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Joseph C. Cabell’s Notes on Collegiate Districts for a System of Public Education, [after 24 October 1817]

Joseph C. Cabell’s Notes on Collegiate Districts for a System of Public Education

[after 24 Oct. 1817]

West of the Blue Ridge
Wythe 7180
Montgomery 7253
Grayson 4641
Washington1 10561
1. Lee 4337
Russell 5894
Tazewell 2061
Scott
41,927
Giles 3478
Monroe 4898
Greenbrier 5390
2. Kanawha 3468
Mason 1742
Cabell 5472
24,448
Botetourt 10736
Bath 3806
3. Rockbridge 8,545
Augusta 11,232
Pendleton 3952 2
Rockingham 11,049
49,320
Shenandoah 12461
Frederick 15547
Jefferson 7967
4. Berkley 9760
Hampshire 8731
Hardy 4579
59,045
Randolph 2706
Harrison & Lewis 9448
Wood 2585
5. Ohio & Tyler 7681
Brooke 2471
Monongalia 12405
37,296 3
 East of the Blue Ridge
Albemarle 8632
Nelson 4997
Fluvanna 2576
Goochland 4230
6. Louisa 5313
Orange 5711
Madison 4223
Spottsylvania 5596
41,278
Culpepper 10391
Fauquier 11984
Loudon 15577
7. Fairfax 6620
Prince William 5733
50,305 4
Stafford 5319 5
King George 2381
Westmoreland 3401
Richmond 2775
Northumberland 4162
8. Lancaster 2276
Essex 3411
King & Queen 4718
King William 3264
Caroline 6452
Hanover 6219
44,378 6
Middlesex 1811
Mathews 2118
Gloucester 4183
York 1789
Elizabeth City 1799
9. Warwick 697
James City 1354
Charles City 2776
New Kent 2445
Henrico 4384
City of Richmond 4798 7
Surrey 5,751
Isle of Wight 4447
Nansemond 4593
Norfolk 7445
Norfolk Borough 4776
Princess Anne 5305
60,471
Patrick 3696
Henry 3641
Pittsylvania 10710
10. Franklin 7966
Bedford 9789 8
Campbell 5370
Amherst 5143 9
46,315 10
Halifax 12117
Charlotte 5354
Prince Edward 5264
Buckingham 7780 11
11. Cumberland 3715 12
Lunenburg 7796
Meclenburg 4933
46,959 13
Powhatan 2484
Chesterfield 3691
Dinwiddie 4606
Petersburg 2406
12. Prince George 3101
Sussex 4436
Southampton 5982
Greensville 2254
Brunswick 5665
Nottoway 2730
Amelia 3253
40,608 14
Eastern Shore
13. Accomack 9341
Northampton 3224
12,565 15

Arrangement of the Commonwealth into Academical Districts.


11 Large & 2 Small Districts—one of the Latter on the waters of the Kanawha; the other on the Eastern Shore:—


Each District to furnish the buildings, And each to draw an annuity from the Literary fund for the endowment of the Academy.

All the large districts to draw an equal annuity. The two small ones to divide one portion between them.


MS (ViU: JCC); written entirely in Cabell’s hand on rectos and versos of two sheets; undated; endorsed by Cabell: “Arrangement of the state into Academical districts, with a view to the College of W. & Mary, Hampden sydney, Washington & the Central College, as a part of the System. It was prepared as a substitute for Mr Jefferson’s arrangemt in his bill for establishing a system of public education. The Kanawha district might be enlarged to the rank of a large district” and “Suggested by J. C. Cabell—as Amendatory of Mr Jefferson’s plan.”

Cabell calculated the white inhabitants of each Virginia county by subtracting both the number of slaves and “All other free persons, except Indians not taxed” from the total population according to the 1810 census as published in Aggregate amount of each description of Persons within the United States of America, and the Territories thereof, agreeably to actual enumeration made according to law, in the year 1810 (Washington, 1811; Poor, Jefferson’s Library description begins Nathaniel P. Poor, Catalogue. President Jefferson’s Library, 1829 description ends , 11 [no. 686]), 54–5a.

scott County was formed on 24 Nov. 1814. Part of harrison County became lewis County on 18 Dec. 1816, and a section of ohio County became tyler County on 6 Dec. 1814 (Acts of Assembly description begins Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia (cited by session; title varies over time) description ends [1814–15 sess.], 85–7, 87–8; [1816–17 sess.], 152–3).

1Preceding this word Cabell canceled “Giles.”

2Line interlined, with district total corrected from “45,368” to reflect the addition.

3Page one ends here.

4Total interlined in place of “55,624.”

5Line interlined. Cabell originally included and then neglected to cancel Stafford County at the end of the seventh district, where it has been editorially omitted.

6Total interlined in place of “39,059.”

7Page two ends here, with intermediate sum of 28,154 at foot of that page and top of next page, heading of “Wmsburg District” at top of page three, and repeated district number in left margin of that page editorially omitted.

8Line interlined.

9Beneath this entry Cabell canceled “Buckingham 7780.”

10Total interlined in place of “<44,306> 36,526.”

11Line interlined.

12Beneath this entry Cabell canceled “Amelia 3253” and “Nottoway 2730.” He also canceled “Powhatan 2484” at the end of this district before adding all three counties to the twelfth district.

13Total interlined in place of “47,646.”

14Page three ends here.

15Remainder in separate column to right of Eastern Shore figures.

Index Entries

  • A Bill for Establishing a System of Public Education search
  • Blue Ridge Mountains; as political divide search
  • Cabell, Joseph Carrington; as Va. state senator search
  • Cabell, Joseph Carrington; Notes on Collegiate Districts for System of Public Education search
  • Census, U.S.; of1810 search
  • Central College; mentioned search
  • education; in Va. search
  • Hampden-Sydney College; mentioned search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; A Bill for Establishing a System of Public Education search
  • Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Notes on Collegiate Districts for a System of Public Education search
  • schools and colleges; Hampden-Sydney College search
  • schools and colleges; Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) search
  • Virginia; and education search
  • Virginia; collegiate districts proposed in search
  • Virginia; Literary Fund search
  • Washington College (later Washington and Lee University) search
  • whites; population of in Va. search
  • William and Mary, College of; mentioned search