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
i. Henry Lee 6 Gilkeson, b. February 8, 1861 ; m. Car-
oline Elizabeth Hiam, of Minneapolis, and resides in
that city. Issue : i. Harold Lee 7 ; and ii. John Revel 7
Gilkeson.
ii. Virginia C. G Gilkeson, b. November 11, 1862 ; m. Alex-
ander M. Baker, of Winchester, and has : i. Marion
Virginia 7 Baker.
195. Margaret Pauline 5 Cabell, born June 11, 1838;
married, November 3, 1857, at Winchester, by Rev. C.
Walker, to George Randolph Page, of Clarke County,
Va. She died July 23, 1863. Issue : —
i. Henry Cabell 6 Page, b. July 10, 1859; m. Elizabeth
Timberlake, of Clarke County ; resides at Milldale.
Issue : i. Mann 7 ; and ii. Richard Lee 7 Page.
ii. Margaret Pauline G Page, b. June 9, 1863 ; m. R. W.
Hutcheson, of Loudoun County, Va. ; resides at
Farmwell. Issue : i. Ellen Page 7 ; and ii. John Page 7
Hutcheson.
52. George Washington 4 Cabell, born July 12, 1802 ; a
farmer and planter ; married, February 18, 1829, at Lynch-
burg, Va., by Rev. F. G. Smith, of the Episcopal Church,
to Mary Anne Anthony. He died October 2, 1869, at his
seat, " Inglewood," near Norwood post-office, Nelson County,
Va. His wife died at the same place, April 28, 1868, aged
59 years. She was sister to Samuel (married Charlotte Ir-
vine), to Margaret (married Dr. Clifford Cabell), to Sarah
(married Benjamin Harrison Randolph), and to Caroline
Anthony, the second wife of Mayo Cabell. Their father,
Christopher Anthony, Jr., born December 12, 1776, died in
September, 1835 ; attorney at law of Lynchburg, Va. ; mar-
ried, in 1803, Anna Woolston Couch (born January, 1786,
died December, 1854), daughter of Samuel Couch (born
September 16, 1752 ; married, January 3, 1776, in the old
Swedes' Church (Gloria Dei), Philadelphia, Pa., to Ann
Quigg, born October 5, 1754, in Mount Holly, N. J.)
" It is said that Samuel Couch owned and tilled the land
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 321
on which West Philadelphia is located. He moved to Va.
about 1777, buying several thousand acres of land in
Goochland Co. He was a large slaveholder, but becoming
a Quaker, liberated his slaves."
Christopher Anthony, Jr. (who with his wife withdrew
from the Quakers and joined the Episcopal Church about
1829), was a son of Christopher Anthony, Sr., a Quaker
preacher (by his second wife), born March 24, 1744, in
Louisa or Albemarle County ; married (first) Judith Moor-
man, daughter of Charles Moorman; married (second), Jan-
uary 5, 1776, Mary Jordan.
Extracts from the records of South River Monthly Meet-
ing : —
"18th. 2 mo. 1769. Micajah Terrell and Christopher
Anthony appointed to employ workmen to build a new
Meeting- house."
" 6 mo. 1769. The new Meeting house reported finished."
[The ruins of this house, I believe, are still to be seen on
the Salem turnpike, about four miles from Lynchburg.]
" 19th. 8 mo. 1769. Christopher Anthony was appointed
an elder.
" 21st. 2 mo. 1778. Christopher Anthony, recorded a
minister."
He moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, about 1814, and died
there October 28, 1815. He was a son of Joseph Anthony,
by his wife, Elizabeth Clark (sister to Edward, Bowling, and
Micajah Clark, and to the wives of Benjamin Johnson,
Thomas Moorman, and Charles Lynch), daughter of Chris-
topher (and Penelope) Clark, of Louisa County, who on
June 16, 1722, in partnership with Nicholas Meriwether,
patented 972 acres in Hanover. From 1722 to 1739 he
patented 4926 acres in his own name in the same county.
In his will (dated August 14, 1741) he gives his son Bow-
ling " my trooping arms, my Great Bible and all my law
Books." In 1742, he was one of the first justices of Louisa
County. In the will of Nicholas Meriwether (dated De-
cember 12, 1743), he is called " Captain." In 1749, he was
322 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
appointed " an overseer of the meeting near the Sugar Loaf
Mountains," i. e. near the present Grace Church, Albemarle
County, Va. His will was recorded May 28, 1754. He
was not an original Quaker, but joined the society between
1743 and 1749.
Mrs. Mary Jordan Anthony (the mother of Christopher
Anthony, Jr.), born November 16, 1749 ; died January 16,
1838, in Cincinnati, Ohio, was a daughter of Samuel Jor-
dan, a Quaker preacher of Suffolk and Nansemond coun-
ties, Va. Her sister, Margaret Jordan, married William
Harrison, of Charles City County, Va. These Jordans de-
scended from Thomas Jordan (born 1634 ; died February
22, 1700 (N. S.), who is said to have been " a grandson of
Col. Samuel Jordan, of Jordan's Journey, 1 by his first wife ")
and his wife, Margaret, of Nansemond County, who were
among the earliest members of the Society of Friends in
Virginia. They left ten sons, at least two of whom were
Quaker preachers, and many of their descendants have been
Quakers. Thomas Pleasants, who preached at the Cedar
Creek Meeting in May, 1739, married Mary Jordan ; John
Pleasants, clerk of Upper Meeting, in Henrico County,
married Margaret Jordan ; Joseph Pleasants, uncle of
Governor James Pleasants, of Virginia, married Elizabeth
Jordan, etc., etc. Among the sons of Thomas Jordan
(1634-1679), the first Quaker in the family, were a " Mat-
thew " and a " Samuel," and it is possible that Matthew
and Col. Samuel Jordan, of old Albemarle, were of the
same family, although they were members of the Established
Church.
52. George W. 4 and Mary Anne Cabell had issue : —
i. Sarah Syme 5 Cabell, b. April 13, 1830; d. Jan-
uary 20, 1862, s. p. ; m., June 2, 1859, Jo-
seph Laidley, b. in Belfast, Ireland, October
15, 1829 ; a chemist ; blown up in Richmond
during the late war while making powder for
the C. S. A.
1 See The Genesis of the United States, p. 933.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 323
ii. Anne W. 5 , b. November 10, 1831; d. De-
cember 27, 1872 ; m. Dr. Henry L. Cabell
(192).
iii. Margaret Clifford 5 , b. February 10, 1835; d.
February 15, 1888.
iv. Lucy Brown 5 Cabell, b. May 12, 1836.
196. v. Patrick Henry 5 Cabell.
vi. Samuel Jordan 5 Cabell, b. December 17, 1840 ;
d. January 18, 1845.
196. Patrick Henry 5 Cabell, born October 17, 1837;
educated at Emory and Henry College. When the war
commenced, he was professor of Greek in the Lynchburg
Military College ; entered the C. S. A. as a private in the
Lynchburg Home Guard, April 24, 1861, which company
was attached to the 11th Virginia Regiment. After the
war he was for a long time the Superintendent of Schools
of Nelson County ; is now in the railroad service. He was
married February 25, 1863, at Oakland, by Rev. William
J. Shipman, to Elizabeth W. Eubank, daughter of Royal
H. Eubank, Esq., of Nelson. They still reside at the old
homestead, " Ingle wood," about three miles above the
mouth of Tye River, and have issue : —
i. Patrick Henry Carey G Cabell, b. January 8, 1864 ; at-
torney at law, Richmond, Va.
ii. Mary Caroline 6 Cabell, b. May 18, 1866.
iii. Annie 6 Cabell, b. February 20, 1869.
iv. Lucy Brown 6 Cabell, b. May 16, 1871.
v. George Washington 6 Cabell, b. June 21, 1873.
vi. Margaret Etta 6 Cabell, b. January 3, 1876.
vii. Royal E. 6 Cabell, b. March 12, 1878.
viii. John 6 Cabell,
ix. Somers 6 Cabell.
53. Emeline S. 4 Cabell, born in 1804; married (first)
December 17, 1829, in Lynchburg, by Rev. William S.
Reid, to Benjamin E. Scruggs. He died in March, 1855,
s. p. His widow was married (second), September 2, 1875,
324 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
in Lynchburg, by Revs. W. T. Hall and T. W. Hooper, to
the Rev. Andrew Hart, a Presbyterian minister. He died
in 1878, "without issue by her. His first wife, by whom
he had issue, was a daughter of Dr. James M. Brown.
11. COL. WILLIAM 3 CABELL, JR.'S DESCENDANTS.
54. Elvira 4 Cabell, born September 10, 1783, was the
first child born in the present " Union Hill " house who
lived to marry. Among her tutors in music was Mr. John
C. Pike, who gave private lessons in many different families
over the State. On February 9, 1804, she was married at
" Union Hill " to Mr. Patrick Henry, Jr. He died Septem-
ber 22, 1804; and she married, secondly, in April, 1819,
at "Union Hill," Mr. James Bruce, of " Woodburn," Hali-
fax County, Va., who died in 1837. She passed the years
of her first widowhood at " Union Hill ; " of her second,
in Richmond, where she built and occupied the house on
Clay Street now known as the University College of Medi-
cine. She died there on October 22, 1858. She was one
of the best and best-known women that Virginia has pro-
duced. " Surrounded by everything that made life desir-
able, her generous nature found its chief delight in con-
tributing to the pleasure of others. She was from early
life a member of the Episcopal Church, and was at one time
one of the three Episcopalians in the county of Halifax."
A memorial of her exists in the Bruce Fund, which she
bequeathed to the Episcopal Church of Virginia.
Her first husband, Patrick Henry, Jr. (born August 15,
1783 ; died September 22, 1804, " a most promising young
man"), was the eldest son of Patrick Henry, the orator, by
his second wife, Dorothea Dandridge. His grandfather,
Col. John Henry, emigrated from Scotland. About 1743,
he bought a tract of land on Tye River from James
Churchill. In February, 1744, he entered for 1000 acres
of new land adjoining his purchase. The lands were on
Raccoon and Cuffy's creeks of Tye River, near the Three
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 325
Ridge Mountain, adjoining the lands of Rev. Robert Rose,
Col. William Randolph, George Monroe, and Drury Spur-
lock. He became involved in some pecuniary difficulties
and had to give up the land. I find the following note
made by Dr. William * Cabell : " Col. Henry's sale in
Dec, 1762. Personals at C. H. and land on the Premises."
He married Sarah, widow of John Syme and daughter of
Isaac Winston, the emigrant, by his wife, Mary Dabney.
The best life of Patrick Henry is by his grandson, Hon.
W. W. Henry, of Richmond, and to that the reader is
referred for additional particulars.
The mother of Patrick Henry, Jr., Dorothea Dandridge
(born September 25, 1757), was a daughter of Nathaniel
West Dandridge (by his wife, Dorothea, daughter of Gov-
ernor Alexander Spotswood, who came from Scotland), who
was born December 7, 1729, and died January 16, 1786
[" A candidate in 1761 for the House of Burgesses from
Hanover, he was defeated by Col. James Littlepage ; con-
tested the election ; employed Patrick Henry to plead his
cause ; in this case Henry made his second great speech,
but failed in unseating Littlepage' 5 ]; was a son of Col.
William Dandridge (a citizen of tide-water Virginia, and
at one time a captain in the British navy), by his wife,
Unity West, a great-granddaughter of John West, the
twelfth child of the second Lord De la Warr. The West
family and connections were especially prominent among
the founders of Virginia. 1
The only child of Elvira Cabell by her first husband
was : —
197. i. Elvira Ann 5 Henry.
Her second husband, James Bruce, removed in early life
to Halifax County. A glimpse of him as a youth is to be
obtained in a diary kept by an ancestor of Prof. Richard
Venable, of Baltimore, during the latter part of the last
century. The writer of this diary records the fact that he
spent a night under the same roof with James Bruce and
1 See The Genesis of the United States, pp. 1045, 1047, etc.
326 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Archibald Alexander (afterwards the distinguished Presi-
dent of Princeton College). He talks much with the two
young men, and predicts for both unusual success in life.
James Bruce was indeed eminently successful in all he un-
dertook. Embarking in merchandise, he finally owned many
stores in different parts of Southside Virginia, and by this
means, together with the speculation in tobacco on a large
scale, he amassed a very large fortune. Yet his descendants
remember with pride that he was not more noted for great
wealth than for integrity and public spirit. He was one
of the most just and most honorable of men, and added
to this he had a temper of such serenity that no one ever
saw it ruffled. A fine portrait of him in his son's posses-
sion represents a face of great dignity and sweetness. He
was the eldest son of Charles Bruce, a planter of Orange
County, who owned " Soldier's Rest," a large estate on the
Rapidan, and who married, first, Diana Banks, of " Spring
Bank," near Fredericksburg, and, secondly, Frances, daugh-
ter of Capt. George Stubblefield, of Spotsylvania County.
Charles Bruce died about the year 1786. " There has al-
ways been a tradition amongst the Bruces that the family
was descended from Edward Bruce, of Kinloss, Scotland,
and that the first emioTant to Virginia came over to take
charge of Governor Spotswood's estates, or, according to
another account, of the iron mines in which the governor
was so much interested. It has also been said that he was
a relative of Governor Spotswood's wife, but no pains have
ever been taken to verify any of the above-mentioned tra-
ditions."
James Bruce married, first, in 1799, Miss Sally Coles,
daughter of Col. Walter Coles, of " Mildendo," in Halifax
County, Va. ; she died in May, 1806, leaving issue, James
C. Bruce and others. He married, secondly, in April, 1814,
as aforesaid, Mrs. Elvira Cabell Henry, and died in 1837,
having had issue by his second wife : —
198. ii. Ellen Carter 5 Bruce.
199. iii. Sarah 5 Bruce.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 327
iv. William Cabell 5 Bruce, b. October 13, 1824 ; d.
December 8, 1832.
200. v. Charles 5 Bruce.
197. Elvira Ann 5 Henry was born at Union Hill, three
months after her father's death, on September 27, 1804 ;
married at Woodburn, Halifax County, Va., May 8, 1828,
to William H. Clark ; and died at Banister Lodge, Halifax
County, Va., June 24, 1870. " She was one of the purest
and noblest of women." Her life was a living witness to
the truth she professed, and by her beautiful example of
Christian gentleness and love she " allured to brighter
worlds and led the way."
William H. Clark was born in Halifax County, Va.,
January 23, 1805 ; educated at Hampden Sidney College,
the University of Virginia, and at Cambridge, Mass. ; rep-
resented Halifax County in the Virginia legislature ; a
farmer ; died at his seat, Banister Lodge, October 20,
1873. He was the son of John Clark (a man of influence
not only in his own but in surrounding counties, a suc-
cessful merchant and planter), by his second wife, Priscilla
Sims, of Halifax. John Clark was the son of William Clark,
of Prince Edward County (who through his mother was
descended from the Worshams), by his wife, Phoebe How-
son, a woman remarkable both for her strength of mind
and character. His ancestry was mostly if not entirely
English.
197. Mrs. Elvira A. 5 Clark had issue nine : — ■
201. i. Elvira Cabell 6 Clark.
202. ii. Ann Carrington Clark.
203. iii. John Clark.
204. iv. Martha May Clark.
v. Patrick Henry 6 Clark, b. April 21, 1837; edu-
cated at University of Virginia, and Medical
College, Richmond, Va. ; M. D. ; captain of
artillery, C. S. A. ; d. in Richmond, of camp
fever, July 25, 1862 ; unmarried
328 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
vi. Eliza Callaway 6 Clark, b. February 11, 1839;
m., November 5, 1867, Alfred W. Shields, of
Richmond, Va. ; d. in that city April 16,
1876, s. p.
205. vii. Ellen Bruce 6 Clark.
viii. Rosa 6 Clark, b. November 1, 1844 ; m., October
30, 1866, William W. Wilkins, of Brunswick
County, Va. ; d. September 13, 1867, s. p.
ix. William H. 6 Clark, b. 1846 ; d. 1846.
201. Elvira Cabell 6 Clark, born June 24, 1829; married
at " Banister Lodge," by Rev. John Grammer, on Novem-
ber 16, 1847, to David A. Claiborne ; died March 8, 1868,
at " Longwood," the residence of her husband, in Halifax
County, Va. " For many years a member of the Episcopal
Church. In all the relations of life she was exemplary and
admirable."
Her husband, David A. Claiborne, educated at William
and Mary College, and University of Virginia ; member
of the House of Delegates from Halifax County ; captain
of infantry in C. S. A. ; was a son of Leonard Claiborne,
of Pittsylvania County (by his wife, Letitia W., daughter
of Col. William Clark), born 1791 ; died 1858 ; son of
Richard Henry, son of Richard, son of Leonard, son of
Capt. Thomas Claiborne (1680-1732), of "Sweet Hall"
(by his wife, Anne Fox, 1684-1733, a great-granddaughter
of Gov. John West, one of the founders of Virginia), son of
Col. Thomas Claiborne and grandson of Williain Claiborne,
Esq., secretary of Virginia, who was born about 1587 ;
came to Virginia with Gov. Wyatt in 1621, was member
of the council, treasurer of Virginia ; deputy governor of
Virginia, etc. He died about 1677.
201. Mrs. Elvira C. 6 Claiborne had issue : —
i. David Augustine 7 Claiborne, b. August 11, 1856 ; d.
September 30, 1869.
ii. Leonard 7 Claiborne, b. September 7, 1857 ; went to
California ; m., July 28, 1884, Miss W. A. Kidson,
at Pomona, Cal., and has : i. William Patrick Henry 8 ,
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 329
b. at Pomona, Cal., July 20, 1885 ; ii. D. A. 8 , b. at
Pomona, March 31, 1891 ; d. same day ; iii. Cabell
Carrington 8 Claiborne, b. at Los Angeles, Cal.,
March 12, 1894.
iii. Elvira Patrick 7 Claiborne, b. January 19, 1866 ; m.
Philip Arthur Sherard Brine, of Canterbury, Eng-
land, grandson of Dr. Pusey, and (1894) British vice-
consul at the port of Richmond. She d. February
16, 1890, leaving issue : i. Philip Edward Pusey 8 ,
b. February 4, 1887 ; and ii. Rosa Bruce 8 Brine, b.
April 9, 1888.
iv. Nanny Clark 7 Claiborne.
202. Ann Carrington 6 Clark, born November 29, 1831 ;
married by Rev. John Grammer, at Banister Lodge, March
11, 1851, to Thomas Bruce, eldest son of James C. and
Eliza D. Bruce, of "Berry Hill," Halifax County, Va.
(James C. was son of James Bruce by his first wife.)
Thomas Bruce was educated at Columbia College, S. C. ;
was a vestryman of Antrim Parish, Halifax County, Va. ;
a lieutenant in the C. S. A. ; he died at his residence, Tar-
over, Halifax County, Va., September 19, 1861, of disease
contracted in the army, having had issue : —
i. William Clark 7 Bruce, b. January 16, 1852 ; d. July 5,
1852.
ii. Eliza Wilkins 7 Bruce, b. December 27, 1852 ; m.,
February 4, 1874, G. A. Davenport, a broker, of
Richmond, Va. ; and d. January 20, 1875, without
issue,
iii. Rosa 7 Bruce, b. January 29, 1854 ; m., June 19, 1872,
Francis T. Anderson, Jr., of Rockbridge County, Va.
(son of Judge Francis T. Anderson, Supreme Court
of Appeals of Virginia), and had issue : i. Rosa
Bruce 8 , b. March 24, 1873 ; ii. Anne Carrington 8 ,
b. October 18, 1874 ; iii. Mary Aylette 8 , b. August
13, 1876; iv. Francis Thomas 8 , b. March 20, 1878;
v. Eliza Wilkins Bruce 8 , b. June 20, 1880; vi. Thomas
Bruce 8 , b. January 11, 1881 ; vii. William Andrew 8 ,
330 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
b. January 24, 1884 ; viii. Isabelle Graeme 8 , b. Jan-
uary 11, 1887; ix. Dorothea Spottswood 8 Anderson,
b. April 12, 1889 ; d. June 26, 1889.
iv. Thomas 7 Bruce, b. March 1, 1856 ; m., November 13,
1879, Emma Louisa Howard, of Richmond, Va. He
is a lawyer, lives at the homestead, " Tarover," in
Halifax County, Va., and has an only child : i. Emma
Gildersleeve 8 Bruce, b. September 25, 1880.
v. James Coles 7 Bruce, b. July 29, 1857 ; m., January 16,
1878, Susan Seddon Brooks, of Richmond, Va. He
is a planter and farmer, living at Long Island, Camp-
bell County, Va., an estate purchased by Patrick
Henry, the orator, and left by him to his son, Patrick
Henry, Jr. His children are : i. Marion Roy 8 , b.
April 7, 1879; d. July 23, 1879; ii. Patrick Henry 8 ,
b. March 21, 1881 ; iii. James C. 8 , b. July 8, 1882 ;
d. July 19, 1883 ; iv. Mary Louisa 8 Bruce, b. July
29, 1884.
203. John 6 Clark, born April 30, 1833 ; educated at the
Virginia Military Institute and the University of Virginia ;
was an officer in the C. S. A. ; now a farmer of Halifax
County, Va. ; married by Rev. John Grammer, November
4, 1857, to Betty Sims Coleman, daughter of Dr. E. A.
Coleman, of Halifax County, Va. ; his children are : —
i. Elvira Ann 7 Clark, b. February 10, 1859; m. Mr.
Robert Nelson, and has : i. Elizabeth Sims 8 , b.
March 26, 1886 ; ii. Virginia Lafayette 8 , b. October
26, 1887; iii. Ellie Clark 8 , b. September 10, 1889 ;
iv. Robert William 8 Nelson, b. April 13, 1894.
ii. Maria Wilson 7 Clark, b. May 17, 1860.
iii. Mary Bailey 7 Clark, b. September 8, 1861; d. young,
iv. John 7 Clark, b. February 25, 1867.
v. Angelina Johns 7 Clark, b. March 28, 1869.
vi. Phcebe Howson 7 Clark, b. Feb. 10, 1871.
vii. Ethelberta Coleman 7 Clark, b. October 9, 1874.
204. Martha May 6 Clark, born August 23, 1834 ; mar-
ried at " Banister Lodge," by Rev. John Grammer, Novem-
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 331
ber 12, 1856, to J. Lyle Clarke, of "Warner Hall,"
Gloucester County, Va., where she died January 29, 1867.
J. Lyle Clarke was a lieutenant-colonel in C. S. A. ; son of
Colin Clarke. 1 Issue : —
i. Mary Lyle 7 Clarke, b. September 9, 1857.
205. Ellen Bruce 6 Clark, born February 19, 1841; mar-
ried by Rev. John T. Clark, on November 11, 1862, to
George Lee, 2 of Richmond, Va., and had issue : —
i. Arthur 7 Lee.
ii. Ellen Bruce 7 Lee ; d. young,
iii. William Henry Clark 7 Lee.
iv. George Kendall 7 Lee.
198. Ellen Carter 5 Bruce, born August 15, 1820 ; mar-
ried, September 13, 1843, James M. Morson, of Fredericks-
burg, Va. ; died in February, 1862, in St. James Parish,
La. " The life of Ellen Morson was followed by love,
esteem, and reverence. Gifted with wealth, position, and
beauty from youth onward, she disarmed envy and won
admiration by the disinterestedness, modest graces, and
considerate kindness of her character." Her husband,
James Marion Morson (born in 1817 ; educated at the Uni-
versity of Virginia ; died December 30, 1868), was the son
of Alexander Morson by his wife, Anne Casson Alexander,
eldest daughter of William Alexander, of " Snowden."
Alexander Morson was the son of Arthur Morson, born at
Greenock, Scotland, January 3, 1734 ; died at " Hartwood,"
Stafford County, Va., May 23, 1798. 3
Mrs. Ellen C. 5 Morson had issue : —
i. Ellen Bruce 6 Morson, b. November 10, 1845 ; m.,
December 21, 1869, Octave Jacob, a planter of
Louisiana. Issue : i. Octave 7 ; ii. James Morson 7 ;
iii. Celeste 7 ; and iv. Charles B. 7 Jacob.
ii. James Bruce 6 Morson, b. August 12, 1847 ; m., July
1 See Goode's Virginia Cousins, No. 763.
2 See Lee of Virginia, p. 553.
3 See Hayden's Virginia Genealogies, p. 654.
332 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
20, 1873, Claudia Marshall, of Louisville, Ky. Is-
sue : i. Sarah 7 , d. young ; ii. Claudia 7 , d. young ;
iii. Thomas Seddon 7 Morson, the only surviving
child (1894).
iii. Marion 6 Morson, h. April 13, 1849 ; m., November 4,
1874, Henry Wise Garnett, attorney at law, of
Washington, D. C, and d. in 1888, leaving four
children : i. Maria 7 ; ii. Ellen Bruce 7 ; iii. A. Y.
P. 7 ; and iv. Henry W. 7 Garnett, Jr.
iv. Charles Bruce 6 Morson, b. November 19, 1850 ; d. in
early youth.
v. Alice 6 Morson, b. November 20, 1852 ; m. Leigh
Robinson, Esq., attorney at law, Washington, D. C.
vi. Seddon G Morson, b. November 26, 1854 ; d. in early
manhood ; unmarried.
vii. Frank G Morson, b. March 3, 1857 ; d. infant,
viii. Ann c Morson, b. February 17, 1859 ; m. Wyndham
R. Meredith, Esq., attorney at law, of Richmond,
Va. Issue : i. John Alexander 7 Meredith, b. in
November, 1894.
199. Sarah 5 Bruce, born March 22, 1822; married,
December 23, 1845, Hon. James A. Seddon, of Richmond,
Va., in St. Paul's Church, being the first marriage solemnized
in that historic house of worship. They continued to live in
Richmond until a few years before the late war, when they
removed to " Sabot Hill," their country seat in Goochland
County, Va. Mrs. Sarah Bruce Seddon died in Philadel-
phia, March 28, 1882. She was one of the most admirable
and brilliant women of her day. In young womanhood,
her sister and herself were among the most noted belles
and beauties of the Old Dominion. " In mature years, in
all the offices of wife, mother, friend, and mistress, she
assured esteem, and riveted affection by purity, benignity,
and rare singleness of heart in all the ministrations and
duties of life." Her husband, the Hon. James Alexander
Seddon, was born in Fredericksburg, Va., July 3, 1815;
MRS. SARAH BRUCE SEDDON
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 333
educated at the University of Virginia; B. L. in 1835; at
once began the practice of the law. In 1840, he moved to
Richmond, at once entered upon a lucrative practice, and
became well known and universally popular. In 1844, he
was elected as a Democrat to represent the Richmond dis-
trict in Congress, March 4, 1845, to March 4, 1847. In
1846, he declined a renomination, and the Democrats lost
the district. In 1848, he was unanimously nominated and
triumphantly elected, serving March 4, 1849, to March
4, 1851. In 1850, he again peremptorily declined to run
for Congress, as all of his time was required for the proper
management of his large estate acquired by inheritance,
marriage, and accumulation. Some time after 1851, he
removed to his seat in Goochland Countv, Va. He was a
member of the peace commission, which met in Washing-
ton, February 4, 1861. On July 20, 1861, he was elected
a member of the Virginia Delegation to the first Confed-
erate Congress, which assembled in Montgomery, Ala. On
November 18, 1862, he was appointed secretary of war of
the Confederate States, and continued in this office until
the winter of 1864-1865, when he resigned and was suc-
ceeded by the Hon. John C. Breckinridge. " From this
time Mr. Seddon did not again appear in public life. He,
however, lost none of his interest in affairs of state, and to
his latest hour was loyal to Virginia, jealous of her honour,
and the defender of all that was bright and glorious in her
history." He died at " Sabot Hill," August 19, 1880, and
was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, near Richmond, Va.
He was the son of Thomas Seddon, of Stafford County,
afterwards of Fredericksburg, Va. (who died October 6,
1831, aged 55), by his wife, Susan Pearson Alexander, who
died in 1845. He descended from Thomas Seddon, Sr.
(born November 25, 1696 ; died July Court, 1779), who
emigrated to Virginia from Lancashire, England, early in
the eighteenth century. Susan Pearson Alexander (sister
to Anne Casson Alexander, who married Alexander Mor-
son, of " Hollywood," Stafford County) was the daughter
334 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
of William Alexander (1758-1803) by his wife, Sarah,
daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Bruce, born about 1760 ;
died 1814 or 1815) Casson. William Alexander (1758-
1803) was the son of John (1711-1763), the son of Robert
(1688-1735), the son of John Alexander, who emigrated
to Virginia about 1659; settled in Stafford, 1660; pur-
chased Howison's patent of land, extending from George-
town to Hunting Creek, on the Virginia side of the Poto-
mac ; and died in 1677. He is said to have been of the
same family as the Earl of Stirling.
199. Mrs. Sarah 5 Bruce Seddon had issue nine : —
i. Elvira Bruce 6 Seddon, b. September 21, 1846; d.
June 24, 1882 ; unmarried,
ii. Thomas G Seddon, b. July 4, 1848 ; educated at Uni-
versity of Virginia ; is president of the Sloss Iron
Co., of Birmingham, Ala. ; unmarried,
iii. James Alexander 6 Seddon, b. March 9, 1850 ; M. A.,
University of Virginia, 1870 ; lawyer and judge ;
resides in St. Louis ; m., in 1889, Louisa Q. Scott
(a descendant of Gen. Quarles of the Revolution).
She d. in 1894, leaving two sons : i. Bruce 7 ; and ii.
Scott 7 Seddon.
iv. William Cabell 6 Seddon, b. June 3, 1851 ; m., October
6, 1875, Kate L. Slawson, of New York. She d.
in 1887, leaving one child : i. Sarah Bruce 7 Sed-
don.
v. Anna Park 6 Seddon, b. November 24, 1852 ; d. No-
vember 29, 1863.
vi. Arthur Morson 6 Seddon, b. November 2, 1854 ; edu-
cated at the University of Virginia ; m., in 1883,
Josephine, daughter of Samuel W. Venable, Esq.,
of Petersburg. Issue: i. James Alexander 7 , d.
September 5, 1894; ii. Samuel Venable 7 ; and iii.
Kate 7 Seddon.
vii. Sarah Bruce 6 Seddon, b. May 5, 1856 ; d. January 11,
1873.
vhi. Rosalie 6 Seddon, b. January 27, 1858; m., October
^£5? 0g&
\
HON. JAMES ALEXANDER SEDDON
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 335
16, 1878, by Rev. Peter Boyden, at " Sabot Hill,"
to A. Hawksley Rutherfoord, Jr., son of A. H.
Rutherfoord, Sr., Esq., of Amelia. Issue : i.
Ellen Bruce 7 ; ii. Alexander Hawksley 7 ; iii. Anne
Clark 7 ; and iv. Rosalie Seddon 7 Rutherfoord.
ix. Charles Bruce 6 Seddon, b. December 26, 1859; d.
October 29, 1866.
200. Charles 5 Bruce, born August 7, 1826; educated
at University of North Carolina, " Chapell Hill ; ' : visited
Europe, 1848 ; married, September 19, 1848, Sarah Alex-
ander Seddon, sister of the Hon. James A. Seddon ; rep-
resented for several sessions the Charlotte District in the
Virginia Senate, and Charlotte County in the Virginia
Convention of 1861 ; raised an artillery company for the
Confederate service (named for his home, " The Staunton
Hill Artillery ") ; equipped it at his own expense ; went into
service as its captain, and in that capacity did Confederate
duty in Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. He is now
a planter and farmer. His wife and himself are living
at his home, " Staunton Hill," in Charlotte County, Va.
Issue ten : —
206. i. Thomas Seddon 6 Bruce.
207. ii. Albert Carson Bruce.
iii. Marion 6 Bruce, b. February 8, 1852 ; d. August
17, 1852.
iv. Charles Morelle 6 Bruce, b. July 6, 1853 ; secre-
retary of Arizona Territory in 1894.
v. James Roy 6 Bruce, b. 1854; d. 1855.
vi. Philip Alexander 6 Bruce, b. March 7, 1856 ; sec-
retary of Virginia Historical Society, and editor
of its magazine, 1894 ; author of " The Plan-
tation Negro as a Freedman," etc.
208. vii. Ellen Carter 6 Bruce.
209. viii. William Cabell 6 Bruce.
ix. James Douglas 6 Bruce, b. December 9, 1862 ;
associate professor of Anglo-Saxon and Middle
English at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania.
336 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
210. x. Anne Secldon Bruce.
206. Thomas Seddon 6 Bruce, born July 23, 1849 ; mar-
ried, April 7, 1875, Mary B. Anderson, daughter of Gen.
Joseph R. Anderson, of Richmond, Va. [He was born
February 6, 1813, at " Walnut Hill," in Botetourt County,
Va.; at West Point, 1832-1836; lieutenant U. S. A.,
1836-1837 ; married, in 1837, Sally, daughter of Dr. Rob-
ert Archer, U. S. A. ; resigned from the army soon after
marriage ; assistant engineer of Virginia ; brigadier-general
C. S. A., 1861-1862 ; in charge of the Tredegar Works
for the Confederate States, 1862-1865, remained president
of these works nearly 30 years ; was member of the House
of Delegates from Richmond several sessions, etc. He died
in 1892. Son of William Anderson (by his wife, Anna
Thomas, of Frederick, Md.), a soldier of the Revolution
and of the War of 1812, from Botetourt County, Va. ; son
of Robert Anderson, who emigrated from County Down,
Ireland, in 1756, settling first in Delaware and afterwards
in Botetourt County, Va.] Issue : i. Sarah Archer 7 ; ii.
Charles ; iii. Joseph Reid Anderson ; iv. Seddon ; v. Kath-
leen Elizabeth ; and vi. Reginald Bruce.
207. Albert Carson G Bruce, born August 9, 1850 ; mar-
ried, November 17, 1874, Mary E. Howard, daughter of
Philip Francis Howard, of Richmond, Va. (by his wife,
Eloise Frances Burfoot), son of Thomas Calthorpe Howard
(by his wife, Katharine E. Pope, daughter of Nathaniel
Pope and his wife, Mary Duval), son of William Howard (by
his wife, Anne Chisman), son of Henry Howard (by his
wife, Frances Calthorpe), born November 28, 1727 ; son of
Col. Francis Howard, born May 15, 1700, burgess, etc. ; son
of Henry, born September, 1679 ; son of Henry, born Octo-
ber 16, 1651 ; son of John, the son of Matthew Howard,
the first settler. Some of his descendants claim that he was
of the duke of Norfolk's family.
207. Albert Carson 6 Bruce and his wife have had issue :
i. Sara Seddon 7 ; ii. Ella Burfoot ; iii. Howard ; iv. Charles
Cabell ; v. Albert Cabell ; and vi. Burfoot Brace.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 337
208. Ellen Carter 6 Bruce, born January 29, 1858 ; histo-
rian of the Old Dominion Chapter of the Virginia Society
of the Daughters of the American Revolution ; married, in
1881, James Bowen Baylor, son of Dr. John Roy Baylor,
son of John Baylor (by his wife, Maria Roy), son of John
Baylor, born September 4, 1750, at "New Market," Caroline
County, Va. ; at Putney Grammar School'in 1763, then at
Caius and Granville College ; married, November 18, 1778,
in the parish church, St. Olave's, Hart Street, London, his
cousin Frances, daughter of John and Courtenay Norton, of
Yorktown, Va. He was a son of John Baylor, born May
12, 1705, in Gloucester County, Va. ; patented lands in
King and Queen (now Caroline) in 1725 ; removed there ;
built " New Market ; " member of the House of Burgesses,
1740-1760 ; married, January 2, 1744, at Yorktown, Va.,
Frances Walker, daughter of John Walker, of Mill Creek,
near Back River ; county lieutenant of Orange, 1752, etc.
He was a son of John Baylor, born at Tiverton, England, in
1650 ; came to Virginia about 1676 ; settled in Gloucester
County; had trading-houses in New Kent, King and Queen,
King William, etc. ; member of the House of Burgesses in
1718; will dated September 11, 1720; died about 1722.
" He married a widow whose maiden name was Lucy Todd,
from the neighborhood of Todd's warehouse, now Dunkirk."
208. Mrs. Ellen Carter 6 Bruce Baylor had issue : i. Sarah
Evelyn 7 ; ii. Anne Courtenay ; and iii. John Baylor.
209. William Cabell 6 Bruce, born March 12, 1860;
attorney at law of the firm Fisher, Bruce & Fisher, Balti-
more, Md. ; at present (1894) a member of the Maryland
Senate from the city of Baltimore ; married, in October,
1887, Louise Este Fisher, only daughter of ex-Judge Wil-
liam A. Fisher, of Baltimore, by his wife, Louise Este,
daughter of Judge David Kirkpatrick Este (by his wife,
Louise Miller, of Louisiana), one of the early emigrants to
Ohio, judge of one of its superior courts, etc.
Ex-Judge William A. Fisher was a graduate at Princeton
in 1855, and a distinguished lawyer of Baltimore ; he was
338 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
the son of William Fisher (by his first wife, Jane Alricks
Boggs, a descendant of Peter Alricks, the Dutch deputy-
governor of the colonies on the west side of the Delaware),
a prominent banker of Baltimore, who died in 1867 ; the
family being of English descent.
209. William C. 6 Bruce and his wife have issue : i. Wil-
liam Fisher 7 ; and ii. James Bruce.
210. Anne Seddon G Bruce, born at " Staunton Hill,"
June 29, 1867. Surrounded by cultivation and refinement,
in the stimulating atmosphere of one of the best libraries
in Virginia, she early developed the literary taste of her
family. Her commonplace-books, begun when she was a
mere child, and always kept up, show an extraordinarily
extensive and diversified reading, and give proof of a
remarkable taste and judgment. And as she was also
favored with decided talent for drawing and music, — which
arts were diligently cultivated under the best masters, — she
became a highly educated and accomplished woman at an
unusually early age ; combining with her rare intellectual
and artistic gifts a person of great beauty, a gracious pres-
ence, great strength of character, charming manners, with a
sweet and sunny nature.
On July 28, 1886, she was married in the library at her
old home to Thomas Nelson Page, who was then practicing
law in Richmond, Va., and was just beginning to be known
as a writer.
In her husband's home her personal position was at once
established. She immediately took a • leading place in the
city, as well in matters charitable as social. " We like to
come the days that you are here," said a poor woman to
her at a charitable institution.
Her influence on her husband's literary work was appar-
ent. He has recorded that she was his chief inspiration,
and that he became a writer for her.
She died suddenly in Richmond, on December 22, 1888.
The early ending of her beautiful life caused a universal
mourning in the city, and a general expression of sorrow
MRS. ANNE SEDDON BRUCE PAGE
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 339
throughout the country, while to her family it was a shock
from which they will never recover.
A fine window in the Church of the Holy Trinity, in
Richmond, representing "The King's Daughter Giving
Bread to the Poor," was erected by her husband as a
memorial to her.
Thomas Nelson Page, now a resident of Washington,
D. C, is a son of Mr. John Page, of Hanover (a grandson
of Gov. John Page and of Gov. Thomas Nelson), by his
wife, Elizabeth B. Nelson, a granddaughter of Gov. Thomas
Nelson, and of Col. Hugh Nelson by his wife, Judith
Page, daughter of Hon. John Page and his wife, Jane
Byrd. See " The Page Family in Virginia," by Dr. R. C.
M. Page, and under No. 70 in this volume.
55. Margaret 4 Cabell, born at "Union Hill," November
24, 1785 ; married, at the same place, by Rev. Charles
Crawford, September 16, 1803, to Thomas S. McClelland.
She died at Montezuma, April 3, 1863, " leaving a large
number of relatives to mourn her loss." Her husband,
Thomas Stanhope McClelland, was born near Gettysburg,
Pa., on February 4, 1777 ; graduated at Dickinson College,
Carlisle, Pa., in 1795, where he was a classmate of Chief
Justice Taney. There is a tradition that his father in-
tended him for the Presbyterian ministry ; but he preferred
Blackstone to Calvin, and thereby incurring his father's
displeasure, he joined, his elder brother John in Virginia ;
read law under Judge Archibald Stuart, in Staunton, and
was admitted to practice in the courts of the commonwealth
April 12, 1799. Judge Stuart had become much attached
to him, and he ascribed his success as a lawyer to the early
kindness and assistance of that judge.
He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates,
1801—1802, and probably the spring session, 1803. After
his marriage, in 1803, he resided for a time at " Union
Hill." In April, 1804, he removed to Lynchburg, arriving
there " about 2 o'clock on the evening of the 9th." On
340 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
June 20, 1805, lie wrote to Col. William Cabell, his father-
in-law : " Having lived here now better than one year, I
consider Lynchburg an excellent stand, and I do not wish
to leave its neighborhood so long as I continue the prac-
tice of law." " I desire to dispose of the land you gave us
in Amherst [this land was originally purchased by Col.
William Cabell, the elder, from the Hon. Carter Braxton,
the signer], and purchase an excellent small plantation of
about 357 acres, more conveniently situated, within two
miles of this place, price <£5 per acre. But we will not
make any important change without your advice."
He practiced in the courts of Amherst, Campbell, Frank-
lin, etc. From 1805, for several years, he was one of the
lawyers employed in settling the estate of Patrick Henry, the
orator. I have a legal opinion of his in this case, written
January 4, 1806. At the first term of the first Nelson
County Court, June 27, 1808, he qualified as an attorney in
that court. He bought the Montezuma estate, in Nelson
County, from the executors, some time after the death of
Hector Cabell ; in 1813, he sold out his interests in Lynch-
burg, and late in that year, or early in 1814, he removed to
that estate, where he continued to reside the remainder of
his life.
In the autumn of 1S24, he was chairman of the patriotic
meeting of the citizens of Nelson which passed resolutions
eulogistic of the Marquis De Lafayette. Appointed a com-
mittee (Maj. Alexander Brown and other militia officers) to
have an interview with him on his arrival at Monticello,
" and ascertain whether it will comport with his convenience
to pass through the county of Nelson ; and, in the event he
can do so, these gentlemen are requested to embody their
respective corps of militia, to receive him at the county
line," etc.
" Resolved, That the people of Nelson " approve the
recent resolutions of their fellow-citizens in Albemarle, Flu-
vanna, and Goochland, and desire their representatives in
the state legislature to " use their endeavors to procure
HON. THOMAS STANHOPE McC LELLAND
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 341
from the Treasury o£ the State such a donation in money to
Genl La Fayette as the Legislature, in its wisdom, mav
deem consistent with the resources, honor, and dignity of
Virginia." And that their national representatives should
" use their best endeavors to procure from the Congress of
the United States such grant of land and money to Genl
La Fayette as, in their wisdom, may comport with the
honor and magnanimity of the nation."
The Hon. Thomas S. McClelland continued to practice
law in this section until 1825, when from ill-health he vir-
tually retired.
Letters to him from William Wirt, the Carrs, Henry
Clay, and other public men of his day, show with what
esteem and consideration he was regarded by his peers. In
politics he was a Whig. Being at the White Sulphur
Springs with Clay, the great commoner sought an introduc-
tion to him, and they became warm friends. Living, as he
did, in the land of Jefferson (so to speak), almost under the
shadow of Monticello, his uncompromising adherence to his
Whig principles was a source of regret to many of his
friends and admirers, and a permanent bar to anything like
political preferment in his section. Nearly all of his wife's
relations were followers of Mr. Jefferson. In 1826, he was
nominated by the Whigs as their candidate for the legisla-
ture, but he was defeated. He was then in bad health. He
died at his seat, Montezuma, August 30, 1835. He was a
man of fine intellect, and was regarded as one of the best
lawyers in this part of the State. Professionally and per-
sonally, he was a man of the highest character.
He was the third son of Thomas McClelland (McClellan,
McCleland, McLelan, etc.) by his wife, Mary, whose maiden
name is said to have been Stanhope. " They came to this
country about the middle of the last century, from the
north of Ireland, and settled in Pennsylvania, near Gettys-
burg. He died in 1800, on his farm near Cincinnati, Ohio,
where he had moved a few years previous ; a true type of
the sturdy Scotch-Irish immigrant."
342 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
There are letters extant of the Hon. Thomas S. McClel-
land, in which mention is made of visits to his Philadelphia
cousin, Dr. George McClellan, the father of Gen. George
B. McClellan.
55. Marg-aret 4 Cahell and Hon. Thomas S. McClelland
had issue fourteen : —
i. William Cabell 5 McClelland, b. 1804; d. 1805.
ii. Anna Maria 5 McClelland, b. April 16, 1806 ; m.,
October 13, 1842, Col. Bryan W. Nowlin, of
"Oak Hill," Campbell County, Va. He d.
October 30, 1847, and his wife and only child,
Margaret Cabell 6 Nowlin, survived him only a
few weeks.
211. iii. Elvira Henry 5 McClelland.
212. iv. Thomas Stanhope 5 McClelland.
v. William Cabell 5 McClelland, b. 1812 ; d. 1813.
213. vi. Laura 5 McClelland.
vii. John Milton McClelland, b. 1816 ; d. 1835.
viii. Ellen McClelland, b. 1817 ; d. 1827.
214. ix. Margaret 5 McClelland.
215. x. Sarah Cabell 5 McClelland.
216. xi. Mary Carter 5 McClelland.
217. xii. James Bruce McClelland,
xiii. An infant, d. unnamed, 1830.
218. xiv. Martha Edmonia 5 McClelland.
211. Elvira Henry 5 McCleUand, born April 23, 1808;
married, October 19, 1826, John Henry, of " Red Hill,"
Charlotte County, Va. She died in 1873. Her husband,
Mr. John Henry (born February 16, 1796 ; died January 7,
1868), was the youngest son of Patrick Henry, the orator,
and lived at the ancient seat of his father. "A liberal
education designed to prepare him for the bar, developed in
him a love for the best authors, which he made his constant
companions. Hospitable to all visitors, kind to all neigh-
bors, indulgent to his servants, affectionate and devoted to
his family, guileless towards all men, with the grace of God
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 343
shedding a lustre over all his virtues, he presented a noble
example of the Christian gentleman. For more than thirty-
six years he was a member of the Episcopal Church, and
walked in the fear of God."
211. Elvira H. 5 McClelland and John Henry had issue
six : —
219. i. Margaret Ann 6 Henry.
ii. Elvira Bruce 6 Henry, b. July 2, 1829; m. (first),
May 9, 1848, Jessie Higginbotham, of Amherst
County, Va. He d. s. p. She m. (second),
November 19, 1851, Alexander F. Taylor, and
had one son : i. Robert 7 Taylor, b. August 7,
1852.
220. iii. William Wirt 6 Henry.
221. iv. Thomas Stanhope Henry.
v. Laura Helen Henry, b. March 15, 1836 ; m., in
March, 1855, Dr. James W. Carter ; d. July 4,
1856, s. p.
222. vi. Emma Cabell 6 Henry.
219. Margaret Ann 6 Henry, b. October 4, 1827; m., by
Rev. William H. Kinckle, November 20, 1849, to William
A. Miller, of Lynchburg, Va., and had issue eleven : —
i. Elvira Henry 7 Miller, b. October 9, 1850, at "Red
Hill."
ii. Samuel T. Miller, b. 1851 ; d. 1853.
iii. Florence Miller, m. John C. Dabney, and has issue :
i. William M. 8 ; ii. Emma H. ; iii. Margaret H. ;
iv. Frederick A. ; v. John C. ; and vi. Susan 8 Dab-
ney.
iv. John Henry Miller,
v. David Patrick Miller, d. young,
vi. Laura Cabell Miller, d. young,
vii. Lucy Grey Miller, d. young,
viii. William Price Miller,
ix. Kate Miller, d. young.
x. Rosa Cabell Miller,
xi. Wirt Henry Miller.
344 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
220. William Wirt 6 Henry, born February 14, 1831, at
" Red Hill," Charlotte County, Va. ; educated at the Uni-
versity of Virginia, where he took the degree of M. A. ;
admitted to the bar in 1853 ; in C. S. A. service ; was com-
monwealth attorney for Charlotte County; removed to
Richmond in 1873, and represented that city in the legisla-
ture from 1877 to 1883. He was the orator of the Phila-
delphia Centennial in 1876, and of the centennial celebra-
tion of the laying of the corner-stone of the Capitol at
Washington in 1893. He was president of the American
Historical Association in 1891 ; Avas for many years presi-
dent of the Virginia Historical Society, and is now presi-
dent of the Virginia Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution, and commissioner from Virginia in the Peabody
Board of Education. He has written, among other papers,
" The Truth Concerning George Rogers Clark ; ' " The
Rescue of Captain Smith by Pocahontas ; " " Patrick Henry
the Earliest Advocate of American Independence;" a paper
on Sir Walter Raleigh, and many on the earlier stages of
the growth of Virginia ; and has recently published the
" Life, Correspondence, and Speeches of Patrick Henry."
220. Hon. William Wirt Henry married, November 8,
1854, Miss Lucy Gray Marshall, of Charlotte County, Va.,
State Regent for Virginia of the Virginia Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution ; member of the ad-
visory board of the A. P. V. A., of " The Society of the
Colonial Dames " in Virginia, etc. Issue : —
i. Elizabeth Watkins 7 Henry, vice-president of " The Co-
lonial Dames " in Virginia, and also an official of sev-
eral other patriotic societies ; m., October 9, 1879,
Hon. James Lyons (eldest son of the late Judge Wil-
liam H. Lyons), member of the House of Delegates
from Richmond, 1879-1880 and 1881-1882 ; Assist-
ant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of
Virginia, 1885-1889 ; one of the ruling elders of the
Second Presbyterian Church of Richmond, etc. ; son
of Judge William Henry Lyons, son of Hon. James
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 345
Lyons, Sr., by his wife, Henningham Watkins,
daughter o£ the Hon. Joseph Watkins, and his wife
Mary Carrington, daughter of Col. George Carring-
ton the elder. Issue : i. William Wirt Henry 8 ; and
ii. Henningham 8 Lyons.
ii. Lucy Gray 7 Henry, m., October 26, 1886, Matthew
Bland Harrison, of Petersburg, a successful lawyer
and man of affairs of St. Paul and Duluth ; in 1890,
he was appointed (as a Democrat) one of the World's
Fair Commissioners from Minnesota by President Har-
rison. He died February 29, 1892, leaving an only
child : i. Louise Henry 8 Harrison.
hi. William Wirt 7 Henry, Jr., m., July 10, 1894, at Hay-
market, Va., Miss Aimer Lee Dulaney, daughter of
the late Bladen Tasker Dulaney, of Fauquier County,
Va. She survived her marriage only a few months.
iv. James Marshall 7 Henry.
221. Dr. Thomas Stanhope G Henry, of Charlotte County,
Va., born July 22, 1833 ; married, in January, 1858, Miss
Mary E. Gaines, daughter of R. F. Gaines, Esq., of Char-
lotte County, Va. Issue : —
i. Mary Gaines 7 Henry, b. May 29, 1859.
ii. Thomas Stanhope 7 Henry, b. May 4, 1863.
iii. Robert Gaines 7 Henry, b. December 4, 1866.
222. Emma Cabell 6 Henry, born February 14, 1838;
married, December 22, 1858, Maj. James B. Ferguson, 1 of
Richmond, who was agent for the Confederate government
in Europe, where his wife visited him in 1864. Issue : —
i. Elvira H. 7 Ferguson, b. December 31, 1859.
ii. James B. 7 Ferguson, Jr., m. Dora Horner.
212. Thomas Stanhope 5 McClelland, born March 15,
1810 ; educated at Washington College, Va. ; studied for
the law; went twice to Europe. He is still living. He
married, November 5, 1849, Maria Louisa, daughter of
Frederick C. Graf, Sr., late of Baltimore. She died March
1 See Pocahontas and her Descendants, p. 52.
o
46 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN"
13, 1893, in her 80th year. She was widely known and
greatly beloved by the people of Nelson and Buckingham
counties, where all of her married life was spent. Her
father, Mr. Graf, was born in the principality of Waldeck,
Germany ; emigrated to America ; was a prominent mer-
chant of Baltimore, and consul for the free city of Ham-
burg. His father was a Lutheran clergyman.
211. Mr. Thomas S. 5 McClelland has issue : —
i. Anna La Mott G McClelland, b. August 17, 1850 ; m.
William H. Whelan, of Baltimore, and had issue : i.
Maud G ; and ii. Louisa Graf 7 Whelan.
ii. Mary Greenway 6 McClelland, b. August 5, 1853 ; edu-
cated by her mother, whose intellectual attainments
were of a high order. M. G. McClelland's first novel,
" Oblivion," appeared in 1886. She has since had
published : " A Self-made Man," " Jean Monteith,"
" Princess," " Madame Silva," and numerous short
stories.
213. Laura 5 McClelland, born March 6, 1814; married,
October 10, 1833, George Mercer Yuille Miller, Esq., of
Halifax County, Va. ; and died at her home, " Belle Vue,"
September 12, 1852. " A woman remarkable for her many
kind acts and lovely disposition." Her husband was a
Southern planter, owning a beautiful estate on Staunton
River, near the friends of his father, Patrick Henry and
John Randolph of Roanoke. " His paternal ancestor came
from Scotland ; settled in the present county of Pittsyl-
vania about 1775, and was a soldier in the Revolution."
He died at an advanced age, in June, 1866, and was buried
by the side of his wife at " Belle Vue." Issue : —
i. Margaret Ellen 6 Miller, m. John C. Tarr, from Wheel-
ing, W. Va., now city attorney of Leavenworth,
Kans. Issue : —
i. Laura Frances 7 Tarr.
ii. George Campbell 7 Tarr, m. his cousin, Frances
Tarr, and has: i. Lorene 8 : and ii. Ellen 8 Tarr.
MARY GREENWAY McCLELLAND
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 347
ii. William Bacon 6 Miller, of Pittsylvania County, Va. ;
served in the C. S. A., as lieutenant of cavalry in
the Army of Northern Virginia; d. in Colorado in
1872, whither he had gone for his health ; m. his
cousin, Mary Agnes Miller, of Texas, who d. in 1867.
Issue: i. Thomas S. 7 , d. infant; ii. Crenshaw 7 Miller,
of Richmond, Va.
iii. Thomas Stanhope 6 Miller, a lieutenant in Wise's Bri-
gade, C. S. A. ; d. from wounds received in battle,
near Petersburg, in 1864 ; unmarried.
iv. Charles Edwin 6 Miller, served in the C. S. A., on the
staff of Gen. Anderson. He now resides at the ances-
tral seat, " Sharswood," Pittsylvania County, Va. ;
unmarried.
v. Parke Carter 6 Miller, m., in 1865, Horatio Davis, attor-
ney at law, of Wilmington, N. C. (brother to Hon.
George Davis, attorney-general C. S. A., and Bishop
Thomas L. Davis, of South Carolina). Horatio Davis
was a lieutenant of artillery, C. S. A., and is now a
lawyer of Gainesville, Florida. Issue : i. William
Giles 7 ; ii. Charles ; and iii. Thomas Frederick
Davis.
214. Margaret 5 McClelland, born January 20, 1820;
died September 24, 1875 ; married, January 20, 1840,
Ludwell H. Brown, of Richmond, Va. (born November
1, 1818), a civil engineer of distinction ; was on the James
River and Kanawha Canal under Col. Charles Ellett, and
after on many of the public works in Virginia ; died March
6, 1859 ; son of James Brown, Jr. (1780-1859), second
auditor of the State of Virginia for forty years, whose
father, John Brown (1750-1810), a Scotchman, emigrated
to Virginia ; was clerk of the District Court, General Court,
and Court of Appeals of Virginia, at Richmond. Accom-
panied Chief Justice Marshall as his secretary when he
went to Paris with C. C. Pinckney and Elbridge Gerry as
envoys extraordinary to the French Republic.
348 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
James Brown, Jr. (auditor), married, in 1800, Frances
(born December 29, 1783), daughter of William Goosley,
of York, and his wife, Ludwell (born December 31, 1754),
daughter 'of Benjamin Harrison and his wife, Susannah
Digges, granddaughter of Col. Dudley Digges, a grandson
of Sir Dudley Digges, one of our founders. 1
214. Mrs. Margaret 5 McClelland Brown had issue : —
i. James Cabell 6 Brown, of California, m., first, in 1864,
Marian Murray. She d. in 1872. Issue : i. James 7 ;
ii. William Cabell 7 ; and iii. Margaret 7 Brown;
m., second, in 1874, Annie Sinclair. Issue : iv.
Winfield Scott Keys 7 Brown,
ii. Margaret Cabell 6 Brown, m., in 1862, Henry Lough-
borough, of the District of Columbia, a soldier in the
C. S. A. [son of Hamilton, the son of Nathan, the
son of David Loughborough, an English Quaker,
who came to America in 1718]. Issue : i. Hamil-
ton 7 ; ii. Ludwell 7 ; iii. Henry 7 ; iv. Margaret Ca-
bell 7 ; v. David 7 ; vi. Robert 7 ; vii. Sarah 7 ; viii.
Caroline 7 ; and ix. Nathan 7 Lougliborough.
iii. John Francis Deane 6 Brown.
iv. Mary Rosalie 6 Brown, m., in 1867, Porter Johnson,
Esq., of Rockbridge County, Va. Issue : i. Fan-
nie 7 ; ii. Richard 7 ; iii. Porter 7 ; iv. Ludwell H. 7 ;
v. Olive 7 ; vi. Caroline 7 ; vii. Alice 7 ; viii. Edmonia 7 ;
and ix. Leake 7 Johnson.
v. Frances H. 6 Brown, m., in 1868, G. Walker Gilmer,
Esq., of Albemarle County, Va. r son of George C,
and nephew of Gov. Thomas Walker Gilmer, who
were grandsons of Dr. George Gilmer, of " Pen
Park." Issue: i. Rosa L. 7 ; ii. Margaret C. 7 ; iii.
Ludwell H. 7 ; iv. Edmonia Preston 7 ; v. George
Walker 7 ; vi. John Harmer 7 ; and vii. Isa Barks-
dale 7 Gilmer.
vi. Thomas S. G Brown ; unmarried.
1 See William and Mary College Quarterly, January, 1893, pp. 97, 98, and
The Genesis of the United States, p. 878.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 349
vii. Edmonia Preston 6 Brown, m. Leake Johnson, Esq., of
Rockbridge County, Va. Issue : i. Margaret 7 ; ii.
Thomas S. 7 ; iii. Waldo 7 ; and iv. Philip Ludwell 7
Johnson.
viii. Wingfield Ludwell G Brown, county attorney, Philips-
burg, Mont. ; m., in 1887, Sarah, daughter of Z.
R. Lewis, Esq., of Nelson County, Va. Issue:
i. Robert Lewis 7 ; and ii. Wingfield 7 Brown.
215. Sarah Cabell 6 McClelland, born February 22, 1822;
still living ; married, April 12, 1854, Dr. Robert R. Barton,
of Rockbridge County, Va. He was born in Dinwiddie
County, Va. ; studied medicine under the care of his uncle,
the distinguished Dr. Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815),
of Philadelphia ; graduated M. D. in 1813 ; when not quite
21, appointed a surgeon in the U. S. N. ; served on the
Niagara in the battle of September 10, 1813, and shared
the honors as he had braved the perils of Perry's great
victory ; after peace with Great Britain, was attached to
the United States squadron in the Mediterranean ; was
medical officer of the Constellation when that frigate, under
Capt. Gordon, engaged and captured the Algerine flagship ;
in 1817, owing to ill-health, he resigned from the navy and
entered upon the practice of his profession, first in Win-
chester and afterwards in Lexington, Va., where he died
January 21, 1858. His father, Richard P. Barton, moved
to Virginia from Pennsylvania soon after the Revolution ;
married Martha Walker (she died in October, 1836), of
Dinwiddie County, Va. ; and died at his seat, Springdale,
near Winchester, Va., January 10, 1821. He was the son
of Rev. Thomas Barton (1730-1780), who was educated at
Dublin University ; took orders in the Church of England ;
was sent to America by the " Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; '' came to Philadelphia;
was a chaplain in the expedition against Fort Du Quesne in
1758 ; and was afterwards (from 1759 to 1777) rector of
the church at Lancaster, Pa. He married, in 1753, Esther
350 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
(1731-1774), sister of David Bittenhouse and daughter
of Matthias Bittenhouse, whose grandfather, a Hollander,
established at Germantown, about 1690, the first paper-
mill in America.
214. Mrs. Sarah Cabell 5 Barton had issue : —
i. Edmonia Preston 6 Barton, b. in 1856 ; m., in July,
1877, at Lexington, Va., Lawrence W. Hiunes, of
Memphis, Tenn., son of General W. Y. C. Humes,
C. S. A., and has issue : i. Cabell 7 and ii. 7 Humes.
ii. David B. G Barton, of Durango, Colorado.
216. Mary Carter 5 McClelland, born March 24, 1824 ;
married, at Montezuma, by Bev. Wilham S. Beid, D. D., De-
cember 8, 1847, to Bev. John A. Scott, of Halifax County,
Va. ; she died . Her husband, Bev. John A.
Scott, a distinguished Presbyterian minister, was the son of
Bev. William Nelson Scott, D. D., born Augusta County,
Va., March 4, 1789, died Luray, Va., January 24, 1857 ;
son of Bev. Archibald Scott, born in Scotland ; came at
an early age to Pennsylvania ; entered Liberty Hall Acad-
emy, Augusta County, Va., under Mr. Graham ; licensed to
preach by the Presbytery in 1777 ; became the pastor of
several churches in Augusta County, Va. ; appointed a
trustee of Liberty Hall Academy in 1782 ; elected a mem-
ber of the corporate body under the charter to Washington
College in 1784 ; died at his residence, six miles southwest
of Staunton, March 4, 1799.
Bev. William Nelson Scott, D. D. (1789-1857) ; married
Nancy Daniel, daughter of John Daniel (son of James
Daniel, — sometime Sheriff of Goochland and of Albe-
marle, will dated October 30, 1760, proven February 12,
1761, — of Goochland, and Elizabeth Woodson, his wife),
and Elizabeth Morton, daughter of Col. Joseph Morton
and Aggy Woodson, daughter of Bichard Woodson ; son
of Bobert Woodson ; son of John Woodson, who came to
Virginia from Dorsetshire, England, in 1625.
215. Mrs. Mary C. Scott had issue : —
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 351
i. Rev. William Nelson 6 Scott, D. D., Presbyterian min-
ister, of Galveston, Texas, b. September 25, 1848 ;
graduated A. B. Washington College, Va., in 1868 ;
m., December 19, 1872, Maggie Hanna, of Shelby
Comity, Ky. Issue : i. Agnes Morton 7 ; ii. Mary
Cabell 7 ; iii. Nannie Brooke 7 ; iv. Wm. Nelson 7 ; and
v. John Archibald 7 Scott.
ii. Stanhope McClelland G Scott, b. July 20, 1850 ; grad-
uated A. B., Washington College, 1868 ; M. D., Uni-
versity of Virginia, 1870 ; physician in Terra Alta,
W. Va. ; m., October 11, 1875, Annie E. Fairfax, of
Preston County, W. Va. Issue : i. Buckner Fair-
fax 7 ; and ii. John Allen 7 Scott.
iii. John Addison 6 Scott, b. July 9, 1852 ; graduated
A. B., Washington College, 1868; Presbyterian
minister ; m., in 1880, Lucy Waddell, of Albemarle
County, Va. Issue : i. Belle Hill 7 ; ii. Mary Carter 7 ;
iii. Margaret Mayo 7 ; iv. Leigh Richmond 7 ; and v.
John Andrew 7 Scott.
iv. Lyttleton Edmunds 6 Scott, b. March 1, 1855 ; Pres-
byterian minister ; m., 1884, Kitty Waddell, of Albe-
marle County, Va. Issue : i. Lelia R. 7 ; ii. Lyttleton
E. 7 ; iii. John Cabell 7 ; and iv. Kitty B. 7 Scott.
v. Margaret Cabell 6 Scott, b. September 11, 1859; m.,
in 1889, T. E. Nininger, Esq., of Botetourt County,
Va. Issue : i. Mary Carter 7 Nininger.
vi. Anna Mayo G Scott, b. March 2, 1864.
vii. Charles Carrington G Scott, b. December 7, 1866.
217. James Bruce 5 McClelland, born June 25, 1827; ed-
ucated at Washington College ; inherited the Montezuma
estate ; engaged in the commission business in Richmond
with Gen. Alexander Brown, under the firm name of
Brown & McClelland ; served in the Governor's Guard,
C. S. A., Capt. J. Grattan Cabell, at the first battle of
Manassas ; was afterwards detailed for the quartermaster's
department with the rank of captain ; was soon advanced
352 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
to the rank of major ; died August 31, 1862, at " Monte-
zuma." He contracted typhoid fever while attending to
his duties after the battles below Richmond. I find the
following relative to him in Mr. Mayo Cabell's diary :
" Bruce had been actively employed in the service of the
Confederacy from the commencement of the war. His
capacity and fidelity was equaled by few. He was just and
conscientious in all the relations of life. His death is deeply
deplored by all who knew him. To his family the loss is
irreparable. Another calamity attributable to this unjust
war." He was a man of high literary attainments and
tastes. He married, February 26, 1850, in Lynchburg, Va.,
Nannie L. Otey, daughter of Dr. William Leftwich Otey.
She survived her husband but a few weeks ; died October
11, 1862, of typhoid fever. A bright and popular woman,
most noted, I may well say ; celebrated for her beauty in
form and feature, and for her devotion to her husband.
She was a daughter of William Leftwich Otey (and his wife,
Kitty Logwood), first cousin to Mary Otey Leftwich, who
married Pleasant M. Goggin [son of Stephen Goggin and
his wife, Rachel Moorman, the grandparents of Hon. Wil-
liam L. Goggin, of Virginia], the brother of Pamela
Goffoin, who married Samuel Clemens, from whom " Mark
Twain " descends. William Leftwich Otey was son of
Frazier Otey (by his first wife, Mildred Leftwich), the son
of Capt. John Otey, a soldier in the Revolution, who moved
from New Kent to Bedford County, Va., about the time of
the Revolutionary War, by his wife .Mary Hopkins (born
July 14, 1739, the daughter, I believe, of John, son of Dr.
Arthur Hopkins), ancestors of Bishop James H. Otey, of
Missouri, and many other distinguished people.
217. James B. 5 and Nannie L. McClelland left issue : —
i. William Otey 6 McClelland, b. at " Montezuma," May
30, 1851 ; d. at Norwood School of typhoid fever,
August 26, 1869. Highly gifted and full of promise,
of winning manners, he was popular with old and
young.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 353
ii. Thomas Stanhope 6 McClelland, b. September 11, 1852 ;
educated at Norwood School; m. Lucy Landon
Winn, daughter of Dr. Henry Jasper Winn and Eliza
Evans Ellerbe (she d. in 1878), of Birmingham,
Ala. ; " Ellerbe of English descent, through South
Carolina Winn of Welsh descent, to Alabama in
1830." Issue : i. Thomas Stanhope 7 ; and ii. Henry 7
McClelland.
iii. Edmond L. G McClelland, b. November 26, 1853 ; edu-
cated at Norwood School and the University of
Virginia ; professor at the Episcopal High School
near Alexandria, etc. He m., July 11, 1882, Lucy
Eleanor Barclay, daughter of D. Robert Barclay,
a lawyer in St. Louis, Mo. (author of Barclay's
Digest), and granddaughter of Elihu H. Shepard,
who was closely identified with the early history of
that city. A profound scholar, he was for many
years engaged in educational work. He amassed a
considerable fortune by judicious investments in city
real estate, and after the Mexican war, in which he
served as captain of a company, equipped at his
own expense, he devoted himself to the quiet enjoy-
ment of his home. He died at the age of eighty-
one, loved and esteemed by three generations of his
fellow-citizens, and was buried with Masonic and
civic honors at the family home in Jefferson
County, N. Y. Mr. Edmond L. 6 McClelland has
issue : i. Nannie Shepard 7 McClelland.
iv. James Bruce 6 McClelland, b. February 20, 1857;
educated at Norwood School ; went to Alabama in
1875 ; in 1884 went thence to Texas, and since then
has resided at Clarendon, in the real estate business
with his elder brother, Thomas Stanhope McClel-
land. He m., June 21, 1886, at Birmingham, Ala.,
Kate Ellerbe Winn (sister to his brother's wife), and
has issue : i. James Bruce 7 ; and ii. Eliza Ellerbe 7
McClelland.
354 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
218. Martha Edmonia 5 McClelland, b. May 22, 1831;
still living ; married in October, 1853, Eli S. Tntwiler, of
Lexington, Va. He was born in Fluvanna County ; was a
Captain in the C. S. A. (married, first, a daughter of Dr.
John B. Garland, of Woodberry, Richmond County, Va.,
and granddaughter of John McClelland, of Lexington, the
elder brother of Hon. Thomas S. McClelland, of Nelson) ;
his maternal grandfather, Thomas Shores, of Caroline
County, Va., a soldier in the Revolution, was of English
descent ; his paternal grandfather, Martin Tutwiler, an
emigrant to Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Va., from
Pennsylvania, was of Swiss descent. His children are : —
i. Thos. S. McC. 6 Tutwiler, educated at Washington
College ; m. Annie Pope, and has two children 7 .
ii. J. Bruce McC. 6 Tutwiler, educated at Washington
College ; m. Meta Anderson, and has one child 7 .
in. Margaret M. G. 6 Tutwiler, m. Guy Garrett.
iv. Anna Scott Tutwiler, died young,
v. Argyle TreviUian 6 Tutwiler.
vi. Mary Cabell 6 Tutwiler, m. Houston Leech, and has
issue,
vii. Henry Martin 6 Tutwiler.
viii. W. W. Henry 6 Tutwiler.
ix. Clarence Cabell 6 Tutwiler.
56. Ann Carrington 4 Cabell, born at " Union Hill," Sep-
tember 20, 1787 ; married at the same place, June 28,
1807, to John James Flournoy, of " Union Grove," Prince
Edward County. She died July 7, 1854, at Farmville, Va.
She was received into the Briery Presbyterian Church in
April, 1811, and continued a member of that church to
her death. " A bright Christian, a devoted wife, mother,
and friend." Her husband, John James Flournoy, by
occupation a farmer, was a soldier in the War of 1812 ;
received into Briery Church July 7, 1822 ; honored and
respected by all who knew him, he lived to be nearly 80
years old, and died in the Christian faith. " A man of
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 355
strong attachments, a faithful and affectionate husband and
father, and a true friend." He was the son of Thomas
Flournoy, born November 20, 1738 ; under-sheriff of
Prince Edward County in 1757 ; married Anne Martin
(who, surviving him, died in June, 1814) ; member of the
Virginia House of Delegates, 1780 ; county lieutenant from
1783, and high sheriff of Prince Edward in 1786-1787 ; a
member of Briery Church, he died late in 1800, or early in
1801. His father, Jean Jacques Flournoy, a Huguenot, was
born November 17, 1686 ; came to Virginia from Geneva,
Switzerland, about ; married, June 23, 1720, in
Virginia, Elizabeth, born December 25, 1695 (widow of
Orlando Jones), daughter of James Williams (a lawyer), a
native of Wales, and of Elizabeth Buckner, his wife, a
native of Virginia, the blood of these races blending in
his children. A full genealogy of the Flournoy family is
now being published in " The Virginia Magazine of History
and Biography." Hence my account of this family (which
was mainly compiled for me in 1879 by the late Hon.
Thomas S. and Dr. Patrick H. Flournoy) will be given
herein as briefly as possible consistent with the object of this
book.
56. Mrs. Ann Carrington 4 Flournoy had issue : —
223. i. Ann Eliza 5 Flournoy.
224. ii. William CabeU 5 Flournoy.
225. iii. Thomas Stanhope 5 Flournoy.
226. iv. Patrick Henry 5 Flournoy.
223. Ann Eliza 5 Flournoy, married August 15, 1832, at
Hampden Sidney College, by the Rev. Benjamin Stanton,
to Henry Wood, Esq., a lawyer, of Amelia, who moved to
Clarksville, Mecklenburg County, where he continued to
reside until his death. " He was a very successful lawyer."
Issue : —
i. John Stanhope 6 Wood, b. July 12, 1833, in Amelia
County ; went to California in 1856 ; returned to
Virginia in 1860 ; married, May 15 in that year,
356 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Miss Jennie Scott ; was a captain in the C. S. A. ;
resides in Mecklenburg County. Issue : i. Sue
Goode 7 ; ii. Walter Seal 7 ; and iii. Eliza Flournoy 7
Wood.
ii. Ellen Jane 6 Wood, b. in Amelia County, November 5,
1835 ; educated at the Female Academy in Clarks-
ville ; m., in May, 1854, Dr. William S. Easley ;
moved to Richmond soon after marriage, where her
husband edited the "Penny Post," in the interest of
the Know-Nothing Party. After the defeat of that
party he returned to the practice of his profession
in Mecklenburg County. He was a surgeon in the
C. S. A., and died in February, 1865, of disease
contracted in the service. His wife died at Wood-
land, near Clarksville, April 29, 1874, leaving issue :
i. Mona Boyd 7 ; ii. Nannie Belle 7 ; iii. Wm. Sharpe 7 ;
and iv. Fred B. 7 Easley.
iii. William Walter c Wood, b. in Amelia, November 18,
1838 ; educated at Hampden Sidney ; studied law
and began its practice in Clarksville ; entered the
C. S. A. as lieutenant, and rose to the rank of
colonel in Pickett's division ; after the war settled
in Halifax, and practiced his profession in partner-
ship with Col. E. Barksdale, Jr. ; member of the
Virginia legislature in 1870 ; moved to St. Louis,
Mo., in 1874, and practiced law with Col. E. C.
Cabell ; became interested in the mineral wealth of
the northern provinces of Mexico in 1877 ; died un-
married.
iv. Henry 6 Wood, b. in Clarksville, May 13, 1843 ; edu-
cated in Lexington at V. M. I. ; went into the
C. S. A. as lieutenant ; was at the surrender of
Roanoke Island when the distinguished young Vir-
ginian, 0. Jennings Wise, was killed ; rose to the
rank of captain ; was in Mahone's command in all
his important engagements around Petersburg ;
after the war studied law; was for some years
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 357
county judge of Mecklenburg ; m. (first), June
10, 1869, Mary J. Wood, daughter of Richard and
Josephine Sampson Wood. She d. June 29, 1873,
leaving one child : i. Cabell Sampson 7 Wood.
" Judge Henry Wood has married a second time,
and has other children."
v. Nannie Cabell 6 Wood, b. in Clarksville in April,
1845 ; educated at the Female Academy there ; m.,
in December, 1867, Capt. John R. Seal, of Norfolk.
In 1879, they resided in New York, where her
husband was engaged in business for the C. & 0.
Railway.
vi. Rosa Buena G Wood, b. in Clarksville in April, 1847,
soon after the battle of Buena Vista ; educated at
Clarksville Female Academy; m., in 1871, Henry
Wood 6 Flournoy, whom see.
vii. Alice Gertrude G Wood, b. and educated in Clarksville ;
m. Major J. J. Gordon ; resides in Cincinnati, 0.,
and has one child. 7
viii. Catherine Patrick G Wood, b. in December, 1851, in
Clarksville ; educated at Miss Baldwin's school in
Staunton ; m. her cousin, N. E. Flournoy, whom
see.
224. William Cabell 5 Flournoy, born December 31, 1809;
educated at Hampden Sidney College. He was a man of
generous and noble impulses, of a high order of intellect
and rare powers of eloquence. His unflinching fidelity to
his friends, and to every cause that he espoused, was pro-
verbial. He was at different times a member of the Vir-
ginia legislature, and occupied a position of commanding
influence in that body. He was for many years the prose-
cuting attorney in Prince Edward, where he had a most
unrivaled influence and popularity. He was frequently
solicited to become a candidate for the United States Con-
gress, but as frequently declined. He was always sent
to the national nominating conventions of his party, and
358 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
wielded large influence in those bodies for good. He was
as strong a Democrat as his brother, the Hon. Thomas S.
Flournoy, was a Whig. He died at his residence, at Prince
Edward C. H., March 31, 1861. A talented and distin-
guished lawyer, an attractive, benevolent, and honorable
man, his many virtues will long be remembered by all
classes of society with all that warm affection which they
so justly inspired. He was married, June 26, 1834* at Hay-
market, Prince Edward County, by Rev. George Baxter,
D. D., to Martha Watkins Venable (who is still living),
daughter of William L. Venable, of Prince Edward. Among
her emigrant ancestors were : Venable, Davis, Woodson,
Michaux, Nantz, Hughes, Watkins, etc. Issue : —
i. Ann CabeU 6 Flournoy, b. 1835 ; d. 1837.
ii. John James 6 Flournoy, b. April 13, 1837 ; soldier in
C. S. A. ; m., February 9, 1865, Lucy Worthy Allen,
daughter of Dr. Murett B. Allen, of East Cliff,
Prince Edward County, by Rev. J. H. C. Leach,
D. D. ; d. January 7, 1875, leaving one son, Wil-
liam Cabell 7 Flournoy, b. June 5, 1866.
iii. William Venable 6 Flournoy, b. 1839 ; d. 1842.
iv. Benjamin Stanhope 6 Flournoy, b. 1841 ; d. 1842.
v. Frances Florida 6 Flournoy, b. July 6, 1843; m., De-
cember 24, 1863, to John P. Fitzgerald, at Prince
Edward Court House, by Rev. Robert L. Dabney,
D. D. Her husband, Mr. Fitzgerald, a lawyer by
profession, was lieutenant-colonel 23d Virginia Reg-
iment, C. S. A. ; served in northwest Virginia, then
under Jackson, in the Valley ; wounded at Sharps-
burg; captured at Spottsylvania ; selected out of
Fort Delaware as one of fifty field-officers to be sent
to Charleston, S. C, to be placed under fire of Con-
federate batteries ; was there exchanged, served to
close of war, and surrendered at Appomattox Court
House ; is now a lawyer of Farmville, Va. They
have no children.
vi. Sarah Venable 6 Flournoy, b. August 12, 1845; m.,
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 359
May 14, 1872, to Rev. J. C. Painter, at Union Theo-
logical Seminary, in Prince Edward, by Rev. Thomas
E. Peck, D. D. Her husband, Mr. Painter, was a
private in the Otey Battery, 13th Virginia Battalion
of Artillery, C. S. A. ; went into the army a boy of
17 years in 1863, and surrendered with Gen. Lee at
Appomattox Court House. His father, Rev. George
Painter, a Presbyterian minister, was the pioneer of
Presbyterianism in the counties of Pulaski, Wythe,
Washington, and Smyth. The Rev. J. C. Painter
is also a Presbyterian, and is now a minister in
Albemarle County. Issue : i. George Whitfield 7 ;
ii. Martha Venable 7 ; iii. Graham Crockett 7 ; iv.
Cabell Alexander 7 (dead) ; v. Sallie Flournoy 7
(dead) ; vi. William Venable 7 (dead) ; vii. Landon
Temple 7 ; and viii. Henry Lewis 7 Painter.
vii. George Mallory Flournoy, b. 1848; d. 1853.
viii. Landon Cabell G Flournoy, b. March 4 > 1850 ; educated
at Hampden Sidney College ; moved to Morgan-
field, Ky., in 1873 ; teacher in Morganfield Acad-
emy, Ky., 1873-1874 ; studied law in 1874-1875 ;
admitted to the bar in fall of 1875 ; superintendent
of schools for the county, 1876-1878 ; chairman of
Democratic County Committee ; judge of the County
Court since 1886 ; a deacon in the Presbyterian
Church, and a Mason. He was m. (first), February
27, 1877, at Uniontown, Union County, Ky., by Rev.
William D. Morton, to Martha G. Givens. She was
b. December 7, 1857, in Union County, Ky., and d.
May 9, 1884, at Leesburg, Fla. Her children are :
i. Bessie Venable 7 ; ii. Florida Fitzgerald 7 (dead);
iii. Sallie Wright 7 ; and iv. Martha Watkins 7 Flour-
noy. Judge 6 Flournoy was m. (second), May 3,
1888, at Clover Hill, near Sutherlin, in Halifax
County, Va., to Susan Cabell Cobbs (b. in Danville,
Va., November 5, 1864, daughter of Mary Flour-
noy Cobbs) ; her children are : v. Mary 7 ; vi. Fitz-
gerald 7 ; and vii. Mildred Cobbs 7 Flournoy.
360 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
ix. Alice Eliza 6 Flournoy, b. November 4, 1852 ; m.,
October 13, 1875, at Farmville, by Rev. J. C.
Painter, to Littleton Fitzgerald, half brother of Col.
John P. Fitzgerald. They live in Richmond, Va.
Issue : i. Littleton 7 ; ii. George 7 ; hi. John Patter-
son 7 (dead); iv. Cabell Flournoy 7 ; v. Alice Eliza 7
(dead); vi. Sallie Tazewell 7 ; and vii. Marion Nantz 7
Fitzgerald.
x. Charles Bruce G Flournoy, b. November 11, 1854 ; m.
Virginia Dalby ; they live in Charlotte, N. C. Is-
sue : i. John Dalby 7 (dead); ii. Louise 7 ; and hi.
Martha Watkins 7 Flournoy.
225. Thomas Stanhope 5 Flournoy, born in Prince Ed-
ward County, December 15, 1811 ; educated at Hanrpden
Sidney College ; taught in the family of Gen. Alexander
Brown, at Belmont ; read law under Hon. Thomas S. Mc-
Clelland, for whom he was named, at Montezuma ; settled in
Halifax County as a lawyer in 1834, and soon took a lead-
ing position as an advocate and public speaker. " The
county being strongly Democratic, and Mr. Flournoy being
an Old-Line Whig of the most ardent type, political prefer-
ment was hardly to be thought of," but, such was his great
personal popularity, in 1846 he was elected to Congress
from the fifth Virginia, a strong Democratic district, and
again in 1848, serving two terms, March 4, 1847, to March
4, 1851. " During his service in Congress, he was thrown
in contact with Mr. Lincoln, and they became warm per-
sonal friends. In 1855, he was the candidate of the Amer-
ican party for governor, against Henry A. Wise, and it has
always been confidently maintained by his friends that if he
had made any canvass at all, he would have been elected.
He was a member of the Virginia Convention of 1861
which passed the ordinance of secession, having been sent
to that body as a moderate man. Here he faithfully repre-
sented the sentiments of his constituency, his voice being
for peace, — ' peace if possible.' But he was a Virginian
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 361
of Virginians, and when the inevitable came, although past
the age for military duty, he raised a company of cavalry
and entered the C. S. A. as a captain." He was promoted
to be colonel of his regiment, the 6th Virginia Cavalry ;
was one of the most gallant officers in the army. At Front
Royal, Gen. Jackson ordered him to capture or silence a
Federal battery ; he promptly charged with four companies
of his regiment, repulsing three companies of cavalry, a
regiment of infantry, and a battery of artillery, taking two
fieldpieces and 600 prisoners. This was one of the most
heroic charges in a war illuminated by heroic acts. In
1863, he was again a candidate for governor, with Hon.
William Smith and Col. George Wythe Munford, but was
defeated by " Extra Billy " Smith. After the war he lo-
cated in Danville, and resumed the practice of his profes-
sion, becoming one of the most laborious lawyers in Vir-
ginia, practicing in the courts of four or five counties, the
Virginia Court of Appeals, and the United States Court
in Danville. " He was a delegate to the Democratic Con-
vention of 1876, held at St. Louis, and was selected by
the Virginia delegation to second the nomination of Mr.
Tilden, and made the speech on the occasion." " In early
life he made a public profession of faith, and for a number
of years had been an elder in the Presbyterian Church, and
prominent in the councils of that denomination." " As a
criminal lawyer Col. Flournoy had few if any superiors in
the State, and his power in swaying a crowd from the
stump was second only to his effectiveness before a jury."
He died March 12, 1883, at his residence in Halifax County,
Va.
He was married (first), January 1, 1835, at Gen. Edward
C. Carrington's, in Halifax County, Va., by the Rev. Mr.
Montgomery, to Miss Susan Ann Love, daughter of Allen
Love, Esq., a distinguished lawyer. She died April 21,
1848, having had issue : —
i. Allen F. 6 Flournoy, d. in 1849.
ii. Mary P. 6 Flournoy, b. September 11, 1838 ; m. John
362 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
F. Cobbs, of Pittsylvania, at Halifax Court House.
She died in 1874, leaving five children, one of
whom, Susan Cabell Cobbs, ni. Judge Landon C. 6
Flournoy.
iii. Cabell Edward 6 Flournoy, b. June 30, 1840 ; entered
the C. S. A. ; became captain, then lieutenant-colonel
of cavalry ; was killed while leading his regiment in
a charge in a cavalry fight near Richmond in 1864 ;
he had a well-established reputation as a gallant and
efficient officer ; never married.
iv. John James 6 Flournoy, b. April 11, 1842; entered the
C. S. A. as a member of the Richmond Howitzers;
surrendered at Appomattox ; moved to the West
since the war.
v. Louisa Cabell G Flournoy, b. May 3, 1844 ; m., at Hal-
ifax Court House, Mr. William W. Cobbs, of Pittsyl-
vania, who died leaving a large family,
vi. Henry Wood 6 Flournoy, b. June 6, 1846; entered the
C. S. A. as a member of the 6th Virginia Cavalry,
was wounded in the fall of 1864 ; after recovering
he could not mount, so joined the Richmond Howitz-
ers, with whom he fought and surrendered at Appo-
mattox ; after the war, read law with his father ; be-
gan practice in Danville in the fall of 1867 ; judge
of the Hustings Court of Danville from spring of
1870 to December, 1877, when he resigned and
resumed the practice of law January 1, 1878 ; re-
moved from Danville to Washington County, Va., in
1881 ; secretary of the commonwealth of Virginia,
1881-1893 ; a resident of Richmond. In 1871, he
m. his cousin, Rosa Buena 6 Wood, and has one son :
i. Wood 7 Flournoy.
225. Hon. Thomas S. 5 Flournoy was married (second),
July 22, 1852, at " Cole's Hill," by Rev. John A. Scott, to
Mildred H. Coles, daughter of Hon. Walter Coles, of Pitt-
sylvania (he represented the Fifth District of Virginia in
Congress for fourteen years), and his wife, Lettice, daughter
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 363
of Judge Paul Carrington the elder, of Charlotte County,
by his second wife, Priscilla Simms. Issue : —
vii. Walter Coles 6 Flournoy, b. 1853; d. 1862.
viii. Helen 6 Flournoy, b. May 9, 1856 ; m. John R. Patton,
Esq. He d., leaving two children.
ix. Ann 6 Flournoy, b. 1858 ; d. 1862.
x. Thomas Stanhope 6 Flournoy, b. May 8, 1860.
xi. Coles 6 Flournoy, b. October 1, 1862.
xii. Lettice Carrington G Flournoy, b. August 21, 1865.
xiii. Charles 6 Carrington Flournoy, b. February 17, 1871.
226. Patrick Henry 5 Flournoy, born in Prince Edward
County, March 4, 1813; graduated in the Philadel-
phia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and began the
practice of his profession. In 1849, he moved to Charlotte
Court House, and continued to reside there. Strong in his
convictions, as a citizen he was patriotic and zealously
devoted to the interests of his State ; as a friend he was
warm and devoted. Before the war he was a strong Whig,
since the war a strong Democrat. In religion he was a
good Presbyterian. He died at his residence in Charlotte
Court House, March 3, 1887. For over fifty years Dr.
Flournoy was engaged in the practice of medicine in Char-
lotte County, and in sunshine and storm, by day and night,
he was prompt to respond to the call of the sick and suf-
fering. He was married in 1840, at the residence of her
father, by Rev. Dr. Graham, to Susan, daughter of Nicholas
Edmunds, of Charlotte County, Va., and his wife, Jane
Dupuy, and had issue : —
i. Nicholas Edmunds 6 Flournoy, b. March 23, 1841; a
soldier in the C. S. A. from the beginning to the end;
m. his cousin, Catharine Patrick Wood; resides at
Charlotte Court House, and had issue : i. Ann Eliza 7 ;
ii. Patrick W. 7 ; iii. Walter N. 7 (dead); iv. Henry
Cabell 7 (dead); v. Nicholas 7 ; vi. Katie 7 ; vii. Ger-
trude ; and viii. Melvin 7 Flournoy.
ii. William Stanhope 6 Flournoy, b. December 23, 1845;
364 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
entered the C. S. A., aged 17 years and 6 months,
and served to the end of the war ; a dentist by pro-
fession ; he resides at Charlotte Court House. He m.,
in 1871, Bettie A. Wilson, daughter of Daniel Wilson
and his wife, Elizabeth Eidson, of Augusta County,
Va., and has issue: i. Bessie B. 7 ; ii. Helen 7 ; iii.
Mary 7 ; and iv. Isabel Cabell 7 Flournoy.
iii. Ann CabeU 6 Flournoy, b. 1848 ; d. 1848.
57. William Jordan 4 Cabell, born November 14, 1789.
In 1801, he was at Rev. Matthew Lyle's school in Prince
Edward with his cousins, Sam and William, sons of Col.
Samuel J. Cabell. On April 7, 1802, Mr. Lyle wrote to
his father : " School will again commence May 3. William
has commenced to read Latin," etc. " November 25, 1803,
Lexington, Va. Received from Wm. J. Cabell $8.33
for one session's tuition, ending next April. Wm. Willson,
Treasurer Washington Academy." He continued at this
academy, boarding with Rev. George A. Baxter, until
1807. June 23, 1805, he wrote to his " Honored Father "
from Washington Academy about the lottery drawing and
his studies : " Mr. Baxter has returned, and it is supposed
has obtained the sum of fifteen hundred dollars. Cousins
Sam and William are well. The number of students, at
present, is fifty odd," etc. After leaving school he went
into the mercantile business with his uncle, Mr. Robert
Rives, and soon after he writes to his father from Milton,
in Albemarle : " I find it to be one of- the best schools I
ever was at, — a free intercourse with the people, besides
innumerable other advantages," etc. [I have again gone
into an outline of " the schooling," to show the plan which
obtained in this part of Virginia in the olden time ; namely,
first, to give the boy a good rudimentary education from
books, and then, when he was not intended for one of the
professions, a good practical education from the people, —
in the sheriff's office, the surveyor's office, behind the mer-
chant's counter, etc.] He was afterwards in business in
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 365
Lynchburg and Richmond, and finally settled down to
farming in Nelson. He died at " Union Hill," June 26,
1819, unmarried.
58. Mary Elizabeth 4 Cabell, born December 3, 1791 ;
married, April 11, 1811, at Union Hill, Dr. George Calla-
way, of Bedford County. They lived first in Lynchburg,
Va., on the estate inherited from his father, including
"lands and Mills [since Langhorne's], near Lynchburg,
held in co-partnership with James Steptoe, Esquire, with all
my lots and other estate in the towns of Madison and
Lynchburg." (Extract from his father's will.) These
lands lay in the fork between Blackwater Creek and James
River ; a good portion of it is now in the corporation of
the city of Lynchburg. Her husband sold out most of his
interests in and near Lynchburg along about 1818 ; re-
moved to Nelson ; lived temporarily at " Colleton," while
the " Glenmore " house was being built, on the estate partly
given to her by her father, and partly purchased by her
husband from Mr. Jesse Irvine. They had been residing in
their new home only a few years when her husband died
there, on September 28, 1822. Her father died November
22 following. As one of the results of the Revolution, and
of the prejudices aroused thereby, the Church of England
had fallen under the bann as being English. The old
members thereof had gradually gone into other denomina-
tions. There had been no regular service in the parish
since the Rev. William Crawford (the grandfather of the
second wife of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt,
of New York) left in 1812. These deaths had a marked
influence on the family connection ; a desire was created in
the hearts of some to revive ao;ain the church of their fore-
fathers. In time a church was built on the lands of Mrs.
Callaway, near the public road, and in the gap on the
northwest side of the Buffalo Ridge, which, during its exist-
ence, was known as Callaway's Church. It was the suc-
cessor to the old Revolutionary church in Key's Gap, where
366 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
the Baptists now have a church called Fairmont. The first
service in this new church was in March, 1828. The first
minister was the Rev. Charles H. Page, who married a
daughter of William S. Crawford (a brother to Rev. Charles
Crawford, of Amherst, and first cousin to Hon. William H.
Crawford, of Georgia), who was first cousin to the last
minister, the Rev. William Crawford. The first members
were Mrs. Callaway, her mother (Ann Cabell), her brother
Mayo and his wife, Col. Alexander Brown and his wife,
Mrs. George W. Cabell, and Miss Peggy Rives, — eight in
all. And this was the new beginning of the Episcopal
Church in Nelson. Mrs. Callaway died August 20, 1867,
at " Glenmore," in Nelson County, Va. " She possessed
all the admirable traits which have characterized her dis-
tinguished name and race. Descended by father and mo-
ther from an ancestry whose deeds have made immortal
the name of our loved Virginia, and born at a period when
they still controlled her destinies. ... In early life a
widow, and following in quick succession her children to
the tomb. ... In the providence of God, it became her
duty to rear the children of others, and with a mother's
love and tenderness she devoted herself to the duty. Her
Christian principle never wavered ; bravely, resolutely, and
in the trust of God, she bent herself to the task."
Dr. George Callaway was a son of Col. James Callaway,
of Bedford County, Va. (by his second wife, Elizabeth
Early; see No. 121), who was born December 21, 1736;
served in the French and Indian War ; built the first iron-
works above Lynchburg, and also owned and operated lead-
mines. His son-in-law, Hary Innes (afterwards a judge in
Kentucky), was his superintendent of these mines for sup-
plying the patriot armies of the Revolution with these
materials of war. 1 He was colonel and afterwards county
lieutenant of Bedford during the Revolution, and was con-
stantly employed in all that pertained to those important
1 Ramsay's Annals of Tennessee, pp. 69, 151, 191 ; Green's History of the
Families of Kentucky, pp. 193-195.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 367
offices. In 1780, cooperating with Col. William Preston,
Col. Charles Lynch, Capt. Robert Adams, and other faithful
citizens, he suppressed a conspiracy against the common-
wealth by measures not " strictly warranted by law, although
justifiable from the imminence of the danger." The con-
spirators (Tories) were tried before a sort of drumhead
court-martial, Col. Charles Lynch acting as judge, and were
condemned to be punished in various ways. This was the
origin in our Statutes of the term " Lynch Law." 1 Col.
James Callaway died near New London, Campbell County,
Va., November 1, 1809. He was a son of Col. William
Callaway, the founder of New London, county lieutenant of
Bedford during the French and Indian War (by his wife,
Elizabeth Tilly), and brother to Col. Richard Callaway, of
Kentucky.
58. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth 4 Cabell Callaway had issue : —
i. William James 5 Callaway, b. 1812 ; d. 1813.
ii. George 5 Callaway, b. December 1, 1813 ; edu-
cated at Hampden Sidney College, 1831 ; d.
January 1, 1839 ; unmarried.
227. iii. Paul Carrington 5 Callaway.
iv. Ann Eliza CaUaway, b. 1817 ; d. 1832.
v. Fayette Callaway, b. 1819 ; d. 1837.
228. vi. Sarah Cabell 5 Callaway, m. Robert L. Brown
(283).
vii. Elvira Henry Callaway, b. January 13, 1822 ; d.
May 28, 1846 ; unmarried. I have an obit-
uary notice of her beginning, " Too much can-
not be said in praise of the many good quali-
ties that adorned the life and character of this
lovely young girl."
227. Paul Carrington 5 Callaway, born February 8, 1815 ;
educated at Hampden Sidney, and the University of Vir-
ginia ; practiced medicine in the old Cabell neighborhood
in Nelson from 1835 to his death in May, 1876. He mar-
1 See Hening's Statutes at Large, vol. xi. pp. 134, 135.
368 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
ried, March 16, 1842, Addisonia, daughter of Nathaniel
Manson, of Bedford County, Va. She survived him many
years, and died in January, 1892. Her mother, Sallie
Alexander, was the daughter of Robert Alexander (by his
wife, Ann Austin, of Ehv Island, a great-granddaughter of
Col. William Callaway, of Bedford), for many years clerk
of Bedford County when Campbell was a part of Bedford,
the son of Robert Alexander (the brother of Archibald
Alexander), a graduate of the University of Dublin, who
emigrated to the valley of Virginia and established there
the classical school which has developed into the Washing-
ton and Lee University. Mrs. Callaway's father, Nathaniel
Manson, was son of Peter Manson, of Dinwiddie, by his
wife, Lucy Clayton, a granddaughter of John Clayton
(1693-1773), the botanist. (See 24.)
227. Dr. Paid Carrington 5 and A. E. D. Manson Calla-
way had issue : —
i. Eliza Cabell c Callaway, b. February 23, 1844 ; m., Jan-
uary 10, 1865, William B. Hubard, of Buckingham
County, Va. [son of Robert T. Hubard (by his wife,
Susan Boiling, daughter of Linnaeus, son of Col.
Robert Boiling, of Chellowe), son of Dr. James T.
Hubard (by his wife, Susan, daughter of Dr. Edmund,
son of Capt. John Wilcox), son of Col. William Hub-
ard and his wife, Frances Thruston]. He d. in 1884,
leaving issue : i. Paul Carrington 7 ; ii. Eliza Calla-
way 7 ; iii. Susan Markham 7 [m., November 3, 1890,
Rev. George S. Somerville, and has : i. Churchill
Knox 8 Somerville] ; iv. Addis 7 ; v. Louisa 7 ; and vi.
Anna Hubard.
ii. Mary Lee Callaway.
iii. Sarah Brown c Callaway, b. February 1, 1850 ; m., Sep-
tember 17, 1874, at Montezuma, to F. Key Meade, of
Clarke, a grandson of Bishop William Meade. She
died November 20, 1884, leaving issue : i. Addis
Carrington 7 (" received from the University of Vir-
ginia a diploma for mathematics in June, 1894, being
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 369
one of the few young ladies to whom that distinction
has been awarded ") ; ii. Francis Key 7 (appointed to
West Point in 1894) ; iii. Paul Carrington 7 ; iv. Wil-
liam Page 7 ; and v. Everard Kidder 7 Meade.
iv. George Carrington 6 Callaway, b. June 1, 1853 ; a grad-
uate of the Medical College in Baltimore ; has suc-
ceeded to his father's practice in Nelson. He m.,
June 13, 1888, at the residence of her father in King
William County, Martha Waller Aylett, daughter of
Col. William R. Aylett, and has issue : i. Alice Ay-
lett 7 ; ii. George Carrington 7 ; and iii. William R.
Aylett 7 Callaway.
59. Clementina 4 Cabell, born February 26, 1794; mar-
ried, at Union Hill, June 29, 1815, Jessie Irvine, of Bed-
ford County, and died at " Otter," the residence of her hus-
band, near the famous " Peaks of Otter," June 12, 1841.
Her husband, Jessie Irvine, was born in Bedford County,
Va., in 1792; educated at Washington Academy, 1810-
1811 ; and died February 2, 1876. " He had been a con-
sistent member of the Presbyterian Church for nearly fifty
years. Was a modest, retiring, reticent man, a successful
farmer; distinguished for great integrity and purity of
character." He was the son of William Irvine (and his
wife, Martha Burton), who died in Bedford in 1829.
Among the early settlers of Bedford County were three
brothers, David, Christopher, and William Irvine, who are
said to have come originally from Ireland, i. te., to have
been Scotch-Irish. The date of David's death I do not
know. Christopher died in 1769. William died in 1767,
and his widow married Robert Cowan, who was, I believe,
of the same family as the noted William Cowan, who was
the opposing lawyer to Patrick Henry in the celebrated
beef case of Hook v. Venable. Christopher, who died in
1769, had a son William, who is mentioned in his will ; but
the William who died in 1829 is said to have been the son
of the first William, who died in 1767. Capt. Christopher
370 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
and Col. William Irvine, who removed to Kentucky about
1779, were sons of one of the three emigrant brothers.
59. Mrs. Clementina 4 Irvine had issue : —
229. i. William Cabell 5 Irvine.
ii. Martha 5 Irvine, d. infant at White Sulphur
Springs.
230. iii. Ann C. 5 Irvine.
iv. Elvira Bruce 5 Irvine, d. young.
231. v. Edward C. 5 Irvine.
232. vi. Sarah Cabell 5 Irvine.
vii. Patrick Cabell 5 Irvine, b. 1827 ; a doctor ; d.
October 18, 1854 ; unmarried,
viii. Margaret 5 Irvine, b. 1829; d. 1830.
233. ix. Mary Eliza 5 Irvine.
234. x. Jesse 5 Irvine.
235. xi. Juliet M. 5 Irvine.
236. xii. Margaret Frances 5 Irvine.
229. William Cabell 5 Irvine, a lawyer ; married by Rev.
Dr. Harding, of the Presbyterian Church, to Miss Mary
Ann Lewis, daughter of Meriwether Lewis, of Milton,
N. C. ; she died childless, within two or three years after
her marriage ; he removed to California, and died there in
1851. Meriwether Lewis, of Milton, N. C, was a son of
Robert Lewis (by his wife, Ann Ragland), son of Maj. John
Lewis, born October 8, 1720 (by his wife, Mildred Lewis),
son of Col. Charles Lewis, born October 13, 1696 ; married,
May 28, 1717, Mary Howell ; settled " the Bird " planta-
tion in Goochland County, April 17, 1733; died in 1779.
Mildred Lewis (the wife of Maj. John Lewis; John
Lewis, the lawyer, married her sister, Ann Lewis) was a
daughter of Col. Robert Lewis, of Belvoir, the first county
lieutenant and presiding justice (1742) of Louisa County,
by his wife Jane, daughter of Nicholas Meriwether.
Meriwether Lewis, the explorer, was a son of William
Lewis (died November 14, 1779), the youngest son of Col.
Robert Lewis, of Belvoir.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 371
230. Ann C. 5 Irvine is still living. She married (first),
March 26, 1845, " David Flournoy, son of Dr. David Flour-
noy, of Prince Edward County, Va., and a widower with six
children when he married Ann Irvine." He died Novem-
ber 11, 1846, leaving one child by his second marriage : —
i. Sarah Irvine 6 Flournoy, b. 1846 ; d. 1849.
Mrs. Ann C. 5 Flournoy married (second), March 12,
1848, J. Overbey, Esq., an estimable farmer of Prince Ed-
ward ; " a descendant of an old English family." He died
several years ago, leaving issue : —
237. ii. Mary Landon 6 Overbey.
238. iii. William Irvine 6 Overbey.
iv. Patrick Cabell G Overbey, b. December 24, 1854.
239. v. Martha Jane 6 Overbey.
240. vi. Sarah Asa 6 Overbey.
241. vii. Jessie Irvine 6 Overbey.
viii. Ellen Peck 6 Overbey.
237. Mary Landon c Overbey, born February 16, 1850 ;
married, May 15, 1867, Archer A. Haskins, of Prince Ed-
ward County, Va. He was a captain in the 3d Virginia
Cavalry, C. S. A., and a son of Col. E. 0. Haskins, who
served in the War of 1812. Issue : i. Nannie 7 ; ii. Ed-
ward Overbey 7 ; iii. William Irvine 7 ; iv. Thomas Cabell 7 ;
v. Jane Ruth 7 ; vi. Sallie Opie 7 ; vii. Mattie 7 ; and viii.
Jessie Branch 7 Haskins.
238. William Irvine 6 Overbey, born August 31, 1852 ;
married October 10, 1876, Mattie, daughter of Dr. Ran-
dolph V. Barksdale, of Danville. He has been high sheriff
of Pittsylvania County, Va., for many years ; has one child :
i. Randolph Irvine 7 Overbey, b. March 5, 1878.
239. Martha Jane 6 Overbey, born June 6, 1856 ; mar-
ried, March 12, 1873, Rev. James H. Wiggins, of Bonham,
Fannin County, Texas, a Presbyterian minister ; educated
at Hampden Sidney and the Union Theological Seminary ;
he is now a D. D., and has issue : i. Delvach ; ii. Julian ;
iii. James ; iv. Paul ; v. Katie Cabell ; and vi. Annie Irvine
Wiggins.
372 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
240. Sarah Asa 6 Overbey, born March 4, 1858; mar-
ried, December 13, 1875, Richard B. Warriner, Esq., of
Amelia County, Va., son of Benjamin Warriner and his
wife, Mary Roulett. Her mother, Mrs. Roulett, nee Farmer,
was a first cousin to Henry Clay. Mrs. Sallie Asa Warri-
ner had issue: i. Mary Cabell 7 ; ii. Elizabeth Overbey 7 ; iii.
Jessie Irvine 7 ; iv. Henry Bascombe 7 ; v. Arthur 7 ; vi. Ella
Catherine 7 ; vii. Willie Anne 7 ; viii. James Alfred 7 ; and
ix. Clementina 7 Warriner.
241. Jessie 6 Overbey, born October 25, 1860; married,
April 12, 1890, Miss Patty Moore, of Danville. He is a
hardware merchant in Chatham, Va.
231. Edward C. 5 Irvine, married (first), December 16,
1846, Jane, daughter of Meriwether Lewis, of Milton, N. C,
who died in a few months after her marriage ; he served in
the 2d Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A., and was severely wounded
in a cavalry fight in Fauquier County, in the fall of 1863 ;
he represented Campbell County in the Virginia House of
Delegates in 1873-1874 ; is still living, a successful farmer
of Campbell County. He married, secondly, since 1875,
Mrs. Merrett, and has thee daughters : i. Eddie 6 ; ii. Jes-
sie 6 ; and iii. Eliza 9 Irvine.
232. Sarah Cabell 5 Irvine, born October 17, 1825; mar-
ried, November 25, 1846, by Rev. Jacob Mitchell (Presbyte-
rian), to Asa D. Dickinson, of Prince Edward County, Va.
He was born at " Inverness," in Nottoway County, Va.,
March 31, 1816 ; prepared for college by David Comfort ;
graduated at Hampden Sidney College in September, 1836 ;
attended lectures at William and Mary College, under
Judge Beverly Tucker, " in law," and under President
Thomas R. Dew, in " political economy," in 1837 and 1838;
located at Prince Edward Court House in 1838, to practice
his profession, and soon attained a position of full practice
at the bar. In 1844, he became a trustee of Hampden Sid-
ney College, and an elder in the college church, which posi-
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 373
tions he continued to hold during- life. He was elected (a
Democrat) to the Virginia House of Delegates in 1857,
from the (Whig) county of Prince Edward, receiving every
vote cast save six. In 1859, he was reelected to the same
position by a unanimous vote. In 1860, he was elected to
the Virginia Senate from his district, receiving every vote
cast in Prince Edward save five, in Nottoway save twenty-
five, and beating his opponent in his native county, Lunen-
burg, by 400 votes. In 1863, he was elected to the Senate
again by an almost unanimous vote, and continued in the
Senate until the evacuation of Richmond. He was the
author of the famous " Address of the Virginia Assembly
to the Virginia Soldiers," which excited their admiration
and the ire of the Federal army, and occasioned much trial
and loss to him when the Federals reached his home,
" Springfield," in Prince Edward County, and sacked his
house. His disabilities were removed by Congress in Feb-
ruary, 1870. In March, 1870, he was elected judge of the
Third Virginia Circuit, receiving every vote cast, except
eight (colored Republicans). He was reelected judge of
the same circuit December 17, 1878, receiving every vote
cast in both Houses of the Assembly, and continued in that
office until his death in June, 1882. He was one of the
most deservedly popular men in Virginia. He was twice
married, and had issue by both wives ; his first wife was
Miss Jane Michaux. He was a son of Robert Dickinson,
by his wife, Mary Purnell Dupuy, daughter of Capt. James
Dupuy, an officer of the Revolutionary army, and a promi-
nent citizen of Nottoway, which county he represented in
the state legislature for twenty consecutive years. He
married Mary Purnell, whose nationality I do not know.
His father, John Bartholomew Dupuy, was a Huguenot,
who came with his father (Bartholomew, at one time an
officer of the guards of King Louis XIV.) to Virginia in
1700. 1
232. Mrs. Sarah 5 Cabell Dickinson had issue : —
1 See Virginia Historical Collection, New Series, vol. v. pp. 151-154.
374 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
i. Jesse Irvine 6 Dickinson, living in Chillicothe, Texas ;
farmer and stock raiser.
ii. Clement Cabell 6 Dickinson, living in Clinton, Mo. ;
commonwealth's attorney for Henry County, Mo., in
1876 ; m. Mattie, daughter of Judge Parks, of Mis-
souri, and has issue : i. Clement Parks 7 ; ii. Mary
Cabell 7 ; and iii. Peyton 7 (girl) Dickinson.
iii. Thomas Harris 6 Dickinson, living in Prince Edward
County ; owns the old " Springfield " homestead ;
high sheriff of Prince Edward County.
iv. Elizabeth Guerrant c Dickinson,
v. Anna Carrington 6 Dickinson.
vi. Frances Jane c Dickinson, d. young.
vii. Frank Watkins 6 Dickinson, d. young.
viii. Asa Dupuy 6 Dickinson, living in Fort Worth, Texas ;
farmer and stock raiser ; m. Ella Duncan, of Texas,
and has issue : i. Robert Carrington 7 ; ii. Asa Du-
puy 7 ; iii. Chloe 7 ; and iv. Sallie Irvine 7 Dickinson.
ix. Sallie Bruce 6 Dickinson.
x. Mary Seddon 6 Dickinson, m. Rev. J. Horace Lacy
(Presbyterian), residing in Florence, Ala., and has :
i. James Horace 7 ; and ii. Margaret Graham 7 Lacy.
xi. Charles Bruce 6 Dickinson, d. young.
xii. Juliet Massie 6 Dickinson, m. Rev. William C. Alexan-
der (Presbyterian), residing in Mt. Airy, N. C, and
has : i. Sallie Cabell 7 ; ii. Juliet Dickinson 7 ; and
iii. William C. 7 Alexander.
233. Mary Eliza 5 Irvine is still living; she married
Philip D. Christian, a merchant and tobacconist, of Lynch-
burg, an estimable gentleman and a deacon in the First
Presbyterian Church ; he died in 1877, leaving issue 6 : —
i. Irvine 6 Christian, living in Lynchburg ; merchant.
ii. Ida 6 Christian, m. April 16, 1895, in Lynchburg, Va.,
to John Braxton Lake, Jr., of Hampton, Va.
iii. Cabell 6 Christian, of the U. S. N.
iv. Fanny 6 Christian ; died young.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 375
v. Philip 6 Christian,
vi. James Ramsey 6 Christian.
234. Jesse 5 Irvine was captain of a cavalry company
in Colonel Winston Radford's regiment, C. S. A. ; lost a
leg in a gallant charge at the head of his company at
Stevensburg, Culpepper County ; after the war married
Miss Margaret Agnes, daughter of Dr. Paul C. Venable, of
Mecklenburg County, and a descendant from the emigrant
ancestors, — George Carrington, Abraham Venable, John
Woodson, Michaux, Coles, Tucker, etc. They have no
children.
235. Juliet M. 5 Irvine is still living in Lexington, Va. ;
married Rev. David W. Shanks, a Presbyterian minister ;
son of Colonel Thomas and Grace M. Shanks. He was
born December 11, 1830, in Fincastle, Botetourt County,
Va. ; educated at New London Academy and Washington
College ; studied law at the University of Virginia ; but,
declining the practice, in 1852 settled in Memphis, Tenn.,
as a merchant ; was successful ; married Miss Niles, of
Holly Springs, who died in 1858. He joined the Presby-
terian Church ; gave up a lucrative business, and in October,
1859, entered Union Theological Seminary, at Hampden
Sidney, to prepare for the ministry in that church ; mar-
ried, secondly, Miss Juliet M. Irvine ; licensed to preach by
Montgomery Presbytery, April 27, 1861, and continued in
the active ministry until 1882, when ill-health forced him
to resign. He died March 4, 1894. The degree of D. D.
was conferred upon him in 1881 by Washington and Lee
University. He had issue : —
i. John 6 Shanks.
ii. Grace Ellen 6 Shanks,
iii. Dabney 6 Shanks.
iv. David W. Shanks, educated at Washington and Lee
University, living in California.
v. Margaret Cabell 6 Shanks.
376 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
vi. Eliza McPheeters 6 Shanks.
vii. Juliet Irvine 6 Shanks,
viii. Cassie Anderson 6 Shanks.
ix. WiUiam Carrington 6 Shanks, living in St. Louis.
x. Jesse Mayo 6 Shanks.
xi. Philip Thomas 6 Shanks.
236. Margaret Frances 5 Irvine, living in Lynchburg;
married, in 1867, by Rev. John G. Shepherson, D. D.
(Presbyterian), to Thomas Rosser, of Campbell County, a
nephew of Gen. Thomas Rosser, of the C. S. A., and has
issue : —
i. Fannie Bland G Rosser, m. Robert Lee Smith. Issue :
i. Annie Thompson 7 Smith.
ii. Clementina Duffield G Rosser, m. Thomas Lee Carter.
Issue : i. Thomas Rosser 7 ; and ii. Louise 7 Carter.
iii. Eliza Harrison 6 Rosser.
iv. Annie Juliet G Rosser, m. Mr. Abbie Row.
60. Sarah Carrington 4 Cabell, born November 2, 1795 ;
married, by Rev. W. S. Reid, at " Union Hill," August 3,
1826, to Dr. Thomas Massie, and died June 19, 1831, at
" Blue Rock," her residence, in Nelson County, Va. Her
husband was born in 1783 ; selected the practice of physic
for a profession ; was bound apprentice to the celebrated
Dr. McCaw, of Richmond ; graduated in Philadelphia, then
went to Europe and spent four years in the schools of
Edinborough, London, and Paris ; on his return to Amer-
ica settled, in October, 1807, to practice his profession in
Chillicothe, the then capitol of Ohio, where his father and
his relatives, Gen. Nathaniel and Henry Massie, owned large
landed interests. He finally returned to Nelson County,
Va. ; married (first) his cousin, Miss Waller, and (second)
Miss Cabell, aforesaid. He was a surgeon in the War of
1812 ; member of the House of Delegates 1824-1827 and
1829-1830; member of the Virginia Convention 1829-
1830 ; a trustee of Washington College ; died at " Blue
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 377
Rock," May 7, 1864, — "a most polished, literary, and in-
teresting man." His father, Major Thomas Massie, was
born in New Kent County, August 22, 1747 ; educated at
William and Mary College ; a captain in Revolutionary ser-
vice near Williamsburg, Va., spring of 1775 ; a captain in
6th Virginia Regiment Continental service, winter of 1775—
1776 to February 20, 1778, when he was promoted major ;
in the northern campaigns, 1776-1779, generally on de-
tached or particidar service. " On the 28th day of June,
1778 (an intense hot day), Gen. Washington ordered Gen.
Charles Lee to attack in full force. This the said Massie
knows to be the fact, the orders having been communicated
verbally by Gen. Washington through him the evening be-
fore." (Massie's deposition.) He was major of, and for a
time acting colonel of, the 2d Virginia Regiment, 1778-
1779 ; aid-de-camp to Gen. Nelson, winter of 1780-1781
to the fall of Yorktown ; after the war received 5333| acres
of land in the States of Ohio and Kentucky for his services
as major, etc. ; and was a member of the Society of the
Cincinnati. He moved from St. Peter's Parish, New Kent
County, about 1780, to Frederick County, and thence to
old Amherst about 1803, where he settled on a tract of
3111 acres on the upper Tye River, — a part of the old
Rose grant, — which he had purchased from John Rose in
1795. This land lay in the present county of Nelson, of
which county he was one of the first magistrates from 1808.
He married, about 1780, Sarah Cocke. He died at " Level
Green," his seat in Nelson, February 2, 1834. His father,
William Massie (married Lucy Macon, who afterwards mar-
ried Col. Theodorick Bland?) was a son of Capt. Thomas
Massie, of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, who died
about 1740. The Massies came from Cheshire County,
England.
Sarah Cocke (wife of Major Thomas Massie) was born
at " Turkey Island," March 8, 1760, and died at " Level
Green," April 20, 1838. She was sister to William Cocke
and Bowler Cocke (who married Tabitha Fry, a grand-
378 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
daughter of Col. Joshua Fry), and daughter of Bowler
Cocke, of " Turkey Island," Henrico (born March 7, 172?) ;
son of Bowler Cocke (born 169J), son of Richard Cocke
(by his wife Anne Bowler), son of Richard Cocke, Sr., of
Bremo, the son of Col. Richard Cocke, of " Malvern Hills,"
Henrico County, Va., who emigrated from Leeds, York-
shire, England, prior to 1636. He was sometime county
lieutenant of Henrico, and was a member of the House of
Burgesses 1644—1654. The Cocke family was allied by
marriage to the family of Thomas, Lord De la Warr, first
lord governor and captain-general of Virginia.
60. Mrs. Sarah C. 4 Massie had issue : —
i. Ann C. 5 Massie, b. August 10, 1827 ; d. Febru-
ary, 1829.
242. ii. Patrick CabeU 5 Massie.
hi. Paul Massie, b. June 5, 1831 ; educated at Uni-
versity of Virginia, 1848 ; d. 1894 ; unmarried.
242. Patrick Cabell 5 Massie, born January 8, 1829 ; ed-
ucated at Washington College, 1845-1846 ; married, June
18, 1857, Miss Susan C. Withers, a sister of ex-Senator
Robert E. Withers, of Virginia, and daughter of Dr.
Robert W. Withers and his wife, Susan Dabney Alexander.
Mr. P. C. Massie was a very successful farmer and man
of affairs. He died at his home, " Three Springs," in
Nelson County, September 29, 1877, having had issue : —
i. Robert Withers 6 Massie, b. April 24, 1858; m., No-
vember 11, 1885, Mattie W. Manson (daughter of
Nathaniel C. Manson and Polly Cary Wilson, his
wife). Issue : i. Robert W. 7 ; ii. Nathaniel M. 7 ;
and hi. Catherine Douglas 7 Massie.
ii. Thomas 6 Massie, b. 1860 ; died 1863.
iii. Patrick Cabell 6 Massie, b. August 27, 1862 ; attorney
at law ; m., August 17, 1893, Elizabeth McCullough
Kirkman, a great-granddaughter of Sarah Moore,
by her first husband, Samuel McCulloch, uncle of
Gen. Benjamin McCulloch, of Texas, C. S. A. Is-
sue : i. Joel White 7 Massie.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 379
iv. Thomas 6 Massie, b. May 14, 1864.
v. Thornton L. 6 Massie, b. October 1, 1866 ; m., June
19, 1889, Mary Kent Nicholson (daughter of Wilton
F. Nicholson and Mary Kent Bentley, his wife).
Issue : i. Patrick Cabell 7 ; and ii. Mary Bentley 7
Massie.
vi. Douglas Gray 6 Massie, b. 1868 ; d. 1883.
vii. Withers 6 Massie, b. April 17, 1870.
viii. Susan Catherine, 6 b. September 10, 1872.
61. Edward A. 4 Cabell, born at Union Hill, February
9, 1797 ; educated at William and Mary College, and stud-
ied law partly under Judge St. George Tucker ; practiced
the profession for a while, but having inherited from his
father a large landed estate lying in Amherst County,
he ultimately turned his attention to farming. He was
married, March 14, 1823, at the residence of the bride's
parents, near New Glasgow, by Rev. William S. Reid, of
Lynchburg, to Mary Rice Garland. He was a vestryman
of Lexington Parish from 1824 for many years ; was
colonel of Amherst County ; member of the House of Del-
egates from 1837 to 1840 inclusive ; was appointed to a
federal position in the General Land Office (then a part of
the Treasury Department) in the fall of 1841, by President
Tyler ; advanced to the position of chief clerk of the Gen-
eral Land Office by President Fillmore, and was unanimously
confirmed by the U. S. Senate. He continued in this office
until 1861. His office brought him much in contact with
members of Congress from the West, among whom was
Mr. Lincoln, to whom he became much attached, and of
whom he always spoke with much respect. When Mr.
Lincoln became President, he asked Col. Cabell personally
to remain in his federal office, but he did not think that
he could conscientiously take the required oath, resigned,
and returned to Virginia to share her fortunes in the im-
pending war. He died at Norwood, the residence of his
nephew, William D. Cabell, March 3, 1869, and was buried
380 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
at "Union Hill." " His kind and genial temper made him
warm personal friends ; while his integrity and fidelity to
trusts imposed, and his manly independence, gave to the
public the fullest confidence in his character and capacity."
His wife was born in Amherst County, Va., May 10, 1804 ;
died at Arundel-on-the-Bay, Maryland, in September, 1893,
and was buried by her husband's side, at " Union Hill."
She was the daughter of Hon. David Shepherd Garland, a
member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Amherst
for several terms, and of the U. S. House of Representa-
tives from Amherst district in 1809 to 1811. He died in
1841, aged 72. He was married in 1795, by Rev. Charles
Crawford, to Jane Henry Meredith (1776-1856), a daughter
of Col. Samuel Meredith and his second wife, Jane Henry
(born June 19, 1738 ; died August 12, 1818), a sister to
Patrick Henry, the orator. His parents were William Gar-
land (born 1746 ; died in Staunton in 1777), and Annie
Shepherd, daughter of Christopher Shepherd, who died an
old man in Albemarle in 1779. William Garland was a son
of James Garland, the first of the name to settle in Albe-
marle County, by his wife, Mary Rice, of Hanover, whose
mother was a Miss Howlett.
Col. Samuel Meredith was born in Hanover in 1732 ;
captain of a company in Col. William Bryd's regiment,
French and Indian War, 1758. July 11, 1774, 2000 acres
were surveyed for him for services in that war, but no
grant was issued to him from the crown. In 1775, he was
captain of the independent company of Hanover ; May 2,
resigned the captaincy to his brother-in-law, Patrick Henry ;
May 4, a witness to Henry's receipt to Corbin for £330,
" as a compensation for the gunpowder " taken by Dun-
more. He was a member of the Convention which met
December 1, 1775 ; was appointed colonel of the First
Battalion of Minute-Men by the Convention of May, 1776.
In 1778, he subscribed £500 to the old Washington Henry
Academy of Hanovertown, and was for several years presi-
dent of the Board of Trustees. December 1, 1779, Gov.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 381
Thomas Jefferson granted him the lands in Kentucky
which had been surveyed for him July 11, 1774. He
bought " Winton," near New Glasgow, in Amherst County,
Va., from Col. Joseph Cabell (date of first bond April 1,
1779), and moved there late in 1779 or early in 1780. He
had long been a vestryman of St. Paid's Parish, Hanover.
On December 29, 1780, the vestry held a meeting " to
elect a vestryman in the room of Samuel Meredith, Gent,
who has removed out of the parish."
" January 12, 1781. Lent Col. Samuel Meredith my
smallsword, nicely silver-mounted." (Col. William Cabell
in his Diary.) Col. Sam was then in service with the
Amherst militia. In 1785 and 1786, Gov. Patrick Henry
granted him additional lands in Kentucky for services in
the French and Indian War. He was one of the trustees
of Warminster Academy from 1791 ; was long a justice of
the peace of Amherst, and for some years before his death
the presiding justice ; was the high sheriff in 1807. His
will is dated August 6, 1808. He was buried at Winton,
and his tombstone bears the following inscription : " Here
He the remains of Col. Samuel Meredith, who departed this
life December 22, 1808, aged 76 years." He was the son
of Samuel Meredith the elder, of St. Paul's Parish, Han-
over, who died April 14, 1762, whose second wife and widow
was the second wife of Dr. William Cabell, the emigrant.
61. Col. Edward A. 4 Cabell had issue : —
243. i. William Meredith 5 Cabell.
244. ii. David Shepherd 5 Garland Cabell.
245. iii. Patrick Henry 5 CabeU.
iv. Edward Paul 5 Cabell, d. infant.
246. v. Jane Meredith 5 Cabell,
vi. Mayo 5 Cabell, d. infant.
247. vii. Paul Carrington 5 Cabell, — all born near New
Glasgow, in Amherst County, Va.
243. William M. 5 CabeU, born December 2, 1823 ; edu-
cated at Randolph Macon College ; commenced the practice
382 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
of law in Nelson County in 1844 ; removed to Lynchburg
a few years after, and practiced in partnership with the
late Judge James Garland for three years ; returned to
Nelson ; practiced in partnership with his brother, D. S. G.
Cabell, 1853-1859 ; represented Nelson in the House of
Delegates, 1855-1856 ; removed to Buckingham in 1860 ;
served in the C. S. A. in Gen. Huger's command, and after
in the 1st Virginia Regiment, Kemper's Brigade ; member
of the Virginia House of Delegates from Buckingham and
Cumberland, 1865-1867 ; a Tilden elector in 1876 ; an
able lawyer and eloquent advocate at the bar and on the
hustings. He married, in 1867, Miss Mildred K. Eldridge,
daughter of Rolfe Eldridge, deceased. They are still liv-
ing. They have no children.
244. David S. G. 5 Cabell, born June 23, 1825; edu-
cated at Princeton, N. J., where he took the degree of A.
B. ; studied law at the University of Virginia, 1852-1853 ;
practiced law with his brother in Nelson, 1853-1859 ;
entered the C. S. A. as a private in Company H, 49th Vir-
ginia ; served through the war ; represented the counties
of Nelson and Rockbridge in the state senate two sessions,
1865-1867 ; an instructor at the Norwood High School,
1871-1872 ; a contributor to many newspapers and maga-
zines, much both of a political and literary character. He
died unmarried, at the residence of his brother William,
in Buckingham, in 1893, and is buried there.
245. Patrick Henry 5 Cabell, born May 10, 1827 ; edu-
cated at the Richmond Medical College, and in^the medical
department of the University of Pennsylvania. Located
as a physician in Selma, Ala. ; was Confederate post sur-
geon at Selma during the war ; contributed to the medical
journals of his day, and attained to eminence in his pro-
fession. He married, October 19, 1856, Pattie W. Aylett,
daughter of Col. Philip Aylett, of King William County,
a grandson of Patrick Henry, the orator. They had four
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 383
children, all of whom died in infancy, — three of them of
scarlet fever — within ten days of each other. Dr. P. H.
Cabell died in Brooklyn, N. Y., while on a visit, October
19, 1865.
246. Jane M. 5 Cabell, born January 8, 1830 ; married,
October 18, 1853, Lieut. Nicholas H. Vanzandt, U. S. N.
He had served in the Mexican War. In 1861, he resigned ;
entered the C. S. N. as captain ; served at Norfolk, Charles-
ton, S. C, etc. ; was captured and imprisoned for a while
at Johnson's Island. He is the son of Nicholas Biddle
Vanzandt and his wife, Maria Wood Southall, daughter
of Col. Stephen Southall, of the Revolutionary army, and
his wife, Martha Wood, daughter of Col. Valentine Wood,
of Woodville, Goochland County, Va., and his wife, Lucy
Henry, a sister to Patrick Henry, the orator. His father,
Nicholas Biddle Vanzandt, was the son of Jacobus Van-
zandt (whose ancestors came from Holland in 1621 and
settled on Manhattan Island, and founded New Amsterdam),
and his wife, Susan Scull, of Philadelphia. Captain and
Mrs. Vanzandt now reside in Georgetown, D. C. Issue : —
i. William Cabell G Vanzandt, b. 1854; d. 1872.
ii. Henry Meredith 6 Vanzandt ; d. young,
iii. Elvira Bruce 6 Vanzandt ; d. young.
iv. Mary Garland 6 Vanzandt, b. March 22, 1860 ; m., in
October, 1893, Dr. Edwin Lee Morgan, of Washing-
ton, D. C.
v. Jeanie Cabell 6 Vanzandt, b. November 6, 1866 ; m.,
May 8, 1893, at the Church of the Transfigura-
tion, New York, by the Rev. Dr. George H. Hough-
ton, to Francis J. O'Neill, of Washington, D. C, a
leading newspaper man ; a member of the Board of
Governors of the National Capital Press Club, etc.
247. Paul Carrington 5 Cabell, b. August 20, 1833; was
practicing law in Kansas at the beginning of the late war ;
returned to Virginia and gave his services to his native
384 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
State ; entered the C. S. A. as a private in Company H, 1st
Virginia ; was afterwards a lieutenant ; was wounded at
" Seven Pines," " Howlett's House," and at " Gettysburg,"
in the charge of Pickett's Division ; was captured at " Five
Forks," sent to Johnson's Island, and was released in June,
1865. He died, unmarried, in Richmond, in 1881, and
was buried at " Union Hill."
62. Paul Carrington 4 Cabell, born April 10, 1799 ; edu-
cated at " Union Hill " until 1813 ; lived with Dr. George
Callaway in Lynchburg, and went to school to Holcombe
and Jones, 1813-1814, and to John Reid in 1814-1815 ;
studied medicine under Dr. Callaway. I do not know
where he graduated, but he was quite a distinguished phy-
sician of Amherst County. He was married, June 12,
1823, by Rev. W. S. Reid, to Mary B. Irvine, daughter of
William Irvine, of Bedford County, Va. ; a vestryman of
Lexington Parish ; died June 9, 1836, and was buried
at his home, Mountain View, in Amherst. " An elevated
sense of propriety made him careful to fulfill his engage-
ments ; to a mean act his heart descended not ; in social
intercourse he was candid and decided ; to his friends he
was frank and devoted ; in the relations of husband and
parent he was tender and exemplary ; in ministering to the
sick he was discriminating, prudent, prompt, and charita-
ble, often giving his professional services to the poor with-
out charge." " He requested that nothing more should be
said of him than that he died in confident hope of everlast-
ing life through the blood of the Saviour." His wife, who
survived him many years, died in Lynchburg in July, 1857,
and was buried at " Mountain View." They had issue : —
248. i. Wm. Irvine 5 Cabell.
249. ii. Ann Carrington 5 Cabell.
iii. Martha Elizabeth Cabell ; d. young.
250. iv. Sallie Massie 5 Cabell.
v. Martha Burton 5 Cabell, b. 1833; d. 1834.
251. vi. Paul Clement 5 Cabell.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 385
248. William Irvine 5 Cabell, born July 10, 1824 ; edu-
cated for the profession of medicine ; succeeded to the
practice of his father ; in comparatively early life attached
himself to the Episcopal Church ; became a vestryman of
Lexington Parish, Amherst County ; died at his home,
Mountain View, September 11, 1855, and was buried there.
He never married.
249. Anne Carrington 5 Cabell, born September 2, 1827 ;
married, June 5, 1852, by Rev. William H. Kinckle, to
Robert J. Davis, Esq., of Lynchburg, Va. He was edu-
cated at Washington College ; a lawyer ; member of the
Virginia legislature, etc. He is still living in Lynchburg,
Va. He is the son of Henry Davis (son of William Davis,
Sr.) and his wife, Sarah Anthony, daughter of Christopher
Anthony by his second wife, Mary Jordan ; Quakers.
249. Mrs. Anne C. 5 Davis died some years ago, having
had issue : —
i. Henry 6 Davis, b. 1854 ; d. 1856.
ii. Mary Irvine 6 Davis,
iii. Sarah Anthony 6 Davis,
iv. Paul Cabell 6 Davis.
v. Ann Carrington Davis,
vi. Lucy Lee 6 Davis,
vii. Robert J. 6 Davis,
viii. William Kinckle 6 Davis.
250. Sallie Massie 5 Cabell, born April 28, 1831 ; mar-
ried, January 14, 1852, by Rev. F. D. Goodwin, to Edgar
Whitehead, Esq., of Amherst. [He was born near Lov-
ingston, Nelson County, Va., March 30, 1828 ; merchant
and tobacconist, of Lynchburg, Va. ; captain of Company
E, 2d Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A. ; after the war, in con-
nection with Thomas Dunlop, of Philadelphia, was active
in developing the iron-ore mines of the James River valley ;
president of the Virginia Tin Mining and Manufacturing
Company of Irish Creek, Rockbridge County, in 1883, and
386 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
has since been occupied in real estate and the development
of minerals. He is a son of John Whitehead, who was for
many years in the banking business in Lynchburg'. His
great-grandfathers, William Camden and John Whitehead,
were both soldiers in the Revolution. William Camden
came to old Amherst (present Nelson) County about 1761,
and settled at a place which he called " Greenway." He
was in some way connected with the Fairfaxes of " Green-
way Court." John Whitehead's ancestor came to Virginia
from England in the time of Charles II., and settled on a
tract of land granted him near York River.] Surviving
issue, seven having died infants : —
i. Cabell Whitehead, born in Lynchburg, October 6, 1863 ;
graduated at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, in class
of 1885 ; appointed assistant assayer United States
office at Boise City, Idaho, in Cleveland's first term ;
made assayer United States Mint Bureau of Wash-
ington, D. C.j under Harrison, and still holds that
position ; m., October 1, 1888, Bena Ayres, daughter
of Col. E. W. Ayres, of Washington, D. C, and his
wife, a daughter of Hon. Lemuel Sawyer, M. C. from
North Carolina.
ii. Robert Lee Whitehead, b. at " The Glebe," near New
Glasgow, Amherst County, April 11, 1865 ; at Le-
high University, Pennsylvania, class of 1887 ; is now
analytical chemist and manager for Baltimore (Md.)
Electric Refining Company ; m., November 5, 1889,
Fanny Lea Zogbaum, daughter of Carl Zogbaum, of
Germantown, Pa., and has one child : i. Robert Lee
Whitehead, Jr., b. October 23, 1890.
251. Paul C. 5 CabeU, born March 17, 1835; served in 2d
Virginia Cavalry Regiment, C. S. A. ; a farmer ; merchant ;
member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Amherst,
etc. ; married (first), October 28, 1857, Nannie E. Rose,
daughter of Dr. Henry J. Rose and his wife, Sarah E.
Walker, daughter of Robert Walker, of King and Queen
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 387
County, and his wife, Ann Powell, of Amherst, daughter
of Wyatt Powell and his wife, Sallie Floyd, daughter of
William Floyd and his wife, Abby Davis, daughter of Rob-
ert Davis, Sr.
Dr. Henry Jordan Rose was son of Charles Rose (1747-
1802) by his second wife, Sarah, daughter of Matthew Jor-
dan, brother to Col. Samuel Jordan. Charles was the
youngest son of Rev. Robert Rose by his second wife, Anne
Fitz Hugh.
Mrs. Nannie E. Cabell left issue : —
i. Henry Irvine 6 Cabell.
ii. Sallie Rose 6 Cabell ; m. John L. Lee, Esq., common-
wealth's attorney of Amherst, and died at the birth
of her first child,
iii. P. Carrington c Cabell, b. October 31, 1864.
251. Hon. Paul C. 5 Cabell married (second), in 1873,
Lou Mundy, daughter of Col. Jesse Mundy and his wife,
Louisa Nevill, daughter of Col. Zachariah Nevill and his
wife, Ann Scott Jefferson.
Col. Zachariah Nevill was a member of the House of Del-
egates from Nelson County, Va., in 1829 ; died in 1830.
He was a son of Col. James Nevill (born in 1728 ; captain
in French and Indian War; sheriff of Amherst, 1763-1765;
county lieutenant in Revolution, etc. ; died December 20,
1784), son of Captain James Nevill (born probably before
1700 ; owned land on south side of James River in 1724 ;
captain in Goochland, 1740, etc. ; died 1752). He was
probably a son of John Nevill, of Isle of Wight County,
Va. Several of the name and many of their kindred were
among the founders of Virginia, and several of their de-
scendants and many of their kindred settled in Virginia.
Ann Scott Jefferson was a daughter of Randolph Jeffer-
son [by his wife, Anna, daughter of Charles Lewis (1722-
1782) and his wife, Mary Randolph], brother of President
Thomas and son of Col. Peter Jefferson, justice of the
peace, member of the House of Burgesses, county lieuten-
ant of Albemarle, etc. (by his wife, Jane Randolph, daugh-
388 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
ter of Col. Isliam Randolph) ; son of Capt. Thomas Jefferson
(by his wife, Mary Field), justice of the peace for Henrico
from 1706, sheriff 1718-1719, died in 1731; son of Thomas
Jefferson (by his wife, Mary Branch), who was living in
Henrico in 1677, and died in 1697. He is said to have
descended from Mr. Jefferson, a member of the House of
Burgesses of 1619, the first General Assembly ever con-
vened in America.
Mrs. Mary Field Jefferson was a daughter of Major
Peter Field by his wife, Judith, daughter of Henry Soane,
Speaker of the House of Burgesses in 1661.
251. Hon. Paul C. 5 and Lou Mundy Cabell now reside
in Richmond, Va. Issue four : —
iv. Randolph 6 Cabell ; d. infant,
v. Mayo Cabell, b. September 14, 1877.
vi. Guy Cabell, b. July 2, 1880.
viii. Louise Cabell, b. December, 1882.
63. Mayo 4 Cabell, born November 7, 1800 ; educated at
home, by Miss Douthat (1805-1806), Rev. John Hendren
(1810-1811), and others, until 1814 ; in Lynchburg by Mr.
John Reid, 1814-1816. He then went into mercantile
business with Mr. Daniel Brown, who died in 1817. He
so early disclosed the traits which marked his after life,
wonderful energy, great conscientiousness, and uncommon
common sense, that at his father's death in 1822 he was
left sole executor of his large estates; succeeding his father
also as the administrator of the estate -of Dr. George Cal-
laway, of Glenmore. In 1835, he was called upon to take
charge of the estate of "Montezuma" and the family of
his sister, Mrs. McClelland ; thus, at the age of 35, having
charge of three larsre estates and the care of three families.
He habitually rose several hours before day, wrote up his
account-books, attended to his correspondence, and such
business, until daylight ; then saw to all the business of
the day on his own place until breakfast, after which he
rode over to " Glenmore " and to " Montezuma," seeing to
w**
MAYO CABELL, ESQ.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 389
the daily routine of business at each place ; then to his
store at Tye River warehouse, and in after years to his
boats and freighting business on the canal, his sawmills,
etc. It is a question if he was ever idle for ten minutes at
a time in his life, unless he was sick. In 1835, his health
failed alarmingly from the effects of neglected cold. In
the fall he visited Philadelphia and consulted Dr. Jackson,
who pronounced his lungs seriously diseased, and advised
him to spend the winter in Cuba. Sending his mother and
his son William to Halifax to spend the winter with his
sister, Mrs. Bruce, he took his wife and his daughter Mar-
garet via New Orleans to Cuba, where they remained until
May, 1836, when he returned to his home entirely restored
in health. In December, 1841, Mr. Cabell met with the
greatest misfortune of his life. While crossing the Blue
Ridge in a stage, about one mile west of Covington, on the
White Sulphur road, the horses took fright and ran down
the mountain ; he leaped from the stage and broke his leg,
but probably saved his life, as the stage was dashed over
and over down the mountain side. He was taken to Coving-
ton, where his leg was amputated, after great suffering, as
it was necessary to send a long distance for a surgeon to
perform the operation. Yet this loss affected his energy so
little that the next summer he was again on horseback at-
tending as usual to all of his extensive domain. In 1889,
his son, Edward M. Cabell, visited Covington, from whence
he wrote to me : " It seems that this accident to the stage,
in which my father lost his leg, is an incident in the history
of the town. I was pointed out the place, etc. I also saw
the old-time inn in which he stayed. It is just like the old
inns you read about in old books."
" At the approach of war, Mr. Cabell showed his usual
calm judgment and high sense of honor. An old-line
Whig in politics, he was opposed to the war. He foresaw
the final defeat of the South from the beginning, but sac-
rificed all to uphold his native State and to oppose her
o])pressors. And when our final defeat came, with the loss
390 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
of the large means which he had always been accustomed
to wield, he bore all with uncomplaining patience." Gen.
Sheridan and his cavalry spent two days at " Union Hill,"
" Norwood," and the region roundabout, in March, 1865 ;
but it is not necessary to go into these disagreeable details.
Mr. Cabell died May 5, 1869, so suddenly that his death
may be best described in the words of the Bible, — " He
was not, for God took him."
Mr. Cabell inherited the old " Union Hill " mansion es-
tate, and was the last of fourteen children who composed
the old " Union Hill " family. He was not ambitious of
public honors, and therefore filled no office except that of
county magistrate ; but he possessed qualities for usef ulness
on a large scale, which qualified him for almost any position
in the gift of the State. In the words of " a friend,"
written soon after his death : " He was a Christian accord-
ing to the strictest definition of the term. There was no
cant about him, no professions, no ostentation ; for forty
years he was the mainstay of the Episcopal Church in his
neighborhood and county. He was a consistent church-
man, but no bigot or partisan. Death may have overtaken
him unawares ; its work was so quick that he did not have
time to speak, but he was ready. He kept his lamp
trimmed and his light burning all the time. He leaves
behind him wife and children and friends, who will long
mourn his irreparable loss ; but they all know that their
loss is his eternal gain. He leaves behind him a suffering
community, which, for nearly a half century, has relied
upon his wisdom, and to a great extent upon his benevo-
lence. He leaves the name of an almost perfect man to
be transmitted to coming generations for their praise and
imitation. Take him all in all, we never shall look upon
his like ao-ain."
63. Mayo 4 Cabell was married (first), December 7, 1825,
by Rev. W. S. Reid, to Mary Cornelia Briscoe Daniel (sister
of Judge William Daniel, Jr., and aunt of U. S. Senator
John W. Daniel), eldest daughter of Judge William Daniel,
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 391
Sr. (1770-1839), and his wife, Margaret Baldwin (1785-
1824). She was born October 18, 1804, and died March
7, 1843, at " Union Hill." Issue nine : —
252. i. Margaret B. 5 Cabell, m. Robert L. Brown (283).
ii. William Daniel 5 Cabell, b. 1828; d. 1830.
iii. Ann Carrington 5 Cabell, b. 1830 ; d. 1831.
iv. Mayo 5 Cabell, b. 1832; d. 1833.
253. v. William Daniel 5 Cabell.
254. vi. Joseph Carrington 5 Cabell.
vii. Eliza Lewis 5 Cabell, b. 1838 ; d. 1849.
255. viii. Cornelia Mayo 5 Cabell.
256. ix. Robert Stuart 5 Cabell.
63. Mayo 4 Cabell married (second), December 3, 1846,
Caroline Anthony, youngest daughter of Christopher An-
thony (1776-1835 ; see 52). She was born May 21, 1822,
and is now living at " Union Hill." Issue, seven : —
257. x. Sarah Randolph 5 Cabell, m. Alexander Brown
(286).
xi. Lucy Gilmer 5 Cabell, b. August 28, 1850, at
" Rosen vik," her father's summer residence in
Amherst.
258. xii. Elvira Bruce 5 Cabell.
259. xhi. Caroline A. 5 Cabell, m. Alexander Brown (286).
xiv. Eliza Callaway 5 Cabell, b. August 17, 1857 ; d.
October 26, 1862.
xv. Mayo 5 Cabell, b. July 28, 1860; d. December 2,
1861.
xvi. Edward Marshall 5 Cabell, b. November 20, 1863,
at " Union Hill;" educated at Norwood; m.,
June 8, 1887, at Waynesboro, Va., by Rev.
Mr. Cocke, to Mary Holmes McGuire, niece of
Dr. Hunter McGuire, and daughter of Capt.
Hugh McGuire, C. S. A. He has one child :
i. Ruth Holmes 6 Cabell.
253. William Daniel 5 Cabell was born at Union Hill,
January 13, 1834; educated at Franklin Minor's School
392 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
and the University of Virginia, 1852-1853 ; a farmer and
planter ; agent of the county court of Nelson County, Va.,
to furnish supplies to destitute families of soldiers ; a com-
missioned officer in " the New Market Home Guards," and
bonded agent of the commissary department, C. S. A.
Soon after the war he opened, at his residence, the Nor-
wood High School for boys and young men, which he
conducted for a good many years, and then sold out to
others, since when he has removed his residence to Wash-
ington, where his wife and himself are now conducting the
Norwood Institute for Girls and Young Ladies. He is
president of the alumni association of the University of
Virgina, in Washington.
253. Mr. Cabell was married (first), September 7, 1855,
by Rev. T. F. Martin, to Elizabeth Nicholas Cabell, daugh-
ter of N. F. CabeU, Esq. (141). She died April 5, 1863,
leaving : —
i. Annie Barraud 6 Cabell, b. October 1, 1856 ; m. Hon. A.
Moore, Jr., of Clarke County. Issue : i. William Ca-
bell 7 ; ii. Mary Brewer ; iii. Annie Cabell 7 ; iv. Mar-
garet 7 ; v. Arthur Lee (dead) ; vi. Joseph Francis 7 ;
vii. Elvira Daniel 7 ; viii. Charles Ellet 7 ; ix. John Hart-
well 7 ; and x. Elizabeth Nicholas 7 Moore.
ii. Mary Cornelia 6 Cabell, b. June 15, 1859 ; m., at Nor-
wood, the home of the bride's father, August 3, 1887,
by Rev. Mayo Cabell Martin, rector of the Church
of the Holy Trinity, Nashville, Tenn., to William
Stephenson, of Washington, Pa. - Issue : i. Annie 7 ;
ii. William Cabell 7 ; iii. Gertrude Elizabeth 7 ; and iv.
Mary Ellet 7 Stephenson.
253. Mr. Cabell married (second), July 9, 1867, in
Philadelphia, Mary Virgina Ellet. Mrs. Mary V. Cabell
was one of the earliest members of the District of Columbia
chapter of " The Daughters of the American Revolution,"
and for several years the " President Presiding." Her
father, Col. Charles Ellet, Jr., was born January 1, 1810,
in Bucks County, Pa. ; a distinguished engineer ; planned
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 393
and built the first wire suspension-bridge in the United
States, etc. ; colonel in U. S. A. 1861-1862 ; died June
21, 1862, at Cairo, 111. ; son of Charles and Mary (Israel)
Ellet, son of Charles and Hannah (Carpenter) Ellet, of New
Jersey. 1
Her mother, Elvira Augusta Daniel, was born in 1817, in
Lynchburg, Va. ; married, October 31, 1836, Col. Charles
Ellet, Jr. ; died June 29, 1862. She was a daughter of
Judge William Daniel, Sr. (1770-1839), by his first wife,
Margaret Baldwin (1785-1826), daughter of Dr. Cornelius
and Mary (Briscoe) Baldwin. Issue six : —
hi. Elvira Daniel G Cabell.
iv. Charles Ellet 6 CabeU.
v. William. c Cabell ; d. young.
vi. Nina Ellet 6 Cabell.
vii. Margaret 6 Cabell,
viii. Mayo 6 Cabell.
254. Joseph C. 5 Cabell, Jr., born at Union Hill, June 4,
1836 ; educated at Franklin Minor's and the University of
Virginia ; studied law partly at the University and partly
under the late Judge Wood Bouldin ; licensed to practice
June 4, 1857 (his 21st birthday) by Judges Leigh, Daniel,
and Meredith ; commenced to practice June 23 following
in the counties of Nelson and Buckingham, in partnership
with Hon. William Cabell Flournoy ; entered the C. S. A.
as a lieutenant, Company C, 49th Virginia, Featherstone's
Brigade, D. H. Hill's division, and afterwards in Early's
Brigade, Eweli's division, Jackson's corps; severely wounded
at " Seven Pines ; ' after his recovery, fought at Freder-
icksburg, Winchester, Sharpsburg, Gettysburg, etc.; died
November 11, 1863, in a Richmond hospital, from disease
contracted in the army, and was buried at " Union Hill ' :
with his forefathers of the Revolution. He never mar-
ried.
1 Appleton's Cyclopcedia of American Biography ; Keith's Provincial Council
of Pennsylvania, pp. 96, 97, etc. .
394 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
255. Cornelia Mayo 5 Cabell, born at " Union Hill," July
30, 1840 ; married, at Union Hill, August 2, 1859, by Rev.
William H. Kinckle, of Lynchburg, to Rev. T. F. Mar-
tin. She died in Nashville, Tenn., June 30, 1883. Her
husband, Rev. Thomas Ferdinand Martin (son of Thomas
Martin and his wife, Mary Briscoe-Boyd, nee Bryan, of
Buchanan, Botetourt County, Va.), was born April 2,
1826 ; educated at a private school until 1842 ; clerk in a
store in Buchanan, 1842-1844 ; then a student under Rev.
William Bryant, rector of the Episcopal Church at Buch-
anan for two years ; then a tutor for two or three years,
most of the time in the family of Capt. Cary Breckenridge,
near Fincastle ; entered the Episcopal Theological Semi-
nary, near Alexandria, in the fall of 1849; graduated there
in the summer of 1852, and was immediately after ordained
deacon in the old Christ Church, Alexandria ; took charge
of the parish in Amherst County in September, 1852 ; or-
dained to the priesthood in St. Paul's Church, Lynchburg,
October, 1853 ; called to the parish in Nelson County in
September, 1855, and continued in charge until February,
1867, when he became rector of Grace Church, Berryville,
Clarke County, Va. ; after twelve years as rector of that
parish, he was called to St. Ann's Church, Nashville, Tenn.,
in April, 1879, of which parish he is still rector. His chil-
dren are : —
i. Mayo Cabell 6 Martin, b. August 14, 1860 ; Episcopal
clergyman of St. Clement's Church, El Paso, Texas ;
m., November 9, 1892, Laura, daughter of B. F.
Farrar, Esq., of Nashville, Tenn. (See 315.)
ii. Charles Stuart 6 Martin, b. July 6, 1862 ; member of
wholesale drug firm of Spurlock, Neal & Co., Nash-
ville ; m., December 12, 1883, Marion R., daughter
of A. M. Tenison, Esq., of Davidson County, Tenn.,
and has : i. Marion Stuart 7 Martin, b. November 6,
1888.
iii. Margaret Baldwin 6 Martin, b. October 21, 1864 ; d.
November 20, 1894 ; never married.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 395
iv. Eliza Callaway 6 Martin, b. March 5, 1867 ; m., No-
vember 15, 1888, Mr. Joseph Gibson, Jr., only son
of Joseph Gibson, St., cashier of the Nashville Gas
Co., and has : i. Mary Cornelia 7 Gibson, b. 1891.
v. Mary Cornelia B. 6 Martin, b. May 27, 1869; m.,
January 15, 1890, Charles Armstrong, of Maury
County, Tenn. She d. in El Paso, Texas, June 10,
1892. Her only child d. May 12, 1892, and her
husband d. in August, 1893.
vi. Alice Boyd 6 Martin, b. February 21, 1872; m., No-
vember 18, 1890, Edward 0. Frierson, son of
Rev. E. 0. Frierson, D. D., of Lincolnville, S. C.
(Presbyterian minister). She d. November 3, 1891,
in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her only child d. in 1892.
vii. Anne Carrington 6 Martin, b. March 31, 1874.
viii. Kate Neill 6 Martin, b. October 1, 1875.
ix. Thomas Ferdinand 6 Martin, b. 1877 ; d. 1877.
x. Eleanor Love 6 Martin, b. July 28, 1879.
xi. Virginia Lee 6 Martin, b. 1882 ; d. 1882.
256. Robert Stuart 5 Cabell, born at Union Hill, October
22, 1842 ; entered the C. S. A. as a private in the Lynch-
burg Home Guards (Capt. Samuel Garland), 11th Virginia
Regiment ; at the reorganization in March, 1862, was
elected second lieutenant of Capt. Lobban's company, from
Nelson, in 49th Virginia Regiment ; severely wounded at
Seven Pines in May, 1862 ; recovered, and returned to the
army October 10, 1862 ; so seriously wounded in the bat-
tle near Fredericksburg, December 14, 1862, that the am-
putation of one of his legs was necessary. He married,
September 27, 1864, Alice Boyd, daughter of Henry Boyd,
Esq., of "Blue Rock," Nelson County, Va., and grand-
daughter of Dr. Thomas Massie by his first wife. She
bore him three children (all of whom died young), and died
in 1869.
258. Elvira Bruce 5 Cabell, born June 12, 1852, at
396 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
" Eosenvik ; " married, December 27, 1875, at " Union
Hill," by Rev. Edmund Withers, to Thomas A. Seddon,
the eldest son of the late Hon. John Seddon (brother to
Hon. James A. Seddon), of " Snowden," Stafford County,
Va. Thomas A. Seddon was born September 27, 1850 ; at
University of Virginia, 1869-1870 ; professor of mathemat-
ics at Norwood High School, 1872-1874 ; law student at
University of Virginia fall of 1874 ; graduated and moved
to Missouri to practice early in 1875 ; returned to Virginia
in the summer; professor of modern languages at Norwood,
1875-1876 ; in the summer of 1876 purchased an interest
in that school, and was one of its principals for the next
five sessions, 1876-1881. His health failing, in the sum-
mer of 1881 he sold out at Norwood and sought outdoor
employment in farming. He died at " Argyle," in Stafford
County, Va., February 21, 1885, and on the 24th was
buried at " Union Hill." He left an only child : —
i. Elvira Cabell G Seddon.
64. Patrick Henry 4 Cabell, born at "Union Hill," July
23, 1804 ; educated at home and at the school of Rev.
John Hendren until 1814 ; in 1816-1817 went to school to
William L. Harris ; in 1817-1819 lived with Hon. T. S.
McClelland, in Lynchburg, and went to school ; " board
and tuition for one year, $150 " (name of teacher not men-
tioned in Mr. McClelland's account). From March, 1820,
to March, 1821, lived with Mr. J. J. Flournoy, and went
to school to Mr. Venable, in Prince Edward; board, $75,
and tuition $30. From March, 1821, to March, 1822, at
Hampden Sidney College ; board, $100, and tuition $30.
On May 29, 1822, Mr. Flournoy wrote to his father (Col.
William Cabell): "I rode with Patrick to-day to college;
he gets a room on the lower floor, under one of the teach-
ers, which I think a good situation for study. I obtained
from Mr. Cushing the expenses for the summer session,
$62." In September following, Mr. Flournoy writes: "Pat-
rick was unfortunately taken sick a few days before the ex-
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 397
animation. I have reason to believe, from a conversation
with Mr. dishing, that he would have graduated. The
president says Patrick, during his continuance at college,
conducted himself in an orderly manner, and he laments
that he was not able to stand an examination." His health
continued to be bad, and he finally died at " Union Hill,"
November 22, 1824.
13. landon 3 cabell's descendants.
65. Landon Rose 4 Cabell, "the oldest child that lived,"
graduated in the Medical Department of the University of
Pennsylvania in 1822 ; married, in January, 1829, his
cousin, Marion F. Cabell (HI); lived, after his marriage,
in Lynchburg, for a time, and later in Richmond. His
wife died, without surviving issue, in December, 1834.
" After her death he went twice to Europe for his health.
The last trip gave no relief, and he was advised by his
physician in London to land in some Southern port, which
he did, and traveled immediately to Texas, where he was
so fortunate as to meet a friend and relative, Joseph C.
Megginson (307), formerly of Nelson County, Va., who
was with him at his death, and wrote his mother all the
particulars."
(5(5. Robert Henry 4 Cabell, born February 19, 1799, at
Springhill (now Montezuma), then Amherst, now Nelson
County, Va. ; received his collegiate education at William
and Mary College ; studied medicine and surgery in the
Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania ;
graduated in 1821 ; settled in Richmond the same year,
where he soon obtained an excellent practice; married, in
1823, Julia Mayo, second daughter of Col. John Mayo, of
Richmond, and his wife, Abigail De Hart. During 1827
to 1829, Dr. Cabell and his wife were in Europe. For the
purpose of increasing and improving his medical knowledge,
he visited the most celebrated hospitals in England, France,
398 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
and Italy. His wife was a sister to Mrs. Gen. Winfield
Scott, of the U. S. A. ; when Gen. Lafayette was in Amer-
ica, they had given him a reception in Richmond ; when
they were in France, Lafayette invited them to visit him,
and they were present at the marriage of Lafayette's
daughter. (Mrs. Virginia Cabell Tyson, the only living
child of Dr. Cabell, has in her possession several letters
from Gen. Lafayette.) During the last year of Dr. Cabell's
stay in France, his first cousin, William Cabell Rives, was
the United States minister there. He returned to Rich-
mond prior to 1830. He was very active and successful in
contending with the smallpox epidemic in Richmond in
1831. He was appointed to succeed Dr. Warner " in the
surgical professorship of the Richmond Medical College,"
but declined. He was devoted to raising fine horses for the
turf, and was in 1853 president of the Fairfield Jockey
Club. He had two children by his first wife, both of whom
died in childhood and were buried in the Mayo Cemetery,
at " Powhatan Seat," near Richmond. She also dying, he
married in 1860 Mrs. Catharine Pelham, widow of Charles
Pelham, of England. " She was one of the Eyres, of Clif-
ton Castle, County Galway, Ireland." Dr. Cabell was one
of the first to purchase property in Milwaukee, Wis. ; he
acquired a large estate in that city, and Cabell's Addition
was named after him. Like his brother-in-law, Gen. Win-
field Scott, he was opposed to secession, and when the war
began he removed from Richmond to Milwaukee, where he
continued to live for a good many -years. Some time after
the war he removed to Baltimore, Md., where he died in
February, 1876. His widow survives him. Their only
child : —
260. i. Virginia C. 5 Cabell, b. in Wisconsin, and called Vir-
ginia for the old State to which her father was
so greatly attached. She was m. in 1883, in
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore,
by Rev. Dr. Walter W. Williams, rector, to Ben-
jamin Howard Tyson, son of Richard W. Tyson
DR. ROBERT HENRY CABELL
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 399
and his wife, who was a daughter of Gen. Ben-
jamin Chew Howard, of Baltimore, a soldier in
the War of 1812, represented Baltimore in Con-
gress, member of the Peace Commission in Wash-
ington in 1861, etc. He was the son of Col.
John Eager Howard, of the Revolutionary War,
and his wife, Margaret Oswald Chew, who de-
scended from John Chew, a member of the Vir-
ginia House of Burgesses in 1623.
Mr. and Mrs. Tyson are still living. Issue : —
i. Virginia Cabell 6 Tyson,
ii. Juliet Cabell 6 Tyson.
iii. Benjamin Howard 6 Tyson, b. in August, 1887; d. Feb-
ruary, 1888.
67. Elizabeth 4 Cabell was married, by Rev. W. S. Reid,
December 23, 1819, to William Radford Preston ; they re-
moved at an early day to Missouri, where they both died
many years ago. [William R. Preston, by the law of pri-
mogeniture, was the head of the family ; he was the eldest
son of Col. John Preston (by his wife, Mary Radford), a
member of the Virginia legislature, and for many years
treasurer of that State. See " The Preston Family," by the
late Col. John Mason Brown.] Issue : —
i. Landonia 5 Preston, d. young ; unmarried.
261. ii. Paulina 5 Preston.
iii. Andy 5 Preston, d. young ; unmarried.
262. iv. Aurinthia 5 Preston.
263. v. Marion Radford 5 Preston.
vi. Washawtan 5 Preston, — "named for an Indian
chief."
vii. Landon 5 Preston.
viii. Elizabeth 5 Preston, m. Randolph.
ix. Isadore 5 Preston, m. Randolph.
x. Thomas 5 Preston, who m. but d. s. p.
xi. Rebecca 5 Preston, who m. Mr. Des Meux, of
Mississippi, but d. s. p.
400 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
261. Paulina 5 Preston, married Dr. William Talley, who
went from Cumberland County, Va., to Missouri. [He was
the sou of William Talley by his wife, Fannie Daniel (born
1776), a sister of Judge William Daniel the elder, and
daughter of William Daniel, an ensign in the Revolutionary
army (by his wife, Martha Allen, daughter of Archer Allen,
a member of the Cumberland County Committee, 1775), son
of William Daniel (a brother of Sheriff James Daniel) ; will
dated March 8, 1771, proved April 24, 1775 (by his wife,
Mrs. Elizabeth Watkiws Woodson, daughter of " Thomas
Watkins, of Swift Creek ").] Issue, two sons : —
i. Dr. William 6 Talley, Jr., m. his first cousin, Lucy 6 Talley.
ii. Joseph 6 Talley.
262. Aurinthia 5 Preston, married Joseph A. Talley, a
brother to Dr. William Talley who married (261). He was
living in Wentzville, Mo., in 1885, " a very old man." He
died, leaving an only child : —
i. Lucy 6 Talley, who m. her cousin, Dr. William 6 Tal-
ley, Jr.
263. Marion 5 Radford Preston, married Samuel Davis
Williamson, of Virginia ; both dead many years. Issue
nine, of whom four died infants ; the others are : —
i. Rose Judith 6 Williamson, m., first, S. S. Kirk, who
d. s. p. She m., second, Capt. William L. Cash, of
Washington, D. C.
ii. William Preston 6 Williamson, attorney at law, of
Washington, a bachelor.
Hi. Landon Cabell 6 Williamson, b. October 12, 1853, at
Charlottesville, Va. ; parents afterwards moved to
Lynchburg, and in 1869 to Washington, where in
1874 he graduated from the law school of the Na-
tional University, and was admitted to the bar of the
Supreme Court of the district ; is president of the
Young Men's Christian Association of Washington ;
president of the General Masonic Relief Association
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 401
of the United States and Canada ; was Grand Master
of Masons of the District of Columbia in 1893 ; is a
member and office-bearer in the Presbyterian Church ;
m. Almeria Shepherd Van Vleck, of a distinguished
New York family. Has no issue.
iv. Samuel Stuart 6 Williamson, in business in Bridgeport,
Conn. ; m. Mary Eliza Perry, and has issue : i. Wil-
bur Warren 7 ; ii. Marion Rosa 7 ; and iii. Ruth Es-
tella 7 Williamson.
v. Marion Radford 6 Williamson, m. Dr. Franklin Castle, a
practicing physician of Philadelphia. No issue.
15. MARGARET J. 3 CABELL RIVES' DESCENDANTS.
68. Landon Cabell 4 Rives, named for his uncle, Landon
Cabell, whose disappearance was then a source of great dis-
tress to the family, was the first male child born in the
present " Union Hill " mansion who survived childhood.
He was born "about five o'clock on the morning of the
24th of October, 1790." His mother was so ill that for
many days " her life was almost despaired of." The cele-
brated Dr. George Gilmer, of Pen Park, Albemarle, the
father of the first Mrs. William Wirt, was the physician in
attendance, and " for nearly a week he scarcely left his
post by the bedside of his patient."
The child " received from his earliest boyhood the many
advantages derived from association with a cultivated and
intellectual society. At an early age he entered Hampden
Sidney, and afterwards William and Mary College, where
he graduated." He lived for a time in Nelson. On April
26, 1815, he married Miss Anna Maria Towles, of Lynch-
burg, and resided for a time in that city, then returned to
Nelson and settled on his Bellevue estate ; but farming was
not congenial to him, and he finally chose medicine as a
profession. He studied in Philadelphia under the private
tuition of Dr. Chapman, and received his diploma from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1820.
402 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
" The first nine years of his professional life were passed
in his native State. He removed with his family to Cincin-
nati, Ohio, in 1829, where he practiced his profession with
great devotion and success for thirty years. No physician
in the history of this city has had a larger practice, or has
passed through life more truly honored and loved, than Dr.
Rives. Not only in the practice of medicine was Dr. Rives
eminent, but as a medical teacher and writer he was widely
and honorably known. He was one of the faculty of the
Cincinnati Medical College, and afterwards of the Ohio
Medical College. He retired from the active duties of his
profession about the year 1860, but he continued to reside
in Cincinnati, where his warm heart, his noble mind, and his
perfect example of the old time gentleman, now so rarely
seen, will long be remembered. He died on the 3d of
June, 1870, departing honored by all, and full of Christian
hope in the blessed future before him."
His wife, Anna Maria Towles, born October 8, 1795, " a
gifted and elegant woman, of great personal beauty," died
in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1841. She was a daughter of Maj.
Oliver Towles (by his wife, Agatha Lewis, born 1774, mar-
ried 1794, died 1843. Daughter of Col. William Lewis, of
the Sweet Springs, — born 1724, married 1754, died 1811 —
and his wife, Anne Montgomery), of the War of 1812, son
of Col. Oliver Towles, of the Revolution, 1 by his wife, Mrs.
Mary Chew Smith, widow of John Smith, of Fredericks-
burg, and daughter of Larkin Chew (by his wife, Mary Bev-
erley, married 1733), sheriff of Spottsylvania County, Va.,
1739 and 1756, son of Larkin Chew (by his wife, Hannah
Roy (married 1700), daughter of John Roy, of Port Royal,
Va.), of Spottsylvania, member of the House of Burgesses
1723 and 1726, son of Joseph Chew (by his wife, Miss Lar-
kin, of Annapolis, Md.), of York County, Va., 1659, after-
wards of Anne Arundel County, Md. ; son of John Chew,
who emigrated to Virginia, probably from Somersetshire,
1 See A Memento of Ancestors and Ancestral Homes, by Margaret Rives
King, published by Robert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, 1890.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 4p3
England, about 1620 ; was burgess for Hog Island, 1623,
1624, and 1629, and for York County in 1642-1614.
In several of the Chew pedigrees it is stated that Mary
Beverley, who married in 1733 Larkin Chew, was a daugh-
ter of Robert Beverley the historian, by his wife, Ursula
Byrd ; but she was a daughter of his brother, Harry Bev-
erley (by his wife, Elizabeth Smith, a granddaughter of
Maj.-Gen. Robert Smith, of " Brandon," Middlesex County,
Va., member of the Council, active in suppressing Bacon's
Rebellion, etc.); son of Maj. Robert Beverley, who came
to Virginia from Yorkshire, England, about 1633 (clerk
of the House of Burgesses, 1670 ; member of the Council,
1676 ; chief commander against Bacon, etc. ; died in 1687),
by his first wife, whose tombstone is said to bear the fol-
lowing epitaph : " Here lyeth interred Mrs. Mary Beverley,
wife of Major Robert Beverley, mother of 9 sons and 3
daughters, who died 1st June, 1678, aged 41 years and
3 months, having been married to him 12 years and 2
months."
68. Dr. Landon Cabell 4 and Anna Maria Towles Rives
had issue four : —
264. i. Margaret 5 Rives.
265. ii. Anna Maria 5 Rives.
iii. Landon Cabell 5 Rives, b. June 30, 1825, in Vir-
ginia ; M. D. in Virginia ; surgeon C. S. A. ;
and d. " from pneumonia contracted by expos-
ure and overwork in the service, March 8,
1862," s. p. He m., January 22, 1850, Letitia
Gamble Watts, daughter of Gen. Edward Watts
(by his wife, Elizabeth Breckinridge), attorney
at law, speaker of the Virginia House of Dele-
gates, etc., of Roanoke County, Va.
266. iv. Edward 5 Rives.
264. Margaret 5 Rives, born July 1, 1819, in Virginia ;
married, May 18, 1843, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Hon. Rufus
King, of that city. He was born May 30, 1817, in Chilli-
404 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
cothe, Ohio ; educated at Kenyon College and Harvard
University ; chose the law as a profession, and became one
of the foremost lawyers not only in Ohio but in the Union.
He steadily refused all places of political preferment, but
was president of the board of education, chief mover in the
founding of the Cincinnati Public Library, president of
the Law Library Association and of the Board of Trustees
of the University of Cincinnati, etc. Author of " Ohio," in
the American Commonwealths Series ; son of Edward, the
son of Hon. Rufus King (1755-1827), of New York, ora-
tor, statesman, and diplomatist. He died March 25, 1891,
s. p. Mrs. Margaret Rives King, who is still living, is a
charming authoress. She wrote " A Memento of Ancestors
and Ancestral Homes," " Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sarah
Peter," etc.
265. Anna Maria 5 Rives, born October 10, 1822 ; mar-
ried, May 13, 1841, Joseph Longworth, Esq., and died Jan-
uary 31, 1862. Her husband was born October 2, 1813 ;
educated at Yale ; studied law, but devoted his life to the
management of his large estate. " He died December 30,
1883. His father, Nicholas Longworth (1782-1863), was
one of the founders of Cincinnati, and one of her wealthiest
and most public-spirited citizens." Issue three : —
267. i. Nicholas 6 Longworth.
268. ii. Landon Rives Longworth.
269. iii. Maria Long-worth.
267. Nicholas 6 Longworth, born "June 16, 1844 ; grad-
uated at Harvard ; chose law for his profession ; married,
October 2, 1866, Susan Walker (daughter of Judge Timothy
Walker (1802-1856), of the Hamilton County Court of
Common Pleas, and founder of the Cincinnati, Ohio, Law
School) ; attorney at Center, Ohio, 1869-1877 ; on the
Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County, 1877-1881 ;
on the Supreme Court of Ohio, 1881-1883; resigned in
1883. Translator of " Electra," and author of "Silas
Jackson's Wrongs." " Judge Nicholas Longworth was a
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 405
man of recognized ability, a liberal, kindly man." He died
in January, 1890, leaving issue three : —
i. Nicholas 7 Longworth, attorney at law.
ii. Annie Rives 7 Longworth.
iii. Clara Eleanor 7 Longworth.
268. Landon Rives G Longworth, born December 25,
1846 ; graduated at Harvard ; chose medicine for his pro-
fession ; studied medicine in New York, and also abroad ;
" a physician of decided promise ; " died January 14, 1879 ;
unmarried.
269. Maria 6 Longworth married, first, Col. George Ward
Nichols, who served on the staff of Generals Fremont and
Sherman, U. S. A., 1862-1865. He died September 15,
1885. Mrs. Maria Longworth Nichols married, second, in
1886, Hon. Bellamy Storer, the present representative of
the First District of Ohio in the United States Congress.
By her first husband Mrs. Storer had two children : —
i. Joseph Longworth 7 Nichols, a graduate of Harvard and
now a student of medicine in Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity, Baltimore.
ii. Margaret Rives 7 Nichols.
266. Edward Rives, born August 27, 1833, in Cincin-
nati, Ohio ; graduated from the University of Virginia,
1849-1850 ; afterwards studied physic and graduated from
the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city,
then served a year at Bellevue and two years at Randall's
Island Children's Hospital ; was in partnership with his
elder brother in regular practice when the war began ;
entered the C. S. A. ; brigade surgeon of Pickett's division,
etc. ; after the war, began the practice of medicine and sur-
gery in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was soon appointed professor
of physiology in the Medical College of Ohio. " His office
on East Third Street, near Broadway [Cincinnati], was a
curiosity shop for the vivisectionist. . . . Here, assisted by
the brilliant young Landon Longworth, his nephew and
pupil, and by Henri Richman, Dr. Rives prepared the first
406 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
pathological microscopic slides for the magic lantern with
which he afterwards demonstrated his lectures at the Medi-
cal College of Ohio." He was pathologist to the Cincinnati
Hospital from October 4, 1872, to 1874, when, on account
of failing health, he removed to Hillsboro, Ohio, where he
died September 26, 1883, s. p. " He had long been a com-
municant of the Episcopal Church, and was a true Chris-
tian gentleman." He married, October 4, 1870, Marie T.
Thompson, of Hillsboro, Ohio (who is still living), daughter
of Judge James Henry Thompson, born near Harrodsburg,
Ky., September 27, 181 2 ; attorney at law ; married, Sep-
tember 21, 1837, Eliza J. Trimble, daughter of ex-Gov.
Allen Trimble (by his second wife, Rachel Woodrow), of
Hillsboro, Ohio ; at which time he removed to that place
from Kentucky, and continued the practice of his profession
there, where his wife and himself still live. Both were of
Virginia ancestry, Judge Thompson being a son of John B.
Thompson (by his wife, Nancy P. Robards, daughter of
George Robards), son of Col. John Thompson. Col. John
Thompson and George Robards were both Revolutionary
officers, who removed from Virginia to Kentucky about
1787. '
Mrs. Eliza J. Trimble Thompson was the leader of the
temperance movement known in history as " The Woman's
Crusade," which was inaugurated in Hillsboro, Ohio, De-
cember 24, 1873, of which " The Woman's Christian
Temperance Union " is the crystallized outcome.
69. Margaret J. 4 Rives, born at " Union Hill," January
9, 1792. The following obituary notice gives an outline of
" Aunt Peggy's " life : —
" Died on the 17th of January, 1862, at Carlton, the
residence of her brother Alexander, in Albemarle County,
Va., Miss Margaret Jordan Rives.
' Left in early life motherless, she became the stay of her
father's declining years, a mother to those bereft like her,
and spent her whole life at Oakridge, the old family seat,
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 407
which she kept and improved, like a faithful steward, with
taste and prudence. In her a superior mind and strongly
marked character were happily blended with a heart whose
generous affections won the esteem and the love of all
who knew her. Enlightened in her views and liberal in
her acts, she has left a large circle of mourners among her
friends, relatives, and dependents. Her well-matured attach-
ment to her faith and its practices was rewarded by the
patient endurance of great suffering during her illness, and
an humble hope of eternal life."
70. William Cabell 4 Rives was born (according to his
grandfather's diary and other papers) at " Union Hill,"
" on the morning of May 4th, 1793."
He was educated at home, at Hampden Sidney (1807),
and William and Mary College (1809) ; studied law and
politics under the direction of Thomas Jefferson, 1809-
1811 ; was aid-de-camp to Gen. John H. Cocke in 1814-
1815, with a body of militia and volunteers called out for
the defense of Virginia; came to the bar of Nelson, and
soon acquired a good practice. A contemporary describes
him as " a small man, very much like his father, with a fair
complexion, chestnut hair, blue eyes, and handsome fea-
tures." He represented Nelson County in the Virginia
House of Delegates, 1818-1821; married, March 24, 1819,
Miss Judith Page Walker, of Albemarle ; removed to that
county in 1821, and represented it in the Virginia House
of Delegates, 1822-1823; was the representative of this
district for three successive terms in the United States
House of Representatives, March 4, 1823, to March 4,
1829 ; member of the Board of Visitors, University of
Virginia, 1828 - 1829 ; was the minister of the United
States to France, spring of 1829 to 1832. So highly were
his talents, integrity, and ability admired, and his services
approved, that at the first meeting of the Virginia legisla-
ture (December, 1832) after his return, he was elected to
the United States Senate. " His support of the anti-nulli-
408 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
fication proclamation of Gen. Jackson drew upon himself
the censure of the Virginia legislature, in consequence of
which he resigned his seat in the Senate in 1834," but was
reelected in 1835, and served to the end of the term. He
was again reelected in 1840, and remained in the Senate
until 1845.
Prior to 1840, Mr. Rives was a decided Democrat ; in
that year he had cause to abandon the support of Van Buren
for the Presidency, but did not then go over to the Whig
party. He remained a member of a small party, generally
called the Conservatives, but in this part of the State
called " the Rives party," resisting certain measures of the
Democracy ; but in 1844, when the Democrats nominated
James K. Polk for the Presidency, Mr. Rives abandoned
the Democratic party (as did many of his relatives and
friends), went over to the support of Mr. Clay, and re-
mained a Whig until the beginning of the war. The
" Globe," edited by Francis P. Blair, the organ of Van
Buren's administration, declared that " the members of the
Democratic party must sink or swim with the administra-
tion." Mr. Rives was assured, should he remain true to
this Democratic doctrine, that the party would make him
President of the United States ; but he could not forget
that " he had a country to serve as well as a party to
obey."
He was the executor of his father's large estate in 1845 ;
president of the Virginia Historical Society from 1847 for
many years ; again member of the Board of Visitors of the
University of Virginia, 1834-1849 ; in 1849, he was a
second time appointed minister to France, and so continued
until the fall of 1853, when he returned to "Castle Hill,"
his seat in Albemarle, and retired from political life until
his services were demanded by his native State at the be-
ginning of the late war between the States. He was one
of the five commissioners sent from Virginia to the " Peace
Congress," which met in Washington, February 4, 1861.
On July 20, 1861, he was elected one of the members of the
HON. WILLIAM CABELL RIVES
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 409
Virginia delegation to the first Confederate Congress, which
assembled in Montgomery, Ala. ; in February, 1862, he was
elected " by the unanimous vote of the people " to represent
this district in the Confederate House of Representatives,
and continued in that office until the end of the war. He
was a Virginian, pure and chaste ; he loved her soil, her
people, her institutions, her prosperity; and in her adversity
and hour of trial he remained true to her. After the war
" he was hopeful, and so expressed himself, that the people
of the United States would eventually do right and restore
his native Virginia and the Southern States to their true and
proper positions in the Union." He died in this faith, at
" Castle Hill," April 25, 1868 ; and in Walker's church in
Albemarle there is a beautiful marble tablet erected to his
memory, bearing the following inscription : " In memory of
one of the founders of this church, William Cabell Rives,
LL. D., statesman, diplomatist, historian, born May 4,
1793 ; died April 25, 1868."
" Uniting a clear and capacious intellect, a courageous
and generous temper, with sound learning and commanding
eloquence, he won a distinguished place among the fore-
most men whom Virginia has consecrated to the service of
the country ; while he added lustre to his talents by the
purity and dignity of his public career, and adorned his
private life with all the virtues which can grace the charac-
ter of husband, father, friend, and Christian."
" Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord."
For fifty-four years he was a servant of the public ; from
1823 to his death he published many articles, addresses,
speeches, and books (the most important of these being
" The Life and Times of James Madison," three volumes,
Boston, 1859-1869, and the " Letters and other Writings of
James Madison," four volumes, Philadelphia, 1865) ; and
therefore it is not possible to give within the limits of this
sketch an account of his life, acts, and writings ; but the
following extract from " The Richmond Whig " will show
the place which he held in the hearts of his countrymen : —
410 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
" Last Saturday, at his residence, Castle Hill, in Albe-
marle, at the age of seventy-five years, the most eminent
citizen of Virginia, William Cabell Rives, breathed his last.
He had been for several years in infirm health, but retained
sufficient mental and bodily vigor for the occupations and
enjoyments appropriate to the declining years of a life
rendered illustrious by learning, by public services, by vir-
tue, by association with the most renowned men of this
and other lands, and by participation in the weightest and
most momentous events that have marked the history of
the country. It was the great merit of Mr. Rives that he
acquired distinction and commanded popular favor by the
pure force of merit. His reputation was in no part due
to the ultraism of the partisan, or to the seductive arts or
inflammatory power of the orator ; his popularity was ac-
quired without flatteries to the multitude, or any attempt to
become a people's man. Without hauteur or repulsiveness,
he was at all times dignified, and never forgot nor allowed
others to forget that he was a gentleman. As a public
speaker, he scorned all the tricks of the hustings, — every-
thing that savored of ad captandum, — and discussed the
higher topics and graver issues of the day in the language
of a scholar and with the ability of a statesman. It may
be doubted whether on any occasion of his life, before any
assembly of listeners, he ever uttered a sentence that in its
language or its sentiment, or in the mode of its delivery,
would have been unseemly in the most august deliberative
body. But let it not be supposed that he was frigid,
or stiff, or pedantic, or affected ; not at all. The bearing
we have spoken of was altogether natural, easy, and grace-
ful, and his style of speech was the vernacular of one
deeply versed in the best authors, and habitually accus-
tomed to the most cultivated society. His opportunities
were very unusual, and with excellent abilities by nature,
and ambition that aspired rather to deserving than winning
success, it will be readily understood that he turned them
to the best account. Altogether, there is not much risk in
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 411
saying that Mr. Rives was, with the exception of his great
teacher, Mr. Jefferson, the most accomplished man the
State of Virginia has produced ; and we are not prepared
to name any living person in the whole country who has
higher claims in this respect. He was born almost con-
temporaneously with the Constitution, and in his early
youth he sat at the feet of more than one Gamaliel among
its framers. Constitutional jurisprudence, the philosophy
of government, and the history of nations were favorite
studies with him, and in these subjects he was profoundly
learned.
" But we are not about to undertake an analysis of his
character, endowments, and attainments, or to give an out-
line of his life and services. This task will be performed,
doubtless, by more competent hands. The announcement
of his death, even at the advanced age when further public
service was not to be expected of him, will bring a feeling
of sadness and depression over many thousands who have
been accustomed to lean with confidence on his counsels,
and to look with hope to the influence he might exert over
public affairs. In his death a bright and perfect orb drops
from the horizon of intellect."
His wife, Judith Page Walker, was born at Castle Hill,
March 24, 1802, and died there January 23,-1882. She
was the author of " The Canary Bird," 1835-1836 ; " Res-
idence in Europe," 1842 ; " Epitome of the Bible," 1846-
1847 ; " Home and the World," 1857. She was the daugh-
ter of Hon. Francis Walker (born 1764 ; died 1806), M. C.
from Orange and Albemarle 1793-1795, by his wife, Jane
Byrd Nelson, daughter of Col. Hugh Nelson (1750-1800)
by his wife, Judith Page, daughter of Hon. John Page
by his wife, Jane Byrd, daughter of Col. William Byrd *
(1674-1744), son of Col. William Byrd, the emigrant, by
his wife, Mary Horsmanden (1653-1699), daughter of Col.
Warham Horsmanden, of the Virginia Council, son of Rev.
Daniel Horsmanden, of Purley, England, by his wife, Ursula
1 See The Page Family in Virginia, by Dr. R. C. M. Page, of New York.
412 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
St. Leger, daughter of Sir Warham St. Leger, of the Vir-
ginia Company of London (by his wife, Mary Hayward,
a niece of Sir Thomas Smith, the manager of the business
portion of the founding of this nation), son of Anthony St.
Leger, by his wife, Mary Scott, first cousin to Sir Samuel
Argall, who saved the feeble colony in Virginia from famine
in July, 1609, and by whose decisive action in 1613 New
England was reserved for the English. The numerous
descendants of Ursula St. Leger in America have good rea-
son to be proud of their "founders' kin." 1
Hon. Francis Walker (1764-1806) was a son of Dr.
Thomas Walker, born " Jan'y y e 25, 1715," in King and
Queen County, Virginia ; " surveyor, explorer, physician,
and merchant ; ' ! married, about 1741, Mrs. Nicholas Meri-
wether, of Louisa County (see under 10). Thomas Walker
owned land on Goldmines Creek, in present Louisa County,
in 1735. (This was probably Dr. Walker's father, Col.
Thomas Walker.) In July, 1744, Thomas Walker bought
300 acres of land in that county from Robert Rose. This
was probably Dr. Walker himself; but it is hard to dis-
tinguish between the Thomas Walkers.
I do not know when his explorations to the westward
began, but early in 1748, in company with Colonels Wood,
Patton, and Buchanan, and Capt. Charles Campbell, with
a number of hunters (among whom was John Findlay,
of Louisa), he made an exploring tour on the Western
waters, passing Powell's Valley, etc. " On June 12, 1749,
the Loyal Company was incorporated, Col. Thomas Walker
(the father of Dr. Thomas, who was also interested, and
finally became the chief) being the chief person in the
scheme. They made the entry on the west side of the
Great Mountains, upon the line between North Carolina
and Virginia, of 800,000 acres of land, which had been
located by Dr. Walker and his companions in 1748, which
lands they sell to settlers at <£3 ($10) the hundred acres."
In 1750, he made another tour to the westward (see his
1 See The Genesis of the United States, pp. 814, 918, 990, 896, 1011, etc.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 413
"Journal of an Exploration in the Spring of the Year
1750," published by William Cabell Rives, LL. B., at Bos-
ton, 1888 ; and see the preface for an extended sketch of
Dr. Walker). He is said to have represented Louisa in the
House of Burgesses, 1752-1758. About 1753, there was a
project for exploring a route to the Pacific, and Dr. Walker,
it seems, was to be the chief conductor of the whole affair ;
but the prosecution of the scheme was brought to an end
by the commencement of hostilities between the colony and
the French and their Indians. 1 He was appointed by Din*
widdie, on November 22, 1754, adjutant of the frontier
counties ; December 28, 1754, with Charles Dick (a friend
of the Washingtons), joint commissaries for the forces in-
tended for the Ohio (Braddock) army ; was at the defeat,
July 9, 1755 ; " Commissary of Provisions for the forces in
your country's pay," 1756-1757 ; " Contractor for victual-
ling the rangers and militia in Augusta " in 1757-1758, for
which he was allowed .£349 12s. 9d. by the House of Bur-
gesses in September, 1758 ; physician to Peter Jefferson in
his last illness, and after his death one of the executors of
his last will (the other executors were Hon. Peter Randolph,
Esq., Thomas Turpin the elder, John Nicholas, and John
Harvie) ; member of the House of Burgesses from Louisa
in 1758, and probably to the end of the session in March,
1761 ; " in 1760 again passed over Clinch and Powell's
rivers into what is now Kentucky ; " after May 1, 1761, his
residence (Castle Hill) was in Albemarle, and in March,
1762, he was appointed by Gov. Fauquier to settle a differ-
ence about the site for the new court house of that county;
one of the commissioners at Fort Stanwix, 1768 ; said to
have been a member of the House of Burgesses from Louisa
County, 1761-1768 ; was a member of the House of Bur-
gesses from Albemarle, 1768-1771 (his son John succeeded
him, 1772-1775) ; member of the Albemarle Furnace Com-
pany, 1771 ; with John Harvie, appointed to treat with the
Indians after their defeat at Point Pleasant, on October 10,
1 See Memoirs of a Huguenot Family, pp. 389-392.
414 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
1774. (He was one of the executors of the will of Harvie's
father in February, 1768.) I think that he was a member
of the House of Burgesses from Louisa County, 1772-1775.
He was a member from Louisa of the Revolutionary Con-
ventions of August, 1774, March, 1775, July, 1775, and De-
cember, 1775 ; member of the Virginia Committee of Safety
from December 16, 1775 ; of the Council of State from
1777 ; commissioner for Virgina in running her southwest-
ern boundary to the Tennessee River, 1779-1780 ; Tarleton
at " Castle Hill," June 4, 1781 ; member of the legislative
committee for vindicating Virginia's claims to her western
territory in 1782 ; Jefferson applied to him for information
in regard to the animals in America, September 25, 1783.
His first wife died in 1778, and he married (second), about
1781, Elizabeth Thornton, a cousin of Gen. Washington's.
Her will, dated July 3, 1795, was recorded at September
court, 1796. She left no children. Thomas Walker's will,
dated May 13, 1788, was recorded, December, 1794, court
of Albemarle County. He died November 9, 1794, leaving
issue by his first wife only. In the early part of his life it
is hard to discriminate between his father Thomas and him-
self, and in the latter part between his son Thomas and
himself ; but I have been as careful as I could be.
70. Hon. William Cabell 4 and Judith Page Rives had
issue five : —
270. i. Francis Robert 5 Rives.
271. ii. William Cabell 5 Rives.
272. iii. Alfred Landon 5 Rives.
273. iv. Ainelie Louise 5 Rives.
v. Ella 5 Rives, died unmarried.
270. Francis Robert 5 Rives, born at "Castle Hill," Feb-
ruary 16, 1822 ; prepared for college by private tutors ; at
the University of Virginia, 1838-1840, where he graduated
in three years with honors, with the degree of M. A. He
took the law course at college, and later studied for the
bar, but before being admitted was appointed by Presi-
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 415
dent Tyler secretary of legation in London. The United
States minister in London at that time was Edward Everett.
After serving' as secretary of legation from 1842 to 1845,
Mr. Rives returned to the United States, was admitted to
the bar in New York, and there formed a partnership with
Alexander Hamilton, Jr. (a grandson of the first Secretary
of the Treasury). Mr. Rives married in New York, May
16, 1848, Matilda Antonia Barclay, and resided in that
city until he retired from active practice, about 1862, after
which time he lived much in the country, devoting himself
to farming and kindred pursuits. He was for some years
president of " The New York Farmers," an association of
gentlemen having country seats near the city. He was also
for a time president of the Southern Society, governor
of " The Knickerbocker Club," a member of "The Coach-
ing Club," etc., etc. The University of Virginia sent him
as its delegate to the 250th anniversary of the founding of
Harvard College. He died at Carnwath, Dutchess County,
New York, July 16, 1891.
His wife, Matilda Antonia Barclay, was born in New
York city, December 7, 1824, educated there, and there
spent nearly the whole of her life. She was a woman of a
singularly strong character, with a clear intellect and an
unusual capacity for administration. Her life was devoted
to her children and to her husband. She died in the city
of New York, January 25, 1888. Being an only child, she
inherited her father's fortune and his country place, Carn-
wath. Her father, George Barclay, was born at Annapolis
Royal, Nova Scotia, July 4, 1790, during the exile of his
parents ; married, at Cheltenham, in England, December 8,
1818, Louise Anna Matilda Aufrere ; came to New York,
entered into mercantile business, was a successful merchant,
and retired from business about 1854 with a considerable
fortune ; died at Carnwath, Dutchess County, N. Y., July
27, 1869. His father, Thomas Barclay, was born in the
city of New York, October 12, 1753 ; graduated at King's
College, N. Y., in 1772 ; married, October 2, 1775, Susan
416 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN"
De Lancey (born September 15, 1755 ; died May 2, 1837),
fifth daughter of Peter De Lancey, of West Farms, West-
chester County, N. Y., and niece of Gov. James De Lancey
and Gen. Oliver De Lancey. This was a famous Tory
family of New York. See Bolton's " History of Westches-
ter County."
In April, 1777, Thomas Barclay was commissioned cap-
tain in Beverley Robinson's Loyal American Regiment ;
promoted major, October 7, 1777 ; served in New York,
Virginia, and the Carolinas under Sir W. Howe, Sir H.
Clinton, and Lord Rawdon ; removed to Nova Scotia at the
peace in 1783; became speaker of the Assembly; in 1799,
appointed H. B. M. consul-general at New York, and con-
tinued in that office until 1817 ; was commissioner for
running the boundaries between the United States and the
British possessions under Jay's treaty of 1794, and the
fourth and fifth articles of the Treaty of Ghent ; and died
in the city of New York, where sixty years of his life
had been passed, April 21, 1830. He was a son of Rev.
Henry Barclay, D. D., rector of Trinity Church ; grandson
of Rev. Thomas Barclay, the first rector of St. Peter's
Church, Albany ; and great - grandson of John Barclay,
who emigrated to this country in 1683, being surveyor-
general of East Jersey. The family was Scotch, but in
each generation the above-named Barclays married Dutch
women.
Miss Louisa Anna Matilda Aufrere, who married in
1818 George Barclay (1790-1869), . was a daughter of
Anthony Aufrere (born 1756 ; died November 29, 1833),
of Hoveton Hall, Norfolk, England, — a family of Huguenot
origin; see Burke's " Landed Gentry" for full genealogy, —
by his wife (married February 19, 1791), Matilda Lockhart
(born 1774 ; died 1850), youngest daughter of General
James Lockhart, of Lee and Carnwath, in Scotland. For
the genealogy of this family, see Burke's " Peerage," under
Sir S. Lockhart, baronet.
270. Francis Robert 5 and Matilda Antonia Rives had
issue : —
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 417
274. i. George Lockhart 6 Rives.
275. ii. Ella Louisa 6 Rives.
276. iii. Francis Robert G Rives.
277. iv. Maud Antonia 6 Rives.
278. v. Constance Evelyn 6 Rives.
279. vi. Reginald William 6 Rives.
274. George Lockhart 6 Rives, born in New York city,
May 1, 1849 ; graduated at Columbia College, N. Y., in
1868 ; entered Trinity College, Cambridge, England, and
graduated there with honors, in January, 1872 ; received
the degree of LL. B. from Columbia College, N. Y., in
June, 1873 ; was admitted to the bar in New York in
1874, and has practiced law since. Received the degree
of M. A. from both Columbia College, N. Y., and the Uni-
versity of Cambridge, England. Was assistant Secretary
of State of the United States from November 19, 1887, to
March 6, 1889. Has held no other public office. Is a
trustee of Columbia College, of the Lenox Library, etc., etc.
He married (first), May 21, 1873, Caroline Morris Kean,
of Elizabeth, N. J., the eldest daughter of John Kean, of
that city, and his wife, Lucy Halsted, daughter of Caleb
0. Halsted, for many years president of the Bank of the
Manhattan Company in New York. Mr. Kean's grand-
father, John Kean, was from South Carolina. His great-
grandfather, Lewis Morris, was a signer of the Declaration
of Independence.
Mrs. Caroline Morris Kean Rives died March 29, 1887,
leaving one child : —
i. George Barclay 7 Rives, b. June 19, 1874.
274. Mr. Rives married (secondly), March 20, 1889,
Mrs. Sara Whiting Belmont, of Newport, R. I. Her father
was Augustus Whiting, a merchant of New York and New
Orleans. Her mother, Sarah Swan, was a daughter of Judge
Gustavus Swan, a well-known lawyer of Ohio. Issue : —
ii. Francis Bayard 7 Rives, b. January 11, 1890.
iii. Mildred Sara 7 Rives, b. July 31, 1893.
418 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
275. Ella Louisa 6 Rives, born March 8, 1851; married,
January 7, 1875, David King (1), son of the late Dr. David
King (2), a prominent physician in Newport, R. I., who
was a son of another Dr. David King (3) (originally of
Taunton, Mass.) and Ann Gordon, his wife, a daughter of
Gen. George Gordon, of Connecticut. Mr. David King's (1)
mother was Sarah Wheaton, daughter of Rev. Salmon
Wheaton, for thirty years rector of Trinity Church, New-
port, R. I., and of his wife, Ann Dehon, a sister of Bishop
Dehon, of South Carolina. Mr. David King (1) died in
Washington, D. C, in March, 1894, leaving issue : —
i. Maud Gwendolen 7 King, b. October 2, 1876.
ii. Philip Wheaton Rives 7 King, b. June 12, 1879.
276. Francis Robert G Rives, Jr., born in New York city,
January 28, 1853 ; married (first), April 29, 1879, Georgia
Ann Fellows. She died January 4, 1880, s. p. He mar-
ried (secondly), August 25, 1887, Frances Agnes Bininger,
who is still living. He died at Freehold, N. J., January 7,
1890, s. p.
277. Maud Antonia 6 Rives, born at Carnwath, Dutchess
County, N. Y., July 17, 1855 ; married, May 23, 1882,
Walker Breese Smith, son of the late William Henry Smith,
of New York, and his wife, Susan Walker, of Utica, N. Y.
Issue : —
i. Evelyn Rives 7 Smith, b. June 15, 1888.
278. Constance Evelyn 6 Rives, twin sister to Maud, mar-
ried, June 24, 1884, John Borland, son of Melanchthon
Woolsey Borland, of Boston, and his wife, Julia Gibson.
John Borland died April 17, 1893, at Washington, D. C,
lea vino; issue : —
i. Maud Rives 7 Borland, born April 14, 1886.
ii. John 7 Borland, Jr., b. October 15, 1887.
hi. Ella Aufrere 7 Borland, b. September 25, 1889.
279. Reginald William c Rives, born in New York city,
May 18, 1861; graduated from Columbia College, 1882.
Received the degree of LL. B. from Columbia College Law
School in 1884, and was admitted to the bar in New York
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 419
the same year, but has never practiced law ; is engaged in
farming. He married, June 1, 1887, Mary Caroline Bulk-
ley, daughter of the late Edward Henry Bulkley, of New
York, and his wife, Catharine Wolfe Clark, daughter of
Richard Smith Clark, of New York. Issue : —
i. Helen Mildred 7 Rives, b. May 26, 1888.
ii. Reginald Bulkley 7 Rives, b. April 9, 1890.
271. William Cabell 5 Rives, Jr., born at " Castle Hill,"
December 19, 1825 ; educated under successive private
tutors or at private schools in France and the United
States, 1830-1839 ; at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1840-1841 ;
the Episcopal High School near Alexandria, Va., 1841-
1842 ; the University of Virginia, 1842-1845 ; and at the
Harvard Law School in 1845-1847, where he received the
degree of LL. B. He commenced the practice of law in
Virginia, but his legal career was interrupted by his mar-
riage to Grace Winthrop Sears, of Boston, in May, 1849,
and, his father having been again appointed minister to
France, he now made a second visit to Europe. Leaving
Paris February 24, 1851, he traveled for some time in
Spain, which was then much less known to American trav-
elers than at the present day. He was offered the position
of secretary of legation at Madrid by Mr. Barringer, then
United States minister there, but decided to decline it. He
returned to the United States in the autumn of 1851 ; took
up his residence on Beacon Street, Boston, and made that
his home until about 1874. He, however, frequently vis-
ited his Virginia home, for which he always manifested the
greatest affection, and, a few years before the Civil War,
built a house about three miles from his father's residence,
and with his family spent much time there. The war be-
tween the States separated Mr. Rives from his Virginia
relatives, and although his heart was naturally with his
native State, he retained to the fullest extent the regard
and sympathy of his Northern friends. In some instances
he was enabled to alleviate the trials of Southern prisoners
420 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
at the North. After the war he was of much assistance to
his father in attending to the publication of the final vol-
ume of the latter's Life of Madison, to which he prefixed an
editorial note.
He spent the greater part of the time from January,
1870, to 1874, with his family in various parts of Europe.
In 1874, he removed from Boston to Newport, R. I., and
the remainder of his life, with the exception of another
visit to Europe in 1880-1881 and various travels to differ-
ent places in the United States, occasioned by trying illness
in his family circle, was passed at Newport, at Washington,
D. C, and at his Virginia residence.
On Commencement Day, June 27, 1883, he delivered an
address before the Society of the Alumni of the University
of Virginia, in commemoration of Prof. William B. Rogers,
LL. D. ; was elected a member of the Webster Historical So-
ciety of Boston, July 24, 1883 ; long a member of the Vir-
ginia Historical Society ; elected an honorary member of
The Filson Club of Louisville, Ky., September 25, 1884 ;
corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical Soci-
ety, November 10, 1887 ; member of the American Histor-
ical Association, etc. In 1888, he published the journal of
his great-grandfather, Dr. Thomas Walker, with an admira-
bly written introduction. He possessed a wide acquaint-
ance not only with English and classical literature, but also
with much of French, German, and Italian, speaking the first
two languages fluently, and having a fair knowledge of the
last. He was tall in stature, dignified in his bearing, full
of a winning courtesy which captivated the hearts of all
who knew him, with the keenest sense of honor and duty,
deeply affectionate in his family relations, and a sincere
Christian. He died suddenly, and apparently painlessly, in
Washington, D. C, April 7, 1889, and was buried, April
10, at the beautiful little church at Longwood, near Bos-
ton, Mass., erected by his father-in-law, the Hon. David
Sears.
His wife (Grace Winthrop Sears, born August 23, 1828),
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 421
who survives him, is the daughter of the late Hon. David
Sears, of Boston, Mass., through whom she is a lineal
descendant of John Winthrop, the first governor of Mas-
sachusetts. Her mother, Miriam Clarke Mason, was a
daughter of the Hon. Jonathan Mason (1752-1831),
United States Senator (1800-1803), and member of the
United States House of Representatives (1817-1820) from
Massachusetts. An account of the Sears family is given in
" Genealogies and Biographical Sketches of the Ancestry
and Descendants of Richard Sears, the Pilgrim," etc., Bos-
ton, 1857.
271. William Cabell and Grace Winthrop Rives had
issue three children : —
280. i. William Cabell 6 Rives.
ii. Alice G Rives, b. in Boston, Mass., May 6, 1852 ;
educated there and in Europe. Her lungs hav-
ing become affected, she went with her parents
in 1886 to South Carolina, northern New York,
and Colorado, in the fruitless attempt to arrest
the disease, and died at Denver, Colo., March
29, 1887, unmarried,
iii. Arthur Landon 6 Rives, b. in Boston November 6,
1853, and educated there; took the A. B.
degree at Harvard College in 1874, and after-
wards studied law at the Harvard Law School,
but has never practiced the profession. He is
a member of the Virginia Historical Society,
etc. ; unmarried.
280. William Cabell 6 Rives, born in Paris, France, Jan-
uary 10, 1850 ; at Harvard College, 1867-1869 ; at Corpus
Christi .College, Oxford, England, 1870-1874, receiving
from the university the degree of B. A. in 1874, and M. A.
in 1878 ; commenced the study of medicine at the Harvard
jMedical School in 1874, and continued it at the Medical
Department of the University of the city of New York,
where he received the M. D. degree in February, 1877 ;
married, April 29, 1876, Mary F. Rhinelander, of New
422 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
York ; continued his medical studies at Vienna, Austria, in
the winter of 1880-1881 ; was for some time one of the
physicians of the Newport [R. I.] Hospital, secretary to the
Board of Health, Newport, etc.; removed to New York
several years ago, and is now a resident of that city. His
wife, Mary F. Rhinelander, was the daughter of Frederick
W. Rhinelander, of New York, and his wife, Frances D.
Skinner.
Frederick W. Rhinelander was a son of Frederick W.
Rhinelander, Sr., and his wife, Mary Lucretia Lucy Ann
Stevens, daughter of Gen. Ebenezer Stevens (who com-
manded the United States artillery at Saratoga) by his
second wife, Lucretia (widow of Richardson Sands), daugh-
ter of Judge John Ledyard, of Hartford, Conn., and aunt
of John Ledyard, the celebrated traveler.
Frances D. Skinner, was the daughter of Rev. Thomas
Harvey Skinner, D. D., professor in the Union Theological
Seminary, N. Y. (son of Joshua Skinner and Martha Ann
Blount, of Harvey's Neck, N. C), and his second wife,
Frances Louisa Davenport, daughter of Hon. James Daven-
port, the son of Abraham Davenport, the hero of Whittier's
poem. 1
272. Alfred Landon 5 Rives, born in Paris, France,
March 25, 1830 ; educated in the Virginia schools ; at the
Virginia Military Institute, 1846-1848, where he gradu-
ated ; at the University of Virginia, 1848-1849, where he
passed a course of science ; went to the French court with
his father in 1849 ; entered the government school of engi-
neers (Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees) in 1851, and gradu-
ated first in his class in 1854, with the extra distinction of
brillamment. Returning home in 1855, he was offered
a government position as a civil engineer at Washington,
D. C, where, under Generals Meigs and Franklin, he built •
the Union Arch above Georgetown and numerous public
1 See A History and Genealogy of the Davenport Family, 1086-1850, New
York, 1851.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 423
buildings. He married, February 1, 1859, Sarah C. Mac-
murdo, of Richmond, Va. When the Civil War began, Mr.
Rives offered his services to Virginia, was captain of engi-
neers, C. S. A., eventually rising to senior colonel, and was
for three years acting as chief of the engineer bureau. Car-
ried on his profession in Richmond, 1865-1868 ; was an
engineer of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, building the
road from Covington to the White Sulphur, 1868-1870 ;
chief engineer of the Mobile and Alabama Grand Trunk
Railroad in 1870 ; was afterwards with the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, at which time Gen. Sherman offered
him the charge of the civil engineering works of Egypt
under the Khedive. This offer he declined on account of
his family. In 1873, Col. Rives accepted the position of
chief engineer and general superintendent of the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad. Here he remained ten years, being
promoted to vice-president and general manager. He was
vice-president and general manager of the Richmond and
Danville Railroad from 1883 to 1885 or 1886. In 1887,
he was appointed chief engineer and general manager of
the Panama Railroad Company, which position he holds at
this writing, in 1894.
His wife, Sarah C. Rives, is a daughter of the late James
B. Macmurdo, of Richmond, Va., and his wife, Fanny
Moore.
James B. Macmurdo was a son of Charles James Mac-
murdo, of Dumfries, Scotland (baptized there, January 10,
1771), who emigrated to Virginia with his wife, Catherine
Ann Cochraine.
Fanny Moore was a daughter of the Rt. Rev. Richard
Channing Moore, for many years Protestant Episcopal
Bishop of Virginia, the son of Thomas Moore (and his wife,
Elizabeth Channing), the son of John Moore (and his wife,
Frances Lambert), born in Philadelphia about 1686, moved
to New York, and at the time of his death in 1749 was a
member of the King's Council for that province. His
father, John Moore, who removed from Carolina to Phila-
424 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
delphia about 1683, and became the king's collector at that
port, was a brother to James Moore, sometime governor of
Carolina. See 331.
272. Col. Alfred L. 5 Rives and his wife have issue : —
281. i. Amelie Louise 6 Rives,
ii. Gertrude 6 Rives,
iii. Sarah Landon 6 Rives.
281. Amelie Louise 6 Rives, the authoress of " A Bro-
ther to Dragons," " The Quick or the Dead, " Herod and
Mariamne," etc., etc. She married, June 14, 1888, John
Armstrong Chanler, son of John Winthrop Chanler and his
wife, Margaret, daughter of Samuel Ward, of New York,
and his wife, Emily Astor.
John Winthrop Chanler was a son of John Chanler, of
South Carolina, and his wife, Elizabeth Winthrop.
273. Amelie Louise 5 Rives, born in Paris, France, July
8, 1832, and named after the queen and the king of the
French. When she was returning to France with her
father in 1849, the late John R. Thompson, editor of the
" Southern Literary Messenger," addressed to her some
verses, from which I make an extract : —
" The high and great shall render thee obeisance,
In halls bedecked with tapestries of gold,
And mansions shall be brighter for thy presence
Where swept the stately Medicis of old.
Still, 'mid the pomp of all this courtly lustre,
I cannot think that thou wilt all forget
The pleasing fantasies that thickly cluster
Around the walls of the old homestead yet."
She married, May 10, 1854, Henry Sigourney, of Boston,
Mass., a nephew of the poetess. While on their way to
France, her husband, herself, and their three youngest
children went down at sea with the French steamship
Ville du Havre, November 22, 1873. There is a memorial
tablet to them in Grace Church, near "Castle Hill," Albe-
marle County, Va.
Henry Sigourney, 1831-1873, was a son of Henry Sig-
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 425
ourney, Sr. (and his second wife, Margaret M. Barker) ;
son of Andrew Sigourney (and his wife, Mary Germaine,
born in France), born in France 1673, died in Boston 1748;
son of Andrew Sigourney, a Huguenot, comfortably settled
near Rochelle, in France, when the Edict of Nantes was
revoked, October 22, 1685. The whole family hurriedly
went over to England, were assisted to proceed to America,
arrived in Boston in 1686, where Andrew Sigourney, the
elder, died April 16, 1727, aged 89.
Mrs. Amelie Louise 5 Sigourney had issue : —
282. i. Henry 6 Sigourney, Jr.
ii. Helen Germaine 6 Sigourney, b. 1861 ; d. 1864.
iii. Alfred G. Rives 6 Sigourney; lost at sea November
22, 1873.
iv. William Cabell Rives 6 Sigourney ; lost at sea No-
vember 22, 1873.
v. Amelie Louise 6 Sigourney ; lost at sea November
22, 1873.
282. Henry 6 Sigourney, Jr., born February 27, 1855 ;
was a student at Harvard when his parents sailed for
France, in 1873 ; married Louise Agnes Power, of London,
England. They reside in Boston in winter, and in summer
at Nahant. Their children are : —
i. Henry Louis 7 Sigourney, b. February 14, 1886.
ii. Alice Louise 7 Sigourney, b. December 14, 1891.
iii. David Rives 7 Sigourney, b. September 9, 1893.
71. Lucy Shands 4 Rives, born at Warminster, Nelson
County, Va., November 18, 1794 ; married, at " Oak-
ridge," April 27, 1819, Alexander Brown ; died in
Charlottesville, at the Piedmont Institute, March 30, 1872,
and was buried there by the side of her husband and
daughter, Mrs. R. K. Meade.
Her husband, Alexander Brown, was born near Perth,
Scotland, March 27, 1796; educated at Perth Academy,
and afterwards attended a course at William and Mary
College, Va. ; came to Virginia in 1811 with his uncle, the
426 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Rev. James Henderson, and resided with him in Williams-
burg for several years ; after attaining his majority he took
charge of a mercantile establishment at Lovingston, Nelson
County, Va., for his Uncle Henderson and Mr. Parker
Garland. After his marriage in 1819, he settled at Variety
Mills and became a partner in business with his father-in-
law, Robert Rives, who, on the dissolution of the copart-
nership, gave him the Variety Mills estate, consisting of
a large farm, stores, flour, corn, and sawmills, an extensive
tannery, etc. He resided at his seat, "Belmont" (named
for a seat of the Fleming family in Scotland, from which
family Gen. Brown descended through his mother), on the
estate, until his removal to Richmond. From about 1818
to his death, he was a prominent Mason. One of the lead-
ing justices of Nelson, he was for many years the presiding
magistrate. He repeatedly represented Nelson Parish, as lay
delegate, in the conventions of the Episcopal Church ; he
was long colonel of the 28th Virginia Regiment, and in
1840 was elected brigadier-general of this district ; he was a
member of the House of Delegates from Nelson County,
1835-1839 and 1841-1842, but political life was always
distasteful to him. In 1860, he removed to Richmond, Va.,
where he conducted a commission business in copartnership
with J. Bruce McClelland until Mr. McClelland's death in
1862, and with the late Frank Deane from 1862 to his own
death. He was elected to the vestry of old St. John's
Church in September, 1861 ; register, October 4, 1861 ; was
for a time superintendent of the Sunday-school ; warden,
April 6, 1863 ; died at his residence on Church Hill, April
24, 1864, and was buried in Charlottesville by the side of
his daughter. Rev. Dr. Norwood, while preaching his fu-
neral sermon in old St. John's Church, Richmond, said of
him: "I have known many good men, but a better man
than Alexander Brown I never knew."
His last surviving brother died only a few months ago in
Australia, and he was as strong in the Presbyterian as my
grandfather was in the Episcopal Church. In memoriam
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 427
services were held for him at all the preaching centres
of his church in the colony. There is much in the follow-
ing editorial notice of him in an Australian paper which
is equally applicable to my grandfather : " On Monday,
the second of April, 1894, there passed away from us,
at the great age of 97, one of our best and, by all who
had the privilege of knowing him, one of our most honored
colonists, in the person of Mr. Andrew Brown, the oldest
magistrate in the colony. . . . His intelligence was great,
his sagacity unfailing, his will never faltering, and his
friendship enduring and tender. He was surely a strong
man, but he was as gentle as he was strong. Perthshire
never sent out a more worthy son, and, aged as he was, we
can ill spare him, either for the sake of the church he loved
or the community he adorned. Flattery would be insulting
to the memory of a man who neither gave nor sought it ;
but Mr. Brown was a grand Scot, proud of his nation, as
his nation might well be proud of him."
71. Mrs. Lucy Shands 4 Brown had issue : —
283. i. Robert Lawrence 5 Brown.
284. ii. Margaret 5 Brown.
285. iii. Elizabeth 5 Brown.
283. Robert Lawrence 5 Brown, born March 9, 1820 ;
educated at home ; at the University of Virginia, 1836-
1839 ; married (first), at Glenmore, April 6, 1842, by Rev.
Richard H. Wilmer, to Sarah Cabell Callaway (228). She
was born November 22, 1820; educated at Miss Jane Mc-
Kensie's school in Richmond, Va., boarding with James E.
Heath, auditor of Virginia. He was related to the Riveses,
and his wife to the Massies, of Nelson. His sister, Maria
Heath, married the artist, George Cook, and after he re-
turned from Europe in 1831, he painted many portraits in
Nelson. Mrs. Sarah C. Brown died July 25, 1849, at the
Red Sulphur Springs, leaving three children : —
286. i. Alexander 6 Brown.
ii. George Mayo Brown, d. young,
iii. Elvira C. Brown, d. young.
428 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
283. Robert L. Brown was married (second), September
27, 1853, at " Union Hill," by Rev. F. D. Goodwin, to Mar-
garet Baldwin 5 Cabell (252). She was born September 27,
1826, at "Union Hill," and died August 29, 1877, at
" Sunny Side," in Nelson County, Va. Mr. Brown lived
first at " Benvenue," in Nelson County, Va., and was a
farmer, planter, and merchant. In 1860, he removed with
his family to Lynchburg, where his wife and himself con-
ducted for some years " The Lynchburg Female Seminary."
He was appointed a lieutenant in the C. S. A. by the Sec-
retary of War, and was for a time lieutenant of the Provost
Guard at Lynchburg. He returned to Nelson in 1870 ;
was for a time connected with the Norwood High School ;
died June 8, 1880, at " Sunny Side," his home in Nelson,
and was buried by the side of his second wife, at " Union
Hill," the home of his oldest son. His last wife bore him
eight children : —
iv. Mayo Cabell 6 Brown, b. 1854 ; d. 1858.
287. v. Robert L. G Brown, Jr.
288. vi. Mary Cornelia B. G Brown.
289. vii. William CabeU 6 Brown.
290. viii. Lucy Rives 6 Brown.
ix. Joseph Carrington 6 Brown, b. May 17, 1866 ;
educated at the Episcopal High School, near
Alexandria, Va. ; is now in the banking busi-
ness at Osage City, Kansas ; unmarried.
x. Elizabeth Daniel 6 Brown, b. August 18, 1870;
unmarried,
xi. Mayo Cabell 6 Brown, b. February 17, 1874 ; is
now at the Episcopal High School, near Alex-
andria, Va.
286. Alexander 6 Brown, born September 5, 1843, at
" Glenmore," Nelson County, Va. ; reared by his grand-
mother (58) ; educated by private tutors at " Benvenue,"
1851-1856 ; at the school of Horace W. Jones, in Char-
lottesville, 1856-1860; Lynchburg College, 1860; C. S. A.,
1861-1865 ; in a store in Washington, D. C, 1865-1868 ;
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 429
in business in Norwood, Nelson County, Va., 1869-1880 ;
published " The Genesis o£ the United States " in 1890 ;
bought " Union Hill " in 1873, and continues to reside
there ; married (first), December 27, 1873, by Rev. Ed-
mund Withers, to Caroline Augusta Cabell (259), born June
4, 1854; died July 31, 1876, s. p.; married (second), April
28, 1886, by Rev. Byrd Thornton Turner, to Sarah
Randolph Cabell (257), born October 2, 1848 ; living.
287. Robert L. 6 Brown, born January 6, 1856 ; educated
at Norwood High School ; is now in the banking business
at Osage City, Kansas ; married, September 7, 1892, in
Emporia, Kansas, Lura M. Baker, and has one child : —
i. Margaret Lura 7 Brown, born December 4, 1893.
288. Mary C. B. 6 Brown, born May 22, 1857 ; married,
in Charlottesville, at the residence of her aunt, Maria T.
Rives, November 17, 1880, Dr. James Matthew Ranson, of
Charlestown, Jefferson County, West Va. Issue : —
i. Mary Guy 7 Ranson, b. August 21, 1881.
ii. Robert Lawrence 7 Ranson, d. infant,
iii. William Rives 7 Ranson, d. infant.
289. William Cabell 6 Brown, born November 22, 1861 ;
educated at Norwood, the Episcopal High School, and
Theological Seminary, near Alexandria ; is now a missionary
of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Rio Grande do Sul,
Brazil. He married, August 4, 1891, in Georgetown,
D. C, Ida Mason Dorsey, and has : —
i. John Dorsey 7 Brown, b. in Brazil in July, 1892.
ii. Margaret 7 Brown, b. in Brazil, April 7, 1894.
290. Lucy Rives 6 Brown, born January 27, 1864 ; mar-
ried, May 22, 1889, in Osage City, Kansas, Oscar Edmund
Boles ; they now reside in Denver, Colorado, and have one
child : —
i. Margaret CabeU 7 Boles, b. May 4, 1890.
284. Margaret 5 Brown, born May 22, 1821 ; married,
October 6, 1840, at Belmont, by Rev. R. K. Meade, to
Rev. Richard H. Winner, then of Goochland County, Va. j
430 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
since March 6, 1862, the Protestant Episcopal bishop of
Alabama ; author of " The Recent Past," New York,
1887. He is the son of the late Rev. William H. Winner,
D. D., president of William and Mary College, 1826-1827,
by his second wife, Marion Hannah Cox, of Mount Holly,
N. J., a granddaughter of Col. Richard Cox, of the Rev-
olutionary army, and his wife, Mercy Taylor (born 1728 ;
died 1827, at Charlton, Saratoga County, N. Y.). Her
grandfather, Edward Taylor, emigrated late in the seven-
teenth century, settled in Monmouth County, N. J., and
inherited much property from his brother, Mathew Taylor,
who had been the agent for his relative, Sir Thomas Scott,
who married Caroline, daughter of Sir George Carteret,
Bart., proprietor of East New Jersey. Sir Thomas Scott
was related to Sir Samuel Argall, at one time governor of
Virginia. Rev. William H. Wilmer (born October 29,
1782 ; died July 23, 1827 ; rector of St. Paul's, Alexan-
dria, 1812-1826 ; of Bruton Parish, Williamsburg, 1826-
1827 ; took a prominent part in reviving the Episcopal
Church in Virginia, a work for which his talents, charac-
ter, and genial manners preeminently fitted him) was the
son of Simon Wilmer, of Maryland, and his first wife, Ann
Rinoo^old. The Wilmer ancestor came from England to
the eastern shore of Maryland in the cavalier emigration of
1649-1659. Bishop and Mrs. Wilmer had issue : —
i. Marion 6 Wilmer, b. February 10, 1851 ; m. Capt. H.
E. Jones, C. S. A., and has issue : i. Richard Hooker
Wilmer 7 ; ii. Madeline Clitherall 7 ; iii. Harvey Ellis 7 ;
iv. George Haxall 7 ; v. William Fitzhugh 7 ; vi. Alex-
ander Burgwyn 7 ; and vii. John Stewart 7 Jones.
ii. Alexander Brown 6 Wilmer, b. August 19, 1853 ; m.,
July, 1877, Edith Gordon. No children,
iii. John Stuart 6 Wilmer, b. 1860 ; d. 1862.
iv. William Holland 6 Wilmer, b. August 10, 1863 ; oculist
and aurist, Washington, D. C. ; m. Miss Re Lewis
Smith, of Philadelphia, and has : i. Richard Hooker 7
Wilmer.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 431
285. Elizabeth 5 Brown, born May 22, 1823 ; married at
Belmont, April 12, 1842, Rev. Richard Kidder Meade, of
Charlottesville; died December 27, 1862. "Mr. Robert
Rives and his granddaughters (284) Margaret and (285)
Elizabeth Brown were confirmed by Bishop Moore, at the
Episcopal convention in Charlottesville, Va., in 1839."
A marble tablet has been erected to her husband in
Christ Church (Episcopal), Charlottesville, bearing the fol-
lowing : —
" In memory of Rev. Richard Kidder Meade, born in
Clarke County, Va., Oct. 31st, 1812. Died in Charlottes-
ville, Va., November 17th, 1892. Ordained Deacon in
1835. Ordained Presbyter in 1837. Rector of this Church
from 1837 to 1868. Beloved as Pastor, Teacher and Friend.
Faithful in all relations of life. An earnest, humble, de-
voted Christian. His life was ' hid with Christ in God.'
" ' Mark the perfect man and behold the upright : for the
end of that man is peace.' Psalm xxxvii. 37."
During the last years of his life he was principal of the
Piedmont Female Institute at Charlottesville. He was the
second son of Rt. Rev. William Meacle (by his first wife,
Mary, daughter of Philip and Sarah (Burwell) Nelson, of
Frederick County, Va., who died in 1817), to whom a mon-
ument has been erected in the cemetery of the Episcopal
Theological Seminary of Virginia, bearing the following
inscription : —
I. " Sacred to the memory of the Rt. Rev. Wm. Meade,
D. D., third Bishop of Virginia ; born in Clarke County,
Va., Nov. 11, 1789 ; died in the city of Richmond, March
14, 1862."
II. " Erected as a memorial of love and veneration, by
the Protestant Episcopal Church of Virginia."
III. " Prominent in the revival of the church after the
Revolutionary War, he was the zealous defender of its pur-
ity, and the founder and liberal patron of the Theological
Seminary of Virginia."
IV. " He lived for Christ, died in Christ, and we believe
is with Christ."
432 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Though suffering from a deep cold, he had come to
Richmond to assist at the consecration (March 6, 1862) of
the Rev. R. H. Wilmer, D. D., to the Episcopate of Ala-
bama. Dr. Slaughter says : " The newly-made bishop must
have been deeply impressed by the fact that the first and
last official act of the presiding bishop of the South was the
consecration of the son of his earliest and ablest co-worker
in the revival of the church in Virginia, and that this
supreme effort of the aged patriarch hastened his death, if
it did not cost him his life." 1
Bishop Meade died at the hospitable home of his friend,
Mr. John Lyddall Bacon. He was the son of Lieut.-Col.
Richard Kidder Meade, aid to Gen. Washington in the
Revolution, and after the war a member of the Society of
Cincinnati, by his second wife, Mary, daughter of Benja-
min and Elizabeth (Fitzhugh) Grymes, and granddaughter
of John and Lucy (Ludwell) Grymes, and widow of Wil-
liam Randolph, of Chatsworth, Va.
Lieut.-Col. R. K. Meade (1746-1805) was a son of Da-
vid Meade, born 1690 (by his wife, Susanna, daughter of
Sir Richard Everard and his wife, Susanna, daughter of
Richard Kidder, bishop of Bath and Wells), the son of
Andrew Meade, the emigrant (by his wife, Mary Latham,
of Flushing, N. Y., a member of the Society of Friends),
who located in Nansemond County, Va., and died there
in 1745.
Bishop Meade descended from many of the founders of
Virginia, — Barrington, Carter, Corbin, Cottington, Crom-
well, Everard, Fitzhugh, Grymes, Harrison, Higginson,
Landon, Lee, Ludlow, Ludwell, Townley, Tucker, Warner,
etc.
285. Mrs. Elizabeth 5 Brown Meade had issue : — -
i. Lucy Brown 6 Meade now living in Charlottes-
ville.
291. ii. Francis Alexander 6 Meade.
1 See Memoir of the Life of the Rt. Rev. William Meade, D. D., by Philip
Slaughter, D. D., Cambridge [Mass.], 1885.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 433
iii. Mary Nelson 6 Meade, principal of the Piedmont
Female Institute.
iv. Robert Lawrence G Meade, University of Virginia,
1866 ; now connected with the Charlottesville
Woolen Mills,
v. Thomasia Nelson G Meade, d. infant,
vi. Philip Randolph 6 Meade, d. young,
vii. Harriet Lee 6 Meade,
viii. Margaret Wilmer 6 Meade,
ix. Richard Kidder 6 Meade, University of Virginia,
1875-1877; principal of the Hickory High
School, 1883-1894; d. at Hickory, N. C,
January 22, 1894; unmarried.
x. Alexander Brown 6 Meade, University of Vir-
ginia, 1876-1877 ; m., November 5, 1890, in
the Church of the Transfiguration, Buckhan-
non, W. Va., Fannie Lee Day, a sister of Mrs.
C. C. Higginbotham. She died leaving an
infant daughter, i. Fannie Day 7 Meade. Mr.
A. B. Meade is now in business in Roanoke, Va.
291. Francis Alexander G Meade, born November 8, 1844,
completed his education at the theological seminary near
Alexandria, and is now the minister of the Episcopal
Church at Hinton, W. Va. He married, July 28, 1870,
Martha B. Mosby, of Charlottesville, Va., daughter of Ben-
jamin and Martha Anne Peake Mosby, and has issue : —
i. Richard Kidder 7 Meade,
ii. Robert Nelson 7 Meade,
iii. Mattie Leaton 7 Meade.
72. Paulina Cabell 4 Rives, born at Warminster, March
11, 1796 ; married, at Oakridge, in March, 1814, Maj.
Richard Pollard, U. S. A. ; and died at Newburg, N. Y.,
in 1858. " In her youth she was distinguished for her
matchless beauty, in later years for her highly cultured
intellect and all the virtues which made home loved and
happy.""
434 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Her husband, Richard Pollard, was born in King and
Queen County, Va., in 1790 ; graduated at William and
Mary College, as Bachelor of Civil Law, in 1811 ; ap-
pointed captain 20th Infantry, U. S. A., April 14, 1812 ;
fought at Craney Island ; promoted major of 21st Infantry,
December 14, 1813 ; after marriage resigned from U. S. A.
in 1814 ; moved to Lynchburg, Va., and engaged in mer-
cantile life ; met with heavy losses by depreciation of real
estate ; engaged in the practice of the law ; charge d'af-
faires from the United States to the republic of Chili, 1835-
1843. On his return from this diplomatic trust, he resided
for the remainder of his life at his home, " Alta Vista,"
Albemarle County, which his courtly address, distinguished
manners, and genial hospitality rendered elegant and
charming to all whom he received there. He died in
Washington, D. C, February 19, 1851. Issue : —
292. i. Margaret 5 Cabell Pollard.
ii. John 5 Pollard, who enlisted in the Texan army
and was killed in the Texan war of indepen-
dence, in 1835, in his twentieth year.
293. in. Virginia 5 Pollard.
294. iv. Rosalie 5 Pollard.
v. James Rives 5 Pollard, b. 1825 ; taught by Henry
Winter Davis ; graduate of the University of
Virginia, and Philadelphia School of Medicine ;
surgeon of Hampton's famous Legion in the
C. S. A. ; d. in Richmond, Va., 1862 ; un-
married.
295. vi. Lucy Elizabeth 5 PoUard. -
296. vii. Richard 5 PoUard.
297. viii. Edward Alfred 5 Pollard.
ix. Henry Rives 5 Pollard, b. 1833; University of
Virginia, 1850 ; sometime co - editor of the
" Richmond Examiner," associated with his
brother, E. A. Pollard ; subsequently editor
and proprietor of the " Southern Opinion ; "
was assassinated in Richmond, in November,
1868 ; unmarried.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 435
292. Margaret Cabell 5 Pollard, born December 16, 1814;
married (first), in July, 1835, James Peter Henderson, who
survived his marriage about four months. He was the eld-
est son (born October 24, 1810 ; University of Virginia,
1829-1830) of Rev. James Henderson, by his second wife,
Mrs. Horsbrough, formerly Miss Elizabeth Peter, of Cabin
Point, near Petersburg. Rev. James Henderson came to
Virginia after the Revolution, was rector of Westover Par-
ish, 1790-1792 ; of York-Hampton, 1793-1797 ; and pro-
fessor at William and Mary College. His first wife was
a daughter of Judge John Blair, and great-niece of old
Commissary Blair. His sister, Elizabeth Henderson, mar-
ried Lawrence Brown, of Tibbermoor, Perthshire, and on
his return from a visit to Scotland, in 1811, he brought
with him to Virginia their son, Alexander Brown. (See 71.)
Mrs. Elizabeth Henderson Brown's grandmother Fleming
was a sister to Elizabeth Fleming, who married Alexander
Dinwiddie, the first cousin to Robert Dinwiddie, lieutenant-
governor of Virginia, 1751-1758. These Miss Flemings
were granddaughters of Sir William Fleming, 2d, Baronet,
by his wife, Margaret, daughter of Archibald Stewart, of
Blackhall. This family is now Shaw-Stewart in the peer-
age of England.
292. Mrs. Margaret 5 C. Henderson had one child by her
first husband : —
298. i. Pauline Rives 6 Henderson.
Mrs. M. C. 5 Henderson married, second, in 1851, Lieut.
Henry Haywood Bell, U. S. N. He was born in North
Carolina about 1808 ; midshipman, August 4, 1823 ; lieu-
tenant, March 3, 1831 ; commander, August 12, 1854 ;
captain, 1861. Assigned to the Gulf squadron ; took an
active part in the capture of New Orleans and the siege of
Vicksburg ; commodore, July 16, 1862 ; in command of the
East India squadron, July, 1865 ; rear-admiral, July 25,
1866 ; retired in 1867, but had not been relieved when
he was drowned at the mouth of Osaka River, Japan, Jan-
uary 11, 1868, leaving an only child : —
436 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
ii. William Haywood 6 Bell, b. 1855 ; educated at Geneva,
Heidelberg, and Harvard ; is not married.
298. Pauline Rives 6 Henderson, born March 26, 1836 ;
married, in 1854, David M. Clarkson, of New York, and
died at Heidelberg, Germany, in 1868, leaving issue : —
i. Pauline 7 Clarkson, m. Mr. Miller, of New York State.
ii. Maud 7 Clarkson, m. Homer Ramsdell, Jr., of Newburg,
N. Y.
iii. Charlton 7 Clarkson.
iv. David M. 7 Clarkson, Jr., of Portland, Oregon.
293. Virginia 5 Pollard, married Dr. Theodore Parker, of
Georgia, and later of New York ; both dead, leaving two
children : —
i. Mattie 6 Parker, an artist, whose painting in the Salon, in
Paris, France, and another in the Exhibition of Fine
Arts, in New York, has received high praise. She d.
April 7, 1895, in Charlottesville, Va. ; m. James
Anderson, and had one child, d. infant.
ii. Pauline 6 Parker, m. Mr. Vincent, a Canadian ; lives in
summer on a Colorado ranch, in winter in New York
city. No issue.
294. Rosalie 5 Pollard, born 1824; married, in 1845,
William C. Hunter, of New York city, and died in Paris,
France, in 1874. Mr. Hunter was born in Alexandria, Va.,
was for a long time in business in Hong-Kong, China, and
then a banker in Paris, France. Issue : —
i. Pauline 6 Hunter, m. Capt. Henry Atkinson, of the
British army in India,
ii. Harry 6 Hunter, in the service of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company,
iii. Virginia 6 Hunter, drowned on a voyage from England
to France,
iv. William 6 Hunter, " custom-house officer in New York ;
d. of consumption, leaving a wife and one child."
v. Richard 6 Hunter, d. of hydrophobia in Shang-Hai,
China; unmarried.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 437
vi. Alfred 6 Hunter, m. " a beautiful French widow, and
lives in Shang-Hai, China."
vii. Rosalie 6 Hunter, m. " Capt. Henry Kirk, of the British
army, and of a distinguished military family in Eng-
land, his father and grandfather having been gener-
als, and he on the rapid road of promotion when he
died in India, leaving his widow without issue. She
now lives at Littlehampton, Sussex, England."
295. Lucy Elizabeth 5 Pollard, born about 1827 ; mar-
ried, about 1847, Dr. S. E. Habersham, of South Carolina,
and died in Richmond, Va., during the late war. Issue,
two daughters and one son : —
i. " Margaret 6 Habersham, m. Dr. Emerson, relative of
the philosopher and essayist."
ii. " Richard G Habersham, m. ; when last heard from
was living in Portland, Ore."
iii. Pauline 6 Habersham.
296. Richard 5 Pollard, born in 1829 ; under private
tutors to 1846; at Virginia Military Institute to 1849;
graduated that year ; in a banking-house in New York two
years. In 1851, he went to China, and engaged in the silk
trade for nine years, going to India, Siam, Philippine Isles,
Australia, Chili, Peru, Mexico, California, Sandwich Isles,
Egypt, and Abyssinia. He returned to Virginia in 1860 ;
married, in Lynchburg, in that year, Nannie, daughter of
Dr. James Saunders and Anne M. Rives, his wife ; then went
to Canada. On his return in 1861 (his wife died on July
27 of that year), Mr. Pollard went into the C. S. A. ; after
the war, went to Europe ; married, in 1866, in Paris, France,
Mrs. Eliza Saunders Dudley (sister to his first wife) ; after
a year's travel, he returned home and went into business in
Lynchburg, Va., " where," he writes, " I am now anchored,
and will no doubt remain until I am called up higher. I
hope to enter upon a glorious immortality."
By his first wife he has an only child : —
438 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
i. Nannie 6 Pollard, m., in 1889, John Knox Pannill, of
Petersburg, Va., son of Capt. Thomas Pannill, of that
city.
By his second wife he has also an only child : —
ii. Elizabeth Saunders 6 Pollard, b. 1871 ; m., in July,
1894, by Rev. T. M. Carson, to Mr. John S. Glass, of
Lynchburg, Va.
297. Edward Alfred 5 Pollard, born 1831 ; educated at
Hampden Sidney, William and Mary, and the University of
Virginia ; conspicuous for his high cultivation and schol-
arly attainments ; he was for some time a journalist in
Washington, D. C, and afterwards removed to Richmond,
Va., where he was, during the Confederacy, the very able
co-editor of " The Richmond Examiner." He wrote " Black
Diamonds ' : in 1859 ; " Southern History of the War,"
1862-1866 (published in various forms and at various dates
in Richmond, New York, and London, England) ; " Obser-
vations in the North : Eight Months in Prison and on
Parole," Richmond, Va., 1865 ; « The Lost Cause," New
York, 1866 ; " Lee and his Lieutenants," New York, 1867;
" The Lost Cause Regained," New York, 1868 ; " Southern
Opinion," a weekly paper, Richmond, Va., 1867-1869 ;
" Life of Jefferson Davis," Philadelphia, 1869 ; " The Vir-
ginia Tourist," Philadelphia, 1870. After an illness of
more than two years, from Bright's disease of the kidneys,
he died at the residence of his brother Richard, in Lynch-
burg, Va., December 12, 1872. " He was one of the most
brilliant, eloquent, and forcible writers of this age; his
death creates a void in literary circles which it will be diffi-
cult to fill." (Lynchburg News.)
73. Robert 4 Rives, Jr., born at Warminster, May 17,
1798 ; at WilHam and Mary College, 1816 ; member of the
Virginia House of Delegates from Nelson County, 1823-
1826, and 1827-1829 ; married, in 1841, Elizabeth Pannill,
daughter of Samuel Pannill, Esq., of Campbell County, Va.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 439
(who filled during his life many important public offices :
was member of the legislature from Campbell ; member of
the Board of Public Works, and president of the Roanoke
Navigation Company ; died in his 94th year ; his daughter,
Mrs. Robert Rives, died in 1895, in her 85th year). Mr.
Robert Rives, Jr., before the war was one of the wealthiest
men in Virginia ; but few men lost more by the war than he
did. He died in 1869, leaving an only child : —
i. Cornelia 5 Rives, who m. (first), in 1866, Charles Harri-
son, son of Prof. Gessner Harrison, of the University
of Virginia (by his wife, Eliza Tucker, daughter of
Professor George Tucker and his wife, Maria Ball
Carter ; see 75), by whom she had no issue. She m.
(second) Mr. Wilborne, and has one child : Elizabeth
Rives 6 Wilborne.
74. Henry 4 Rives, born at Warminster, October 28,
1799 ; at William and Mary College, 1816 ; a successful
lawyer ; captain of a cavalry company attached to the 28th
Regiment Virginia Militia, 1826-1833 ; among the mem-
bers of this company were W. S. Cabell, G. W. Cabell, Lan-
don C. Rives, and Robert Rives, Jr. He died at Oakridge,
September 16, 1833 ; unmarried.
75. George 4 Rives, born at Warminster, April 24, 1802 ;
"went to school in Staunton, with his brothers, Robert,
Henry, and James ; attended William and Mary College,
and, I think, Hampden Sidney ; " married (first), at " Red-
lands," Mary Eliza Carter ; lived at Warren, in Albemarle
County, Va., a few years ; afterwards at " Alta Vista ; " later
at Sherwood, a portion of the Carter estate, which fell to
his wife ; built the Sherwood House ; afterwards went
South and engaged in cotton-planting on a plantation near
Edwards Station, Miss. ; was offered the presidency of the
company which reclaimed that portion of Chicago now
occupied by the Palmer House and the principal part of
Chicago, but declined it. He was a number one business
440 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
man, and after his return to Virginia, while managing his
estates in Albemarle, he was also interested in the firms of
A. Y. Stokes & Co., and Hartsook, Stokes & Rives, of
Richmond, Va. Although never a candidate himself for
any office, he took an active interest in politics, and was for
many years the most influential man on South Side, Albe-
marle County. " Kindness of heart, simplicity of manners,
love of truth, were his distinguishing marks."
His first wife, Mary Eliza Rives, died March 23, 1839.
[She was a daughter of Robert Carter, of "Redlands" (by
his wife, Mary Coles, sister to Edward Coles, the first gov-
ernor of Illinois, and daughter of John Coles (1745-1808)
and his wife, Rebecca E. Tucker (1750-1826)), son of
Edward Carter (by his wife, Sarah Champe), son of Secre-
tary John Carter (by his wife, Elizabeth Hill), son of Rob-
ert, alias King Carter, of Corotoman.] Her children
were : —
i. Robert 5 Rives, d. unmarried.
299. ii. George Cabell 5 Rives.
300. iii. James Henry 5 Rives.
75. Mr. George 4 Rives married (second), at the Univer-
sity of Virginia, March 31, 1840, Maria Farley Tucker ; she
was born in 1806, and survived her husband many years.
He died at Sherwood, August 13, 1874. She died at her
residence in Charlottesville, March 19, 1893. She was the
daughter of Prof. George Tucker, who was born in the Ber-
mudas, 1775 ; came to Virginia ; member of the Virginia
legislature ; member of the United States House of Repre-
sentatives from Virginia, 1819-1825"; professor of the Uni-
versity of Virginia, 1825-1845 ; author of numerous books ;
he died April 10, 1861. His wife, Maria Ball Carter, was
a daughter of the only daughter of Gen. George Washing-
ton's only sister. Thus Mrs. Maria Farley Rives was the
great-grandniece of Washington, and before her death one
of the nearest living kindred of the great Virginian, from
whom she inherited many precious memorials. Her father s
life and her own covered a remarkable period in the history
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 441
of this country. She had met among her father's friends
and associates some of the most distinguished men in our
history. She bore her husband four children : —
iv. George Tucker 5 Rives, b. in 1843 ; at University of
Virginia, 1859-1860 ; lieutenant in the C. S. A. ;
taken prisoner at Roanoke Island ; exchanged ; unan-
imously elected captain, he fell while gallantly lead-
ing his men in a charge made by Wise's Brigade,
near Petersburg, March 29, 1865 ; never married,
v. Eleanor Rosalie 5 Rives, living.
vi. Charles Edward 5 Rives, University of Virginia, 1863-
1867; B. L., 1867 ; a lawyer; d. May 22, 1877, in
his 29th year ; never married,
vii. Laurence Alexander 5 Rives, University of Virginia,
1868 - 1869 ; d. at Little Rock, Ark., January 6,
1873, in his 22d year.
299. George Cabell 5 Rives, born 1831; at University of
Virginia, 1848 ; lived in the South for many years, at Gal-
veston, Texas, and elsewhere ; is now a resident of Char-
lottesville. He married (first), June 14, 1855, Isabella
Lewis Merritt, daughter of W. H. E. Merritt and his wife,
Elizabeth W. Goode. She died December 6, 1857, leav-
ing : —
i. Mary Eliza 6 Rives,
ii. Isabel Lewis 6 Rives. She married Mr. Joel Wolfe, who
was in the C. S. A. ; a merchant of Galveston, Texas.
He d. July 13, 1894, leaving : i. Sallie Rives 7 j ii.
George Rives 7 ; iii. Hettie May 7 Wolfe.
George C. 5 Rives married (second), in October, 1860,
Miss Sarah Bryan, of Texas. No issue.
300. James Henry 5 Rives, born at "Redlands," Albe-
marle County, Va., 1835 ; University of Virginia, 1850,
1852-1853 ; merchant, Richmond, Va. (Stokes & Rives) ;
married, November 1, 1860, Eliza Gordon Scott ; captain,
C. S. A., 1861-1865 ; collector of internal revenue, Lynch-
442 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
burg, Va., 1871 - 1884 ; candidate for Congress on the
Republican ticket, 1882 ; chairman of the State Republican
Central Committee, 1881-1884: ; now a farmer in Albemarle,
County, Va.
His wife is a daughter of the late Robert Eden Scott
(and his wife, Anne Morson), of Fauquier County, Va., son
of Judsfe John Scott, son of Rev. John Scott, son of Rev.
James Scott (Dettingen Parish, Prince William County;
came to this country in 1739), son of Rev. John Scott, of
Morayshire, Scotland. (See Hayden's " Virginia Genealo-
gies.") They have issue : —
i. Robert Eden Scott G Rives.
ii. Lizzie Gordon Scott 6 Rives, d. young.
hi. George Tucker 6 Rives,
iv. Anne Morson 6 Rives.
v. Mary Carter 6 Rives.
vi. Rosalie 6 Rives,
vii. James Henry 6 Rives, d. infant.
76. Alexander 4 Rives, born at Oakridge, June 17, 1806 ;
educated at Hampden Sidney College, 1821-1825, and
graduated at the University of Virginia, 1828 ; elected a
professor in Washington College ; accepted, but changed
his mind ; married (first), April 4, 1829, Isabella Bachem
Wydown, daughter of Rev. Samuel Wydown, an Episcopal
minister and a native of England.
" In early youth Mr. Rives was distinguished for his
capacity and rare gifts, which ripened with advancing years
and bore abundant fruit. He was an able and distinguished
lawyer, an oft-honored representative of Albemarle County
in the Legislature and Senate of the State, in which bodies
he was always an influential member. Those who served
with him well remember his flashing eloquence and brilliant
oratory."
During Jackson's administration, and for some years after,
Albemarle was a doubtful county. Gilmer and Southall
were the Whig candidates, Randolph and Rives the Demo-
JUDGE ALEXANDER RIVES
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 443
cratic, and each party was successful almost alternately, an
election for the House of Delegates occurring every year.
Mr. Rives, like his brother William, was a Democrat until
1840, then a Conservative, and from 1844 to 1861 a Whig.
He was a member of the state convention of 1850-1851 ;
member of the House of Delegates in 1852-1853, etc., and
of the state senate in 1859-1861. He was a strong Union
man, and was bitterly opposed to secession.
His first wife died at " Carlton," March 24, 1861. He
married (second), May 29, 1862, Sallie Kearsley Watson,
daughter of Dr. George Watson, of Richmond, Va. He
was the rector of the University of Virginia, and a member
of the Board of Visitors, 1865-1866 ; appointed Judge of
the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, December 19,
1856. After the war, he acted for a time with the Conserv-
ative party, and then with the Republicans ; was the can-
didate of the latter party in 1870 for representative of this
district in the United States Congress, but was defeated by
Hon. R. T. W. Duke.
Judge Rives was appointed, by Pres. U. S. Grant, Judge
of the United States District Court for the Western Dis-
trict of Virginia, and continued in this office, I think, until
his death.
After his first marriage he resided in Charlottesville until
1833 ; then at his seat, " Carlton," on " Monticello," until
1873 ; and then at his home, " Eastbourne Terrace,"
Charlottesville, where he died, September 17, 1885, in his
80th year. His obituary in the " Southern Churchman,"
October 8, 1885, says : —
" He became a member of the Episcopal Church thirty-
five years ago, and was a consistent Christian, carrying into
his daily life the principles he professed. He never spoke
in harsh or cruel terms of any one. He was cast in too
noble a mould to harbor ill-will or resentment. He was
kind, courteous, and forbearing to all. A beautiful example
to those who shared his intimate acquaintance."
He left no children by his second wife ; by his first wife
he was the father of ten : —
444 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
i. Eliza Wydown 5 Rives, b. January 31, 1830 ;
m., July 25, 1849, Prof. M. Scheie De Vere
(his first wife) ; d. July 20, 1851, leaving :
Minna Eliza G De Vere, b. July 17, 1851, a
lovely girl. She d. June 19, 1864.
ii. Margaret Cabell 5 Rives, b. September 5, 1831 ;
d. September 26, 1867 ; unmarried.
iii. Lucy Brown 5 Rives, b. January 6, 1834 ; m.,
March 21, 1860, Prof. M. Scheie DeVere,
LL. D. (his second wife), who was appointed
professor of modern languages at the Univer-
sity of Virginia, September 23, 1844, which
position he still fills. In September, 1894, he
completed a half century of devoted service
as a professor in the University. His wife is
still living. No issue.
301. iv. Isabella 5 Rives.
v. Alexander 5 Rives, Jr., b. December 24, 1837; a
doctor of medicine of the Universities of Vir-
ginia and New York ; an assistant surgeon,
C. S. A. ; physician ; d. May 1, 1876, in Mis-
sissippi ; unmarried.
vi. Robert 5 Rives, b. November 25, 1839; M. A.
and B. L. of the University of Virginia, and
Utriusque Legis Doctor of the University of
Heidelberg, Germany ; d. May 19, 1867, in
Bolivar County, Miss. ; unmarried.
vii. Charles Meriwether 5 Rives, b. September 18,
1841 ; B. L. of the University of Virginia ;
first lieutenant, Wyatt's Battery, C. S. A. ; he
was killed at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864. " A
brilliant young man. Ever at his post, with
silent zeal and unflinching courage."
302. viii. Emma Estelle 5 Rives.
303. ix. Adela Bertha 5 Rives.
x. Francis William 5 Rives, b. March 4, 1848; Uni-
versity of Virginia, 1868; in business in
Charlottesville.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 445
301. Isabella 5 Rives, born January 12, 1836; married,
November 25, 1856, Thomas Gordon Coleman, Jr., of Hal-
ifax County, Va. He was born in 1833 ; at the University
of Virginia, 1852-1855 ; a lawyer ; first lieutenant Com-
pany K, 3d Virginia Infantry, C. S. A. ; he fell at second
Manassas, August 30, 1862, while acting as captain of his
company, leaving two children : —
i. Priscilla Sims 6 Coleman, b. October 31, 1857 ; m. Wil-
liam Henry Seamon, professor at the School of Mines,
University of Missouri, at Rollo, Mo. Issue : i. Wil-
liam Henry 7 ; ii. Alexander Rives 7 ; and in. Isabel
Gordon 7 Seamon.
ii. Alexander Rives 6 Coleman, b. June 1, 1860 ; d. Novem-
ber 18, 1876.
302. Emma Estelle 5 Rives, born November 3, 1843 ;
married (first), May 25, 1867, Richard Hall, of Montreal,
Canada. He died December 26, 1873, leaving : —
i. Bertha Wydown 6 Hall, b. August 8, 1868.
ii. Alexander Rives 6 Hall, b. November 3, 1869 ; advo-
cate, Montreal, Canada,
iii. Winifred 6 Hall, b. in March, 1872 ; d. in 1874.
302. Mrs. Emma 5 Rives Hall, married (second), June
18, 1878, Rev. John Wilson, of Montreal. She died at
Georgetown, Colorado, May 15, 1881, without issue by her
second husband.
303. Adela Bertha 5 Rives, born March 20, 1846 ; mar-
ried, at Carlton, December 8, 1869, Thomas Keith Skinker,
of St. Louis, Mo. He was born in St. Louis, June 9,
1845 ; University of Virginia, 1866 ; was for several years
the reporter of the Supreme Court of Missouri, and is now
one of the leading lawyers of St. Louis. His father,
Thomas Skinker, was a native of Fauquier County, Va.,
son of Wiliiam Skinker, of Spring Farm, and great-grand-
son of Samuel Skinker, of Orange, who bought Spring Farm
from Lord Fairfax in 1745 and Huntley in 1725. Mr.
446 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Skinker's mother, Jane Neilson, was a native of Ohio ; but
her father, William Neilson, a Scotch-Irishman by birth, was
long a citizen of Virginia, his wife being one of the ancient
Wormley family of Virginia.
303. Mrs. Adela Bertha 5 Skinker has issue : —
i. Charles Rives 6 Skinker, b. at St. Louis, December 18,
1870.
ii. Isabella Neilson 6 Skinner, b. at St. Louis, June 23,
1873.
iii. Thomas 6 Skinker, b. October 8, 1874; d. August 1,
1875.
iv. Bertha Rives c Skinker, b. at St. Louis, April 15, 1876.
v. Thomas Keith 6 Skinker, b. 1879 ; d. 1879.
vi. Alexander Rives 6 Skinker, b. October 13, 1883.
vii. Jane Neilson 6 Skinker, b. April 9, 1885.
III. COL. JOSEPH 2 CABELL THE ELDER'S BRANCH.
17. ELIZABETH 3 CABELL MEGGINSON'S DESCENDANTS.
77. Joseph Cabell 4 Megginson, born January 28, 1771,
at " Clover Plains ; " educated for the law ; represented his
county in the House of Delegates, and was a most useful
citizen ; married, in 1792, Sarah Boiling, daughter of Archi-
bald Boiling (see 18), by his first wife, Sarah Cary, daughter
of Col. Archibald Cary, of Ampt Hill, and his wife, Mary
Randolph, daughter of Richard Randolph and Jane Boiling
(see 18).
Col. Archibald Cary (1722-1787), Speaker of the House
of Burgesses, etc., etc., was son of Henry Cary, who died
in 1748; son of Henry Cary, who died in 1720; the
second son of Miles Cary, the emigrant, by his wife, Anne,
daughter of Thomas Taylor.
Miles Cary, the emigrant, born in Bristol, England ;
colonel, member of council, etc., in Virginia ; killed June
10, 1667 ; was a son of John Cary and his wife, Alice Hob-
son, daughter of Henry Hobson, mayor of Bristol. Robert
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 447
Cary, seventh Lord Hunsdon, a lineal descendant of Henry
Cary, Lord Hunsdon, personally acknowledged the Carys of
Bristol as kinsmen ; but the emigrant was not heir apparent
to the barony at the time of his death in 1667.
77. Joseph C. 4 Megginson died April 11, 1811. Issue
eight : —
304. i. William Cabell 5 Megginson.
305. ii. Elizabeth Megginson.
306. iii. Archibald Boiling Megginson.
307. iv. Joseph Cabell Megginson.
308. v. Samuel B. Megginson.
309. vi. Jane Randolph Megginson.
310. vii. John Randolph Megginson.
311. viii. Benjamin Cabell Megginson.
304. William. C. 5 Megginson, born April 17, 1794 (the
Megginson brothers were all landowners and farmers) ; mar-
ried, November 15, 1821, Amanda M. (sister of Hon.
Thomas S. Bocock), daughter of John T. Bocock, Esq., of
Buckingham (afterwards Appomattox) County, Va. He
died November 2, 1847. Issue, three sons and eight
daughters : —
i. Joseph 6 Megginson, b. 1822 ; d. 1840.
ii. John 6 Megginson, b. 1824; m., 1867, Miss Sarah
Smith, of Tennessee, and had : i. William 7 ; ii.
Thomas 7 ; and iii. Henry Megginson. 7
iii. Mary 6 Megginson, b. 1826 ; in., 1850, Capt. Jeter
Davidson, of Buckingham, and had issue : i. Caro-
line 7 ; ii. Charles 7 ; iii. Maria 7 ; iv. Francis 7 ; v.
Antonia 7 ; and vi. Virginia 7 Davidso?i.
iv. Judith T. 6 Megginson, b. 1828.
v. Sarah B. G Megginson, b. 1831 ; m., 1857, Jesse Carter,
Esq., of Appomattox, and died in 1863, leaving :
i. William 7 ; ii. Charles 7 ; and iii. Albion 7 Carter.
vi. Martha G Megginson, b. 1834 ; m., 1866, Mr. Matthew
Farrar, of Fluvanna County, who died in 1868, leav-
ing one son : William 7 Farrar, b. 1867.
vii. Jane 6 Megginson, twin sister to Martha ; m., in 1867.,
448 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Mr. Peleg Bosworth, of Amherst, and had one
daughter : Amanda E. 7 Bosworth.
viii. Maria L. 6 Megginson, b. 1837; m., in 1867, Mr.
Thomas Farrar, of Fluvanna. He died in 1868,
leaving- one son : Thomas 7 Farrar.
ix. William 6 Megginson, b. 1839 ; m., in 1871, Miss
Martha MeCraw, of Buckingham.
x. Pocahontas G Megginson, b. 1842 ; m., first, in 1865,
Mr. George Christian, of Appomattox, who died
July 22, 1866. She m., second, in 1872, Mr. Ben-
jamin Farrar, of Nashville, Tenn. No living issue.
xi. Frances D. G Megginson, b. 1844; m., in 1865, Dr.
William N. Horsley, of Nelson.
305. Elizabeth C. 5 Megginson, b. 1796; m., 1820, Mr.
William Berkeley, of Charlotte County, Va., and had is-
sue : —
i. Joseph G Berkeley, who m. Almira Virginia, daughter of
his uncle, Joseph Cabell Megginson.
306. Archibald Boiling 5 Megginson, born March 9,
1798 ; m. (first), October 21, 1824, Ann R., daughter of
Joseph White, Esq., of Amherst. She was born August 1,
1807 ; died October 8, 1829. Issue : —
312. i. Jane Courtney G Megginson.
ii. Mary A. G Megginson.
iii. Robert H. G Megginson.
306. Archibald B. 5 Megginson, m. (second), May 22,
1833, Elizabeth H., daughter of John Roberts, Esq., of
Bent Creek, Appomattox County, Va. She was born Feb-
ruary 4, 1807. Issue : —
iv. John G. G Megginson, b. April 17, 1834.
v. Fanny E. G Megginson, b. February 26, 1836; d.
December 30, 1868.
vi. Sarah H. G Megginson, b. October 10, 1838.
vii. Benjamin 6 Megginson, b. July 14, 1840 ; d. Septem-
ber 4, 1849.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 449
viii. Olivia A. 6 Megginson, b. December 17, 1841.
ix. Lewis A. 6 Megginson, b. December 22, 1843.
x. Joseph C. 6 Megginson, b. June 16, 1846.
xi. Archibald B. 6 Megginson, b. April 21, 1849.
312. Jane Courtney 6 Megginson, born November 30,
1825 ; m., May 6, 1851, James Douglas Campbell, third
son of Robert Smith Campbell, Esq. He was born March
8, 1825 ; A. B., Washington College, 1847 ; teacher, Am-
herst County, Va. ; teacher and editor, Greensboro', N. C. ;
died October, 1865, leaving : —
i. Mary 7 Campbell; m., March 31, 1871, H. Garland
Brown, Esq., of Roanoke, Va. Issue eleven chil-
dren. 8
ii. Archibald 7 Campbell, b. 1853 ; merchant of Wilming-
ton, N. C. ; m. ; had one child in 1888.
iii. Clara 7 Campbell.
iv. Alice 7 Campbell, m. her cousin, Walton B. Megginson
(317).
307. Joseph Cabell 5 Megginson, born February 11,
1800 ; married, November 15, 1826, Almira, daughter of
Capt. Joseph Montgomery, of " Rockfish," Nelson County.
She was born September 14, 1804 ; died April 13, 1831,
leaving issue : —
313. i. Sarah J. E. 6 Megginson.
ii. Almira Virginia Megginson, 6 b. June 15, 1829 ;
m. her cousin, Joseph Berkeley.
307. Joseph 5 Cabell Megginson was a lawyer, an editor,
and a man of talents. He conducted " The Danville Re-
porter " for some years with marked ability, and at the
same time practiced his profession in the courts of Pittsyl-
vania, Henry, and Patrick, at which he held high rank.
He emigrated to Texas in 1835 or 1836, where he con-
tinued to practice the law, and was elected a brigadier-
general and a judge. He died March 28, 1858.
313. Sarah J. E. 6 Megginson, born October 9, 1827 ;
married, September 13, 1845, Hamilton L. Blaine, Esq.,
and had issue : —
450 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
i. Catherine V. 7 Blaine, d. young,
ii. Mary F. L. 7 Blaine, b. June 11, 1853.
iii. Jessie 7 Blaine,
iv. Berkeley 7 Blaine.
v. Henry 7 Blaine.
vi. Charles 7 Blaine.
vii. Roberta 7 Blaine.
308. Samuel B. 5 Megginson, born January 14, 1802 ;
married, June 10, 1828, Mary A., daughter of Christopher
Johnston, Esq., of Appomattox. She was born March 19,
1809. He died prior to 1872, leaving issue : —
i. Joseph Cabell 6 Megginson, b. August 14, 1829 ; m.
(first), July 1, 1855, Miss Eliza S. Alvis, and
(second) Miss Sally Spencer.
ii. Sarah J. 6 Megginson, b. November 10, 1845 ; m.
Thomas Davidson, Esq.
iii. Samuel F. G Megginson, b. December 11, 1850.
309. Jane Randolph 5 Megginson, born in 1804 ; married
Dr. Nathaniel R. Powell, of Nelson, and died prior to
1835, leaving two daughters, who died young and un-
married.
310. John R. 5 Megginson, b. May 1, 1806 ; married,
January 8, 1835, Mary R., daughter of William J. Dunn,
Esq., of Appomattox County ; died in July, 1875, leaving
issue.
311. Benjamin Cabell 5 Megginson, born July 31, 1809 ;
died April 20, 1887. He was a physician and farmer ; his
farm, " Gladstone," is now owned by the Chesapeake and
Ohio R. R. Co. He married (first), May 25, 1837, Fanny
Blain (born 1819; died March 11, 1879), daughter of Capt.
Alexander Blain, of Albemarle County, Va. ; and had
issue : —
314. i. Pocahontas B. 6 Megginson.
ii. Joseph A. 6 Megginson, b. 1844; d. 1863.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 451
315. iii. Sarah L. G Megginson.
iv. Ella OC. 6 Megginson, b. 1847 ; d. 1863.
v. Benjamin H. 6 Megginson, b. 1850; d. 1852.
316. vi. Robert Craig 6 Megginson.
317. vii. Walton B. 6 Megginson.
318. viii. Mary F. 6 Megginson.
ix. Elizabeth J. 5 Megginson, b. March 19, 1870 ; d.
November 23, 1877.
311. Dr. B. C. Megginson married (second), August 18,
1880, Maria C. Hening, of Powhatan, and had by her : —
x. Eliza Park 6 Megginson, b. June 12, 1881.
xi. Benjamin Cabell 6 Megginson, b. September 25, 1882.
314. Pocahontas B. 6 Megginson, born September 7,
1842 ; died September 12, 1864 ; married, July 10, 1861,
Dr. William H. Hening, of Powhatan County, Va., and left
one son : —
i. Benjamin C. 7 Hening, born September 15, 1863 ; mar-
ried, June 1, 1892, Miss Peachy Fleet Bagby.
315. Sarah L. 6 Megginson, born December 19, 1845 ;
died August 7, 1870 ; married, April 5, 1867, Benjamin J.
Farrar, of Nashville, Tenn., formerly of Fluvanna County,
Va., and left one daughter : —
i. Laura 7 Farrar, born June 14, 1869 ; married, November
9, 1892, Rev. Mayo Cabell Martin, son of 255.
316. Robert Craig 6 Megginson, born February 7, 1852 ;
married, September 29, 1879, Annie L. Moon. Issue : —
i. Carrie L. 7 Megginson, b. August 1, 1880.
ii. Pocahontas M. 7 Megginson, b. October 5, 1882.
iii. Mamie Lyle 7 Megginson, b. September 14, 1884.
iv. James Craig 7 Megginson, b. 1886 ; d. 1890.
v. Laura Barita 7 Megginson, b. November 10, 1890.
317. Walton B. 6 Megginson, born January 15, 1855 ;
married, October 5, 1883, Alice Campbell, daughter of
312. Issue : —
i. Mattie Blain 7 Megginson, b. May 29, 1889.
ii. Clara Virginia 7 Megginson, b. March 31, 1893.
318. Mary F. 7 Megginson, born May 23, 1859; died
452 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
April 7, 1888 ; married, May 10, 1880, William D. Moon,
Issue, three : —
i. Fannie Edna 7 Moon, b. June 9, 1881.
ii. Carrie Lottie 7 Moon, b. April 5, 1884.
iii. William Richard 7 Moon, b. May, 1887.
18. JOSEPH 3 CABELL, JR.'s DESCENDANTS.
78. Sophonisba E. 4 Cabell, born at "The Glebe," in
Albemarle County, Va., March 4, 1784 ; married, at
" Cabell's Dale," Fayette County, Ky., September 3, 1809,
Robert Harrison Grayson, a lawyer, son of Senator William
Grayson, of Virginia. He was born in Maryland, March
12, 1788 ; emigrated to Greenup County, Ky., and died in
Jefferson County, Ky. Senator Grayson married Eleanor
Smallwood, sister of Gen. William Smallwood, governor of
Maryland. He was the son of Benjamin Grayson (who
came to Virginia, probably from England, early in the
eighteenth century) by his wife, Mrs. Susanna Linton,
daughter of Capt. Andrew Monroe, whose ancestor emi-
grated from Scotland, President James Monroe and Senator
Grayson being his grandsons. Mrs. Sophonisba E. Grayson
died November 26, 1857, having had issue : —
319. i. William Powhatan Boiling 5 Grayson.
ii. Joseph Cabell 5 Grayson, b. 1812 ; d. 1824.
, 320. hi. Hebe Carter 5 Grayson.
iv. Robert Boiling 5 Grayson, b. 1815 ; d. 1816.
v. Mary Ann Elizabeth 5 Grayson. ) Twins ;
vi. Robert H. 5 Grayson. - j d. infants.
vii. Benjamin Blair, 5 d. infant,
viii. Pocahontas Rebecca Boiling 5 Grayson ; d. infant.
ix. Sarah Boiling 5 Grayson, d. infant.
321. x. Eleanor Smallwood 5 Grayson.
319. William P. B. 5 Grayson, born at Little Sandy Salt
Works, Greenup County, Ky., September 9, 1810. " Dur-
ing the late war, he raised a regiment and brought them
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 453
out of Kentucky, and did all he could for the South ; was
captured, put in the penitentiary, and treated with great
cruelty, but remained true to the C. S. A." He married,
June 15, 1837, Susan, daughter of Capt. Henry Dixon, of
Henderson County, Ky., and had issue : —
i. Robert Harrison 6 Grayson, d. infant,
ii. Mary Eleanor G Grayson, b. September 24, 1839 ; m.
Henry Dixon ; their daughter : —
i. Sarah 7 Dixon, m. Edward Irvine,
iii. Joseph Cabell 6 Grayson, b. 1842; d. 1845.
iv. Susan Bailie G Grayson, b. December 25, 1843 ; m.
William Norman, and had : i. Phelps 7 Norman,
v. Sophonisba 6 Grayson, b. November 9, 1845 ; m.
Young Watson, and had: i. Jennie 7 , m. Howell
Watson ; ii. Mary 7 , m. Milton Grymes ; and iii.
Bertha 7 Watson, m. J. Stanley Dennis,
vi. Hebe Carter 6 Grayson, b. May 27, 1848.
vii. Elizabeth Frances 6 Grayson, d. infant,
viii. Elizabeth Cabell 6 Grayson, died infant.
ix. William Powhatan G Grayson, died infant.
x. Henry Dixon 6 Grayson, d. infant.
xi. Roger Dixon 6 Grayson, b. January 28, 1858 ; m.
Mamie Grymes.
320. Hebe Carter 5 Grayson, born January 8, 1814 ;
married (first), January 8, 1833, William Preston Smith, of
Henderson, Ky., who, by legislative enactment, took the
name of Preston. He was the son of John Smith by his
wife, Chenoe Hart, daughter of Captain Nathaniel Hart, a
pioneer of Kentucky. " She was the first white child born
in Kentucky, and her name, Chenoe, is the Indian name
for Kentucky." John Smith was the son of Francis Smith,
Esq., of Virginia, who removed to Kentucky, by his wife,
Ann Preston (born in Ireland; died in Kentucky, 1813,
aged 74), daughter of John and Elizabeth Patton Preston,
the emigrants. Although they emigrated from Ireland,
the Preston s were English. Capt. Nathaniel Hart, Sr.,
454 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN"
was born in 1734, in Hanover County, Va. He was the
business man of Henderson & Co., in their purchase of
Kentucky from the Cherokee Indians. Boone was an
agent. Hart was killed by the Indians at Boonesboro, in
August, 1782. Richard Henderson was born in Hanover,
Va., in 1735, and, like Hart, removed to North Carolina in
his youth. William Preston died February 12, 1850, leav-
ing an only child : —
i. Sophonisba G. G Preston (born October 27, 1833), who
married Carter H. Harrison, Esq. (427).
Mrs. Hebe Carter 5 Preston married (second), October 31,
1852, her cousin, William Peartree Smith, of Henderson
County, Ky. ; no issue. He descended from Obadiah
Smith and his wife, Mary Burks.
321. Eleanor Smallwood 5 Grayson, born in Jefferson
County, Ky., March 1, 1827 ; married, November 28,
1844, Mr. Joseph Adams, a native of Boston, Mass.,
a merchant of Hendersontown, Ky. Their children
are : —
i. Eleanor 6 Adams, b. 1845 ; cl. 1850.
ii. Joseph Grayson 6 Adams, b. September 21, 1849.
iii. William Smallwood 6 Adams, b. July 17, 1851.
iv. Ellie 6 Adams, died infant,
v. John Cabell 6 Adams, b. August 12, 1854.
vi. Robert Grayson 6 Adams, b. February 22, 1856 ; m.
Martha Elam, and has : i. Baxter Harrison ; and ii.
Robert William 7 Adams.
79. Sarah Boiling 4 Cabell, born at "Repton," May 29,
1786 ; married, November 14, 1805, Elisha Meredith, who
was born in Hanover County, October 13, 1783 ; he was a
son of John Meredith (and his wife, Ann Taylor), the son
of Capt. Elisha Meredith (and his wife, a daughter of
James Cocke), the son of Samuel Meredith, of St. Paul's
Parish, Hanover, whose widow was the second wife of Dr.
William Cabell.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 455
Mrs. Sarah B. C. 4 Meredith removed with her husband to
Kentucky, and then to Alabama. Issue nine : —
322. i. Pocahontas Rebecca Boiling 5 Meredith,
ii. Edward Mosely 5 Meredith ; d. infant.
323. iii. John Taylor 5 Meredith.
324. iv. Joseph Cabell 5 Meredith.
325. v. Francis Dandridge 5 Meredith.
326. vi. Benjamin Cabell 5 Meredith.
327. vii. Mary Ann 5 Meredith.
328. viii. Thomas Jefferson 5 Meredith.
329. ix. Virginia 5 Meredith.
322. Pocahontas R. B. 5 Meredith, born September 18,
1806 ; died May 6, 1838 ; married, December 18, 1827,
William O'Neal Perkins (born February 28, 1791). [His
sister, Mary Harden Perkins, was the wife of his cousin,
Nicholas Perkins, who captured Aaron Burr, and carried
him to Washington in an open gig. Their father, Thomas
Harden Perkins (married Mary M. O'Neal), was the son
of Nicholas Perkins, who lived on Tuckahoe Creek, in
Henrico County, Va., by his wife, Bethinia Harden, or
Harding, the daughter of Thomas Harding (who died in
1731) and his wife, Mary, daughter of William Giles, of
Varina, Henrico (1640-1694), and his wife, Bethaniah
Knowles, sole daughter and heiress of Captain John
Knowles.] Issue : —
330. i. William Harding 6 Perkins.
331. ii. Elizabeth 6 Perkins.
332. iii. Sarah Cabell 6 Perkins.
330. William Harding 6 Perkins, born in 1829; died
about 1870 ; married, about 1848, Louisa Hewit, of Ala-
bama. They moved to Mississippi about 1868. Issue : —
i. Louisa 7 Perkins.
ii. Wm. O'Neal 7 Perkins,
iii. Elizabeth 7 Perkins,
iv. Thomas H. 7 Perkins.
v. Sarah Cabell 7 Perkins.
456 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
331. Elizabeth 6 Perkins, born in 1831; died in August,
1872 ; married, in October, 1850, James Jackson, a soldier
in C. S. A. He was severely wounded at the first battle of
Manassas ; upon his recovery, was elected colonel of the
27th Alabama ; lost an arm at Kenesaw Mountain, and was
acting brigadier-general at Johnston's surrender ; after-
wards state senator ; was probate judge of Lauderdale
County at the time of his death. He was a brother to
Ellen Jackson (who married A. D. Hunt ; see 414), and to
George M. Jackson, who married Sarah Cabell Perkins
(332). Their father, James Jackson (whose family had
been implicated in the Irish rebellion), emigrated from
Ireland early in the century, and settled near Nashville,
Tenn. Upon the removal of the Indians from Alabama,
he removed to near Florence, where he purchased an
estate, which he called " The Forks," where he resided
until his death in 1840. He was president of the Cypress
Land Company, which laid out the town of Florence ; was
interested with General Andrew Jackson in real estate
enterprises ; represented his county in the state legislature
and state senate ; an importer and breeder of fine horses ;
was talked of as the Whig candidate for governor of
Alabama, but was debarred by his foreign birth. He mar-
ried Mrs. Samuel McCulloch, whose maiden name was
Sarah Moore, granddaughter of George Moore, a signer of
the famous New Hanover Association (by his wife, Mary
Ashe, sister of Gen. John and Governor Samuel Ashe, of
North Carolina), son of Roger Moore, for eighteen years
member of the governor's council, son- of James Moore, Sr.,
by his wife, Anne Yeamans. James Moore, Sr., was royal
governor of Carolina, 1700-1703, and brother to John
Moore, who went to Philadelphia (see 272). The ancestry
of these Moores is differently stated, and I do not know
which statement is correct. According to one account,
they descend from Henry Moore, third Viscount Drogheda,
by his wife Alice, daughter of William, Lord Spencer, of
Wormleighton, by Lady Penelope Wriothesley, daughter of
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 457
Henry, third earl of Southampton and third treasurer of the
Virginia Company of London ; one of our leading found-
ers. 1
Anne Yeamans, the wife of Gov. James Moore, Sr., was
daughter of Sir John Yeamans, knight and baronet, who
was also royal governor of the provinces of North and
South Carolina.
The children of Elizabeth 6 Perkins Jackson were : —
i. William 7 Jackson, of Bessemer, Ala., b. 1851; m.
• Sarah J. Weakly. She d. s. p.
ii. Jane 7 Jackson, d. infant,
iii. Mary Steele 7 Jackson, b. 1854; d. 1861.
iv. Sarah 7 Jackson, b. 1856; d. 1861.
v. Eleanor Kirkman 7 Jackson, b. 1858 ; m. William H.
Phillips, of Alabama,
vi. James Kirkman 7 Jackson, b. 1861 ; secretary of state
of Alabama, Montgomery, Ala.
vii. Charles Pollard 7 Jackson, b. 1864, clerk to the rail-
road commission,
viii. Robert Andrews 7 Jackson, of Evansville, Ind.
ix. Elizabeth 7 Jackson, d. infant.
332. Sarah Cabell 6 Perkins, born May 23, 1834; died in
March, 1868 ; married, in 1853, George Moore Jackson.
[He served as a private in C. S. A. ; was a planter, with no
political ambitions ; a younger brother of James Jackson,
who married Elizabeth Perkins (331)]. Issue : —
i. Alexander 7 Jackson, b. July 4, 1854, of Colbert
County, Ala.
ii. Elizabeth 7 Jackson, b. 1856; d. 1861.
iii. Jane 7 Jackson, b. April 10, 1858, m. George W. Polk,
of Tennessee, now of San Antonio, Texas. Issue :
i. Kate (d. infant) ; ii. George W., Jr. ; and iii. Jane
Polk.
iv. Martha 7 Jackson, b. 1860; cl. 1862.
v.. Kate Breckinridge 7 Jackson, b. November 24, 1863.
1 See The Genesis of the United States, pp. 1061, 1002.
458 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
vi. Rufus Polk 7 Jackson, b. August 24, 1861; a civil
engineer, Texas.
vii. Richard Harrison 7 Jackson, b. May 10, 1866; ensign
U. S. N. ; graduated from Annapolis ; given his
present rank for gallant conduct in the storm at
Samoa, being on board the Trenton when that vessel
was wrecked. His conduct on that occasion was
commended in the highest terms, both by his admiral
and the Secretary of the Navy, in their respective
reports.
323. John Taylor 5 Meredith, born May 8, 1811; a
planter and farmer ; married Elizabeth H. Payne, of Fau-
quier County, Va. He returned to Virginia about 1850,
and resided on his estate, " Greenville," in Prince William
County, until his death in 1893. [His wife was a daughter
of Daniel Payne (by his wife, Elizabeth Hooe Winter),
who resided near Warrenton, the son of Captain William
Payne (1755-1837), who commanded "The Falmouth
Blues" in the Revolution.] Issue, surviving: —
i. Richard Winter G Meredith, b. in Sumter County,
Ala., August 18, 1839; a member of the "Black
Horse" Cavalry, C. S. A.; a physician of Prince
William County; m. Mary Williams, of Missis-
sippi, and has : i. Samuel W. 7 Meredith.
ii. Elizabeth Daniel G Meredith, m. R. H. Hooe, and
has : i. John M. 7 ; ii. Robert 7 ; and iii. Daniel
Hooe.
333. iii. Elisha E. 6 Meredith.
iv. Alice P. 6 Meredith, b. in Virginia,
v. Thomas S. 6 Meredith, born in Virginia,
vi. J. Cabell 6 Meredith, born in Virginia ; M. D.,
Washington, D. C.
333. Elisha E. 6 Meredith, born in Sumter County, Ala.,
December 26, 1848 ; educated at Hampden Sidney College,
Virginia ; admitted to the bar, 1869 ; prosecuting attorney
for Prince William County seventeen years ; in the state
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 459
senate of Virginia, 1883-1887 ; presidential elector, 1888 ;
member U. S. House of Representatives since 1891. He
married Sylvia Contee, of Maryland, daughter of Capt. John
Contee, U. S. N., and has two sons : —
i. Edward Contee 7 Meredith,
ii. William Payne 7 Meredith.
324. Joseph Cabell 5 Meredith, born in Fayette County,
Ky., August 29, 1813 ; clerk of the court of Sumter
County, Ala. ; died August 14, 1851, in Greensboro, Ala.,
at the residence of his brother-in-law, S. W. Chadwick.
325. Francis Dandridge 5 Meredith, born in Fayette
County, Ky., December 15, 1815 ; married Frances
Broadnax, of WilHamson County, Tenn., daughter of Col.
Thomas Broadnax, formerly of Virginia. " He is living
near Meridian, or Marion, in Lauderdale County, Miss.
They have three daughters and two sons : " —
i. Sarah Jane 6 Meredith, b. in Sumter County, Ala.,
March 16, 1841.
ii. Mary Ann 6 Meredith, b. in Sumter County, Ala., July
22, 1845.
iii. Elisha 6 Meredith, b. in Sumter County, Ala., February
2, 1848.
iv. Frances B. 6 Meredith, born in Neshoba County, Miss.,
February 4, 1855.
v. George Dandridge 6 Meredith, b. in Neshoba County,
Miss., December 8, 1858.
326. Benjamin Cabell 5 Meredith, born in Fayette
County, Ky., February 8, 1819 ; physician ; married (first)
Margaret J. Broadnax (sister to Frances, who married his
brother), of Franklin, Tenn. She died in Sumter County,
Ala., September 23, 1843, leaving Margaret J. Meredith,
born January 14, 1843. "Dr. Benjamin C. Meredith re-
moved to Chappell Hill, Washington County, Texas, where
he married Mrs. Cheek, of that place. She died. He mar-
460 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
ried a third time, about 1869, and died in 1873, leaving at
least one son, Ben, who was in Mexico when last heard
from."
327. Mary Ann 5 Meredith, born in Fayette County, Ky.,
October 27, 1821 ; died in Greensboro, Ala., February 26,
1868 ; married, June 13, 1839, Shelby W. Chadwick, a
merchant of Greensboro, Ala., who was born in Greenup
County, Ky., April 26, 1815, and died in Greensboro, Ala.,
April 5, 1854, leaving four sons : —
i. William Henry 6 Chadwick, b. in Sumter County,
Ala., October 10, 1840 ; in C. S. A. ; d. in
Brenham, Texas, of yellow fever, in 1867.
334. ii. Shelby Wayne 6 Chadwick.
hi. Robert Alvin 6 Chadwick, b. in Greensboro, Ala.,
1844 ; in C. S. A. ; m., in 1868, Nannie Wright,
of Washington County, Texas. They now reside
in St. Louis, Mo., and have : i. Cabell Wright 7 ;
and ii. Mary 7 Chadwick.
iv. Edward Shelby 6 Chadwick, b. in 1846 in Greens-
boro, Ala. ; served in C. S. A. ; is unmarried.
334. Shelby Wayne 6 Chadwick, born April 26, 1842, in
Greensboro, Ala. ; in C. S. A. ; married, December 20,
1865, Jane Comack, of Hale County, Ala. ; both living in
Greensboro, Ala., and have : —
i. Mary E. 7 Chadwick, b. October 20, 1866 ; m., No-
vember 7, 1888, Rev. J. D. Ellis, of Marengo County,
Ala., a member of the North Alabama Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South, now stationed
at Eastlake, Ala. They have : i. Clara V. 8 ; ii. Hat-
tie 8 ; hi. Martha M. 8 ; and iv. George Stowers 8 Ellis.
ii. Mattie Erwin 7 Chadwick, b. in Greensboro, Ala., March
6, 1868 ; m., April 11, 1888, J. W. Rodney, of
Roanoke, Randolph County, Ala.
iii. John Shelby 7 Chadwick, b. in Greensboro, Ala., May
15, 1871 ; educated at the Southern University,
Greensboro, Ala., and at the Vanderbilt University,
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 461
Nashville, Tenn. ; joined the Alabama Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1892, and is
stationed near Pensacola, Florida,
iv. Clara 7 Chadwick, b. March 9, 1874 ; single,
v. David 7 Chadwick, b. 1877 ; d. 1877.
vi. Robert Edward 7 Chadwick, b. May 7, 1879, a student
at Southern University,
vii. Francis Peterson 7 Chadwick, b. August 13, 1884.
328. Thomas Jefferson 5 Meredith, born in Fayette
County, Ky., February 25, 1824 ; a physician ; married
(first), in Neshoba County, Miss., December 22, 1853, to
Mary E. Brown, and moved to Washington County, Texas,
in 1859, at which time they had two daughters and one
son : —
i. Sara Annie 6 Meredith, b. December 6, 1854.
ii. Mary Ida 6 Meredith, b. September 24, 1856.
iii. Edward Cabell 6 Meredith, b. January 3, 1859.
" Belton, Texas, September 6, 1894. . . . Dr. Thomas
J. Meredith died in 1889. He left four daughters by his
first wife, one of whom has since died. Of the surviving,
Mrs. 6 Ware, a widow, lives in Fort Worth, Texas ; another
is married, and lives in Florida ; the other, Miss Belle 6 , is
single, and lives, I believe, in Corsicana, Texas. Dr. Mer-
edith's second wife, Mrs. Bettie Meredith, lives at Purdon,
Navarro County. Her son, Stuart 6 , and her single daughter,
Miss Minnie 6 , live with her, and she has a married daughter 6
living near her."
329. Virginia 5 Meredith, born in Franklin (now Colbert)
County, Ala., April 25, 1826 ; married Dr. Daniel Eddins,
in Greensboro, Ala., January 4, 1853 ; removed to Chappell
Hill, Washington County, Texas, in 1855. He died in
Brenham, Texas, of yellow fever, in 1867. She died in
Independence, Texas, in 1877, leaving two sons and four
daughters : —
i. Elisha M. 6 Eddins, a lawyer of Marlin, Tex.
462 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
ii. Daniel S. 6 Eddins, in banking business at Marlin, Tex.
iii. " Mrs. Mary 6 Brown, the oldest daughter, is now a
widow ; lives in Grimes County, Texas."
iv. " Mrs. Ella 6 Scales, the next daughter, died a few years
ago. She left a husband, three daughters : i.
Clayton ; ii. Effie ; and iii. Mollie Scales, and a son :
iv. Eddins Scales."
v. Elizabeth 6 Eddins m., in 1875, Rev. Reddin Andrews,
of the Baptist Church, Bastrop, Texas.
vi. Mrs. Sallie 6 Morse, the fourth daughter, lives in Waco,
Texas.
80. Joseph Megginson 4 Cabell, born 1788 ; was at
Washington College, 1804-1806 ; graduated at William
and Mary ; read law under Gov. William H. Cabell and
the Hon. William Wirt. He was eminently distinguished
at every school he attended ; was a man of undoubted
genius and talent. For some reason he changed his name
to Charles Joseph Cabell. He emigrated to New Orleans,
and in a few months took rank by the side of P. R.
Grymes, Holmes, and Livingston. So said Gov. Thomas
B. Robertson. Mr. Wirt pronounced him the greatest man
of his age in Virginia. He was three times called to the
field (so-called) of honor : first, with Gen. Benjamin Jones,
then of Amelia, afterwards of Alabama ; second, with Dr.
Upshaw, at New Orleans, but who went from King and
Queen County, Va. ; and thirdly, with a Mr. Nicholson, of
New Orleans, a nephew of lawyer Abner L. Duncan, who
instigated the duel. He died November 23, 1810, in
New Orleans, of yellow fever ; unmarried.
81. Edward Blair 4 Cabell, born at " Repton," May 29,
1791; married, at Charlottesville, Va., April 10, 1812,
Harriet Forbes Monroe ; settled in Barren County, Ky. ;
removed to Missouri in 1818, and settled in what is now
Chariton County, 200 miles above St. Louis, at a place 60
miles west of Daniel Boone, the great pioneer, and im-
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 463
mediately upon the borders of the Indian tribes, with whom
he established the most friendly relations. They settled
then- small causes among themselves, but their hard ones
they brought to him. When in Virginia, in 1842, he said
that they had been coming to him to judge for them for
many years. " But I never would act except at the re-
quest, and in the presence, of the head chief and his
councillors, who would stand by and witness the proceed-
ings with the utmost gravity. Without the shadow of
legal authority, I would take my seat under the shade of
some large tree, surrounded by 50 to 100 Indians. The
matter of dispute was brought to the spot, — whether an
ox, horse, bows, arrows, or guns, etc. The plaintiff came
forward, or some one for him, and set forth his claims,
etc. ; then his witnesses were called and examined, first by
him, then by the defendant. Next the defendant came
forward, made his statement, and gave his reasons for hold-
ing the property ; then his witnesses were called and
examined, first by him, then by the plaintiff." He said
they all spoke with such brevity, and so directly to the
point, that he rarely ever found any difficulty in giving
judgment. He always wrote his decision down on paper
and read it aloud three times in the hearing of all present,
and then handed it to the head chief, who would hold it
up and repeat its contents word for word, although he did
not know a letter of the alphabet ; then he would an-
nounce it in the Indian language, and have the property
delivered to the right owner. Then there would be signs
of satisfaction: " Ough ! ough! good man! good judge!
2"ood heart! ffood head! He wise: he talk to Great
Spirit ! '
He said he had thus given judgment in from fifteen
to twenty cases in one day in the midst of large bodies of
Indians, whose deportment was always grave and decorous,
when there was not another w r hite man nearer than four
miles. The Indians, I suppose, knew him to be descended
from King; Powhatan.
464 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
He was elected by the people clerk of Chariton County,
and soon after of the circuit court.
The following letter, written by Major Charles Yancey,
of " Traveller's Rest," Buckingham County, Va., to " His
Excellency President Tyler," will explain itself: "Feb-
ruary 18, 1842. Dear Sir, — Permit me to introduce to
your notice Mr. Edward B. Cabell, of Missouri, who, I
presume, is now in the city of Washington, having left
here a few days since. Mr. Cabell seeks the office of
Register of the Land Office, which is contemplated to be
established in what is called the Platte country in Missouri.
I think I can say he is a man of integrity, which is
hazarding much to say in these days of great moral de-
pravity. You know the Cabell family, and, I presume, the
Boiling ; his mother was sister to Powhatan and Senacous,
and he married a daughter of Joseph J. Monroe. You
now have his heraldry ; and I rate people very much by
their stock, as I do the blooded horse. He is honest,
moral, sober, and of business habits. If you cannot do
better, take him."
Mr. Cabell and his wife were for many years members of
the Methodist Church. He was everywhere known, in
Kentucky, in Missouri, and in his native land, by the name
of " Uncle Ned." He was the friend of the friendless, and
his house was the well-known home of the stranger. His
wife and himself took charge of several children whose
parents died in extreme want, raised them from infancy
as tenderly as they did their own, and finally provided them
with comfortable homes. He died at Keytesville, Mo.,
August 29, 1850, universallv lamented.
His wife, Harriet Forbes Monroe, born April 10, 1794,
was a niece of President James Monroe, and a daughter
of Col. Joseph Jones Monroe by his wife, Miss Carr, of
Albemarle, of English ancestry. Col. Joseph J. Monroe was
the son of Spence Monroe (and his wife, Elizabeth Jones,
of Welsh ancestry), the son of Capt. Andrew Monroe, whose
ancestor emigrated from Scotland, of a Highland clan.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 465
Mrs. Harriet F. Cabell died at Keytesville, Mo., March 22,
1857. Issue : —
335. i. Charles Joseph 5 Cabell.
336. ii. Emily Monroe 5 Cabell.
337. iii. Jane Browder 5 Cabell.
iv. John Linneus 5 Cabell, b. November 7, 1825 ; d.
January 29, 1846.
338. v. Pocahontas Rebecca 5 Cabell.
339. vi. Robert Harvey 5 Cabell.
335. Charles Joseph 5 Cabell, born in Fayette County,
Ky., April 26, 1813 ; educated at Augusta College, Ky. ;
licensed to practice law ; but became a surveyor of public
lands in the new States, especially in Louisiana, where his
services were of great value to the general government.
He married, September 15, 1837, Susan Allin, of Harrods-
burg, Ky. ; died October 10, 1882, in Chariton County,
Mo., and was buried at Brunswick, Mo. His widow is still
living. Her ancestors are the Allins and Thompsons, of
Mercer County, Ky., both prominent in the business,
political, and social history of that State. Her father, Col.
William Allin, a native of Virginia, for many years clerk
of Mercer County, Ky., was a son of Thomas Allin, who
served on the staff of Gen. Greene the latter part of the
Revolution ; appointed first clerk of Mercer County, Ky.,
August, 1786, " which office he held when Mrs. Robards
was divorced from her husband to marry Andrew Jackson."
335. Charles J. and Susan Allin Cabell had issue : —
i. Mary Allin 6 Cabell, b. May 3, 1839 ; m., in 1858,
John S. Kikendall, of Kentucky ; living at Bruns-
wick, Mo. No issue.
ii. Pocahontas 6 Cabell, b. at Keytesville, Mo., June 2,
1842 ; m., September 6, 1860, Charles Hammond, a
native of Virginia ; a lawyer of Brunswick, Mo. ;
member of the Constitutional Convention of Mis-
souri, 1875, of the General Assembly of Missouri,
1877. Issue: i. Talbott 7 ; ii. Charles Cabell 7 ; iii.
466 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Mary Cabell 7 ; iv. Pocahontas 7 ; and v. Robert
Boyd 7 Hammond.
iii. Harriet M. 6 Cabell, b. 1845 ; d. 1847.
iv. Robert Boyd 6 Cabell, b. at Harrodsburg, Ky., February
22, 1847 ; a physician, Carroll County, Mo. ; in.
(first) Sarah Spencer, who died, leaving no surviving
issue ; m. (second) Emma Thomas, and has : i.
Sarah Spencer 7 ; ii. Pocahontas 7 ; iii. Mary Allin 7 ;
iv. Susan Burton 7 ; and v. William Allin 7 Cabell.
v. Edward Blair 6 Cabell, b. 1852 ; d. 1869.
vi. William Allin 6 Cabell, b. June 14, 1855 ; farmer, Glas-
gow, Mo. ; m., September 25, 1883, Mrs. Claire
McDaniel. No issue,
vii. James Monroe 6 Cabell, b. July 3, 1858 ; of Leadville,
Colo.; a mining expert; m., December 7, 1883, Mrs.
Clara Dengler, and has : i. Susan Burton 7 Cabell.
336. Emily Monroe 5 Cabell, born in Bardstown, Ky.,
April 12, 1818; married, in Chariton County, Mo., May 19,
1835, Peter T. Abell, a lawyer, and a native of Kentucky,
born at Bardstown, July 29, 1813. They were living in
Atchison, Kansas, in 1872. Both are now dead. Issue
eleven : —
i. Susan Emily 6 Abell, b. November 1, 1836 ; m., Sep-
tember 28, 1853, Charles Elijah Woolfork (b. May
19, 1828), a merchant from Kentucky. Issue two
sons ; both d. young,
ii. Harriet M. 6 Abell, d. infant,
iii. Elizabeth J. 6 Abell, d. infant.
iv. Edward Cabell 6 Abell, b. December 4, 1841 ; now
living in Linn County, Mo. ; m. Fannie Flood, and
has : i. John 7 ; and ii. Addison S. 7 Abell.
v. Addison Slye 6 Abell, b. April 21, 1844 ; d. in C. S. A.
vi. Pocahontas R. 6 Abell, b. August 4, 1846 ; m. (first)
Dr. James White. Issue : i. Emily 7 White ; m.
(second), December 19, 1879, Rev. Joseph King, of
Missouri, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 467
Church South. Issue: ii. Ella 7 ; iii. May Cabell 7 ;
iv. Addison Abell 7 ; and v. Ruth Scarritt 7 King.
vii. Harriet J. 6 Abell, b. February 10, 1849 ; m. George
M. Wyatt, and d. leaving one child : i. Harriet
Emily 7 Wyatt, who lives with her father in La
Salle, Illinois,
viii. Pamela Davis c Abell, b. July 2, 1851 ; m. Edward
Couch. Issue, a son and a daughter, " who live
near Galveston, Texas. The daughter, i. Hallie
Abell 7 Couch, m. Mr. Ingram, of Texas."
ix. Adela T. G Abell, d. infant.
x. Ellen 6 Abell, b. August 5, 1856 ; m. George Bloom.
Issue : i. George 7 ; and ii. Imogen 7 Bloom.
xi. Peter Thompson 6 Abell, b. 1858 ; m. Maggie Stephen-
son. Issue : i. Cecil Thompson 7 Abell.
337. Jane Browder 5 Cabell, born in Chariton County,
Mo., July 14, 1823 ; died in Keytesville, Mo., January 21,
1849 ; married, November 29, 1845, Thomas Parke Wil-
kinson, a lawyer (born in Prince Edward or Buckingham
County, Va.) Their only child : —
340. i. John Cabell G Wilkinson, b. December 13, 1846.
He lived with his grandparents until their death,
then with his father, who had married again, and
was practicing law in Grundy County, Mo. He
was in the C. S. A. ; after the war went into
business in St. Louis, Mo., and is now with the
Hargadine-McKittrick Dry Goods Company. He
m., in 1877, Margaret Ewing, a sister to the wife
of Senator F. M. Cockrell, of Missouri, and a
daughter of Judge Ephraim B. Ewing (son of
Rev. Finis Ewing, and grandson of Gen. William
Davidson, of the Revolution) by his wife, Eliza-
beth Allen (sister of the late Gov. Henry Watkins
Allen, of Louisiana), daughter of Dr. Thomas
Allen and his wife, Nancy Watkins, daughter of
Col. Thomas Watkins and his wife, Elizabeth A.
468 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN"
Venable, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth
Woodson Venable, and granddaughter of Abra-
ham and Martha Davis Venable, of Virginia.
Issue, seven : i. Margaret Ewing 7 ; ii. William
Tudor 7 ; iii. Jane Alice 7 ; iv. John Cabell 7 ; v.
Elizabeth Allen 7 (dead); vi. Florence Ewing 7 ;
and vii. Dorothy Brevard 7 Wilkinson.
338. Pocahontas Rebecca 5 Cabell, born November 29,
1830 ; married, March 15, 1848, Adamantine Johnson, a
merchant, of Brunswick, Chariton County, Mo. She died
in Chariton County, in November, 1881. Issue eight : —
i. Edward Cabell 6 Johnson, b. May 29, 1849 ; m. Nannie
Henry. Issue : i. Hattie 7 ; ii. Marie 7 ; iii. Henry 7 ;
iv. Pocahontas 7 Johnson.
ii. Adamantine 6 Johnson, Jr., b. January 21, 1850 ; m.
(first) Nannie Scott. Issue: i. Maud 7 ; ii. Cabell 7
Johnson ; m. (second) Miss Bernard. Issue :
iii. Bernard 7 Johnson,
iii. Robert Fisher 6 Johnson, b. December 25, 1852 ; m.
Louisa Clinkscales, and has two children.
iv. Emma Maud 6 Johnson, b. October 19, 1854 ; m. Dr.
James Morrison. Issue: i. Emily Maud 7 ; and ii.
Sarah Johnson 7 Morrison.
v. Major Matthias 6 Johnson, b. 1857; d. young,
vi. Nova Zembla 6 Johnson.
vii. Pocahontas Cabell 6 Johnson, m. Charles Delaney.
viii. Susan Cabell 6 Johnson.
339. Robert Hervey 5 Cabell, born in Chariton County,
Mo., December 13, 1832 ; a practicing physician of Grundy
County, Mo. ; married (first), December 6, 1853, Ellen C.
Ballentine, of Missouri, who died s. p. ; married (second),
August 12, 1857, Alice Oliver, of Pennsylvania, and had
issue by her, five : —
i. Hattie F. 6 Cabell,
ii. Janie Oliver 6 Cabell.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 469
iii. Pocahontas 6 Cabell,
iv. Robert Hervey 6 Cabell,
v. Charles J. 6 Cabell.
He married (third) Sarah Wright, and has by her, five : —
vi. Ha Wright 6 CabeU.
vii. Marie Wright 6 CabeU.
viii. Edward Blair 6 Cabell,
ix. Emily Monroe 6 Cabell.
x. Harriet F. 6 Cabell.
82. Benjamin W. S. 4 Cabell, born at " Repton," May
10, 1793 ; was educated at Hampden Sidney " during the
vice-presidency of Rev. William S. Reid ; " went to Ken-
tucky with his father in 1811, but returned to Virginia
with his aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, and her husband, and
lived with them for some time. He was educated for the
law, but owing to an unfortunate diffidence declined prac-
tice. He served in the War of 1812, first on the staff of
Brigadier-General Joel Lefhvich, and afterwards on the staff
of Major-General John Pegram. After the war, he held in
succession the commission of major, colonel, brigadier-
general, and major-general of militia, the two last being
by election of the General Assembly.
He was married by Rev. Moses Hoge (then President of
Hampden Sidney College), on December 16, 1816, to Sallie
Epes, daughter of Major John and Mary Doswell, of Notto-
way County, Va. He removed to Pittsylvania County
(settled in Danville), and represented that county in the
House of Delegates for a number of years, beginning with
1823. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention
of 1829-1830, of the state senate in 1837-1838, and for
a time edited a paper in Danville. From his entrance into
public life, he was the unflagging supporter of the Univer-
sity, the James River and Kanawha Canal, an enlarged and
liberal system of public education, and of internal improve-
ment. In 1858, he wrote : " I was honored with the
friendship of Joseph C. Cabell, and it is consolatory to me
470 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
to reflect that in my humble sphere I was able to con-
tribute somewhat to the great plans to which he patrioti-
cally devoted his life. He labored not in vain, but secured
for himself an exalted place in the temple of fame."
" Gen. Cabell had served in the War of 1812, which was
waged for the vindication of Northern rights, and in 1861,
no man took a firmer stand for the vindication of Southern
rights than he did. Although too old and infirm to enter
the service himself, at the first blast of the trumpet of war
he gave his six sons to the Southern cause, leaving no
one at home to smooth his dying pillow or to minister to
him in his dying hour." He died at " Bridgewater," his
residence, in the county of Pittsylvania, Va., on Saturday,
April 19, 1862, after a brief illness. He was a member
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and died at peace with
God and man.
Mrs. Sarah Epes Doswell Cabell was born April 27, 1802;
died August 5, 1874, at the residence of her son, Hon.
George C. Cabell, in Danville, Va. Issue eleven : —
341. i. Pocahontas Rebecca 5 Cabell.
342. ii. John Roy Cabell.
iii. Virginia J. Cabell, b. 1825; d. 1832.
343. iv. William Lewis Cabell.
344. v. Powhatan Boiling Cabell,
vi. An infant, d. unnamed.
345. vii. Algernon Sidney Cabell.
346. viii. George Craighead Cabell.
347. ix. Sarah Epes Cabell.
348. x. Joseph Robert Cabell.
xi. Benjamin Edward Cabell, b. December 8, 1842 ;
lieutenant 38th Virginia Regiment, C. S. A.;
d. March 17, 1862, at Chimborazo Hospital,
Richmond, Va. His aged father did not know
of his illness until the telegraph announced his
death. He never rallied from the shock, and
soon after the loss of his " Benjamin " the father
joined the son where parting is no more.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 471
341. Pocahontas R. 5 Cabell, born in Danville, Va., June
29, 1819 ; married, at her father's residence, by Rev.
Archibald Montgomery, on August 25, 1836, to Col. John
Tyler Hairston, of " Red Plains," Henry County, Va. He
died of consumption, at Jacksonville, Fla., where he had
gone for his health, January 13, 1857, and was buried near
his former residence, in Henry County, Va. His wife died
February 3, 1858, at " Bridgewater," and was buried by
the side of her husband. [He was a son of George
Hairston (by his wife, Louisa Hardiman), son of Col.
George Hairston (by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Letcher, born
May 13, 1759, daughter of Nicholas and Bethinia Harden
Perkins ; see 322), son of Robert and Ruth Stoval Hair-
ston ; see 121.] Issue nine : —
i. Virginia 6 Hairston, b. July 4, 1837 ; never married,
ii. Louisa Hardiman Hairston, b. July 7, 1839, in Henry
County, Va. ; m., July 3, 1860, Virginius Randolph
Williams, of Lunenburg County, Va. Issue : —
i. Ellen Gertrude 7 Williams, b. May 16, 1861; m.
Wythe M. Peyton. He is now dead.
ii. Belle 7 Williams, b. in September, 1866 ; d.
iii. Elizabeth Lewis 6 Hairston, b. March 20, 1841, in
Henry County, Va. ; m., November 9, 1859, at
" Bridgewater," Livingston Claiborne, of Pittsyl-
vania County, Va. Issue six : i. Leonard 7 , b. Octo-
ber 26, 1860 ; ii. Elizabeth Cabell, b. in February,
1867; d. ; iii. Pocahontas Boiling, b. in March,
1869 ; m. E. W. Griggs ; iv. Tyler Hairston, b.
February, 1872; v. George C. Cabell; and vi. Letitia
Claiborne.
iv. George Hairston, b. 1843 ; d. infant,
v. Sarah Epes Doswell Hairston, b. May 21, 1845 ; m.,
December 18, 1866, James S. Redd, of Henry
County, Va. ; member of Company A, 18th Virginia
Infantry, C. S. A. Issue three : i. Sarah Hill, b. in
August, 1868 ; ii. James S., Jr., b. in July, 1871 ;
and iii. Cabell Redd.
472 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
vi. Benjamin Cabell 6 Hairston, b. February 10, 1847;
m., November 14, 1872, Powell Huse Lash, of
Stokes County, N. C. Issue three: i. Annie 7 ; ii.
George Cabell ; and iii. Lettie Hairston.
vii. Hardiman 6 Hairston.
viii. John Tyler Hairston, b. in 1851; m. Elizabeth Dillard ;
and d., leaving" two children.
ix. Powhatan Boiling 6 Hairston, b. in 1853 ; d. young.
342. John Roy Cabell, born March 24, 1823 ; at Univer-
sity of Virginia, 1848-1850 ; graduated M. D. ; married
(first), June 19, 1847, Martha C. Wilson (born November
22, 1823 ; died June 15, 1859), daughter of Col. Nathaniel
Wilson, by his wife, Winifred, daughter of William Tun-
stall, Esq., clerk of the county and superior courts of Pitt-
sylvania for many years. Dr. Cabell married (second) Mrs.
Kate Clements. She died without issue. Dr. Cabell, who
is still living, had by his first wife : —
i. Ann Eliza 6 Cabell, b. March 27, 1848; m. John A.
Coleman ; and d., leaving issue five : i. Martha W. ;
ii. John Roy ; iii. Daniel ; iv. Benjamin ; and v. Jo-
seph Coleman.
ii. William C. 6 Cabell, b. May 11, 1851 ; graduated M. D.,
Baltimore ; m. Mary Watson ; and d., leaving three
children : i. Katie ; ii. Mary ; and iii. John R. Cabell.
iii. Mary W. 6 Cabell, b. August 15, 1853 ; m. 0. C. Smith,
and has : i. Cabell ; ii. Carrington ; and iii. Roy
Smith.
iv. Nathaniel W. 6 Cabell, b. September 3, 1855 ; m. Essie
Frederick ; and d., leaving issue four : i. John Roy ;
ii. Benjamin; iii. Frederick; and iv. George C. Cabell.
v. John R. 6 Cabell, Jr., b. June 8, 1859 ; d. unmarried.
343. William Lewis 5 Cabell, born in Danville, Va., Jan-
uary 1, 1827 ; entered the U. S. Military Academy, West
Point, in June, 1846, and graduated in 1850 ; entered the
U. S. A. as second lieutenant 7th Infantry ; promoted first
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 473
lieutenant, June, 1855 ; promoted captain, March, 1858 ;
served in the Utah expedition ; at Fort Kearney ; at Fort
Arbuckle, Fort Cobb, etc. In March, 1861, when war be-
tween the sections became inevitable, he resigned from the
U. S. A., cast his lot with his people, entered the C. S. A.,
was commissioned as major, "and, under orders from Pres-
ident Davis, went on April 21 to Richmond, Va., to organ-
ize the quartermaster's, commissary, and ordnance depart-
ments." On June 1, 1861, he was ordered to Manassas as
chief quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac, on Gen.
Beauregard's staff. After the battles of July 18 and 21,
he served on Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's staff until January
15, 1862, when he was transferred to the trans-Mississippi
Department for service under Gen. Van Dorn ; was soon
promoted brigadier-general, and assigned to command of
all the troops on White River. After the battle of Elk
Horn, March 6 and 7, 1862, the trans-Mississippi army was
transferred to the east side of the Mississippi River; the
removal, being under the especial charge of Gen. Cabell,
was performed within a single week. He continued in ac-
tive service with this army, especially distinguishing him-
self in the battles of Iuka and Saltillo in September, at
Corinth, October 2 and 3, and at Hatchie's Bridge, October
4. He was wounded while leading the celebrated charge of
his brigade on the breastworks at Corinth, and again at
Hatchie's Bridge, which disabled him from command for
a time. Owing to his fighting qualities, he was called
" Old Tiger" by his soldiers. While recuperating from his
wounds, he was ordered to inspect the staff department
of the trans -Mississippi army. When able to report for
active duty, in February, 1863, he was placed in command
of all the forces in northwest Arkansas, and succeeded in
organizing one of the largest and finest brigades of cavalry
west of the Mississippi. He commanded this noted brigade
in 1863 and 1864, leading it in engagements almost too
numerous to mention. On the raid into Missouri under
Gen. Price, he was captured on October 24, 1864, taken to
474 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Johnson's Island in Lake Erie, and thence to Fort Warren,
Boston harbor, where he was confined until August 28,
1865.
On being released, Gen. Cabell went to New York, then
to Austin, Texas, and then to Fort Smith, Ark. ; studied
law (as he had no other profession than a military one), and
as soon as qualified, was licensed and began to practice his
new profession. He was chairman of the Democratic Exec-
utive Committee in Arkansas, and chairman of the Arkan-
sas delegation to the Baltimore convention which nomi-
nated Horace Greeley for the presidency.
In December, 1872, he removed to Dallas, Texas, and
was elected mayor of that city in 1874, 1875, 1876, and
1882. He was a delegate from Texas to the conventions
that nominated President Tilden and President Cleveland.
During; Cleveland's first administration he was United States
marshal for Texas.
At the Confederate reunion, held at Chattanooga, Tenn.,
July 3, 1890, Gen. Cabell was elected lieutenant-general of
the United Confederate Veterans, commanding the trans-
Mississippi Department, which embraces all the country
west of the Mississippi River. Although 67 years old, the
general is well, strong, and actively engaged in business.
He was married, July 22, 1856, to Harriet A. Rector (eldest
daughter of Maj. Elias Rector and Catharine Duval, his
wife), at her father's residence, near Fort Smith, Ark. She
was always called " Shingo," the name given her in her
infancy by an Osage chief, meaning " Little Bird." The
Rectors were from Fauquier County, Ya., and the Duvals
from near Parkersburg, W. Va., but of Huguenot origin.
The Rectors were of English ancestry. Mrs. Cabell died
while on a visit to her mother, April 16, 1887, having had
issue : —
i. Benjamin E. 6 Cabell, b. November 18, 1858. " He is
now (1894) sheriff of Dallas County, Texas, being
the youngest man who ever held that office."
ii. Katie Doswell 6 Cabell, m., April 24, 1889, John R.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 475
dime, a Mississippian by birth. She is vice-presi-
dent of the Society of the Daughters of the Confed-
eracy.
iii. John J. 6 Cabell, b. in Fort Smith, Ark., November 28,
1870 ; sheriff of Dallas city, Texas.
iv. Lawrence Du Val 6 Cabell, b. in Dallas, Texas, August
22, 1874 ; a student at Baylor University, Waco,
Texas ; was appointed to a cadetship at West Point
in the fall of 1894.
v. Lewis Rector 6 Cabell, b. in Dallas, January 3, 1879.
vi. and vii. Two others, d. infants.
344. Powhatan Boiling 5 Cabell, born October 17, 1828;
attended the medical school of the University of Virginia,
1848-1849, and then attended medical lectures in Phila-
delphia, where he graduated. He afterwards attended the
medical schools of London and Paris ; returned to the
United States in 1855, and spent the winter in Cuba, hop-
ing to restore his shattered health. The next year he went
to Mexico with three friends, and in November, when travel-
ing, about 150 miles north of Zacatecas, they were attacked
by sixteen Comanche Indians. Dr. Cabell killed an Indian
who had wounded him with an arrow. The Indians dis-
mounted, seized the dead body, and rode with it rapidly
away. The arrow entered the fleshy part of his thigh,
near the main artery, and but for a " New York Herald "
and a pocket-book, which it went through, must have
proved fatal. He married Jane B. Lanier, September 3,
1857, and died at the home of James Jackson, in Florence,
Ala., December 14, 1859, without issue.
345. Algernon Sidney 5 Cabell, born November 25,
1832 ; married, December 22, 1859, Mary Angela Carroll,
daughter of Col. De Rosa Carroll (C. S. A.), of Arkansas.
A. S. Cabell went to Arkansas in April, 1858, and is now
(1894) farming on the Arkansas River. He was a major
in the C. S. A., a brave and gallant soldier. His children
are °. —
476 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
i. De Rosa Carroll 6 Cabell, admitted as a cadet at West
Point, N. Y., July 1, 1880, aged 18 years, 11
months,
ii. Sallie Doswell 6 Cabell,
iii. Benjamin 6 Cabell,
iv. Powhatan 6 Cabell.
346. George Craighead 5 Cabell, born at Danville, Va.,
January 25, 1836 ; educated at the Danville Academy and
the University of Virginia ; commenced the practice of law
at Danville in 1858; edited "The Republican" and then
" The Democratic Appeal," of Danville ; commonwealth's
attorney 1858 to April 23, 1861, when he volunteered as
a private soldier in the C. S. A. ; commissioned major in
June, 1861, and assigned to the 18th Virginia Infantry
Regiment ; served through the war, was twice wounded,
and attained the rank of colonel ; after the war, returned
to the practice of his profession ; represented the fifth Vir-
ginia district in the United States Congress, 1875-1887,
and is now an attorney at law of Danville, Va. He mar-
ried (first), October 25, 1859, Mary Harrison Baird, a de-
scendant from Nathaniel (1742-1782), brother of Carter
Henry Harrison ; she died September 30, 1890. He mar-
ried (second), in November, 1892, Ellen Virginia Ashton,
of Portsmouth, Va., by whom he has no issue. His sur-
viving children are : —
i. Sarah D. 6 Cabell, m. L. H. Lewis. They live in Dallas,
Texas, and have : i. George C. ; ii. Benjamin H. ;
and iii. Archibald L. Lewis.
ii. Annie D. G Cabell, m. Garland S. Wooding. They live
in Danville, Va., and have : i. Jennie Garland ; and
ii. Mary Baird Wooding.
iii. Benjamin W. S. 6 Cabell, a physician, of Ringgold, Va. ;
m., January 1, 1895, Nannie, daughter of Capt.
Thomas D. Bradley, of Ringgold,
iv. George C. G Cabell, Jr., attorney at law at Marlin, Falls
County, Texas ; m. Katie Graveley, and has : i. Mary
B. Cabell.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 477
v. Powhatan Algernon 6 Cabell, a student at Blacksburg
College, Va.
347. Sarah Epes 5 Cabell, born in Danville, November 25,
1838 ; married, by Rev. J. Mason Kirkpatrick, on February
7, 1860, to Richard Junius Epes, of Lunenburg County,
Va. He died December 14, 1861, leaving one son : —
i. Junius 6 Epes, b. March 31, 1861.
Mrs. Sarah E. 5 Cabell Epes was married (second), at
Bridgewater, by Rev. Thomas Ward White, on January
20, 1864, to Ashley L. Davis, of Lunenburg County, Va.
Mrs. Davis died at her home on Grove Street, Danville,
Va., November 9, 1876. Her children by her second mar-
riage were : —
ii. Joseph Cabell 6 Davis, b. at " Ingleside," Lunenburg
County, July 30, 1867.
iii. Mary Pocahontas 6 Davis, b. at Bridgewater, August 8,
1869 : m., in October, 1890, George A. Muncaster,
of Henderson, Ky.
iv. Sallie Ashley 6 Davis, b. 1875 ; d. 1878, and is buried
in Green Hill Cemetery at Danville beside her
mother.
348. Joseph Robert 5 Cabell, born May 28, 1840; mar-
ried, December 16, 1863, Mary Elizabeth Irby. He entered
the C. S. A. as a private in the Danville Blues ; served with
constant distinction in the Army of Northern Virginia ;
was rapidly promoted, and was killed while in command of
his regiment, the 38th Virginia, leading a charge against
Butler's forces, near Drury's Bluff, May 10, 1864. His
last words were, " I have done my duty ; I am not afraid
to die."
He left no children.
83. Mary Pocahontas Rebecca 4 Cabell, born at Repton
in 1798 ; married, at the residence of her brother, Gen.
B. W. S. Cabell, in Danville, Va., on March 27, 1818, to
478 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Peyton Doswell, Esq., a lawyer, of Nottoway County, Va.
They emigrated to Henderson County, Ky. They had two
children, but almost within a year the father, mother, and
children died of " the slow " (probably typhus) fever. Mr.
Doswell died in December, 1820, and his wife on February
4, 1821.
84. Jane Randolph 4 Cabell, born at Repton, August 29,
1805 ; married Philip T. Allin, of Harrodsburg, Ky.,
May 6, 1824. She died of cholera, June 23, 1833. Her
children were : —
349. i. Joseph Cabell 5 Allin.
350. ii. Mary Ann 5 Allin.
iii. Thomas Grant 5 Allin, b. August 2, 1829; d.
March 17, 1832.
351. iv. Elizabeth Randolph 5 Allin.
Mr. Philip T. Allin was born May 5, 1803 ; married
(second) Mary S. E. Hart, daughter of Capt. William Hart,
of Henderson County, Ky., and died at Harrodsburg, No-
vember 23, 1849.
349. Joseph Cabell 5 Allin, born March 14, 1825 ; mar-
ried (first) Susan A. Smith, daughter of Obadiah Smith, of
Henderson, Ky. She died without issue.
J. C. Allin married (second) Mrs. Brown, of Louis-
ville. No issue.
350. Mary Ann 5 Allin, born August 2, 1827 ; married
Rev. Stephen A. Collier, of " The Crab Orchard," Ken-
tucky, September 23, 1849. Issue eight : —
i. Elizabeth Cabell 6 Collier.
ii. William A. G Collier.
iii. Susan Harrison 6 Collier,
iv. Stephen B. c Collier.
v. John G Collier,
vi. Cabell 6 Collier,
vii. " Pattie " G Collier,
viii. Mary 6 Collier.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 479
351. Elizabeth Randolph 5 Allin, born December 13,
1831 ; married Dr. Edwin G. Hall, of West Point, Ky.,
July 12, 1852. He was a colonel in the C. S. A. They
now (1891) live in California. Issue one : —
i. Joseph Cabell 6 Hall, b. June 3, 1854 ; d. September 30,
1855. _______
85. John Breckenridge 4 Cabell, born at " Repton," Jan-
uary 5, 1808 ; died July 18, 1862 ; married (first), January
26, 1830, Mary Coalter Wardlow, whose mother was a
daughter of Major-General Samuel Hopkins. Their chil-
dren (two in number) died in infancy. Mrs. Mary Coalter
Cabell died June 19, 1835.
J. B. 4 Cabell married (second), April 25, 1839, Martha
Posey, only daughter of Capt. John Posey, of Henderson,
Ky., who was a son of Gen. Thomas Posey, of the Revolu-
tion, distinguished at Stony Point and elsewhere ; lieutenant-
governor of Kentucky ; U. S. Senator from Louisiana,
etc. 1 Issue : —
352. iii. John Posey 5 Cabell.
353. iv. Mary Frances 5 Cabell.
354. v. Sears 5 Cabell.
352. John Posey 5 Cabell, born August 19, 1841 ; mar-
ried (first), February 28, 1871, Sarah Elizabeth Trumbo,
and had one child : —
i. Elizabeth 6 Cabell.
The mother and child both died in two years.
J. P. 5 Cabell married (second), December 12, 1876, Jen-
nie Duval, daughter of Samuel Shepherd Duval. They are
now (1891) living in Corsicana, Texas, and have four chil-
dren : —
ii. Samuel Shepherd 6 Cabell, b. August 19, 1878.
iii. Archibald Boiling 6 Cabell, b. April 17, 1881.
iv. John Posey 6 Cabell, b. January 13, 1884.
v. Calvin S. 6 Cabell, b. November 5, 1886.
1 See his Life in Sparks' American Biography.
480 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
353. Mary Frances 5 Cabell, born November 13, 1845;
married, December 18, 1862, Calvin W. Woodbridge, son
of a Presbyterian minister. They are now (1891) living in
Henderson County, Ky., and have three children : —
i. Louisa 6 Woodbridge, b. October 16, 1867.
ii. Kate 6 Woodbridge, b. April 18, 1871.
iii. Mary 6 Woodbridge, b. November 12, 1875.
They have lost several in infancy.
354. Sears 5 Cabell, M. D., of Henderson, Ky., born May
10, 1848 ; married, November 15, 1870, his cousin, Althaea
Spalding Cabell. Issue nine : —
i. William Nicholas 6 Cabell, b. January 11, 1875.
ii. Robert Boiling 6 Cabell, b. 1877; d. 1884.
iii. Sears 6 Cabell, b. July 29, 1878.
iv. John Breckinridge 6 Cabell, b. 1880 ; d. 1881.
v. Frank Murray G Cabell, b. February 1, 1882.
vi. Allie Spalding 6 Cabell, b. June 13, 1884.
vii. George Wilson 6 Cabell, b. July 28, 1886.
viii. Ellen 6 Cabell, b. September 13, 1888.
ix. Susan 6 Cabell, b. April 10, 1892.
86. Elizabeth Robertson 4 Cabell, born at " Repton,"
May 13, 1809; died September 23, 1852, in Kentucky, of
cholera. She married (first), April 4, 1826, James B.
Pollitt, a merchant and tobacconist from Baltimore, Md.,
located in Henderson County, Ky. He died October 28,
1832. Issue three : —
355. i. Ann Ballard 5 Pollitt.
356. ii. Virginia James 5 Pollitt.
iii. Susan 5 Pollitt, b. September 14, 1831; d. May
12, 1835.
86. Mrs. Elizabeth R. 4 Cabell Pollitt married (second),
March 13, 1834, Hon. Archibald Dixon, a distinguished
lawyer, lieutenant-governor of, and United States Senator
from, Kentucky, etc., born in North Carolina, April 2,
1802 ; died in Kentucky, April 23, 1876. He was a son of
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 481
Warren Dixon and grandson of Col. Henry Dixon, soldiers
of the Revolution from North Carolina. Issue seven : —
iv. Wynn 5 Dixon, b. February 6, 1835 ; d. young.
357. v. Rebecca Hart Dixon.
358. vi. Susan Belle Dixon.
359. vii. Archibald Dixon.
360. viii. Henry Cabell Dixon.
361. ix. Joseph Cabell Dixon.
x. Wynn Dixon, b. April 5, 1851; d. December,
I860.
355. Ann Ballard 5 Pollitt, born January 4, 1828; mar-
ried, March 23, 1852, Lafayette Jones, M. D., of Henderson
County, Ky., a graduate of the Medical Department of the
University of Pennsylvania ; he died in 1866. His widow
and daughters reside in Henderson, Ky. Issue : —
i. Elizabeth Pollitt 6 Jones, b. July 8, 1854.
ii. Mary Ballard Jones, b. March 24, 1856.
356. Virginia James 5 Pollitt, born December 18, 1829 ;
died March 13, 1893 ; married, February 27, 1849, William
McClain, a large landholder and man of affairs of Hender-
son County, Ky. They had thirteen children. Four died
young. The rest are living : —
i. William Pollitt 6 McClain, b. December 17, 1849; m.
Mary Garland, daughter of Dr. Richard Garland, of
Virginia. He is a lawyer of unusual ability, has
served several terms as county attorney of Hender-
son, and has been strongly backed as a candidate
for the United States Congress from the second dis-
trict of Kentucky.
ii. James Ballard 6 McClain, b. September 15, 1851; a
journalist of London, England.
iii. Virginia 6 McClain, b. July 22, 1856 ; m. Lee Sehon,
of Louisville, Ky. ; living, in 1891, in Denver, Colo.
iv. Kate Atkinson 6 McClain, b. August, 1858 ; m. Charles
H. Le Sueur, of Louisville, Ky. They live in Nash-
ville, Tenn.
482 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
v. Rebecca Dixon 6 McClain, b. February, 1860 ; m. Dr.
Rufus Bowman, of Florida ; moved to Decatur, Ala.,
where he d. of yellow fever.
vi. Elizabeth G McClain, b. 1861 ; m. R. Lee Suter, attor-
ney at law, of Louisville, Ky.
vii. Henry Jackson 6 McClain, b. December, 1864 ; in real
estate business in Louisville, Ky.
viii. Annie 6 McClain, b. October, 1867.
ix. Archibald 6 McClain, b. September, 1886 ; in railroad
business in Louisville, Ky.
357. Rebecca Hart 5 Dixon, born May 28, 1839 ; mar-
ried Hon. John Young Brown, M. C. from Kentucky, and
at present governor of that State. They have had issue
eight : —
i. Elizabeth Cabell 6 Brown, b. 1862 ; d. 1867.
ii. Archibald Dixon 6 Brown, b. in April, 1863; private
secretary to his father ; m. Virginia Marshall, of
Henderson, Ky.
iii. John Young 6 Brown, Jr., b. July 21, 1865; studied
medicine at the University of Virginia and in New
York ; now assistant superintendent of " Central
Lunatic Asylum," of Kentucky; m. Cora South, of
Louisville, Ky.
iv. Virginia Singleton 6 Brown, b. May 11, 1867.
v. Susan Dixon 6 Brown, b. April 26, 1869.
vi. and vii. Vance and Dudley Brown, twins, d. infants,
viii. Evelyn Cabell 6 Brown, b. April 4, 1872.
358. Susan Belle 5 Dixon, born December 20, 1840;
married (first) Cuthbert, son of Dr. Llewellyn Powell, of
Louisville, Ky, who died, leaving two children : —
i. Elizabeth 6 Powell, d. aged 16.
ii. Susan Ballard 6 Powell, b. June 16, 1860 ; m. J. Haw-
kins Hart, clerk of Henderson County, Ky.
Mrs. Susan B. 5 Powell married (second) Maj. John J.
Reeve, of Richmond, Va., a soldier in the C. S. A. ; a tobac-
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 483
conist, partner in the firm of " J. D. Burr, Reeve & Co.,"
of Henderson, Ky. She died February 28, 1884, leaving
four children by him : —
iii. Margaret Caskie 6 Reeve, b. June 3, 1871.
iv. Mary Gilmore 6 Reeve, b. November 13, 1872.
v. John D. Burr 6 Reeve, b. December 18, 1875.
vi. Kate G Reeve, b. February 27, 1882.
359. Archibald 5 Dixon (born March 4, 1844), of Hen-
derson, Ky., is one of the most successful and distinguished
physicians and surgeons of the State ; has been president of
the Tri-State Medical Society, etc. ; married Margaret Hern-
don, of Frankfort, Ky. Issue four : —
i. Margaret Herndon 6 Dixon, b. October 11, 1865 ; m.
Edward A. Jonas, of London, England. Issue: i.
Archibald Edward 7 Jonas.
ii. Wynn 6 Dixon, b. December 27, 1866 ; m., July 10,
1894, Margaret McCreery, of Owensboro, Ky., grand-
daughter of ex-United States Senator Thomas Mc-
Creery.
iii. Archibald 6 Dixon, Jr., b. in August, 1868 ; graduated
with honor at Belle vue Hospital ; makes surgery a
specialty.
iv. Julia Ballard 6 Dixon, b. in August, 1871.
360. Henry Cabell 5 Dixon, born September 19, 1845;
attorney at law of Henderson, Ky. ; member of state senate
from fifth Kentucky district, 1884-1886 ; author of an able
lecture on " The Negro," etc.
361. Joseph Cabell 5 Dixon, born December 26, 1848;
University of Virginia, 1870 ; married Lucy Alves, of Hen-
derson, Ky., and has four surviving children : —
i. James Alves 6 Dixon, b. January 25, 1881.
ii. Susan Reeve 6 Dixon, b. August, 1883.
iii. Maria Davis 6 Dixon, b. August 7, 1886.
iv. Margaret Herndon 6 Dixon, b. September 19, 1892.
484 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
87. Robert Boiling 4 Cabell (second), born February 22,
1812 ; died December 27, 1876 ; married (first), January
31, 1833, Ann E. Herndon, wbo died in February, 1834,
leaving one child : —
i. Anne E. 5 Cabell, b. January 16, 1834 ; d. young.
87. Robert B. 4 Cabell married (second), April 16, 1835,
Eleanor, daughter of Capt. William Hart, of Henderson,
Ky. ; she is still living. Issue eleven : —
ii. Mary Elizabeth 5 Cabell, b. January 14, 1836;
d. November 2, 1837.
iii. Jane Randolph Cabell, b. March 27, 1838; d.
September 4, 1839.
362. iv. Pocahontas Rebecca 5 Cabell, b. June 16, 1840 ;
m., in 1869, David B. Barbee, of Henderson,
Ky., and d. September 18, 1872, leaving one
child : i. David Hart ° Barbee, b. February 2,
1868.
363. v. Mary Philip 5 Cabell, b. April 6, 1843 ; m., in
1868, Col. Livingston G. Taylor. He entered
the C. S. A. at 16 ; became a colonel before
the end of the war ; d. in Arizona Territory,
June 12, 1877, leaving his widow and one
child, who live in Henderson, Ky. : i. Mary
Cabell Taylor, b. October 31, 1873.
364. vi. Susan Cowan 5 Cabell.
365. vii. Althaea S. 5 Cabell, m. Dr. Sears Cabell (354).
viii. Laura Bradford 5 Cabell, b. February 24, 1851.
ix. Caroline Allin Cabell, b. January 8, 1854 ; d.
infant.
x. Robert Boiling Cabell, b. August 9, 1859 ; d.
infant.
xi. Inah Gabriella Cabell, b. June 27, 1858.
xii. Joseph Benjamin Cabell, b. May 3, 1862; ap-
pointed assistant superintendent of the railway
mail service of the United States in July, 1888,
when he was only 26.
364. Susan Cowan 5 Cabell, b. November 6, 1845 ; mar-
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 485
ried, February 22, 1866, John P. Beverley, of Henderson,
Ky. Surviving issue five : —
i. Robert Cabell 6 Beverley, b. December 4, 1868.
366. ii. Elizabeth Edwin Beverley, b. October 25, 1870;
m. John P. Crossly, of California, and has two
children,
iii. Eleanor Hodge 6 Beverley, b. May 12, 1874.
iv. Susan 6 Beverley, b. October 5, 1879.
v. Harry S. Beverley, b. August 2, 1885.
88. George Washington 4 Cabell, born in Fayette County,
Ky., October 16, 1814 ; died December 15, 1864 ; married,
January 8, 1837, Mary R. Williams, of Henderson County,
Ky. Issue : —
i. Elizabeth Randolph 5 Cabell, b. August 13; d.
September 21, 1838.
ii. Sarah Jane 5 Cabell, b. October 13, 1839 ; d.
September 2, 1841.
367. iii. Joseph J. 5 Cabell.
iv. John Edward 5 CabeU, b. October 12, 1843.
v. Martha J. 5 Cabell, b. May 24, 1846 ; d. Septem-
ber 24, 1847.
vi. Robert Harrison 5 Cabell, b. June 12, 1847;
d. s. p.
368. vii. George W. 5 CabeU.
vhi. Mary F. 5 Cabell, b. October 12, 1851 ; d. s. p.
ix. Nancy BoUing 5 CabeU, b. March 11, 1853;
d. s. p.
369. x. Richard Randolph 5 Cabell.
370. xi. Virginia Margaretta 5 Cabell.
xii. WiUiam Henry 5 CabeU, b. January 31, 1860.
367. Joseph J. 5 CabeU, born February 12, 1842 ; mar-
ried, AprU 23, 1863, Rhoda Williams, who died June 24,
1868, leaving two children : —
i. George B. 6 Cabell, b. July 26, 1865.
ii. Louisa c CabeU, b. October 31, 1867 ; m., August 14,
1885, W. S. Cheatham.
486 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
368. George Washington 5 Cabell, born September 3,
1849 ; married Laura B. Wilson, of College Corner, Ohio.
"They are both dead, but left one son, who is now (1891)
at school in Ohio."
i. Sears 6 Cabell.
369. Richard Randolph 5 Cabell, born October 31, 1855 ;
married Sallie McKendricks, of Henderson County, Ky.
She is dead.
370. Virginia M. 5 Cabell, b. October 5, 1857 ; m., May
8, 1878, George W. McKendrick, of Henderson County,
Ky. Issue : —
i. Mary C. c McKendrick, b. February 24, 1880.
ii. Calvin C. 6 McKendrick, b. December 26, 1884.
89. Mary Ann Hopkins 4 Cabell, born March 28, 1824 ;
married, September 2, 1845, Dr. E. L. Willard, a gentle-
man of Northern birth, located at Henderson, Ky. They
moved first to Missouri, and then to California. Dr. Wil-
lard was a resident of the town of San Jose, Santa Clara
County, in 1856-1857, and a citizen of San Francisco at
the time of his wife's death. Issue : —
i. Joseph Cabell 5 Willard, b. in Henderson, Ky., in June,
1846 ; d. infant,
ii. Mary Josephine 5 Willard, b. in Missouri, May 5, 1848 ;
d. young,
iii. Emory Cabell 5 Willard, b. in California; d. s. p.
iv. Lory 5 Willard, living,
v. Evanda 5 Willard, d. s. p.
19. MARY H. 3 CABELL BRECKINRIDGE'S DESCENDANTS.
90. Letitia Preston 4 Breckinridge, born June 22, 1786,
at " The Glebe," Albemarle County, Va. ; married (first),
October 24, 1804, Alfred William Grayson, born April 16,
1780, in Prince William County, Va. ; " graduated at Cam-
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 487
bridge ; a lawyer ; an exceedingly elegant and accomplished
gentleman ; emigrated to Kentucky in 1801, and died there
October 10, 1810; son of Senator William Grayson, of
Virginia." (See 78.) Issue three : —
i. Smallwood 5 Grayson, d. infant.
371. ii. John Breckinridge 5 Grayson.
hi. William Lewis 5 Grayson, d. young.
90. Mrs. Letitia P. 4 B. Grayson married (second), Octo-
ber 16, 1818, Gen. Peter Buel Porter, and when her hus-
band was Secretary of War their home was the centre of
attraction in Washington. Mrs. Porter was the moving
spirit ; her mind was as accomplished as her manners ; she
charmed the grave and fascinated the gay. " Her inter-
course with the great world was as graceful as it was exten-
sive." She died July 27, 1831, at " Black Rock " (Buffalo),
N. Y., and was buried in view of Niagara Falls, under a
monument bearing a beautiful inscription to her memory.
Her husband, Gen. Peter B. Porter, was born at Salis-
bury, Conn., August 14, 1773 ; became a very distin-
guished man ; was member of Congress from New York ;
major-general, distinguished in the War of 1812, at Chip-
pewa, Niagara Falls, Fort Erie, Bridge water, etc. ; ap-
pointed chief of the army by Pres. Madison, but declined ;
was secretary of state of New York ; Secretary of War of
the United States, 1828-1829 ; he was identified with the
progress of western New York ; a projector of the Erie
Canal ; a promoter of internal improvements, etc. He died
at his seat, " Black Rock," near Niagara Falls, March 20,
1844. He was a son of Col. Joshua Porter (1730-1826),
of the Revolution (by his wife, Abigail Buell), the son of
Nathaniel B. Porter (born 1704), the son of Nathaniel Por-
ter (killed in war of 1709), the son of Samuel Porter
(1626-1686) by his wife, Hannah, daughter of Thomas
Stanley, who came from London in 1635, and was one of
the original proprietors of Hartford, Conn.
Samuel Porter's (1626-1686) sister, Mary Porter, mar-
ried, in 1658, Samuel Grant, and Gen. U. S. Grant de-
488 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
scended from them. Their father, John Porter (born 1590,
in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England, at Wraxhall Abbey,
the ancient seat of the family), emigrated to Massachu-
setts in 1627, and settled in Connecticut in 1835. See
" The Descendants of John Porter," by Henry Porter An-
drews.
90. Mrs. Letitia P. 4 B. Porter left two children by her
second husband : —
iv. Elizabeth Lewis 5 Porter, b. April 19, 1823; d.
January 28, 1876 ; never married.
372. v. Peter Augustus 5 Porter.
371. John Breckinridge 5 Grayson, born at "Cabell's
Dale," Fayette County, Ky., October 18, 1806 ; entered
West Point Military Academy in 1822 ; graduated in 1826,
and was placed on engineering duty. He was in the Sem-
inole Indian War of 1835-1836, with the rank of captain.
In the Mexican War, 1847-1848 ; bre vetted major for
gallantry at Contreras and Churubusco, August 20, 1847 ;
brevetted lieutenant-colonel for gallantry at Chapultepec,
September 13, 1847. He resigned from the U. S. A. in
April, 1861 ; entered the C. S. A. and was commissioned a
brigadier-general. He died while in command of the coast
defense of Georgia and Florida, on October 21, 1862, at
Tallahassee.
He married in Washington, D. C, November 10, 1828,
when his stepfather was Secretary of War, Miss Caroline
Searle, daughter of Francis Searle, deceased, of England.
Gen. McComb, then commander-in-chief of the U. S. A.,
acted as father for her at her wedding, and Pres. John
Quincy Adams gave the young couple an elegant dinner
and reception at the White House. They had an only
son : —
i. John B. 6 Grayson, Jr., b. in New Orleans, September
9, 1835 ; an officer in the C. S. A. ; a planter near
Gainesville, Ala. He m. Miss C. Fournier, of Ala-
bama, and has several children.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 489
372. Peter Augustus 5 Porter, born July 14, 1827, at
Black Rock, N. Y. ; educated at Harvard and in Germany ;
married (first), March 30, 1852, his cousin, Mary Cabell 5
Breckinridge (393), who died August 4, 1854, at Niagara
Falls, leaving one child : —
373. i. Peter Augustus G Porter, Jr.
372. Peter A. 5 Porter, Sr., married (second) Josephine
Morris, of New York. He was a member of the New York
legislature in 1861 ; commissioned colonel in the U. S. A.,
August 17, 1862, and was killed at Cold Harbor, June 3,
1864, at the head of his regiment, the 129th New York,
leaving by his second marriage two children : —
ii. Elizabeth Lewis 6 Porter, d. young,
iii. George M. c Porter, b. July 7, 1863 ; lives in Buffalo,
N. Y.
373. Peter A. 6 Porter, Jr., born October 10, 1853 ; mar-
ried, in 1877, Adele Taylor. They reside at Niagara Falls,
N. Y., and have three children : —
i. Peter A. 7 Porter.
ii. Breckinridge 7 Porter,
iii. Preston Buell 7 Porter.
91. Joseph Cabell 4 Breckinridge, born at " The Glebe,"
Albemarle County, Va., July 24, 1788; at William and
Mary College, Va., in 1803 ; graduated at Princeton, 1810 ;
married Miss Mary Clay Smith, May 11, 1811; was a
major in the War of 1812 ; became a leading lawyer of
Kentucky ; served two terms as speaker of the Kentucky
House of Representatives, and at the time of his death
was secretary of that commonwealth. " He was celebrated
for his unquestioned integrity, for his eloquence, and his
influence in public affairs." He was for many years a
ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church. " He was per-
fectly erect in his carriage, without stiffness, exceedingly
handsome, five feet eleven inches tall, and as faultless in
his proportions as the Grecian Apollo." He died at Frank-
fort, -Ky., September 1, 1823. His wife, Mrs. Mary C.
490 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Breckinridge, was a most accomplished lady, daughter of
that eminent man, Samuel Stanhope Smith, President of
Princeton College. Her mother was a daughter of John
Witherspoon, one of the signers, who traced his descent
from John Knox. Samuel Stanhope Smith was a son of
Rev. Rohert Smith, born in Londonderry, Ireland, in 1723,
emigrated to America, and became pastor of Piqua, Pa.
His wife was Miss Blair.
91. Joseph C. 4 Breckinridge had issue six : —
374. i. Frances Ann 5 Breckinridge.
375. ii. Caroline Laurens 5 Breckinridge.
376. iii. Mary Cabell 5 Breckinridge.
377. iv. John Cabell 5 Breckinridge.
378. v. Letitia Porter 5 Breckinridge, b. at Frankfort, Ky.,
October 26, 1822; m., September 6, 1847,
Charles Copeland Parkhill, a lawyer of Florida.
He d. in 1850, and she d. at " Walnut Hill,"
May 15, 1852, s. p.
vi. Mary Ann Cabell 5 Breckinridge, b. February 15,
1824 ; d. August 10, 1827.
374. Frances Ann 5 Breckinridge, born at " Cabell's
Dale," Ky., February 24, 1812 ; married, November 3,
1829, Rev. John Clark Young. He was born August 12,
1803, at Greencastle, Pa. ; educated at Dickinson College,
1823 ; " graduate of Princeton ;" pastor of a church in Lex-
ington, Ky. ; President of Centre College, Ky., 1830, to his
death in 1857 ; author of " A Plan for Emancipation,"
1835 ; D. D., College of New Jersey^ 1839 ; Moderator of
the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, etc.
He died June 23, 1857. His wife died November 2,
1837, leaving four daughters : —
379. i. Mary Breckinridge 6 Young, b. July 22, 1831;
m., April 23, 1857, Gelon H. Rout, a lawyer
of Lincoln County, Ky. ; afterwards a Presby-
terian minister of Versailles, Ky., and had issue
two: i. John Young 7 , b. July 19, 1858; of
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 491
Versailles, Ky. ; and ii. Cornelia Crittenden
Rout, b. October 15, 1859.
380. ii. Caroline Josephine 6 Young, b. October 25, 1833
m., April 23, 1857, Rev. Rutherford Douglas
a Presbyterian minister of Woodford County
now of Lexington, Ky., and had issue five : i.
John C. Young 7 , b. 1858; d. 1868; ii. George
L. 7 , b. August 26, 1859 ; iii. Rutherford, b.
February 7, 1869 ; iv. Francis B., b. November
2, 1870 ; and v. Drusilla R. Douglas, b. 1872 ;
d. 1894 ; unmarried.
381. iii. Jane Elizabeth Ramsay 6 Young, b. June 18, 1835 ;
m., December 16, 1858, Rev. E. Rutherford, a
Presbyterian minister of St. Louis, Mo., now of
Paris, Ky. No issue.
382. iv. Frances Breckinridge 6 Young, b. October 25,
1837; m., November 19, 1859, Addison Craft,
a lawyer of Holly Springs, Miss. ; captain in
C. S. A. Issue five : i. John C. Young 7 , b.
1860; d. 1878; ii. Elizabeth Belle, b. Octo-
ber 27, 1861; iii. Gelon Rout, b. April 8, 1867 ;
iv. Cornelia C, b. February 7, 1870 ; and v.
Jane R. Craft, b. October 9, 1871.
375. Caroline Laurens 5 Breckinridge, born October 12,
1813, at " Cabell's Dale ; " married, October 31, 1832,
Rev. Joseph J. Bullock, D. D., born December 23, 1812 ;
graduate of Centre College, Ky. ; attended law lectures at
Transylvania University in 1833 ; studied theology at
Princeton, 1835-1836. Licensed to preach in 1836 by
West Lexington Presbytery, he has rendered distinguished
services as a Presbyterian minister at Frankfort, Ky., Balti-
more, Md., Alexandria, Va., Washington, D. C, etc. He
was chaplain of the United States Senate in 1878-1883.
His father, Waller Bullock, was called " the Wheel-horse
of the Democracy in the blue-grass region of Kentucky."
375. Mrs. Caroline L. B. 5 Bullock died November 4,
1867, having had issue eight : —
492 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
383. i. Waller Robert 6 Bullock, b. June 7, 1834 ; grad-
uate of Centre College, Ky. ; attorney at law ;
captain in C. S. A., etc. ; m., February 3, 1870,
Caroline Canfielcl, in Baltimore, Md., and d. in
that city, November 11, 1870. Issue one : i.
Waller Irene 7 Bullock, b. April 17, 1871.
ii. Mary Stanhope 6 Bullock, b. September 6, 1837.
384. iii. Cabell Breckinridge 6 Bullock, b. April 6, 1840;
graduate of Centre College, Ky. ; attorney at
law, Lexington, Ky. ; assistant commissioner of
insurance for Kentucky.
iv. Frances Breckinridge G Bullock, b. 1841 ; d. 1842.
v. Joseph James 6 Bullock, b. June 3, 1843.
vi. Letitia Parkhill Bullock, b. August 7, 1846.
385. vii. John Milton Bullock, b. June 23, 1848; m.
(first), June 6, 1872, Mary Fitch. She died
September 27, 1873. Issue : i. Mary Brogden
Fitch 7 Bullock ; d. infant. He is now a resi-
dent of Kansas City, Mo. ; m. (second), June
22, 1876, Mary McReynolds. She d. October
12, 1877, leaving one child : ii. Cabell Breck-
inridge 7 Bullock, b. March 3, 1877.
viii. Sarah Graham 6 Bullock, b. 1851 ; d. infant.
376. Mary Cabell 5 Breckinridge, born at Lexington,
Ky., January 7, 1815 ; married, June 6, 1832, Dr. Thomas
P. Satter white, of Lexington, Ky. He died about 1842.
She died August 13, 1835. Issue two : —
386. i. Mary Smith Satterwhite, b. -at Lexington, Ky.,
June 5, 1833 ; m., June 8, 1854, Dr. William
H. Miller, of Louisville, afterwards of Hender-
son, Ky. She d. September 11, 1861. Issue
four : i. Clara Robinson 7 ; d. infant ; ii. Mary
Breckinridge ; d. infant ; iii. Henrietta Satter-
white, b. December 21, 1858; and iv. William
Henry Miller ; d. infant.
387. ii. Thomas Palmer 6 Satterwhite, b. at Lexington, Ky.,
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 493
July 21, 1835 ; a physician ; m., January 14,
1858, his relative, Maria P. Rogers, daughter of
Capt. Jason Rogers, U. S. A., and Josephine
Preston, whose sister, Henrietta Preston, m. Gen.
Albert Sidney Johnston, C. S. A. They reside
corner Preston and Gray Streets, Louisville, Ky.
Issue eight : i. Josephine Preston 7 , b. December
7, 1858 ; ii. Lilly R., b. March 13, 1861 ; iii.
Thomas P., b. June 7, 1862 ; iv. Jason R., b.
March 13, 1864 ; v. Preston, b. September 28,
1867 ; vi. Caroline H., b. July 29^ 1870 ; vii.
Cabell B., b. June 1, 1874 ; and viii. Susan B.
Satterwhite, b. April 6, 1879.
377. John Cabell 5 Breckinridge, born at Lexington, Ky.,
January 16, 1821 ; graduated at Centre College, Ky. ;
studied law ; admitted to the bar at Lexington, Ky., " and
from thence, whilst still a mere youth, he went out to the
active duties of life, first going to Burlington, Iowa, but
soon returning to his native city, where his great talent
as a public speaker soon gave him a high position in his
profession." He married Mary Cirene Birch, of Scott
County, Ky., December 12, 1843. He served in the
Mexican War as major of a Kentucky volunteer regiment,
under Gen. Scott, with credit, and distinguished himself as
the counsel of Gen. Pillow during the famous court-martial.
" He fought heroically at Buena Vista, and was selected by
the voice of Kentucky to deliver the funeral oration at
Frankfort appointed by the legislature in honor of his
countrymen who fell on that field of glory."
He was a Democrat in politics, and first entered political
life in 1849, when he was elected a representative of his
native county in the Kentucky legislature. In 1851, he
defeated Gen. Leslie Combs for the United States House of
Representatives in the Ashland Congressional District.
This was Henry Clay's district, and at Mr. Clay's death it
devolved upon him to announce the fact to the House of
494 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Representatives, which he did, on June 30, 1852, with a
eulogy on the deceased which has rarely been equaled in
matter or manner. In 1853, he defeated ex-Gov. Letcher
for the same office in the same district. In the Democratic
National Convention at Cincinnati in 1856, he was unani-
mously nominated for the Vice-Presidency of the United
States ; was elected in November following, and was Vice-
President from March 4, 1857, to March 4, 1861, — at an
earlier age, I believe, than any of his predecessors. In the
Baltimore Convention of 1860, " he was, without his consent
and contrary to his wishes," unanimously nominated as their
candidate for the Presidency by the States-Rights Demo-
crats. At the election in November, he was defeated,
but he received, under the circumstances, a very large vote.
Kentucky elected him as one of her Senators to the
United States Congress, and he took his seat as such on
March 4, 1861. After doing what he deemed it to be his
duty to do in the Senate, in September he was constrained
to resign, and on October 8 he issued an address to the
citizens of Kentucky, rendering an account of his steward-
ship. He tendered his services to the Southern Con-
federacy, and was promptly appointed a brigadier-general
by President Davis. On December 4, 1861, the United
States Senate went through the form of expelling him.
On August 5, 1862, for gallant and efficient military ser-
vices, he was promoted to major-general in the C. S. A.
He fought at Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, Chickamauga,
Missionary Ridge, and other memorable engagements in
the South and West, and at New Market, Cold Harbor,
Monocacy, and other famous battles in the East. He was
Secretary of War of the Confederacy from February 5 to
April 26, 1865. After the surrender of Lee, he was with
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston in North Carolina ; joined Presi-
dent Davis, his cabinet and escort, in their flight, and was
for a time in command of the last hope of the Confederacy.
With his son Cabell and two companions, he escaped in an
open boat from the coast of Florida, and in eight days
GENERAL JOHN CABELL BRECKINRIDGE, C. S. A
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 495
landed upon the coast of Cuba. He remained in foreign
lands until the fall of 1868, when he returned home, where
he quietly practiced his profession until the end of his
days. He died at Lexington, Ky., May 17, 1875.
He had great social tact, very fascinating manners, and
almost unequaled conversational powers. A person un-
usually imposing, a countenance remarkably expressive
and handsome, a voice strong, clear, and sweet, were some
of the natural auxiliaries to his wonderful oratory. His
achievements as lawyer, politician, and warrior, between
his 21st and 44th year, have seldom been equaled.
377. Hon. John Cabell 5 and Mary C. Breckinridge had
issue six : —
388. i. Joseph Cabell c Breckinridge,
389. ii. Clifton Rodes 6 Breckinridge.
390. iii. Frances 6 Breckinridge, b. June 21, 1848, at Lex-
ington, Ky. ; m., in 1879, John Andrew Steele,
of Midway, Ky.
iv. John Cabell Breckinridge ; d. infant.
391. v. John Witherspoon Owen 6 Breckinridge, b. in
December, 1850, at Lexington, Ky. ; at Wash-
ington and Lee University, 1869-1870; m.
Louise Tevis, daughter of Lloyd Tevis, of San
Francisco, Cal. ; was pursuing a successful career
as a lawyer and member of the state senate of
California, when he died, May 9, 1892, at his
home in Mercer County, Cal., leaving several
children.
392. vi. Mary Desha 6 Breckinridge, b. in February, 1853,
in Lexington, Ky. ; m. Anson Maltby, of 48
Wall Street, N. Y.
388. Joseph Cabell 6 Breckinridge, born December 29,
1844, at Georgetown, Ky. ; major in C. S. A. ; married,
December 1, 1869, Sallie F. Johnson, daughter of Hon.
R. W. Johnson, of Arkansas, and has had issue : —
i. John Cabell 7 Breckinridge.
ii. Laura Breckinridge, m. Mr. Ten Eyck, of New York.
496 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
iii. Robert Johnson Breckinridge,
iv. Ben Johnson Breckinridge.
389. Clifton Rodes c Breckinridge, of Pine Bluff, Ark.,
born November 22, 1846, at Lexington, Ky. ; private
soldier C. S. A. ; midshipman C. S. N. at end of the war ;
after the war a clerk in a commercial house for two years ;
at Washington College (now Washington and Lee Univer-
sity), 1867-1870 ; cotton planter and commission merchant
in Arkansas, 1870-1883 ; alderman of Pine Bluff City one
term ; an associate trustee of the Washington and Lee
University, Va., since 1883 ; member of the United States
House of Representatives from Arkansas, March 4, 1883,
to March 4, 1895 ; appointed United States minister to
Russia in July, 1894, which office he is now filling. He
married, November 21, 1876, at Memphis, Tenn., Katherine
Breckinridge Carson, daughter of Dr. James Green Carson
(deceased), of Carroll Parish, La., and his wife Katherine,
daughter of William S. Waller, of Frankfort, Ky., youngest
son of Rev. William Edmund Waller, a Baptist minister,
who went from Virginia to Kentucky in 1783, a son of
Edmund Waller (eldest brother of Col. William Waller,
of Williamsburg, Va.), the second clerk of Spottsylvania
County, April 6, 1742, to October 1, 1751 (by his wife,
Mary Pendleton, whom he married in 1740), son of Col.
John Waller, of " Newport " (the first clerk of Spottsyl-
vania, August 7, 1722, to April 6, 1722 ; member of the
vestry of St. George's Parish ; member of the House of
Burgesses, etc. ; died in 1754), son of Col. John Waller,
who emigrated to Virginia about 1665 (said to be of the
same family as Edmund Waller the poet), and died about
1720. I am inclined to think that he was the son of the
poet by his second wife, " Maria ex Bressyorum," " of
whom," we are told in the English record of the family,
"no account has descended."
389. Hon. Clifton R. 6 and Katherine Breckinridge have
had issue three : —
i. James Carson 7 Breckinridge.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 497
ii. Mary Carson Breckinridge,
iii. Susanna Lees Breckinridge.
92. Mary Anne 4 Breckinridge, born in 1795 ; married
David Castleman, and had issue : —
i. Mary Anne 5 Castleman, " who d. in infancy, and her
mother soon after."
93. John 4 Breckinridge, born at Cabell's Dale," on
North Elkhorn, July 4, 1797. His father died when he
was nine years old, and from that time he was reared
under the care of his widowed mother and elder brother,
Cabell, who at eighteen had become the head of the fam-
ily. He graduated at Princeton College in 1818 ; studied
divinity at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1819-1821 ;
was licensed to preach in 1822 ; chaplain of the United
States House of Representatives, 1822-1823 ; pastor of the
McChord Church, Lexington, Ky., 1823-1826 ; of the Sec-
ond Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, Md., 1826-1831 ;
secretary and general agent of the board of education of
the Presbyterian Church, with headquarters in Philadel-
phia, 1831-1836 ; professor in the Theological Seminary at
Princeton, N. J., 1836-1838 ; his discussion with Bishop
Hughes (Romanist) was published with the title, " Roman
Catholic Controversy," in 1836. " Upon the organization
of the board of foreign missions by the Presbyterian
Church, he was elected its secretary and general agent,
and continued at the head of the operations of that board
from about 1838 to 1840." At the time of his death, he
was president-elect of the Oglethorpe University, Ga. He
died at " Cabell's Dale," Ky., August 4, 1841. He was an
eloquent preacher, an able controversialist and polemic
writer, a man of extraordinary talent. He died in the hey-
day of his usefulness.
Rev. Dr. E. P. Humphrey, in his address, delivered in
1876, said of him : " John Breckinridge became a believer
in Christ in early life, and was the first member of his
498 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
family to make a profession of religion. Through him
the gospel found access to the household. From him the
grace of God extended in due time to the mother, and to
every brother and sister, and to many of the servants. He
became one of the most attractive and powerful preachers
in the Presbyterian Church, and one of her most faithful
and honored sons."
He married (first), in January, 1823, Margaret, daughter
of Rev. Samuel Miller, D. D., professor of ecclesiastical his-
tory in Princeton Theological Seminary. She was born
September 29, 1802 ; died July 16, 1838. Issue : —
i. Elizabeth Miller 5 Breckinridge, d. young.
393. ii. Mary Cabell 5 Breckinridge.
394. iii. Samuel Miller 5 Breckinridge.
iv. Margaret Elizabeth 5 Breckinridge (1832-1864),
d. unmarried.
v. John Joseph 5 Breckinridge, d. infant.
vi. Margaret 5 Breckinridge, d. infant.
93. Rev. John 4 Breckinridge, D. D., married (second),
September 2, 1840, a daughter of Col. Babcock, of
Stonington, Conn., who, with one child, survived him : —
vii. Agatha Marshall 5 Breckinridge, b. July 13, 1841 ; d.,
unmarried, at Saybrook, Conn., where her mother
lived after the death of Dr. John Breckinridge.
393. Mary Cabell 5 Breckinridge, born October 12, 1826;
married her cousin, Peter A. Porter (372), March 30,
1852, and died August 4, 1854.
394. Samuel Miller 5 Breckinridge, born in Baltimore,
November 3, 1828 ; educated at Centre College, Ky.,
Princeton, N. J., and Union College, N. Y. ; graduated in
the law school of Transylvania College, and soon moved
to St. Louis, where he began the practice of law. He was
a member of the Missouri legislature in 1854 and 1855 ; a
judge of the circuit court in 1859. After serving one
term he resumed his law practice, and so continued up to
REV. JOHN BRECKINRIDGE, D. D.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 499
his death. " He was a close friend of President Lincoln,
and a strong Republican." He was an elder in the Presby-
terian Church, and a leading member in its General Assem-
blies. His death, on the floor of the General Presbyterian
Assembly, at Detroit, on May 28, 1891, of apoplexy, was
one of the most tragic scenes ever beheld. In the debate,
he had just made a speech against Rev. Dr. Briggs ; the
excitement in the body was intense ; he said : " Now, gen-
tlemen, I feel that I have discharged my duty, and wish to
be excused from further speaking." Then reaching for a
glass of water, he threw up his hands and fell dead.
Judge Breckinridge was one of the most distinguished
lawyers in this country, and his law practice was tremen-
dous. He married, October 8, 1850, his cousin, Virginia
H. 5 Castleman (435). She was born July 4, 1827, and is
now living in St. Louis, Mo. Issue eight : —
395. i. Margaret Miller 6 Breckinridge, b. June 22, 1851 ;
m. William S. Long, and has: i. Margaret
M. 7 ; and ii. Samuel M. B. 7 Long.
396. ii. Virginia Castleman G Breckinridge, b. December
15, 1853 ; m., June 23, 1892, Onward Bates,
a civil engineer, of Chicago, 111., son of Judge
Barton Bates, of St. Louis, son of Hon. Ed-
ward Bates (attorney-general), son of Thomas
Fleming Bates (and his wife, Caroline Matilda
Woodson, granddaughter of Tarleton Wood-
son and Ursula Fleming), grandson of John
Bates and his wife, Susanna (sister to Ursula
and daughter of Col. Charles) Fleming.
397. in. Mary Cabell Porter G Breckinridge, b. December
30, 1855 ; m. Richard K. Cross, attorney at
law, of Baltimore, Md., and has : i. Virginia
B. 7 ; and ii. Elizabeth B. 7 Cross.
398. iv. John 6 Breckinridge, b. June 1, 1858 ; educated
at West Point, but resigned from the army.
" He is married, lives in Huntsville, Mo., and
has had seven children."
500 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
399. v. David Castleman 6 Breckinridge, b. June 7, 1860 ;
educated at Princeton College, N. J. ; attorney
at law ; now in business in New York.
vi. Almy Hicks 6 Breckinridge, b. April 6, 1862.
vii. Samuel Miller Breckinridge, b. 1866 ; d. infant,
viii. Elizabeth L. P. Breckinridge, b. September 2,
1868.
94. Robert Jefferson 4 Breckinridge, born at " Cabell's
Dale," Ky., March 8, 1800; studied successively at Prince-
ton, Yale, and Union colleges, graduating at the last in 1819.
He then fitted himself for the Bar, and practiced law in Ken-
tucky from 1823 to 1831 ; member of the state legislature,
1825-1828 ; studied for the ministry, 1831 ; licensed as a
minister in 1832, he became pastor of the Second Presby-
terian Church in Baltimore, and continued there until
1845. He was made a D. D. by Union College in 1839 ;
and, the same year, published at Philadelphia, " Travels in
France, Germany," etc. He fell heir to the discussion with
the Papists begun by his brother John. He edited " The
Literary and Religious Magazine " and the " Spirit of the
Nineteenth Century." In 1841, he published " Papism in
the Nineteenth Century in the United States," and, in
1845, " Memoranda of Foreign Travels."
He was president of Jefferson College, Pa., 1845-1847.
The college conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in
1847. He was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church,
Lexington, Ky., and superintendent of public instruction
for the State from 1847 to 1853. *? He is the principal
author of the common-school system of Kentucky." " In
the anti-slavery discussions he opposed the extremists of
either side." In 1853, he was elected professor of theology
in the newly established seminary at Danville, Ky., and
continued in this position to his death.
He published "Internal Evidence of Christianity," in
1852; "The Knowledge of God Objectively Considered,"
in 1857 ; " The Knowledge of God Subjectively Consid-
JUDGE SAMUEL MILLER BRECKINRIDGE
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 501
ered," in 1859, etc. " He was one of the most voluminous
writers of America." During the war between the States
lie took sides with the North. He died at Danville, Ky.,
December 27, 1871, " the Napoleon of his church," noted
for his eloquence, eminent for his learning and ability. Dr.
Humphrey said of him : —
" Few men in our day were so richly endowed. Few
men made a mark so deep and permanent on the religious
history of his time. He was distinguished as a thinker, a
preacher, a debater, and leader in all the assemblies, and in
all the emergencies of his church."
He married (first), March 11, 1823, Ann Sophonisba,
daughter of Gen. Francis Preston, of Abington, Va., by his
wife, Sarah B. Campbell, daughter of Gen. William Camp-
bell and his wife, Elizabeth Henry, sister to Patrick Henry
the orator. Gen. Francis Preston was the son of William
Preston (1730-1783) and his wife, Susanna, daughter of
Francis and Elizabeth Waddy Smith, of Hanover County,
Va. (See " Memoranda of the Preston Family," by John
Mason Brown.) Mrs. Ann Sophonisba P. Breckinridge died
December 21, 1844, having had issue : —
Francis Preston 5 Breckinridge, d. infant.
Louisiana Hart 5 Breckinridge, d. infant.
Mary Cabell 5 Breckinridge.
John 5 Breckinridge, d. infant.
Sarah Campbell 5 Breckinridge.
Robert J. 5 Breckinridge.
Marie Lettice Preston 5 Breckinridge.
404. viii. William Campbell Preston 5 Breckinridge.
405. ix. Sophonisba Preston 5 Breckinridge.
406. x. Joseph Cabell 5 Breckinridge.
xi. Charles Henry 5 Breckinridge, b. September 9,
1844 ; graduated at West Point ; died a cap-
tain in U. S. A., August 27, 1867 ; unmarried.
94. Rev. Robert J. 4 Breckinridge married (second), April
1, 1847, Mrs. Virginia Shelby (first cousin to his first wife),
widow of Alfred, son of Gov. Isaac Shelby, and daughter
i.
ii.
400.
iii.
iv.
401.
v.
402.
vi.
403.
vii.
502 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
of Nathaniel Hart (by his wife, Susanna Preston, sister to
Gen. Francis Preston), son of Col. Nathaniel Hart, Sr., the
Kentucky pioneer, who was born in Hanover County, Va.,
in 1734. She died, having had : —
xii. Virginia Hart 5 Breckinridge, cl. young,
xiii. Nathaniel Hart 5 Breckinridge, d. infant,
xiv. John Robert 5 Breckinridge, b. September 25, 1850;
graduated at Princeton, 1869 ; was murdered April
9, 1874 ; never married.
94. Rev. Robert J. 4 Breckinridge married (third), Novem-
ber 5, 1868, Mrs. Margaret (Faulkner) White. There were
no children of this marriage.
400. Mary Cabell 5 Breckinridge, born at "Cabell's
Dale," near Lexington, Ky., April 6, 1828 ; married, De-
cember 21, 1848, William Warfield, Esq., of Grasmere,
near Lexington, Ky., who was born at " Grasmere," May
30, 1827 ; graduated at Kentucky University, 1846 ; com-
missioned a captain in the Union Army by Pres. Lincoln,
1861 ; a commissioner to the Centennial Exposition, 1876 ;
studied medicine, but has been engaged in the breeding of
thoroughbred cattle since 1848. Author of a " History of
Short Horn Cattle in America," 1884 ; " The Theory and
Practice of Cattle Breeding," 1888 ; and many fugitive
pamphlets and articles. He was the son of Benjamin War-
field, — born February 5, 1790 (by his wife, Sarah Caldwell,
daughter of William Caldwell, who emigrated from the North
of Ireland, served in the Revolution, and received a wound
at Brandywine), who served in the War of 1812 as captain
in Col. R. M. Johnson's regiment ; represented Harrison
County, Ky., 1820-1822 ; practiced law in partnership with
Robert Wicliffe, at Lexington, Ky., 1824-1831 ; won a
great name as improver of fine stock ; died October 27,
1856, — son of Elisha Warfield (by his second wife, Ruth
Burgess), born in Maryland, November 29, 1741 ; emigrated
to Kentucky in 1790 ; settled near Bryon's station, and died
there July 16, 1818 ; son of Benjamin Warfield (by his first
REV. ROBERT JEFFERSON BRECKINRIDGE, D. D , LL. D
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 503
wife, Rebecca Ridgeley, daughter of Hon. Nicholas Ridge-
ley, judge of the Supreme Court of Delaware, and his wife,
Sarah, daughter of Col. John Worthington), grandson of
Richard Warfield, who emigrated from Wales or the Welsh
border of Shropshire into Maryland about 1637, and settled
in Anne Arundel County, where he died in 1703.
400. Mrs. Mary Cabell 5 Warfield had issue four : —
i. Sophonisba Preston 6 Warfield, b. 1849 ; d. 1866.
407. ii. Benjamin Breckinridge 6 Warfield.
iii. Sarah Caldwell 6 Warfield, b. 1853; d. 1853.
408. iv. Ethelbert Dudley 6 Warfield.
407. Benjamin Breckinridge 6 Warfield, born November
5, 1851 ; graduated at Princeton College, 1871, with the
highest honors of his class ; studied in Edinburgh, Ger-
many, and France, 1872-1873 ; graduated from Princeton
Theological Seminary, 1876 ; studied at University of Leip-
sic, 1876-1877 ; stated supply, First Presbyterian Church
of Baltimore, Md., 1877-1878 ; instructor in New Testa-
ment literature and exegesis, Western Theological Seminary,
at Allegheny, Pa., 1878 ; professor there, 1879-1887 ; dele-
gate to Pan-Presbyterian Council, Belfast, 1884 ; professor
of didactic and polemic theology, Princeton Theological
Seminary, 1887 to the present time ; editor of the " Presby-
terian Review," 1888-1889 ; editor of the " Presbyterian
and Reformed Review," 1890 to the present time ; author
of " Textual Criticism of the New Testament," and numer-
ous pamphlets ; D. D., 1878 ; LL. D., 1892 (College of New
Jersey) ; and LL. D., 1892 (Davidson College, N. C.) ; mar-
ried, August 3, 1876, Annie Pearce Kinkead, of Lexington,,
Ky. She is the daughter of George Blackburn Kinkead
(by his wife, Eliza Pearce), son of John Kinkead (by his
wife, Margaret Blackburn), son of Capt. William Kinkead
(born probably in Pennsylvania, in 1736 ; removed to
Augusta County, Va. ; served in the Revolution ; moved to
Kentucky in 1789) by Iris wife, Eleanor Guy, who was cap-
tured by the Indians in Augusta County, Va., in the spring
of 1764, and recaptured in 1778. 1
1 See Col. Bouquet's Expedition, p. 79.
504 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Eliza Pearce (wife of George Blackburn Kinkead) was a
daughter of James Pearce and his wife, Anne Clark,
daughter of General Jonathan Clark (brother of Gen.
George Rogers Clark and Gov. William Clark), born in
Albemarle County, Va., August 12, 1750; died in Jeffer-
son County, Ky., November 25, 1811 (by his wife, Sarah
Hite, born in Frederick County, Va., May 11, 1758 ; mar-
ried in Virginia, February 13, 1782 ; died in Kentucky in
1818) ; son of John Clark, born in King and Queen
County, Va., October 20, 1725 ; married, in 1749, his
cousin, Ann Rogers (born in King and Queen County, Va.,
October 31, 1734 ; died at " Mulberry Hill," Ky., Decem-
ber 24, 1798, daughter of John and Mary Bird Rogers,
of Virginia) ; settled on lands given him by his father in
Albemarle ; deed of partition of 820 acres between his bro-
ther Ben and himself, August 13, 1752 ; his 410 acres lay
about two miles northeast of Charlottesville, along the
Rivanna, and on this tract in November, 1752, his son,
George Rogers Clark, " the Hannibal of the West," was
born ; he removed to Caroline County, possibly before
1757 ; sold his Albemarle land to William Tandy in 1760 ;
removed to Kentucky after the Revolution. His old log-
house, built in 1784, was standing in 1887. He died at
his residence, Mulberry Hill, Jefferson County, Ky., July
30, 1799. He was a son of Jonathan Clark, of King and
Queen County, Va., who was among the first of the stream
of emigrants coming down the east side of the mountains
to acquire lands in the present county of Albemarle. On
May 25, 1734, Jonathan Clark, Thomas Graves, Edwin
Hickman, and his son-in-law, Joseph Smith, received a grant
for 3277 acres of land along the Rivanna, extending, I be-
lieve, from the present " Monticello " mountains up to the
forks of the river. Col. Peter Jefferson afterwards pur-
chased a portion of this grant. Jonathan Clark, by his will
dated April 9, 1734, left his portion (820 acres) to his sons
John and Benjamin aforesaid. He died, I believe, soon
after the date of his will. His widow, Elizabeth Lumpkin,
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 505
married (second) Mr. Richards. Was she the mother of
Elizabeth Richards, who married Richard Todd (parents
of Judge Thomas Todd, of Kentucky), and of Catharine
Richards, who married Rev. Robert Lines, the parents of
Judge Hary Lines, of Kentucky ? Edwin Hickman (died
in 1769) was the grandfather of Gen. Richard Hickman,
of Kentucky.
408. Ethelbert Dudley 6 Warfield, born March 16, 1861 ;
graduated at Princeton College, 1882 ; studied at Wadham
College, Oxford, England, 1882-1883, and in Germany
during the summer of 1883 ; graduated at Columbia Col-
lege Law School (New York), 1885 ; admitted to the Bar,
June 16, 1884 ; practiced law in New York and in Lexing-
ton, Ky. ; candidate for elector at large from Kentucky,
Republican ticket, 1888 ; president and professor of his-
tory, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1888-1891 ; presi-
dent and professor of political science, Lafayette College,
Easton, Pa., 1891 to the present time ; author of " Ken-
tucky Resolutions of 1798 : an Historical Monograph,"
1887, and various pamphlets and fugitive articles ; director
of Princeton Theological Seminary ; member of Phi Beta
Kappa, American Historical, and other learned societies ;
LL. D. (College of New Jersey and Miami University),
1891 ; married (first), January 28, 1866, Sarah Lacey
Brookes, of St. Louis, Mo. She died November 25, 1886 ;
married (second), August 28, 1890, Eleanor Frances Tilton,
of Natick, Mass., and has two children : —
i. William 7 Warfield, Jr., b. December 4, 1891.
ii. Mary Cabell Warfield, b. November 26, 1894, Easton,
Pa.
401. Sarah Campbell 5 Breckinridge, born September 6,
1832 ; married, in August, 1856, Rev. George Morrison, of
Maryland, and died in 1865, without issue.
402. Robert J. 5 Breckinridge, Jr., born September 14,
1834 ; educated at Centre College, Ky., and at the Univer-
506 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
sity of Virginia ; a lawyer ; captain and afterwards colonel
in C. S. A. ; member of the Confederate Congress ; judge
of the court of common pleas, eighth district, Danville, Ky.
He married (first), March 18, 1856, Miss Kate Morrison,
of Lexington, Ky. She died, leaving surviving issue : —
i. Robert J. 6 Breckinridge, b. June 1, 1859.
ii. B. Morrison 6 Breckinridge, b. August 16, 1873.
402. Robert J. 5 Breckinridge, Jr., married (second),
in 1882, Lilla Morrison, sister of his first wife, and daughter
of Moses Morrison, Esq., of Covington, Ky.
403. Marie Lettice 5 Breckinridge, born August 14, 1836,
in Paris, France ; married, October 1, 1857, at Breadal-
bane, near Lexington, Ky., by her father, to Rev. William
Collins Handy, son of William W. Handy, of Somerset
County, Md., and his wife, Sarah Brown Upshur, of North-
ampton County, Va. Issue eight : —
409. i. Robert Breckinridge c Handy.
ii. William Collins 6 Handy, b. April 19, 1860, near
Careton, Madison County, Miss.
410. hi. Levin Irving Handy.
411. iv. John Breckinridge Upshur Handy.
v. Marie Preston 6 Handy, b. July 14, 1865, at Ber-
lin, Worcester County, Md.
vi. Charles B. 6 Handy, b. October 17, 1868, in Mary-
land ; d. infant,
vii. Sophonisba Preston 6 Handy, b. September 16,
1871, at New Scotland, Albany County, N. Y.
viii. Joseph Breckinridge ° Handy, b. January 17,
1873, at New Scotland, Albany County, N.Y.
409. Robert B. 6 Handy, born August 27, 1858, at Lewes,
Delaware; married (first), May 29, 1879, at Schoharie,
Schoharie County, N. Y., to Jennie M. S. Case, of Schoha-
rie, aforesaid. She died s. p. He was married (second),
January 25, 1880, in Cumberland, Md., by Rev. P. N.
Meade, to Effie Bruce, only child of Dr. John J. Bruce, of
Cumberland, and Anne Worthington Dorsey Johnson, his
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 507
wife. They reside in Northampton County, Va., and he is
one of the trustees of Margaret Academy, on the eastern
shore of Virginia. Issue six : —
i. Anne Bruce 7 Handy, b. July 1, 1884.
ii. Robert Breckinridge 7 Handy, b. December 24, 1885.
iii. John Bruce 7 Handy, b. December 26, 1887.
iv. William Upshur 7 Handy, b. March 8, 1890.
v. Marie Breckinridge 7 Handy, b. January 2, 1892.
vi. Effie Bruce 7 Handy, b. July 16, 1894.
410. Levin Irving 6 Handy, born December 24, 1861,
at Berlin, Worcester County, Md. ; editor and lecturer,
Newark, Del. ; married at Smyrna, Del., by Rev. John A.
Roche, on January 25, 1887, to Mary Corbit Bell, daughter
of William M. Bell, Esq., of Smyrna. Issue : —
i. Margaret Irving 7 Handy, b. May 27, 1889, at Smyrna,
Del.
ii. Levin Irving 7 Handy, b. April 8, 1891, at Newark, Del.
411. John Breckinridge Upshur G Handy, born Septem-
ber 8, 1863, at Berlin, Worcester County, Md. ; married at
Williamsburg, Va., by Rev. John Anderson (brother of the
bride), on January 27, 1887, to Eliza Leake Anderson,
daughter of Richard W. Anderson, Esq., of Richmond,
Va. Issue : —
i. John Breckinridge Upshur 7 Handy, b. September 27,
1888, at St. Paul, Minn.
ii. Richard Anderson 7 Handy ; d. infant.
iii. Preston Breckinridge 7 Handy, b. May 18, 1891, at St.
Paul, Minn.
iv. Marie Lettice 7 Handy, b. October 25, 1893, at Scho-
harie, N. Y.
404. William Campbell Preston 5 Breckinridge, born
August 28, 1837, near Baltimore ; graduated at Centre
College, Danville, Ky., April 26, 1855, and in the law de-
partment of the University of Louisville, February 27,
1857 ; entered the Bar that year on his diploma in lieu
of a license, as he was under 21. He entered the C. S. A.
508 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
in the fall of 1861 as a captain, and rose through different
grades until he was colonel of the 9th Kentucky Cavalry ;
was in command of the Kentucky Cavalry Brigade when it
was surrendered at the close of the war. After the war,
he resumed the practice of law ; was elected to the Forty-
ninth Congress in 1884, as a Democrat from the seventh
district of Kentucky, and has been reelected continuously
since.
401. He married (first), March 17, 1859, Lucretia Clay,
daughter of Hon. Thomas H. Clay. She died in April,
1860, leaving : —
i. Lee Clay G Breckinridge; d. infant.
404. He married (second), September 19, 1861, Issa,
daughter of Dr. J. R. Desha, of Lexington, Ky. She died
in 1892. She had issue : —
ii. Ella D. G Breckinridge, m. Lyman Chalkley.
hi. Sophonisba A. 6 Breckinridge,
iv. Desha c Breckinridge,
v. Campbell c Breckinridge, b. September 24, 1869 ; d.
October 12, 1870.
vi. Issa Desha 6 Breckinridge, b. February 17, 1871 ; d.
July 14, 1872.
vii. Robert J. 6 Breckinridge,
viii. Mary Curry 6 Breckinridge.
404. He married (third), in 1893, his cousin, Mrs. Louise
R. Scott Wing, widow of Hon. E. Rumsey Wing, and
daughter of Robert W. Scott, Esq., of Franklin County,
Ky., and his wife, Elizabeth W. Brown, daughter of Dr.
Preston W. Brown, of Kentucky, and his wife, Elizabeth
Watts, of Virginia. Dr. Preston W. Brown was son of
Rev. John Brown and his wife, Margaret Preston.
405. Sophonisba Preston 5 Breckinridge, born August
22, 1839 ; married, April 27, 1858, Dr. Theophilus Steele,
Jr., "formerly of Woodford County, Ky., now (1879) of
New York city." He was a major in the C. S. A. Issue : —
i. Robert Breckinridge 6 Steele, d. infant.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 509
ii. Mary Warfield 6 Steele.
412. iii. Tkeopkilus Breckinridge 6 Steele.
iv. Ekza Wilson 6 Steele.
v. Sopkonisba Preston Breckinridge 6 Steele.
412. Tkeopkilus B. 6 Steele married, February 2, 1883,
Rotk Constance Tkurlow, and lias : —
i. Robert Breckinridge Steele, b. December 14, 1883.
ii. Tkeopkilus Breckinridge Steele, b. May 4, 1885.
iii. Helen McC. Steele.
iv. Rotk Tkurlow Steele.
406. Josepk Cabell 5 Breckinridge, born January 14,
1842, at midnigkt, in tke manse of tke Second Presbyterian
Ckurck, Baltimore, Md. ; educated at Centre College, Ky.,
and University of Virginia ; at tke beginning of tke war
abandoned tke study of law to join Gen. William Nelson's
force of Kentuckians in tke U. S. A., of wkick lie soon
became acting assistant adjutant-general. For gallantry at
tke battle of Mill Springs, Ky., ke received a commission in
Battery B, 2d Artillery, U. S. A., dated April 14, 1862, and
afterwards served witk batteries C, H, F, A, M, and K ;
brevetted captain July 26, 1864, and major Marck 13, 1865,
" for gallant and meritorious conduct in front of Atlanta "
and " during tke war." He also served on tke staff of
Gens. Nelson, Tkomas, Halleck, McDowell, Terry, Crook,
and Sckofield, participating in campaigns of Millspring,
Skilok, Gulf, Atlanta, and Naskville ; in peace, lie served on
tke Pacific and in tke central military divisions ; lie was pro-
moted in 1881 major, inspector-general, and rapidly passed
tkrougk tke grades of lieutenant-colonel and colonel. In
June, 1889, ke prepared tke noted General Orders No. 50.
On January 30, 1890, lie was promoted brigadier-general
and inspector-general of tke army. Since lie kas keld this
position, tke inspector-general's department kas attained its
present kigk standard of excellence, its influence being felt
for good by tke wkole army.
Gen. Breckinridge also originated tke movement em-
510 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
bodied in General Orders No. 15, 1890, and has urged many
recently adopted improvements in the administration of
military affairs and the efficiency of the army. He has
been president of the District of Columbia Society, and
first vice-president general of the National Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution, and is a member of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion.
He married, July 21, 1868, Louisa L. Dudley (No. 2094,
Daughters of the American Revolution), daughter of Dr.
Ethelbert L. Dudley, of Lexington, Ky. (colonel of the
21st Regiment Kentucky Volunteers, U. S. A., in the late
war), by his wife Mary Scott, daughter of Matthew Thomp-
son Scott [born in Shippensburg, Pa., in 1786, died in
Lexington, Ky., August 20, 1858, son of Capt. Matthew
Scott of the Revolution, who was also the ancestor of the
late Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes], by his wife (married, June
28, 1810), Winifred Webb, born in Fayette County, Ky.,
1793 ; died July 8, 1833 (daughter of Capt. Isaac Webb,
of the Revolution, from Virginia, who was also the ancestor
of the late Mrs. Benjamin Harrison).
Dr. Ethelbert Ludlow Dudley descended from Gen. James
Chambers, Col. Cornelius Ludlow, and Capt. Ambrose Dud-
ley (born in 1750 in Spottsylvania County, Va.), of Revo-
lutionary fame.
406. Gen. Joseph Cabell 5 and Louisa L. Dudley Breckin-
ridge have had issue thirteen : —
i. Mary Dudley 6 Breckinridge, b. July 20, 1869.
ii. Robert Jefferson 6 Breckinridge, d. infant.
iii. Joseph Cabell Breckinridge, b. March 6, 1872.
iv. Louise Dudley Breckinridge, d. infant,
v. Ethelbert L. Dudley Breckinridge, b. July 17, 1875.
vi. Mabell Warfield Breckinridge, d. infant.
vh. Lucian Scott Breckinridge, b. December 1, 1878.
viii. Lucy Hayes Breckinridge, b. January 7, 1881.
ix. Scott Dudley Breckinridge, b. May 23, 1882.
x. Charles Henry Preston Breckinridge, d. infant.
xi. Henry Skillman Breckinridge, b. May 25, 1886.
GEN. JOSEPH CABELL BRECKINRIDGE, U. S. A.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 511
xii. Margaret Scott Skillman Breckinridge, b. May 1, 1889.
xiii. John Preston Breckinridge, b. October 29, 1890.
95. William Lewis 4 Breckinridge, born at " Cabell's
Dale," Ky., July 22, 1803; his education was completed
at Transylvania University. Rev. Dr. E. P. Humphrey, in
his funeral sermon, gave the following sketch of his life : —
" Rev. Dr. William L. Breckinridge became a disciple of
Christ at the age of fifteen. He began life as a farmer,
first in the neighborhood of Louisville and then in Fayette
County, Ky. But it pleased God to call him into the
ministry, and no sooner was he called than he obeyed. He
began to preach the gospel about forty-five years ago in the
Presbyterian Church in Maysville, Ky. This entire period
of forty-five years has been filled with unremitting labors
in the pastoral charge, or in schools of learning. He has
held the office of professor in the college at Danville, Ky.,
and the office of president in Oakland College, Miss., and in
Centre College, Ky. He first sustained the pastoral charge
in Maysville, Ky., and he closed his life as a minister at
large in Cass County, Mo. ; but the golden period of his
life waj devoted to the pastoral care of the First Church in
Louisville. He began his labors here on the first Sabbath
of January, 1836, and continued them about twenty-three
years. [He was moderator of the Second General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Council in 1859.]
" We have mentioned the influences under which he was
educated at home. These influences were strengthened
by the piety and the practical wisdom and the love of the
noble woman who became his wife when both were very
young, even in the forming period of life. He was a
courteous, urbane, and polished Christian gentleman. He
was remarkable for his candor, his transparent honesty in
every word and act of life. It was often said that no man
in Louisville was more influential than he. " All ye that
are about him bemoan him ; and all ye that know his name
say, How is the strong staff broken and the beautiful rod."
512 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
He married (first), in 1823 or 1824, Frances C, daughter
of Judge Prevost, of Louisiana, and granddaughter of
Pres. S. S. Smith, of Princeton, whose daughter married
Joseph C. Breckinridge (132). Judge Prevost is said to
have been the son of Mrs. Aaron Burr by her first husband,
" Gen. Augustine Prevost, a British officer of the American
Revolution, by his wife Anne, who was a daughter of Chev-
alier George Grand, of Amsterdam."
95. Rev. William L. 4 and Frances C. Prevost Breckin-
ridge had issue twelve : —
i. Cabell 5 Breckinridge, b. March 11, 1825; d.
August 10, 1837.
413. ii. John Barton 5 Breckinridge, b. October 6, 1826 ;
graduate of Princeton, 1843 ; an editor ; d. un-
married.
Robert James 5 Breckinridge.
Marcus Prevost 5 Breckinridge.
William Lewis 5 Breckinridge, Jr.
Lewis Green 5 Breckinridge, b. 1834 ; d. 1835.
Francis Prevost 5 Breckinridge.
417. viii. Mary Hopkins 5 Breckinridge.
418. ix. Stanhope Prevost 5 Breckinridge.
x. Theodosia P. 5 Breckinridge, b. 1843 ; d. 1844.
419. xi. Cabell 5 Breckinridge.
xii. Letitia P. 5 Breckinridge, b. 1849 ; d. 1852.
95. Rev. W. L. 4 Breckinridge, D. D., married (second)
Mrs. Sarah A. Garnett, widow of Dr. R. B. Garnett, and
daughter of Judge Christopher Tompkins. 1
She is now living' at Evanston, Illinois.
414.
iii.
415.
iv.
416.
v.
vi.
vii.
o
414. Robert James 5 Breckinridge, born December 2,
1828; educated at Centre College, Ky. ; physician of
Louisville, Ky. ; medical inspector, C. S. A. ; died July 8,
1867. He married Kate Hunt [a sister to the wife of
Albert Fink, of railroad fame, and daughter of A. D. Hunt,
of Louisville, Ky. (an uncle of Gen. John H. Morgan), by
1 See Green's Historic Families of Kentucky, p. 197.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 513
his wife, Ellen Jackson, sister of James (331) and (332)
George M. Jackson, of Hon. William M. Jackson, of Ala-
bama, and of the wives of Capt. James Kirkman, C. S. A.,
and Rufus K. Polk, a brother of Gen. Leonidas Polk, C. S.
A.] Issue six : —
i. Ellen 6 Breckinridge.
ii. Frances 6 Breckinridge, m. Capt. Stephen Jones,
U. S. N., of Louisville, Ky.
iii. Hunt 6 Breckinridge,
iv. Robert 6 Breckinridge.
v. Richard 6 Breckinridge.
vi. Kate 6 Breckinridge, m. Mr. Bishop, of Louisville, Ky.
415. Marcus Prevost 5 Breckinridge, born October 17,
1830 ; graduated at Princeton, 1848 ; was a physician ;
a captain in U. S. A.; died July 25, 1870, at Alton, 111.
He married, January 27, 1853, in Louisville, Ky., Miss
Lucy, only daughter of Col. S. H. Long, U. S. A. Is-
sue : —
i. Stephen Long 6 Breckinridge (M. D.), b. July 4, 1854,
at Louisville, Ky.
ii. William Lewis 6 Breckinridge (C. E.), b. June 29, 1857,
at Louisville,
iii. Theodosia Prevost 6 Breckinridge, b. February 27, 1860,
at Upper Alton, 111. ; (d. unmarried .)
iv. Lucy 6 Breckinridge, b. October 15, 1862, at Upper
Alton, 111. (" She is married.")
v. Marcus P. 6 Breckinridge, b. November 28, 1865, at
Upper Alton, IU. ; d. July 27, 1866.
vi. Richard 6 Breckinridge, b. January 22, 1869, at Upper
Alton, 111.
416. William Lewis 5 Breckinridge, born November 12,
1832 ; married, March 4, 1856, Anna P., daughter of
Jordan Clark, of Louisville, Ky., and Jane Logan, his wife,
daughter of Judge William Logan. 1
1 See Green's Historic Families of Kentucky, pp. 161-167.
514 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
William L. 5 Breckinridge died some years ago, having
had issue eight : —
i. Charles Clark 6 Breckinridge, of St. Louis, Mo.
ii. William Lewis 6 Breckinridge, d. infant,
iii. Frances Prevost G Breckinridge. (" She is married.")
iv. Cornelia Logan 6 Breckinridge. (" She is married.")
v. William Anderson Breckinridge, d. infant,
vi. Robert James Breckinridge, d. infant,
vii. Sarah Pope Breckinridge,
vhi. Thomas Satterwhite Breckinridge.
417. Mary H. 6 Breckinridge, born February 1, 1839 ;
married, October 25, 1866, Milton McKnight, of Louisville,
Ky., son of Virgil McKnight (and his wife, Anne Logan),
son of Andrew McKnight and his wife, Elizabeth Cum-
mings, daughter of John Cummings and his wife, Esther
Reid, daughter of Andrew Reid and Sarah Reid his wife,
citizens of Old Amherst County, Va., in 1761. (See 140.)
Mrs. Milton 5 McKnight had issue three : —
i. Frances Prevost 6 McKnight.
ii. Anne L. McKnight.
iii. Virgil McKnight.
418. Stanhope Prevost 5 Breckinridge, born April 20,
1841 ; educated at Centre College ; physician and surgeon,
C. S. A. ; physician of Louisville, Ky. He married, April
30, 1868, Rosa Logan McKnight [sister of Milton Mc-
Knight, who married Mary Hopkins Breckinridge (417)],
daughter of Virgil McKnight. 1
Mrs. Rosa L. McK. Breckinridge died August 13, 1868,
without issue. " Her husband removed to Chattanooga,
Tenn. He is now dead."
419. Cabell 5 Breckinridge, born November 22, 1846;
"educated at Centre College and a school of civil engineer-
ing ; " is a civil engineer. He married, October 7, 1868,
1 See Green's Historic Families of Kentucky, p. 170.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 515
Miss Julia Symes Marshall, of Covington, Ky. ; resided in
Missouri ; they now live at Elwanger, Ky. Issue : —
i. Mary S. 6 Breckinridge, teacher in Deaf Mute College,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
ii. Frances P. 6 Breckinridge.
20. ANN 3 CABELL HARRISON'S DESCENDANTS.
96. Susanna Randolph 4 Harrison, born in April, 1789,
" at Mulberry Grove, in Buckingham County, Virginia, the
residence of her maternal grandfather, where her parents
were married, now (1857) the residence of Col. Bondu-
rant ; " married (first) Charles Lewis, a merchant of Lynch-
burg, Va. ; (second), Hugh Brent, Sr., a merchant of Paris,
Ky., having no issue by either; she died October 12,
1860.
97. Mary Hopkins 4 Harrison, born at " Mulberry
Grove," Va., April 9, 1791 ; married, at " Elk Hill," Ky.,
in February, 1812, Samuel Q. Richardson, and died June
10, 1834. [Her husband, a colonel in the War of 1812, a
lawyer of distinction at the Lexington, Ky., Bar, was mur-
dered at Frankfort by the desperado, John U. Waring,
February 11, 1835, in his 45th year. He was a son of Capt.
John Crowley Richardson (by his wife, Sarah Bainbridge
Price, a relative of Commodore William Bainbridge), of
the Maryland line Continental Army, son of Col. William
Richardson (by his wife, Isabel Cahnes, daughter of " the
Marquis de la Cahnes, a Huguenot nobleman, one of the
first settlers of the valley of Virginia," in what is now
Clarke County, and grandfather of Gen. Marquis Cahnes, a
captain of the Virginia fine in the Revolution, and brigadier-
general of Kentucky Volunteers in the battle of " the
Thames"), of the Continental service, who commanded the
4th battalion of the Maryland Flying Corps, and later the
5th battalion of the fine ; he was also a member of the Con-
vention which ratified the Constitution of the United States
516 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
in 1788. He was a son of Joseph Richardson (son of
William Richardson, of Somerset County, Md., " apparently
a minister of the Society of Friends," who died in May,
1698), who was married October 25, 1705, at West River
Meeting-House, in Maryland, to Sarah, eldest daughter of
Samuel Thomas, " a prominent member of the Society of
Friends," son of Philip Thomas, who emigrated to Mary-
land in 1651 from Bristol, England, by his wife, Sarah
Harrison, a leading member of the Society of Friends.
[See L. B. Thomas' " Maryland Genealogical Notes."]
Issue : —
420. i. Anna Cabell 5 Richardson.
421. ii. Sarah Bainbridge 5 Richardson.
422. iii. Mary H. B. 5 Richardson.
iv. John Crowley 5 Richardson, b. May 4, 1824; d.
a midshipman U. S. N., in his 18th year, at
Singapore, Straits Settlements.
423. v. Robert Carter 5 Richardson.
424. vi. Samuel Q. 5 Richardson.
420. Anna Cabell 5 Richardson, born February, 1814 ;
married, in 1841, Dr. William Todd, of Farmington, Iowa ;
died in 1887, leaving four children 6 .
421. Sarah B. 5 Richardson, born October 8, 1815 (living,
1894) ; married, at Palmyra, Mo., February 13, 1844, Rev.
John Leighton, D. D. [He was born near Londonderry,
Ireland, May 4, 1813, the son of Joseph and Jean Walker
Leighton ; was a Presbyterian minister and author of great
learning and piety ; one of the pioneer ministers of Mis-
souri ; pastor in Palmyra 13 and in Hannibal 17 years,
spending the later years of his life with his daughter, Mrs.
Shields, in St. Louis. He died August 16, 1885.] Issue,
two daughters : —
425. i. Mary Harrison 6 Leighton.
426. ii. Josephine Walker 6 Leighton.
425. Mary Harrison 6 Leighton, born at Palmyra, Mo.,
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 517
November 27, 1844 ; married in Hannibal, Mo., February
1, 1866, Hon. George Howell Shields (eldest son of George
W. Shields, of Ohio, and his wife, Martha Ann Howell, of
Kentucky, who moved to Hannibal, Mo., in 1844) ; born
in Bardstown, Ky., June 19, 1842 ; captain in the enrolled
Missouri militia, U. S. A., in 1863-1864 ; graduated at
Louisville Law School, 1865 ; elected city attorney of Han-
nibal, Mo., in 1866, and held the office three terms; elected
on the Republican ticket to the Missouri legislature, in
1870, as a representative of Marion County ; candidate for
judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri on the Republican
ticket in 1874 ; moved to St. Louis in 1873, and for ten
years was partner of Hon. John B. Henderson, United
States Senator from Missouri ; was chairman of the Repub-
lican State Central Committee, of Missouri, 1876-1880 ;
member of the Constitutional Convention of Missouri which
framed the present Constitution; president of the board of
freeholders that framed the present charter of St. Louis,
which was the first charter giving a city practically the right
of self-government; appointed assistant attorney-general by
Pres. Harrison, in April, 1889, and served four years as legal
adviser to Hon. John W. Noble, the Secretary of the Interior;
agent and counsel of the United States before the interna-
tional tribunal between the United States and Chili for the
settlement of the claims of the citizeae of either country
against the respective governments, 1893-1894 ; first vice-
president of the District of Columbia Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution, etc. Mr. Shields and his wife
are stanch Presbyterians, as were their families before them,
and he has been for years an elder in that church. His
surviving children are : i. George Howell 7 , Jr. ; ii. Sara
Bainbridge Leighton 7 ; and iii. Marion Leighton 7 Shields.
426. Josephine Walker 6 Leighton, married, in March,
1866, John B. Shepherd, of Ohio, captain of Ohio Volun-
teers, U. S. A., in " the late unpleasantness ; ' : now a resi-
dent of Hannibal, Mo., where he is a prominent business
man, trustee of the Presbyterian Church, etc. Issue : i.
518 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Mary Harrison 7 ; ii. Leighton 7 ; iii. George Shields 7 ; iv.
Robert Harrison 7 ; v. Frank 7 ; and vi. Sarah Preston 7
Shepherd.
422. Mary Hopkins Breckinridge 5 Richardson, born May
10, 1817 ; married, in 1845, Col. Richard Fell Richmond,
of Hannibal, Mo. He was born in Kentucky ; studied law
under Gov. Owsley ; was at one time junior partner in the
law firm of which J. J. Crittenden was the head. He
moved to Hannibal, Mo., early in the history of the State,
rose to the head of the northeast Missouri Bar ; was Demo-
cratic nominee for Congress in 1858, but was defeated by
Col. Thomas L. Anderson, and died soon after from fever
induced by the hardship of the campaign, leaving two sons :
i. Bainbridge G Richmond, b. in 1846 ; for years in the
United States mail service.
ii. William Samuel 6 Richmond, b. 1848 ; studied law under
Judge Samuel M. Breckinridge ; graduated at St.
Louis Law School ; d. a young lawyer of great prom-
ise.
423. Robert C. 5 Richardson, born in Louisville, Ky.,
May 18, 1826 (living 1894) ; graduated A. B. and LL. B.,
and was made A. M. in the Transylvania University, at
Lexington, Ky. Before attaining the age of 21, served one
year as sergeant in Capt. Cassius M. Clay's company, Hum-
phrey Marshall's regiment, in the war with Mexico ; was
appointed a major, by Pres. Buchanan, of the regiment
tendered by Kentucky to the general government during
the troubles with Utah ; member of the Kentucky legisla-
ture from Kenton County, 1855-1859 ; superintendent of
public instruction of Kentucky, 1859-1863 ; has lived, and
practiced law, in Covington, Ky., ever since early manhood ;
is a poet, a scholar, and a lawyer of distinguished ability ;
married, April 28, 1859, Maria Louisa Harris, daughter of
the late Hon. Henry Clay Harris, of Floyd County, Ky.
Issue eight, five of whom are dead : Carter Henry 6 , Logan 6 ,
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 519
Robert G , John Cabell G , and Randolph 6 Richardson. The
living are : —
i. Mary Cabell 6 Richardson,
ii. Samuel Q. 6 Richardson,
iii. Edmund Breckinridge 15 Richardson.
424. Samuel Q. 5 Richardson, Jr., born June 20, 1828 ;
married, April 17, 1858, Mary Jane Williamson. They
reside in Dallas County, Tex. Issue, four daughters : —
i. Mary Harrison 6 Richardson, b. February 1, 1861 ; m.,
October 5, 1881, Samuel S. Long, a lawyer of distinc-
tion, of Dallas, Tex. Issue three : i. Robert S. 7 , b.
August 22, 1882 ; ii. Samuel Q. 7 , b. January 31,
1887 ; and iii. Benja V. 7 Long, b. September 13,
1890.
ii. Sarah Jane 6 Richardson, b. July 13, 1866 ; m., De-
cember 18, 1890, A. Fielder, merchant, of Dallas.
Issue two : i. Frederick 7 , b. November 13, 1891 ;
and ii. Robert 7 Fielder, b. January 8, 1893.
iii. Susan Frances 6 Richardson, b. March 14, 1869 ; m.,
February 20, 1893, William B. Shadden, stock-raiser,
Dallas, Tex.
iv. Dora Ella 6 Richardson, b. March 20, 1870.
98. Rev. Joseph Cabell 4 Harrison, D. D., born at " Clif-
ton," Cumberland County, Va., May 27, 1793 ; " began life
as a lawyer, meeting with good success, but became a con-
vert to the claims of religion and consecrated himself to the
ministry in the Presbyterian Church. In 1824, Rev. John
Breckinridge and himself established at Lexington, Ky.,
' The Western Luminary,' the first religious periodical
ever published west of the Alleghany Mountains." He
married, October 22, 1818, Sophia Rice (born at Greens-
burg, Green County, Ky., December 21, 1798), eldest
daughter of Rev. James H. Rice (by his wife, Melinda
Ward), son of Rev. David Rice, the pioneer Presbyterian
minister of Kentucky, and his wife, Mary Blair, daughter
520 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
of Rev. Samuel Blair, who was a co-laborer of Mr. Whit-
field's.
Mr. Harrison died at Covington, Ky., September 7,
1860, leaving issue : —
i. Anna Cabell 5 Harrison, b. September 27, 1819 ; mar-
ried, November 22, 1842, Joseph A. Graves, of Boone
County, Ky. ; both dead, leaving three children.
ii. Robert Carter 5 Harrison, b. October 5, 1821 ; d. 1893 ;
unmarried.
iii. Lucy 5 Harrison, b. September 23, 1827 ; m. John Jor-
dan, of Newport, Ky., and has five children.
iv. Maria 5 Harrison, b. " At-home-at-last," June 16, 1830;
m., March 7, 1850, Nathan H. Clarkson, of Hum-
boldt, Kans. Issue, four children.
v. Mary Hopkins 5 Harrison, b. at Olney, June 10, 1835;
m. Lewis H. Corbin, of Boone County, Ky. ; deceased,
leaving one daughter : i. Lilian 6 Corbin.
vi. Susan Randolph 5 Harrison, b. in Ohio, October 9,
1837 ; m. George T. Gaines, of Florida ; deceased,
leaving six children.
99. Carter Henry 4 Harrison, born at " Ampt Hill,"
Cumberland County, Va., September 30, 1796 ; educated
at Lexington College, Ky., Washington College, Va., 1815-
1816, and William and Mary, 1816-1817 ; married, Janu-
ary 31, 1822, Caroline E. Russell; died, October 9, 1825,
at " Elk Hill," Fayette County, Ky. " As a man of busi-
ness, firm and steady in his resolves, faithful and true in
his friendships, and kind and reliable in his various relations.
As a student, he devoted much thought and investigation
to his country's past history, and to the course it behooved
the nation to pursue in the future. And, above all, he was
a sincere Christian. He left an only child (the older hav-
ing died), who bears his name." [His widow, Caroline
Evaline Russell (born June 16, 1797 ; married (second), in
1848, Rev. Thomas P. Dudley, of the Baptist Church ; died
August 14, 1875), was a daughter of Col. William Russell
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 521
(and his wife, Nancy, daughter of Samuel Price, who emi-
grated from Virginia to Kentucky), for whom Russell
County, Ky, was named (see Collins) ; son of Gen. William
Russell (by his first wife, Tabitha Adams), for whom Rus-
sell County, Va., was named. See " William Russell and
his Descendants," by Anna Russell des Cognets, 1884.]
Their only surviving child : —
427. i. Carter Henry 5 Harrison, b. February 15, 1825,
near Lexington, Ky., on the plantation now
known as the " Penniston Place," a well-known
trotting-stock farm ; educated by his mother,
1830-1840 ; under the tutelage of Dr. Lewis
Marshall, brother of the greatest of the chief
justices, 1840-1842 ; at Yale, where he gradu-
ated, 1842-1845 ; and then studied law at Lex-
ington, Ky., for a year. " From 1847 to 1851,
he devoted himself to the care of the large plan-
tation his father had left him as his patrimony,"
and to storing his mind from an extensive course
of reading. In 1851-1852, he traveled in Eu-
rope and Asia, a part of the time with Bayard
Taylor. " Returned to Kentucky in 1852, com-
pleted his law studies, was admitted to the Bar,
but resumed the care of his plantation." His first
political position was as a delegate to the Ken-
tucky anti-slavery convention. He m. (first), in
1855, his cousin, Sophonisba G. Preston (daugh-
ter of 320) ; went to Chicago on his wedding
tour, became captivated with the city, and re-
solved to remove there. Two years later he sold
out in Kentucky, invested in Chicago, became
identified with the city's life as a citizen, and
from thence onward his own life was inspired
with a growing love and pride for the city which
in him became almost idolatry. He began the
practice of law, but relinquished it, and devoted
himself to the real estate business. His political
522 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
career began in 1871, when he was elected a
county commissioner on the " fire-proof " ticket.
In 1872, he was the Democratic candidate for
Congress in the second Illinois district, but was
defeated ; took his family to Europe in the spring
of 1874, where they remained several years ; re-
turned to Chicago in the fall of 1874 ; was again
nominated for Congress ; was elected ; served as
member of Congress from Chicago, March 4,
1875, to March 4, 1879. Visited his family in
Europe in the summer of 1875. In September,
1876, his first wife d. in Gera, Germany, where
his older children were being educated. He left
for Germany and brought his children home.
The remains of his wife were brought to their
last resting-place, in " Graceland," eleven years
later. He declined a renomination for Congress
in the fall of 1878 ; was mayor of Chicago from
the spring of 1879 to the spring of 1887. He
m. (second) Margaret, daughter of Marcus
Stearns, of Chicago ; she d. in the spring of
1887, s. p. With his son, William P. Harrison,
and others, he made a trip around the world,
July, 1887, to November, 1888, of which he
wrote a book called " A Race with the Sun."
His party wished him to be its candidate for
mayor in 1889, but he declined. He bought the
" Chicago Times " in 1891, in which year he was
an independent candidate for mayor ; and al-
though the organizations of both great parties
were against him, he was defeated only by a
small plurality. He was mayor of Chicago in
1893, and all the world knows the magnificent
manner in which he acquitted himself as the
World's Fair mayor of the world's fair city.
And his assassination in his own home on the
evening of October 28, 1893, the proudest day
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 523
of his life, shocked this country and the world as
it has seldom been shocked before.
By his first wife he had ten children : —
i. Willie 6 Harrison, b. 1856 ; d. infant.
428. ii. Caroline Dudley 6 Harrison.
429. hi. Carter Henry Harrison, Jr.
iv. Hebe Grayson Harrison, b. 1862; d.
infant,
v. Dudley Harrison, b. 1864 ; d. infant.
vi. Randolph Harrison, b. 1866 ; d. in-
fant.
vii. Harry Grayson Harrison, b. 1868 ; d.
infant.
430. viii. William Preston Harrison, b. April 12,
1869 ; made the trip around the
world with his father, 1887-1888 ;
with his brother, Carter, one of the
publishers of the " Chicago Times,"
1891-1893 ; and one of the editors,
1893-1895.
ix. Gracie Harrison, b. 1871 ; d. infant.
x. Sophie Preston Harrison, b. December
17, 1873.
428. Caroline Dudley 6 Harrison, born March 28, 1857;
married in July, 1887, Heaton Owsley, son of John G.
Owsley, of Chicago, and has two children : i. Lina Harri-
son 7 ; and ii. Sophia Preston Oiosley.
429. Carter Henry 6 Harrison, Jr., born April 23, 1860 ;
at school in Germany, 1873-1876 ; graduated at St. Igna-
tius College, Chicago, in 1881, and in law at Yale, in
1883 ; in real estate business in Chicago, 1883-1891 ; one
of the publishers of the " Chicago Times," 1891-1893, and
one of the editors since his father's death. He married,
December 14, 1887, Edith Ogden [daughter of Robert N.
Ogden, of New Orleans, La. ; now judge of the Court of
Appeals of Louisiana for Parish of Orleans. Judge Ogden
was colonel of a Louisiana regiment in the C. S. A., and
524 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
has been Speaker of the House of Representatives of Louisi-
ana], and has issue : i. Carter Henry 7 Harrison (third), b.
June 28, 1890.
100. Ann Cabell 4 Harrison, born at "Ampt Hill," Cum-
berland County, Va., August 28, 1798 ; married, early in
1818, Samuel M. Brown, a lawyer of distinction, decision,
and courage, at the Lexington, Ky., Bar. He was born in
Baltimore County, Md., March 26, 1790 ; represented the
city of Louisville several years in the Kentucky legislature;
was United States general postal supervisor during the
administration of Pres. Tyler; was blown up in the Ohio
River steamboat, The Lucy Walker, near Albany, Ind.,
October 22, 1844. Issue : —
i. Virginia Harrison 5 Brown, b. 1819 ; d. 1828.
ii. Letitia Preston 5 Brown, b. 1820; d. 1828.
iii. Robert Harrison 5 Brown, b. 1822; d. 1828.
431. iv. George Mason 5 Brown.
432. v. William Breckinridge 5 Brown.
vi. Samuel Mansfield 5 Brown, b. April 30, 1830;
soldier in Capt. Robertson's company, Ken-
tucky Volunteers, Mexican War ; afterwards
went to California, and was buried under an
avalanche,
vii. Ann Mary Cabell 5 Brown, b. 1834 ; d. 1854, s. p.
viii. Theodosia 5 Brown, b. 1836 ; d. 1836.
ix. Joshua 5 Brown, b. 1838 ; d. 1838.
x. Carter Henry 5 Brown, b. 1840; d. 1840.
431. George Mason 5 Brown, born September 21, 1824 ;
second lieutenant in Capt. Cassius M. Clay's company,
Marshall's regiment, in the Mexican War, he greatly dis-
tinguished himself at Buena Vista ; married, August 20,
1849, Mrs. Sarah A. Hicklin, of Bourbon County, Ky. ;
moved to Saline County, Mo., in 1850 ; a captain in the
C. S. A. ; fell in the battle of Booneville, Mo., in 1861 ;
leaving issue : —
i. Jane S. 6 Brown, b. April 21, 1850.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 525
ii. Robert Harrison G Brown, b. November 24, 1851.
iii. Alexander 6 Brown, b. May 8, 1853.
iv. Ann Mary Cabell 6 Brown, b. May 8, 1854.
v. Perry Beard 6 Brown, b. October 23, 1855.
vi. Carter Henry 6 Brown, b. August 10, 1857.
432. William Breckinridge 5 Brown, born February 5,
1828 ; went to California with Col. William H. Russell in
the spring of 1846, where he joined the California battalion,
under Col. J. C. Fremont ; was sent back (ranking as lieu-
tenant) as commander of escort, with Col. Russell, who was
bearer of dispatches in 1847 ; was summoned as a witness
on the trial of Col. Fremont ; returned by land to Califor-
nia in 1849, where he resided until 1852, when he returned
to Saline County, Mo., where he married, February 14,
1853, Lenora V. Thompson. " He was an extraordinary
man ; " distinguished himself under Fremont, etc. ; was colo-
nel of a Missouri Confederate regiment, and was killed in
the battle of Booneville, Mo., in 1861. Left issue : —
i. George Washington G Brown, b. December 4, 1853.
ii. Robert H. 6 Brown, b. December 15, 1855.
iii. Lucy Cabell 6 Brown, b. June 16, 1857.
101. Robert Carter 4 Harrison, born at " Ampt Hill,"
Cumberland County, Va., in October, 1800 ; educated at
William and Mary College ; was a lawyer ; member of the
state legislatures of both Kentucky and Missouri ; Speaker
of the Missouri House of Representatives. He married, Feb-
ruary 18, 1829, Theodosia Tompkins, of Fayette County,
Ky., a niece of Judge Tompkins ; removed from Kentucky
to " Arrow Rock," Cooper County, Mo., in the spring of
1838. Issue, an only child : —
433. i. Sarah Ann 5 Harrison, b. September 20, 1833 ; m.,
January 17, 1856, her cousin, David 5 Castleman
(437).
102. Elizabeth Lewis 4 Harrison, born at "Ampt Hill"
526 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
in September, 1802 ; married James Devore, a lawyer, of
Lexington, Ky., who died in a few years, leaving two
sons : —
i. Robert Harrison 5 Devore.
ii. Samuel 5 Devore.
103. Sarah Randolph 4 Harrison, born at "Ampt Hill," in
October, 1804 ; married (first) Capt. Isaac Lansdale (a
prominent Texan pioneer, who died of cholera in 1833),
by whom she had four children, all of whom died young.
Some time after the death of her first husband, she married
Mr. Bulkley, of Chicago, by whom she had two or more
children, only one of whom survived childhood : —
i. Robert H. 5 Bulkley, Esq., of Chicago.
101. Virginia 4 Harrison " was born at Mt. Athos, Camp-
bell County, Va., in the hospitable home of her uncle, the
late Col. William J. Lewis, than whom a more magnanimous
spirit has seldom lived in our world, on the 4th of July,
1806 ; being the last child of her parents born in the great
and venerable State which is the object far beyond all other
States of the best affections of her children, she was called
Virginia, in memory of the land of their nativity, which
they were then leaving." This child of the old mother of
States is still surviving, the venerable mother of many chil-
dren who cheer her declining years. She is the oldest liv-
ing great-grandchild of Dr. William Cabell, the emigrant.
She married, at " Elk Hill," in October, 1824, David Castle-
man, Esq. (born October 30, 1786 ; died May 23, 1852), of
" Castleton," near Lexington, Ky., son of Lewis Castleman,
who emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky and located at
" The Old Mansion," in Woodford County ; a splendid
farmer on a splendid farm. The Castleman is an old Dor-
set, England, family. Mrs. Castleman had fourteen chil-
dren, three of whom, Mary 5 , Margaret 5 , and Sue 5 , died
infants. The others are : —
434. i. Anna Cabell 5 Castleman.
MRS VIRGINIA HARRISON CASTLEMAN
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 527
435. ii. Virginia Harrison 5 Castleman, m. Judge Samuel
Miller Breckinridge. See 394.
436. iii. Lewis 5 Castleman.
iv. Robert Carter 5 Castleman, b. August 19, 1831 ;
killed in railroad accident, June 22, 1852.
437. v. David 5 Castleman.
438. vi. Mary Ann 5 Castleman.
439. vii. John Breckinridge 5 Castleman.
440. viii. Fannie 5 Castleman.
441. ix. Humphreys 5 Castleman.
442. x. Sarah Belle 5 Castleman.
443. xi. George Alfred 5 Castleman.
434. Anna Cabell 5 Castleman, born December 28, 1825 ;
married (first), May 14, 1845, Henry W. D. Kyle, who died
October 6, 1850. Issue : —
i. Castleman 5 Kyle, b. 1846 ; d. 1847.
444. ii. Virginia Castleman 6 Kyle.
434. Mrs. Anna-C. 5 Kyle married (second), April 7,
1852, Dr. David Castleman Tandy. She died January 27,
1890, leaving by her second husband : —
445. iii. Robert Castleman 6 Tandy.
iv. David C. G Tandy, b. August 16, 1858 ; m. in
October, 1887, and d. July 8, 1891, leaving a
daughter : i. Virginia Castleman 7 Tandy,
v. Lewis Gabriel 6 Tandy, b. Jnly 31, 1861.
444. Virginia Castleman 6 Kyle, born May 14, 1848 ;
married, September 27, 1870, Claiborne Barksdale Hunt,
of Virginia. They live in St. Louis, Mo., and have six chil-
dren : —
i. David Tandy 7 Hunt, b. August 17, 1871.
ii. Claiborne Barksdale 7 Hunt, b. March 27, 1874.
iii. George Kyle 7 Hunt, b. November 11, 1877.
iv. Robert Castleman 7 Hunt, b. February 8, 1879.
v. Virginia Tandy 7 Hunt, b. July 26, 1880.
vi. Lee 7 Hunt, b. June 11, 1887.
445. Robert C. 6 Tandy, b. May 25, 1853 ; m., November
15, 1876, Orie Carr. Issue : —
528 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
i. Anna Cabell Castleman 7 Tandy, b. August 24, 1877.
ii. A son 7 , b. October 4 ; d. October 8, 1878.
iii. Orie Carr 7 Tandy, b. November 8, 1879.
iv. Virginia Castleman 7 Tandy, b. 1881; d. 1882.
v. David Castleman 7 Tandy, b. March 1, 1883.
vi. Robert Castleman 7 Tandy, b. 1884 ; d. 1885.
vii. George Castleman 7 Tandy, b. February 20, 1890.
436. Lewis 5 Castleman, born October 8, 1828 ; educated
at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg, Pa. (now Washington
and Jefferson, Washington, Pa.) ; a planter in Arkansas ;
a soldier in the C. S. A. ; married, March 29, 1871, Susan
Mary Herndon, of Frankfort, Ky. ; a farmer and man of
affairs, residing near Bunceton, Cooper County, Mo. He
has two children : —
i. Dayton 6 Castleman, b. January 4, 1872 ; a merchant
and business man.
ii. William 6 Herndon Castleman, b. May 18, 1875, at
Frankfort, Ky. ; a student at Hampden Sidney Col-
lege, Va.
437. David 5 Castleman, b. March 3, 1833 ; married,
January 17, 1856, his cousin, Sarah Ann Harrison (born
September 20, 1833) (433). They live in Missouri. "Their
first child was born in December, 1856."
438. Mary Ann 5 Castleman, born May 10, 1836 ; mar-
ried, October 2, 1856, Dr. William Webb, of St. Louis,
Mo. He was born in Hillsboro, N. C. ; served through the
late civil war as surgeon in the C. S. A. Issue five : —
i. David Castleman 6 Webb, b. February 1, 1858 ; attor-
ney at law, St. Louis, Mo.
ii. Anne Huske c Webb, b. August 4, 1860.
iii. Mary Castleman Webb, b. January 31, 1867.
iv. Virginia C. B. 6 Webb, b. April 14, 1870 ; m., Novem-
ber 20, 1889, Arthur Wilson Lambert, a native of
Alexandria, Va., a resident of St. Louis, Mo. Issue,
three sons : i. Arthur Wilson, 7 b. September 17,
1890 ; ii. William Henry, 7 b. July 28, 1892 ; and iii.
Samuel B. 7 Lambert, b. March 16, 1894.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 529
v. Willie 6 Webb (daughter), b. February 17, 1875.
439. John Breckinridge 5 Castlenian, born June 30,
1842, at " Castleton," the family seat, five miles north of
Lexington ; served with distinction with Morgan's com-
mand in the C. S. A. ; adjutant-general of Kentucky under
Gov. Buckner ; " is a man of affairs of Louisville, Ky.,
where he married Miss Barbee, and has several children."
440. Fannie 5 Castlenian (twin with Humphreys), born
April 10, 1844. She has been described as " the belle
of the Blue Grass region, a stately, handsome, and noble
lady, of the rarest virtues and most varied accomplishments.
She is famous as a musician, linguist, and artist." She
married, March 4, 1868, Maj. George Bernard Eastin. He
was born in Lexington, Ky., in August, 1842 ; educated at
Transylvania University, Georgetown College, and Kenyon
College, Ohio ; enlisted as a private in Morgan's Cavalry,
C. S. A., became lieutenant, then captain and brevet ma-
jor. He fought the fight to a finish, and, after peace,
adopted the law as a profession ; graduated at Louisville
Law School, April, 1867, and soon reached the head of the
Bar. He was appointed a judge of the Kentucky Court of
Appeals, February 22, 1895. They reside in Louisville,
Ky. ; have had an only child : —
i. George B. 6 Eastin, b. June 26, 1870 ; d. November 1,
1879.
441. Humphreys 5 Castleman, born April 10, 1844, at
Castleton ; private Company D, Morgan's Cavalry, C. S. A.,
from 1862 to Lee's surrender, April 9, 1865 ; dealer in
stocks and bonds, first at Columbus, since at Atlanta, Ga.
" Married, October 21, 1868, at ' Hilton,' near Columbus,
Ga., to Eva, daughter of W. W. Garrard (of Huguenot de-
scent) and his wife, Frances Isabel Urquhart, a great-grand-
daughter of Sir David Urquhart, of Urquhart Castle, Scot-
land." Surviving issue : —
i. Mary Isabel Garrard 6 Castleman.
ii. Louis Garrard Castleman.
442. Sarah Belle 5 Castleman, born at " Castleton," near
530 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
Lexington, Ky., April 17, 1846 ; married, June 21, 1866,
at " Refuge," near Lexington, Ky., to John W. Carroll, a
native of Virginia and a citizen of St. Louis, Mo., where he
died, March 15, 1890, leaving three children : —
i. Julia Wingate Castlenian 6 Carroll, b. at " Refuge,"
near Lexington, Ky., August 28, 1867.
ii. John Bryce c Carroll, b. in St. Louis, September 13,
1870 ; m., in 1888, Nelhe Brenham. He is in busi-
ness in St. Louis,
iii. John Scudder G Carroll, b. April 7, 1876, in St. Louis,
where he is now in business.
443. George Alfred 5 Castlenian, born at "Castleton,"
Fayette County, Ky., October 4, 1847 ; at Washington
and Lee University, Va., 1867-1868 ; married, at San
Antonio, Tex., April 4, 1888, to Lucie Read Cable, of
Rock Island, 111. ; attorney at law, St. Louis, Mo. ; mem-
ber of the lower house of the Missouri legislature, 1885-
1887 ; member of the state senate of Missouri, 1887-
1891 ; resigned in February, 1889 ; candidate of the Dem-
ocratic party for the United States Congress in the ninth
district of Missouri, 1888; appointed, by Gov. David R.
Francis, of Missouri, judge of criminal court, St. Louis,
September 5, 1892, and served till succeeded, in January,
1893. His wife is a sister of Hon. Benjamin T. Cable,
member of the Democratic National Committee for Illinois
in 1892, and a daughter of Hon. Philander L. Cable, of
Rock Island, president of the Canadian Pacific and other
railroads, who died on a ranch near San Antonio, Tex., in
1886 (son of James and Lucie Read Cable, of Ohio), by
his wife, Mary Jane Taylor, daughter of Benjamin Taylor,
of Scott County, Ky., and his wife, Theodosia Payne.
Benjamin Taylor was a son of Rev. John Taylor, a Bap-
tist minister [born in Fauquier County, Va., in 1752 ; emi-
grated to Kentucky in 1783 ; settled in Woodford County ;
died near Frankfort in 1833], by his wife, Annie Cave, who
descended from Benjamin Cave (who came to Virginia from
England about 1725) and his wife, Hannah, daughter of
William Bledsoe.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 531
Theodosia Payne was a daughter of Henry and Annie
Layne Payne, of Kentucky, but a descendant from the
Payne family of Loudoun County, Va.
105. Pocahontas Rebecca Peyton 4 Harrison, born at Elk
Hill, Ky., in August, 1809 ; married Dr. Samuel Sloane, of
Jacksonville, 111. They soon after moved to Palmyra, Mo.,
where both died prior to 1850, leaving four children : —
i. Mary 5 Sloane, has married three times, has been a great
traveler " all over the world."
ii. Virginia 5 Sloane, m., but name of husband not given,
iii. Robert Harrison 5 Sloane is now a physician living in
the interior of New York State.
iv. Samuel 5 Sloane, a captain in the U. S. A. in the war
between the States ; is now a resident of New York.
IV. COL. JOHN 2 CABELL'S BRANCH.
22. DR. GEORGE 3 CABELL'S DESCENDANTS.
106. Paulina 4 Cabell (died in December, 1833), married,
February 10, 1814, Alexander Spotswood Henry (born June
2, 1788 ; died in 1854), of Campbell County, Va., son of
Patrick Henry the orator (see 54). Issue ten : —
i. George Lafayette 5 Henry, b. 1815 ; m. Miss
Mason, and had : i. J. B. Cabell 6 ; ii. Patrick 6 ;
iii. William 6 ; iv. Marion 6 ; and v. Mary Ann 6
Henry.
ii. A. Spotswood 5 Henry, d. unmarried.
iii. Patrick 5 Henry (b. 1819) ; M. D. ; m. Clara Yan-
cey ; no issue.
iv. John Robert 5 Henry, m. Elizabeth, daughter of
W. H. Edwards, of Pittsylvania County, Va.,
and had : i. Sarah 6 ; ii. Elizabeth 6 ; iii.
"Gillie" 6 ; iv. Maria Antoinette 6 ; v. Daniel
E. 6 (b. 1862, killed on railroad February,
1895) ; and vi. Patrick 6 Henry.
532 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
v. William Lewis Cabell 5 Henry, d. unmarried,
vi. Laura 5 Henry, d. young.
466. vii. Sarah 5 Henry, m. Dr. George Cabell Carrington
(448).
viii. Paulina 5 Henry, m. Bartlett Jones. Issue : i.
Cabell Henry 6 Jones.
ix. Marion F. C. 5 Henry, m. Samuel Tyree, of Lynch-
burg.
x. Maria Antoinette 5 Henry, m. Andrew Hambrick,
of Roanoke ; no issue.
107. George Kuhn 4 Cabell, born ; Washington
College, 1814-1815 ; attorney at law, Amherst County ;
married, in 1829, Eliza Garland (died early in 1841), daugh-
ter of Hon. David S. Garland ; died in October, 1873, at
the residence of his son in Philadelphia. Issue : —
i. Marion F. 5 CabeU, b. August 21, 1830 ; d. February
17, 1833.
ii. George Kuhn 5 CabeU, Jr., b. 1833; M. D. University
of Virginia, 1851 ; physician in Virginia and New
Orleans; surgeon in Gen. Walker's Nicaraguan
army ; d. of yellow fever, at Greytown, 1857.
iii. Alice Winston 5 Cabell, b. 1835 ; d. unmarried in 1858,
at the residence of her uncle, Landon Cabell Garland,
in Alabama, the present chancellor of Vanderbilt
University.
iv. Lewis Breckinridge 5 Cabell, b. in January, 1841, is now
the only surviving child; educated at Westwood
High School, Amherst Academy, etc. ; entered
C. S. A. as private in Lynchburg Home Guard April
24, 1861 ; lieutenant Company H, 19th Virginia In-
fantry, 1861-1862 ; member Company E, 2d Vir-
ginia Cavalry, 1862-1865. After the war, studied
law, but did not practice it ; was a commissioner in
chancery at Amherst C. H., until 1872, when he re-
moved to Philadelphia ; went to Brooklyn, N. Y.,
late in 1873 ; published the " Brooklyn People," a
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 533
daily paper ; has been for a number of years a broker
and dealer in securities of New York, residing- in
Brooklyn and in Jersey City. He m. in the autumn
of 1864, at Amherst C. H., Willien Price Read,
daughter of William Price Read, of Bedford, by his
wife, Jane Irving Powell, daughter of Dr. James
Powell, of Amherst, by his wife, Mildred Irving,
daughter of Charles Irving, Sr., the emigrant from
Scotland (who was of the same family as Washington
Irving, of New York), by his wife, Mildred Jordan,
daughter of Matthew Jordan, the brother of Col.
Samuel Jordan, of " The Seven Islands."
Their children are : —
i. George Kuhn 6 Cabell, b. 1865 in Virginia ; edu-
cated in Brooklyn ; is now in the dry goods
importing business.
ii. James Powell 6 Cabell, b. 1867 in Virginia ; ed-
ucated in Brooklyn ; an adjuster of marine
losses.
iii. Edmund Gaines Read 6 Cabell, b. 1868 in Vir-
ginia ; a publisher ; m., in 1890, Anstes
Dorinda Van Campen ; d. 1892, leaving no
issue.
iv. Walter Carrington G Cabell, b. 1870 in Virginia ;
educated in Brooklyn and Jersey City ; now
studying law.
v. Alice Winston G Cabell, b. 1872 in Virginia ; ed-
ucated in Brooklyn and Jersey City ; " yet in
the hands of teachers."
vi. Lewis Breckinridge 6 Cabell, b. 1874, in Brook-
lyn,
vii. William Price 6 Cabell, b. 1876 in Brooklyn,
viii. Henry 6 Cabell, b. 1879 in Brooklyn.
ix. Irving Garland 6 Cabell, b. 1883 in Virginia.
108. Alice 4 Cabell, married, November 15, 1817, Walter
C. Carrington, of Halifax (born March 4, 1794 ; at Wash-
534 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
ington College, 1814), son of Judge Paul Carrington, Jr.
(born September 20, 1764 ; died January 8, 1816), member
of the House of Delegates of Virginia, etc. ; married, Au-
gust 24, 1785, Mildred Howeli Coles (born May 15, 1769 ;
died April 24, 1840), daughter of Col. Walter Coles (born
November 14, 1739, in St. Paul's Parish, Hanover County ;
died November 7, 1780, at his seat, " Mildendo," in Hali-
fax County) ; married, February 28, 1767, Mildred Light-
foot (born at Sandy Point, in Charles City County, Feb-
ruary 11, 1752 ; died May 1, 1799), daughter of William
Lightfoot and his wife, Mildred Howell. Walter Coles
was the son of John Coles, a merchant of Richmond, who
emigrated from " Enniscorthy," Ireland, by his wife, Mary
(1718-1755), daughter of Isaac Winston, of Hanover County,
Va.
108. Mrs. Alice 4 Cabell Carrington died, leaving four
surviving children : —
447. i. Edward Coles 5 Carrington.
448. ii. George Cabell Carrington.
449. iii. Paul Jones Carrington.
450. iv. Walter Coles Carrington.
447. Edward C. 5 Carrington married (first) Mary Cole-
man, of Williamsburg, Va. She died, leaving an only
child : —
i. Thomas 6 Carrington.
447. Edward Coles 5 Carrington has married twice since :
(second wife) Miss Fowlkes, of Arkansas, and (third) Miss
Cockerill.
448. George CabeU 5 Carrington, M. D. (died in 1880),
married Sarah Winston 5 Henry (446), and had issue
six : —
i. John P. Metteaux 6 Carrington, m. Sarah Frances Foot.
Issue: i. Mildred Coles 7 Carrington.
ii. Susan Love 6 Carrington, m. Rev. A. Y. Hundley.
Issue : i. Alice 7 ; ii. G. Cabell 7 ; iii. Paul Carring-
ton 7 ; and iv. Elijah D. 7 Hundley.
iii. Charles Craddock 6 Carrington, m. Sarah H. French.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 535
Issue: i. George Cabell 7 ; ii. Margaret; iii. Sarah 7 ;
iv. Marcellus 7 ; and v. Charles R. 7 Carrington.
iv. Richard Bruce 6 Carrington, m. Ida Harrison.
v. Sarah Cabell 6 Carrington, m. J. W. F. Beale. Issue :
i. G.Ferdinand 7 ; ii. Patrick H. 7 ; iii. William Win-
ston 7 ; iv. Sue C. 7 ; and v. Paulina D. 7 Beale.
vi. Walter Coles 6 Carrington, m. Nelly Herbert Boughan.
Issue : i. Nelly Herbert 7 ; and ii. Walter Spotswood 7
Carrington.
449. Paul Jones 5 Carrington, M. D., married, in 1845,
Margaret A., daughter of Judge Lucas Powell Thompson,
of Staunton, Va. She died in 1887, having had issue
nine : —
i. Alice Cabell 6 Carrington ; d. young,
ii. Lucas Thompson 6 Carrington ; d. young,
iii. Susan Cary Carrington.
iv. John M. Carrington.
v. Paul Julian Carrington.
vi. Caroline T. Carrington.
vii. Eleanor S. Carrington ; d. in 1893.
viii. Mary Love Carrington.
ix. Alice Lee Carrington.
450. Walter Coles 5 Carrington, M. D. ; married (first)
Isadora Meredith Myrick. She died s. p., and he married
(second) Mary Jett, and had : —
i. Walter Coles 6 Carrington, Jr.
109. John Breckinridge 4 Cabell was a doctor ; removed
from Lynchburg to Lewisburg, W. Va. ; married, in 1826,
Martha Bickerton Bouldin, daughter of Judge Thomas Tyler
Bouldin, M. C. (who rose to announce the death of his con-
stituent, John Randolph of Roanoke (1834), and fell dead
in Congress Hall), by his first wife, Nannie Lewis (died
1823), of Mecklenburg (see under No. 453). Mrs. J. B.
Cabell died in 1862. Her husband was living in 1879.
The date of his death is not known to me. They had
issue : —
536 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
451. i. Sarah Winston 5 Cabell.
452. ii. Anne Boulclin 5 Cabell.
453. hi. Paulina Henry 5 Cabell.
454. iv. Joanna Tyler 5 Cabell.
v. Marion Fontaine 5 Cabell, a remarkably intellectual
woman, who has devoted her life to teaching.
455. vi. Alice Winston 5 Cabell.
vii. John Jordan 5 Cabell ; d. infant,
viii. John B. 5 Cabell, Jr., m. Mrs. Emma Loving, nee
Scott, and has an only child, — a daughter,
Norma. 6
ix. Elizabeth Cralle 5 Cabell, m. Charles L. Davis, of
Greenbrier, W. Va., and d. soon after, leaving
no children.
x. Catharine Douglas 5 Cabell ; d. unmarried.
451. Sarah Winston 5 Cabell, born 1828; living ; of
rare musical talent ; married Andrew Stuart, of Green-
brier, son of Lewis Stuart and his wife, Sarah Lewis, and
grandson of Col. John Stuart, one of the pioneers and
first settlers of Greenbrier County, W. Va. "Andrew Stu-
art lives (1878) at his grandfather's old residence, and the
old first clerk's office stands in the yard in a state of pretty
good preservation." No children.
452. Anne Bouldin 5 Cabell (living) ; married Hon. Albert
Rust, of Arkansas, a native of Virginia. He emigrated
about 1839 to Arkansas ; served many years in the legisla-
ture of that State ; was for two terms a member of Con-
gress (the first in Pierce's administration, the last in
Buchanan's); member of the Provisional Congress of the C.
S. in 1861 ; soon resigned and entered the C. S. A. as colo-
nel in the 3d Arkansas Regiment ; was promoted to briga-
dier-general ; after the war, settled as a planter near Little
Rock, where he died about 1870. He was a son of William
Rust, the son of Capt. George Rust, of Fauquier County,
Va. The family came from England, and settled first in
Westmoreland County, Va.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 537
Anne B. 5 Cabell and Hon. Albert Rust had issue : —
i. Julia G ; m. John Tutwiler. He d. s. p. His widow
now resides in Philadelphia,
ii. Pauline Carrington Rust.
iii. Breckinridge 6 Rust, deceased. He m. Cornelia Borst,
of Luray, and had four children : i. Albert 7 ; ii.
Peter Borst 7 ; iii. GeorgieB. 7 ; and iv. Breckinridge
Cabell 7 Rust.
453. Paulina Henry 5 Cabell, married Thomas Tyler
Bouldin Carrington, of " Spring Hill," Ark. ; at Wash-
ington College, 1844-1845 ; editor ; farmer ; killed in a
street fight in 1859 ; son of Robert Carrington (born March
2, 1802 ; died in February, 1845, in Arkansas ; youngest
son of Judge Paul Carrington the elder, and said to have
been the only man of whom John Randolph of Roanoke
was afraid ; he once owned the farm adjoining " Roanoke ")
by his wife, Joanna Bouldin, daughter of Judge Thomas
Tyler Bouldin (died 1834), son of Wood Bouldin (son of
Col, Thomas Bouldin, of Charlotte, and his wife, Nancy
Clark) by his wife, Joanna Tyler, sister of Gov. John
Tyler, aunt of President John Tyler, and daughter of John
Tyler, marshal of the colony, by his wife, Anne, daughter
of Dr. Contesse, or Comptesse, a Huguenot.
453. Mrs. Paulina Henry 5 Cabell Carrington died, leav-
ing an only child : —
i. Mattie G Carrington, who became a Roman Catholic, en-
tered a convent, and died in Baltimore, Md.
454. Joanna Tyler 5 Cabell, married David Holmes Mor-
ton, son of John Morton and his wife, Elizabeth A. Le
Grand, and had issue : —
i. William Scott 6 Morton, k. by cowboys in Texas.
456. ii. Quinn Morton.
iii. Breckinridge Morton ; d. infant,
iv. David Morton.
v. Joanna Cabell Morton, m. Benjamin Hurxthall,
of " Ronceverte," and has a daughter.
538 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
vi. John Morton.
vii. Breckinridge C. Morton ; d. young,
viii. Elizabeth A. Morton.
456. Quinn 6 Morton, married Fannie Hurxthall, daugh-
ter of Ferdinand Hurxthall and his wife, Helen Finley.
Issue : —
i. Helen Finley 7 Morton,
ii. David Holmes 7 Morton,
hi. Joanna Cabell 7 Morton,
iv. Ferdinand Hurxthall 7 Morton.
v. Mary Whitaker 7 Morton,
vi. Fannie Hurxthall 7 Morton.
455. Alice Winston 5 Cabell, married William A. Withers,
son of Dr. Robert W. Withers and his wife, Susan D. Alex-
ander, of Campbell County, Va. Issue : —
i. Robert Enoch 6 Withers, m. Mary Floyd Price (daugh-
ter of Daniel M. and Elizabeth Jones Price). Issue:
i. Alice Winston 7 ; ii. Daniel Saunders 7 ; hi. Walter
Hubert 7 ; iv. Minnie 7 ; v. Annie 7 ; and vi. Eliza 7
Withers.
ii. Martha Breckinridge 6 Withers, m. Parham Felix Price
(son of William and Susan Black Price). Issue : i.
Parham 7 ; ii. Withers Price.
iii. Jennet Thornton 6 Withers, m. Robert Ernest Garbee
(son of Henry Albert and Lucy Powell Garbee).
Issue : i. Robert Ernest 7 ; ii. Maude 7 ; iii. Marian
Holmes 7 ; iv. Ella Maysie 7 ; v. Edwin 7 ; vi. Mattie 7
Garbee.
iv. William Alexander 6 Withers, Jr., m. Velita E. Hunter
(daughter of Thomas and Sarah Jones Hunter).
Issue : i. Elizabeth Winston 7 ; and ii. William
Eldridge 7 Withers.
v. Marion Cabell 6 Withers, m. James W. Lyndsay (son
of J. W. and Frances Campbell Lyndsay). Issue :
i. Fannie 7 ; and ii. Winnie 7 Lyndsay.
vi. Joanna Holmes 6 Withers, m. Charles E. Phillips (son
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 539
of Joseph E. and Sallie Butler 7 Phillips). Issue: i.
Nannie Ogden 7 Phillips,
vii. Walter Breckinridge 6 Withers,
viii. John Douglas 6 Withers.
ix. Sallie Stuart 6 Withers, m. Henry Clarke Winston, son
of Charles and Elizabeth Alexander Winston.
23. FREDERICK 3 CABELL'S DESCENDANTS.
113. Frederick Mortimer 4 Cabell, born at " Struman,"
December 15, 1802 ; completed his education at Washing-
ton College, 1824; married, in 1846, Clara Hawes Cole-
man, of Nelson County, Va. (daughter of John J. Coleman
and his wife, Catharine Hawes, who moved to Kentucky);
farmer ; member of the Virginia House of Delegates from
Nelson County, 1844-1847; member of the Virginia senate,
1852-1854; member of the Virginia Convention, 1861; died
at Struman, March 2, 1873. Issue : —
i. Kate Winston 5 Cabell ; d. young,
ii. F. Ivanhoe 5 Cabell, b. October 8, 1848 ; engi-
neer, maintenance of way, Eastern Division
C. & 0. Railway ; unmarried.
457. iii. Waller Ravenswood 5 Cabell.
iv. Coleman J. 5 Cabell, b. 1853; justice of the peace,
etc. ; unmarried.
458. v. Richard Hawes 5 Cabell.
vi. Aylett J. 5 Cabell, b. 1858 ; M. D., University of
Virginia ; physician, Norwood, Nelson County,
Va. ; m., April 29, 1895, Adelaide Wilhelmina,
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. H. Angelo Nash.
vii. Susan Taylor 5 Cabell ; d. young.
459. viii. Clara Pauline 5 Cabell.
457. Waller R. 5 Cabell, born 1850; farmer and mer-
chant ; married, at the residence of A. S. Watson, Esq., by
Rev. Mr. Wailes, to Mattie W. Anderson, of Nelson County,
Va. Issue four : —
i. Clara Louise 6 Cabell.
540 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
ii. Henrietta Virginia Cabell,
iii. James Anderson Cabell,
iv. Frederick M. Cabell.
458. Richard H. 5 Cabell, born 1856 ; attorney at law ;
married, June 25, 1884, Louisa Withers, daughter of the
late Rev. Edmund Withers. They reside in Salt Lake City,
Utah, and have : —
i. Richard H. 6 Cabell,
ii. Clara Winston 6 Cabell.
459. Clara Pauline 5 Cabell (called "Jessie"), born in
October, 1862 ; married, December 19, 1888, Rev. George
Braxton Taylor, D. D. (son of Rev. George B. Taylor, the
Baptist missionary in Rome, Italy, by his wife, Susan S.
Braxton, a descendant from Col. William Mayo and Hon.
Carter Braxton) ; died August 31, 1893, leaving : —
i. George Cabell c Taylor.
114. Edmund Winston 4 Cabell, born July 12, 1808;
Washington College, 1826-1827 ; William and Mary Col-
lege, 1828-1829 ; farmer and lawyer ; married (first), in May,
1830, Lucy J. Gait, daughter of Dr. Gait, of the Williams-
burg Lunatic Hospital. She died, leaving no issue. He
married, late in life, Elizabeth Wright, daughter of Wil-
liam Wright, of Buckingham County, Va., and died in June,
1887, leaving issue by her : —
i. Hortense Winston 5 Cabell, m. Charles Fields, of Buck-
ingham County, Va.
ii. Josephine De Beauharnis 5 Cabell,
iii. Edmund Winston 5 Cabell.
115. Clifford 4 Cabell, born August 17, 1810; Washing-
ton College, 1826-1827 ; graduated from the Medical De-
partment of the University of Pennsylvania, 1832 ; mar-
ried, December 5, 1833, Margaret Couch Anthony ; farmer
and physician in Buckingham and Nelson ; died September
18, 1871. His wife, Margaret C. Anthony (born in Janu-
ary, 1814), wrote " Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 541
by the Oldest Inhabitant," Richmond, 1858 ; contributed
to " The Southern Literary Messenger " and other periodi-
cals. She died Sunday morning, October 29, 1882, at
" Fernley," her residence in Buckingham County, -where
she was buried the following day. She was a daughter of
Christopher Anthony, Esq., attorney at law, of Lynchburg,
Va. Issue : —
460. i. Evelyn Carter Byrd 5 Cabell.
461. ii. Mary Washington 5 Cabell, m. J. Cabell Early
(477).
462. iii. Alice Winston 5 Cabell.
iv. Lucy Gait 5 Cabell, b. 1852; d. 1856.
v. Clifford 5 Cabell, b. September 18, 1854 ; m. Sallie
Logan, of Philadelphia. They reside in Chi-
cago, 111.
460. Evelyn Carter Byrd 5 Cabell, born May 1, 1844;
married in October, 1862, William Russell Robinson. They
reside at " Colleton," in Nelson County, Va. Mrs. Robin-
son is now president of the Virginia Society of Colonial
Dames. [Her husband, William Russell Robinson, is a son
of the late Wirt Robinson, of Richmond, Va. (by his wife,
Rebecca Keim, of Philadelphia), son of Anthony Robinson,
born 1770, died 1851 (by his wife, Elizabeth Russell, 1778-
1852, daughter of William Russell, for a long time clerk of
James City County, Va.) ; son of Anthony Robinson, of
York County, Va., born 1737, died 1776 (by his second
wife, Mary Phillips, 1743-1775) ; son of Anthony Robin-
son, born 1711, died 1737 (by his wife, Mary Kirby) ; son
of John Robinson, born 1685, died 1737 (by his wife,
Frances Wade, who died October 13, 1721; daughter of
Armigall Wade, of York County, Va., said to have de-
scended from Armigall Wade, of York County, England, —
"the British Columbus" 1 ); son of Anthony Robinson, born
in York County, Va., 1662, died 1727 (by his wife, Mary
Starkey) ; son of John Robinson, the emigrant from Eng-
land, who died March 1, 1688, in York County, Va.]
Issue : —
1 See The Genesis of the United States, p. 1039.
542 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
463. i. Wirt 6 Robinson.
ii. Clifford Cabell 6 Robinson.
463. Wirt 6 Robinson, born October 16, 1864, at Fern-
ley, Buckingham County, Va. ; entered West Point July 1,
1883 ; graduated June 11, 1887 ; commissioned second
lieutenant, 4th U. S. Artillery ; promoted first lieutenant,
August 1, 1893; now on detail at Harvard University;
author of " A Flying Trip to the Tropics " (an ornithologi-
cal visit, in the year 1892). He married, April 7, 1890, at
Providence, R. I., Anita Alice Mathilde Phinney Hender-
son, daughter of Theodore W. Phinney, of Newport, R. I.,
and has two children : —
i. Alice Evelyn Rose 7 Robinson, b. February 7, 1891, at
Fort Adams, Newport, R. I.
ii. Wirt Russell 7 Robinson, b. May 3, 1893, at Fort Mc-
Pherson, near Atlanta, Ga.
462. Alice Winston 5 Cabell, born June 23, 1849; mar-
ried Charles T. Palmer, of Richmond, Va. They now
reside at " Soldier's Joy," in Nelson, and have had issue :
i. Margaret A. 6 ; ii. Alice W. C. 6 ; and iii. Clifford C. R. 6
Palmer. The last-named is dead.
116. Paulina Virginia 4 Cabell, born July 15, 1812;
married, at the residence of her father, October 11, 1831,
to John Ware Mosby, and died at her residence, " Valley
Farm," May 23, 1874. [Her husband (born June 30,
1804; died December 28, 1875, at "Valley Farm," and
there buried by her side) was a son of John H. Mosby
(born 1765; married, April 11, 1799, Jane Ware, of Gooch-
land), son of Daniel Mosby. 1 ] Issue : —
i. Clifford Cabell 5 Mosby, d. infant.
464. ii. Alice Jane 5 Mosby.
iii. Frederick Cabell 5 Mosby, d. infant.
iv. Mary Winston 5 Mosby, d. young.
v. EUa Floyd 5 Mosby, b. at "Fernley," August 29,
1 See Virginia Cousins, by Dr. G. Brown Goode, p. 221.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 54
o
1846 ; authoress ; has written an extended essay
called " Ideal Life," several novels and novel-
ettes, and sundry articles for New Church mag-
azines and other periodicals.
vi. Carrington Winston 5 Mosby, b. at " Valley Farm,"
September 30, 1849 ; m. Cora Lemmon Clark,
daughter of Dr. A. I. Clark, of Lynchburg, Va.
He is in business in Lynchburg.
464. Alice Jane 5 Mosby, born in New Market, Nelson
County, Va., July 8, 1836 ; married, at Valley Farm,
January 10, 1867, Dr. John Flagg Gardner [educated at
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., son of Dr. John
Flagg Gardner, of Boston, the son of Dr. James Gardner (a
graduate of Harvard), by his wife, a daughter of Dr.
John Flagg, of Massachusetts]. Issue: —
i. Virginia Cabell 6 Gardner, b. at " Valley Farm," Feb-
ruary 5, 1870.
ii. Helen Carleton G Gardner, b. at " Valley Farm," August
1, 1872.
iii. John Flagg Churchill 6 Gardner, b. at " Meadow Brook,"
July 1, 1875.
117. Louis Warrington 4 Cabell, born June 12, 1814;
completed education at University of Virginia, 1837-1839 ;
inherited "Green Hill;' married, July 8, 1841, Anna
Maria Perkins, daughter of George Perkins and his wife,
Eliza Richardson, of Cumberland County, Va. Mr. Cabell
was a farmer, but he was also the editor and owner of a
newspaper for a time, and was a candidate to represent this
district in Congress. He died October 7, 1890, and his
wife in September, 1893. Issue : —
i. George Perkins 5 Cabell, d. infant.
465. ii. Frederick Ernest 5 Cabell.
iii. George Perkins 5 Cabell, b. 1846 ; d. 1850.
iv. Anna Maria 5 Cabell, b. January 26, 1848 ; d.
September 17, 1894.
466. v. John Breckinridge 5 Cabell.
544 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
vi. Lewis Winston 5 Cabell, d. infant,
vii. Lewis Winston 5 Cabell, b. February 13, 1855 ;
living ; farmer, etc.
viii. William Perkins 5 Cabell, d. infant.
ix. Eliza Cralle 5 Cabell, d. infant.
465. Frederick Ernest 5 Cabell, born March 15, 1844;
served in a Cumberland County cavalry company (Capt.
Perkins), C. S. A. ; education completed in Freiberg 1 , Ger-
many, after the war, where he married Johanna Harnisch.
They now live in Grant County, Ore., and have one child :
i. Johanna Camilla 6 Cabell.
466. John Breckinridge 5 Cabell, born January 26, 1850;
educated at Norwood High School ; married, in Baker City,
Ore., Bessie Reynolds. They reside in Grant County, Ore.,
and have one child : —
i. Rudolph Warrington 6 Cabell.
24. dr. john j. 3 cabell's descendants.
118. Judith Scott 4 Cabell, born September 3, 1808 ;
married, in Lynchburg, February 5, 1829, Richard K.
Cralle, and died in spring of 1835. [Her husband was a
relative of J. C. Calhoun, and his literary executor. He
published the " Life and Works of John C. Calhoun," New
York, 1853-1855, in six volumes. " Previously an editor in
Washington, D. C, and a Swedenborgian clergyman. Au-
thor of some New Church publications." He died in Vir-
ginia, June 10, 1864. He was " the eldest son of Richard
K. and Lucy (Jones) Cralle, of Mecklenburg County, Va.
The former descended of the Cranes, Kenners, and Balls,
of Northumberland and Westmoreland counties, and the
latter, a granddaughter of Peter Jones, of Dinwiddie, for
whom Col. William Byrd named Petersburg." Issue : —
467. i. Mary Cabell 5 Cralle\
ii. Ada Scott Cralle, d. infant.
467. Mary Cabell 5 Cralle, born March 17, 1830; mar-
ried, December 12, 1850, Nathaniel Henry Campbell ; died
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 545
December 6, 1894. [Her husband (born December 12,
1824; died January 9, 1867; B. L., University of Vir-
ginia, 1845 ; attorney at law, Bedford County) was the son
of Robert Campbell, of Bedford, and his wife, Nancy Terry.
Robert Campbell was a grandson of William Campbell, who
sold his estates in Prince Edward County and purchased
from Richard Randolph (executor) a part of Rev. William
Stith's estate in Bedford, about 1761, and removed to that
county. Nancy Terry was a daughter of " Maj. William
Terry, military lieutenant of Bedford County in 1794," by
his wife, Jane Smith, daughter of Guy Smith, high sheriff
of Bedford (by his wife, Anna Hopkins, a sister to the wife
of Col. Joseph Cabell), son of Bowker Smith, who removed
from Albemarle County to Bedford, whose will was witnessed
by Col. Joseph Cabell, of Buckingham.] Issue : —
468. i. James Laurence 6 Campbell.
469. ii. Richard Kenna 6 Campbell.
hi. Judith Scott Campbell, b. February 11, 1855.
iv. Susan Campbell, b. April 17, 1856.
v. Henry Terry Campbell, b. June 19, 1858.
vi. Maria Antoinette Gelston ° Campbell, d. infant,
vii. John Cabell 6 Campbell, d. young,
viii. Robert Lee 6 Campbell, b. May 11, 1866.
468. James Laurence 6 Campbell, born September 21,
1851 ; B. L., University of Virginia, 1872 ; lawyer in Bal-
timore, Md., and now of Bedford City, Va. ; married Lilian
Bowyer [daughter of Dr. Thomas M. Bowyer, of Bedford
City (and his wife, Catherine Burwell, daughter of William
M. Burwell, editor, author, etc., and his wife, Frances Cal-
laway Steptoe), son of Henry M. Bowyer, attorney at law,
and his wife, Sarah Preston. See the " Preston Family,"
by John Mason Brown]. Issue: —
i. Thomas Bowyer 7 Campbell.
ii. James Laurence 7 Campbell, Jr.
hi. George W. Bagby 7 Campbell,
iv. Lilian Preston 7 Campbell.
469. Richard Kenna 6 Campbell, b. August 7, 1853;
546 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
lawyer, farmer, editor ; is now connected with the Ameri-
can consulate, St. John's, New Brunswick. His home is in
Bedford City, Va. ; married, June 7, 1876, at " Liberty
Hall," Frances Grace Cabell (born July 16, 1852), daughter
of N. F. Cabell, Esq. (141), and has: —
i. Nathaniel Henry 7 Campbell.
ii. Anna Barraud 7 Campbell.
iii. Philip Barraud 7 Campbell.
119. Sarah Winston 4 Cabell, born July 30, 1812 ; mar-
ried, in Lynchburg, March 16, 1830, Henry Childs Ward,
of Pittsylvania County, Va. He died in Charleston, S. C,
of consumption, February 20, 1835, aged 27. She died in
Lynchburg, October 21, 1843. Issue : —
470. i. John Cabell 5 Ward.
ii. Richard Scott 5 Ward, d. young.
471. iii. Sarah Henry 5 Ward.
470. John Cabell 5 Ward, b. March 7, 1832 ; married, in
Bedford County, August 6, 1856, Elizabeth Roy Scott ;
died March 7, 1866. Issue : —
i. Sarah Scott 6 Ward, d. infant.
ii. Elizabeth Cabell 6 Ward, d. young.
471. Sarah Henry 5 Ward, born August 21, 1834; mar-
ried, in Sparta, Ga., March 2, 1859, William Armistead
Burwell [son of Armistead Burwell, of " Waverley," Frank-
lin County, Va., son of John Spotswood Burwell (1776-
1854), son of Col. Lewis Burwell (1745-1800), of Stoneland,
Mecklenburg County, Va., who " commanded a regiment in
the war of the Revolution, and served fourteen years in the
Virginia legislature," by his first wife, Anne Spotswood,
daughter of Col. John and Mary (Dandriclge) Spotswood,
and granddaughter of Gov. Alexander Spotswood]. Issue:
i. Mary Armistead 6 Burwell, b. November 29, 1860.
ii. John Cabell 6 Burwell, b. February 9, 1863; m., at
Brooksville, Fla., December 7, 1892, Lucy Whitfield
Cobb, and has : i. John Cobb 7 Burwell, b. November
8, 1893.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 54*7
iii. Henry Ward 6 Burwell, b. November 2, 1865 ; in., July
12, 1893, Mary Anderson, of Fairview, Green County,
S. C.
iv. William Hix 6 Burwell, b. April 28, 1869.
v. Sallie Winston G Burwell, d. infant.
vi. Ruth Terrill 6 Burwell, b. January, 1877.
120. Frances Whiting 4 Cabell, born September 1, 1815 ;
married in Charleston, Kanawha County, November 1,
1832, Thomas R. Friend, and died August 16, 1838. Is-
sue : —
472. i. Paulina Scott 5 Friend.
473. ii. Frances Cabell 5 Friend.
iii. Josephine Margaret 5 Friend, d. young.
472. Paulina Scott 5 Friend, born March 28, 1834; mar-
ried (first), in Charleston, November 1, 1853, to John L.
Moseley, of Bedford County, who died, leaving issue : —
i. Thomas Friend 6 Moseley, b. August 20, 1864 ; " mar-
ried, and living in Stockton, Cal."
ii. Henry Winston 6 Moseley, d. young,
iii. Josephine 6 Moseley, d. young.
472. Mrs. Paulina S. 5 Moseley married (second), July 15,
1865, Maj. John H. Thompson, of Santa Cruz, Cal., for-
merly of Marion Smythe County, Va. They are now living
in California. Issue : —
iv. Thomas R. 6 Thompson, b. 1866 ; m., and living in Cal-
ifornia.
v. Alexander Q. 6 Thompson, b. July, 1867 ; m., and liv-
ing in California.
vi. Paulina 6 Thompson, in., and living in California.
vii. John Henry G Thompson ; " and two or three others."
473. Frances Cabell 5 Friend, born September 21, 1836;
married, January 31, 1855, Joel S. Quarrier, of Charleston,
W. Va., son of Alexander W. Quarrier. She died October
6, 1892. Issue : —
i. Thomas Alexander 6 Quarrier, d. young.
474. ii. Paulina Moseley 6 Quarrier.
548 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
475. iii. Henrian Cabell 6 Quarrier.
476. iv. Josephine Moseley 6 Quarrier.
v. Joel Shrewsbury 6 Quarrier, b. March 28, 1869.
vi. Richard Laidley 6 Quarrier, d. infant,
vii. Caroline Wood 6 Quarrier, d. infant.
474. Paulina ("Pidgie") M. 6 Quarrier, born April 25,
1857 ; married, October 29, 1885, in Charleston, W. Va.,
Harry D. Shrewsbury, son of William Shrewsbury. He
died August 29, 1894, leaving issue : —
i. Frances Cabell Friend 7 Shrewsbury, b. August 11,
1886.
ii. Herman Douglas 7 Shrewsbury, b. December 31, 1888.
iii. Talbot Quarrier 7 Shrewsbury, b. November 8, 1890.
iv. Kenneth Oldham 7 Shrewsbury, b. July 26, 1892.
475. Henrian Cabell 6 Quarrier, born April 30, 1859 ;
married, in Charleston, W. Va., October 16, 1879, Charles
C. Naret, son of Dr. Edward Naret. Issue : —
i. Joel Quarrier 7 Naret, b. June 29, 1880.
ii. Louis Baer 7 Naret, b. June 29, 1880 ; d. same day.
iii. Charlotte Baer 7 Naret, b. May 9, 1882.
iv. Charles C. 7 Naret, d. infant.
v. Frances F. 7 Naret, d. infant.
476. Josephine M. 6 Quarrier, born April 2, 1861 ; mar-
ried, in Charleston, W. Va., March 1, 1892, Prof. John
Robert S. Sterritt, of Amherst College, Mass. Issue : —
i. Daphne Theodora 7 Sterritt, b. December 7, 1893.
121. Henry Ann 4 Cabell, born August 2, 1822; died
May 31, 1890 ; married, April 29, .1846, in Lynchburg,
Samuel Henry Early, who died some years before her. He
was a captain and afterward promoted colonel in the C. S. A. ;
a brother of Gen. Jubal Anderson Early, and a son of Col.
Joab Early, of Franklin County, Va., by his wife, Ruth
Hairston, daughter of Col. Samuel Hairston (and his wife,
Judith Saunders), son of Robert Hairston (a Scotchman,
who emigrated to Virginia from Ireland), by his wife, Ruth
Stovall.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 549
Col. Joab Early was a son of Jubal Early (a brother to
Elizabeth Early, wife of Col. James Callaway ; see No. 58),
son of Col. Jeremiah Early, of Bedford, who served in the
French and Indian War, was colonel of the county early in
the Kevolution ; died in 1779 [by his wife, Mary Buford,
said to have been sister to Capt. Thomas Buford, killed at
Point Pleasant (October 10, 1774), to Gen. Abraham Bu-
ford, of the Revolution, and to Simeon Buford, who went
to Kentucky, the grandfather of Generals Napoleon B. and
John Buford of the U. S. A.], son of Jeremiah Early, who
emigrated from Ulster, Ireland, and settled in old Cul-
peper, now Madison County, Va. The emigrant had ten
sons, and every name began with J. His son, Col. Jere-
miah, of Bedford, had seven sons, and the names of six
began with J. One of these, Jubal, was the grandfather
of Gen. Jubal A. Early, C. S. A.
121. Mrs. Henry Ann 4 Cabell Early had issue six : —
477. i. John Cabell 5 Early,
ii. Ruth Hairston Early,
iii. Henry Ann Early, d. April 9, 1895.
iv. Mary Judith Early,
v. Joab Early, d. young,
vi. Jubal A. Early, d. young.
477. John Cabell 5 Early, born February 29, 1848; mar-
ried at "Fernley," September 21, 1876, Mary Washing-
ton 5 Cabell (461). He is a farmer, residing at "Red Ga-
bles," Nelson County, Va. His wife, Mary W. Early (born
September 15, 1846), is an authoress. She has written
principally for the New Church magazines, but also for
other periodicals, novelettes, short stories, etc. They have
issue : —
i. Evelyn Russell 6 Early,
ii. Samuel Henry 6 Early,
iii. Clifford Cabell 6 Early,
iv. Jubal Anderson 6 Early,
v. Henrian 6 Early.
550 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
25. samuel j. 3 cabell's descendants.
122. Paulina Jordan 4 Cabell, born February 13, 1797, in
Monroe County, Va. ; married (first), June 18, 1816, John
S. McCormack, of Lincoln County, Ky. He died July 25,
1824, leaving two sons : —
i. Samuel 5 McCormack.
ii. Cabell 5 McCormack, " m. in Lincoln County, Ky., and
raised a family ; he is now dead."
122. Mrs. Paulina 4 Cabell McCormack married (second),
December 15, 1829, Col. Gabriel Lackey, of Lincoln County,
Ky. Issue : —
iii. Samuel 5 Lackey.
iv. Gabriel 5 Lackey, "a prominent citizen of Stanford, Ky."
v. Paulina 5 Lackey, " who m. Alexander Denny, a wealthy
farmer, of Garrard County, Ky., and has : —
i. Mattie G Denny, m. Mr. Duncan, of Lancaster, who
died, leaving his widow a young woman.
ii. Sallie G Denny, m., but died soon after,
iii. Samuel Cabell G Denny, now teller of the National
Bank of Lancaster, Ky."
123. William E. 4 Cabell, born in Monroe County, Va.,
May 16, 1798 ; was being educated for a Presbyterian min-
ister, but, his health failing, he became a farmer, of Casey
County, Ky. ; married, March 15, 1826, Mary Alstott, and
died March 29, 1835, leaving four children : —
478. i. Susan S. 5 Cabell.
479. ii. Mary Alstott 5 Cabell.
480. iii. John Breckinridge 5 Cabell.
481. iv. Sarah A. 5 CabeU.
478. Susan S. 5 Cabell, married Abraham B. Lee, of Casey
County. He is living. She is dead, leaving : —
i. Elizabeth 6 Lee, m. John Savage and d. soon after,
ii. William 6 Lee.
iii. Mary 6 Lee.
479. Mary A. 5 Cabell, born in Casey County, Ky., March
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 551
1, 1829; married, in 1848, Dallas H. Rowe, of Boyle
County, Ky. He died during the war. She is living.
Issue : —
i. James 6 Rowe, b. in Casey County, Ky., September 18,
1849 ; m. Eva Richerson ; lives in Texas. Issue
five : i. Bertha 7 ; ii. James 7 ; iii. Mattie 7 ; iv. Mary 7 ;
and v. Richard 7 Rowe.
ii. Alice 6 Rowe, b. in Casey County, Ky., December 25,
1852; m. John Gordon. Issue: i. Clarence 7 ; ii.
Zelma 7 ; iii. Raymond 7 ; and iv. Bertha 7 Gordon.
iii. John C. 6 Rowe, b. in Casey County, October 22, 1854 ;
d. January 7, 1889; m. Rachel Best. Issue: i. Mary 7 ;
ii. Zilpah 7 ; and iii. Samuel 7 Rowe.
iv. Bertha 6 Rowe, b. September 24, 1857 ; m. Samuel
Best. Issue: i. Eva 7 ;andii. Willie 7 Best.
v. Dallas 6 Rowe, b. in Boyle County, Ky., November 11,
1860 ; a farmer in Collin County, Tex. ; unmarried.
vi. William 6 Rowe, b. in Boyle County, January 25, 1864 ;
m. Carrie Philipps.
" They all live in Kentucky save James and Dallas Rowe,
and in politics they are all true Democrats."
480. John B. 5 Cabell, born in 1831, in Casey County,
Ky., and died in 1888 ; married, first, Matilda Beldon, sec-
ond, Frances Dodd. Issue six : —
i. Alice 6 Cabell.
ii. James G Cabell, " m. Miss Sharp, and died, leaving three
children, two boys and one girl."
iii. Sarah 6 Cabell, m. William Stagg. Issue : i. Bessie 7 ;
ii. Willie ; and iii. Allie Stagg.
iv. William 6 Cabell,
v. John 6 Cabell,
vi. "Dollie Dodd 6 Cabell."
481. Sarah A. 5 Cabell, b. in Casey County, in 1834;
married James Crowdus. Issue seven : —
i. Jane 6 Crowdus, m. Hardin Randolph. Issue: i. Lulie 7
Randolph.
ii. Frances 6 Crowdus.
552 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
iii. William 6 Crowdus.
iv. Sarah G Crowdus, m. Thomas Stokes. Issue : i. Mattie 7 ;
and ii. Effie Stokes.
v. Ida 6 Crowdus, m. Charles Mull. Issue: i. Ollie 7 ; ii.
Willie 7 ; iii. Freddie 7 ; and iv. Gracie 7 Mull.
vi. Mark 6 Crowdus, m. Lilian Hart. Issue: i. May 7
Crowdus.
vii. Elizabeth G Crowdus.
124. Jennetta 4 Cabell, born June 20, 1803, in Monroe
County, Va. ; married, January 6, 1824, James Simpson, of
Marion County, Ky. She died February 18, 1838. He
died in 1854. Issue : —
482. i. Elizabeth 5 Simpson.
483. ii. Susan 5 Simpson.
484. iii. William 5 Simpson.
iv. John 5 Simpson, m. Elizabeth Hale, of Franklin,
Ky. She died during the war, s. p. He lives
in Cass County, Mo.
485. v. George 5 Simpson.
482. Elizabeth 5 Simpson, married Quintus Chandler. He
died in 1888, leaving: —
i. Belle G Chandler.
ii. James Richard G Chandler, d. unmarried,
iii. Mack 6 Chandler, d. unmarried.
iv. Elizabeth 6 Chandler.
v. Mary 6 Chandler, " m. Grant Lowry, of Nicholasville,
Ky., who d. in 1886. His widow, her brother, and
sisters live with their mother . at Bogard, Carroll
County, Mo."
vi. John Chandler.
483. Susan 5 Simpson, m. Moses Beard, who lived and
died in Marion County, Ky.
i. Elizabeth 6 Beard, m. " Dr. Evans, of Bardstown, Ky.,
and had six children ; their oldest, William 7 Evans,
m. Miss Dellie Johnston, and is a merchant of Leb-
anon, Ky."
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 553
ii. Frank 6 Beard is married, but has no children,
iii. Samuel 6 Beard, m. Maggie Austin ; has one child,
iv. John 6 Beard, m. Susan Hays ; has two children,
v. George G Beard, " moved to Texas and m. there."
vi. Edgar Beard, "moved to Texas and m. there."
vii. Thomas G Beard, " m. (first) Miss Morrison, of Brad-
fordsville, Ky. ; one child ; and (next) Miss Fry, of
same place, and has two children by her."
viii. Quintus Beard, m. Miss Fry, of Bradfordsville.
ix. Moses G Beard, m., first, Miss Hall ; next, Miss Evans,
of Bardstown, Ky.
x. Lulie G Beard, m. William Daniel, of Washington
County, Ky.
xi. Lettie c Beard, unmarried,
xii. Stephen G Beard, unmarried.
484. William 5 Simpson, married (first) Elizabeth McEl-
roy. They lived in Missouri. She died about 1865, leav-
ing- :
i. William G Simpson.
ii. Samuel G Simpson.
iii. James Proctor Simpson, dead,
iv. Janie 6 Simpson, dead.
484. William 5 Simpson, married (second) Mrs. Sarah
Ingraham, widow of Dr. Isaac Ingraham, and a daughter of
Clayton Miller, of Columbia, Ky. They now live in Car-
rollton, Carroll County, Mo.
485. George 5 Simpson, m., in 1861, Nannie B. Gordon,
daughter of Joel Gordon. They now live near Lebanon,
Ky. They had four children : —
i. Elizabeth G Simpson, m. Dr. N. M. Basket, of Moberly,
Mo. ; at present a member of Missouri state senate.
She d. in July, 1893.
ii. Jennie G Simpson, m. William M. Rawlings, of Moberly,
Mo., where they reside.
iii. Susie 6 Simpson, single.
iv. Louise G Simpson, b. about 1878 ; d. 1894.
554 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
125. Elizabeth 4 Cabell, born July 10, 1806, in Monroe
County, Va. ; married, December 8, 1824, William McEl-
roy, of Marion County, Ky. " The McElroys are one of
the most largely connected and influential families in Ken-
tucky." She died June 22, 1835. Issue four : —
i. Edwin 5 McElroy, was killed in C. S. A.
ii. Elvira 5 McElroy, m. Mr. Bowles ; no children,
iii. Mary 5 McElroy, m. Wilson Vaughan, of Shelbyville,
Mo.
iv. Samuel 5 McElroy, killed in C. S. A.
126. Madison 4 Cabell, born November 22, 1808, in Casey
County, Ky. ; married in March, 1831, Eunice Mitchell, of
Metcalfe County, Ky. ; died in November, 1850. Issue
four : —
i. Eunice 5 Cabell, d. young.
486. ii. Elvira 5 CabeU.
iii. William Winston 5 Cabell, d. about 1886. He m.
three times, and left one daughter ; m. (first)
Miss Mary Penick, of Green County ; d. s. p. ;
m. (second) Mrs. Amelia Hunter, daughter of
Clayton Miller, of Columbia, Ky. ; d. s. p. ; m.
(third) Miss Nona Taylor, of Columbia, Ky.
Issue : i. Pauline 6 Cabell, who lives with her
mother in Columbia, Ky.
iv. Susan V. 5 Cabell, m. Dr. Thomas Hendrick, "by
whom she had several children. Some years
ago they moved from Kentucky to Mississippi,
and have since died. Their children are now
scattered over the South."
486. Elvira 5 Cabell, married Burwell Hancock, of Green
County, Ky. ; both now dead ; of their children, five daugh-
ters and two sons are living : —
i. Mattie 6 Hancock, m. Jent Penick. "They now live
with their family at Elkton, Ky."
ii. Eunice 6 Hancock, m. Robert Buchanan. " They reside
near Campbellsville, Ky."
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 555
iii. Viola 6 Hancock, m. Emmett Mitchell, of Hart County,
iv. Elizabeth 6 Hancock, m. Thomas Poore, of Green
County, Ky.
v. " Sophia 6 Hancock and the two sons are still single."
127. Elvira A. 4 Cabell, born February 22, 1811, in Casey
County, Ky. ; married, January 20, 1831, Franklin Ander-
son, a prominent citizen of Green County, Ky. Both are
now dead. She died September 4, 1872, leaving two chil-
dren : —
487. i. James Garland 5 Anderson.
488. ii. Mary 5 Anderson.
487. James Garland 5 Anderson, born November 20,
1830 (living) ; married Mary Robinson, of Green County,
Ky. ; living. Issue : —
i. Elvira 6 and Frank G Anderson, d. infants,
ii. James Lee 6 Anderson, b. January 8, 1867 ; single,
iii. Samuel 6 Anderson, b. October 11, 1853 ; in., Septem-
ber 30, 1880, Kate Taylor, of Green County, Ky.
They live at Greensburg, Ky., and have issue : —
i. John Adair 7 Anderson, b. February 1, 1883.
ii. Lida 7 Anderson, b. March 10, 1886.
iii. Samuel 7 Anderson, b. October 26, 1888.
iv. Mary 7 Anderson, b. July, 1892.
488. Mary 5 Anderson, born June 21, 1833 (living);
married (first), December 7, 1852, William 0. Penick. He
died leaving two children : —
i. Frank 6 Penick, b. September 20, 1853 ; m., and d. s. p.
ii. William O. 6 Penick, b. May 8, 1856 ; m., November 4,
1881, Sophia Smith, of Green County, Ky. Issue :
i. Sophia Carlisle 7 Penick, b. October 11, 1882 ; and
ii. Elvira A. 7 Penick, b. August 31, 1885.
488. Mrs. Mary 5 (Anderson) Penick married (second),
September 29, 1859, Milton A. Vaughan. Issue six, three
of whom died young. Two daughters and a son are liv-
ing : —
556 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
iii. Mary 6 Vaughan, m. James D. Wilson, a lawyer of Glas-
gow, Ky., where they now live. Issue: i. Mary 7
Wilson, b. January 10, 1884 ; and ii. Frank A. 7 Wil-
son, b. August 12, 1885.
iv. Elvira Vaughan, in., November 16, 1882, William E.
Ward, a merchant at Greensburg, Ky., youngest son
of Gen. Thomas Ward, U. S. A., and brother of Hon.
John Hardin Ward, of Louisville, Ky. Issue : i.
Milton A. 7 Ward, b. August 28, 1883.
v. "A son," 6 name not given.
128. Frederick 4 Cabell, born in Casey County, Ky., June
7, 1814. (He was twin brother to Samuel R. 4 Cabell, who
died of cholera in the South in 1851, unmarried.) Mr.
Cabell was a farmer, a large land-owner, and, before the
war, a large slave-owner. He was an elder in the Presby-
terian Church, and for a time a member of the Grange.
He was a humane master, a charitable man, and, in the
words of an old acquaintance, " the best man that ever lived
in our county." He married (first), February 10, 1836,
Paulina E. Sprowl, daughter of Oliver Sprowl, of Madison
County, Ky. She was a consistent member of the Pres-
byterian Church ; died in December, 1851, having had
issue : —
i. Mary Davis 5 Cabell, b. February 11, 1837 ; m., October
5, 1858, Maj. John Q. Owsley, son of Dr. Joel Ows-
ley, and a nephew of Gov. Owsley, of Kentucky.
She d. September 3, 1863, leaving an only child,
Sophie E. Owsley, who d. in 1865. Her husband
married again, and lives in Nashville, Tenn.
ii. Susan J. 5 Cabell, b. 1839 ; d. 1844.
iii. Samuel Jordan 5 Cabell, b. May 4, 1840 ; lieutenant
13th Kentucky Infantry, U. S. A. ; d. of wounds
received in battle at Huff's Ferry, Tenn., March 6,
1864. " Although Samuel J. Cabell was in the ser-
vice of the U. S., having entered early in the strug-
gle, when the preservation of the Union was the
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 557
issue, the members of the family were generally
strong in their sympathies with the South."
iv. Margaret Elizabeth 5 Cabell, b. September 4, 1842 ; liv-
ing ; m., September 8, 1864, I. N. Penick, of Todd
County, Ky. " They now reside in Green County,
Ky., near the old Cabell homestead. Her (i.) oldest
daughter 6 m. J. B. Irvine, and has two small chil-
dren. Her other children are : ii. Cabell G ; iii.
Claude 6 ; iv. William C. G ; v. Charles 6 ; vi. Minnie 6 ;
and vii. Helen 6 Penick ; all young and unmarried."
v. Oliver 5 Cabell, b. 1845 ; d. 1848.
128. Frederick 4 Cabell married (second), in November,
1853, Sophronia Helen Lewis, a native of Simpson County,
Ky., and a daughter of John Lewis and his wife, Ann G.
Snoddy, both natives of Virginia. John was a son of
Hawkins Lewis, a soldier in the Revolution, whose wife was
a Miss Henderson. Ann was a daughter of Robert Snoddy,
Sr., who was a resident of, and an elder in the Presbyterian
Church in, Lynchburg, Va., for some years, but removed
in the early part of this century to Barren County, Ky.,
where he died. Mrs. Cabell, a member of the Presbyterian
Church, is still living. Her husband died January 2, 1888,
having had by his second marriage : —
vi. Lewis Hardin 5 Cabell, b. about 1854 ; an elder in the
Presbyterian Church ; m. Miss Whitlock, of Green
County, and has two children: i. Louise 6 ; and ii.
Frederick 6 Cabell.
vii. John Frederick 5 Cabell, b. about 1857; m., about
1892, Miss Frazer, of Columbia, Ky., and has a
daughter : i. Elizabeth G Cabell,
viii. Thomas Henry 5 Cabell, d. young.
ix. Ann Caroline 5 Cabell, cl. young.
x. William Edwin 5 Cabell, b. 1865 ; attorney at law, Mid-
dlesborough, Ky.
xi. Charles R. 5 Cabell, b. about 1870.
558 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
V. COL. NICHOLAS 2 CABELL'S BRANCH.
27. william 3 h. cabell's descendants. 1
129. Louisa Elizabeth 4 Cabell, born February 19, 1798,
at "Union Hill;" married, May 23, 1820, at "Monte-
video," by Rev. William S. Reid, to Henry Carrington, of
Charlotte.
The late Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby wrote of her : " She
was nurtured as well in the science of domestic duty as
in those varied accomplishments which adorn a cultivated
woman. And from her personal beauty, and from those
nameless graces that impart a tenfold greater charm to the
merely physical qualities of her sex, she Avon the hearts of
all who approached her, and became one of the belles of
the commonwealth. It was the fortune of Henry Carring-
ton to win that love which was so eagerly sought by others,
and to transplant the object of his affections to his own
beautiful home on the Roanoke. And what she made that
home to her husband, to her friends and neighbors, and to
all who trod her hospitable threshold, from her youth to
that sad morning when we bore her precious remains to
their last resting-place, there are some yet living who, with
grateful hearts and a faltering tongue, can tell." She died
January 8, 1865, at " Ingleside."
Her husband, Henry Carrington, the eldest son of Judge
Paul Carrington the elder, by his second wife, was born at
" Mulberry Hill," September 17, 1793 ; educated at Hamp-
den Sidney and at Princeton, N. J., where he graduated in
1814. Mr. Grigsby wrote of him : " He studied law, but
did not engage heartily in the practice, as his father gave
him the beautiful estate of Col. Thomas Read, on the Little
Roanoke, about three miles from Charlotte C. H. He was
a fine specimen of the young men of that day, — six feet
tall and well proportioned, his features distinctly marked
and intellectual ; of a genial and lively temperament, which
1 Those from his first wife are also of II. Col. William 2 Cabell the elder's
branch. (See No. 16.)
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 559
gave a zest to the social circle, and impelled him to appre-
ciate at its full value the worth of others ; and a mind
trained by regular study, and embellished with a large stock
of useful and elegant learning.
" As a young man he had the privilege of an intimacy
with John Randolph of Roanoke (whose estates adjoined
his father's), and with most of the eminent judges and
lawyers of that day whom he met with in the society of his
father in Richmond and at home. In 1820, he brought his
bride to his residence on the Roanoke, which had previously
borne the name of ' Singleside,' but thenceforth was to be
known far and wide as ' Ingleside.' And here, in culti-
vating his estate and in the gratification of his literary
tastes, and in dispensing a refined and generous hospitality,
he spent his life. He had nearly reached the age of 75,
with as few of the infirmities of the body as was ever
known at that advanced stage of life, and a long, healthy,
honored old age seemed to be reserved for him ; but in the
summer of 1867, returning from church, at a visitation of
Bishop Johns, he was thrown from his buggy and broke
his leg, from which accident he never recovered. He died
December 5, 1867, and was buried by the side of his wife
in the family cemetery at l Retirement,' the estate owned
by his only surviving son." He was the father of eight
children : —
489. i. William Cabell 5 Carrington.
ii. Paul Clement 5 Carrington, b. 1823; d. 1826.
490. iii. Paulina Edmonia 5 Carrington.
491. iv. Elizabeth Cabell 5 Carrington.
492. v. Agnes Gamble 5 Carrington.
493. vi. Henry Alexander 5 Carrington.
vii. Margaret 5 Carrington, b. 1836 ; d. 1836.
494. viii. Emma L. 5 Carrington.
489. William Cabell 5 Carrington, born at " Retirement,"
the residence of " Aunt Le Grand," on Monday, August
27, 1821 ; graduated at Hampden Sidney with great dis-
560 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
tinction, and subsequently in law at the University of
Virginia. From his youth onward he was distinguished for
his integrity and truthfulness, and for his indomitable en-
ergy in the pursuit of knowledge. He began the practice
of his profession as partner of the late Judge Wood Boul-
din, and was for several years a successful lawyer of
Charlotte County. He married, in December, 1844, at
" Vaucluse," Campbell County, Maria Louisa Dabney. " In
April, 1845, he removed to Richmond, and took charge as
leading editor of 'The Richmond Times and Compiler,'
having been induced to do this by the earnest solicitations
of some of the most influential gentlemen of Richmond,
who thought him eminently qualified, by his high character,
great intellectual power, and singularly calm, self-poised
temperament, to become a leader of men. Their judgment
was vindicated by the result. The influence of his paper
grew steadily in the city and State. In the fall of 1851
he was elected to represent Richmond in the legislature of
the State, and a brilliant future of distinction seemed open
to him ; but it was ordered otherwise. He died December
29, 1851, at his residence in Richmond, before taking his
seat in the House of Delegates, lamented by all who knew
him, in the assured hope of a happy immortality, leaving
behind him on earth no purer gentleman." He was buried
in Shockoe Hill Cemetery, and his funeral sermon was
preached by the Rev. Moses Hoge.
The late Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby, who had a high
opinion of him, told me that " he was an elegant writer,
and gave promise of the highest distinction." Mr. Grigsby
also refers to him in his " Virginia Convention of 1776,"
p. 119, note, in which he is stated to have been " a great-
granclnephew" of Col. William Cabell, of "Union Hill." It
should be a " great-grandson."
His widow, Maria Louisa Dabney, is still living. She is
the daughter of the late Rev. John Blair Dabney (and his
wife, Elizabeth Lewis Towles, daughter of Major Oliver
Towles ; see under 68), a graduate of Princeton, an LL. D.
HON. WILLIAM CABELL CARRINGTON
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 561
of William and Mary College. Mr. Dabney was for many
years a noted lawyer in his section of the State, but about
fifteen years before his death, yielding' to the urgent wishes
of Bishops Meade and Johns, he took orders in the Episco-
pal Church, and ministered for the remainder of his life to
four churches in his neighborhood, without making any
charge for his services. He was born in November, 1795,
and died in April, 1868 ; son of Judge John Dabney, mem-
ber of the state senate, 1805-1808, appointed judge in place
of Judge Edmund Winston, resigned in 1813 (by his wife,
Susanna Dabney Morris, his first cousin) ; son of Capt.
George Dabney (1740-1824), a member of the Hanover
County Committee in 1775 (by his wife, Elizabeth Price, a
granddaughter of Col. William and Elizabeth Beverley
Randolph); son of Col. William Dabney, of " Aldringham,"
Hanover County (who died before the Revolution) ; son of
George Dabney, who lived opposite Hanovertown, on the
Pamunkey River; son of Cornelius Dabney, a churchwarden
of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, in 1685. (See
under No. 23.) Elizabeth Beverley (1691-1723), wife of
Col. William Randolph (1681-1742), was a daughter of Col.
Peter Beverley (by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Maj.
Robert Peyton, who emigrated to Virginia from Norfolk-
shire, England), the eldest son of Maj. Robert Beverley,
who came from Yorkshire, England, and died in Virginia
March 25, 1687 (N. S.).
In the sketch of William Cabell Carrington's ancestor,
Col. George Carrington (pp. 160, 161, 165), I noted the
Rev. John Hyde Saunders, of Southam Parish, as a mem-
ber of the Cumberland County Committee. As a further
light on these committees, in this section, it seems well to
say here that the Rev. Miles Selden, of Henrico Parish, was
a member of Henrico County Committee, and that the Rev.
Thomas Hall, of Trinity Parish, was the chairman of the
Louisa County Committee.
489. William Cabell 5 and Maria Louisa Dabney Carring-
ton had issue three : —
562 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
i. Louisa Edmonia 6 Carrington, b. 1846 ; d. 1847.
495. ii. Elizabeth Lewis 6 Carrington.
496. iii. Williamine Cabell Carrington.
495. Elizabeth Lewis 6 Carrington, born October 14,
1849 ; married, March 21, 1876, Hon. James N. Dunlop,
of Richmond, Va.; University of Virginia, 1861-1865-1866;
" a brilliant young lawyer, who was elected to the House of
Delegates from Richmond in November, 1883, and again
in November, 1885. He died July 28, 1888, aged 44,
leaving issue five : " —
i. Maria Louisa 7 Dunlop, b. February 4, 1877.
ii. Nannie Dent 7 Dunlop, b. October 31, 1878.
iii. Bessie Lewis 7 Dunlop, b. February 18, 1880.
iv. James N. 7 Dunlop, b. January 21, 1882.
v. William Cabell 7 Dunlop, b. October 11, 1883.
496. Williamine Cabell 6 Carrington, born in June, 1852,
at " Ingleside ; " married, May 19, 1879, Robert A. Lan-
caster, a banker of Richmond and New York, who has been
active in building up the railroad and other interests of the
South. Their children are : —
i. William Cabell 7 Lancaster, b. October 16, 1880.
ii. Henry Carrington 7 Lancaster, b. November 10, 1882.
iii. Kitty Dabney 7 Lancaster, b. October 25, 1886.
iv. Dabney Stewart 7 Lancaster, b. October 11, 1889.
490. Paulina Edmonia 5 Carrington, born at " Retire-
ment," Saturday, October 22, 1825, about sunset ; married,
at " Ingleside," October 15, 1845, William Watkins Read,
a graduate of Hampden Sidney College ; studied law under
Judge Lomax at Fredericksburg, Va., etc. ; son of Isaac
Read, of " Greenfield " (and his wife, Anne Mayo Venable,
born June 4, 1784 ; died February 28, 1869 ; daughter of
Col. S. W. Venable and his wife, Mary Carrington); son
of Col. Isaac Read, of the Charlotte County Committee, and
of the Revolutionary army, who died in September, 1778,
in Philadelphia (see Grigsby's " Virginia Convention of
1776," p. 107); son of Col. Clement Read. (See under 11.)
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 563
Their children are : —
497. i. Maria Carrington 6 Read.
498. ii. Louisa Cabell Read.
iii. William Howard Read, b. January 14, 1850 ;
m.j May 13, 1885, Mary Louise Pierce, of New
York city ; d. September 21, 1890, s. p.
499. iv. Edmonia Blair Read,
v. Annie V enable Read.
500. vi. Sarah Embry Read.
vii. Henry C. Read, b. 1858 ; d. 1863.
viii. James Alexander Read, b. 1860 ; d. 1864.
ix. Abram Carring-ton Read.
501. x. Agnes Elizabeth Read,
xi. Isaac Mayo 6 Read.
497. Maria Carrington 6 Read, born at Ingleside, March
8, 1847 ; married, at " Greenfield," January 18, 1872,
Thomas Algernon Watkins, of North Carolina, and has
issue : —
i. Edmonia Carrington 7 Watkins, b. July, 1876.
ii. Henrietta Reynolds 7 Watkins, b. December 9, 1883.
iii. Virginia Douglass 7 Watkins, b. June 18, 1887.
497. Louisa Cabell 6 Read, born at Ingleside, May 4,
1848; married, at "Greenfield," September 15, 1875,
Isaac Read, of New York, and has issue : —
i. Susie Nash 7 Read, b. in July, 1880, in Brooklyn,
ii. William Howard 7 Read, b. February 25, 1885.
499. Edmonia Blair c Read, born at Ingleside, November
23, 1851 ; married, January 29, 1878, Miles Macon 7 Mar-
tin, and has : —
i. Edmonia Blair 7 Martin, b. November 14, 1878.
ii. Alexander 7 Martin, b. June 5, 1881.
iii. John 7 Martin, b. February 9, 1885.
iv. William Watkins 7 Martin, b. July 9, 1889.
500. Sarah Embry 6 Read, born at Greenfield, Septem-
ber 12, 1855 ; married, January 12, 1882, John Martin.
He died July 19, 1889, leaving one child : —
i. William Watkins 7 Martin, b. December 17, 1883.
564 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
501. Agnes Elizabeth 6 Read, born February 19, 1865 ;
married, April 30, 1890, John A. Lancaster, son of Robert
A. Lancaster by his first wife. Their children are : —
i. Mary Ely 7 Lancaster, b. March 20, 1891.
ii. Edmonia Carrington 7 Lancaster, b. November 16, 1892.
491. Elizabeth Cabell 5 Carrington, born at " Ingleside,"
Friday, May 18, 1827; married, at "Ingleside," December
16, 1856, Judge George H. Gilmer, of Pittsylvania Countv,
Va. She is still living. Her husband, who died January
31, 1874, at Chatham, Pittsylvania, was a son of Peachy
R. Gilmer (who died in 1836), by his wife, Mary House, of
Connecticut. He was a brother of Mrs. William Wirt (born
August 15, 1772; married, May 28, 1795; and died Sep-
tember 17, 1799, s. p.), of Francis Walker Gilmer, who se-
lected the first professors for the University of Virginia,
and a son of Dr. George Gilmer, of Pen Park, Albemarle
(by his wife, Lucy, daughter of Dr. Thomas Walker). Dr.
George Gilmer graduated at University of Edinburgh, Scot-
land ; then graduated in medicine in 1760 ; was a member
of the county committee of Albemarle, 1774-1776 ; lieu-
tenant at Williamsburg, 1775 ; member of the Convention
of 1775, etc. ; died 1795. He was the son of Dr. George
Gilmer, who emigrated from Scotland in 1731 and settled
in Williamsburg, Va., by his (second) wife, Mary Peachy
Walker (born February 10, 1711; married, May 24, 1732;
died October 1, 1745), a sister of Dr. Thomas Walker.
491. Mrs. Elizabeth Cabell 5 Carrington Gilmer had issue
three : —
502. i. Louisa Edmonia G Gilmer.
503. ii. Mary Peachy Gilmer.
iii. George Harmer Gilmer, b. December 19, 1864 ;
now in business in Lynchburg, Va.
502. Louisa Edmonia 6 Gilmer, born at Chatham, Feb-
ruary 21, 1859; married, at Chatham, November 3, 1879,
Robert Holt Easley ; both living, and have issue five : —
i. Elizabeth 7 Easley, b. September 29, 1880.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 565
ii. Florence Leigh Easley, b. November 14, 1883.
iii. James Stone Easley, b. April 7, 1885.
iv. George Gilmer Easley, b. February 21, 1887.
v. Louisa Easley, b. 1889 ; cl. 1889.
503. Mary Peachy 6 Gilmer, born January 3, 1863 ; mar-
ried, December 7, 1886, John W. Craddock, of Lynchburg,
Va. Their children are : —
i. George Gilmer 7 Craddock, b. October 20, 1888.
ii. Charles Granville 7 Craddock, b. November 17, 1890.
iii. Elise Carrington 7 Craddock, b. April 15, 1892.
492. Agnes Gamble 5 Carrington, born Monday, March
29, 1830, at 2 p. m. ; married, November 23, 1865, Joel
Watkins Marshall, of Charlotte County, Va. (son of Col.
J. P. Marshall and his wife, Elizabeth W. Watkins). He
died December 10, 1873, leaving his widow and two chil-
dren : —
i. Henry Carrington 6 Marshall, b. November 24, 1869.
ii. Bessie Watkins 5 Marshall, b. October 10, 1871.
493. Henry Alexander 5 Carrington, born Thursday, Sep-
tember 13, 1832 ; educated at the V. M. I. and University
of Virginia, 1851-1852 ; a lawyer ; married, January 29,
1856, Charlotte Elizabeth Cullen, daughter of Dr. John Cul-
len, of Richmond, Va. ; C. S. A., 1861-1865. He became
lieutenant-colonel of the 18th Virginia (Col. R. E. Withers),
and was often in command. He was a noble man, richly
endowed by nature with many of the attributes of greatness.
He was greatly beloved by all of his soldiers and country-
men ; indeed, by all who ever knew him. " The H. A. Car-
rington Camp of Confederate Veterans in Charlotte County
was named in honor of Col. H. A. Carrington, the gallant
and intrepid colonel of the 18th Virginia Infantry, Pickett's
Division. He was in twenty-nine pitched battles, and was
at the head of his brave regiment in the daring; and head-
long charge of Pickett at Gettysburg. With his own hands
he planted the colors of his regiment within the Union
566 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
lines ; was desperately wounded, captured, and held a pris-
oner on Johnson's Island for eight months. After the war,
owing to his popularity and brilliant war record, he was
elected and reelected clerk of Charlotte County, which
position he held until his death. He died in Richmond,
where he had gone for medical treatment, January 22,
1885, and was interred in Shockoe Hill Cemetery in that
city." [Dr. John Cullen, his wife's father, was born in
Dublin, Ireland, 1797; educated at Trinity College; went
to Paris about 1814 with a view of prosecuting his studies
there, and from that city, by invitation, he started to visit
his uncle, Bishop Patrick Curtis, 1 of the Catholic Church,
Salamanca, Spain ; was arrested by the French ; carried
back to Paris ; paroled ; resumed his studies, remaining one
or two years, and returned to England after " Waterloo,"
on the same ship with the " Allied Sovereigns ; " soon after
sailed for New York, and from thence went to Philadelphia,
where he graduated in the Medical Department of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania. Finally settled in Richmond, Va.;
married Miss Howard ; was one of the founders of the
Medical College of Virginia in 1838 ; died in Richmond,
Va., December 25, 1849.] Issue : —
504. i. Louise Cabell 6 Carrington.
ii. William Cabell 6 Carrington, b. November 1, 1858.
505. iii. John Cullen 6 Carrington.
iv. Henry Lee 6 Carrington, b. 1862 ; d. 1888 ; un-
married.
v. Alfred Randolph 6 Carrington, b. in July, 1865 ;
m., December 15, 1891, Ella M. Gordon.
506. vi. Otelia Maria 6 Carrington.
vii. Matthew Barbour 6 Carrington, b. November 29,
1869.
viii. Florence Anderson 6 Carrington, b. August 27,
1871.
ix. Lottie G Carrington, b. March 12, 1874.
x. George Gilmer 6 Carrington, b. August 12, 1876.
1 See Dictionary of National Biography, vol. xiii. p. 347.
COL. HENRY ALEXANDER CARRINGTON, C. S. A.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 567
504. Louise Cabell G Carrington, born at Ingleside, No-
vember 17, 1856 ; married, in September, 1883, William
Leigh, and has: i. Henry Carrington, 7 b. November 22,
1885 ; ii. Mary C., 7 b. October 12, 1888 ; and iii. Emma
Riely 7 Leigh, b. March 22, 1892.
505. John Cullen G Carrington, born at Ingleside in No-
vember, 1860 ; at present clerk of Charlotte County, Va. ;
married, January 11, 1888, Mary E. W. Hannah, and has :
i. Ella Watkins, 7 b. January 1, 1889 ; ii. Lottie Cullen, 7 b.
May 23, 1890 ; and iii. Mary E. 7 Carrington, b. February
23, 1892.
506. Otelia Maria c Carrington, born at " Retirement,"
November 28, 1867 ; married, June 5, 1889, John Somer-
ville Cunningham, of North Carolina, and has : i. John S., 7
b. June 1, 1890 ; and ii. Lottie C. 7 Cunningham, b. August
12, 1891.
494. Emma L. 5 Carrington, born Sunday, January 22,
1843, at 10 p. m. ; married, at Ingleside, in October, 1867,
Col. John W. Riely, C. S. A. ; attorney at law, and now
the resident (at the capital) member of the Virginia Court of
Appeals, at Richmond, Va. They have : —
i. Louisa Gilmer 6 Riely, b. May 11, 1870 ; m., December
16, 1892, Henry Edmunds, son of Hon. Paul Carring-
ton Edmunds, M. C.
ii. Fanny Grantham G Riely, b. August 22, 1872.
iii. Henry Carrington G Riely, b. January, 1874.
iv. Emma Carrington G Riely, b. February, 1877.
v. John William 6 Riely, b. December 30, 1882.
130. Emma Catherine 4 Cabell, born March 10, 1808 ;
married, May 9, 1826, in Richmond, Va., by Rev. Jesse
Turner, to Paul S. Carrington, a farmer of Charlotte
County. He was the son of Judge Paul Carrington the
younger, and grandson of Judge Paul Carrington the
elder. He died at his residence, " Ridgeway," on Staunton
River, in Charlotte, on Monday, July 9, 1866, in his 69th
year. His widow survived him many years. Issue : —
568 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
507. i. Isaac H. 5 Carrington.
508. ii. Robert G. 5 Carrington.
509. iii. William A. 5 Carrington.
510. iv. Abram Cabell 5 Carrington.
511. v. Alexander Broadnax 5 Carrington.
vi. Edgar Wirt 5 Carrington, b. 1835 ; captain of a
company from Charlotte County in 38th Vir-
ginia Regiment, C. S. A. ; m., March 6, 1862,
Mary H. Hannah; killed, May 31, 1862, at
" Seven Pines ; " s. p.
512. vii. Louisa Cabell 5 Carrington.
viii. Adaline Mayo 5 Carrington ; in " The Louise
Home," Washington, D. C.
507. Isaac Howell 5 Carrington, born March 7, 1827, at
the home of his great-grandfather, Col. Robert Gamble, on
Gamble's Hill, Richmond, Va. ; at the University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1842-1844; at the University of
Virginia, 1844-1846. In 1847, he went to Pittsylvania
County, Va., to study law under James M. Whittle (a bro-
ther to Bishop Whittle), entered into partnership with him,
and they conducted a lucrative and successful practice
together until the war began. He married (first), in 1853,
Mary Coles, daughter of John Coles, of Pittsylvania, and a
granddaughter of the Hon. Isaac Coles, of the Continental
Congress. There were four children by this marriage : —
i. d. an unnamed infant,
ii. Elizabeth Dandridge G Carrington ; living,
iii. John Rice 6 Carrington, b. 1857 ; d. 1869.
iv. Emma Cabell 6 Carrington, b. 1859; m. John A. Mid-
dleton, of Baltimore, Md., and d. in 1884, leaving :
i. Anna M. 7 Middleton, b. 1882.
Mrs. Mary Coles Carrington died in 1860. In June, 1861,
Isaac H. 5 Carrington was commissioned major 38th Virginia
Infantry, C. S. A., and continued in the field until 1863.
In 1863, he was made provost marshal of Richmond, the
capital of the Confederacy, with almost despotic power, an
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 569
office of great responsibility, which he filled with honor and
distinction until the close of the war, the history of which
would make volumes of interesting reading. After the
evacuation of Richmond, he was taken prisoner and con-
fined for two months in the Libby Prison with Judge Robert
Ould, where they formed a friendship and agreed upon a
partnership in the practice of the law, which continued with
unabated success until Judge Ould's death in 1881. Major
Carrington was a member of the board of visitors of the
University of Virginia from 1873. He died at his home in
Richmond, January 30, 1887, at which time he was Past
Master of Metropolitan Lodge of Masons, and president of
the Richmond Bar Association. His funeral was conducted
from St. Paul's Episcopal Church, of which he was a vestry-
man. The interment was at Hollywood.
He .married (second), November 7, 1865, Anne Seddon
Smith (who survives him), daughter of William Patterson
and Marion Morson Seddon Smith, of Gloucester County,
Va. Issue : —
v. Hey ward c Carrington, b. 1866 ; d. 1883.
vi. Nannie Seddon 6 Carrington, b. 1868 ; d. 1869.
vii. Marion Morson 6 Carrington, b. 1869 ; d. 1869.
viii. Malcolm 6 Carrington, b. 1874.
ix. Mary Coles 6 Carrington, b. 1876.
x. Seddon G Carrington, b. 1880.
xi. Margaret Cabell G Carrington, b. 1883.
508. Robert Gamble 5 Carrington, born 1828 ; at Uni-
versity of Virginia, 1845-1849 ; a farmer of Wythe County,
Va. ; private in a Wytheville company, C. S. A., 1861-1865 ;
married, in 1861, Jane C. Spiller, daughter of William H.
Spiller, of Wytheville, and has one child : i. Frank Ber-
nard 6 Carrington.
509. William Allen 5 Carrington, born 1830 ; at the
University of Virginia, 1847-1850, where he graduated
M. D. ; located in New York, and had acquired a lucrative
570 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
practice in that city when the war began ; gave up his prac-
tice there, escaping from the city with much difficulty.
After many adventures, he arrived in Richmond and gave
his services to the C. S. A., serving in the field and after-
wards as the Confederate medical director for Virginia in
charge of all the hospitals in and around Richmond, with
numerous clerks and hundreds of medical officers under his
command, and tens of thousands of sick and wounded under
his care. The Rev. Dr. W. U. Murkland, of Balthnore,
who was his chief clerk, writes of hhn : " He was a very
fine-looking man, with noble carriage, courteous manners,
kind, considerate, conscientious, and withal a warm-hearted
Christian. His services as director deserve high praise."
He married, October 21, 1863, Mildred C. Carrington,
daughter of Isaac (and Sarah Read) Carrington, of Char-
lotte County. He died July 17, 1866. Issue : —
i. Edgar W. G Carrington, b. May 26, 1865, attorney at
law, Richmond, Va.
ii. William A. 6 Carrington, d. infant.
510. Abram Cabell 5 Carrington, born October 15, 1831 ;
at V. M. I., 1848; at Franklin Minor's School, near
Charlottesville, Va., 1849-1851; married, July 7, 1852,
Nannie C, daughter of Clement C. Read, of Farmville, Va. ;
an elder in the Presbyterian Church, 1856 ; lieutenant of
Company D, 18th Virginia Regiment, C. S. A. ; was killed
while leading his company at Frasier's Farm, June 30,
1862. Rev. R. L. Dabney, the chaplain of his regiment,
said of him, "He was the truest man I- ever knew." His
widow died in April, 1893, having had issue five : —
i. William Cabell 6 Carrington, b. November 13, 1853 ;
m. Mrs. Wirt Turner, of Bristol, Tenn.
ii. Clement Read 6 Carrington, b. July 12, 1855; m., No-
vember 10, 1892, Eleanor Patton Crutchfield, of
Fredericksburg, Va., and has : i. Abram Cabell 7
Carrington, b. January 26, 1894.
iii. Paul S. 6 Carrington, b. October 1, 1857.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 571
iv. Alexander B. 6 Carrington, b. July 22, 1859.
v. Anne Lee 6 Carrington, b. July 21, 1862 ; m., October
30, 1888, Rev. William S. Campbell, of Richmond,
Va., and has : i. Virginia Epps 7 Campbell, b. July 28,
1890.
511. Alexander Broadnax 5 Carrington, born in August,
1834 ; at University of Virginia, 1851 ; Lexington Law
School, 1852-1853 ; Presbyterian minister ; married (first),
May 15, 1860, Frances B., daughter of Nathaniel E. Ven-
able, son of Col. S. W. Venable (1756-1821), of Prince
Edward County, Va. ; chaplain C. S. A. ; now minister of
the Presbyterian Church at Greenwich, Prince William
County, Va. His first wife died in 1885. He married
(second), in 1887, Mrs. Sarah Ewell Williams. Issue by
first wife : —
i. Alexander Berkeley 6 Carrington, b. January 27, 1862 ;
m., November 11, 1891, Mary Taylor, of Danville,
Va., and has: i. Paul S. 7 Carrington.
ii. Charles Venable 6 Carrington, b. July 29, 1866 ; M. D. ;
m., June 6, 1894, Mrs. Avis Walker Grant, daughter
of Major D. N. Walker, of Grove Avenue, Richmond,
Va.
iii. Grattan Cabell 6 Carrington, b. September 3, 1868.
iv. Fanny Venable 6 Carrington, b. June 9, 1872.
512. Louisa Cabell 5 Carrington, born April 30, 1837 ;
married, November 8, 1860, Andrew Reid Venable, son of
William H. and Margaret R. Venable, of Prince Edward
County, Va. Issue : —
i. Adeline Carrington 6 Venable, b. September 12, 1861.
ii. Susan Watkins 6 Venable, b. July 6, 1863.
iii. Emma Cabell 6 Venable, b. September 2, 1867.
iv. William Henry 6 Venable, b. September 2, 1870.
v. Edgar Wirt 6 Venable, b. October 17, 1872.
vi. Richard 6 Venable, b. 1876 ; d. 1876.
572 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
131. Robert Gamble 4 Cabell, born in the old Gamble
house in Richmond, Va., December 11, 1809 ; at William
and Mary College, 1828-1829 ; a tutor in the family of
Mr. Henry Carrington, 1830-1831 ; at the University of
Virginia, 1831-1833 ; graduated M. D., 1833 ; studied
medicine in Philadelphia, and practiced a year in the Balti-
more Hospital ; then came to Richmond and began there
the practice which he continued with so much success until
his death. He was married in Richmond by the Rev. Mr.
Pollock, January 19, 1843, to Margaret Sophia Caskie,
daughter of James (and Elizabeth Pankey) Caskie, a native
of Scotland, an eminent merchant and financier of Rich-
mond, and for many years president of the Bank of Vir-
ginia.
Dr. Cabell was for a number of years (ending with 1884
or 1885) a prominent member from Jefferson Ward of the
Board of Aldermen of Richmond, being chairman of the com-
mittee on health, and actively interested in the sanitary im-
provements along Shockoe Creek. In every position which
he was called upon to fill during life, whether public or
private, he was equal to the occasion and faithful to his duty.
He died in November, 1889, at his home, 221 Governor
Street, Richmond, Va. His funeral services were conducted
the next day by the Rev. Dr. Hoge, at the Second Presby-
terian Church, of which he had long been a member. The
interment was at Hollywood. " He was by long odds the
oldest practicing physician in the city. He had never been
out of harness, and was at work when taken sick, about a
week before his death, and even after he went to bed some
of his patients came to see him, and he prescribed for them.
He stood very high as a physician, and many of the best
families of Richmond, generation after generation, had re-
lied upon and had received the benefit of his skill and
experience."
Mrs. Cabell died about twenty years before the doctor,
having had : —
i. James Caskie 5 Cabell, b. February 9, 1844; lieu-
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 573
tenant in C. S. A. ; city weigh-master of Rich-
mond, etc.; m. Nannie Enders, one of the rep-
resentatives of Virginia at the Chicago Centen-
nial, 1893.
ii. William H. 5 Cabell, b. November 13, 1845 ; at
V. M. I. ; killed in the Cadet (C. S. A.) charge
at the battle of New Market, May 15, 1864.
513. iii. Robert Gamble 5 Cabell.
iv. Edward Carrington 5 Cabell, b. January 4, 1850 ;
commonwealth attorney for Richmond, etc. ;
m. Isa Carrington (the authoress), granddaugh-
ter of Judge Paul Carrington, Jr. He d. June
13, 1883, s. p.
514. v. Elizabeth Caskie 5 Cabell.
vi. Arthur Grattan 5 Cabell, b. May 12, 1851 ; sur-
geon U. S. Navy; unmarried.
vii. Agnes Bell 5 Cabell, b. November 18, 1856 ; m.
John D. Lottier, of Richmond, Va.
viii. Henry Landon 5 Cabell, b. November 3, 1858 ;
real estate and loans business, Richmond, Va. ;
not married.
ix. Margaret Constance 5 Cabell, b. December 2, 1862;
m. Boykin Wright, a lawyer of Augusta,
Georgia, and has : i. Marguerite Cabell, 6 b. No-
vember 7, 1889 ; and ii. Boykin Cabell 6
Wright, b. September 20, 1891.
513. Robert Gamble 5 Cabell, born July 16, 1847 ; ed-
ucated at V. M. I. ; was in the Cadet (C. S. A.) charge at
the battle of New Market, May 15, 1864 ; M. D. ; was at
one time superintendent of the Central Lunatic Asylum of
Virginia ; is now a prominent druggist of Richmond ; mar-
ried Annie H. Branch, daughter of Lieut.-Col. James R.
Branch, C. S. A. Their children are : —
i. James Branch 6 Cabell, b. April 14, 1879.
ii. Robert Gamble G Cabell, b. April 27, 1881.
iii. John Lottier 6 Cabell, b. February 27, 1883.
574 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
514. Elizabeth Caskie 5 Cabell, born May 1, 1851. The
State of Virginia has produced many beautiful women.
Among these, Miss Lizzie Cabell and her aunt of the same
name most gracefully rank among the first, the loveliest of
the lovely. The old people still remember the conquests
of the aunt, and it will be long before the young people
forget the reign of the niece. She was married in St. Paul's
Church, Richmond, October 27, 1875, to Albert Ritchie,
one of the leading lawyers of the Baltimore bar, and now
an associate judge of the supreme bench of Baltimore city.
They have one child : —
i. Albert Cabell Ritchie, b. August 29, 1876.
132. Elizabeth Hannah 4 Cabell, born September 9, 1811 ;
married, in Richmond, by Rev. Dr. Jones, June 6, 1850, to
Judge William Daniel, Jr. (son of Judge William Daniel,
Sr.), of Lynchburg, Va. He was born in Cumberland
County, Va., November 26, 1806 ; judge of the Virginia
Court of Appeals, 1846-1865 ; died at Nelson Court House
March 28, 1873. By his first wife, Sarah A. Warwick
(married in 1840; died in 1846), he was the father of U. S.
Senator John Warwick Daniel. Elizabeth H. 4 Cabell was
a noted woman. In her youth she reigned socially and
almost supremely by her personal beauty and her graces of
mind and character. As years increased, she continued to
exert, if possible, a stronger influence over the circle about
her by her remarkable intellectual power, sustained by the
gentle traits of maturer womanhood, crowned with a rare
spiritual exaltation. She died at the residence of her
brother, Dr. J. G. Cabell, No. 108 North Fifth Street, Rich-
mond, Va., November 7, 1892 ; her funeral took place from
St. James Church two days after. She left no children.
133. Edward Carrington 4 Cabell, born February 5, 1816,
in the old Gamble residence, Richmond, Va. ; named for
his great-uncle, Gen. Edward Carrington; education com-
pleted at Washington College, 1832-1833, "Reynolds
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 575
Classical Academy," Richmond, Va., 1833-1834, and Uni-
versity of Virginia, 1834-1836. Expecting to adopt the
profession of civil engineering, he joined one of the corps
enofasred in locating" the James River and Kanawha Canal
in the fall of 1836, but in December of that year was sent
to Florida to settle up a family estate in that territory, con-
sisting of lands and negroes in Jefferson County. The
financial crash of 1837 rendering it unadvisable to sell, he
remained to manage the plantation, and thus became a per-
manent resident of Florida. The Seminole War was not
entirely ended. Not long before his arrival, the family on
the adjoining farm had been massacred by the Indians, and
other citizens were killed after his arrival. The men always
went armed, and every dwelling-house was protected by a
strong picket stockade, and during several years Mr. Cabell
had many interesting border experiences.
He was one of the delegates from Jefferson County to the
Constitutional Convention which met in December, 1838,
and adopted a Constitution which was afterwards ratified
by the people preparatory to admission into the Union, but
this was delayed until March 4, 1845.
In the spring of 1839 he returned to Virginia, and stud-
ied law under his father until the fall of 1840, when he was
licensed to practice ; went to Florida ; settled at Tallahas-
see, where he continued in active and lucrative practice till
the summer of 1845. In the first election after the admis-
sion of Florida, Mr. Yulee, the Democratic candidate for
Congress, was elected by a majority almost equal to the
Whig vote. At the session of the state legislature in July,
Mr. Yulee was elected to the U. S. Senate, which made
necessary another election for representative in Congress.
The Whig party leaders, after the recent so disastrous de-
feat, were little disposed to take the field. It was too late
to call a nominating Convention. Mr. Cabell was informally
requested to announce himself a candidate, which he did in
a circular address to the people. There seemed little pros-
pect of success, but he determined to deserve it, and at once
576 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
commenced a most active canvass of the State, not once
visiting his home until after the election in October. He
was elected, and took his seat in the U. S. House of Repre-
sentatives in December, 1845. His election was contested,
and the Democratic House gave his seat to his Democratic
opponent. After announcing to the house that this action
would make Florida a Whig State, he returned home, re-
solved to make good that announcement. From April 1 to
the day of the election in October, 1846, he devoted his
whole time to a canvass of the State, visiting every part of
it, — no light matter in those days, when there Avas not a
mile of railway in Florida and but one semi-weekly two-
horse stage-coach line ; and, as Florida had but one repre-
sentative, the Congressional district embraced the entire
State. He was elected by a majority which left no room
for contest. At the next election (1848) he was reelected
by an increased majority, and at the next (1850) by a three-
fold majority. In 1852, the Whig party, against the pro-
test of Mr. Cabell and many other Southern Whigs, nomi-
nated Gen.Winfield Scott for the presidency, and met their
Waterloo. In Florida, the Democrats elected all of their
candidates by large majorities, except for Congress. Up to
the official announcement Mr. Cabell's election was gener-
ally conceded, but the return was given to his opponent by
four or six majority. Although lie felt sure that he was
fairly elected, for cogent reasons he did not contest.
Mr. Cabell was in Congress during a most interesting pe-
riod of our country's history. The Mexican War was begun
and ended. The constitutional and sectional questions grow-
ing out of the acquisition of foreign territory were ably dis-
cussed by the great men of that day. Mr. Clay's famous
" Compromise Measures " were adopted, with the vain hope
that they would settle these questions forever. But sec-
tional agitation continued until it culminated in war between
the sections. He was on terms of friendship or familiar
acquaintance with most of the giants of those days. Dur-
ing the whole of his Congressional career he was active in
4p
HON. EDWARD CARRINGTON CABELL
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 577
public affairs, and was sometimes conspicuous by a course of
aggressive independence. He was of the small party known
as " Southern States Rights Whigs." He denounced the
nomination of Gen. Scott, did not vote for him, and since
1853 has acted with the Democratic party. After the elec-
tion of 1852, he was tendered the appointment of consul
to Copenhagen by Mr. Fillmore, but declined.
He was married in St. Louis, Mo., by Rev. Mr. Hawkes,
November 5, 1850, to Anna Maria Wilcox.
After the expiration of his term in Congress, in March,
1853, he returned to Florida, and for about two years de-
voted himself to his plantation and the settlement of his
private affairs, having previously, in connection with his
brother, Col. H. C. Cabell, bought out the other interests
in the family estate, and increased it by other purchases to
5000 acres of land and 130 slaves.
In 1855, Florida being still without a railroad, a com-
pany was organized to construct a road to connect Talla-
hassee with the Atlantic, of which Mr. Cabell was made
president. The undertaking was a very difficult one in a
country so sparsely settled as Florida then was, and before
the building of railways was simplified by the issuing of
bonds, but good progress was made. In August, 1857, he
visited London, in the interest of the road, to purchase iron
therefor, etc. ; its construction was assured, and the road
was completed in 1860.
In the fall of 1859, Mr. Cabell determined to remove to
St. Louis, to gratify his wife's natural desire to be with " her
own people." Having disposed of his interests in Florida,
he removed his negroes to plantations which he had pur-
chased in Chicot County, Ark., and Bolivar County, Miss. ;
he formed a partnership with Col. Geo. W. Sappington to
attend to the plantations, while he brought his family to
St. Louis and opened an office there to practice law, in Jan-
uary, 1860.
When the " Cotton States " seceded, a large majority of
the people of Missouri and Kentucky were in full sympathy
578 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
with them. But these two States were held to the Union
by the idea that they could occupy a position of neutrality,
and thus render most effective aid to their Southern friends.
After the capture of Fort Sumter, Missouri would have
formally seceded if a convention could have assembled ;
but it was then too late. Mr. Cabell was sent for by Gov.
Jackson, and dispatched to Montgomery, Ala., to confer
with Pres. Davis, to explain the condition of affairs in Mis-
souri, and to endeavor to devise a way by which the State
and people, now heartily sympathizing with the Confeder-
ate cause, could be politically identified with the Confed-
erate government. Mr. Cabell found Pres. Davis on the
eve of departure for Richmond, which had been made the
Confederate seat of government. After a short conference
with the President, he was induced to believe that his mis-
sion would be successful. He returned at once, and so re-
ported to Gov. Jackson, whereupon the governor appointed
him commissioner for Missouri to the Confederate govern-
ment, with full powers, etc., and requested him to repair to
Richmond as soon as practicable. He arrived at St. Louis
from Jefferson City on the celebrated 10th day of May,
1861. After a journey of continued hardship and danger
(having to pass through the lines), he arrived at Richmond
late in May.
He had much correspondence and frequent interviews
with Pres. Davis, with no practical result, the difficulty
in the way of the success of his mission being Mr. Davis'
well-known views on the subject of state sovereignty and
strict constitutional construction. He held that, prelimi-
nary to such negotiations as Mr. Cabell desired, a regularly
constituted state convention must be held to determine the
will of the people of Missouri as to secession from the
United States and annexation to the Confederacv. To show
the impossibility of what Mr. Davis deemed necessary, Mr.
Cabell fully explained the condition of affairs in Missouri.
Every department of government and a large majority of
the people desired a union with the other Southern States ;
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 579
but it was not possible to give constitutional expression of
their wishes, because a large array was quartered in St.
Louis, and most of the State was garrisoned by Federal
troops. No election of delegates could be held, and no
convention would be permitted to assemble. To insist upon
such a condition under such circumstances was equivalent
to the definite repulse of Missouri's friendly advances. Mr.
Cabell proposed an alliance with the government and people
of Missouri known to be loyal to the Confederate cause,
but this was met by the same constitutional objections.
Mr. Davis would not modify or relax the rigidity of his
views even in the conduct of a revolution and in the midst
of war. Mr. Toombs, Secretary of State, who differed with
the President and was in full sympathy with Mr. Cabell,
resigned and went into the army. Mr. Benjamin was ap-
pointed to succeed him, and Mr. Cabell received soon after a
communication from Mr. Benjamin, which was intended to
close the correspondence and end the negotiations, in which
Mr. Cabell was formally advised that the Confederate govern-
ment could have no official relations with Missouri until the
people of the State, in their sovereign capacity, in conven-
tion assembled, had severed their connection with the United
States and asked to be admitted into the Confederacy. Mr.
Cabell was too much interested in the success of his mission
to yield to this rebuff. He was acquainted with every mem-
ber of the Confederate Congress. He had served with most
of them in the United States Congress. He resolved to try
to accomplish his object through the Congress. He made
personal appeals to every member, and the result was that
on August 20, 1861, an act was passed by the Confederate
Provisional Congress to the effect that " Missouri be ad-
mitted a member of the Confederate States of America, on
condition that the Constitution of the Confederate States
be adopted and ratified by the properly and legally consti-
tuted authorities of said State; that the Congress of the
Confederate States recognize the government of which
Claiborne F. Jackson is the chief magistrate to be the
580 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
legally elected and properly constituted government of the
people and State of Missouri ; and that the President of
the Confederate States be authorized, at any time prior to
the admission of Missouri into the Confederacy, to perfect
and proclaim an alliance, offensive and defensive, with said
government."
The provisions of this act having been complied with,
Missouri was admitted into the Confederacy by act of the
Confederate Congress, November 28, 1861.
I have gone into the foregoing details because I have seen
no publication of this historic incident, — the admission of
Missouri into the Confederacy, — and because, I believe, the
result was accomplished by Mr. Cabell's personal influence
and exertions, and against the ideas of President Davis.
Mr. Cabell remained in Richmond, and was appointed by
Gov. John Letcher, of Virginia, one of his military aids,
with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and was present at the
battles of Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill, Frasier's Farm, and
Malvern Hill. In the latter part of 1862, at his request he
was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Department, where
he served on the staffs of Generals Price and Kirby Smith
to the end of the war in 1865. He then went to his plan-
tations on the Mississippi River, and remained there until
early in 1867, when he removed to Richmond, Va. In the
summer of 1868, he removed to New York and practiced
law until the winter of 1872, when he became one of a syn-
dicate interested in Mexican silver mines. He went to Chi-
huahua in January, 1873. In November following, he re-
turned to St. Louis to practice law, and has resided there
ever since. In 1876, he again went to Chihuahua, and sold
out his interests there. In 1878, he was elected to the Sen-
ate of Missouri, served one term of four years, and then re-
tired from public life.
He was president of the Missouri Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution in 1894. He is the oldest of the
Cabell name now living, and one of the very few surviving
great-grandchildren of the old doctor. Since 1891 he has
MRS. ANNA MARIA WILCOX CABELL
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 581
been taking much interest in securing the publication of a
family memorial volume, and he is the chief patron of this
book.
His wife, Anna Maria Wilcox, born in Columbia, Mo.,
March 16, 1830, noted for her great beauty and varied
accomplishments, died in St. Louis, Mo., November 21
1873. Her father, Dr. Daniel P. Wilcox, born about 1800,
graduated at the Medical College in Lexington, Ky. ; lo-
cated in Columbia, Mo. ; became a successful physician and
an influential man ; elected to the state senate in 1830 ; and
died in Jefferson City, while attending the legislature, in
1831. He was the son of Col. George Wilcox, a native of
Virginia (by his wife, Elizabeth Pinchbeck, of North Caro-
lina, whose parents were from England), who settled in
Shelby County, Ky. He is said to have been " an officer
in the Revolution, and also in the Indian wars on the
Lakes."
Dr. Daniel Pinchbeck Wilcox married, in 1821, Elizabeth
Moss. She was born in Maysville, Ky., March 16, 1804,
and some time after moved with her parents to Columbia,
Boone County, Mo. She married (second), in 1833, Gen.
William H. Ashley, who went from Chesterfield County,
Va., to Missouri, and became one of the most distinguished
men of that State. He died March 26, 1838, and his
widow married (third), in February, 1853, Hon. John Jor-
dan Crittenden, of Kentucky, then attorney-general of the
United States (whose parents were Virginians). He died
July 26, 1863. Mrs. Elizabeth Moss Crittenden died in St.
Louis, Mo., February 8, 1873. She was a remarkable
woman. From early maidenhood to old age the fascinating
beauties of her person and character were conspicuous. She
first became an ornament to the society of our national cap-
ital in the winters of 1833-1838, during the life of her sec-
ond husband. Mr. Cabell met her daughter there in the
seasons of 1848-1849 ; after their marriage she spent the
winters of 1850-1853 with them, and after her own mar-
riage to her third husband she resided there with him until
582 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
his death in 1863. About the beginning of the late war,
the guests of the National Hotel gave her a noted recep-
tion in Washington, on which occasion an address was pre-
sented to her by the Hon. Mr. Lovejoy, of Illinois, from
which I extract : —
" For many years you have held a conspicuous place
in the best circle of Washington. Your exalted place in
society has been adorned by grace, dignity, courtesy, and
kindness universally manifested. . . . Detraction you have
always scorned ; kindness and genial feelings you have
cherished. You have been a nation's benefactor. . . . You
have shown us that, if political life is an ocean with its dark
waves and angry storms, social life may be a calm, serene
lake, reflecting brig-lit images of purity and love. The
names of Mrs. Hamilton, Mrs. Madison, and Mrs. Critten-
den will always shine in the annals of social life in Wash-
ington. We pay you the homage of sincere respect and
esteem. We take your daguerreotype upon our hearts, and
will keep it there while memory lasts."
Mrs. Crittenden was a daughter of Dr. James W. Moss,
of Goochland, and his wife, Mary Woodson. Dr. Moss
married in 1801 ; removed to Maysville, Ky., in 1803, and
from there, some time prior to 1821, to Columbia, Mo.
His sister, Keturah L. Moss, married Gen. James Taylor, of
Kentucky. Their father, Hugh Moss, was commissioned
captain of militia in Goochland County in 1760, and major
in 1770. " He served in the Revolutionary War, and died
in 1780 from the effect of wounds received in battle." He
was married " by the father of Henry Clay, a Baptist
preacher, to Jane Ford, daughter of Thomas and Ketura
Wynne Ford." His father, James Moss, came from Eng-
land, about 1719, to Virginia, where he married Elizabeth
Henderson, whose ancestor came from Scotland.
Mary Woodson Moss, Mrs. Crittenden's mother, was a
daughter of Josiah Woodson, of Dover, Goochland County,
Va. ; " a major in the Revolutionary army ; removed to
Maysville, Ky., about 1804, where he died in 1817 " (by
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 583
his wife, Elizabeth Woodson), son of Col. John Woodson,
long a member of the House of Burgesses from Goochland,
by his wife, Dorothea Randolph (their marriage bond is
dated October 28, 1751), the sister to Susannah Randolph,
who married Carter H. Harrison, and aunt to Thomas Jef-
ferson. She died at Dover, Goochland County, Va., Feb-
ruary 2, 1794. Col. John Woodson's will was probated
January 18, 1790. He was a son of Josiah Woodson, who
died in 1736 (by his wife, Mary Royal), son of John Wood-
son, of Curies, in Henrico (by his wife, Judith Tarleton, a
daughter of Stephen Tarleton, who died in 1687), eldest
son of Robert Woodson, son of Dr. John Woodson, who
emigrated to Virginia from Dorsetshire, England, prior to
1625.
133. Col. and Mrs. E. C. 4 Cabell had issue : —
515. i. Ashley 5 Cabell.
ii. William H. 5 Cabell, b. in Washington, D. C,
December 29, 1852 ; d. in 1889 ; unmarried.
iii. Florida 5 Cabell, b. in Tallahassee, September 17,
1857 ; d. March 16, 1858.
iv. Agnes Bell 5 Cabell, b. in St. Louis, Mo., June
13, 1860 ; d. November 10, 1860.
516. v. Elizabeth Crittenden 5 Cabell.
vi. J. J. Crittenden 5 Cabell, b. in Washington, D. C,
January 10, 1863 ; d. February 24, 1872.
vii. Mary Hope 5 Cabell, b. in New York city, Janu-
ary 25, 1867.
515. Ashley 5 Cabell, born in Washington, D. C, Decem-
ber 27, 1853, completed his education at Washington and
Lee Universitv, taking" the B. L. degree in 1873, and in
Europe, 1873-1875 ; practicing law in St. Louis, 1875-
1878 ; for many years from 1878 was jury commissioner
of St. Louis, and president and manager of the American
School-Book Company. He finally resumed the practice of
law, and is now a prominent attorney at the St. Louis bar.
He married, October 19, 1881, Margaret Hodges Stretch,
584 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN"
born July 4, 1861, daughter of Dr. Aaron Stretch, of Nash-
ville, Tenn., and his wife, Frances Gowdey. Dr. Stretch's
great-great-grandfather, Nathaniel Stretch, came to this
country from Wales, and settled on a farm near Salem,
N. J., which is still in possession of the family.
Frances Gowdey was a daughter of Thomas Gowdey,
born August 21, 1795, in Castlewellan, County Down, Ire-
land; appointed a lieutenant in the British army; was
wounded at Corunna and unfitted for service ; resigned
and came to America in 1818 ; afterwards settled in Nash-
ville, Tenn., where he amassed a fortune, and died June 27,
1863. His wife, Ann Power McCarton, was the daughter
of Thomas McCarton and Judith Smith, daughter of Reu-
ben Smith, the son of Reuben Smith, who came from Eng-
land, settled in Goochland County, Va., and who, according
to family tradition, was a soldier of the Revolution, was
wounded in battle, and received a pension from the United
States government.
515. Ashley 5 Cabell has issue : —
i. Selden G Cabell, b. 1882 ; d. 1887.
ii. Margaret G Cabell, b. May 20, 1888.
iii. Carrington 6 CabeU, b. March 12, 1893.
516. Elizabeth Crittenden 5 Cabell (twin sister to Agnes
Bell), born June 13, 1860 ; married April 20, 1881, Benja-
min F. Gray, Jr., of St. Louis. He was born January 10,
1847 ; educated at Racine, Wis. ; resided for several years
in New York ; and has been for many years a real estate
agent and broker in St. Louis, Mo. His father, Benjamin
F. Gray, Sr., is a native of Annapolis, Md. ; his mother,
Maria Jenkins, a native of Wales. He has issue : —
i. Cabell 6 Gray, b. February 10, 1882.
ii. Benjamin F. G Gray, b. August 28, 1883.
iii. William Ashley 6 Gray, b. December 18, 1888.
iv. Wastell Gray, b. February 2, 1893.
134. John Grattan 4 Cabell, born June 17, 1817, at
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 585
" Montevideo ; " at various schools in Richmond, in Char-
lotte County, and at Washington College ; at University of
Virginia, 1836-1837 ; engineering on James River and
Kanawha Canal, 1837-1838 ; taking medical course at Uni-
versity of Virginia, 1838-1839 ; student at " Baltimore
Almshouse," and same time at the University of Maryland,
taking the M. D. degree in 1841 ; attending upon the hos-
pitals in Paris, France, 1841-1842 ; entered upon the prac-
tice of his profession in Richmond, Va., 1842 ; married
(first), February 21, 1844, by Bishop Johns, to Sarah Mar-
shall Tankersley, of Richmond, who died March 15, 1855,
leaving an only child : —
i. Sarah Elizabeth 5 Cabell, b. October 24, 1849 ; d. Octo-
ber 3, 1862.
134. Dr. Cabell continued in the practice of his profes-
sion until 1856, when he removed to " Midway " plantation
in Nelson County, Va., which had been given to him by his
uncle, Joseph C. Cabell. After several years he sold this
estate and returned to Richmond. He entered the C. S. A.
as captain of the governor's mounted guard ; was promoted
lieutenant-colonel of cavalry ; in 1862 was assigned to duty
as medical superintendent of the 3d division of " Jackson
Hospital," Richmond, Va., and continued there until the
end of the war, when he resumed his practice in Richmond
in partnership with Dr. F. W. Hancock. In a few years he
was appointed a member of the city Board of Health, was
soon after chosen its president, and continued as such for a
number of years.
He married (second), June 9, 1869, Agnes C. Coles,
daughter of Hon. Walter C. Coles, of Pittsylvania County,
Va., and his wife, Lettice P. Carrington, daughter of Judge
Paul Carrington the elder, by his second wife. By this
marriage he has had seven children, five of whom died in
infancy ; the living are : —
ii. Walter Coles 5 Cabell, b. October 13, 1874; University
of Virginia, 1894-1895.
hi. Florence 5 Cabell, b. December 14, 1878.
586 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
135. Henry Coalter 4 Cabell, born February 14, 1820;
completed his education at the University of Virginia,
where he graduated in the academic (1837-1839) and law
(1841-1842) departments; located in Richmond, and began
the practice of law in partnership with Sydney S. Baxter,
attorney-general of Virginia; married, May 1, 1850, by
Rev. Mr. Cornish, to Jane C. Alston, of South Carolina ;
entered C. S. A. April 25, 1861, as captain of the Fayette
Artillery; promoted lieutenant-colonel 1st Virginia Regi-
ment of Artillery in September, 1861 ; promoted colonel of
the regiment in spring of 1862, and was soon after made
chief of artillery under Gen. J. B. Magruder, commanding
the Army of the Peninsula ; appointed chief of artillery,
McLaws' Division, Army of Northern Virginia, in July,
1862, in which position he served until the close of the
war. The famous Howitzers of Richmond were in his com-
mand. He was in the fight at Dam No. 1, and other
engagements on the Peninsula ; was in the battles of Seven
Pines, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettys-
burg, the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Hanover
Junction, Cold Harbor, the defense of Petersburg, etc.
His last engagement was on April 8, 1865, in the afternoon
preceding the surrender at Appomattox Court House, where
his artillery repulsed, without infantry support, a charge
made by a very large force of the enemy. At the battle of
Gettysburg his artillery supported the famous charge of
Pickett. During that three days' fight two horses were
shot from under him and he was slightly wounded in his
left side, but did not leave the field. Just before the close
of the war he was promoted to the rank of general of artil-
lery, but as the commission did not reach him until after
the end of the war, he did not assume the title. There was
no better soldier in the army ; none left Appomattox with
a brighter record. He was always with his command, a
calm, fearless, modest, trusty officer.
After the war he formed a law partnership with his
brother-in-law, Judge William Daniel, ex-judge of the Vir-
COL. HENRY COALTER CABELL, C. S. A.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 587
oinia Court of Appeals. He was a patriotic and public-
spirited citizen, devoted to the work of advancing the inter-
est of his native city and native State. He was much inter-
ested in having a memorial volume of his family, and on
April 14, 1879, he wrote me a long letter encouraging me
to undertake the task. At different times during his life
he served as director of the Central Railroad, the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railway, the James River and Kanawha
Canal, the Virginia Historical Society, etc. He died in
Richmond, January 31, 1889, and was interred with mili-
tary honors in Hollywood Cemetery.
The following tribute to him is taken from an editorial
in the " Richmond Dispatch : ' " Yesterday death removed
from the community Col. H. Coalter Cabell, a citizen who
had gone in and out among our people for more than half
a century, respected, admired, and beloved by all who knew
him. Col. Cabell was a soldier of untarnished record, a
disciplinarian who tempered authority with kindliness, a
polished gentleman, a sincere Christian in thought and act.
Truly it can be said of him, ' He was a good man,' de-
serving of all the eulogy those words can convey. He was
a lawyer whose mind was well stored with the literature of
his profession, and a classical scholar of fine attainments.
He was affectionate in his family, a loyal friend, an intense
Virginian, devoted to his State and city. His ability would
have made him a much more prominent figure in the public
arena than he was, had not his shoulders ever been covered
with the mantle of modesty. He was a clear, forcible
thinker, far-seeing and conservative in an eminent degree
as regards all public matters, but his advice was seldom
given unless sought. Then, however, it was given cheer-
fully.
" Col. Cabell had been in ill-health ever since the close of
the war, — had been indeed a sufferer, — but the fact was
known to only a few outside of his family. He never com-
plained. His fortitude when in pain was equaled only by
his courage upon the battlefield, and by his gentleness
588 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
when seeking to alleviate the sorrow and pain of others.
The tribute that he was noble, tender, and true, if ever
man was, will be echoed by hundreds when they read the
announcement of his death."
Col. Cabell's wife, Jane Alston (who died a few years
before he did), a lady of large wealth, with rare beauty
and many accomplishments, was the only child of Major
James Alston and his wife, Catherine Hamilton.
Major James Alston, a wealthy planter of Abbeville,
S. C, served under Gen. Andrew Jackson as a major in the
Florida war. He was the son of Lieut.-Col. William Alston,
of the Committee of Safety of 1774, of the Provincial Con-
gress of April, 1776, and of the Continental army. He
married his cousin, Charity Alston, a woman of great per-
sonal beauty, whose courage was tested during the trying
days of the Revolution. Her mother, Sarah, was a daugh-
ter of Col. William Hinton, of Craven County, N. C.
Lieut.-Col. William Alston was son of Major James Alston,
of New Berne, N. C, and his wife, Christine Lillington,
daughter of George Lillington (colonel in the British
army ; member of the Royal Council of Barbadoes, and its
president, 1710-1714), and granddaughter of Alexander
Lillington, member of the Colonial Parliament of North Car-
olina in 1677, and governor in 1693.
Major James Alston was the son of Judge John Alston,
associate justice of North Carolina, 1724-1730, under Gov.
Barrington, and captain and major in the Indian wars.
Judge John Alston and his sons patented large tracts of
land in old Bertie, Craven, and Edgecombe counties, N. C,
a portion of which proved to be in South Carolina when
the dividing line was established. Many members of this
family have occupied positions of honor in colonial times,
and during the Revolutionary struggle, and since in the
States. The family is English, being seated in Bedford-
shire, Suffolk, and Essex.
Catherine Hamilton, the mother of Mrs. H. Coalter
Cabell, was the youngest child of Major Andrew Hamilton,
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 589
of Abbeville, S. C. He was born in Augusta County, Va.,
in 1741, but removed to Abbeville, just after the Indian
massacre there, in 1762-1763. He served during the
Revolution as captain and major in Gen. Pickens' (also a
native of Augusta County, Va.) command. In 1782, was
in the expedition against the Cherokee Indians. After the
war, Major Hamilton served in the South Carolina legisla-
ture for many years, and held other positions of trust and
honor. He died January 19, 1835. He was the son of Ar-
chibald Hamilton and his wife, Frances Calhoun (great-aunt
of John C. Calhoun), who came to this country in 1733,
and were among the earliest settlers of Augusta County,
Va. Archibald is said to have been a descendant of James
Hamilton, Earl of Arran, who was regent of Scotland dur-
ing the infancy of Mary Stuart. See Waddell's "Annals
of Augusta County," pp. 51, 52.
135. Col. H. C. 4 Cabell left issue : —
i. James Alston 5 Cabell, b. in Richmond, Va. ; com-
pleted his education at the University of Vir-
ginia (1870-1873), where he graduated with dis-
tinction, especially in the scientific department.
Some of his articles have attracted the attention
of the late Professor Joseph Henry ; he was,
on the recommendation of that distinguished
physicist, chosen professor of chemistry in the
Central University of Kentucky, where he con-
tinued two years, when, his health failing, he
resigned. After recuperating his health he
studied law, and is now following that profes-
sion in Richmond, Va., where he has served as
a member of the city council, as president of
the Richmond Athletic Club, as director of the
Virginia Historical Society, etc. He is a ves-
tryman of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, presi-
dent of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati,
member of the American Historical Associa-
tion, the Virginia Bar Association, Past Master
590 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
of Metropolitan Lodge of Masons, and is now
one of the representatives of Richmond in the
legislature.
517. ii. Catherine Hamilton 5 Cabell.
518. iii. Henry Coalter 5 Cabell.
iv. Julian Mayo 5 Cabell, b. in Richmond, Va., De-
cember 21, 1860 ; completed his education at
the University of Virginia, where he graduated
in medicine in 1886 ; appointed first lieuten-
ant and assistant surgeon U. S. A. April 14,
1887 ; served in the field throughout the Sioux
campaign, 1890-1891 ; promoted captain and
assistant surgeon U. S. A. April 14, 1892.
v. Clarence 5 Cabell, b. in Richmond, Va. ; a grad-
uate of the University of Virginia ; a law stu-
dent at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. ; a
student at the Universities of Paris and Leipsic.
He is now in Paris, France.
vi. Alfred 5 Cabell, d. infant.
517. Catherine Hamilton 5 Cabell, married, February 1,
1882, Herbert Augustine Claiborne, of Richmond, Va. ;
lawyer, captain in C. S. A., and president of Mutual Assur-
ance Society of Virginia (son of H. A. Claiborne, of King
William County and of Richmond ; member of the Virginia
legislature ; soldier in the War of 1812 ; lawyer). He de-
scends from the emigrants : William Claiborne, member of
the Virginia Council (1625-1650), etc.; John Carter, a Bur-
gess (1649-1654), etc.; John West, governor (1635-1637),
etc.; Joseph Crashaw, member of the Council (1659), etc.
From William Burnet, governor of New York, New Jersey,
New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, 1720-1729; from Wil-
liam Browne, who settled in Salem, Mass., 1635, judge, etc.;
and from Capt. George Curwen, of Workington, Cumber-
land County, England, who settled at Salem, Mass., in 1638.
Children, three : —
i. Jeanie Alston 6 Claiborne, b. July 18, 1883 ; d. Novem-
ber 19, 1890.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 591
ii. Herbert Augustine G Claiborne,
iii. Hamilton Cabell 6 Claiborne.
518. Henry Coalter 5 Cabell, born in Richmond, Va. ;
graduated at United States Military Academy, West Point,
1883 ; assigned to 14th Infantry U. S. A. ; aide-de-camp to
Gen. John Gibbon when he commanded the Department of
the Columbia and the Division of the Pacific ; appointed
regimental quartermaster of 14th Infantry, January 16,
1892 ; married, at Portland, Ore., February 14, 1894, Emily
Corbett Failing, daughter of Henry Failing (banker), who
came to Portland from New York in 1851, and his wife,
Emily Corbett. The emigrant ancestor of Mr. Failing was
a member of a party of religious refugees from the Palati-
nate, who went to England, became British subjects, and
subsequently in 1709 came to America, settling first near
Albany, N. Y., and afterwards in the Mohawk Valley, near
Fort Plain. The name was originally Fading.
Emily Corbett, a sister of United States Senator Corbett,
of Oregon, is descended from a Corbett who came to
America prior to 1683, and settled near Shrewsbury, Mass.
" The Corbetts descend from Roger Corbet, a Norman, who
went over to England at the Conquest."
28. DR. GEORGE 3 CABELL, JR.'S DESCENDANTS.
136. John Nicholas 4 Cabell, born July 31, 1805 ; a doc-
tor ; went to Charleston, Kanawha County, Va., and then
to the West. He married Mary Cargill ; both husband and
wife soon died, leaving an only child, —
519. i. Mary 5 Cabell, b. March 17, 1839, — who was
adopted by her uncle, Dr. James L. Cabell, of
the University of Virginia. She m., December
5, 1860, Mr. Henry B. Auchincloss, of Orange,
N. J., eldest son of the late John Auchincloss, a
merchant of New York, son of Hugh Auchin-
closs, a native of Scotland and an elder of Rev.
592 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
James W. Alexander's church in New York. Is-
sue :
i. Margaret Cabell G Auchincloss, b. October 1,
1861.
ii. Henry Stewart 6 Auchincloss, b. 1863; d.
1863.
iii. Arthur Stirling 6 Auchincloss, b. October 9,
1867.
iv. Elizabeth Belden 6 Auchincloss, b. 1869 ; d.
1876.
v. John c Auchincloss, b. December 8, 1872.
vi. James Cabell 6 Auchincloss, b. 1876 ; d.
1882.
vii. May Dudley 6 Auchincloss, b. April 12, 1879.
137. Elizabeth Clarentine 4 Cabell, born at Bon Aire, Nel-
son County, Va., January 11, 1809; married, at Ingleside,
Charlotte County, Va., by Rev. William S. Plumer, June
18, 1830, to Rev. James W. Alexander. During the Civil
War she lived in the Isle of Wight, England, and after-
wards with her sons in America. She died at the residence
of her brother, Dr. James L. Cabell, in Charlottesville, in
1885. Her remains were conveyed to Princeton, N. J., and
interred beside those of her husband.
Rev. James Waddel Alexander, born in Louisa County,
Va., March 13, 1801; graduated at Princeton, 1820; a
tutor there, 1824-1825 ; pastor of the Presbyterian Church
in Charlotte County, Va., 1825-1827 ; pastor in Trenton,
N. J., 1828-1830; editor of " The Presbyterian," Philadel-
phia, 1830-1833 ; professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres
in the College of New Jersey, 1833-1844 ; pastor of Duane
Street Presbyterian Church, New York city, 1844-1849;
professor of ecclesiastical history and church government,
Princeton Theological Seminary, 1849-1851 ; made D. D.
by Lafayette College in 1848, and by Harvard in 1854 ;
wrote numerous and popular works; pastor of Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian Church, New York, 1851 to his death ; died
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 593
July 31, 1859, at the Sweet Springs, Va., and was buried at
Princeton by the side of his father and mother. " Through-
out his life and labors he illustrated those gifts and graces
that exalt humanity and adorn the church of God." His
father's epitaph gives an outline of his life : " Sacred to
the memory of Archibald Alexander, doctor of divinity and
first professor in the Theological Seminary in this place
[Princeton]. Born in what is now Rockbridge County,
Va., April, 1772. Licensed to preach the gospel, October
1, 1791 ; ordained by the Presbytery of Hanover, June 9,
1794 ; a pastor in Charlotte and Prince Edward for some
years; chosen president of Hampden Sidney College in
1796 ; pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church in Philadel-
phia in 1807 ; professor of didactic and polemic theology
[Princeton] in 1812. He departed this life in the faith
and peace of Christ, October 22, 1851. Also of Janetta
Waddel Alexander, for fifty years his faithful and beloved
consort, who survived him less than one year ; then, cher-
ished and honored by those who knew her, slept in Jesus,
September 7, 1852."
Rev. Archibald Alexander was a son of William Alexan-
der, born March 22, 1738, in Nottingham, Pa. ; came with
his parents to Virginia in 1747 ; married, in February, 1767,
Agnes Ann Reid, of " Rockfish," in the present county of
Nelson (she was born in July, 1741 ; died October 14, 1825;
daughter of Andrew and Sarah Reid ; see 140). They
first settled on a farm on South River (in present Rock-
bridge County) ; then removed to the North River ; and
finally settled in Lexington, where they both died. " Wil-
liam Alexander was an active man of business, and more
anxious for the improvement of his children than most
of his contemporaries." He died January 1, 1797. His
father, Archibald Alexander, born in Manor Cunningham,
Ireland, February 4, 1708, emigrated, about 1736-1737,
to America (with his brothers William and Robert) ; settled
first near Nottingham, Pa.; in 1747, followed his brother
Robert to Virginia, and located in the present Rockbridge
594 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
County. He was a captain in " The Sandy Creek Voyage "
against the Indians in 1756 ; one of the first magistrates of
Rockbridge, April 7, 1778, and the first sheriff.
Janetta Waddel, wife of Rev. Archibald Alexander, was
a daughter of Rev. James Waddel, " the blind preacher "
of William Wirt's " The Spy," born in July, 1739, in the
North of Ireland, and came with his parents to America in
the same year ; they settled in Pennsylvania. He came to
Virginia about 1759 ; was licensed to preach at Tinkling
Spring, Augusta County, April 2, 1761; minister in Lan-
caster County, Va., 1762-1766 ; in Augusta, 1766 to after
1783, then removed to his place called " Hopewell," near
Gordonsville, where he died, September 17, 1805. He mar-
ried, October 7, 1767, Mary Gordon, daughter of Col. James
Gordon, born at Newry, Ireland, 1714 ; came to Virginia
about 1738; died in Lancaster County, June 2, 1768. He
married, November 12, 1748, Mary Harrison (1731-May
13, 1771), daughter of Col. Nathaniel Harrison, of Surry
(born August 8, 1677 ; naval officer, etc., in the upper dis-
trict of James River, 1710 ; on the commission to settle
the line between Virginia and North Carolina, April-Octo-
ber, 1710; member of the Virginia Council from January
27, 1714 ; county lieutenant of Surry, etc. ; died November
30, 1727 ; son of Benjamin (1645-1713) and Hannah
Harrison).
137. Mrs. Elizabeth 4 Cabell Alexander had issue : —
i. George Cabell 5 Alexander, b. 1831 ; d. 1839.
ii. Archibald 5 Alexander, b. 1832 ; d. 1834.
520. iii. Henry Carrington 5 Alexander.
521. iv. James Waddel 5 Alexander.
v. John 5 Alexander, b. 1845 ; d. 1847.
522. vi. William 5 Alexander.
vii. Janetta 5 Alexander, b. 1850 ; d. 1851.
520. Henry Carrington 5 Alexander, born September 27,
1835, at Princeton, N. J. ; graduated from the College of
New Jersey in 1854 ; from Princeton Theological Seminary
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 595
in 1858, in which year he was licensed to preach by the Pres-
bytery of New York ; labored in that city for some months,
then came to the village church at Charlotte Court House,
where his father and grandfather had labored before him,
and where he was himself ordained by Roanoke Presbytery
and installed as pastor in 1861, and so continued until
1870. In January, 1870, he became professor of " Biblical
Literature and New Testament Interpretation" in Union
Theological Seminary, Prince Edward County, Va., and
continued to hold this position till his peremptory resigna-
tion in 1891. He was pastor of the Presbyterian churches
of Oakland, Md., and Terra Alta,W. Va., from 1891 to his
death. In 1894, he attended at the College of New Jersey,
Princeton, the 40th anniversary of his graduation, then vis-
ited his brother William in New York, and died at his resi-
dence, June 28, 1894. The funeral services were held in
Princeton, N. J., on the 30th. They were conducted by
Professor Green, of Princeton Seminary, assisted by the
Rev. Harry Moore, of Keyser, W. Va., Rev. Dr. Roberts, of
New York, and Rev. Dr. Hinsdale, pastor of the old First
Church of Princeton. His grave is in the old Princeton
cemetery, adjoining those of his grandfather, father, his
mother, and his uncles.
Dr. Alexander published a memoir of his distinguished
relative, Dr. Addison Alexander. He was the author of
numerous articles in magazines and reviews. He was a co-
laborer of mine in the compilation of several portions of
this book. In the magnitude, minuteness, and accuracy of
his learning, Dr. Alexander had few equals. It was said
of him in Prince Edward that " he knew everybody, loved
everybody, and everybody loved him." He never married.
521. James Waddel 5 Alexander, born July 19, 1839;
graduated at the College of New Jersey, 1860 ; was a law-
yer of the firm of Alexander & Green, and came to the Equi-
table Life Assurance Society, N. Y., as secretary. He is
now (1894) first vice-president. He married in November,
1864, Elizabeth Beasley Williamson, and has : —
596 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
523. i. Elizabeth Swan Williamson 6 [Bessie] Alexander.
ii. Henry Marty n G Alexander, Jr., b. in New York,
January 25, 1869.
iii. James Waddel 6 Alexander, Jr., b. 1876 ; d. 1878.
iv. Frederick Beasley G Alexander, b. in New York,
August 6, 1880.
523. Elizabeth S. W. c Alexander, born in New York,
September 30, 1865 ; married, in 1887, John White Alex-
ander, of New York, a native of Pittsburgh, Pa. Now a
resident of Paris; a portrait-painter of eminence, having
received a great number of important medals ; was elected
an associate of the new Salon in 1893, and a full member
of that body in 1894. They have one child : —
i. James Waddel 7 Alexander, b. 1888.
522. William 5 Alexander, born September 5, 1848;
University of Virginia, 1866-1868; is secretary of The
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, 120
Broadway, New York. He married, in 1887, Frances Gor-
don Paddock, eldest daughter of the late Franklin Paddock,
a prominent New York lawyer, and his wife, Annie Gordon,
daughter of a very prominent lawyer of Delhi, N. Y. They
have one child, a daughter : —
i. Frances 6 Alexander, b. October 2, 1888.
138. James Lawrence 4 Cabell, born in Nelson County,
Va., August 26, 1813 ; at the University of Virginia,
1829-1833, graduated M. A. ; in the medical department
of University of Maryland, at Baltimore, 1834, graduated
M. D. ; but continued his studies at the Baltimore alms-
house and in the Philadelphia hospitals, 1834—1835, and in
Paris, France, 1836-1837. He received the appointment
of professor of anatomy, surgery, and physiology in the
medical department of the University of Virginia while he
was in Paris in the winter of 1837, and at once returned
to Virginia and took the charge. In 1849, the chair of
anatomy was turned over to a special professor, while Dr.
A
fm
DR. JAMES LAWRENCE CABELL
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 597
Cabell continued to instruct in physiology and surgery, and
held that position at the time of his death. He was chair-
man of the faculty in 1846-1847, but declined a renomina-
tion. Published " The Unity of the Human Race " in 1858.
With the exception of a few months in 1862, he was chief
surgeon of the Confederate hospitals at Charlottesville from
July, 1861, until the end of the war. The degree of LL. D.
was conferred upon him by Hampden Sidney College in
1873. In 1876, he was chosen president of the Medical
Society of Virginia, and was a corresponding member of
several other medical societies in this country. He was
president of the National Board of Health, 1879-1884, and
for one year president of the American Public Health Asso-
ciation. In December, 1887, he completed fifty years' ser-
vice as professor in the university. The doctor was fully
abreast with the most advanced men of his time. He did
as much as any man to elevate the standard of education,
and to widen the reputation of the university. He married,
February 5, 1839, Miss Margaret Gibbons, who died in
1874, s. p. He died August 13, 1889.
29. ELIZABETH 3 CABELL HARE'S DESCENDANTS.
139. Hannah Heningham 4 Hare, born March 9, 1798;
married, June 20, 1823, Bennet Anderson Crawford, of
Amherst, and died November 11, 1823. Bennet A. Craw-
ford (born August 12, 1794), after his wife's death, re-
moved to New Orleans, La. He died in Natchez, Miss.
See " The Crawford Book," compiled for Mrs. Vanderbilt.
He was the son of Nelson (brother to Rev. Charles) Craw-
ford, by his wife, Lucy (sister to Rev. William) Crawford,
who was Mrs. Vanderbilt's grandaunt.
140. Sarah Elizabeth 4 Hare, born August 5, 1800 ; mar-
ried at Montevideo, by Rev. William S. Reid, February 22,
1821, to Col. Samuel McDowell Reid. She died August 5,
1839. Col. Samuel McD. Reid was born October 21, 1790 ;
598 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
educated at Washington Academy ; farmer ; clerk of the
county court of Rockbridge ; clerk of the circuit court,
1831-1858 ; member of the Virginia legislature ; trustee of
Washington College, 1819-1869; died September 15, 1869.
He was the son of Andrew Reid and his wife, Magdalen
McDowell.
Andrew Reid, born February 13, 1751 ; married in 1776 ;
clerk of Rockbridge County, Va. ; died in October, 1837.
He was a son of Andrew Reid (by his wife, Sarah Reid, his
first cousin), who came from Ireland, when 14 years old,
with his father ; was among the early settlers of old Albe-
marle County ; died about 1765. His father, Andrew
Reid, and two brothers (Thomas and John), emigrated from
County Down, Ireland. They settled first in Octoraro,
about eighteen miles from Lancaster, Pa., where the Shaw-
nee Indians were their neighbors. They afterwards moved
to Virginia, different members of the family settling in
Augusta and Albemarle counties. The will of Andrew
Reid, the emigrant, dated January 30, 1748, was recorded
in Albemarle May 14, 1751.
Sarah Reid (daughter of John and wife of Andrew Reid,
who died about 1765) was murdered in old Amherst County
by a negro man while on her way to a neighbor's. On
July 3, 1764, his Majesty's commission of oyer and terminer
was produced for the trial of Peter, a negro man belonging
to Andrew Reid. The commission was to William Cabell,
Jr., presiding justice of the peace, David Crawford, Daniel
Burford, Cornelius Thomas, John Rose, and Zacharias Tali-
aferro, Gentlemen. John Harvie, the king's attorney, in-
formed the court that Peter, a negro man, with force and
arms had feloniously murdered Sarah Reid. Peter was led
to the bar by James Nevill, the sheriff. He confessed his
guilt, and said he had nothing further to say. He was
condemned to be hunsr.
Magdalen McDowell (the wife of Andrew Reid (1751-
1837), born about 1756 ; died in 1837) was the eldest
daughter of Samuel McDowell, born October 19, 1735, in
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 599
Pennsylvania ; married, January 17, 1754, Mary McClung,
a native of the North of Ireland ; a soldier in the French
and Indian War ; a captain at Point Pleasant, October 10,
1774 ; a member of the House of Burgesses prior to the
Revolution; a member of the Revolutionary conventions; a
captain and a colonel in that war; removed to Kentucky in
1783, where he became a judge, and an active man in the
founding of that commonwealth; died September 25, 1817,
near Danville, Ky. He was a son (by his wife, Magdalen
Woods) of Capt. John McDowell, who was killed by Indians
at Balcony Falls, Va., December 25, 1743, whose father,
Ephraim McDowell, when a youth of 16, was conspicuous
in the defense of Londonderry, Ireland, in 1688; emigrated
to Pennsylvania in 1729 ; came with his son John to Vir-
ginia in 1737, and died in Augusta County, Va., "not long
before the Revolution, aged over 100 years."
Magdalen Woods (who married, first, John McDowell
aforesaid in Pennsylvania in 1734) was a daughter of
Michael Woods, Sr. (son of John Woods, of County Meath,
Ireland, by his wife, Elizabeth Worsop, daughter of Thomas
Worsop, and a descendant from Adam Loftus, Lord High
Chancellor of Ireland temp. Elizabeth), Avho was, so far as I
have been able to find out, the first of the stream of emi-
grants down the west side of the mountains to come over
the mountain and acquire land in Albemarle. He crossed
at Woods' (now Jarman's) Gap ; on June 10, 1737, he pa-
tented 1337 acres of land on the head-waters of Medium's
River, including said gap, and purchased 2000 acres from
Charles Hudson, Gent., of Hanover, on Ivy Creek, in the
present county of Albemarle. Hon. Micajah Woods, the
present commonwealth's attorney of that county, is a lineal
descendant from him. His will, dated November 24, 1761,
was recorded in the court of that county June 11, 1762.
140. Mrs. Sarah E. 4 Reid had issue : —
i. Andrew 5 Reid, b. 1822; d. 1823.
ii. William Hare 5 Reid, b. November 28, 1823 ;
at Washington College, 1840-1841 ; d. July
7, 1842 ; unmarried.
600 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
iii. Henry Cabell 5 Reid, b. September 7, 1828 ; at
Washington College, 1841-1842 ; d. February
28, 1844; unmarried.
iv. Elizabeth Hannah 5 Reid, b. 1829 ; d. 1831.
524. v. Mary Louisa 5 Reid.
vi. Samuel McDowell 5 Reid, b. June 23, 1835 ;
at Washington College, 1854-1855; d. October
25, 1856 ; unmarried.
525. vii. Agnes Jane 5 Reid.
524. Mary Louisa 5 Reid, born July 20, 1832 ; married,
July 14, 1858, in Lexington, Va., Prof. James Jones
White. [He was born in Nottoway County, Va., November
7, 1828; professor of Greek in Washington College and
Washington and Lee University (save a period during the
war, when he was captain in C. S. A.) from 1852 to his
death, April 29, 1893. He was the son of Rev. William S.
White, D. D., of the Presbyterian Church in Virginia. See
" The Life, Influence, and Services of James Jones White,"
by Hon. John Randolph Tucker.] Issue : —
526. i. Sallie Hare c White.
ii. Isabelle 6 White, b. June 17, 1861.
iii. McDowell Reid 6 White, b. 1863; d. 1866.
527. iv. Agnes Reid G White.
v. William Cabell G White, b. October 24, 1865.
vi. Reid 6 White, b. March 28, 1868; Washington
and Lee University, 1886-1887 ; M. D., Lex-
ington, Va.
526. Sallie Hare 6 White, born February 29, 1860; mar-
ried, in 1884, Helm Bruce, attorney at law, of the firm
Helm & Bruce, Louisville, Ky., where they reside and
have : —
i. James White 7 Bruce, b. in October, 1886.
ii. Louise Reid 7 Bruce, b. in September, 1888.
iii. Elizabeth Barbour 7 Bruce, b. in March, 1890.
527. Agnes Reid G White, b. July 14, 1864 ; married, in
1885, Joel W. Goldsby, attorney at law, of Mobile, Ala.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 601
He was one of the representatives of Mobile in the Alabama
legislature, 1893-1894. They have : —
i. Mary Easley 7 Goldsby, b. April, 1887.
ii. Louise Reid 7 Goldsby, b. September, 1889.
iii. Isabelle White 7 Goldsby, b. February 14, 1893.
525. Agnes Jane 5 Reid, born February 20, 1838; mar-
ried, April 7, 1862, John De Hart Ross [son of William B.
Ross, Esq., of Culpeper County, Va., by his wife, Elizabeth
Thorn, daughter of Col. John Thorn, of " Berry Hill," Cul-
peper County, Va., by his wife, Abby Mayo, daughter of
Joseph Hearne Mayo (by his wife, Elizabeth D. Blair,
daughter of Rev. John D. Blair, the first Presbyterian min-
ister of Richmond, Va.), son of William Mayo (by his wife,
Elizabeth Bland Poythress, daughter of Peter Poythress,
Esq., of Branchester, by his wife, Elizabeth Bland), son of
Col. John Mayo (by his wife, Mary Tabb), son of Col. Wil-
liam Mayo, the emigrant, by his second wife, Ann Perratt.]
Issue : —
i. William Alexander 6 Ross, b. May 20, 1865; at Wash-
ington and Lee University, 1883-1884 ; civil engi-
neer.
ii. Mary Louisa Reid 6 Ross, b. 1869; d. 1874.
iii. Agnes Reid 6 Ross, b. January 24, 1872.
iv. Elizabeth Mayo 6 Ross, b. February 28, 1874.
v. John McDowell 6 Ross, b. April 10, 1876.
vi. May Cameron G Ross, b. August 1, 1878.
31. NICHOLAS 3 CABELL, JR.'S DESCENDANTS.
141. Nathaniel Francis 4 Cabell, b. at Warminster, Nel-
son County, Va., July 23, 1807. " His father dying (June
25, 1809) when he was an infant, his religious education
was entirely in the hands of his mother, who was a strict
and exemplary member of the Presbyterian Church, which
in those parts had already taken the place of the old Colo-
nial Episcopacy." He graduated at Hampden Sidney Col-
602 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
lege in 1825 ; at Harvard College, Cambridge Mass., as B.
L., in 1827 ; located in Prince Edward Comity, Va., 1827-
1831; joined the Presbyterian Church, and soon thereafter,
on September 14, 1831, married Anne Blaws Cocke. He
had succeeded to the " Liberty Hall " estate in Nelson, and
in 1832 he returned to his native place (though for several
years he lived in Warminster, in the house previously occu-
pied by Dr. William B. Hare), where he continued to reside
until his removal to Bedford City.
" In various ways he gradually became acquainted with
the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. . . . But it was to
his intercourse with the late Richard K. Cralle, of Lynch-
burg, a connection of his own, and the biographer of Mr.
Calhoun, more than to any other circumstance, that he was
disposed to ascribe his conversion to the new faith. He
was, however, also strongly influenced by reading certain
books, and by the example of several of his kindred. He
withdrew from the Presbyterian communion February 26,
1837. His wife stood with him in this movement, and his
family were brought up in the new views."
He published in the "New Jerusalem Magazine" a series
of " Excerpts, or Readings with my Pencil," 1840-1842,
and later on many other articles, contributing at the same
time to the " New-Churchman ; " was baptized into the New
Church by Rev. Richard De Charms in 1842 ; wrote " An
Article on the New Christian Church for Rupp's ' History of
all Religious Denominations in the United States,' : ' pub-
lished at Philadelphia, 1844, which was enlarged and repub-
lished at Harrisburg, Pa., 1847. He revisited his friends in
Boston, Mass., in 1847, a visit which he always remembered
with pleasure. His " Reply to Professor Pond's Review of
Swedenborgianism, with a ' Preliminary Letter ' by Richard
K. Cralle," was published in New York, 1848, and the same
year, in Philadelphia, " A Letter on a Trinal Order for the
Ministry of the New Church," which was again published
in 1857. He was once the Whig candidate to represent
his county in the House of Delegates, but was not elected.
NATHANIEL FRANCIS CABELL, ESQ.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 603
He wrote divers " Essays on Agriculture," " The Black
Race in North America," etc. ; delivered an address at Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, in 1857, on " The Progress of Literature
during the Preceding Century, when viewed from a Re-
ligious Standpoint ; ' edited the Jefferson and Cabell cor-
respondence, 1857 ; rearranged and edited in part " The
Lee Papers," portions of which appeared in 17 numbers of
the " Southern Literary Messenger," 1858-1860 ; contrib-
uted to the Memoirs, etc., of Professor George Bush, which
were published in New York in 1860 ; compiled " The
Triads of Scripture, containing more than Two Thousand
Proofs of the Principle, deduced from Scripture," of which
only the introductory chapter (pp. 36) has been published,
Lynchburg, 1868. His " Theology of Paul " appeared as
a serial, under the title " Horae Paulinse," in the "New
Jerusalem Messenger," New York, 1873-1874. Although
he wrote especially for the church of his adoption, he num-
bered among his attached friends many members of other
organizations. From 1832 to his death, he took an especial
interest in his family history, and compiled in manuscript
the family memoirs, " Cabelliana," " Carringtoniana," etc.
For twenty years he was my neighbor and my friend. His
library and his manuscripts were always open to me. The
last few years of his life were spent at the residence of his
son-in-law, R. Kenna Campbell, in Bedford City, where he
died, September 1, 1891. He was buried in the Cabell
cemetery at " Liberty Hall."
He married (second), in 1867, Mary M. Keller, of Balti-
more, who died s. p.
His first wife, the mother of his children, Anne Blaws
Cocke (born December 15, 1811; died February 20, 1862;
buried at " Liberty Hall)," was a daughter of Gen. John
Hartwell Cocke, — born September 19, 1780 ; William and
Mary College, 1794-1799; brigadier-general, War of 1812;
died July 1, 1866 (by his wife, Anne Blaws, daughter of
Dr. Philip Barraud, of Norfolk, Va.), — son of John Hart-
well Cocke, born November 26, 1749, died February 9,
G04 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
1791 (by his wife, Elizabeth Kennon, born July 13, 1755;
died July 10, 1791; daughter of Robert Kennon, of Mount
Pleasant, Chesterfield County, Va., by his wife, Sarah,
daughter of Sir William Skipwith, Baronet), son of Hart-
well Cocke (by his wife, Anne, daughter of John Ruffin, of
Rich Neck, in Surry County, Va.), son of Richard Cocke
(by his first wife, Elizabeth Hart well), son of Richard Cocke,
Sr., of Bremo (by his second wife), son of Richard Cocke
(1639-1706), the son of Col. Richard Cocke, the emigrant.
(See page 378.)
141. N. F. 4 and Anne Blaws Cabell had issue six : —
i. Frances Hartwell 5 Cabell, b. 1833 ; d. 1844.
528. ii. Elizabeth Nicholas Cabell, b. July 16, 1834 ; d.
April 5, 1863 ; m.j September 7, 1855, her
cousin, William D. Cabell (253).
529. iii. Philip Barraud Cabell,
iv. Sallie Faulcon Cabell.
530. v. Frances Grace 5 Cabell, b. July 16, 1852 ; m.,
June 7, 1876, her cousin, R. K. Campbell (469).
vi. Cary Charles Cabell, b. 1854 ; d. 1856.
529. Philip B. 5 Cabell, born June 16, 1836 ; completed
his education at the University of Virginia, 1853-1857,
taking the M. A. degree ; married, February 27, 1861,
Julia Calvert Boiling ; served for a while on the staff of
his uncle, Gen. Philip St. George Cocke, C. S. A. ; farmed
for a while at " Laneville," residing at " Edgewood ; '
principal of Female College, Greensboro', Ala. ; professor
at Urbana University, Urbana, Ohio ; now minister of the
Swedenborgian Church, Wilmington, Del.
Mrs. Julia Calvert Boiling Cabell is a daughter of Thomas
Boiling, of " Boiling Hall," Goochland (by his wife, Mary
Louisa Morris, daughter of Richard Morris, of Hanover,
attorney at law, member of the Virginia Convention, 1829-
1830, etc. (by his wife, a sister of Gen. Edward Watts) ; son
of William Morris and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Col.
William Dabney, of Aldringham ; see under No. 489) ; son
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 605
of William Boiling, colonel of cavalry in the War of 1812,
member of the House of Delegates, etc. (by his wife, Mary,
daughter of Richard and Anne Meade Randolph; see under
No. 18) ; son of Thomas Boiling, born July 7, 1735, died
August 7, 1804 (by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Dr. Wil-
liam Gay, by his wife, Elizabeth Boiling, daughter of Col.
John and Mary Kennon Boiling) ; son of Major John and
Elizabeth Blair Boiling. (See under No. 18.)
Mrs. Cabell, one of the most celebrated of the celebrated
ante-bellum belles of Virginia, was familiarly known as
" Pinkie Boiling." She has had issue four : —
i. Elizabeth Nicholas 6 Cabell, b. 1861; d. 1862.
ii. Joseph Hart well Cabell, b. December 24, 1863 ; attorney
at law, Cincinnati, Ohio.
iii. Francis Barraud Cabell, b. July 14, 1866 ; d. November
22, 1893, and was buried at "Liberty Hall."
iv. Philip Mason Cabell, b. January 4, 1869 ; m., October
15, 1894, Nannine Dove Sioussat, of Washington,
D. C.
32. MARY ANN 3 CABELL CARRINGTON'S DESCENDANTS.
142. Joseph Nicholas 4 Carrington, born March 31, 1806 ;
married, in 1830, Mary Frances Jefferson, daughter of
John Jefferson, of Amelia County, Va. ; and died June 24,
1843. Issue six : —
531. i. Mary Ann 5 Carrington.
ii. Benjamin Garland Carrington, d. infant.
532. iii. William Cornelius Carrington.
iv. Walter Benjamin Carrington, d. young,
v. Martha Garland Carrington, d. young,
vi. Frances Josephine Carrington, d. young.
531. Mary Ann 5 Carrington, born October 11, 1831;
married, August 25, 1849, Thomas P. Fitzpatrick, attorney
at law of Nelson County. He has represented the county
several times in the Virginia legislature, and is now county
judge. His first wife died July 4, 1857, leaving issue
three : —
606 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
533. i. Walter Carrington G Fitzpatrick, b. June 24, 1851 ;
a leading farmer, merchant, and man of affairs
of Nelson County; m. Emma M. Wheeler, and
has issue seven : i. John Thomas 7 ; ii. Mary
Louise ; iii. Mabel ; iv. William Pettet ; v. Carrie
Jefferson ; vi. Lillie Carrington ; and vii. Clare
Fitzpatrick.
534. ii. Mary Olivia 6 Fitzpatrick, b. May 2, 1853; m.
James Meredith Bickers, Esq., and has : i.
Thomas Meredith 7 ; ii. William Massie ; iii.
Pearl ; and iv. Carrins-ton Bickers.
535. iii. James Penn G Fitzpatrick, b. November 20, 1855;
m. Elizabeth S. Brent, and has : i. Thomas 7
Fitzpatrick.
532. William Cornelius 5 Carrington, born in Cumberland
County, Va., May 26, 1835 ; graduated at Hampden Sidney
College, and afterwards studied law under Judge Brocken-
brough in Lexington ; licensed to practice in 1856, and
settled at Lovingston, Nelson County, Va., where he re-
mained until 1859, when he removed to Howardsville. He
entered the C. S. A. as a lieutenant in the 19th Virginia
Infantry, and was later a lieutenant in the 5th Virginia
Cavalry, in which he served under General Lomax to the
end of the war ; president of the Piedmont Insurance Com-
pany, 1867 ; president of the Arlington Insurance Company
of Richmond, Va., 1869 ; mayor of Richmond City, 1876
to 1888 ; after a long illness, died September 25, 1890. He
married, October 22, 1857, Mary E. Loving, daughter of
the late John H. Loving, of Nelson County, Va., and had
issue : —
i. Percy L. G Carrington, b. August 16, 1858 ; d. 1884 ;
unmarried,
ii. Carter Irving 6 Carrington, b. March 9, 1861 ; m., Feb-
ruary 8, 1893, Nannie A. Perrott.
iii. Lillie G. G Carrington, m., July 28, 1887, James H.
Hoofnagle, of Richmond, Va.
iv. Reid C. 6 Carrington, M. D.
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN 607
v. William C. Carrington, Jr. (b. October 13, 1870), of
Colorado,
vi. Grace D. 6 Carrington, b. October 6, 1872.
143. Sophonisba 4 Carrington, born July 20, 1809, mar-
ried, February 25, 1835, Dr. Nathaniel P. Powell (born in
1796 ; died in January, 1878), of Nelson County, Va.,
whose first wife was Jane Megginson (309) ; son of Benja-
min Powell (by his wife, Jane Cooper), a brother of Mrs.
Rebecca Powell Thompson (the mother of Judge Lucas
Powell Thompson), and a son of Lucas Powell (by his wife,
Elizabeth, daughter of John Edwards), who is said to have
been .the emigrant from England who settled in Amherst
County, Va., some years before the Revolution.
143. Mrs. Sophie C. 4 Powell had issue three : —
536. i. Mary B. 5 Powell.
537. ii. W. Lucas 5 Powell.
538. iii. John Thompson Powell, b. June 17, 1841 ; captain
in C. S. A. ; m. (second), December 15, 1869,
Harriet M. Carrington (541).
536. Mary B. 5 Powell, born September 22, 1837; mar-
ried, October 8, 1855, Philip E. Evans, of Pettus County,
Mo., now of Deer Lodge City, Mont. Issue two : —
539. i. Nathaniel Powell 9 Evans, b. June 29,1856; m.,
June 24, 1882, Sarah A. Powell (540). Issue :
i. Philip E. 7 , b. July 23, 1884 ; ii. Mary P. 7 , b.
January 22, 1886 ; and iii. William Lucas 7
Evans, b. September 14, 1887.
ii. Mary Ann 6 Evans.
537. William Lucas 5 Powell, born June 26, 1839 ; mar-
ried, April 30, 1861, Elizabeth S. Thompson (born January
28, 1846), daughter of Morton Thompson, of Kentucky.
Issue seven : —
540. i. Sarah A. 6 Powell, b. June 24, 1862 ; m. Nathaniel
P. Evans (539).
ii. Charles E. G Powell, b. April 5, 1866.
iii. John F. 6 Powell, b. May 24, 1868.
iv. Nathaniel C. 6 Powell, b. March 16, 1870.
608 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
v. Marcia May 6 Powell, b. October 30, 1871.
vi. Mary W. 6 Powell, b. May 29, 1874.
vii. Robert M. c Powell, b. December 13, 1881.
144. James Lawrence 4 Carrington, born October 18,
1813 ; married, October 1, 1840, Anne Mildred Strange
(born February 2, 1817), daughter of Col. Gideon Strange,
of Fluvanna County, Va. ; died November 9, 1870. Is-
sue : —
i. Benjamin 5 Carrington, b. 1841 ; d. 1841.
ii. Gideon Strange 5 Carrington, b. 1842; d. 1844.
541. iii. Harriet Magruder 5 Carrington, b. September 23,
1844; m. John Thompson Powell (538).
iv. Nicholas Cabell 5 Carrington, b. June 17, 1846 ;
m., October 28, 1883, Emma Stone, of Wild
Flower, Fresno County, Cal., formerly of Mis-
souri.
v. Mary Bowie 5 Carrington, b. August 11, 1848 ;
m. Richard Omohundro, of Fluvanna County,
Va.
vi. Willie Ann 5 Carrington, b. June 20, 1850.
vii. Elizabeth Hannah 5 Carrington, b. 1852 ; d. 1875 ;
unmarried,
viii. Mayo Benjamin 5 Carrington, b. January 7, 1855 ;
m. in 1886 in California.
ix. James Lawrence 5 Carrington, Jr., b. September 5,
1857.
145. Gilbert Paul 4 Carrington, born "August 19, 1815;
completed education at Washington College, 1834-1835 ;
lawyer and farmer ; married (first), in 1843, Sarah Eliza-
beth Jones, daughter of Powhatan Jones, of Buckingham
County, Va., and his wife, Sidney Frances Rodes. She
was born November 1, 1826; died June 11, 1855. Is-
sue: —
542. i. Mary Cabell 5 Carrington.
ii. Walter Scott 5 Carrington, b. September 28, 1845 ;
THE FOUNDER'S GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN G09
d. June 16, 1893, at Exchange Hotel, Richmond,
Va. ; never married,
iii. Virginia Rosalie 5 Carrington, m. Mr. Higgins, of
Mississippi,
iv. Gilbert Marion 5 Carrington, b. 1851 ; d. 1853.
543. v. Eugene Jones 5 Carrington.
145. Gilbert Paul 4 Carrington, after the death of his first
wife, removed to De Soto County, Miss. ; taking a number
of slaves, he invested largely in cotton lands, and became
a successful planter. He fought through the whole war,,
1861—1865, in the C. S. A., without receiving a scratch.
He served in the Mississippi legislature from 1873 to his
death in 1881. He married (second), September 2, 1857,
Tyrissa Brown, of Mississippi, who died in 1878. Issue : —
vi. Charles Alexander 5 Carrington, b. August 1, 1858 ;
d. unmarried,
vii. Florence Agnes 5 Carrington, m. Mr. Miller, of Moul-
ton, Columbia County, Ark.
viii. Bennie F. 5 Carrington, m. Mr. Wright, of Moulton,
Columbia County, Ark.
542. Mary Cabell 5 Carrington, born February 12, 1843 ;
married, in December, 1862, Thaddeus Hooks, of Tennes-
see. She died December 23, 1884. Issue r —
i. Ora c Hooks, b. 1865 ; d. 1867.
ii. Lina Gray 6 Hooks, b. 1862 ; d. 1864.
iii. Bert Elmore 6 Hooks, b. August 17, 1868.
iv. Cerrogordo 6 Hooks, b. December 25, 1870.
v. John Howard 6 Hooks, b. November 12, 1879.
543. Eugene Jones 5 Carrington, born May 21, 1853 ;
member of the city council of Memphis, Tenn. ; one of the
proprietors of The Exchange and Ballard Hotels of Rich-
mond, Va.
146. Elizabeth Hannah 4 Carrington, born March 20,
1820 (living 1894) ; married, March 11, 1840, Daniel J.
Hartsook (born July 27, 1814 ; d. March 24, 1879), of Flu-
vanna County, Va. Issue : —
610 THE CABELLS AND THEIR KIN
i. Benjamin Carrington 5 Hartsook, b. October 7, 1841 ;
m., in 1865, Miss Parrett Patterson, daughter of
Dr. Patterson, of Buckingham County, Va.
ii. Louisa Nicholas 5 Hartsook, b. March 22, 1844.
iii. John James 5 Hartsook, b. 1845 ; d. 1846.
iv. Sallie Blakey 5 Hartsook, b. August 28, 1847 ; m.,
April 19, 1882, William Parrott, of Fluvanna
County, Va.
v. Cornelia Clarke 5 Hartsook, b. July 7, 1851 ; d. Octo-
ber 27, 1881 ; m., June 18, 1879, J. W. Brown, of
Howardsville, Va.
vi. Joseph Cabell 5 Hartsook, b. 1853 ; d. 1855.
vii. Angus Blakey 5 Hartsook, b. October 30, 1856 ; M. D. ;
living in Texas,
viii. Robert Daniel 5 Hartsook, b. April 27, 1860.
ix. Eugene 5 Hartsook, m., July 21, 1886, Carrie Ellis,
daughter of L. P. Ellis, of Texas.
The present is founded on the past, and the past is our
only guide to the future. If we wish to see before us, we
must turn and look into the mirror behind us. In this vol-
ume I have given an outline of the beginning of a new
family and of a new country, with some idea as to the spread
of both for over a hundred years. And each one of us
can find in the lives of our ancestors something which will
remind us
" We can make our lives sublime ;
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
" Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate ;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait."
INDEX.
Abbott, Elizabeth, 274.
Abell, Peter T., and family, 466, 467.
Abyssinia, 437.
Ackiss, John, 148.
Aeock, Bertie, Robert E., 297.
Adams, John Q., 488 ; Joseph T., and fam-
ily, 454 ; Judith, 290 ; Mr., 98 ; Robert,
290;3G7;Tabitha, 521.
Alabama, 287, 299, 307, 313, 334, 353, 374,
382, 423, 430, 432, 455-160, 462, 475,
482, 48S, 513, 532, 578, 600, 601, 604.
Albemarle, Earl of, 48.
Albemarle Co., 47-60, 68, 69, 72, 74-79,
81, 83, 91, 95, 99, 106, 128, 130, 132,
133, 140, 145, 148, 149, 153, 158, 159,
173, 193, 194, 207, 215, 216, 218, 219,
221, 223, 232, 234, 236, 269, 272, 275,
276, 284, 286, 290, 307, 321, 322, 340,
348, 350, 351, 359, 364, 3S0, 387, 401,
406-415, 424, 434, 439-443, 450, 452,
464, 486, 489, 504, 545, 564, 598, 599 ;
Furnace Company, 62, 63, 133, 286,413.
Alcock, Richard, 92.
Aldricks, Peter, 338.
" Aldringham," 244, 561, 604.
Alexander, Addison, 595 ; Anne C, 331,
334; Archibald (emigrant), 368, 393,
594 ; 210, 267, 269, 326, 593, 594 ;
594 ; Catherine W., 305 : " Earl of Stir-
ling," 334 ; Elizabeth S. W., Frances,
Frederick B., 596; George C, 594;
Henry C, 2. 9, 594, 595 ; Henry M.,
596; James W., 210, 592; 594-596;
596 ; 596 ; Janetta, 594 ; John (emi-
grant), 334 ; 334 ; 594 ; John W., 596 ;
Juliet D., 374 ; Robert (emigrant), 368,
593 ; 368 ; 334; 305 ; Sallie, 368 ; Sallie
C, 374; Susan D., 378, 538; Susan P.,
333, 334 ; William, 331, 334 ; (emigrant),
593 ; 593 ; 594-596 ; William C, 374 ;
374.
Alexandria, 269, 271, 287, 353, 394, 419,
4^X-430, 433, 436, 491, 528.
Alleghany Mountains, 99, 519.
Allen, Abell, 168; Archer, 165, 400;
Elizabeth, Henry W., 467 ; Jesse, 149 ;
John, 22 ; John J., 253, 264 ; Lucy W.,
358; Martha, 400; Murett B., 358;
Thomas, 467 ; William, 38, 49.
Allin, Philip T., and family, 478, 479;
Susan, Thomas, William, 465.
Alston, Charity, 588 ; Jane C, 586, 588 ;
James, John, William, 588.
Alstott, Mary, 550.
"AltaVista," 434,439.
Alves, Lucy, 483.
Alvis, Eliza S., 450.
Amelia Co., 163, 164, 196, 335, 355, 356,
372, 462, 605.
Amherst, General Jeffery, 60.
Amherst Academy, 432 ; County, 40, 43,
51, 59-72, 76, 79-122, 132-139, 142, 145-
156, 159, 172, 174, 177-187, 190-202,
213, 214, 216, 219, 220, 227-229, 252,
260, 261, 275, 282-284, 287, 288, 291-
293, 295, 302, 304, 317, 340, 343, 365,
377, 379-381, 384, 386-388, 394, 397,
448, 449, 514, 532, 533, 548, 597, 607 ;
Parish, 60, 80, 104, 105, 107, 108, 116,
134, 137, 152, 199, 201, 202, 214.
" Ampt Hill," 236, 446, 520, 524-526.
Amsterdam, 271, 27S, 512.
Anderson, Andrew, 52 ; Ann, 301 ; Barte-
lott, 47 ; Catherine, 293 ; Eliza L., 507 ;
Francis T., and family, 329, 330 ;
Franklin, and family, 555 ; James, 436 ;
John, 507 ; Joseph R., 336, 347 ; Mary,
547 ; Mary B.,336 ; Matthew, 47 : Mattie
W., 539 ; Meta, 354 ; R. H.. 281 ; Robert
(emigrant), 336 ; Robert P., and family,
281; Richard W., 507; T. L., 518;
Thomas, 111 ; William, 336.
Andrews, Henry P., 488 ; Reddin, 462.
Angus, Earl of, 216.
Anne Arundel Co. (Md.). 402, 503.
Anthony, Abner J. B., 288 ; Caroline, 320,
391; Christopher, 71, 270, 321, 385;
320-322, 391, 541 ; James B., 288 ;
John, 49, 69; Joseph, 69, 321; Mar-
garet, 320, 540; Mary A., 320-322;
Mary J., 321, 322 ; Samuel, 320 ; Sarah,
320 ; 385.
Antrim Parish, 329.
Appomattox Co., 229, 301, 447, 448, 450 ;
Court Howse (battle), 358, 359, 362,
529, 586 ; River, 35, 37, 51.
Archer, Robert, Sallie, 336.
Arctic Ocean, 311.
Argall, Samuel, 39, 412, 430.
Argyle, John, Duke of, 191.
"Argyle,"396.
Arizona, 335, 484.
Arkansas, 287, 294, 298, 441, 473-475,
495, 528, 534, 536, 537, 577, 609.
Armistead, Judith, 293 ; William, 108.
Armstrong, Charles, 395.
612
INDEX
Arnold, Hendrick, 112.
Arnold's invasion, 109, 113, 192.
Arran, Earl of, 589.
" Arrington," 61.
Ashe, John, Mary, Samuel, 456.
Ashland (Ky.), 493.
Ashley, William H., 581.
Ashlin (Ashley ?), Joseph, 37.
Ashton, Ellen V., 476.
Asia, 521.
Astor, Emily, 424.
Atkinson, Henry, 436; Robert T., Sam-
uel E., 315.
Atkinson's Ferry, 37.
Attorneys, 37, 46, 47. 49, 61, etc
Auchincloss family, 591, 592.
Aufrere, Anthony, Louise A. M., 415, 416.
Augusta Academy, 234, 256 ; County, 78,
81. 99, 100, 133, 135, 148, 23(5, 240,241,
256, 257, 296, 350, 364, 413, 503, 589,
594, 598, 599 ; Parish, 257.
Austin, Ann, 368 ; Mr., 276 ; Maggie, 553.
Austin (Augustin), Priory (E), 4.
Australia, 28, 426, 427, 437.
Austria, 422.
Avery, Elizabeth S., 314.
Aylett, John, 61 ; Martha W., 369 ; Pattie
W., 382; Philip, 382; William R.,
369.
Ayres, Bena, 386 ; Davis and family, 316 ;
E. W., 386.
Babcock, Col., 498.
Baber, Ambrose, 111.
Bachelor, Edith, 28.
Back River, 337.
Backhouse, John, 89, 91, 146.
Bacon, John L., 432.
Bacon's Rebellion, 403.
Bagby, P. F., 451.
Bailey, Edmund, 7 ; Henry, William, 88 ;
William D, 16, 17.
Bainbridge, William, 515.
Baird, Mary H., 476.
Baker, Alexander M., 320 ; Jerman, 135 ;
John, 278 ; Lura M., 429; Marion V.,
320 ; Richard, 13 ; 220.
Balcony Falls, 599.
Baldwin, Cornelius, 393 ; Margaret, 391,
393.
Baldwin's (Miss) School, 357.
Ball, Lewis, 85.
Ballenger's Creek, 207.
Ballentine, Ellen C, 468.
Ballou (Ballow), Thomas, 48, 50.
Baltimore (Md.), 262, 277, 303, 325, 337,
338, 345, 346, 386, 398, 399, 474, 480,
491,492, 494,497, 498, 500, 503, 507,
509, 524, 537, 545, 568, 570, 574, 596,
603; Almshouse, 585, 596; Hospital,
572 ; Medical College, 369, 472.
" Banister Lodge," 327-330.
Banks, Diana, 326.
Banning, Mary T., 277.
Barbadoes, 157, 168-170, 173, 588.
Barbee, David B., David H., 4S4 ; Miss,
529.
Barclay, George, 87, 415 ; Henry, 416 ;
John (emigrant), 416 ; Lucv E., 353 ;
Matilda A., 415-417; Robert, 353;
Thomas, 415, 416.
Barker, Margaret M., 425.
Barksdale, E., 356; Mattie, Randolph,
371.
Barnes Medical College, 312.
Barnett, James, 177, 178, 181.
Barracks in Albemarle, 219, 276.
Barraud, Anne B., Philip, 603.
Barret, Charles, 47.
Barringer. Mr., 419.
Barrington, Francis, 231, 432 ; Governor,
588 ; Joan, 231.
Barrow, W. W., and family, 276.
Barton family, 349, 350.
Basket, N. M., 553.
Basset, Emma, Louis, 298, 299.
Bates, Captain, 143; Barton, 499; Ed-
ward, 70,499; Isaac, 38, 39, 49, 158;
John, Onward, Thomas F., 499.
Battersby, William, 47, 49, 207.
Baxter, George, 358 ; George A., 364 ;
Sydney S.. 586.
Baylor family, 337.
Baylor University (Tex.), 299, 475.
Baytop family, 288.
Beale family, 535.
Beard family, 552, 553.
Beasley, Cordelia S., 301.
Beaufoy,Mr., 24.
Beauregard, General, 473.
Beekley, John, 115.
Bedford, Stephen, 38.
Bedford City, 280, 545, 546, 602, 603 ;
County, 58, 70, 81, 83, 99, 102, 135, 149,
159, 196, 197, 205, 244, 246, 270, 280,
285-287, 290, 291, 295, 304, 314, 352,
366-369, 384, 533, 545-547, 549.
Bedfordshire, 588.
Beethoven Conservatory, 299.
Beldon, Matilda, 551.
Bell, Henry H., 435 ; James, 151 ; Mary
C, 507 ; Thomas, 60 ; William H., 436 ;
William M., 507.
Bellamy, William, 47.
"Bellevue," 346; 401.
Belmont, Sara W., 417.
" Belmont," 360, 426, 430, 431.
Benjamin, Mr., 579.
Bennett, Edward, 46, 47 ; Oliver E., 280 ;
W. J. E., 7, 9.
Bent Creek, 176, 221, 222, 446; Moun-
tain, 296.
Bentley family, 319 ; Mary K., 376.
" Benvenue," 428.
Berkeley, Joseph, William, 448, 449.
"Berkeley," 237, 238; County (W. Va.),
289.
Bermuda Hundred, 239, 276.
Bermuda Islands, 440.
Bernard, Miss, 468 ; William, 50.
INDEX
613
Berry, Lieut., 311 ; Henry, 284.
Berryville, 394.
Best family, 551.
Betts, Ann, Roger, 31.
Beverley, Elizabeth, 561 ; family, 485 ;
Harry, 403 ; Mary, 402, 403 ; Peter, 169,
561 ; Robert (emigrant), 403, 561 ; 403.
Beverleytown, 52, 53, 140.
Bibb, John, 112 ; Senator, 173.
Bickers family, 606.
Bickley, Joseph, 47.
" Big Island," 291.
Biggs, John, 112.
Bingley, Joseph, 37.
Bininger, Frances A., 418.
Birch, Mary C, 493.
Bird (see Byrd), Mary, 504.
Bishop, Mr., 513.
" Black Rock," 487, 489 %
Blackburn, Margaret, 503.
Blacker, Beaver H., 2.
Blacksburg College, 477.
Blackwater Creek, 51, 69, 241, 365.
Blain, Alexander, Fanny, 450.
Blaine family, 449, 450.
Blair, Achibald (emigrant), 229 ; Eliza-
beth, 229 ; Elizabeth D., 601 ; Francis
P., 408; James (emigrant), 229, 435;
John, 46, 85; 79, 143; 435; John D.,
601 ; Miss, 490 ; Mary, 519 ; Samuel,
520.
Bland, Anna, 225, Elizabeth, 601 ; Fran-
ces, 225, 266 ; Richard, 161 ; Theodo-
riek 377.
Blandford, 225.
Bledsoe, Hannah, William, 530.
Bloom family, 467.
Blount, Martha A., 422.
Blue Ridge Mountains, 37, 39, 42, 59, 60,
66, 67, 79, 155, 169, 207, 246, 389.
" Blue Rock," 376, 377, 395.
Bocock, Amanda M., John T., Thomas S.,
447.
Boggs, Jane A., 338.
Bohannon, Captain, 111 ; family, 316.
Boles, Margaret C, Oscar E., 429.
Boiling, Anne E., 228, 230; Archibald,
228, 230, 446 ; Elizabeth, 605 ; Jane,
230, 446 ; John, 229, 230, 605 ; 37, 51-
53, 229, 230, 246, 605 ; Julia C, 604, 605 ;
Linnaeus, 368; Mary, 128; Pocahontas
R., 228 ; Powhatan, 464 ; Robert (emi-
grant), 230; 228-230, 368 ; Sarah, 446 ;
" Senacous," 464 ; Susan, 368 ; Thomas,
604; 605; Widow, 228 ; William, 605.
Boiling Hall, 604.
Bollingbrooke House, 228.
Boiling's Creek, 229.
Bolton's Station, 176, 221.
" Bon Aire," 258, 259, 592.
Bondurant, Col., 515.
Books, 90, 91, etc.
Boone, Daniel, 42, 295, 454, 462 ; Jemima,
295.
Boone County (Ky.), 520 ; (Mo.), 581.
Boonesborough, 295, 296, 454.
Booneville (battle), 524, 525.
Borland family, 418.
Borst, Cornelia, 537.
Boston (Mass.), 31, 93, 418-421, 424, 425,
454, 474, 543.
" Boston Hill," 158, 249, 272.
Bostonians, 98, 102, 174.
Boston Port Bill, 93, 94.
Bosworth, Amanda E., Peleg, 448.
Botetourt, Lord, 85 ; County, 98, 135, 205.
234, 235, 296, 351, 375, 394.
Bottom Bridge, 192, 194.
Boughan, Nelly H., 535.
Bouldin, Joanna, 537 ; Martha B., 535 ;
Thomas, 537; Thomas T., 535, 537;
Wood, 393, 560 ; 537.
Bowles, Mr., 554.
Bowman, Rufus, 482.
Bowman's warehouse, 142.
Bowyer, Alice, Anne, 247 ; Henry M.,
545 ; John, 135 ; Lilian. 545 ; Luke, 61 ;
Thomas M., 545 ; William, 247.
Boyd, Alice, Henry, 395.
Boyd's Ferry, 112.
Boyden, Rev. Peter, 335.
Boyle, Charles, Robert, 10.
Braddock's defeat, 77, 183, 236, 237, 413.
Bradley, Mr., 24, Nannie, Thomas, 476.
Brady, Louisa S., Samuel, 304.
Branch, Annie H., James R., 573 ; Mary,
388
" Brandon," 403.
Braxton, Carter, 52, 53, 80, 86, 125, 134,
143, 340, 540 ; George, 53, 246 ; Susan
S., 540.
Brazil, 429.
Breadalbane, 300 ; 506.
Breakhill, John, 89, 146.
Breckinridge, Agatha M., 498; Alexan-
der (emigrant), 235, 236; Almy H,
500 ; B. M., 506 ; Ben J., 496 ; Cabell,
512; 512, 514; Campbell, 508; Caro-
line L., 490-492 ; Cary, 394 ; Charles
C, 514; Charles H, 501; 510; Clifton
R., 495, 496 ; Cornelia L., 514 ; David
C, 500 ; Desha, 508 ; Elizabeth, 403
Elizabeth L., 500; Elizabeth M., 498
Ella D., 508 ; Ellen, 513 ; Ethelbert L,
D., 510; Frances, 495; 513; Frances
A., 490, 491; Frances P., 501, 504
515; Frances P., 512; Henry S., 510
Hunt, 513 ; Issa D., 508 ; James C.
496; James M., 236; John, 154, 200,
232-236,268, 497; 236, 497-500, 519
499; 501 ; John B., 512; John C, 333
490, 493-497 ; 495 ; 496 ; John J., 498
John P., 511 ; John R., 502; John W
O., 495 ; Joseph C, 236, 489-497, 512
494-496; 510; 501, 509, 510; Kate,
513 ; Laura, 495 ; Lee C, 508 ; Letitia
P., 236, 486 r 489 ; 490 ; 512 ; Lewis G.,
512; Louisiana H., 501; Louise D.,
510 ; Lucian C, 510 ; Lucy, 513 ; Lucy
H., 510; Mabel W., 510; Marcus P.,
614
INDEX
512, 513 ; Margaret E., 498 ; Margaret
M., 499 ; Margaret S., 511 ; Marie L.,
501, 500; Mary A., 236, 497; 490;
Mary C, 489; 490, 492; 497; 498;
499; 501, 502; 508; Mary D., 510;
495 ; Mary H., 236 ; 512, 514 ; Mary S.,
515 ; Nathaniel H., 502 ; Richard, 513 ;
Robert, 235; 513; Robert H., 236;
Robert J., 236, 500-510; 496; 501,
505 ; 506 ; 508 ; 510 ; 512, 513 ; 514 ;
Samuel M., 498-500, 518, 527; 500;
Sarah C, 501, 505; Sarah P., 514; Scott
D., 510 ; Sophonisba A.. 508 ; Sopho-
nisba P., 501, 508 ; Stanhope P., 512,
514; Stephen L., 513; Susanna L.,
497 ; Theodosia P., 512; 513 ; Thomas
S., 514 ; Virginia C, 499 ; Virginia H.,
502 ; William A., 514 ; W. C P., 501,
507, 508 ; William L., 233, 236, 511-
515 ; 512-514.
Breckinridge Co. (Ky.), 235.
"Bremo," 378,604.
Brenham, Nellie, 530.
Brent, Elizabeth S., 606 ; Hugh, 515.
Bridge Water (battle), 487-
" Bridgewater," 470, 471, 477.
Bridle Creek, 1^.
Briery Church, 209, 210, 354, 355.
Briggs, Rev. Dr., 499.
Brine family, 329.
Briscoe, Mary, 393, 394.
Brittany, 129.
Broadnax, Frances, Margaret, Thomas,
459.
Brockenbrough, Judge, 606.
Brooke, Robert, 170.
Brookes, Sarah L., 505.
Brooks, Susan S., 330.
Brooks ville, 546.
Brown, Alexander (emigrant), 340, 351,
360, 366, 425-433, 435 ; vii, 391, 427-
429; 525; Andrew, 427; Ann, 524;
525 ; Archibald D., 4S2 ; B. Gratz, 234 ;
Calloway, 280; Carter H., 524; 525;
Daniel, 388 ; Dudley, 4S2 ; Edmonia P.,
348; Elizabeth, 426, 427, 431-433;
Elizabeth C, 482; Elizabeth D, 428;
Elizabeth H.,435; Elizabeth W., 508 ;
Elvira C, 427 ; Evelyn C, 482 ; Frances
H., 348 ; George M., 427 ; 524 ; George
W., 525; H. G., 449; J. W., 610;
James, 221, 222 ; 347, 348 ; 348 ; James
C, 348; James M. (emigrant), 121,324;
Jane S., 524 ; John, 41 ; 110; (emigrant),
347; 200, 234; 508; John D., 429;
John F. D., 348 ; John M., 399, 501,
545; John Y., 482; Joseph C, 428;
Joshua, 524 ; Lawrence, 435 ; Letiria
P., 524; Lucy C, 525 ; Lucy R., 428,
429 ; Ludwell H., 347 ; Margaret, 429 ;
427, 429-431 ; 348 ; Margaret B., 428 ;
Margaret C, 348; Margaret L., 429;
Margaret M., 348 ; Mary, 462 ; Mary
C. B., 428, 429 ; Mary E., 461 ; Mary
R., 348 ; Mayo C, 428 ; Mrs., 478 ; Perry
B., 525 ; Preston W., 508 ; Robert H.,
524; 525; Robert L., 367, 391, 427-
430 ; 428, 429 ; 349 ; Samuel M., 524
Sarah C, 427 ; Susan D., 482 ; Theodo-
sia, 524 ; Thomas, 121 ; Thomas S., 348
Tyrissa, 609 ; Vance, 482 ; Virginia H.
524 ; Virginia S., 482 ; William B., 524
525 ; William C, 428, 429 ; 348 ; Wing-
field, 349 ; W. L., 349 ; W. S. K., 348.
Brown's Gap, 37.
Browne, William, 590.
Bruce, Albert C, 335, 336 ; Anne S.. 336,
338 ; Burioot, 336 ; Charles, 326 ; 327,
335 ; 336 ; Charles C, 336 ; Charles M.,
335 ; Edward, 326 ; Effie, 506 ; Ella B.,
336 ; Ellen C, 211, 326, 331 ; 335, 337 ;
Elizabeth B., 600 ; Eliza D, 329 ; Eliza
W., 329 ; Elvira C, 208, 211, 324-339,
389; (emigrant), 326; Emma G., 330;
Helm, 600 ; Howard, 336 ; James, 324-
326, 329 ; 338 ; James C, 326, 329 ;
330 ; James D., 335 ; James R., 335 ;
James W.,600; Jane C, 330; John J.,
506 ; Joseph R. A., 336 ; Kathleen E.,
336; Louise R., 600; Marion, 335;
Marion R., 330 ; Mary L., 330 ; Patrick
H, 330; Philip A., 335; Reginald,
336; Rosa, 329; Sara S., 336; Sarah,
211, 326, 332 ; 334 ; Sarah A., 336 ; Sed-
don, 336 ; Thomas, 329 ; 330 ; Thomas
S., 335, 336 ; William C, 327 ; 329 ; 335,
337, 338 ; William F., 338.
Brunswick County (Va.), 32, 78, 282, 295,
328.
Bryan, Sarah, 441.
Bryant, Jesse, 112; William, 394.
" Bryn Mawr College," 335.
Buchan, Helen, 191; Robert, 191, 209,
212, 216.
Buchanan, Colonel, 412 ; James, 62, 89,
133, 184; President, 518, 536; Robert,
554.
Buchanan (Va.), 394.
Buckfastleigh (E.), 1, 10-16, 18, 19, 23.
" Buckhannon," 317, 433.
Buckingham Co., 59, 60, 83, 99, 102, 127,
130, 132, 133, 139-145, 148, 149, 153,
158, 159, 163, 164, 173, 228, 229, 243,
247, 253, 269, 274, 277, 279, 301-304,
317, 346, 368, 382, 393, 447, 448, 464,
467, 515, 540-542, 545, 608, 610.
Buckinghamshire (E.), 5, 247.
Buckner, Elizabeth, 355 ; Governor, 529 ;
Mordecai, 179.
Buell, Abigail, 487.
Buena Vista (battle), 357, 493, 524.
Buffalo (N. Y.), 487, 489 ; Ridge (Va.),
39, 66, 365 ; River, 134 ; station, 243 ;
trail, 39, 66.
Buford, Col., 40 ; family, 549.
" Bugley " (E.), 19, 20, 23, 24, 45.
Bulkley, Edward, Mary, 419; Mr., Rob-
ert, 526.
Bullock family, 491-492 ; Hannah, Mary,
290.
INDEX
615
Burfoot, Eloise F., 336.
Burfoi-d, Daniel, 61, 598.
Burgess, Ruth, 502.
Burgesses. See General Assembly.
Burgoyne's surrender, 106, 182, 183.
Burke, Bernard, 32 ; Edmund, 166.
Burks, Elizabeth, 36, 43; Mary, 59,454;
Mary Davis, 59 ; Richard, 74 ; Samuel,
43, 59 ; 62.
Burnet, William, 590.
Burnley, Harden, 52.
Burr, Aaron, 252, 455, 512 ; J. D., 483.
Burton, Martha, 369 ; Mr., 221 ; Norvell,
37.
Burwell family, 545-547 ; Elizabeth, 23S ;
Lewis, 238 ; Sarah, 431.
" Bushy Forest," 205, 208.
Butler, Gen. B. F, 477.
Byrd, Jane, 339, 411 ; Ursula, 403 ; Wil-
liam, 10, 169, 170, 189, 411, 544; (emi-
grant), 411 ; 380 ; his regiment, 151,
295.
Byrd's warehouse, 89, 133.
Cabell, etc., 4; Abraham J., 227, 258;
Ada, 26 ; Adelaide W. H., 27 ; Agnes
B., 573 ; 583, 584 ; (S. B.), 250, 252, 255-
258; Alfred, 216; 590; Algernon S.,
470, 475 ; Alice, 243, 533-535 ; 551 ;
(W.), 243, 244 ; 244 ; 532 ; 533 ; 536-
538; 541, 542; Allie S., 480; Althea
S., 480, 484; Ann, 141, 230-240,515-
531; (Carrington), 192, 200,204, 208,
366; (C), 208, 354-364; 391; 557;
(E.), 472; Anna, 26, 30; (M.), 543;
Anne B., 536 ; (C), 384, 385 ; (E.), 484 ;
(E. B.), 228, 230-232 ; (W.), 319, 323 ;
Annie, 323; (B.), 392; (D.),470; (E.),
29 ; Anthony, 19 ; Archibald, 231 ; (B.),
231 ; 479; Arthur G., 573; Ashley, 583,
584 ; Aylett J., 539 ; Benjamin, 472 ;
476; (B.),2, 19, 20; (E.), 470; 474;
(W. S.), 136, 188, 214, 228, 231, 469-
477 ; 476 ; Calvin S., 479 ; Camilla A.,
260; Caroline A., 484; 391,429; Car-
rington, 584 ; Cary C, 604 ; Catherine
A., 247; 258; (D.), 536; (H.), 590,
591 ; Charles, 318 ; (C), 319 ; (E), 393 ;
(J.), 465 ; 469 ; (R.), 557 ; Christopher,
19 ; Clara L., 539 ; (P.) (Jessie), 539, 540 ;
(W.), 540 ; Clarence, 590 ; Clementina,
208, 369-376 ; Clifford, 244, 320, 540-
542 ; 541 ; Coleman J., 539 ; Cornelia,
318 ; (M.), 391, 394 ; Courtenay P., 306;
David S. G., 381, 382 ; De Rosa C, 476 ;
Dollie Dodd, 551 ; Edith, 29 ; Edmund
G., 533; (W.), 243; 244, 540; 540;
Edward, 32 ; (A.), 208, 379-384 ; 314 ;
(B.), 231, 462-469 ; 466 ; 469 ; (C), 573 ;
vii, 251,258, 356, 574-584; (M.), 389,
391 ; (P.), 381 ; Edwin, 249 ; Eliza C,
391 ; 544 ; (F. M.), 259 ; (L.), 391 ; Eliz-
abeth, 16-19 ; 21 ; 24 ; 26, 27 ; (Burks),
36, 40, 42, 43, 45, 46, 58, 59, 63, 72 -74,
269 ; 130, 226, 227, 250-252, 257 ; 141,
227,240; 140, 141, 240, 241, 469; 171,
260-263, 597-601 ; 216, 399 ; 249, 554 ;
479 ; 557 ; (C), 260, 592-596 ; 536 ; 573,
574 ; 583, 584 ; (H. ), 258, 574 ; (L.), 318,
319; (N.), 392, 604; 605; (N. H.), 272;
(R.), 232, 480-4S3 ; 485 ; (S.), 27; Ellen,
26, 28 ; 480 ; (C), 31S ; 319 ; Elvira, 208,
261, 324-339, 389 ; 216; 554; (A.), 249,
555, 556; (B.), 391, 395, 396; (D.),
393 ; Emeline S., 190, 323 ; Emily L.,
27; (M.), 465, 466; 469; Emma C,
258,567-571; (E.), 314, 316; (F.), 30 ;
Eunice, 554; Evelyn C. B., 541, 542;
Evermere, 5; Fanny A., 29; Florence,
585; Florida, 583; Frances G., 546,
604; (H.), 604; (W.), 247, 547, 548;
Francis B., 605 ; Frank M., 480 ; Fred-
erick, 145, 243, 244, 539-544 ; 249, 556,
557 ; 472 ; 557 ; (A.), 247 ; (E.), 543,
544; (I.), 539; (M.), 244, 539, 540;
540; George, 15, 16, 20; 31; 59,72;
145, 241-243, 258, 531-539; 127, 171,
258-261, 591-597 ; (B.), 485; (C), 232;
_,4?Q, 476 ; 472 ; (H.), 29 ; (K.), 243, 532,
:>:}:); (M.), 260; (P.), 543 ; (W.), 190,
320-322, 366, 439 ; 232, 485, 486 ; 249 ;
319; 323; 480; 485, 486; Gilbert de,
5 ; Guy, 388 ; Hannah, 147, 156, 157,
171; 154, 171; Harriet F, 469; (M.),
466 ; Hattie F, 468 ; Hector, 130, 145,
187 ; 216, 340 ; Henningham, 154, 171 ;
Henricus, 3 ; Henrietta V., 540 ; Henry
Ann, 244-247 ; 247, 548, 549 ; Henry,
32 ; 533 ; (C), 258, 577, 586-591 ; 590,
591; (J.), 387; (L.), 318; 319; 373;
Hortense W., 540 ; Hugh, 5 ; Hugo, 3 ;
Ha W., 469 ; Inah G., 484 ; Irving G.,
533 ; James, 551 ; (A.), 2, 11, 589, 590 ;
540; (B.), 573; (C), 572; (L.), 260,
266, 591, 592, 596, 597 ; (M.), 466 ; (P.),
533 ; Jane B.,465, 467 ; (M.), 381, 383;
(R.), 232, 478, 479; 484; Janie O.,
468 ; Jeffrey, 5 ; Jennetta, 249, 552, 553 ;
Joanna, 21; (C), 544; (T.), 536, 537;
John, 6; 6,7,11; 11; 15,18; 31; 19,
20 ; 61, 72, 101, 102, 132, 141-145, 148,
159, 216, 243, 258, 381 ; children, 241-
249; branch, 531-557; 249; 323;
551; (B.), 20; 232,479-480; 243,535-
539 ; 480 ; 5:36 ; 543, 544 ; 550, 551 ;
(E.), 485 ; (E. S.), 247 ; (F.), 557 ; (G.),
255, 258, 351, 374/584, 585 ; (H), 247 ;
(J.), 145, 244-247, 544-549 ; 475 ; 536;
(J. C), 583 ; (L.), 465 ; 573 ; (N.), 260,
561, 562; (P.), 479; (R.), 470, 472;
472 ; Joseph, 18, 21, 23-24 ; 24 ; 61, 62,
72, 74, 76, 83, 94, 95, 100, 104, 106, 107,
130-141, 143, 150, 152, 154, 212, 228,
234, 545; children, 227-241; branch,
446-531 ; 136, 139, 141, 154, 227-232,
253, 451-486; (B.), 484; (C), 63, 64,
122, 171, 218, 263-267, 469, 470, 585 ;
391, 393; (H.), 232; 605; (J.), 485;
(M.), 231, 462, 463; (R.), 470, 477;
Josephine, 540 ; Judith S., 213, 214, 216 ;
616
INDEX
247, 544-546 ; Julian M., vii, 590 ; Kate
W., 539 ; Katie, 472 ; 474 ; Landon,
121, 130, 154,212-216,218,227,397-
401 ; 216, 243, 397 ; Laura B., 484 ; Law-
rence D., 475 ; Lewis B., 532 ; 533 ; (H.),
557; (R.), 475; (W.), 544; Lilith,300;
Louis W., 244, 543, 544 ; Louisa, 2(5 ; 485 ;
(E.), 29 ; 209, 227, 257, 558-567 ; Lou-
ise, 38S ; 557 ; Lucy B., 323 ; (G.),391 ;
541 ; Madison, 249, 554, 555 ; Marion F.,
243, 397 ; 532 ; 536 ; Margaret, 62 ;
130, 209, 216-220, 226, 401-446 ; 208,
339-354, 388; 393; 584; (C), 323;
573; (E.), 314; 323; 557; (J.), 127,
129, 202, 227 ; (P.), 318, 320 ; (R. V.),
267-272 ; (W.), 190, 316, 317 ; Marie W.,
469; Martha, 26; (B.), 384; (E.), 384;
(J.), 485 ; Mary, 19 ; 21 ; 24 ; 72, see
Horsley ; 131, 132, 140, 141 ; 472 ; 591,
592; (A.), 26; 171,272, 273,605-610;
319 ; 465 ; 466 ; 550 ; (A. H.), 232, 486 ;
(B.), 389, 391, 428 ; 476 ; (C), 323 ; 392 ;
(Davis), 556; (E.), 208,365-369; 247;
484; (F.), 479, 480; 485; (H.), 141;
232-236, 240, 486-515, 545 ; 583 ; (M.),
244, 278 ; (P.), 484 ; (P. R.), 231, 477 ;
(T.),25; (V. E), 392,393; (W.), 472 ;
541,549; (W. C), 263, 267 ; Mayo, 208,
265, 268, 320, 352, 366, 388-396 ; 381 ;
388; 391 ; 393; (C), 171; Mildred C,
208; (H.), 208; (M.), 190, 306, 307;
Nancy B., 485 ; Nathaniel Francis, 63,
64, 94, 95. 122, 144, 153, 184, 188, 226,
268, 2.71, 272, 392, 546, 601-605 ; (W.),
472; Nicholas, 19-23, 44; 62, 63, 72,
99, 108, 119, 132, 141, 145-156, 164,
171, 176, 227, 251, 263 ; children, 249-
273; branch, 558-610; 171, 267-272,
601-605; 231; (C), 227, 257; (M.),
190 ; Nina E., 393 ; Norma, 536 ; Oliver,
557; Patrick H., 190, 318; 209, 396,
397; 314; 319; 323; 381, 382; (H.
C), 323; Paul C, 208, 384-388; 171;
208; 381, 383, 384; 3S4, 386; 387;
Paulina, 130, 209-212 ; 243, 531, 532 ;
(H.), 536, 537 ; (J.), 142, 144, 145 ; 145,
216,243; 249,550; (J. H.), 247; (R.),
190, 316 ; (V.), 244, 542, 543 ; Pauline,
554; Philip B., 604, 605; (M.), 605;
Pocahontas, 465 ; 466 ; 469 ; (R.), 470,
471 ; 465, 468 ; 484 ; (R. B.), 228, 229,
231 ; Powhatan, 476 ; (A.), 477 ; (B.),
470, 475 ; Rachel, 20-22, 45 ; Randoph,
388 ; Ranulf, 5 ; Richard, 10 ; 10 ; 10-
13; 13-15; 18; 15-18; 23; 20; (H.),
539,540; (R.), 232; 485, 4S6 ; Robert
B., 232, 484, 485 ; 231 ; 466 ; 480 ; 484 ;
(D.), 25; (G.), 26, 28; 258; 572-574;
573 ; (H.), 216, 298, 397-401 ; 465 ; 468;
469; 485; (S.), 391, 395; (W.), 29;
Robertas, 3 ; Royall E., 323 ; Rudoph
W., 544; Ruth H., 391; Sallie D.,
476; (F.), 604; (J. S.), 319; (M.), 384-
386 ; (R.), 387 ; Sally S., 314 ; Samuel,
13,14; 15, 17,18; 31; (J.), 103,107,
117-121, 130, 138, 154, 176-190, 198,
228, 306, 364, 304-324; 125, 247-249,
550-557; 190, 314, 364; 314; 319;
323; 556; (R.), 249, 556; (S.), 479;
Sarah, 11; 21; 243; 551; (A.), 550,
551 ; (B.),231, 454-462 ; (C), 208, 376-
379; (D.), 476; (E.), 470, 477; 585;
(J.), 485; (R.), 391, 429; (S.), 244;
305; 322; 466; (W.), 241-243; 247.
546, 547, 536 ; Sears, 479, 480, 484 ; 480 ;
486 ; Selden, 584 ; Somers, 323 ; Sopho-
nisba E., 231, 451-454; Susan, 480;
(B.), 466; 466; (C), 484; (J.), 556;
(S.), 550; (T.), 539; (V.),554 ; Susanna
E., 248, 249 ; (W.), 258-260 ; Symes
T., 306 ; Thomas, 4 ; 20 ; 31 ; (A.), 29 ;
(H.). 557; (S.), 25, 26; Virginia, 318,
319; (C), 398, 399; (J.), 470; (M.),
485, 486 ; Waller R., 539 ; Walter, 2, 3.
5; 5; 10; 32, 78; (C), 533, 585;
William, 11 ; 1, 11, 15, 18, 19; 19, 44;
2, 26, 27 ; 24, 25, 34 ; 25, 26 ; (emigrant),
iv, 1, 11, 15, 18-22, 32-72, 74, 75, 80, 81,
100, 123, 129, 131-133, 140-142, 146,
147,158, 168, 170, 175, 176,212,219,
227, 246, 267, 269, 306, 325, 381, 454,
526 ; his children, 73-171 ; grandchil-
dren, 172-273; descendants, 274-610;
32, 54, 61, 62, 66, 72, 74-139, 142-144,
146-152, 154, 159, 164, 176, 177, 181,
183-187, 190-192, 195, 196, 199, 202,
206, 213, 216, 219-221, 234, 250, 251,
340, 381, 560, 598; his children, 176-
227; branch, 304-446, 558-567; 105,
106, 110, 120, 121, 130, 144, 154, 176,
177, 185, 190-204, 206, 208, 209, 211-
213, 215, 216, 222, 234, 251, 252, 259.
261, 268, 340, 396, 301-397 ; 393 ; 551 ;
(A.), 305 ; 466; (A. S.), 305, 317 ; (B.),
20; (C), 472 ; (D.), 379, 389, 391, 392 ;
391; 604; (E.), 249, 550-552; 557;
(F. L.), 27 ; (H.), 154, 156, 171, 202,
203, 206, 227, 228, 249-258, 262, 265,
267, 462, 558-591; 260; 485; 573;
583 ; (H. L.), 30 ; (J.), 208, 364 ; 384,
385; (J. L.), 243; (L.), 11, 26, 29;
470, 472-475; (M.), 381; (N), 232;
480; (P.), 533; 544; (S.), 190, 304,
364, 439; 306; (W.), 258; 314; 554.
Cabell arms, 8, 9 ; County, 253, 292.
Cabell's Addition, 398; Dale, 233-235,
452, 488, 490, 491, 497, 500, 502,
511.
Cabellsburg, 61, 186, 202.
Cabellsville, 202.
Cabin Point, 435.
Cable (see Cabell), Benjamin T., James,
Lucie R., Philander, 530.
Cahaba (Ala.), 299.
" Ca Ira," 221.
Cairo (111.), 393.
Calcutta, 25. '
Caldwell, Judge, 304 ; Sarah, William
(emigrant), 502.
Calhoun, Ezekiel W., 310 ; Frances, 589 :
INDEX
617
John C, 310, 544, 5S9, 602 ^.310 ; Mary
H., 310.
California, 67, 280, 328, 329, 348, 355, 370,
375, 437, 479, 485, 486, 495, 524, 525,
547, 60S.
Calland, Joseph, 165.
Callaway, Alice A., 369; Ann K, 367;
Eliza C, 368; Elizabeth, 295, 296;
Elvira H., 367 ; Fayette, 367 ; Frances,
295 ; George, 365, 3m, 384, 388 ; 367 ;
(C), 369 ; James, 159, 365-367, 549 ;
Mary, 168; (E.), 364-367; (L.), 36S:
Paul C, 367, 368 ; Richard, 235, 295,
296, 367; Sarah, 235, 295; (B.), 368;
(C), 367, 427 ; William, 367, 36S ; (J.),
367 ; (R.), 369.
Callaway Co. (Ky.), 296 ; (Mo.), 175, 294.
Calmes family, 515.
Calthorpe, Frances, 336.
Cambridge (E.), 29, 175, 417, 4S6, 487 ;
(Mass.), 327, 543, 590.
Camden (S. C), 213.
Camden, William, 4 ; 386.
Camm, Elizabeth, John, 302.
Camp, Ichabod, 60, 80, 107.
Camp Creek Meeting-, 69, 288, 290.
Campbell-Alexander (P.), 300 ; Alice,
449, 451; Anna B., 546; Archibald,
449 ; Charles, 412; Clara, 449; Dougal,
Duncan (emigrant), Elizabeth H., 300;
Frank A., 301 ; George W. B., Henry
T., 545; James D, 449; (L.), 545;
John, 191; 300; (C), 545; (L.), 300;
Judith S., 545 ; Lavinia B., 300 ; Lilian
P., 545; Maria, 545 ; Mary, 449; N. H.,
544, 545 ; 54(5 ; Neil, 62, 89, 133 ; Philip
B., 546 ; R. K., 545, 546, 603 ; Robert,
545; (A.), 300; (S.), 300, 449; Sarah
B., 501 ; Susan C., 545 ; Thomas B.,
545; Virginia E., 571; William, 188,
501 ; 545 ; (S.), 571.
Campbell Co., 69, 229, 240, 243, 286, 2S8,
290, 295, 330, 340, 342, 367, 368, 372,
376, 438, 439, 526, 531, 538, 560.
Campbellsville (Ky.), 554.
Canada, 436, 437, 445.
Canfield, Caroline, 492.
Cannon, John, 38, 158 ; William, 158.
Cannonsburg, 528.
Cape of Good Hope, 27.
Capell (see Cabell), Daniel, Richard,
Samuel, 22, 23 ; Richard, 22, 23, 6Q.
Cargill, Mary, 591.
Carlton, Edward, 143.
"Carltt>n,"407, 443,445.
" Carnwath," 415, 416, 418.
Carolina, 423, 424, 456.
Caroline Co., 242, 314, 337, 354.
Carpenter, Hannah, 393 ; Jane, 308 ; Wil-
liam, 312.
Carr, Dabney, 61, 145 ; John, 47 ; Miss,
464 ; Orie, 527.
Carrington, Abram C, 568, 570 ; Adaline
M., 568 ; Agnes G., 559, 565 ; Alexander
B., 568, 571 ; Alfred R., 566 ; Alice C,
535; Ann, 157, 167, 168; 192, 200, 204.
366,389 ; 157, 272 ; (L.), 571 ; Benjamin.
272, 273 ; 608 ; (G.), 605 ; Bennie F., 609 ;
Caroline T., 535 ; Carter I., 606 ; Charles
A., 609 ; (C), 534 ; (R.), 5:35 ; (V.), 571 ;
Clement, 199, 226 ; (R.), 570 ; Edgar W..
568 ; 570 ; Edward, 160-163, 165, 574 ;
(C), 361, 534 ; Eleanor S., 535 ; Eliza-
beth C, 272 ; 559, 564, 565 ; (D.), 568 ;
(H.), 273, 609, 610; 608; (L.), 562;
Ella W., 567 ; Emma C, 568 ; (L.), 559,
5(57 ; Eugene J., 609 ; Fanny V., 571 ;
Florence A., 566 ; 609 ; Frances J., 605 ;
Frank B., 569; George (emigrant), 38,
40, 50, 51, 97, 102, 113, 143, 147, 157-
168, 207, 238, 249, 272, 345, 375, 561 ;
161, 163-166; (B.),273; (C), 532,534;
535; (G.), 566; (W.), 273; Gideon S,
60S; Gilbert M., 609; (P.), 273, 60S,
609; Grace D., 607; Grattan C, 571 ;
Hannah, 147, 156, 157, 171 ; Harriet M..
607, 608; Henningham, 168; Henry,
538-559, 572 ; (A.), 559, 565-567 ; (L.'),
566 ; Hey ward, 569 ; Isa, 573 ; Isaac,
570; (H), 568, 569; James L., 273,
60S ; John C, 566, 567 ; (M.), 535 ; (P.
M.), 534; (R.), 568; Joseph, 161, 165,
272; (N.), 272, 605-607; Lettice, 363;
585 ; Lillie, 606 ; Lottie, 566 ; 567 , Lou-
isa C, 568, 571; (E.), 562; Louise C,
566, 567 ; Lucas T., 535 ; Malcolm, 569 ;
Mareellus, 535 ; Margaret, 205 ; 535 ; 559 ;
569 ; Marion M., 569 ; Martha G., 605 ;
Mary, 268, 281, 562 ; 345 ; (A.), 605, 61 16 ;
(B.), 60S; (C), 569; 608, 609; (E.),
567 ; (L.), 535 ; Matthew B., 566 ; Mat-
tie, 537; Mavo, 185; (B.), 273; 608;
Mildred C, 534; 570; Nannie S., 569;
Nelly H, 535 ; Nicholas C, 60S ; Otelia
M., 566, 567; Paul, 168; 102, 119, 151,_
159, 192, 199, 204-207,211, 217, 268,
281,363,537, 558,567, 585; 534, 567,
573; (C), 559; (J.), 534, 535; (S.),
567 ; 570 ; 571 ; Paulina E.. 559, 562-
564; Percy L.,'606; Priscilla, 206;
Reid C, 606 ; Richard B., 535 ; Robert,
537; (G.), 56S, 569; Sarah, 535; (R.),
570 ; Seddon, 569 ; Sophonisba, 273,
607, 60S; Susan, 534; 535; Thomas,
5:34; (T. B.), 537; Virginia R., 609;
Walter B., 605; (C), 533-535; (S.),
535 ; 608 ; William A., 568-570 ; (C),
255, 559-562 ; 5(56 ; 570 ; 605, 606 ; Wil-
liamine G, 562 ; Willie A , 608.
Carroll, Anna L., 317 ; De Rosa, 475 ;
family, 530 ; Mary A., 475.
Carson, James, Katherine, 496 ; T. M.,
438.
Carter, Anne, 238 ; Charles, 266 ; Chris-
topher, 21 ; Edward, 62. 293, 440 ; 293,
294; (H.), 29S; family, 288; 447;
George, 266 ; James W., 343 ; John
(emigrant), 293. 432, 590 ; 53, 293, 440;
Louise, 376 ; Maria B., 439 ; 440, Mary
C, 293, 294 ; (E.), 439, 440 ; (W.), 263,
618
INDEX
266, 267 ; Miss Parke, 265, 266 ; Povall,
52 ; Robert, 236, 238, 266, 293, 440 ;
440; Thomas, 376.
Cartersville, 249.
Carteret, Caroline, George, 430.
Cartwright, Levin, 307 ; Peter, 125.
Cary, Archibald, 50, 85, 446 ; family, 446,
447.
Case, Jennie M. S., 506.
Caseleigh, John, 4.
Casey Co. (Ky.), 248, 550, 551, 554, 556.
Cash, W. S., 400.
Caskie, James, Margaret, 572.
Casson, Sarah, Thomas, 334.
Castle, Franklin, 401.
"Castle Hill," 69, 408-414, 424.
Castleman family, 526-531 ; David, 497,
526 ; 525, 527, 528 ; Mary A., 497 ; Vir-
ginia H., 499, 527.
"Castleton," 526, 529, 530.
Castlewellan, 584.
Catawba Indians, 42, 78.
Cave, Annie, Benjamin (emigrant), 530.
Cawthorn, General, 298.
Cecil, Robert, 242.
Cedar Creek Meeting, 68, 322.
Central College, 203.
Centre College (Ky.), 490-493, 498, 505,
507,509,511,512, 514.
Centre Hill, 74, 172, 173, 176.
Chadwick family, 459-461.
Chalkley, Lyman, 508.
Chalmers, James, 510.
Champe, John, 294 ; Sarah, 293, 294, 440.
Chandler family, 552 ; Joel, 37.
Chanler family, 424.
Channing. Elizabeth, 423.
Chapell Hill (N. C), 335, 568 ; (Tex.),
452, 461.
Chapman, Dr., 401.
Chapultepec (battle), 488.
Chariton Co. (Mo.), 462-468.
Charles I., 14, 15, 36, 168, 231 ; II., 386 ;
Edward. 278.
Charles City Co., 31, 35, 238, 314, 315,
322, 534.
Charleston (S. C), 108. 183, 184, 250,252,
358, 383, 546; (W. Va.), 245, 547, 548,
591.
Charlotte (N. C), 281,360 ; County (Va.),
149, 159, 192, 199, 204, 205, 207-211,
217, 218, 220, 252, 283, 335,342, 344,
345, 363, 364, 448, 537, 558, 560, 562,
565-568, 570, 585, 592, 593, 595.
Charlottesville, 35, 99, 113, 114, 193, 200,
217, 400, 425, 426, 428, 431-433, 436,
440, 441, 443, 444, 462, 504, 570, 592,
597.
Charlton, Richard, 102, 143.
Chatham (Va.), 372, 564.
Cheatham, W. S., 485.
Cheeke, Mrs., 459 ; William, 176.
Cherokee Indians, 78, 151, 454, 589.
Chesapeake and Ohio R. R., 40, 74, 80,
176, 357, 423, 450, 539, 586.
Chesterfield Co. (Va.), 36, 59, 163, 173,
229,231, 2S6, 581,604.
Chestnut (or Southwest) Mountains, 69,
189.
Chew family. 402, 403 ; John (emigrant),
399, 402 ; Margaret O., 399.
Chicago, 439, 521-523, 526, 541, 573.
Chili, 434, 437, 517.
Chilton, Hezekiah, 292.
China, 436, 437.
Chisman, Anne, 336.
Chiswell, John, 53, 83, 133.
Cholmley, Margaret, Richard, 16.
Christian family, 374, 375 ; George, 448 ;
James, 274 ; Sarah, 274.
Churchill, James, 324.
Churubusco (battle), 488.
Cincinnati (O.), 70, 322, 341, 357, 402-
406, 515, 605 ; Society, 153, 187, 256,
377, 432.
City Point, 113.
Civil War : Confederate government,
officials, soldiers, etc., 275, 276, 279,
281, 283, 286-288, 291, 294, 297-299,
302, 305, 307-311, 313-318, 322, 323,
327-331, 333, 335, 336, 344, 345, 347,
348, 350, 351, 354-356, 358, 359, 361-
364, 371, 372, 375, 376, 378, 382-386,
391-393, 395, 399, 403, 405, 408, 409,
420, 423, 428, 430, 434, 437, 438, 441,
444, 445, 453, 456-458, 460, 466, 467,
470, 471, 473-477, 479, 482, 484, 488,
491-496, 506-508, 512-514, 523-525,
528, 529, 532, 536, 544, 548, 549, 554,
565, 568-571, 573, 577-580, 585, 586,
590, 597, 600, 604, 606, 609 ; United
States government, officials, soldiers,
etc., 70, 383, 393, 398, 405, 435, 459, 489,
493, 499, 501, 502, 509 510, 513, 516,
517, 531, 549, 556.
Clack family, 282.
Claiborne, Augustine, 220 ; Elizabeth C,
471; family, 328, 329; George C, 471;
Hamilton C, Herbert A., Jeanie A.,
590, 591 ; Leonard, Letitia, Livingston,
Pocahontas B., Tyler H.,471 ; Sterling,
220 ; William (emigrant), 328, 590.
Claiborne Co. (Miss.), 307, 309-312.
Clark, Ann P., 513; Anne, 504; A. I.,
543 ; Benjamin, 504 ; Bennett, 290 ; Bol-
ing (Bowlen, etc.), 69, 321 ; Catherine
W., 419 ; Christopher, 47, 69, 290, 321,
322; 290; Cora L., 543; Dr., 229; Ed-
ward, 69, 321 ; Elizabeth, 321 ; (M.),
289, 292 ; family, 327-331 ; Frances,
291 ; George Rogers, 80, 107, 290, 344,
504 ; James, 290 ; John, 504 ; (B.), 290;
Jonathan, 504 ; Jordan, 513 ; Micajah,
290, 321; Nancy, 537; Patterson, 290;
Penelope, 290, 321; Richard S., 419;
Robert, 289; 290; Sarah, 69; Susan-
nah, 290 ; William, 504.
Clark Co. (Ky.), 289, 290.
Clarke, Colin, J. Lyle, Mary L., 331.
Clarke Co. (Va.), 320, 392, 394, 431, 515.
INDEX
619
Clarkson family, 436 ; Nathan H., 520.
Clarksville, 355-357.
Clay, Ann C. E., 285, 286; Cassias M.,
518, 524 ; Charles, 63, 286 ; Henry, 123,
145, 286, 341, 372, 408, 493, 576, 582 ;
John, 132, 145 ; Lucretia, 508 ; Odin G.,
286 ; Thomas H., 509.
Clayton, Ann, 245, 247, 285, 286 ; John,
247; (emigrant), 247, 285; 247, 285,
368 ; Lucy, 368.
Clemens, Samuel, 352.
Clements, Kate, 472.
Cleveland. President, 386, 474.
" Clifton," 237, 238, 519 ; Forge, 314.
Clinch River, 413.
Clinkscales, Louisa, 468.
Clinton, Sir H., 416.
Clopton, Rev. Mr., 280.
Clover Hill, 359; Plains, 172, 173, 227,
446.
Cobb, Lucy W., 546.
Cobbs, John F., 362 ; Mary F., 359, 361 ;
Samuel, 207 ; Susan C, 359, 362 ; W.
W., 362.
Cochraine, Catherine A., 423.
Cocke, Anne B., 602 ; Ben, 38 ; family,
378, 604; James, 454; James P., 59;
John H., 407, 603; Rev. Mr., 391;
Richard (emigrant), 378, 604.
Cockerill, Miss, 534.
Cockrell, F. M., 467.
Codrington family, 168.
Cold Harbor (battle), 444, 489, 494, 586.
Cole, Walter King, 219.
Coleman, Alexander R., 445; Benjamin,
115 ; Clara H., John J., 539 ; family,
472; PriscillaS., Thomas G., 445.
Coles, Agnes C, 585 ; Edward, 440 ; Isaac,
56S; John (emigrant), 534; 212, 216,
440; 568; Mary, 440; 568; Mildred
H., 362; 534; Mr., 199; Sallie, 326,
329 ; Walter, 326, 534 ; 362, 585.
Colleton (E.), 14 ; (Va.), 199, 202, 261, 365.
Collier family, 478.
Colonial Dame, 42, 126.
Colorado, 421, 429, 445, 466, 481, 607.
Colquhonn, Ann J., Thomas, 303.
Colson, H. M., Lucy H., 313.
Colton, Prudence, 23.
Columbia (Ark.), 609; (Ky.), 553, 554,
557 ; (Mo.), 581, 582 ; (Va.), 39, 41, 193.
Columbia College (N. Y.), 299, 417, 418;
505; (S. C), 329.
riomack, Jane, 460.
Comanche Indians, 475.
Combs, Leslie, 493.
Comfort, David, 305, 372.
Committees : of Correspondence, 93 ; of
Safety (State), 97-104, 149, 177-181,
206, 414 ; of Districts, 99, 101, 102, 142,
148, 164 ; of Counties, 95, 97, 99, 100,
102, 159, 167; (Albemarle), 159, 564;
(Amelia), 163 ; (Amherst), 97, 99-103,
159, 177, 178, 214; (Bedford), 159;
(Buckingham), 101, 102, 128, 142, 143,
159, 163 ; (Charlotte), 159, 205, 562 ;
(Chesterfield), 163 ; (Cumberland), 102,
159-167, 237, 238, 272, 400, 561 ; (Gooch-
land), 163; (Hanover), 561 ; (Henrico),
561 ; (Lousia), 561 ; (Prince Edward),
163.
Commonwealth (The), 97.
Comptesse, Anne, Dr., 537.
Congress, 93, 95, 160, 161, 182, 187, 200,
205, 241, 263, 264, 341, 357, 360, 417,
442, 443, 481, 487, 494, 568 ; (Members
of), 161, 442, 487, 522, 567, 568; (Senate),
235, 391, 407, 408, 421, 479, 480, 483,
494, 508, 517, 535, 536 ; (House of Rep-
resentatives), 187, 200, 235, 241, 275,
290, 306, 311,333, 360, 362,380, 386,
399, 405, 407, 411, 421, 440, 459, 476,
482,494,496,576. •
Connecticut, 60, 289, 401, 418, 422, 4S7,
488, 498, 564.
Conner, Daniel, 112.
Constitution (G. M.), 104; (U. S.), 117-
119, 515.
Contee, John, Sylvia, 459.
Contesse, Anne, Dr., 537.
Contreras (battle), 488.
Convention prisoners, 106, 219.
Conventions: (1774-1776), 188, 599;
(August, 1774), 93-95, 100, 134, 205,
414 ; (May, 1775), 97, 134, 160, 205, 414,
504; (July, 1775), 98-100, 134, 147,148,
162, 164, 205, 229, 414; (December,
1775), 101, 102, 135, 177, 178, 206, 380,
414; (May, 1776). 103, 104, 128, 136, 137,
143, 149, 166, 180, 181,206,295 ; (1788),
117-119 ; 187, 206 ; (1829), 301, 376, 469,
604 ; (1861), 335, 360, 539 ; (Fla.), 575 ;
(Ky.), 235; (Mo.), 465, 517.
Cook family, 291.
Cooke, George, 427; Mordecai, Susanna,
215.
Cooper, Jane, 607.
Corbett family, 591.
Corbin family, 520 (see 380, 432).
Cornish, Rev. Mr., 586.
Cornwall Parish, 205.
Cornwallis, Lord, 100, 109, 112, 115, 139,
153, 192-198.
" Corotoman," 238, 266, 293.
Corpus Christi College, 421.
Couch, Anna W., 320 ; Edward, Hallie A.,
467 ; Samuel, 320.
Counterfeit money, 93, 107.
Country homes, 124-127.
County organization, 34, 35, etc. ; Lieu-
tenant, 36-38, 49, 50, 61, 77, 79, 128,
137, 142, 164, 186, 205, 207, 214, 366,
367, 378, 387, 594.
Court of Appeals, 250-254, 329, 348, 443,
567, 574.
Covington (Ky.), 506, 515, 518, 520 ; (Va.),
389, 423.
Cowan, Robert, 369 ; William, 61, 369.
Cowley, John, 67.
Cowpens (battle), 112, 292, 297.
620
INDEX
Cox, Marion H., Richard, 430 ; William,
145.
Craddock family, 565.
Craft family, 491.
Craig family, 312 ; James, 204 ; Thomas,
85, 88.
CraHe" family, 544 ; R. K., 544, 602.
Craney Island (battle), 433.
Crashaw, Joseph, 590.
Crawford, Ann, 301 ; Bennet A., 597 ;
Charles, 215, 291, 292, 339, 366, 380,
597; David (emigrant), 189; 61, 301,
598 ; 61, 100, 287 ; Elizabeth, 189, 2S7 ;
287, 290 ; Lucy, 597 ; Nathan, 154,
201 ; Nelson, 597 ; William, 3(55, 366,
597; (H.), 366 ; (S.), 215, 235, 366.
Crittenden, J. J., 518, 581; Mrs. J. J.,
581, 582.
Croker, William, 179.
Cromer Hall (E.),2, 19,20.
Cromwell family, 231, 432.
Crook, General, 509.
Cross family, 499.
Crossly, John P., 485.
Crowdus family, 551, 552.
Crutchfield, Eleanor P., 570.
Cuba, 389, 475, 495.
Cullen, Charlotte E., John, 565, 566.
Culpeper Co., 98, 375, 549, 601.
Cumberland, Duke of, 50.
Cumberland Co. (Va.), 50, 94, 102, 113,
147, 157-16S, 204, 221, 236, 237, 246,
272, 279, 302, 382, 400, 519, 520, 524,
525, 543, 544, 574, 606; (Mountains),
296; (Md.). 506; (E.), 590.
Cummings, Elizabeth, John, 514.
Cunningham family, 567.
" Curies," 272, 317, 583.
Currie, John R., 474, 475.
Curtis, Patrick, 566.
Curwen, George, 590.
Cushing, Mr., 396, 397.
Dabney family, 244, 560, 561 ; John C,
and family, 343; Mrs. Edwards, 244;
Elizabeth, 604 ; Mary, 188, 325 ; R. L.,
358, 570 ; William, 244, 561, 604.
Dal by, Virginia, 360.
Dale, William, 45.
Dalton, Samuel, 189.
Dana. Rev. Mr., 318.
Dandridge, Dorothea, 324, 325 ; Eliza,
305, 317; Mary, 546; Nathaniel W.,
William, 325.
Daniel, Eliza, 243 ; Elvira A., 393 ; Fannie,
400 ; James, 38, 39, 48, 49, 53, 76, 130,
350, 400; John, 350; (W.), 390, 574;
Mary C. B., 390 ; Nancy, 350 ; Paulina,
145; Peter V., 191; Travers, 191;
William, 145, 216, 243, 261,390,393,
400, 574 ; 390, 393, 574, 5S6 ; 400; 165,
400; 553.
Dan River, 113.
Danville, 296, 361, 362, 371, 372, 423, 469,
471, 472, 476, 477, 571 ; (Academy),
476; (Ky.), 501, 506,507, 599; (Semi-
nary), 500, 511.
Darneille, Isaac, 153, 199, 217.
Davenport family, 422; G. A., 329;
Thomas, 165.
Davidson College (N. C), 593; County
(Tenn.), 394.
Davidson family, 447; Rev. Dr., 234;
Thomas, 450 ; William, 467.
Davies, Ann Clayton, 244, 245, 247, 285,
280 ; family, 285-288 ; Henrv Ann, 244,
245 ; Henry Landon, 244-247, 285, 287 ;
Nicholas (emigrant), 38, 50, 53, 54, 245-
247, 285.
Davis, Abigail, 43, 387; Ashley L., and
family, 477 ; Charles L., 536 ; Hannah,
43, 269; Henry Winter, 434; Horatio
Davis family, 347 ; Jefferson, 43, 438,
47:!, 494, 578-580; Martha, 43, 269,
468 ; Mary, 43, 59 ; Mr., 21 ; Nathaniel
(emigrant), 43, 269 ; Philip, 43 ; Robert.
43, 53, 54, 3S7 ; 44 ; Robert J. Davis
family, 385 ; Samuel, 43.
Dawson family, 276 ; John, 61, 100.
Day, Fannie L., 433; Mary I., R. H. B.,
318.
Deane, Frank, 426 ; Nannie, 2S0.
Dearborn, Major, 182.
De Charms, Richard, 602.
De Hart, Abigail, 298, 397 ; W. W., 298.
Dehon, Ann, Bishop, 418.
De Kalb, Baron, 256.
De Lancey family, 416.
Delaney, Charles, 468.
Delaware, 291, 293, 336, 338, 503, 506,
507, 604.
De la Warr, Lord, 3l5. See Thomas
West.
De Long, Captain, 311.
Dengler, Clara, 460.
Denham, Hugh, 46.
Dennis, J. S , 453,
Denny family, 550 ; Mary A. B., Robert,
277.
Desha, Issa, J. R.. 508.
Des Meux, Mr., 399.
Dettingen Parish, 442.
De Vere, M. Scheie, Minna E., 444.
Devises (E.), 282.
Devonshire, 2, 6, 10-18, 27, 269.
Devore family, 526.
Dew, Thomas R., 372.
De Witt family, 276.
Dick, Charles, 413.
Dickie, James, 57.
Dickins, Thomas, 38.
Dickinson, Asa D., 210, 372-374 ; familv,
374.
Dickinson College (Pa), 339, 490.
Digges, Dudley, 348 ; 38, 47 ; 348 ; John,
61, 100 ; Mary H., 281 ; Susannah, 348.
Dillard, Elizabeth, 472; James, 61, 100;
111, 179.
Dinwiddie, Alexander, 435 ; Robert, 76,
77, 88, 413, 435.
INDEX
621
Dinwiddie Co. (Va.), 197, 349, 368, 544.
District of Columbia, 348, 392.
Diuguidsville, 17(3, 221.
Dixon, Archibald Dixon's family, 481-
483 ; Henry, Sarah, Susan, 453.
1 Hxon and Hunter, 165, 179.
Doctors, 33, 34, 55, 130, etc.
Dodd, Frances, 551.
Donald, Alexander, 218, 220-222.
Dornin, Eva L., 284 ; James J., 285.
Dorset, 2, 6, 17, 225, 350, 526, 583.
Dorsey, Ida M., 429.
Doswell family, 469 ; Peyton, 478.
Doug-lass, Commodore, 252; family, 491;
James, Mary, 293 ; Rev. Mr., 190.
Doune (Downe), Gabriel, 13.
Douthat, Miss, 388.
Dover (Va.), 33, 75, 130, 583.
Dow, William, 284.
Downshire, Marquis of, 208.
D'Oyly Cabell, 17; Cholmley, John, 16-
18.
Drake family, 168.
Dress (colonial), 83, 84, 122, 123.
Drew, Will, 115.
Drogheda, Viscount, 456.
Drury's Bluff (battle), 477.
Dublin, 566 ; University, 319.
Dudley, Eliza S., 437; family, 510; Sam-
uel E., and family, 309 ; Thomas, 520.
Dudley's defeat, 290.
Duke, R. T. W., 443.
Dulaney, Aimer L., Bladen T., 345.
Dunakin, Daniel, 151.
Duncan, Abner L., 462 ; Ella, 374 ; Mar-
tin, 52,
Dundas, Henry, 24, 25.
Dunlop (Dunlap), Ephraim, 61 ; family,
562 ; Thomas, 385 ; William, 179.
Dunmore, Governor, 93, 98, 143, 163, 177,
181, 380.
Dunn, William J., 450.
Dunscombe family, 277, 278.
Dupuy family, 373 ; Jane, 363.
Dutch, 51, 67, 213, 338, 416.
Duval, Anne E., 228, 230 ; Archibald B.,
228 ; Catherine, 474 ; family, 277, 278 ;
James D., 302 ; 303 ; Jennie, 479 ; Mary,
336 ; Samuel Shepherd, 228 ; 479.
Earle, Louisa, 299.
Early, Elizabeth, 366, 549; family, 548,
549 ; Jubal A., 393, 548, 549.
Earthquakes, 60, 99, 180.
Easley, Charles B., and family, 279 ; Rob-
ert H, and family, 564, 565 ; William
S., and family, 356.
Eastin, George B., 529.
Eaton, Thomas, William, 225.
Echols family, 297.
Eclipse of 1752, 53.
" Ecole des Ponts et Chausse'es," 422.
Eddins family, 461, 462.
Edgewood, 218, 263, 265, 2(56, 604.
Edinburgh (S.), 91, 376, 503, 564.
Edmunds, Henry, 567 ; Nicholas, 363 ;
Paul C, 567 ; Susan, 363.
Education, etc., 33, 34, 65, 73, 75, 122, 130,
145, 146, 174, 176, 177, 190, 191, 207,
209, 212, 216, 226-229, 364, 376, 384,
388, 396, etc. See Schools, Colleges,
etc
Edward I., 36; VI., 12.
Edwards, Elizabeth, 531 ; 607 ; John, 607 ;
Thomas, 158, 229; W. H., 531.
Effinger, Miss, 279.
Eggleston, Richard, 163, 165.
Egypt, 423, 437.
Eidson, Elizabeth, 364.
Elam, Martha, 454.
Eldridge, Mildred K., Rolfe, 3S2.
Elections, 82, 85, 92, 95, 106, 120, 134,
160-162, 164, 166, 186, 187, 200, 297,
382.
Elizabeth (Queen), 12, 599.
"Elk Hill " (Ky.), 236, 237,515, 520, 526,
531.
Ellenborough, Lord, 25.
Ellerbe, Eliza E., 353.
Ellet, Charles, 347, 392, 393 ; family, 392,
393.
Elliot, Thomas, 179.
Ellis, Carrie, 610; family, 460; L. P.,
610 ; Sarah J., 287 ; Mrs., 292.
" Elm Cottage," 144, 243.
Emerson, Dr., 437.
Emigrant ancestors, nationality of. See,
for those mentioned in the book, Dutch,
England, Huguenot, Ireland, Scotland,
etc.
Emlet, Mary, 294.
Emmet, Pendleton, Thomas, 275.
Emory and Henry College, 323.
Enders, Nannie, 573.
England: English ancestors, etc., 1-34,
44, 67, 69, 74, 82, 130, 175, 220, 222,
225, 229, 231, 238, 239, 242, 269-271,
282, 291, 293, 294, 296, 299, 303, 327,
329, 334, 337, 338, 348, 350, 353, 354,
377, 386, 397, 402, 403, 411, 412, 415-
417, 421, 425, 430, 435-437, 442, 446,
452, 453, 464, 474, 481, 483, 4S7, 488,
516, 526, 530. 536, 541, 561. 581-583,
588, 590-592, 607. Note. Those who
came up from tide-water Virginia were
generally of English origin.
Epes (Eppes), Junius, Richard J., 477.
Episcopal (Established) Church, 35, 96,
246, 322, 349, 365, 366, 390, 430, 432 ;
Conventions, 174, 201, 242, 260, 272,
426, 431 ; High School, 353, 419, 428,
429 ; Theological Seminary, 269, 271,
394, 429, 431, 433.
Essex Co. (E.), 588 ; (Va.), 215.
Este, David K., Louise, 337.
Eubank, Elizabeth W., Royal H., 323.
Evans, family, 607 ; Miss, 553 ; Sallie,
293; William, 552.
Evanston, 512.
Evansville, 457.
622
INDEX
Everard, Hugh, 231 ; Richard, Susanna,
231, 432.
Everett, Edward, 415.
Evreau, Walter d', 2-4.
Ewell, General, 393.
Ewing, family, 467 ; Susanna, 248, 249.
Failing family, 591.
Fairfax, Annie E., 351 ; Lord, 440; 386.
Fairfax C. H., 3J4.
Fairmount Church, 178, 366.
Falling River, 58.
Falls of James River, 33, 67, 68, 81, 85,
92, 90, 157, 239; town at, 38. See
Richmond.
Farmer, Miss, 376.
Farmville, 354, 358-360, 570.
Farmwell, 320.
Farrar, B. F. 394, 448, 451 ; Laura, 394,
451 ; Matthew, 447 ; Thomas, 448 ; Wil-
liam, 447.
Faulkner, Margaret, 502.
Fauquier, Francis, 78, 79, 85, 413.
Fauquier Co., 345, 372, 442, 445, 458, 474,
530, 536.
Fayette Co. (Ky.), 233, 235-237, 452,
459-461, 465, 485, 488, 510, 51 1. 520,
525, 530.
Featherstone, General, 393.
Febiger, Colonel, 256.
Fellows, Georgia Ann, 418.
Ferguson, Charles, 299 ; family, 345.
"Fernlev,"541, 542,549.
Ferris. Elizabeth, 317 ; Richard, 272.
Field, Mary, Peter, 388.
Fielder family, 519.
Fields, Charles, 540.
Fillmore. President, 379, 577.
Fincastle, 98, 135-137 ; 300, 375.
Findlay. John, 42. 412.
Findlay's Creek, 42, 81 ; Mountain, 39, 42,
141.
Fink, Albert, 512.
Finley. Helen, 538.
Firly, Mattie, 301.
Fisher family, 337, 338.
Fitch, Mary,' 492.
Fitzgerald family, 360 ; John P., 358, 360.
Fitz Hugh, Anne, 215, 387; Elizabeth,
432; Henry, 215; William (emigrant),
215, 432.
Fitzpatrick family, 605, 606.
Flagg, John, 543.
Fleming, Charles, 128, 499; Elizabeth,
435 ; (emigrant), 128 ; family, 70, 426 ;
John, 37, 38, 128, 245 ; 49 ; Judith, 245,
246; Mary, 128; Tarleton, 37, 38, 245;
Susanna, Ursula, 499 ; William, 160 -
166 ; 435.
Fleury, Colonel, 256.
Flood, Fannie, 466.
Flood in James River, 88, 89.
Florida, 25S, 278, 298, 347, 359, 460, 461,
471, 482, 488, 490, 494, 520, 546, 575-
578 ; War, 588.
Flournoy, David, 371 ; family, 354-364 ;
J. J. (emigrant), 355 ; 354, 355, 396, 397 ;
Thomas S., 355, 358, 360-362 ; William
C, 355, 357, 358, 393.
Floyd, John, 44, 251 ; Sallie, 387 ; William,
43, 44, 387.
Fluvanna Co., 37, 130, 132, 140, 269, 340,
354,447,448, 451, 608-610; River, 41,
68, 69, 76, 80, 230.
Fogden, Alan Clifford, and family, 29.
Fontaine, James, 100, 190, 191 ; Peter, 100,
176, 177, 190 ; William, 96, 99, 100, 190,
191, 209, 216.
Foot, Sarah F., 534.
Ford family, 582.
Forge (The) Church, 286.
"Fork Field," 142,243.
Forrest, General, 307.
Fortenberg, Sallie A., 308.
Forts : Adams, 542 ; Arbuckle, 473 ; Cobb,
473; Delaware, 310. 311, 358; Du
Quesne, 349; Erie, 487; Gregg, 310;
McPherson, 542 ; Plain, 591 ; Stanwix,
413 ; Sumter, 578 ; Worth, 374, 461.
Founder's kin mentioned : descendants,
lineal or collateral of Argall, Barring-
ton, Bowyer, Byrd, Cecil, Claiborne,
Codrington, Cromwell, Diggs, etc., 16,
128, 141, 168, 170, 231. 242, 247, 322,
325, 348, 412, 429, 432, 457, 541.
Founder, Miss C., 488.
Fowell, Edmond, Elizabeth, 11, 15, 16.
Fowlkes, Miss, 534.
Fownes, Richard, 17-19 ; Thomas, 18.
Fox, Anne. 328 ; Joseph, 47 ; Nathaniel,
179.
France, 107, 201, 256, 271, 847, 397, 407,
419, 421, 423-425, 436, 437, 503, 508,
585.
Francis, David R., 530.
Francisco, Peter, 268.
Frankfort (Ky.), 235, 291, 4S3, 4S9-491,
493, 496, 515, 528, 530.
Franklin, Benjamin, 269 ; General, 422 ;
James, 150.
Franklin Co. (Ala.), 461; (Ky.), 508, 552 ;
(State of), 217 ; (Term.), 459 ; (Va.), 314,
316, 340, 546, 548.
Fraser, General, 183.
Frazer, Miss, 557.
Frederick, Essie, 472.
Frederick Co., 210, 377, 431, 504.
Fredericksburg, 182, 191, 326, 331, 332,
402, 562, 570 ; (battle), 393, 395, 586.
Fredericksville Parish, 59, 270.
Freeman, Edward A., 32.
Fremont, General, 405, 525.
French, Sarah H, 534.
French and Indian Wars. See Indian
Wars.
Friend family, 547.
Frierson, Edward 0., 395.
Frome or Froome-Selwood, 1,6, 7, 9-12,
18, 20-23.
Front Royal (battle), 361.
INDEX
623
Fry, Joshua, 48, 49, 52, 70, 76, 77, 170,
378 ; Miss, 553 ; Tabitha, 377.
Furnace (see Iron works), 103, 104,
128.
Gaines, Daniel, 61, 100, 148, 194, 195 ;
George T., 520; Mary E., 345; R. F.,
345.
Gait, Dr., Lucy J., 540.
Gamble, Agnes S. B., 250, 255-258 ; James,
257 ; Robert (emigrant), 257 ; 250, 255-
257, 261, 568.
Gantt family, 279.
Garbee family, 538.
Gardiner family, 543.
Garland, David S., 202, 380, 532; Eliza,
532; family, 275, 276; James, 275,
382 ; 380 ; John B., 354 ; Landon Ca-
bell, 532; Mary R., 379, 380; Mary,
481 ; Parker. 426 ; Richard, 481 ; Sam-
uel, 395 ; William, 380.
Garnett, family, 332 ; R. B., Sarah A.,
512.
Garrard, Eva. W. W., 529.
Garrett, Guy, 354.
Gates, General, 182.
Gatewood, Sallie, Thomas, 284.
Gay, Elizabeth, William, 605.
Geddv, James, 181.
Gee, Elizabeth, 294.
Geldart, Henry, and family, 30.
General Assembly (Colonial) : Governor,
Council, and House of Burgesses, 81,
85, 87, 97, 98 ; Council (members, etc.),
105, 238, 239, 328, 403, 411, 412, 423,
446, 456, 590, 594 ; House of Burgesses,
37, 38, 78, 79, 81-95, 128, 132-134, 158,
159, 188, 189, 205, 229, 230, 238, 239,
269, 270, 278, 317, 337, 378, 387, 388,
399, 402, 413, 414, 446, 496, 583, 590,
599.
General Assembly (State) : Governor and
Council, Senate and House of Dele-
gates, 104-110, 113-117, 119, 120,
132, 137, 138, 139, 151, 152, 154, 159,
163, 167, 186, 193, 199, 201, 202, 206,
219, 222, 250, 252, 253, 265, 296, 373 ;
Council (members of, etc.), 114, 115. 261,
362, 414; Legislature, 241, 250,' 296,
301, 357, 373, 385, 399, 546, 590, 598,
605 ; Senate, 104, 105, 107, 113-115,
119, 153, 155, 202, 203, 253, 261, 264,
335, 373, 382, 442, 443, 459, 469, 539,
561 ; House of Delegates, 114-117, 119,
120, 137-139, 143, 152, 153, 186, 199,
200, 206, 214, 234, 238, 250, 252, 253,
261, 264, 272,275, 281, 286, 288, 296,
301, 302, 315, 327, 328, 336, 339, 344,
355, 372, 373, 376, 379, 3S0, 382, 386,
403, 407, 426, 438-440, 442, 443, 446,
469, 534, 539, 560, 562, 590, 605.
General Assembly of Ala., 456, 601 ; Ark.,
536 ; Cal., 495 ; Ky., 235, 483, 489, 493,
500, 502, 518, 524, 525 ; La., 524 ; Md.,
338; Miss., 311, 609; Mo., 2S9, 297,
465, 498, 517, 525, 530, 553, 580, 581 ;
N.Y., 489; S. C, 589.
General Court (Va.), 206, 250, 253.
Geneva, 355, 436.
George II., 46, 50, 131.
Georgetown (Colo.), 445; (D. C.) 334,
383, 422, 429; (Ky.), 495; (College),
529.
Georgia, 270, 306, 366, 436, 488, 529, 542,
54«, 573.
Gerard, Devereux, 59.
Germaine, Mary, 425.
Germany, 283, 346, 436, 444, 489, 503,
505, 522, 544.
Gerry, Elbridge, 347.
Gettysburg (battle), 283, 297, 384, 393,
565,586; 339, 341.
Gibbon, General, 591.
Gibbons, Margaret, 597.
Gibson family, 395 ; Julia, 418.
Gilbert family, 168.
Giles, Mary, William, 455.
Gilkerson family, 319, 320.
Gillespie, George, 184; William, 112.
Gilmer family, 564; George, 14S, 200,
218, 348, 401, 564; (emigrant), 564; G.
Walker, and familv, 348 ; John, 148,
Thomas W., 304, 348 ; Willie C, 304.
Givens, Martha G., 359.
" Gladstone," 74, 450.
Glasgow (Ky.), 556; (Mo.), 466; 'S.),
20, 91.
Glasgow family, 292, 293.
Glass, John S., 438.
Glassell, Johanna, John, 191.
"Glenmore," 365, 366, 388, 389, 427,
428.
Glenn, John, 149.
Gloucester Co. (Va.), 215, 238, 244, 282,
331, 337, 5(39 ; (E.), 2, 17, 168, 242.
Goggin family, 352.
Goldsby family, 600, 601.
Gooeh family, 275 ; William, 36, 42, 275.
Goochland Co., 33, 35-48, 50, 53, 74, 75.
130-132, 140, 144, 145, 157-159, 16:;,
169-171, 189, 207, 239, 246, 249, 269,
276, 294, 317, 321, 332, 333, 340,350,
370, 383, 387, 430, 542, 582-584, 604.
Goode, Elizabeth W., 440 ; family, 173 ;
G. Brown, 173, 331, 542.
Goodwin, F. D., 319. 385, 428.
Goosley, Frances, William, 348.
Gordon, Alexander, 219 ; Ann, 418 ; Annie.
596 ; Captain, 349 ; Edith, 430 ; George,
418 ; James (emigrant), 594 ; John B.,
299; John and family, 551 ; J. J., 357 ;
Joel, 553 ; Mary, 594 ; Nannie B., 553.
Gordonsville, 194, 594.
Gould, Enoch (emigrant), 16S ; Frances,
157, 168.
Government (Royal), I. King and Coun-
cil, House of Lords and House of
Commons (Parliament) ; II. (Colonial),
Lord Governor and Deputy Governor,
Council and House of Burgesses (Gen-
624
INDEX
eral Assembly) ; III. County or shire
system, 34-36, etc. Interregnum : I.
Congress ; II. Conventions and Com-
mittee of Safety ; III. County Com-
mittee. (Federal), I. President and
Cabinet, Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives (Congress) ; II. (State), Gov-
ernor and Council, Senate and House
of Delegates (General Assembly) ; III.
County system, at first similar to the
Colonial. See Congress, General As-
sembly, etc.
Gowdey, Frances, Thomas, 584.
Grace Church, 09, 322, 424.
Graf family, 345, 340.
Graham, James, 57 ; Mr., 350 ; Rev. Dr.,
uOo.
Grammer, John, 328-330.
Grand, Anne. George, 5 ! 2.
Grant, Avis W., 571 ; Edward, 22 ; Joan,
44; Samuel, 487 ; U. S., 443, 487.
Granville College (E.), 337; Co. (N. C),
225.
" Grasmere," 502.
Grattan family, 256, 257.
Graveley, Katie, 47(">.
Graves, Thomas, 504 ; Joseph A., 520.
Gray (see Grey), Edmond, 49, 158;
family, 584 ; William, 158.
Grayson, Alfred W., and family, 486-
488 ; Robert H., and family, 452-454 ;
(emigrant), 452 ; William, 85. 452, 487.
Great Bridge (battle), 177; Mountains,
412.
Greeley, Horace, 474.
Green, John T., and family, 312, 313 ;
Joseph K., and family, 30(3, 307 ; Pro-
fessor, 595.
"Green Hill," 141, 142, 144, 243, 543.
Greene, General, 113, 256, 465.
- Greenfield." 562, 563.
" Greenway," 173, 227, 386.
(Jregory, Captain, 179.
Grey (Gray), James, 53.
(Jriggs, E. W., 471.
Grigsby, Hugh B., 143, 210-212, 228, 558,
560 ; Rachel, 292.
drills, John, 134, 290.
Grubbs, Thomas, 51.
Grymes family, 288, 432 ; Mamie, Milton,
453 ; P. R.. 462 ; Philip, 79, 84, 125.
Guilford C. H. (battle). 268.
Gunpowder, 160, 161, 103.
Gurley, Davis R., Mary A., 299.
Guy, Eleanor, 503.
Gwatkins, Lucie, 280.
Gwin, John, Sarah, 299.
Gwynn's Island (battle), 181.
Habersham family, 437.
Gaddrell's Point (S. C), 184, 186.
Hairston family, 471, 472; Robert (emi-
grant), 471, 548; Ruth, 548; Samuel,
207, 548.
Hale, Elizabeth, 552.
Halifax Co. (Va.), 81, 99, 128, 149, 205,
279, 324-330, 346, 350, 356, 359-362,
389, 445, 533, 534.
Hall, Edwin G., and family, 479 ; Miss,
553 ; Rev. Mr., 76 ; Richard, and family,
445 ; W. T., 324.
Halleck, General, 509.
Halsey, Cabell, Henry, 277.
Halstead, Miss, 304.
Halsted, Caleb O., Lucy, 417.
Hambrick, Andrew, 532.
Hamilton, Alexander, 445 ; family (emi-
grant), 588, 589 ; Mrs., 582.
Hammond, Eleanor, 27 ; family, 465, 466 ;
William S., 314.
Hampden Sidney Academy, 105, 191, 212,
210, 217, 241, 268, 269 ; College, 116,
216, 217, 227, 243, 250, 251, 263, 267-
209, 327, 355-357, 359, 360, 367, 371,
372, 396, 401, 407, 438, 439, 442, 458,
409, 528, 558, 559, 562, 593, 597, 601,
606 ; Company, 268 ; Lottery, 1 07.
Hanbury- Tracy, A., 7.
Hancock, Amnion, 307 ; family, 554, 555 ;
F. W., 585.
Handy family, 506, 507.
Hanna, Maggie, 351.
Hannah family, 283 ; Mary H., 568.
Hanover Co., 35, 47, 59, 68, 74, 128, 129,
140, 169, 184, 185, 1S8, 189, 244, 269,
270, 273, 278, 284, 321, 339, 380, 381,
454, 501, 502, 534, 561, 593, 599, 604;
C. H, 45, 192 ; Junction (battle), 586.
Hanovertown, 380, 561.
Hansborough, Samuel, 267, 268.
Hardiman, Louisa, 471.
Harding (Hardin), Rev. Dr., 370 ; Bethi-
nia, 455, 471 ; Thomas, 455.
Hardware River, 62, 102, 269.
Hardy, Samuel, 114.
Hare, Hannah H, 263, 597; Mrs., 156;
Sarah E, 263, 597-601; William B.,
121, 154, 156,202, 25S, 260-203, 602;
W. N. C, 263.
" Harewood," 156, 258, 261.
Harget, Thomas, 151.
Harmer, George, 219 ; John, 125, 219.
Harmer's defeat, 100.
Harnisch, Johanna, 544.
Harper, Henry, 112.
Harringtons, 168.
Harris, Arthur, 247 ; Benjamin, 49, 50,
53 ; Henry C.,518 ; Isabella, 23 ; James,
51, 53 ; Jane P., 300 ; John, 117 ; 165 ;
303 ; Levi C, and family, 312, 313 ;
Maria L., 518 ; Margaret E., 303 ; Miss,
300 ; Robert, 47 ; Thomas, 165 ; Wil-
liam, 49 ; (L.),396; Willis, and family,
274.
Harris Creek, 51,158.
Harrison, Ann Cabell, 240. 524, 525 ; 520 ;
Benjamin (emigrant), 238, 432; 238,
594; 238; 238; (signer), 237; (Presi-
dent), 238, 345, 386, 517; 510; 161;
348 ; Carter Henry, 160, 162, 164-166,
INDEX
625
237-239, 476, 583 ; 240, 520-524 ; 454,
522-524 ; family, 523, 524 ; Charles,
439 ; Elizabeth L., 240, 525, 526 ; Han-
nah, 594 ; Gessner, 439 ; Henry, 237 ;
Ida, 535 ; John Jordan, 520 ; Joseph Ca-
bell, 237, 240, 519, 520 ; Louise H., 345 ;
Lucy, 520 ; Ludwell, 34S ; Maria, Mary
H., 520 ; Mary. 594 ; Mary Hopkins, 240,
51(5-519; Matthew B., 345 ; Nathaniel,
476 ; 594 ; Pocahontas, 240, 531 ; Robert
C, 236-240, 515-531 ; 240, 525, 526 ;
520; Sarah, 516; (A.), 525, 528; (R.),
240, 526 ; Susan R., 520 ; Susanna R.,
240, 515 ; Virginia, 240, 526-531 ; Wil-
liam, 322 ; Pres. W. H., 289.
Harrisonburg (Va.), 354.
Hart, Andrew, 324 ; Chenoe, 453 ; Elea-
nor, 484 ; Isabella, 296 ; J. Hawkins,
482 ; Lilian, 552 ; Mary S. E., 478 ;
Nathaniel, 453, 454 ; 502 ; William, 478,
484.
Hartman family. 277.
Hartsook family, 609, 610 ; Daniel G , 272,
440, 609, 610.
Hartwell, Elizabeth, 604 ; (S.), 314.
Harvard University, 327, 404, 405, 415,
419, 421, 425, 436, 489, 542, 543, 590,
592, 602.
Harvey, John, 273.
Harvie, John, 49, 53, 61, 215, 413, 414,
598; 414.
Harwell, Elizabeth S., 314.
Haskins, Creed, 50 ; Edward, 165; family,
371.
Hatcher, Frederick, 165.
Hawes, Catherine, 539.
Hawkes, Rev. Mr., 577.
Hawkins, John, 179, 219 ; Thomas, 111.
Hay, Grace, 300.
Hayes, Mrs. Rutherford B., 510.
Hays, Susan, 553.
Hayward, Mary, 412.
Heath, James E., Maria, 427.
Heffer, David, 148.
Henderson, Bennett, 290 ; Elizabeth, 287,
290 ; 435 ; 582 ; Fanny, 296 ; Frances,
290 ; James (emigrant), 426, 435 ; James,
Peter, 435 ; John, 290; (B.), 517 ; Miss,
557; Pauline R., 435, 436; Richard,
296, 454 ; Samuel, 296 ; Susan, William,
290.
Henderson, McCaul & Co., 91.
Henderson Co. (Ky.), 229, 231, 453, 454,
477-486, 492.
Hendren, John, 317, 388, 396.
Hendrick, Thomas, 554.
Hendricks, James, 179.
Hening family, 451.
Henrico Co., 34-36, 68, 70, 157, 169, 228,
239, 245, 246, 271, 272, 317, 322, 378,
388, 455, 561, 583; Parish, 35, 246, 561.
Henry I., 5 ; VIII., 12, 231 ; Prince of
Wales, 34.
Henry, Alexander Spotswood, and family,
^ 531, 532 ; Elizabeth, 188, 501 ; Elvira,
261, 324-339; James, 250; Jane, 380;
John (emigrant), 189, 294, 324, 325;
John, and family, 342-345 ; Joseph, 589 ;
Lucy, 294, 383 ; Nannie, 468 ; Patrick
(the orator), 72, 82, 83, 93, 97, 104, 106,
118, 161, 181, 185, 189, 202, 234, 241,
270, 294, 305, 324, 325, 330, 340, 342,
346, 369, 380-382, 501, 531 ; (Jr.), 202,
258, 259, 261 ; family, 324-339 ; Tho-
mas S., and family, 343, 345 ; William
Wirt, 96, 242, 325, 343; family, 344,
345.
Henry Co. (Mo.), 374; (Va.), 252, 449,
471.
Herndon, Ann E., 484; Margaret, 483;
Susan M., 528.
Hewitt, John, 289 ; Louisa, 455.
Hiam, Caroline E., 320.
Hieklin, Sarah A., 524.
Hickman, Edwin, 48, 49, 504, 505 ; Rich-
ard, 505.
Higginbotham, Aaron, 80 ; Mrs. Coleman
C., 318, 433 ; family, 317, 318 ; James,
87, 105, 198 ; Jessie, 343 ; Samuel, 150 ;
Thomas, 222.
Higgins, Mr., 604.
Highland Co. (Va.), 314.
Hill, D. H., 393; Elizabeth, 293; 440;
Mary, 207, 208; Miss, 289; Rowland,
26 ; William (emigrant), 208.
Hinds, Thomas, 307, 312.
Hinsdale, Rev. Dr., 595.
Hinton, Sarah, William, 588.
Hite, Sarah, 504.
Hobson, Alice, Henry, 446 ; Nicholas, 179.
Hodnett, John, 38.
Hoge, Moses, 469, 560 ; (Dr.), 316, 572.
Hogg, Peter, 61.
Holcombe and Jones (school), 3S4.
Holladay, Emily, James, 316.
Holland, 271, 272, 350, 383.
Hollywood Cemetery, 333, 569, 572, 586.
Holman, James, 37, 38.
Holmes, John, 216.
Hood, John, 53.
Hooe, Daniel, John, Robert, 458.
Hoofnagle, James H., 606.
Hook, John, 270, 290, 369.
Hooks family. 609.
Hooper, Elizabeth, 21, 23,45 ; George, 18,
20, 21 ; Hugh, 21 ; Joan, 22 ; John, 21 ;
Joseph (emigrant), 21, 34 ; Rachel, 21 ;
20, 21 ; Susannah, 22 ; T. W., 324.
Hooper's Rock, 157.
Hopkins, Anna, 276 ; 545 ; Arthur, 38, 39,
52, 132, 140-142, 352 ; family, 140-142 ;
James, 100, 140; John, 131, 140, 352;
276; Mary, 131, 132, 140, 141; 352;
Samuel, 141, 179, 479.
Horner, Dora, 345.
Horsbrough, Mrs., 435.
Horses, etc., 62, 76, 86, S7, 151, 155, 199,
217, 228.
Horsley, Elizabeth, 75, 174, 282 (see
McCulloch); 173; 176; Fanny, 74;
626
INDEX
Hector, 176 ; Jane, 176, 300 ; John, 62,
75, 175, 176; 173, 244; family, 277-
281; 176; descendants, 301-304; Jo-
seph, 173 ; Judith, 173 ; Martha, 173
Mary Cabell, 61, 72-75 ; her children
172-176 ; her branch, 274-304 ; 173, 275
Nicholas, 173; Robert, 75; 74; 02, 75
149, 173, 175; 173, 276; Roland, 74
Samuel C, 173, 276; family, 277
William, 61, 75, 100, 154, 172, 173, 227
descendants, 274-281; 74; 173, fam-
ily, 274, 275 ; William A., and family,
278, 279.
Horsmanden, Daniel, Mary, Warham
(emigrant), 411.
House, Mary, 564.
Houston, Samuel, 217.
Howard, Allen, 37, 38, 48, 62 ; Ben C,
399 ; Emma L., 330 ; estate, 234 ; fam-
ily, 306, 336 ; John, 61 ; 183 ; (E.), 399 ;
Miss, 566 ; Matthew (emigrant), 336 ;
Mrs., 234.
Howardsville, 40, 234, 606, 610.
Howe, Sir W., 41 (J.
Howell, Martha A., 517; Mary, 370; Mil-
dred, 534.
Howlett, Miss, 380.
Howson, Phoebe, 327.
Hubard family, 368.
Hudson, Charles, 599 ; Miss, 276.
Huggatt, Anthony, 38.
Hughes, Bishop, 497 ; family, 308, 309 ;
James, 132 ; Miss, 54.
Hughes' Island, 243.
Huguenots, 67, 129, 145, 271, 296, 373,
416, 425, 474, 515, 529, 537.
Humes family, 350.
Humphrey, E. P., 233, 497, 501, 511.
Hundley family, 534.
Hunsdon, Lord, 447.
Hunt, A. D., 456, 512 ; family, 527 ; Kate,
512.
Hunter, Amelia, 554 ; family, 436, 437 ;
John, 38, 49, 75, 76, 129; Mrs., 292;
Sarah J., Thomas, Velita E., 538.
Huntley, Earl of, 215.
" Huntley," 213 ; 446.
Hurxthall, Benjamin, 537 ; Fannie, Fer-
dinand, 538.
Hutcheson family, 320.
Hutchins, Thomas, 179.
Hutchinson, Rev. Mr., 316.
Huxter, Joseph F., Sr. and Jr., 315.
Idaho, 386.
Illinois, 125, 393, 440, 467, 499, 513, 522,
530, 531, 541, 582.
Indenture, 56.
Independence, 67, 95, 166, 180, 181.
India (or East India, etc.), 24-27, 34, 435-
437, 516.
Indiana, 277, 457, 524.
Indian Camp Creek, 87.
Indians, 39, 40, 42-44, 53, 66-68, 78, 151,
157, 229, 230, 232, 240, 242, 257, 290,
295, 296, 304, 453, 454, 456, 403, 474,
475, 503, 598, 599.
Indian Wars, 58, 67, 70, 76-78, 81, 98,
100, 135, 136, 144, 151, 182, 235, 237,
244, 295, 349, 366, 367, 380, 381, 387,
413, 454, 488, 503, 549, 575, 581, 588,
589, 590, 594, 599.
Ingles, William, 135.
" Ingleside," 477 ; 558, 559, 562-564, 567,
592.
•' Inglewood," 318, 320, 323.
Ingraham, Isaac, Sarah, 553.
Ingram, Mr., 407.
Innes, Hary, 366, 505 ; Robert (emigrant),
505.
Iowa, 493, 516.
Irby, Mary E, 477.
Ireland, 67, 236, 257, 271, 296, 322, 336,
341, 369, 398, 453, 456, 490, 502, 516,
534, 548, 549, 566, 584, 593, 594, 598,
599.
Iron works, 62, 63, 102-104, 286, 366.
Irvine, Charlotte, 320 ; Christopher, 270 ;
Edward, 453 ; emigrants, 369 ; family,
369-376 ; J. B., 557 ; Mary B., 384 ;
William, 369, 384.
Irving, Charles (emigrant), 91, 96, 193,
533 ; James, 92 ; 533 ; Robert, 91 ;
Washington, 92, 278, 533.
Isham, Catherine, Henry, Mary, 239.
Isle of Wight (E), 69, 592 ; (Va.), 315,
387.
Israel, Mary, 393.
Italy, 540.
Jack, George, 50.
Jackman, Colonel, 298.
Jackson, Dr., 389; Andrew, 275, 306,
307,408, 442, 456,465,588; Claiborne
F., 578, 579 ; Ellen, 456, 513 ; family,
456-458; George M., 456, 457, 513;
James (emigrant), 456 ; 456, 457, 475,
513 ; " Stonewall," 283, 358, 361, 393 ;
William M., 513.
Jacob family, 331.
Jamaica, 213.
James I. of Scotland, 216 ; of England, 16,
33 ; Earl of Angus, 216.
James, Richard. 161, 163. 165.
James City Co. (Va.), 189, 270,306, 541.
James River, 32, 35, 67, 68, etc. ; Bank
money, 89 ; Canal Co., 92 ; Company,
116, 117, 199 ; and Kanawha Canal.
264, 347, 469, 575, 585, 586.
Jamestown, 33, 129, 149, 196, 198, 260.
Jarratt, Devereux, 59.
Jefferson, Ann Scott, 387 ; Eldiidge, 275
Field, 305 ; Miss Howard, 305 ; John
605 ; Mary Field, 388 ; Mary F., 605
Mr. (emigrant), 388 ; Peter, 38, 48, 52
53, 77, 215, 239, 246, 305, 387, 413, 504
Peter Field, 305; Randolph, 387
Sarah, 275 ; Thomas, 3b8 ; 63, 72, 86
93, 95, 97, 109, 114, 123, 143, 145, 148
152, 159, 183, 187, 189, 193, 220, 235
INDEX
627
239, 246, 250, 264-266, 286, 305, 341,
381, 387, 407, 411, 414, 583.
Jefferson City (Mo.), 578, 581 ; County
(Fla.), 258, 575 ; (Ky.), 452, 454, 504 ;
(Miss.), 306; (N. Y.), 353; (W. Va.),
429.
Jefferson College, 500, 528 ; Medical Col-
lege, 311.
Jeffreys, Judge, 169.
Jenings, Edmund (emigrant), Priscilla, 208.
Jenkins, Eustatia, 292 ; Maria, 584.
Jerraan, Dr., 289.
Jerrard, J. Thugar, and family, 28.
Jeter, Mr., 209, 216.
Jett, Mary, 535.
Joanna, Princess, 216.
" Job's Valley," 213.
Johns, Bishop, 559, 561, 585; Hobson,
293.
Johns Hopkins University, 405.
Johnson, Adamantine, and family, 468 ;
Benjamin, 321 ; Anne W. D., 506 ; Chap-
man, 222 ; Christopher, 71 ; Edward, 102,
136 ; Elizabeth, 288 ; G. N., 253 ; James,
179 ; John, 138 ; Leake, and family, 348;
Mr., 93 ; Porter, and family, 348 ; Rich-
ard, 47 ; R. W., 495 ; Sallie F., 495 ; R.
M., 502.
Johnson's Island, 297, 310, 383, 384, 474,
566.
Johnston, Albert Sidney, 493; Christo-
pher, 450 ; Dellie, 552 ; John, 190 ; Jo-
seph E., 456, 473, 494; Mary A., 450 ;
Robert, 87.
Jonas, Archibald, Edward, 483.
Jones, Alexander, 254, 574 ; Allen, 132 ;
Ben, 462; Bartlett, 532; Cabell H.,
532 ; Caroline S., 287 ; Elizabeth, 25 ;
464; (B.), 144; (P.), 481; H. E., and
family, 430 ; Horace W., 428 ; John, 179;
Joseph E., and family, 307-312 ; Judith,
126 ; Lafayette, 481 ; Lucy, 544 ; Mary
B., 481 ; Orlando, 355 ; Peter, 544 ; Pow-
hatan, 608 ; Sarah E., 608 ; Stephen, 513.
Jopling, Thomas, 92, 109, 185.
Jordan, Caroline M., 144, 197, 214 ; family,
322 ; Margaret, 77, 78, 202 ; Mary, 321,
322, 385 ; Matthew, 49, 91, 322, 387,
533; Mildred, 91, 533; Paulina, 144;
Samuel (emigrant), 128, 322 ; 49, 50, 77,
78, 104, 127-129, 130, 142, 144, 214, 252,
259, 322, 387, 533 ; Sarah, 387 ; Wilhel-
mina, 144, 259.
Jortin, Rene% Rev. Dr., 129.
Jourdan, Soloman (emigrant), 129.
Jouett, Captain John, 201.
Jumieges, William de, 5.
Junkin, William F., 297.
Justices, 37, 38, 47-50, 61, 79, 82, etc.
Kansas, 346, 383, 428, 429, 466, 520.
Kay, Rev. William. 205.
Kean. Andrew, 236 ; Caroline, John, 417 ;
John V., R. G. H, 236.
Keim, Rebecca, 541.
Keith, Charles P., 238, 294, 393.
Keller family, 291 ; Mary M., 603.
Kennon, Elizabeth, 73; 604; Mary, 229,
605 ; Richard, 229 ; Robert, 604.
Kentucky, 42-44, 54, 59,67, 136, 141, 144,
199, 228, 229, 231-237, 240, 248, 268,
287-292, 295, 296, 298, 351, 359, 366,
367, 370, 377, 381, 406, 413, 420, 452-
455 ; 459-462, 464-466, 469, 477-498,
500-531, 549, 550-557, 577, 581, 582,
599, 600, 607.
Kenyon CoUege (0.), 404, 529.
Key, Captain, 87.
Key's Church, 62, 178 ; Gap, 193, 365 ;
Ordinary, 61.
Kidder, Richard, Susanna, 231, 432.
Kidson, W. A., 328.
Kikendall, JohnS., 465.
Kinckle, William H, 343, 385, 394.
King, David, and family, 418 ; Joseph and
family, 466, 467; Rufus and family,
402-404 ; Walter, 125, 219.
King and Queen Co., 208, 260, 285, 288,
337, 386, 412, 434, 462, 504.
King George Co., 294.
King William Co., 337, 369, 382, 590 ;
Parish 129.
King's College (E.), 169 ; (N. Y.), 415.
King's Ford, 59 ; Mountain (battle), 188.
Kinkead family, 503, 504.
Kirby, Mary, 541.
Kirk, Henry, 437 ; S. S., 400.
Kirkland, Archibald, Augusta, 306.
Kirkman, Elizabeth, 378 ; James, 513.
Kirkpatrick, J. M., 477.
Knapp, Charles W., Genevieve, 291.
Knowles, Bethaniah, John, 455.
Knox, John, 490.
Krupp, Herr, 26.
Kyle family, 527.
Lackey family, 550.
Lacv family, 374.
Lacfd, William, 68.
Lafayette, Marquis, 112, 153, 193-198, 340,
341, 398.
Lafayette College, 505, 592.
Laidley, Joseph, 322.
Lake, John B., 374.
Lambert family, 528 ; Frances, 423 ;
George, 249.
Lamont, Mr., 138.
Lancaster (Ky.), 550; (Pa.), 182, 349,
598 ; (Va.), 31, 266, 594.
Lancaster family, 562, 564.
Land: entries, etc., 40, 41, 46, 51, 53,
54, 57, 171, etc. ; grants, patents, etc.,
42, 54, 55, 59, 61, 80, 81, 121 ; head-
rights, 57 ; quit-rents, 42, 46, 81 ;
rent, 59.
Landrum, Young, 109, 112, 151.
" Laneville," 263, 604.
Langhorne, Maurice, 165 ; 314 ; 365.
Lanier, Jane B., 475.
Lansdale, Isaac, 526.
628
INDEX
Larkin, Miss, 402.
" La Roehe," Susanna, 271.
Lash, P. H., 472.
Latham, Mary, 432.
Lawson, General, 196 ; Fanny H., G. R.,
29.
Lawton family, 315.
Layne, Annie, 531.
Leach, T. H. C, 358.
Leckie family, 284.
Ledyard family, 422.
Lee, Abraham B., and family, 550 ; Am-
brose, 61 ; Charles, 103, 377 ; Daniel,
318; Elizabeth S., 318; George, and
family, 331 ; George K., 318; John L.,
387 ; Richard H., 161 ; Robert E., 359,
494, 529.
Leech, Houston, 354.
Leftwich, Joel, 469; Mary O., Mildred,
352.
"Le Grand" (Aunt), 209, 212, 227, 559;
Elizabeth A., 537 ; Nash, 209-212 ; Peter,
212.
Lehigh University, 386.
Leigh family, 567 ; Judge, 393.
Leighton family, 516, 517.
Leipsic University, 503, 590.
Le Seur, David, 37.
Le Sueur, Charles H., 481.
Leslie's invasion, 109, 152, 192.
Letcher, Elizabeth, 471 ; Governor of Ken-
tucky, 494 ; Governor of Virginia, 580.
Levy (County), 371.
Lewis, Agatha, 240, 402; 296; Andrew,
296 ; 32, 136, 179-181, 296 ; Ann, 370 ;
387 ; 242 ; Archibald L., 476 ; Benja-
min H., 476; Charles, 136; 370; 515;
148, 149; 49, 239, 387; David, 49;
Elizabeth, 270 ; 140, 141, 240, 241, 469 ;
family, 60 ; 241 ; 370 ; George C, 476 ;
Hawkins, 557 ; Hugh, 270 ; Jane, 372 ;
John {emigrant), 241, 296; 107; 370;
557 ; L. H., 476 ; Mary, 349 ; 370 ; 302 ;
Mildred, 370 ; Meriwether, 370, 372 ;
370 ; Miss, 212 ; Mrs., 176 ; Nannie, 535 ;
Nicholas, 63 ; Robert, 47, 370 ; 370 ;
Sarah, 536 ; Sophronia H., 557 ; Wil-
liam, 114 ; 241, 402 ; 370 ; (J.), 240, 241,
526 ; Zachary R., 302, 349.
Lewisburg (W. Va.), 535.
Lexington (battle), 107, 162 ; (Ky.), 232,
233, 235, 289, 291, 490-497, 500-530,
581; College, 520; (Mo.), 298; (Va.),
291, 292, 298, 349, 350, 354, 356, 364,
375, 593, 600, 606 ; (Law School), 571 ;
Parish, 107, 116, 174, 214, 293, 379, 384,
385.
"Liberty Hall," 63, 145, 147, 156, 227,
257, 260, 267, 268, 272, 546, 602-605.
Liberty Hall Academy (see Washington
Academy), 350.
Licking-Hole Creek, 36, 47, 59, 66, 75, 130,
194.
Lightfoot, Mildred, William, 534.
Lilburne, John, William, 239.
Lillington family, 588.
Lincoln, Abraham, 70, 310, 360, 379, 499,
502.
Linton, Susanna, 452.
Little family, 309.
Littlepage, James, 325.
Little Roanoke River, 205, 207, 209, 558.
Little Rock (Ark.), 441, 536.
Littleton Parish, 272.
Lloyd family, 26, 27.
Lobban, Captain, 395.
Lockhart family, 416, 417.
Loftus, Adam, 599.
Logan, Jane, 513 ; 514 ; Sallie, 541 ; Wil-
liam, 513.
Logwood, Kitty, 352.
Lomax, Judge, 562 ; General, 606 ; Luns-
ford, 53, 79, 84, 125, 200.
London (E), 2, 11, 15, 24, 26, 28, 33, 68,
129, 220, 221, 238, 271, 303, 337, 376,
397, 415, 425, 475, 481, 483, 487, 577 ;
Bishop of, 286.
Londonderry (I.), 257, 490, 516, 599.
Long, Lucy, S. H, 513 ; Samuel S., and
family, 519; William S., and family,
499.
Longdon, John, 47.
Longsdon, Alfred, 26.
Longstreet, General, 275.
Longworth family, 404-406.
Lome, Marquis of, 191.
Lorraine family, 316.
Lotteries, 107, 133, 152, 154.
Lottier, John D., 573.
Loudoun Co., 319, 320, 531.
Loughborough family, 348.
Louis XIV., 271, 373.
Louisa, Princess, 47.
Louisa Co., 37, 47, 48, 59, 60, 69, 81, 93,
169, 189, 269, 270, 290, 301, 321, 370,
412-414, 561, 592 ; C. H, 193.
Louise, Princess, 191.
Louisiana, 298, 313, 331, 337, 465, 479,
496, 523, 524 ; Medical College, 309.
Louisville (Ky.), 43, 233, 240, 289. 298,
332, 420, 423, 478, 481, 482, 492, 493,
511-514, 518, 529, 556, 600 ; Law School,
517, 529 ; Medical College, 308.
Love, Allen, Susan A., 361.
Lovejoy, Mr., 582.
Loving, Emma, 536; John, 111, 112, 197;
(H.), 606 ; Mary E , 606 ; William, 87,
110, 111.
Lovingston, 385, 426, 606.
Lowry, Grant, 552.
Loyal (The) Company, 412.
Ludlow, Cornelius, 510; Gabriel (emi-
grant), 294, 432 ; Sarah, 294.
Ludwell (emigrant), 432 ; Lucy, 432.
Lumpkin, Elizabeth, 504.
Lunenburg Co., 58, 149, 196, 205, 207,
295, 373, 471, 477.
Lurav, 350, 537.
Lyle,"Esther, 300 ; Matthew, 314 ; (School),
"364.
INDEX
629
Lynch, Charles (emigrant), 38, 48, 49, 51,
69, 71, 189, 321; 71, 367; John, 70;
Sarah, 69 ; 71.
Lynch's Creek, 69; Ferry, 69; Law, 71,
367 ; River, 69.
Lynchburg-, 35, 51, 54, 70, 145, 158, 213,
214, 216, 221, 229, 236, 240-246, 25S-
260, 275, 283, 284, 286-288, 303, 307,
314, 316-318, 320, 321, 323, 324, 339,
340, 343, 352, 365, 366, 374, 376, 379,
382,384-386, 388, 393-397, 400, 401,
428, 434, 437, 438, 441, 442, 515, 532, I
535, 540, 541,543, 544,546,548,557, i
565, 602 ; College, 317, 323, 428 ; Fe-
male Seminary, 428.
Lyndsay family, 538.
Lyons family, 344, 345.
McBane, Dan, 87.
McBride, John, 37.
McCaleb, Lucy, W. C, 314 ; 313.
McCarton, Ann, Thomas, 584.
McCaw, Dr., 376.
McClain family, 481, 482.
McClanahan, Agatha, 296 ; Alexander,
148 ; Elijah, 296 ; Elizabeth M., 295.
McClelland, McClellan, etc., 341; Ed-
mond T., vii, 353; family, 339-354;
James Bruce, 342, 351, 426; Mary
Greenway, 144, 346 ; Mrs., 338 ; Thomas
(emigrant), 341 ; Thomas S., 339-342,
354, 360, 396.
Macclesfield, Earl of, 18.
McClung, Mary (emigrant), 599.
McComb, General, 488.
McCorkle family, 292, 297.
McCormack family, 550.
McCoy, Mary, 300.
McCraw, Martha, 448.
McCreery, Margaret, Thomas, 483.
McCulloch, Belinda, 175; Ben, 378;
Champe Carter, and family, 294, 298-
300; [David (emigrant), 175. This
should read, '' son of Rev. Roderick
(said to be son of David) McCulloch,
of Scotland"); 175, 285; Elizabeth,
Frances, 175, 288 ; Isabella, 175, 291,
294 ; Mary, 175, 282 ; Nancy E., 175 ;
292 ; Robert H., 175 ; Roderick, 175 ;
[Rev. Roderick, 175] ; Roderick, 61,
92, 100, 154; family, 174-176 ; descend-
ants, 282-300; Samuel, 378, 456;
William H., 175 ; family, 293-300.
Me Daniel, Mrs. Claire, 4(56.
McDowell, Ephraim (emigrant), 599 ;
James, 292 ; John, 599 ; Magdalen,
598 ; Samuel, 114, 135, 148, 598, 599 ;
General, 509.
McElroy family, 553, 554.
Macfarland, Mr., 253.
McGse, William, 316.
Mc^uire, Hugh, Hunter, Mary, 391.
McKendrick family, 486.
McKensie's School, 427, 428.
McKnight family, 514.
McLennan Co. (Tex.), 299.
Macmurdo, Charles J. (emigrant), James,
Sarah C, 423.
McNair, Alexander, 80.
MeNutt, Alexander, Janetta, Rachel,
292; John, 293.
Macon, Cora Lee, 300 ; Henry, 161, 165 ;
Lucy, 377.
Macrae, Christopher, 168.
McReynolds, Mary, 492.
Machumps (Indian), 68.
Machumps Creek, 68, 69.
Machunk Creek, 68.
Madison, Bishop, 145; James, 117, 214,
264, 409, 420, 487; Miss, 214; 296;
Mrs., 68, 582 ; Thomas, 61.
Madison Co. (Ky.), 288, 289, 295, 556 ;
(Miss.), 506 ; (Va.), 549; (town), 365.
Magruder, General, 315, 586.
Mahone, General, 356.
Maine, 31.
Maltby, Anson, 495.
" Malvern Hill," 378 ; (battle), 315, 580.
Manassas (battle), 283, 297, 309, 351,445,
456, 473.
Manchester, 85, 280, 285.
Manikin Town (see Monacan), 276.
Mansfield, Lawrence, 276.
Manson, Addisonia, Nathaniel, Peter,
368 ; Mattie W., Nathaniel C, 378.
Maps, 169, 170.
"Mark Twain," 352.
Marr, Gideon, 47, 49.
Marriage bond, 131.
Marshall, Claudia, 332 ; family, 565 ;
Humphrey, 518, 524; John, 347, 521 ;
Julia Symes, 515 ; Lewis, 521 ; Lucy
Gray, 344 ; Virginia. 482.
Martin, Azariah, 152 ; Henry, 109 ; John,
and family, 563; Mayo C, 7, 392, 394,
451 ; Miles Macon, and family, 563 ;
Thomas F., 265 ; family, 392-395.
Martyn, Nicholas, 14, 15.
Mary (Queen), 12.
Maryland, 43, 70, 82, 162, 182, 277, 336,
337, 380, 386, 398, 402, 430, 452, 480,
491, 492, 497, 499, 502, 503, 505-507,
509, 515, 516, 524, 537, 545, 584.
Mason, David, 86 ; George, 104 ; John
Thompson, 191 ; Jonathan, Miriam C,
421; Miss, 531.
Masons (Freemasons, Grand Lodge, etc),
152-155, 259, 297, 400, 401, 426, 569,
590.
Massachusetts, 14, 98, 162, 163, 284, 418,
420, 421, 425, 454, 488, 505, 543, 548,
590, 591, 602.
Massie (emigrant), 377; family, 376-379,
427; Captain Thomas, 179, 377; Dr.,
376-378, 395; Major Thomas, 279,
376, 377 ; William, 279.
Matoaka (see Pocahontas), 230.
Matthew, George, 135, 148; James, 111 ;
Mr., 25 ; Sampson, 135 ; Samuel, 148.
Maury, James, 72, 145, 146, 190.
630
INDEX
May family, 259.
Mayo, Abby, 601 ; Anne, 169-171, 601
157, 158, 272; Charles H., 2, 9, 20
Elizabeth, 45; 59; Joseph, 21, 23
23; (emigrant), 21, 34, 45, 157; (H.)
601 ; John, 161, 163, 165, 166, 601
298, 397 ; Julia, 397 ; Mary, 15S ; Miss
23; Philip, 158; William, 23; 259
601 ; (emigrant), 21, 34, 37-41, 45, 52,
157, 158, 168-171. 207, 246, 249, 540,
601.
Mayo's Creek, 170 ; River, 169.
Meade, Andrew (emigrant), 432 ; Anne,
230, 231 ; David, 231, 432 ; Francis Key,
and family, 368, 369 ; P. N , 506 ; R. K.,
and family, 430-433 ; Bishop William,
68, 154, 168, 271, 368, 431, 432, 561.
" Meadow Brook," 543.
" Meadows" (battle), 32, 77, 88.
Mecklenburg (N. C), declaration, 95, 163.
Mecklenburg- Co. (Va.), 205,355-357,375,
535, 544, 546.
Medical College (Bait.), 369 ; (0.), 405,
406.
Meem (Mim), Ben, 4t>.
Megginson, Archibald B., 300, 447, 448,
Elizabeth (Cabell), 227, 240, 446-452 ;
Frances D., 276, 448 ; Jane R., 447, 450,
607 ; Joseph C, and family, 227, 446-
452 ; 397, 447-449 ; Martha, 172, 173,
227 ; William, 227 ; 38, 45, 49, 53, 76,
134, 172, 173.
Meigs, General, 422.
Mercantile Association, 85 ; 88, 205.
Mercer, General, 181.
Meredith, Benjamin C, and family, 455,
459 ; Edward M., 455 ; Elisha, and fam-
ily, 454-462 ; Francis D., and family,
455, 459 ; James, 49 ; Jane Henry,
380 ; John A., 332 ; John T., and fam-
ily, 455, 458, 459 ; Joseph C. , 455, 459 ;
Judge, 393 ; Margaret, 61, 62, 381 ;
Mary A., 455, 460 ; Pocahontas R. B.,
455 ; Ruth, 77, 129 ; Samuel, Sr., 61,
129, 381, 454, 455 ; (Col.), 139, 154,
3S0 ; William J., and family, 455, 461 ;
Wyndham R., 332 ; Virginia, 455, 461.
.Meriwether, Francis, 61, 87, 101 ; Jane,
370; Mary, 236; Mildred, 188, 189,
412; Nicholas (emigrant), 189; 189,
321, 370 ; 189; Thomas, 47 ; William,
189.
Merrett, Mrs., 372.
Merritt, Isabella, W. H. E., 441.
Mexican War, 275, 318, 353, 383, 488,
493, 518, 524, 576.
Mexico, 356, 437, 460, 475, 5S0.
Miami University, 505.
Micheaux (Michaux), Abraham (emi-
grant), 271; Anne, 271, 281; Jacob,
37 ; Jane, 373.
Middlesex Co., 31, 403.
Middleton, Anna, John, 56S.
•'Midway," 80, 147, 170, 202, 227, 228,
250, 252, 253, 258, 585.
Militia of Amherst: officers, etc., 38, 61,
77, 78, 109, 112, 152, 153. See Rifle-
men.
Millender, W. G., 313.
Miller (emigrant), 346 ; Clayton, 553,
554 ; George M. Y., and family, 346,
347 ; Louise, 337 ; Mr., 436 , 609 ; Mar-
garet, 498 ; Samuel S., 498 ; Thomas,
61 ; 165 ; William A., and family, 343 ;
William H., and family, 492.
Mill Springs (battle), 509.
Mills family, 302.
Milton (Albemarle), 221, 364; (N. C),
370-372.
Minge, James (emigrant), 226.
Minnesota, 320, 345, 507.
Minute-men, 99, 147-149, 380.
Minor, Launcelott, Sarah, 292.
Minor's school, 391, 393, 570.
Mississippi, 304-314, 399, 439, 455, 458,
459, 461, 491, 506, 511, 554, 577, 597,
609 ; River, 80, 305, 308, 473, 474, 580.
Missouri, 80, 175, 288-291, 294-299, 352,
353,356, 374,396,399, 400, 445, 460,
462-469, 473, 486, 491, 492, 499, 502,
505, 511, 514-518, 524, 525, 527-531,
552-554, 577-584, 607, 608.
Mitcham family, 284.
Mitchell, Emmett, 555 ; Eunice, 554 ;
Jacob, 372 ; William, 102.
Monacan (Manikin) Indians, 39, 40.
Monanacah (Manikin), 67.
Money, Douglass Walter, and family, 29.
Monmouth (battle), 183, 256.
Monroe (emigrant), 452, 464 ; Andrew,
452, 464 ; George, 325 ; Harriet F., 462,
464 ; James, 250, 264, 452, 464 ; Joseph
Jones, Spence, 464.
Monroe Co., 247, 267, 550, 552, 554.
Monson, Philip S., 47.
Montana, 349, 607.
"Montevideo," 228, 253, 257, 558, 585,
597.
"Montezuma," 213, 216, 339-341, 350-
352, 360, 368, 388, 389, 397.
Montgomerie, Hugh (emigrant), Jean,
303.
Montgomery, Almira, 449 ; Anne, 402 ;
Archibald, 471; Joseph, 449; Mrs.,
248 ; Rev. Mr., 361.
Montgomery" (Ala.), 313, 333, 457, 578.
" Monticello," 340, 343, 504.
Montreal (Can.), 445 ; (Va.), 125, 227.
Moon family, 451, 452.
Mooney, a painter, 151.
Moore, A., and family, 392 ; Bernard, 61 ;
Fanny, 423 ; Harry, 595 ; George,
Henry, 456; James (emigrant), 424, 456,
457; John (emigrant), 423, 456; 423;
Patty, 372 ; Richard Channing, 156,
242, 255, 301, 423, 431 ; Roger, 456 ;
Sarah, 378, 456 ; Thomas, 423.
Moore's Ordinary, 113.
Moorman, Agnes, 270 ; Charles (emi-
grant), 69, 288 ; 71, 270 ; 270, 321 ; Ju-
INDEX
631
dith, 270, 321 ; Lodovick A., and
family, 288 ; Rachel, 352 ; Thomas,
69, 288, 321.
Moorman's River, 51, 53, 69.
Morgan, Dan, 106, 182, 183 ; Edwin L.,
383 ; Haynes, 149 ; John H., 512, 529.
Morris, John W., 314 ; Joshua, 246 ;
Lewis, 417 ; Mary S., Richard, 604 ;
Susanna D., 561 ; William, 604.
Morrison, George, 25 ; 505 ; James, 468 ;
216; Kate, Lilla, Moses, 506; Miss,
553 ; Rachel, 87 ; Sarah J., 468.
Morse, Sallie, 462.
Morson, Arthur (emigrant), 331 ; family,
331, 332.
Morton, Elizabeth, 350; family, 537,
53S ; Joseph, 350 ; William D., 359.
Mosby, Benjamin, 272 ; 433 ; family, 542,
543 ; Littleberry, 161, 164, 165 ; Mar-
tha, 433 ; Theodosia, 272.
Moseley, Arthur, 165 ; John L., and
family, 547 ; Richard, 38.
Moss (emigrant), 5S2 ; family, 581, 582.
Mount Airy (N. C), 374; Athos, 240,
241, 526; Holly (N. J.), 320, 430;
Pleasant, 604.
Mountain Retreat, 278 ; View, 384, 385 ;
287.
Muhlenberg, Peter, 95.
Mulberry Grove, 515 ; HiU, 504 ; 192, 205,
207, 558.
Mull family, 552.
Muncaster, George A., 477.
Mundy, Jesse, Lou, 387.
Munford, George W., 361.
Murkland, W. U., 570.
Murray, Marian, 348.
Myers, Mr., 213.
My rick, Isadora M., 535.
Nansemond Co., 70, 322, 432.
Nantes, Edict of, 271, 425.
Napier, Patrick, 49.
Naret family, 548.
Nash, Abner, 295 ; Adelaide W., 539 ;
Elizabeth McC, 295 ; Frederick, 212 ;
Gabriel P., 295 ; H. A., 539 ; John, 212,
Nashville (Tenn.), 392, 394, 395, 423, 448,
451, 456, 460, 481, 556, 584.
" Nassau," 67, 213.
National University, 400.
Navirans (Indian), 67.
Nedriff, Mary Ann, 26.
Needham. Andrew, Margaret, 17.
Negroes (slaves), 58, 60, 76, 87, 169, 189,
204, 223, 238, 270, 483, 598 ; duty on,
57, 141 ; freedom of, 71, 141, 166, 270,
321, 335, 490; Harry (Col. Cabell's
body servant), 88, 184, 196, 197 ; Isham
Valentine, 184 ; Peter, 598 ; Tumbler,
185, etc.
Negus, Nellie, 28.
Neilson, Jane, William, 446.
Nelson, Ambrose, 216 ; Cleland K., 317 ;
Elizabeth B., 339; Hugh, 339, 411;
Jane B., 411 ; Mary, 431 ; Mary A. E.,
273 ; Philip, 431 ; Robert, and family.
330; Thomas, 115, 339,377; William,
293 ; 250, 273 ; 509.
Nelson Co. (Ky.), 199, 200 ; (Va.), 39, 40,
47, 59-61, 67, 107, 145, 170, 176, 178,
187, 202, 203, 211, 214, 219, 223, 224,
261-266, 274, 279, 281, 301, 302, 304,
305, 314, 318, 320, 323, 340, 341, 346,
349, 354, 364-367, 369, 376-378, 382,
385-397, 401, 407, 425, 431,438,448-
450, 539, 540, 542, 549, 574, 585, 592,
593, 596, 601, 605-607 ; factory, 222 ;
Parish, 426.
Netherland, John, 38, 165 ; Wade, 38, 50.
Nevil, or Neville, family, 387 ; James, 37,
49, 387 ; 56, 61, 100, 101, 106, 107, 125,
150, 190, 387, 598.
New Glasgow, 80, 133, 150, 186, 194, 197,
199, 202, 379, 381, 386 ; Academy, 202.
New Hampshire, 590.
New Jersey, 182, 268, 298, 320, 382, 393,
416-418, 430, 497-499, 558, 584, 590-
592, 594.
New Kent Co., 35, 47, 128, 140, 158, 189,
244, 337, 352, 377, 561 ; C. H., 194.
New London, 112, 196, 197, 295, 367 ;.
Academy, 375.
Newman, John, 112 ; Joseph, 183.
New Market (Norwood), 221, 279, 318 T
543.
New Mexico, 291.
New Orleans, 389, 417, 435,462, 488, 523 r
532, 597 ; (battle), 307, 312.
Newport, Christopher, 67.
Newport (Ky.), 520 ; (R. I.), 417, 418, 420,
422, 542.
Newton family, 287.
New York, 92, 162, 200, 277, 291, 298,
299, 334, 353, 357, 365, 383. 404, 405,
415-419, 421, 423, 433, 436, 437, 474,
476, 482, 487, 489, 495, 498, 500, SOS-
SOS, 531-533, 544, 562, 563, 566, 569,
580, 583, 584, 590-592, 595, 596 ; Her-
ald, 475.
New Zealand, 28.
Niagara Falls, 487, 489.
Nicaragua, 532.
Nicholas, Betsy, 126 ; Governor, 285 ;
John, 49, 53, 78, 96, 128, 148, 180, 190,
215, 413 ; 200 ; 190, 191 ; Lewis, 285 ;
Mrs., 126 ; Robert Carter, 97, 162, 190,
200.
Nichols family, 405.
Nicholson. Mary, Wilton, 379 ; Mr., 462.
Nicketti (Indian), 42-44,54.
Nicks, Henry, 270.
Nicolson family, 283, 284.
Niles, Miss, 375.
Nininger family, 351.
Noble, John W., 517.
Noland family, 319.
Norfolk, Duke of, 336.
Norfolk (E.),2,6, 19,416,561 ; (Va.), 33,
139, 148, 177, 315, 357, 383, 603.
632
INDEX
Norman, Phelps, William, 453.
Normandy, 2-5.
Norreys, Francis Lord, 16.
North, Lord, 25.
Northampton Co., 507.
North Anna River, 192.
North Carolina, 54, 70, 149, 169, 212, 213,
225, 231, 280, 281, 295, 335, 347, 360,
370, 372, 374, 386, 412, 422, 433, 435,
449, 454, 456, 457, 472, 480, 481, 494,
528, 563, 567, 581, 588, 594.
Northern Neck (Va.), 170, 182.
Northumberland Co., 75, 544.
Norton family, 337.
Norvell, William, 260.
Norwood, Rev. Dr., 426.
" Norwood," 379, 390-392, 428, 539 ; High
School (boys), 352, 353, 382, 391, 392,
.396, 428, 429, 544; Institute (girls),
392 ; Island, 39, 243 ; Station (New
Market), 80, 221, 320.
Nottoway Co., 372, 373, 469, 478, 600.
Nova Scotia, 415, 410.
Nowlin, Bryan, Margaret, 342.
Oakland College, 311, 511.
Oakridge, 218, 219, 223, 224, 407, 426, 433,
439, 442.
Ogden, Edith, Robert, 523.
Ogilvey, Gabriel, 2-5, 10, II.
Oglethorpe University, 497.
O'Hara, General, 198.
Ohio, 70-72 , 2<J0, 322, 337, 341, 357, 376,
377, 395,402-406, 413, 417, 423, 446,
486, 505, 515, 517, 520, 529, 530, 604,
605 ; River, 77, 524.
Oh-my-chunk Creek, 68.
Old, John, 63.
Old stone chimney, 54.
Oliver, Alice, 408.
Omohundro, Richard, 608.
O'Neal, Charles, 154, 227 ; Mary M., 455.
O'Neill, Frances J., 383.
Opechancanough, 43.
Orange Co., 81, 326, 337, 445.
Oregon, 436, 437, 544, 591.
Osage chief, 474.
Osaka River (Jap.), 435.
Osborne, Rev. Mr., 210.
Otey family, 352. -—
Onld, Robert, 509.
Overby {emigrant), 371 ; family, 371, 372.
Overwharton Parish, 191.
Owsley, Governor, 518, 556 ; Heaton, and
family, 523 ; John Q., and family, 556.
Oxford '(E.), 13, 15, 16, 421, 505; (O.),
505.
Pacific, route to, 413.
Paddock, Frances, Franklin, 596.
Page, Anne S. B., 338, 339 ; Charles H.,
366 ; George R., and family, 320 ; John,
214, 339; 339, 411; 339; Judith, 339,
411 ; R. C. M., 339, 411 ; Thomas N.,
338, 339.
Painswick, or Panswick, 23, 242.
Painter family, 359, 300.
Palmer family, 542.
Pamplin, James, 148, 149.
Pamunkey River, 35, 561.
Panama Railroad Co., 423.
Pankey, Elizabeth, 572.
Pannill, Elizabeth, Samuel. 438, 439 ; John
K., Thomas, 438 ; Morton, 288.
Paris (France), 116, 347, 376, 419, 421-
424, 436, 437, 475, 506, 566, 585, 590,
596 ; (Ky.), 291, 491, 515.
Parishes (Va.), 48, etc.
Parker family, 436.
Parkhill, Charles, 490.
Parks, Judge, Mattie, 374.
Parliament (E), 10-12, 15, 16, 36, 160.
Parrott, William, 610.
Parson's cause, 145.
Partridge family, 313.
Patrick Co., 449.
Patterson, Dr., 610; John, 51 ; Martha,
311; Parrett, 610; Randolph, ;il7;
Samuel, 300 ; Thomas, 148, 179.
Patteson, Camm, and family, 302, 303 ;
Charles, 143, 148.
Pattison, Mr., 142.
Patton, Colonel, 77, 412; Elizabeth (emi-
grant), 453 ; John R., 363.
Paulding, J. K.. 278.
Paulett (emigrant) , family, 15, 16.
Paxton, Emma, Thomas, 297 ; Joseph,
Mary I., 300.
Payne, Anne, 305 ; 531 ; Daniel, Eliza-
beth, 458 ; Elizabeth D. S., 304 ; George
(emigrant), 37. 38, 317; Henry, 53] ;
John, 68, 317; Josias, 37; Nathaniel
W., 305, 317; Philip, 304, 305, :;J7;
Robert, 39 ; Theodosia, 530, 531 ; Wil-
liam, 458.
Peaks of Otter, 369.
Pearce, Eliza, James, 503, 504. -
Peck, Thomas E , 359.
Pedigrees, 22.
Pedlar River, 53.
Pegram, John, 469.
Pelham, Catherine, Charles, 398.
Pendleton, Catherine, 242, 290 ; Edmund,
95, 161, 275 ; Mary. 496 ; Micajah, and
family, 275, 277.; Philip (emigrant), 242,
296.
Penick family, 554, 555 ; 557.
" Pen (Penn ?) Park," 218, 348, 401, 564.
Penn, Gabriel, 61, 87, 100, 101, 136-138,
148, 178, 235, 295, 296 ; John, 295 ;
Matilda, 295 ; Robert (emigrant ?), 296 ;
Sarah C, 235, 295 ; Sophia, 235 ; Wil-
liam, 296.
Pennsylvania, 63, 67, 182, 277, 292, 300,
311, 312, 320, 335, 339, 341, 349, 350,
354, 386, 392, 393, 468, 481, 490, 503,
505, 510, 528, 566, 593, 594, 596, 598, 599.
Penny, W. C. & J., 7, 9.
Perkins, Anna Maria, 543 ; Eliza, 279 ;
George, 279, 543 ; Jane, 300 ; Nicholas,
INDEX
633
455, 476 ; William O'Neal, and family,
455-457.
Perratt, Ann Mayo, 169-171, 601 ; family,
170.
Perrott, Nannie A., 606.
Perry, Commodore, 277, 349 ; Mary, 401.
Peter, Elizabeth, 435 ; John, Susannah,
William, 11-13.
Peterborough, Earl of, 33, 34.
Petersburg, 170, 192, 198, 225, 226, 259,
302, 310, 335, 345, 347, 356, 435, 438,
441, 544, 586.
Pettus, Elizabeth, John, Thomas (emi-
grant), 140, 141.
Peyton, Elizabeth, Robert (emigrant), 561 ;
Wythe M., 471.
Peytonsburg, 197.
Phelps, Thomas, 51.
Phi Beta Kappa Society, 192, 212, 228,
234, 505.
Philadelphia, 70, 160, 161, 182, 192, 244,
257, 291, 311, 320, 321, 332, 342, 344,
349, 383, 385, 389, 392, 401, 402, 423,
430, 456, 497, 500, 532, 537, 541, 562,
566, 592, 593; Medical College, 363,
376, 434, 475, 572, 596.
Phillips, Carrie, 551 ; Charles E., and
family, 538, 539 ; Dabney, 284 ; Gen-
eral, 113, 192 ; John, 92 ; Lucy F., 284 ;
Mary, 541 ; Richard, 173 ; William H.,
457.
Phinney, Alice, Theodore, 542.
Pickens, General, 589.
Pickett's Division, 356, 384, 405, 565,
586.
Piedmont (Va.), 67, 70; Institute, 425,
431, 433.
Pierce, Mary L., 563 ; President, 536.
Pike, John C, 202, 324.
Pillow, General, 493.
Pinchbeck, Elizabeth, 581.
Pincknev, C. C, 347.
Piper, Alfred Towry, 28.
Pittsylvania Co.. 99, 135, 149, 197, 328,
346, 347, 362, 371, 449, 469-472, 531,
546, 564, 568, 585.
Plantations, farms, etc. (see Land, Prices,
Taxes, Tobacco), 59-62, 66, 67, 76, 7S,
80, 81, 87, 102, 108, 124-127, etc.
Pleasants. Dora, 280; James, 161, 164-
166, 239 ; 280, 322 ; John, 239, 322 ;
Joseph, 322 ; Thomas, 68, 322.
Plumer, William S., 592.
" Pocahontas " (Matoaka), 230.
Poindexter, Fanny P., 281 ; John, 47.
" Point of Fork " (Columbia), 41, 48, 67,
68, 192-194.
Point Pleasant (battle), 136, 296,413,549,
599.
Polk, George W., and family, 457 ; James
K., 408 ; Leonidas, Rufus, 513.
Pollard. E. A., 276, 434, 438 ; family, 433-
438 ; William, 150, 180.
Pollitt (see Paulett) family, 480, 481.
Pollock, Rev. Mr., 572.
Poore, Thomas, 555.
Pope, Annie, 354 ; Katharine, Nathaniel,
336.
Poplar Forest, 246 ; Hill, 271, 272, 281.
Porter, Peter B., and family, 487-489;
John (emigrant), 488 ; Peter A., 488,
489, 498.
Portsmouth, 192, 277, 476.
Posey, John, Martha, Thomas, 479.
Potomac River, 334, 473.
Powell, Anne, 387 ; Cuthbert, Elizabeth,
Llewellyn, 482 ; James, Jane, 533 ;
Lucas (emigrant?), 100, 177, 178,187,
216, 607 ; Nathaniel, and family, 450,
607, 608 ; Susan B., 482 ; Wyatt,
387
Powells River, 413; Valley, 412.
Power, Louise Agnes, 425.
Power of attorney, 40, 41.
Powhatan (King), 230, 463; (Indians),
42, 157, 230; Co. (Va.), 36, 50, 171, 249,
451 ; seat, 157, 398.
Poythress, Elizabeth, Peter, 601.
Prentis, Joseph, 250.
Presbytery of Hanover, 96, 593.
Preston, Ann, 454 ; 501 ; Elizabeth P.,
454; family, 235, 399, 454; Francis,
501, 502; Henrietta, 493; John (emi-
grant), 235, 454 ; Josephine, 493 ; Leti-
tia, 235 ; Margaret, 508 ; Sarah, 545,
Sophonisba G., 454, 521 ; Susanna, 502 ;
William, 367 ; 453, 454 ; 501 ; William
R., and family, 399, 400.
Prestwood, George, 14 ; Maria, 14, 18.
Prevost family, 512.
Price, Elizabeth, 561 ; family, 538 ; Nancy,
Samuel, 521; Sarah B., 515; Sterling,
298, 473, 580.
Prices of sundries, 60, 80, 83, 84, 88, 90-
92, 133, 143, 144, 147, 150, 160, 177-
181.
Prince Anne Co., 177; Edward Co., 94,
107, 113, 163, 192, 196, 197, 212, 268,
269, 271, 280, 281, 314, 327, 354, 355,
357-364, 371-374, 396, 467, 545, 571,
593, 595, 602 ; George Co., 225 ; Wil-
liam Co., 442, 458, 486, 571.
Princeton (battle), 182,256; College, 268,
326, 337, 382, 489-491, 497-500, 502,
503, 505, 512, 513, 558, 560, 592-595;
Theological Seminary, 497, 498, 503,
505, 592-594.
Prosser, Thomas, 37, 46, 186.
Pulaski Co., 359.
Purdie, Mr., 164.
Purnell, Mary, 373.
Pusey, Dr., 329.
Putney, Ellis, 109.
Putney Grammar School (E.), 337.
Quaker. See Society of Friends.
Quarles family, 2S5 ; General, 334.
Quarrier family, 547, 548.
Quigg, Ann, 320.
Quirauck Mountains, 67.
634
INDEX
Radford, Mary, 399 ; Winston, 375.
Ragland, Ann, 370.
Railey, John, 239.
Raine, George, 38.
Raleigh, Walter, 344.
Raleigh Tavern, 85, 93-95.
Ramsdell, Homer, 436.
Ramsey, John, 143.
Randolph, 70, 399 ; Anne, 239, 605 ;
Benjamin H., 320; Beverley, 120, 164,
165 ; Dorothea, 239, 583 ; Edmund, 117,
118, 143; Elizabeth, 239; Frances B.,
266 ; Hardin, 551 ; Isham, 38, 238, 239,
388 ; Jane, 228, 230 ; 239, 387 ; Judith,
245 ; 246 ; John, 205, 225 ; 188, 225,
230, 266, 346, 535, 537, 559; Lulie,
551 ; Mary, 239, 387 ; 446 ; 605 ; Peter,
49, 83, 4i3 ; Peyton, 84, 93. 125, 160,
205; Richard, 37, 230, 446; '230; 545;
239, 605; Susanna, 237-239, 583;
Thomas, 240 ; 135 ; 37, 38, 169, 245 ;
William (emigrant), 239, 240 ; 432 ; 38,
169, 361 ; 38, 49, 325.
Randolph-Macon College, 381.
Ranson family, 429.
Rapidan, 326.
Rapid Ann River, 193.
Rawdon, Lord, 416.
Rawlings, W. M., 553.
Read, Clement, 47, 49, 205, 207, 208, 211,
562; (C), 570; Edmund, 209, 211,
212; Isaac, 62, 212, 562; Lucie, 530;
Margaret, 205, 211, 281; Mary (Hill),
208; Nannie C, 570; Paulina (Cabell),
209-212, 217, 227, 252; Sarah, 570;
Thomas, 192, 211, 558; William P.,
Willien P., 533; William W., 562;
family, 563, 564.
Records, county, etc., 37, 47, 48, 50, 60,
61, 142, 208.
Recruiting, etc. (in Revolution), 102,
106, 108-111, 113, 115, 137, 138, 147-
153, 162, 164, 177-179, 192-198.
Rector family, 474.
Redd family, 471.
Redford (Radford), John, 35.
Red Gables, 549 ; Hill, 342-344 ; lands,
439-441; Oak, 228, 230; Plains, 471;
River (Ky.), 290; Sulphur Springs,
267, 427.
Reeve family, 482, 483.
Reid, Agnes Ann, 593 ; Alexander, 61,
87, 100, 111 ; Andrew (emigrant), 598 ;
599 ; 514, 593, 598 ; Esther, 514 ; John,
49,01,130, 132; 384,388; (emigrant),
598 ; Samuel McD., and familv, 597-
601 ; Sarah, 514, 593, 598 ; Thomas
(emigrant), 598 ; William S., 316, 317,
323, 350, 376, 379, 384, 390, 399, 469,
558, 597.
Reilhe, Marguerite de, 80.
" Repton," 228, 231, 232, 253, 454, 462,
469, 477-480.
" Retirement," 209, 210, 217, 559, 562, 567.
Revolution, relative to; soldiers in, etc.,
71, 79, 89, 92-115, 123, 126, 134-139,
142-144, 146-153, 159-167, 172-174,
176-184, 188, 192-198, 205, 206, 211,
212, 219, 224, 227, 228, 234, 241, 256,
259, 260, 268, 269, 275-279, 282, 292,
295, 304, 306, 334, 336, 346, 349, 352,
354, 365, 366, 373, 377, 380, 381, 383,
386, 387, 393, 399, 400, 402, 406, 416,
430-432, 458, 465, 467, 479, 481, 487,
502, 503, 510, 512, 515, 546, 549, 557,
561, 562, 581, 582, 584, 588, 589, 599.
Reynell, George, 15.
Reynolds, Bessie, 544.
Reynolds Academy, 575.
Rhinelander family, 421, 422.
Rhode Island, 417, 542.
Rice, David, 96, 519; James H., 519;
Mary, 380 ; Sophia, 519.
Rich, Archibald, 53.
Richards, Catherine, Elizabeth, 505.
Richardson, Eliza, 543 ; Eva, 551 ; Robert,
234, 516, 518 ; Samuel Q., and family,
515-519.
Richman, Henri, 405.
Richmond (Ky.), 288, 290; (Va.). 33, 35,
38, 41, 52, 85, 89, 98, 101, 108, 109,
113, 117, 119, 145, 170, 171, 185, 192,
194, 202, 215, 219, 221, 222, 229, 250,
253-257, 259, 261, 262, 264, 277, 278,
283, 285 ; 296, 298, 302-304, 308, 309,
315,316, 322-325,327-333,336, 338, 339,
344, 345, 347, 348, 351, 352, 356, 360,
362, 365, 373, 376, 384, 388, 393, 397,
398, 423, 426, 427, 431, 432, 434, 437,
438, 440, 441, 443, 470, 473, 507, 534,
541, 542, 559, 560, 562, 565-575, 578,
580, 585-591, 006, 607, 609 ; Medical
College, 276, 316, 327, 382, 398, 566.
Richmond Co., 354.
Richmond family, 518.
Ridgeley, Nicholas, Rebecca, 503.
Riely family, 567.
Riflemen (expert), 99, 100, 103, 106, 177,
182, 183.
Riggs, Junius M., 313.
Rind's Virginia Gazette, 82.
Ringgold, Ann, 430.
Ritchie, Albert, 574.
Rittenhouse family, 350.
Rivanna River, 39, 41, 59, 68, 69, 74, 193,
194, 504. -
RiveVs (emigrant), 225; Alexander, and
family, 226, 253, 406, 442-446 ; Eliza-
beth, 226 ; Francis E., 225 ; George,
and family, 226, 227, 439-441 ; George
L., vii, 417, 418; Henry, 226, 439;
James B., 226, 439 ; Landon C., and
family, 218, 226, 241, 401-406, 439;
Lucy Shands, 225, 226 ; Lucy S., and
family, 226, 366, 425-433 ; Margaret J.,
218, 226, 366, 406,407; Mary, 225 ; Paul-
ina C, and familv, 226, 433-438;
Robert, 121, 154, 213, 216-226, 227,
263. 364, 426, 431 ; descendants, 401-
44(5 ; Robert, and family, 226 ; 438, 439 ;
INDEX
635
William, 225, 226, William C, and
family, 95, 122, 218, 222, 223, 226, 398,
407-425, 443.
Rives' Church, 223.
Roan, John, 246.
Roane, Spencer, 200.
" Roanoke," 535, 537, 559.
Roanoke city, 301, 433, 449, 532 ; County,
403 ; Island (hattle), 356, 441 ; Naviga-
tion Co., 43'J ; River, 558.
Robards, George, Nancy, 406 ; Mrs., 306,
465.
Roberts, Elizabeth H, 300, 448 ; James,
185 ; John, and family, 300, 448 ; Rev.
Dr., 595.
Robertson, Captain, 524 ; John, 229 ;
Thomas B., 462.
Robinson, Beverley, 416 ; John, 207, 208 ;
(emigrant), 541 ; 53, S3, 133 ; Leigh,
332 ; Mary, 555 ; W. Russell, and fam-
ily, 541, 542.
Roche, John A., 507.
Rochette, Susanna, 271.
Rockbridge Co., 145, 292, 297, 300, 329,
348, 340, 382, 385, 593, 594, 598.
Rockenback family, 283, 284.
Rockfish Gap, 66, 67, 148, 174 ; River,
39, 40, 60, 79, 207.
Rockingham Co., 257, 354.
Rodes, Charles, 61 ; R. E., 313 ; Sidney
F., 608.
Rodney, J. W., 460.
Rogers, Ann, 504 ; Charles E., 298 ; Jane,
238 ; Jason, 493 ; John, 504 ; Maria P.,
493 ; Mary B., 504; Robert, 47 ; Wil-
liam B., 420.
Rolfe, Jane, John (emigrant), Thomas,
230.
Rose, Alexander, 177, 178, 181 ; Anne,
215 ; Caroline, 197, 214 ; Charles, 61,
96, 101. 148, 387; Gustavus A., 259;
Henry, 61, 62; (J.), 386; Hugh, 215;
215 ; 61, 92, 96, 100, 104, 111, 137, 139,
144, 148, 154, 180, 186, 193, 194, 196,
197, 202, 214, 215 ; John, 61, 96, 100,
134, 148, 177, 178, 377, 598 ; Judith S.,
213-216 ; Nannie E., 386, 387 ; Patrick,
96, 128, 197; Robert (emigrant), 48,
51-53, 75, 145, 173-175, 215, 325, 387,
412 ; 179, 212.
" Rose Hall," 213.
" Rosenvik," 391, 396.
Rosewell, or Roswell, Henry, 14, 23.
Ross family, 601 ; David, 117 ; L. S., 299.
Rosser family, 376.
Roulett, Mary, 372.
Rout family, 490.
Row, Abbie, 376.
Rowe family, 551.
Roy, Hannah, John, 402 ; Maria, 337.
Royall, Mary, 583 ; Miss, 276.
Rucker, Ambrose, 61, 100, 138 ; Anthony,
111; Ben, 61, 100.
Rucker's Run, 62, 219.
Ruffin, Anne, John, 601 ; Thomas, 179.
Rundell (Randall ?), Mr., 22.
Russell, Caroline E., 520 ; Elizabeth, 541 ;
William, 520 ; 521 ; 541 ; (H.), 525.
Russell Co^ (Ky.), 521 ; (Va.), 521.
Russia, 496.
Rust family, 536, 537 ; George, 57, 536,
Rutherfoord family, 335 ; E., 491 ; John,
251.
Sabot Hill. 332, 333, 335.
Saint Aldhelm, 7 ; Anne Parish, 48, 59,
60, 76, 173, 215, 286 ; 215 ; Asaph, Bish-
op of, 165; George Parish, 496 ; Igna-
tius College, 523 ; James Parish, 35,
48, 246; (Northam), 48, 140; (South-
am), 48, 246, 561 ; John's Church, 215,
256, 257, 426 ; Leger family, 411, 412 ;
Louis, 289-291, 297-299, 312, 334, 353,
356, 376, 445, 446, 460, 462, 467, 491,
49S, 505, 514, 516, 517, 527-530, 577-
581,583,584; (University), 297; Nicho-
las Chapel, 6-9, 20 ; Patrick Parish,
269; Paul's Church, 254, 332, 569,
574 ; 299 ; Paul's Parish, 129, 140, 189,
270, 381, 455, 534 ; Peter's Parish, 244,
377, 561 ; Philips, Barbadoes, 157, 168,
^ 170.
Sale, John, 150, 151.
Salisbury, Earl of, 242.
Salt, 97, 101, 245.
Salter, Anne, Nicholas, 247.
Samoa, 458.
Sanders (Saunders), General, 313.
Sandidge, Nathaniel, 284.
Sands, Richardson, 422.
Sandy Creek voyage, 594.
Sangster, Maude, 27.
Sappington, George W., 577.
Saratoga (battle) and prisoners, 106, 182,
^ 183, 188, 219, 422.
Satterwhite family, 492, 493.
Saunders (Sanders), Eliza, James, Nan-
nie, 437 ; John H., 160, 161, 165, 561;
Judith, 548; Lela, 314; Mr., 253;
Picton, 280.
Saurin family, 271.
Savage, Elizabeth, W. H., 26 ; John, 62 ;
550.
Sawyer, Lemuel, 386.
Scales family, 462.
Sehofield, General, 509.
Scotch Irish, 341, 369, 446 ; Falls, 246.
Scotland, Scotch descent, etc., 67, 91, 92,
121, 128, 175, 189, 190, 215, 216, 222,
236, 257, 278, 283, 292-294, 296, 300,
303, 324-326, 331, 346, 347, 350, 416,
423, 425-427, 435, 442, 452, 464, 529,
533, 548, 564, 572, 582, 589, 591.
Scott, Archibald (emigrant), 350; Anna,
291 ; Charles, 144, 162. 164 ; Daniel, 239 ;
Edward, 37, 38, 49 ; Eliza G., 441, 442 ;
Elizabeth R., 546 ; Emma, 536 ; family,
145 ; James (emigrant), 442 ; Jennie,
355 ; John A., and family. 350, 351,
362 ; John, 442 ; 47, 63 ; Joseph, 41 ;
636
INDEX
Judith, 144, 214, 259 ; 173 ; Louisa Q.,
334 ; Louise R., 508 ; Miss, 173 ; Mary,
412; Mary, Matthew, 510; Nannie,
468 ; Robert E., 442 ; (W.), 508 ; Sam-
uel, 49; Seymour, 165; Thomas, 175;
430 ; Walter, 175 ; Winfield, 298, 398,
493, 570, 579.
Scottsville, 49, 193, 276.
Scruggs, B. E., 323.
Scull, fc usan, 383.
Scutt, Martha, Thomas, 25.
Seal, John R., 357.
Seamon family, 445.
Searle, Caroline, Francis, 488.
Sears (emigrant), 421 ; family, 419-421.
Seaton (Seton), George, 61.
Seddoii (emigrant) , 334 ; family, 333-335 ;
Elvira C, 396 ; James A., 332-335, 390 ;
John, 396 ; Thomas A., 396.
Sehon, Lee, 481.
Selden, Miles. 561.
Seminole Indian War, 488, 575.
Seton (Seaton), Alexander, George, Mar-
garet, 215.
Settlements, pertaining to : emigrants,
land entries, grants, etc., 32-72, etc.
Settlers, nationality of, etc., 38, 57, 67,
68.
Shackelford family, 288-292.
Shadden, W. B., 519.
Shands (emigrant), 226; Lucy, Priscilla,
William, 225, 220.
Shanks family, 375, 376 ; David, 293, 297,
375.
Sharp (Granville ?), 160 ; Miss, 551.
Shawnee Indians, 5!)8.
Shaw-Stewart family, 435.
Shelby, Alfred, 501 ; Evan, 43, 296; Isaac,
Virginia, 501.
Shelton, Clough, 149 ; John M., 281 ;
Joseph, 47 ; 281 ; Rose E., 281.
Shenandoah Co.. 95 ; River, 257.
Shepard, Elihn II., 353.
Shepherd. Annie, Christopher, 380 ; David,
100, 125, 219; John B., and family,
517, 518.
Shepherson, John G., 376.
Sheppard, C, 27 ; F. A., and family, 27.
Sheridan, General, 390.
Sheriffs, 35-39, 49, 53, 76, etc.
Sherman, General, 405, 423.
Shields, A. W., 328; George H., and
family, 517 ; Judith S. C, 145 ; Mr.,
145.
Shipman, William J., 323.
Shockoe Creek, 572; Hill, 119; (ceme-
tery), 255, 500, 566 ; warehouse, 89.
Shores, Thomas, 354.
Short Creek Meeting (O.), 70.
Shovel, Cloudesley, 33, 129.
Shrewsbury family, 548.
Sigourney (emigrant), 425 ; family, 424,
425.
Simcoe, Colonel, 109, 193.
Simpson family, 552, 553.
Sims, Priscilla, 206, 363 ; 327.
Sinclair, Annie, 348.
"Sion Hill," 130, 133, 140, 234.
Sioussat, Nannine, 605.
Skelton, James, 38.
Skinker family, 445, 446.
Skinner family, 422.
Skipwith, Henry, 164, 165; Lelia, 266;
Peyton, 266; Sarah, William, 604.
Slaughter. Philip, 242, 432.
Slawson, Kate L., 334.
Sloane family, 531.
Smallwood, Eleanor, William, 452.
Smihs, Samuel, 129, 271.
Smith, Ambrose J., 47 ; Anne, 272 ; 376 ;
5(i9 ; Bowker, 545 ; Elizabeth, 59 ; 403 ;
502 ; Evelyn R., 418 ; family, 288 ; F.
G., 320 ; Francis, 453 ; 502 ; George W.,
251 ; Guy, 56, 546 ; Jane, 546 ; John.
59, 454; 402 ; 453 ; 209 ; Joseph, 504 ;
Judith, 584 ; Kirby, 580 ; Lucy, 59 ;
Marion, 569; Mary, 489, 490; 402;
Obadiah, 59; 478; O. C, and family,
472 ; Peartree, 59 ; Re Lewis, 430 ;
Reuben (emigrant), 584 ; Robert (emi-
. grant), 490 ; 403 ; 165 ; 376 ; Samuel S.,
490, 512; Sarah, 447; Sophia, 555;
Susan, 478 ; Susanna, 501 ; Thomas,
247, 412; (B.), 144; Walker B., 418;
William, 301; 59, 165; (H.), 418;
(Patterson), 569; (Peartree), 454;
(Preston), 453.
Smythe, Thomas, 247, 412.
Smythe Co., 359, 547.
Snoddy, Ann, Robert, 557.
Snooks. Matthew, 178, 179.
Soane, Henry, Judith, 388.
Society of Friends (Quakers), 42, 43, 68-
72, 239, 209, 270, 288, 321, 322, 432, 516.
Soldiers. 106, etc. See Wars.
Soldier's Joy, 176, 185-188, 278, 317, 542 ;
Rest, 326.
Somerset (E.), 2, 5, 6, 11, 12, 14, 16-18,
20, 29, 57, 402.
Somerville family, 368.
South, Cora, 482.
Southall, Dr., 259 ; James, 102 ; Maria W.,
383 ; Stephen, 383 ; Turner, 128.
Southampton, Earl of, 457.
South Anna River, 35 ; branch of James.
67.
South Carolina, 70, 108, 109, 139, 152, 183,
184, 186, 192, 213, 250, 252, 256, 297,
310, 329, 347, 353, 358, 383, 395, 417,
418, 421, 424, 437, 457, 586, 588, 589.
South River Meeting, 69, 71, 72, 321.
Southwest Mountains, 39, 69, 72, 189, 194.
Southern University, 460.
Southgate, W., 202.
Southwalk Parish, 238.
Spain, 222, 419, 566.
Spears, James, 58.
Speed, James, 70.
Spencer, Alice, 456 ; Anne, 301 ; James
G., and family, 311 ; Sally, 450 ; Sarah,
INDEX
637
466 ; Samuel, 53 ; William, 456 ; 134,
149.
Spencer's Ordinary, 196.
Spiller, Jane, William, 569.
Spotswood, Alexander (emigrant), 215,
305, 325, 326, 546; Dorothea, 325;
Anne, John, Mary, 546.
Spottsylvania Co., 189,326, 402,496, 510;
C. H. (battle), 318. 358, 586.
Springfield, 192, 373, 374._
Sprowl, Oliver, Paulina, 556.
Sprye, R. S. M., 12.
Spurlock, Drury, 325 ; Neal & Co., 394.
Stafford Co., 191, 271, 287, 331, 333, 334,
396.
Stagg family, 551 ; Mary S., 304.
Stamp Act, 82-S5.
Stanhope, Mary, 341.
Stanley, Hannah, Thomas [emigrant), 487.
Stanton (Staunton), Benjamin, 355 ; Edwin
M., 70.
Staples, Joseph, 2?4 ; Thomas A., 285.
Starke, Fanny, 176 ; John, 47.
Starkey, Mary, 541.
Staunton (Stanton), Robert, 46, 114, 115,
195, 234-236, 256, 281, 339, 350, 357,
380, 439, 535.
"Staunton Hill," 335, 338 ; River, 58, 70,
205, 346, 567.
Stearns, Marcus, Margaret, 523.
Steele family, 508, 500 ; J. A., 495.
Stephen (King), 2.
Stephenson family, 392 ; Maggie, 467.
Steptoe, Frances C, 545 ; James, 365.
Sterritt family, 548.
Steuben, Baron, 194.
Stevens, Ebenezer, M. L., 422 ; General,
^ 196.
Stewart, Archibald, Margaret, 435.
Stirling, Lord, 183, 334.
Stith, William, 245, 246, 545.
Stokes family, 552 ; and Rives, 440, 441.
Stone, Emma, 608.
Stoner, Daniel, 37, 38, 169 ; Peter, 165.
Stony Point (Albemarle), 69; (battle), 256,
479.
Storer, Bellamy, 405.
Stovall, George, 61 ; Ruth, 471, 548.
Stovall's ferry, 113.
Strachey, William, 67, 6S.
Strange, Anna, Gideon, 608.
Stretch family, 583, 584.
" Struman," 243, 244. 539.
Stuart, Archibald, 200, 339 ; Andrew, John,
Lewis, 536 ; Mary (Queen), 589.
Stubblefield, Frances, George, 326.
Styles, Mr., 21.
Suffolk (E.), 5S8; (Va.), 197,322.
Sugar-Loaf Meeting, 69, 322.
Sugar-making, 52.
Summers., Simon, 179.
Surry (E), 26; (Va.), 225, 238, 315, 594,
604.
Surveyors, 36, 37, 39, 49, 50, 53, 76, 77,
79, 81, 87, 105, 169-171, etc.
Surveys, 41, 51, 53, 54, 57, etc.
Sussex (E.), 27, 299 ; (Va.), 220, 225, 226.
Suter, R. Lee, 482.
button family, 303.
Swan, Gustavus, Sarab, 417.
Swan Creek, 47, 62, 130, 147.
iSwedenborg, Emanuel, 602.
Sweet Springs, 186, 209, 241, 269, 402,
593.
Swiss, Switzerland, 354, 355.
Syme, John (emiyrant), 188, 325 ; 184,
185, 188, 189; "185, 187; Sally, 184,
185, 188, 190.
Tabb, Mary, 601.
Ta.v, James, 97.
Talbot, John, 143, 144.
Taliaferro, Benjamin, 148, 177, 178, 181 ;
Charles, 61 ; Elizabeth, 288 ; Mary,
275 ; Philip, 288 ; Zacharias, 61, 100,
178, 598.
Talley family, 400.
Tandy family, 527, 528 ; William, 504.
Taney, Chief justice, 339.
Tankerly, Sarah M., 585.
Tarleton, Judith, Stephen, 583.
Tarleton's Raid, 114, 193, 196, 197, 201,
414.
" Tarover," 329, 330.
Tarr family, 346.
Taxes, 42, 46, 70, 82, 110-112, 201.
Taylor, Adele, 489 ; Alexander F., 343 ;
Alice, 242 ; Ann, 454 ; 44(5 ; Bayard,
521 ; JBenjamin; 530 ; Edmund, 242 ;
Edwaro7"^OT; '"'George, 18!) ; 540 ;
Henry B., 304 ; James (emigrant), 242,
296 ; 582 ; John, 242 ; 145 ; 530 ; Kate,
555; Livingston G., 484; Mary, 571;
296 ; 484 ; 530 ; Matthew, Mercy, 430 ;
Nona, 554 ; Robert, 343 ; Thomas, 446.
TenEyck, Mr., 495.
Tenison, A. M., Marion R., 394.
Tennessee, 42, 314, 350, 375, 392, 394,
395, 447, 448, 451, 456, 457, 459, 4(51,
474, 4S1, 496, 514, 556, 570, 584, 609 ;
River, 414.
Terrell, Micajah, 71, 321 ; Sarah, 71.
Terry, James, 50 ; General, 509 ; Nancy,
William, 545.
Tevis, Lloyd, Louise, 495.
Texan War of Independence, 434.
Texas, 294-300, 347, 351, 353,371, 374,
378, 394,395, 397,441, 449, 457-4(52,
4(57, 474-476, 479, 519, 526, 530, 537,
551, 553, 610.
Thames (battle), 515.
" The Bird," 370 ; Brooke, 228 ; " Crab
Orchard," 478 ; Forks, 456; Glebe, 232,
234, 236, 452, 486, 489; 80, 386;
Grove, 9 ; Old Mansion, 526 ; Point of
Honor, 241 ; Retreat, 228-230 ; Seven
Islands, 127, 533.
Thom, Elizabeth, John, 601.
Thomas, Anna, 336 ; C. L., 305 ; Corne-
lius, 61, 80, 96, 150, 174, 598; General,
638
INDEX
509; Job, 51, 158; L. B., Philip (emi-
grant), Samuel, Sarah, 516.
Thompson, , 465 ; Bartlett, 165 ;
Eliza J. T., 406 ; Elizabeth S. ( 607 ;
Ida May, 308 ; James, 102, 136 ; John,
John B., John H., 406 ; John R., 424 ;
John H., and family, 547 ; Joseph, 38,
48, 40 ; Lenora V., 525 ; Lucas P.,
535, 607 ; Marie T., 406 ; Margaret A.,
535 ; Morton, 607 ; Waddy, 270.
Thornton family, 282-285; Elizabeth,
414; John, 51.
Three Ridge Mountains, 325.
Three Springs, 378.
Thruston, Frances, 368.
Thurlow, Roth C, 509.
Tidewater Virginia, 39, 40, 48, 66, 325.
Tiernan, Dr., Elizabeth, 145.
Tilden, President, 361, 382, 474.
Tildsley, John, 47.
Tillotson Parish, 59, 301.
Tilly, Elizabeth, 367.
Tilton, Eleanor F., 505.
Timberlake, Elizabeth, 320.
Tithables, 37, 38, 48-50, 72.
Tobacco, 37, 58, 62, 85, 89, 133, 143, 146,
220, 221 ; Row Mountains, 81.
Todd, John, 296 ; Lucy, 337 ; Mrs., 85 ;
Richard, 505 ; Thomas, 505 ; William,
516.
Tombleson, John, and family, 29.
Tompkins, Christopher, 512, 525 ; Sarah
A., 512 ; Theodosia, 525.
Toombs, Mr., 579.
Towles, Anna Maria, 401-403 ; Elizabeth
L., 560 ; Oliver, 179, 240, 241, 402 ; 402,
560; Thomas, 240.
Town at the Falls, 38 ; of Warwick, 38.
Tradition, 33, 43, 53.
Trails (Indian). 39, 66.
Transylvania University, 491, 498, 511,
518,529.
" Traveller's Rest," 301, 302, 304, 464.
Treaties, 107 ; 116.
Trent, Alexander, 50 ; Mr., 146 ; Peter-
field, 85.
Trenton (battle), 182.
Trimble, Allen, Eliza J., 406 ; Nannie,
289 ; Robert, 289, 291.
Trinity Church, 223 ; College, 417 ; 566 ;
Parish, 270, 301, 561.
Trumbo, Sarah E., 479.
Tucker, Beverley, 372; Eliza, 439;
George (emigrant), 439, 440; Henry
St. G., 225 ; John R., 600 ; Maria F.,
440, 441 ; Nathaniel B., 225 ; Rebecca
E, 440; St. George (emigrant), 225,
265, 266, 379 ; Sarah, 215.
Tuley, Charles, 87.
Tunstall, Florence, John, 279; William,
Winifred, 472.
Turgot, Adam, 2, 5.
Turner, Byrd T., 429 ; Jesse, 567 ; Mrs.
Wirt, 570.
Turpin, Thomas, 38, 39, 50, 51, 413.
Tuscaroras Indians, 39, 40.
Tutwiler (emigrant), 354; family, 354;
John, 537.
Twyman, J. J., 276.
Tye, Allen, 42.
Tye River, 42, 44, 52, 53, 57, SO, 113, 124,
125, 243, 261, 323, 324, 377; Ware-
house, 389.
Tyler family, 537 ; John, 250, 537 ; 276,
379, 415, 464, 524, 537.
" Tyndale," 13.
Tyree, Samuel, 532.
Tyre's Plantation, 196.
Tyson family, 398, 399.
Union College (N. Y.), 498, 590; Flag,
180, 181 ; Hill, vii, 32, 39, 41, 06, 81,
96. 100, 114, 122, 124-127, 146, 174,
186, 190-204, 209-212, 216-218, 220,
227, 234, 250-252, 257, 258, 261, 265,
268, 324, 327, 339, 340, 354, 365, 369,
376, 379, 380, 384, 390-396, 401, 406,
407, 428, 429, 558, 560; Ridge, 292;
Theological Seminary (N. Y.), 422 ;
(Va.), 210, 359, 371,375, 595.
University of the City of New York, 421,
444, 482 ; College of Medicine, 324 ; of
Dublin, 368; Edinburgh, 504; Louisville,
507; Maryland, 585,596; Mississippi,
308, 309; Missouri, 445; North Caro-
lina, 335, 568 ; Pennsylvania, 241, 258,
279, 280, 318, 382, 397, 401, 434, 481,
540, 566 ; Virginia, 67, 203, 243, 264,
266, 276, 278, 279, 281, 299, 302, 314,
327,328, 330, 331, 333, 334, 344, 351,
353, 367, 368, 375, 378, 382, 392, 393.
396, 405, 414, 415, 419, 420, 422, 427,
433-435, 438-442, 444, 445, 469, 472,
475, 476, 482, 483, 505, 509, 532, 539,
543, 545, 560, 562, 564, 565, 568, 569,
571, 572, 575, 585, 586, 589, 590, 591,
596, 597, 604; (rectors of), 264, 265,
443 ; (visitors of), 264, 302, 407, 408,
443, 569.
Upper Meeting. 322.
Upshaw, Dr., 462.
Upshur. Sarah B., 506.
Urbana University, 604.
Urquhart family, 529.
Utah, 473, 518, 540.
Valentine, Lieutenant, 106.
Valley Farm, 542, 543 ; Forge, 183.
Van Buren, President, 408.
Van Campen. Anstes D., 533.
Vanderbilt, Mrs. Cornelius, 365, 597.
Vanderbilt University, 460, 532.
Van Dorn, General, 299, 473.
Van Vleck, Almeria L., 401.
Van Zandt (emigrant), 383; family, 38. c .
Variety Mills, 222, 426; Shades, 139, 140.
Varina, 36, 455.
Vaughan, Elvira, 556 ; Kitty, 236 ; Mary.
556 ; Milton A., 555 ; Shadrack, 2°" ;
Wilson, 554.
INDEX
639
Venable, Abraham (emigrant). 270, 375 ;
43, 47, 269, 270, 468 ; 270 ; Agnes, 280 ;
Andrew R., and family, 571 ; Anne M.,
562 ; Elizabeth A., 467, 468 ; family,
70, 269, 270 ; Henningham, 281 ; Hugh
L., 270 ; John, 71, 270, 369 ; Josephine,
334 ; Margaret, 375 ; 267-272 ; Martha,
358 ; Mary, 270 ; Mr., 396 ; Nathaniel,
269, 270, 468 ; Paul C, 375 ; Richard,
325 ; 94 ; Samuel W., 192, 199, 268,
269, 2S1, 562, 571 ; 334 ; William, 270 ;
358
" Verdant Vale," 174, 175, 292, 294, 295.
Victoria (Queen), 191.
Vincent, Mr., 436.
Virginia, 31, etc.
Virginia Company of London, 16, 168,
170, 244; 412, 456; Gazettes, 143,161;
Historical Society, 52, 143, 206, 264,
335, 344, 355, 373, 408, 420,421,587,
589; Military Institute (V. M. I.),
279, 281-284, 297, 330, 356, 422, 437,
565, 570, 573 ; Springs, 155.
Vobe, Mrs., 102.
Waco (Tex.), 294, 295, 297-299, 462;
University, 299.
Waddel, or Waddell, James (emigrant),
594 ; Janetta, 593, 594 ; Kitty, Lucy,
351.
Waddill family, 314-316.
Waddy, Elizabeth, 501.
Wade (emigrant), and family, 541.
Wadham College (E.), 505.
Wages : Burgess, 86, 88, 89 ; Committee
of Safety, 101 ; Convention, 98 ; Dele-
gate, 134, 136 ; Soldiers, 150.
" Wahunsenacawh," 230.
Wailes, Rev. Mr., 539.
Wakefield, Miss, 248.
Walbancke, E. F., 29.
Wales, 67, 242, 245, 294, 353, 355, 464,
503, 584.
Wales. John, 47.
Walker, Avis, 571 ; C, 319, 320 ; D. N.,
571 ; family, 60 ; Frances, 337 ; Fran-
cis, 212, 410, 412; General, 532;
George, 61 ; Jane, 299 ; Jean, 516 ;
John, 63, 95, 413 ; 337 ; Judith P., 407,
411-414; Lucy, 564; Martha, 349;
Mary P., 564 ; Robert, 386 ; Sarah R,
386 ; Susan, 404 ; 418 ; Thomas, 37 ;
412 ; 42, 63, 70, 77, 189, 212, 412-414;
420, 564 ; 414 ; Timothy, 404.
A ilker's Church, 409.
"\ dl, Mr., 216.
\ dlaee, Caleb, 96.
¥ aller (emigrant), and family, 496; Miss,
376 ; William, 47.
Walthall, Eliza, 231.
Walton, William, 107.
War of 1709, 487; of 1812, 275, 277,
283, 290, 292, 293, 307, 312, 336, 349,
>54, 371, 376, 399, 402, 407, 434, 469,
470, 487, 489, 502, 515, 590, 603, 605.
Ward, Henry C, and family, 516 ; John
H, 556; Margaret, 424 ; Melinda, 519 ;
Milton A., 550 ; Samuel, 424 ; Thomas.
556; William, 130; (E.), 556.
Wardlow, Mary C, 479.
Ware, Jane, 542; Judith S., 144, 214,
259 : Mrs., 461 ; Peter, 144.
Ware Parish, 282.
Warfield (emigrant), 503; family, 502-
505.
Waring, John U., 515.
Warminster (E). 1, 10, 11, 18-20, 23, 33,
45, 47, &6 ; (Va.), 47, 63, 119, 153-155,
199, 217, 218, 220, 221, 258, 261, 263,
425, 433, 438, 439, 601, 602; (Academy),
199, 214, 228, 381 ; (Warehouse), 220.
Warner, 432 ; Alfred, 289 ; Dr., 398.
" Warner's Hall," 331.
Warren, 232, 439 ; County, 319.
Warrens, Edward R., and family, 29.
Warrenton, 458.
Warriner family, 372.
Wars. See Indian Wars, Revolutionarv
War, War of 170!) and of 1812, Texan
War, Mexican War, Civil War.
Warwick, Abraham, 1 10 ; Sarah A., 574.
Warwickshire (E.), 240, 488.
Warwicktown (Va.), 38.
Washington (D. C), 275, 310, 332, 333,
339, 344, 383, 386, 392, 400, 408, 418,
420, 422, 428, 430, 434, 438, 455, 458,
464, 487, 48S, 491, 544, 568, 581-583,
605 ; (Pa.), 392, 52S.
Washington, Bushrod, 252 ; George, 32,
77, 78, 88, 109, 115, 117, 119, 120, 151,
161, 180, 182, 183, 188, 199, 237, 256,
296, 377, 413, 414, 432, 440.
Washington Academy (see Augusta and
Liberty Hall Academies), 364, 368,
369,378, 598; College, 154, 201. 217,
277, 280, 287, 291, 297, 301, 304, 314,
345, 350, 351, 354, 375, 376, 385, 44^,
449, 462, 495, 496, 520, 532, 533, 537,
539, 540, 574, 585, 598-600, 608 ; and
Lee University, 67, 234, 256, 300, 368,
375, 4i >, 530, 583, 600, 601.
Washington Co. (Ky.), 553; (Tex.), 459,
460, 461 ; (Va.). 359, 362; Parish, 175.
Washington Henry Academy, 380; and
Jefferson College, 528.
Watkins, Elizabeth W., 565 ; Henning-
ham, 345 ; Joseph, 345 ; Mary C, 167,
345; Nancy, 467; Samuel W., and
family, 280, 281 ; Thomas, 246 ; 268 ;
400 ; Thomas A., and family, 563.
Watson, A. S., 539 ; George, 443 ; Marv,
472 ; Sallie K., 443 ; Susan, 228 ; Young,
and family, 453.
Watts. Edward, 403 ; Elizabeth, 25 ; 508 ;
Emilv, 284 ; General, 212 ; 604 ; Letitia
G., 403 ; Walton G., 300; William, 61.
Waugh, Edward, and family. 291. 292;
Isabella, 175, 291, 294; James, 175.
Waugh's Ferry, 174.
Wayne, General, 232, 256.
640
INDEX
Waynesboro, 391.
Weakly, Sarah J., 457.
Webb, George, 57 ; family, 528, 529 ;
Isaac, Winifred, 510.
Weedon, Colonel, 181.
Weights and Measures (standard for the
Co.), 87.
Weld, Humphrey, John, Margaret, 247.
Weltou, T. A., 27.
West family, 325; John (emigrant). 317,
325, 328, 51)0 ; Thomas, 378 ; Unity,
325.
Western Theological Seminary, 503.
Westham, 47, 52, 85, 109, 115, 140, 149.
West Indies, 222.
Westminster (E.), 176.
Westmoreland Co., 174, 175, 215, 293,536,
544.
Westover, 192, 238 ; Parish, 4:55.
West Point Academy, 336, 369, 472, 475,
476, 488, 499, 501, 591.
West River Meeting, 510.
West Virginia, 248, 289, 292, 304, 317, 318,
346, 351, 429, 433, 474, 535, 536, 547,
548.
" Westwood," 294, 298 ; School, 532.
Wharton, John A., 245.
Wheaton, Salmon, Sarah, 418.
Wheeler, Emma M., 6U6.
Whelan family, 346.
Whitby, 173 ; Abbey. 16.
A\ bite, Andrew (emigrant), 217; Ann R.,
448 ; Emily, James, 466 ; James J., and
family, 600 ; John F., 217 ; Joseph, 448 ;
Margaret F., 502 ; Mary R., 277 ; Thomas
W., 477.
Whitehead (emigrant), 3S6; Edgar, and
family, 3S6.
White Sulphur Springs, 341, 370, 423.
Whitfield, Mr., 520.
Whiting, Augustus, 417 ; Catherine, 246,
247, 285; Elizabeth, 247, 285; Sara,
417.
Whitloek. George, Sarah, 316 ; Miss, 557.
Whittier, J. G., 422.
Whittle, Bishop, James M., 568.
Wieliffe, Robert, 502.
Wiggins family, 371 .
Wilborne, Elizabeth R., 439.
Wilcox, Anna Maria, 577, 581 ; Daniel P.,
581 ; Edmund, 61, 368 ; George, 581 ;
John, 368 ; Susan, 368.
Wilderness track to Kentucky, 232.
Wilkes, Elizabeth, 280.
Wilkins, W. W., 328.
Wilkinson, Adjutant, 182 ; family, 467,
468.
Willard family, 486.
William and Mary College, 10, 50, 75, 79,
105, 122, 139, 146, 158. 177, 190, 192,
198, 207, 212, 22S, 229, 234, 250, 251,
257, 258, 263, 267, 302, 328, 348, 372,
377, 379, 397, 401, 407, 425, 430, 434,
435, 438, 439, 462, 489, 520, 525, 540,
561,572,603.
Williams, Belle, 471; Charles, 2S4 ;
Elizabeth, 355 ; Ellen G., 471 ; James
(emigrant), 355 ; John, 138 ; Marshall,
284 ; Mary, 458 ; 485 ; Morgan, 231 ;
Rhoda, 4S5; Richard, 231 ; Sarah E.,
571; Virginius R., 471 ; W. W.,398.
Williamsburg, 33, 85, 88, 93-95, 100, 101,
103, 105, 106, 135, 138, 142, 164, 177-
181, 195, 196, 229, 246, 263, 377, 426,
430, 496, 507, 534, 540,564; Gazette,
82, 181.
Williamson family, 400, 401 ; Elizabeth
B., 595 ; Mary j., 519.
Willis River, 157, 158, 236, 272.
Wills, Martha, 306.
Willson (see Wilson), William, 304.
Wilmer (emigrant), 430 ; family, 427,
430-432.
Wilson, Benjamin, 165 ; Bettie A., Dan-
iel, 364 ; James, 94, 241) ; James D.,
and family, 556 ; John, 445 ; Laura B.,
486 ; Martha C, Nathaniel, 472 ; Polly
Cary, 378.
Wiltshire (E), 2-6, 10, 11, 18, 24, 57, 63,
74, 168, 282.
Winchester, 209, 318-320, 349; (battle),
303.
Wing, E. R., Louise R. S., 508.
Wingfield, Annie, 276 ; Charles, Maria L.,
284.
Winn, Henry, Kate, Lucy, 353.
Winston, Alice, 241, 242 ; 243 ; Anthony,
242; Charles, 539; Edmund, 61, 62,
241-243, 561 ; Elizabeth A., 539 ; fam-
ily, 242, 294 ; Geddes, 61, 129 ; Henry
C, 539; Isaac (emigrant), 59, 188, 242,
325, 534; Mary, 534; Sarah, 188, 325;
241-243 ; Thomas, 242 ; William, 242,
243.
Winter, Elizabeth H., 45S.
Winthrop, Elizabeth, John (emigrant),
421.
" Winton," 133, 139, 173, 227, 381.
Wirt, William, 114, 156, 252, 253, 257,
261, 262, 265, 341, 462, 594 ; Mrs., 218,
401,564; 252,262.
Wisconsin, 398, 584.
Wise, Edwin, and family, 2S7 ; Henry A.,
266, 347, 360, 441 ; O. J., 356.
Withers, Edmund, 396, 429, 540 ; Louisa,
540 ; Robert-E., 378, 565 ; Robert W.,
378, 538 ; Susan C, 378 ; William A.,
and family, 538, 539.
Witberspoon, John, 192 ; 490.
Wolfe, Joel, and family, 441.
Wood, Catherine, 357, 363 ; Colonel, 412 ;
Henry, and family, 355-357 ; Henry, 37,
38, 41, 131, 294; Lucy, 293, 294 ; Mar-
tha, 383 ; Rosa B., 357, 362 ; Valentine,
49, 131, 294, 383.
Woodbridge family, 480.
" Woodburn," 324, 327.
Woodford, General, 183.
Wooding family, 476.
Woodrow, Rachel, 406.
INDEX
641
Woods, James, 99, 142, 148 ; 292 ; Mi-
chael (emigrant), and family, 599 ; Rich-
ard, 133, Thomas, 292.
Woods' Gap, 59, 07, 599.
Woodson, Aggy, 350 ; Agnes, 2S1 ; Caro-
line M., 499; Charles, 161, 164, 165;
Elizabeth, 269, 270, 468; 350; 383;
(W.), 400 ; John (emigrant), 272, 350,
375, 5S3; 583; 37, 38, 239, 583; 38,
165 ; Josiah, 582 ; 583 ; Mary, 317 ; 582 ;
Miller, 165; Richard, 272, 350; 271,
272, 281 ; Robert, 272, 317, 350, 583 ;
Tarleton, 499.
Woolfork, Charles E., '"
Wormley, , 446.
Worsham, , 327.
Worsop, Elizabeth, Thomas, 599.
Worthington, John, Sarah, 503.
Wotton, Samuel, 18.
Wright, Boykin, and family, 573 ; Eliza-
beth, 540; Nannie, 460; Mr., 609;
Sarah, 469 ; William, 540.
Wriothesley, Henry, 457 ; Penelope, 456.
Wyatt, Francis, 260, 328; George M.,
Harriet E., 467 ; Hawte {emigrant),
260; John, 144, 259, 260; Susanna,
258-260; Thomas, 260; 260; 61, 259,
260; 444.
Wydown, Isabella B., Samuel, 442.
Wynne, T. H., 229.
Wythe, George, 205, 278.
Wythe Co., 359, 569.
Yale University, 404, 500, 521, 523.
Yancey, Charles, 301, 464 ; family, 301 ;
Clara, 531.
Yeamans, Anne, 456, 457 ; John, 457.
Yeatman, Elizabeth, 19, 40.
" Yellow Gravel," 140.
York Co. (E.), 16, 378, 403, 541, 561 ;
(Va.), 348, 402, 541 ; River, 67, 244,
386.
York-Hampton Parish, 435.
Yorktown, 109, 139, 153, 196, 198, 212,
220, 224, 228, 315, 337, 377.
Young, Henry, 184 ; John C, and family,
490, 491 ; Michael Cadet, 47.
Yulee, Mr., 575.
Zogbaum, Carl, Fanny L., 386.
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
3 9999 06174 979
^liiillf ' ; illliiili™
■
-1!
RItttwW*;
J -*--"'•— -*— — -