The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-13
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Many queries have come to us late
concerning the Cabaniss family
ard in this paper we publish all that
we have been able TO collect from
pamphlet b. George G. Smith. of At
Lanta Ga.
In the list of officers OF La Fay
cites contingent which came to
America during the Revolution, are
two lieutenants. who bear the name
De Cabaniss. This merely shows that
the name is French. and gives a slight
indication of the social standing of
the family
Henri Cabaniss. wife and child He
was granted in 1909. body OF 200
acres OF land In Henrico County The
Cabaniss family OF Virginia, North
Carolina. and Georgia, all descended
from this Henry Cabaniss. who with
his wife and one child. were OF the
colony OF French Protestant refugees.
consisting of l0S men, fifty nine wo-
men and thirty eight children. who af-
ter a thirteen weeks passage in the
ship Mary and Ann, OF London, George
Haws, commander. arrived in James
River. Virginia, July %. 1900. and
made the settlement early In August
OF that year at Manakin Town. on the
south side Of James River. abou,
twenty miles west of the present site
OF Richmond, in what is now Pow
hatan County. He married twice, first
to Marie, who came with him to Vir-
ginia, and a second time to Magdalene.
He had daughter OF the last name
OF him. We know nothing directly but
his will made in 1920, and on record
In Prince George County Va.
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His "ill reads: 81 Henri Cabanlss. OF
Westover Parish to my son Henri my
silver shoe buckles and old sword.
ITO Mathew. my largest gold ring,
and my silver handled sword
ITO George. gold ring"
The rest of his property was to be
divided between his wife and chill
dren. The will is Witnessed by Kohl
ing. Fitzgerald, Eppes. 1t has no date
but was evidently made in 1920.
From this will it is evident that he
had wife and three sons when he
died. and perhaps daughters, one of
whom we know was NIaEGalene, but
more than this we do not know. The
fact that Colonel Boiling, Colonel
Eppes and Colonel Fitzgerald Witness
ed the will gives US an indication OF
the social position of the refugee The
inventory found on the recoyd in Prince
George, of his estate, or rather of his
personal gives us some tur-
Their light. His personality was:
Two old horses, some pewter, dishes,
cups. etc: brass kettle. chafing dish.
gridiron. bellows. iron pot, funnell old
poetic. butter pot. jug, old violin,
wig, l sword, great coat. old frock,
old coats. fine hat, 81 books ? gold
rings, l pair money scales. l set gold
smiths tools, ! looking glass. / dram
glass. handsaw, head cattle. grind
stone.-Prince George Records)
From this inventory we gather that
like many OF the Euguepots, he had
learned Il trade. Tt was evidently that
If goldsmith, very respectable trade
among both the English and French.
That he was dressy Frenchman with
his fine hat. great coat frock coat
and silver shoe buckles sword with
a silver handle, and large and small
gold rings. That he was not n planter
for lie had only three cattle. and two
horses. That he was convivial. having
his dram glass and his violin. and that
he had. as seen above, three sons
Henry. Mathew and George. This is
all we know of the Huguenots. founder
of the Cabaniss family. For many
years II was supposed that Mathew,
George and Henri were original emf
grants, and that the American Caban!ss
family sprang from them, but In my
researches In Prince George q few
toricai collections, containing list OF
the Huguenots, the facts s have given
were brought out. or this family
of Henri Cabaniss, Henry. the son, dis
appears at an early day from Prince
George, and reappears in Mecklenburg,
where the name is written Cavendish.
He was the first man in America to
manufacture tobacco in plugs" and by
carelessness this tobacco was called
"Cavendish" The attention of Henri
Cabaniss was called TO this Ee said
he did not care to have the corrcc-
ton made. 1t Is found so written in
North Carolina still. There Is q mem-
Der Of the Western North Carolina
Conference who bears the name. and
n physician in Western North Carolina.
Georgia was the founder of the family
which now lives in Dinwiddie Coun-
ty, Va, and one of his descendants
is Colonel Charles John Cabaniss, who
lives at Fords Depot, In Didwiddie,
ana Mr.. Robert Cabauiss his son, who
resides in Petersburg, but Mathew Ca
baniss had much the largest family.
and from him nearly all the Cabanisses
In America trace their descent, so
many in fact. that by most OF them,
the family is supposed 10 begin with
him He was evidently born after 1902,
Tor then his father isAd only one child,
as he died 1889. II is likely he was
born about 1912. He received I'm grant
OF land OF 347 acres in Amelia Coun-
ty, Va, In 1737. Amelia County was
made from: Brunswick md Prince
George in t73S. and mis- grant was made
In 1881, and infT4s. four hundred acres
more were granted tn him AZ 3 A
Il He married. Hannah Clay, who wass
a. daughter of Colonel Thomas CIay,,I
es appears from chancery sutt
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