Talk:William Cabell (American Revolution)

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Please write in paragraphs whenever possible. Awadewit | talk  13:36, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

More work needed
In historical triage, I added an infobox and some material to this article from Cynthia Miller Leonard's volume, despite needing to do other tasks and some changes failing to take with odd network reset messages. I do not have time to check his slaveholdings, nor do I have access to local history and genealogy reference materials and the Library of Virginia is closed Mondays due to Covid-related budget issues. While the Leonard volume is fairly authoritative, it may have mixed this William Cabell with his father in the first entry (his first term in the House of Burgesses) and with his son William Cabell Jr. in some of the later House of Delegates entries. Thus, I'm not completely sure whether this man or his son preceded the William H. Cabell who served as Virginia's governor shortly after this man's death.Jweaver28 (talk) 21:55, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

According to "The Cabells and their Kin" (1939 ed at p. 130-131) the last assembly this William Cabell attended was in December 1788 and he last stood as a candidate on January 7, 1789, although he didn't die until March 23, 1798. His final will was written in 1795 and appointed William and Landon Cabell as executors with his son Samuel Jordan Cabell, son-in-law Robert Rives and William B. Hare as sureties.Jweaver28 (talk) 20:51, 10 February 2021 (UTC)