Capt. George Dabney

1740 - 1824  (84 years)

• Name	Capt. George Dabney  [1]
  Prefix	Capt.
  Born	1740	Hanover County, Virginia   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1824	Hanover County, Virginia   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I218	Dabneys of Virginia
  Last Modified	22 Feb 2017

  
  

  Father	Col. William Dabney, of Aldingham,   b. C1707-10, King William County, Virginia ,   d. 1773/74, Hanover County, Virginia  (Age ~ 176 years)
  Mother	Ann Barrett,   b. 1715,   d. Dec 1779  (Age 64 years)
  Married	1737-39  [4]
  Family ID	F153	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Price,   b. 1748, Hanover County, Virginia ,   d. 1819, Hanover County, Virginia  (Age 71 years)
  Children	1. John Dabney,   b. 1770, Hanover County, Virginia ,   d. 4 May 1816, Campbell County, Virginia  (Age 46 years)   2. Nancy Dabney,   b. 1771-1778, Hanover County, Virginia ,   d. Bef 1800  (Age < 22 years)   3. William Dabney,   b. Abt 1774-84,   d. 25 Feb 1822, Richmond, Virginia  (Age ~ 173 years)   4. Elizabeth Price Dabney,   b. 1776/77, Hanover County, Virginia ,   d. 1859/60, Hanover County, Virginia  (Age 83 years)   5. George Dabney,   b. 1782/83, Hanover County, Virginia ,   d. Aug 1818, Hanover County, Virginia  (Age 35 years)   6. Chiswell Dabney,   b. 24 Jun 1791, Hanover County, Virginia ,   d. 30 Apr 1865, Lynchburg, Virginia  (Age 73 years)   7. Catherine M. Dabney,   b. 1795, Hanover County, Virginia ,   d. 9 Sep 1845, Woodville, Georgia  (Age 50 years)   8. Mary Dabney   9. Maria Dabney   10. Lucy Dabney   11. Jane Dabney
  Last Modified	31 Jul 2014
  Family ID	F156	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Capt. George Dabney was born to Col. William Dabney of Aldingham and Ann Barrett Dabney in 1740 in Hanover County, Virginia. He was born and lived for the rest of his life on a farm called The Grove, where his father, William, lived before moving to Aldingham in the same county. He married Elizabeth Price, daughter of John Price, a Welsh immigrant, and his wife, Mary Randolph, of the Cool Water farm in Hanover County. They had eleven children: John, born 1770; Nancy, born 1771-78; William, born 1774-84; Elizabeth Price, born 1776/77; George, born 1782/83; Chiswell, born 24 Jun 1791; Catherine M., born 1795; Mary; Maria; Lucy; Jane, the last four never married. The order of their birth varies in different sources. Captain Dabney has been identified by several early sources as “of Dabney’s Legion,” the unit commanded by his brother, Col. Charles Dabney, in the Revolution. However, no records of his enlistment or receipt of a commission in that unit has been found through the Fold 3 or Ancestry data files or partial compilations such as F. B. Heitman’s Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army. He may have served as a county militia officer whose records have not survived or may have served as an unenrolled assistant to his brother Col. Charles Dabney of Dabney’s Legion. According to the John Blair Dabney Manuscript, written by his grandson, he was superintendent of the extensive estates of General Thomas Nelson before and during the Revolutionary War. The manuscript describes his admirable personality and character at considerable length. He was a friend and strong supporter of Patrick Henry, who opposed adoption of the Constitution but played a major role in the inclusion of the Bill of Rights. Elizabeth Price Dabney died in 1819 and Capt. George Dabney died in 1824 in Hanover County, Virginia. [2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18]

  
  

• Sources

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