26791Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 22 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
The University Bill passed to a second reading in the House of Delegates by a majority of one vote only. It is now on its third reading & will be read to-morrow. Our friends, I think, are encreasing. Gen l Blackburn will support it. M r Garland came over & voted for it. If we lose the Bill in the lower House , we shall hang on upon the Poor school bill . I hope we shall work it thro’, in one...
26792Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Collegiate Districts for a System of Public Education, [ca. 24 October 1817] (Jefferson Papers)
white inhab Accomac 11,201 Northampton 4,124 Northumberland 4,461 Lancaster 2,480 Richmond 3,036 Westmoreland 4,022
26793Minutes of Central College Board of Visitors, 7 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Visitors & c held at Charlottesville 7 Oct: 1817. On information of the amount of the subscriptions to the Central College , known to be made, and others understood to be so, the board resolves, that the Pavilion now erecting be completed as heretofore directed, with the 20. dormitories attached to it, and that two other pavilions be contracted for and executed the next...
26794Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 23 April 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived at this place yesterday evening on my return home from the election in Goochland . Gen l Cocke informs me that he met you at Enniscorthy on his as you were going to Bedford , and that he learned from you that the meeting which you proposed of the Visitors of the Central College was intended to be on the day fixed in the Law for the Gen l meeting in the Spring, viz, on the first day...
26795Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 29 November 1813 (Jefferson Papers)
Your favor of 7 th inst covering an abstract of the Bill respecting yourself & the Rivanna River C o , did not get to Warminster , till nearly a fortnight after I had left home for the lower country: and it was not untill the 26 th inst that I received it at this place. This will account for the delay of my answer; as well as for my not calling at Monticello on my way down, agreeably to your...
26796Joseph C. Cabell to Thomas Jefferson, 25 February 1821 (Jefferson Papers)
I have the pleasing satisfaction to inform you that the University Bill passed yesterday, not exactly in the shape its friends preferred, yet in one not very exceptionable. The first intelligence of its passage in the lower House was conveyed to us in the Senate Chamber by a tumultuous noise below, like that which is usual on the adjournment of the House . This was the tumult of rejoicing...
26797Joseph C. Cabell’s Statement of Funds Needed by the University of Virginia, [by 1 January 1822] (Jefferson Papers)
To liberate the Funds—on 1 st Jan: 1822. 1. A remission of the debt $60.000. 2. To liberate the annuities of 1822. & 1823 30.000 $90.000 .00
26798Minutes of University of Virginia Board of Visitors, 1 April 1822 (Jefferson Papers)
At a meeting of the Visitors of the University of Virginia at the sd University on Monday the 1 st of April 1822 present Thomas Jefferson Rector, Joseph C. Cabell and John Hartwell Cocke , who not being sufficient to constitute a Quorum for business they adjourned indefinitely. Th: Jefferson Rector. Apr. 1. 1822. MS
26799Minutes of Central College Board of Visitors, 28 July 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
At a called meeting of the Visitors of the Central College , held at the House of M r Madison in Orange , Thomas Jefferson , James Madison , John Hartwell Cocke , and Joseph C. Cabell , being present: The plan of the first Pavilion to be erected, and the proceedings thereupon, having been stated and agreed to It is agreed that application be made to Doctor Knox
26800Central College Board of Visitors to James P. Preston, 6 January 1818 (Jefferson Papers)
The late Governor of the Commonwealth having thought proper to confide to us the office of Visitors of the Central College near Charlottesville , under an act of the legislature , establishing as it’s patron, the Governor for the time being, we deem it our duty to report to you our proceedings under that appointment, with the progress & prospects of that institution. The want of a seminary of...