William CABELL

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  General Notes:

William Cabell, the 4th son, and John Cabell, the 5th son of Richard and Maria Prestwood Cabell of Buckfast­leigh, have not been located with certainty by me; but, as I have said, I believe that the 4th son was the William Ca­bell who settled at or near Warminster about 1664. Not only because the Buckfastleigh Cabells owned land in Warminster parish, and Dr. William Cabell was in some way related to Mrs. Richard Fownes; but, also, because the late Benjamin Bond Cabell (1781-1874) of Cromer Hall, Norfolk (F. R. S., J. P., M. P., etc.), a man well versed in his own genealogy, not only claimed descent from Buck­fastleigh (see Burke's Landed Gentry), but, also, that the emigrant to America was of the same family as his. Ac­cording to one account, he said that the emigrant was "his grandfather's brother;" according to another, "his grand­father's cousin." We find William Cabell, and Mary, his wife, living near Warminster, probably at "Bugley," in 1664. They were then the parents of seven children. William Cabell was buried at Warminster, September 4, 1704. A copy of the inventory of his household chattels (valued at £321), taken September 29 following, was found among Dr. Wil­liam Cabell's papers. His widow, Mary Cabell, was buried at Warminster, December 5, 1704. Her will, dated Sep­tember 29, 1704, and proved in the court of the Archdea­con of Sarum (Salisbury), left remembrances to all of her surviving children and grandchildren. Her sons were: 1, William; 2, Anthony; 3, Christopher; and, 4, Nicholas.

William married Mary in 1666.