Background
Cabell, Samuel Jordan was born on December 15, 1756 in Amherst County, Virginia, United States. Son of Colonel William and Margaret (Jordan) Cabell.
Cabell, Samuel Jordan was born on December 15, 1756 in Amherst County, Virginia, United States. Son of Colonel William and Margaret (Jordan) Cabell.
The Cabell family recruited a company of riflemen, and the following year Samuel Cabell was elected Captain in the Amherst County Volunteers, and then assigned to the 6th Virginia Regiment. Cabell participated in the Battle of Saratoga in 1777 and was promoted to the rank of Major. He served in George Washington’s army in 1778–1779 and received a promotion to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
Cabell was captured at the Siege of Charleston in 1780 and detained until the war"s education
In 1788 Amherst county voters elected Cabell and his father to represent them in the Virginia Ratification Convention, where both Cabells voted against the proposed United States Constitution, although the convention as a whole ratified lieutenant Samuel Cabell then persuaded fellow Anti-Federalist and Continental Army veteran James Monroe to run against James Madison for the position of United States. Representative for the extensive district that ran from Amherst County in southwest Virginia to Spotsylvania County in the Northeast.
Samuel Cabell died on his estate Soldier"s Joy at Wingina, Nelson County, Virginia.
Member Virginia Legislature, 1785-1786. Member United States House of Representatives from Virginia, 4th-7th congresses, 1795-1803.
Married Sally Syme, 1781.