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The Cabells and Their Kin

• Author: Alexander Brown
• Price: $49.00 (includes postage)(US Funds)
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796 pages, 6 x 9", illustrated including color plate of "The Cabell Windows", everyname index.

This is the latest edition of Alexander Brown's classic, The Cabells and Their Kin. It is about Dr. William Cabell (1699-1774) and Elizabeth Burks Cabell ( -1756) and their descendants and kin. But it is far more than a genealogy book. You read of William and Elizabeth, as they carve out a home in 18th-century Virginia. You follow almost day-by-day as Col. William Cabell's records in his diary his duties as a member of the Committee of Safety during the Revolutionary War. You sense the excitement in 1781 as the British Army under Lord Cornwallis and Gen. Benedict Arnold raid and burn southern Virginia. Even some of the diary "non entries" are historic! There is a gap between June 4 and June 7, 1781 when Tarleton tried to capture Jefferson and the General Assembly at Monticello. Legend has it that they escaped through the mountains to William Cabell's home in what is now Nelson County, Virginia.

Among the hundreds of other biographies, you can read about:

Gen. John Cabell Breckinridge - Vice-President of the U.S. and Confederate Hero
Joseph Carrington Cabell - Helped Jefferson found the University of Virginia
Judge William H. Cabell - Jurist and Governor of Virginia

This 1994 publication by Randolph Wall Cabell is based on the 1939 edition of The Cabells and Their Kin. The 1994 book includes full-color plates of the Cabell windows in the Chapel of St. Nicholas, Frome, England which were not in some of the previous reprints. In addition, there are two completely new sections:

A 57 page reader-friendly index of the people in the book
Forward linkage to 20th Century Cabells and Their Kin by Randolph Cabell

Table of Contents

Part I

The Cabells and Their Kin in England

Part II

The Cabells and Their Kin in America

Part III

The Founder's children and those alled to them by marriage with much of the history of the upper valley of the James River (1750-1800) especially during the Revolution

• Mary Cabell and William Horsley of "Center Hill"
• Col. William Cabell and Margaret Jordan of "Union Hill"
• Col. Joseph Cabell and Mary Hopkins of "Sion Hill"
• Col John Cabell and Paulina Jordan of "Green Hill"
• Col. Nicholas Cabell and Hannah Carrington of "Liberty Hall"

Part IV

The Founder's grandchildren and those allied to them by marriage, with some historical data of Virignia 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 citizens of nearly every state of the Union and of several foreign countries.

Some of the other family names: Alexander, Auchincloss, Barrow, Beard, Beverley, Bolling, Breckinridge, Brown, Bullock, Callaway, Campbell, Carrington, Castleman, Christian, Claiborne, Cocke, Davies, Dickinson, Duval, Easley, Flournoy, Garland, Gilmer, Grayson, Hairston, Handy, Haskins, Henry, Higginbotham, Horsley, Howard, Irvine, Jefferson, Lee, Massie, Mayo, McClelland, McCulloch, Meade, Megginson, Meredith, Morson, Mosby, Owsley, Payne, Pollard, Quarrier, Rives, Rose, Satterwhite, Seddon, Shackelford, Shanks, Sigourney, Tandy, Thornton, Venable, Waddill, Wood and others.