Samuel CABELL

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Samuel Jordan Cabell Sr. [3450.4.2.2.1] (15 Dec 1756 — 14 Aug 1818) went to school at the College of William and Mary (1772 — 75). He served five and one-half years during the Revolution and was among the original members of the Virginia Society of the Cincinnati. The British captured Col. Cabell at Charleston and paroled him after fourteen months. Samuel Jordan Cabell represented Amherst County in the Virginia House of Delegates (1785 — 92) and at the Virginia Convention of 1788. They later elected him to the U.S. House of Representatives (1795 — 1803). Samuel Jordan Cabell Sr. was a soldier of the Revolution, and was in the Virginia General Assembly, and served in the U.S. Congress

Congressional Biography <http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=c000005> <http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=c000005> <http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=c000005> “Sam” married Sarah Syme (5 Nov 1760 — 15 May 1814), the daughter of Col. John Syme Jr., of “Rocky Mills,” Hanover County, and his first wife, Mildred Meriwether. Sam and “Sally” lived at Cabell’s home, “Soldier’s Joy,” in Amherst (now Nelson) County. They buried both at “Soldier’s Joy.” This couple had nine children.

CABELL, Samuel Jordan, 1756-1818

CABELL, Samuel Jordan, a Representative from Virginia; born in Albemarle (now Nelson) County, Va., December 15, 1756; attended the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; left school to enter the Revolutionary Army; appointed captain of Amherst County Volunteers in 1776; assigned to the Sixth Virginia Regiment; promoted to the rank of major for gallantry at Saratoga in 1777; served in Washington’s army in 1778 and 1779 and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel; was taken prisoner by the British May 12, 1780, at the capture of Charleston; after the war returned to Virginia and engaged in planting; member of the State house of delegates 1785-1792; member of ratification convention in 1788; elected as a Republican to the Fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1795-March 3, 1803); was not a candidate for reelection in 1802; died on his estate “Soldiers’ Joy,” near New Market (now Norwood), Nelson County, Va., August 4, 1818; interment in the family burying ground on his farm near Norwood, Va.