William Cabell, II
- Born: 13 Mar 1730-1731, Goochland County, VA
- Marriage: Margaret Jordan
- Died: About 1798, Nelson County, VA at age 68
 Notes and Events:
• Note. William Cabell II was a vestryman of St. Anne’s Parish (1751-61) and a militia officer. At the first meeting of the Amherst County court on 1 June 1761, Cabell qualified simultaneously for four county offices: presiding justice, lieutenant, surveyor, and coroner.
Cabell represented Albemarle (1756-61) and Amherst Counties (1761-76) in the Virginia House of Burgesses and was active in the Revolutionary Conventions (1774-76). Buckingham, Amherst, Fluvanna, and Albemarle Counties elected Cabell to represent them in the Virginia Senate for five years (1776-81). Amherst County sent Cabell to the House of Delegates (1781-83, 1787-88) and the Convention of 1788. We believe they named Cabell Mountain in present-day Nelson County for William Cabell.
Beginning on 8 November 1775, William Cabell II was a trustee of Hampden-Sydney College. During his tenure, the General Assembly declined to consider an appeal for a direct grant to the school. Yet they permitted Hampden-Sydney College to use a lottery to raise money like Yale University had done in 1747. The goal of the school’s Lottery Committee was to sell $28,000 in $5 tickets and payout all but $4,200 in prizes and expenses. The grand prize was $2,000. William Cabell and Clement Read were lottery “managers.” To help with the lottery, Cabell spent a week, July 25-31, 1777, at Prince Edward Court House and traveling to and from.
• DAR. The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 43
page 262
Miss Mary Carter Rives.
DAR ID Number: 42698
Born in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Descendant of Hon. William Cabell, of Virginia.
Daughter of James Henry Rives and Eliza Gordon Scott, his wife.
Granddaughter of George Cabell Rives and Mary Carter, his wife.
Gr.-granddaughter of Robert Rives and Margaret Jordan Cabell, his wife.
Gr.-gr.-granddaughter of William Cabell and Margaret Jordan, his wife.
William Cabell, (1730-98), was a member of the Committee of Safety and a delegate to the State convention. He was born in Goochland
County; died in Nelson County, Va.
Also Nos. 24996, 28821, 33231, 36016.
William married Margaret Jordan, daughter of Col. Samuel Jordan and Ruth Meredith. (Margaret Jordan died in Mar 1812.)
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