Richard CABELL

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Cabell Contributions to Virginia and United States History Once firmly established in the New World, members of the Cabell family served Virginia and, eventually, the nation in a variety of roles. In some fields of service, politics and military duty for example, descendents of the patriotic William Cabell self-consciously tried to live up to their rich heritage as statesmen and soldiers. But Cabells did not limit their service to the statehouse or battlefield; they also acted as pioneers, religious leaders, educators, builders, and artists. To some degree, they engaged the chief problems of their time. When the colony needed men to organize the rush west, Cabells served as surveyors and pioneers; when the Commonwealth needed canals and roads to connect the tidewater and piedmont, Cabells helped to build them... Below are links to several of the fields of endeavor in which members of the family have excelled

Members of the Cabell family helped to found the University of Virginia, guided it through the first crucial decades of its existence, and have continued to patronize it as students. At every stage of the institution's life, there have been Cabells present. The following links explore the contributions of Joseph Carrington Cabell <%20>--the virtual cofounder with Thomas Jefferson--and other Cabell descendants to the University.

Richard Cabell matriculated at Exeter College, 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 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 Somerset, 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 Cabell de Brooke." Sir Henry Rosewell was one of the original grantees in 1628 of the company of the Massachusetts Bay. From the "Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society," Vol. III., pp. xlv., etc., I extract: "The position of Roswell, as a man of wealth, is indicated by another circumstance. In 1639, while Charles I was on his way to suppress the rebellion in Scotland, the privy Council made out a list of persons 'fit for their ability to lend the King money.' Some contributed; others excused themselves 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 broth­er, 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 Parliament, in whose daughter's house [Mrs. George Prestwood'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.

Richard married Mary PRESTWOOD.