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; , 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 ( [1814–15 sess.], 85–7, 87–8; [1816–17 sess.], 152–3).
1. Preceding this word Cabell canceled “Giles.”
2. Line interlined, with district total corrected from “45,368” to reflect the addition.
3. Page one ends here.
4. Total interlined in place of “55,624.”
5. Line interlined. Cabell originally included and then neglected to cancel Stafford County at the end of the seventh district, where it has been editorially omitted.
6. Total interlined in place of “39,059.”
7. Page 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.
8. Line interlined.
9. Beneath this entry Cabell canceled “Buckingham 7780.”
10. Total interlined in place of “<44,306> 36,526.”
11. Line interlined.
12. Beneath 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.
13. Total interlined in place of “47,646.”
14. Page three ends here.
15. Remainder 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
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- 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