Joseph C. Cabell papers

"Correspondents include David S.G. Cabell, Dr. George Cabell, Jr., H. Coalter Cabell, Dr. John Grattan Cabell, Mayo Cabell, Col. William Cabell, Andrew Duncan, J. Bruce McClelland, Thomas S. McClelland, and Samuel P. Parsons."@en
"Papers deal chiefly with land transactions, financial matters, improvements to "Edgewood," Samuel Cabell at the College of William and Mary, medical advice from Dr. George Cabell, and business matters including the manufacture and procurement of equipment, workers and overseers, crops, and Cabell's flour mill. Topics mentioned briefly include the James River and Kanawha Canal, cholera in Richmond, Va., in 1849, passes for slaves, slave illnesses and deaths, Democrats in the Virginia legislature in 1852, the Virginia State Fair of 1855, costs of attending William and Mary in 1807, the wheat crop and carpentry work at John Hartwell Cocke's "Bremo," the purchasing of slaves' hogs from "Belmont," and some family and social news."@en