The Cabells and Their Kin: A memorial volume of history, biography and genealogy 700+ pages, including color plate of "The Cabell Windows", Everyname index By Alexander Brown Published 1895 ******************************************************************** Digital EBook CD Requires Adobe Reader 3 or higher to View ******************************************************************** $11.99 + $1.99 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/Cabells-and-Their-Kin-Virginia-Genealogy-/130222564253?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e51dea39d Brown opens the Cabell genealogy with a short, thirty-two page chapter on the Cabells and their kin in England. He then proceeds with detailed accounts of Dr. William Cabell (the immigrant), his descendants through the sixth (and sometimes the seventh) generation, and related families. The work is remarkable, partly because the family was remarkable, but also because the compiler attended as much to the Cabell daughters and their descendants as he did the Cabell sons; because he provided us with unusually rich biographies of the family in the first three or four generations; and because he "traced back to the emigrant ancestors" of the Cabell spouses, giving us the "seize quartiers sufficiently often to convey a fairly approximate idea of the English, Scotch, Huguenot, and other blood flowing in the veins of the kindred." As to the family: most of Cabells and their kin in the first three or four generations were lawyers -- "men of affairs." Says Brown: "They were among the most active founders of this region [tidewater Virginia]. From the time when this section was first represented in the colonial government to the beginning of the Revolution, Cabells were in the House of Burgesses. During the 'time that tried men's souls,' Cabells 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 the States, the Cabells and their kin were constantly representing this region in the House of Delegates, the State Senate, or the House of Representatives of the United States." Cabells and their kin were prominent as well in the military, mostly as officers, in the War of the Revolution and again on the rebel side in the Civil War. "Kin" of this aristocratic family included the likes of Pocahontas, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and Benjamin Harrison (the emigrant, the Signer, AND, the President), Meriwether Lewis, and George Rogers Clark. The surnames of other closely allied families include ALEXANDER, ANTHONY, BOLLING, BRECKINRIDGE, BROWN, BRUCE, CALLAWAY, CAMPBELL, CARRINGTON, CARTER, DAVIS, HORSLEY, JOHNSON, JONES, LEE, McCULLOCH, MAYO, MEREDITH, NELSON, PRESTON, RANDOLPH, READ, REID, RIVES, ROSE, SCOTT, SMITH, TAYLOR, THOMPSON, VENABLE, WALKER, and WOODSON. Title page Front matter Contents Part I. The Cabells and their kin in England Part II. The Cabells and their kin in America Part III. The founders 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 Part IV. The founders 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 genealogy... 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 citzens of nearly every state of the union, and of several foreign countries Index Appendix