The Cabells and Their Kin Vol. 1: A Memorial Volume of History Biography and Genealogy (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Cabells and Their Kin Vol. 1: A Memorial Volume of History Biography and Genealogy<br><br>We are commanded to honor our forefathers that our days may belong. Our religion civilization and patriotism alike require us to rescue their memory from oblivion so that they may not perish forever as though they had never been born. And it is our sacred duty to gather up the fragments that remain before their past history has been obliterated by the effacing fingers of destruction and decay.<br><br>I will give something of the Cabells and their kin in England as an introduction but my especial object will be to give an outline history of an American family in its vari ous branches showing the contribution of the various mem bers to the history and advancement of their section and of their country. And as Americans are a mixed race I shall sometimes trace back to emigrant ancestors and will give the Seize Quartiers sufficiently often to convey a fairly approximate idea of the actual percentage of English Scotch Huguenot and other blood ?owing in the veins of the kindred especially of this section which sent out so many emigrants to other sections of our country.<br><br>Much has been written of the first settlements of the tide-water regions which lay within the reach of shipping while comparatively little has been published about the cut ting loose from the moorings and the first advancement of the settlements within the land to the westward. For the first three generations this work will be largely devoted to an outline of this movement up the James River valley and to the earliest settlements within the north and south branches of James River.<br><br>When young Dr. William Cabell emigrated with his fortunes from the land of his forefathers to become the founder of a new family in the New World he cast his lot for his new beginning in the frontier forests of Vir ginia along the upper valley of the James. And it came to pass that the new family and the new country grew up together the founder of the one was to some extent the founder of the other - and the interests of both were in many ways for many years the same.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.