CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Dabney
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Dabney

  Cornelius Dabney, ancestor of the family of that name, which lived in
Campbell, was a church warden of St. Peter's parish, New Kent county in 1685;
his son, George Dabney, lived on the Pamunkey opposite Hanovertown. His son,
Col. William of Aldringham, Hanover county, died before the Revolution, but
William's son, Capt. George Dabney, born 174O, died 1824, was a member of
Hanover county committee in 1775 and served in the war of the Revolution.

  George Dabney married Elizabeth Price, the grand-daughter of Col. Wm. and
Elizabeth Beverly-Randolph; their son, Judge John Dabney, a member of the state
senate from 1805-08, was appointed judge in place of Judge Edmund Winston, who
resigned office in 1813.

  Judge John Dabney married his cousin, Susannah Dabney Morris. Their son, John
Blair Dabney, of William and Mary College and of Princeton, a noted lawyer and
Episcopal minister, was born in 1795; married 1822 Elizabeth Lewis, daughter of
Major Oliver Towles and wife Agatha, the daughter of Col. Wm- Lewis of Sweet
Springs. John B. Dabney lived at. Vancfoise, near Campbell C. H. His daughter,
Maria Louisa, married in 1844 William Cabell Carrington, born 1821", and moved
to Richmond in 1845, where he edited the "Richmond Times and Compiler." In 1851
Carrington was elected to represent Richmond in the state legislature, but died
December, 1851, before he could take his seat.

  The "Southern Literary Messenger" of September, 1842; pays a tribute to John
B. Dabney, in answering a correspondent: "To the question which was some time
ago propounded to this journal as to 'What has become of the Cincinnati
Oration?' we can reply that it forms part of the exercises of Commencement and
that the honor of delivering the last one fell to John Blair Dabney, of Campbell
county, who acquitted himself of the charge much to the satisfaction of those
who had the good fortune to be present. Washington College, it may be recalled,
is the institution to which the surviving members of the Cincinnati Society in
Virginia made a few years ago the handsome donation of its funds, one of the
conditions of that donation was that an address should be delivered before the
college annually forever in defending the society from the aspersions cast upon
it by Mirabeau and other French writers. The college is now in condition to
fulfill in every respect the wishes of the society."

  George William, the son of Chiswell Dabney, was clerk of Campbell from 1845 to
1859 and kept the papers of his office in the most perfect order.


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