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Selected Manuscripts from the Cabell Family Papers at the University of Virginia’s Small Special Collections Library

 

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6 May 1731 Permission for William Cabell to survey 3200 acres in then Goochland County – MSS 5084 / Box 1
23 Aug 1739 Elizabeth Cabbell to Edward Barridil, re: legal action against Mayo & Carrington – MSS 5084 / Box 1
15 Sept 1740 Defense Statement in Cabell vs. Mayo & Carrington – MSS 5084 / Box 1
31 Oct 1745 Judgement in Cabell vs. Mayo & Carrington – MSS 5084 / Box 1
15 April 1763 Bond of John Fry, John Moore and John Lewis to William Cabell for the Construction of Albemarle County Court House – MSS 5084 / Box 1
24 July – 12 Sept 1776 Payroll–Minute Men under Capt. Nicholas Cabell – MSS 5084 / Box 2
4 Sept 1780 Amherst Court Record of Nicholas Cabell’s Service in the Revolution – MSS 5084 / Box 2
1796-1810 Extracts from Gubernatorial Messages re: Education, chiefly compiled by N. F. Cabell – MSS 38-111 / Box 1
1804 Joseph Carrington Cabell’s journal on agricultural practices – MSS 38-111 / Box 3
28 April 1814 Joseph C. Cabell to John Hartwell Cocke re: the flight of some 40 of his slaves – MSS 38-111 / Box 10
24 Oct 1817 Thomas Jefferson encloses to Joseph C. Cabell his “Bill for Establishing a System of Public Education” – Vault [collection number?]
22 Oct 1820 William H. Cabell to Joseph C. Cabell, re: the disposition of slaves whom he inherited from W. C. Nicholas – MSS 38-111c / Box2
1822 Synopsis of Subjects to be Embraced in a Course of Agricultural Lectures (Agricultural Society of Albemarle) – Broadside 1822 .A475
c. 12 Dec 1822 Manuscript copy of Col. William Cabell. Jr.’s obituary from the Richmond Enquirer, together with a hand-copied letter from Col. William Cabell, Sr. to his son – MSS 276 / Box 8
4 July 1826 Joseph Carrington Cabell to John Hartwell Cocke upon death of Jefferson – MSS 10547 (McGregor Autograph Series)
24 June 1841 Joseph Carrington Cabell to Dolley Madison re: the hiring of U.Va. professors – MSS 8005
16 Feb 1846 N. F. Cabell to J. C. Cabell, re: J. C. Cabell’s resignation as president of the James River & Kanawha Co. – MSS 38-111 / Box 35
1850 “To the Voters of Nelson, Amherst, and Albemarle Counties…” urging Joseph C. Cabell to stand for election as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention – Broadside (oversize) 1850 .T6
1864 Memo by William D. Cabell regarding his reasons for not enlisting in the regular Confederate Army and cataloging the deprivations of war – MSS 276 / Box 9
21 Oct 1865 Document Granting Pardon and Amnesty to Mayo Cabell – MSS 9764-G
1868 The Cabell Coat of Arms, Part I, by Nathaniel Francis Cabell – MSS 276 / Box 8
[1870?] Memorandum Concerning the Education of Col. Nicholas Cabell, probably by N. F. Cabell and derived from the journal of William Cabell – MSS 5084 / Box 2
Guide to MSS 38-111c: Papers of the Joseph Carrington Cabell Family