William Cabell (American Revolution)

Colonel William Cabell ( March 13, 1730 – March 23, 1798 ), American statesman:

born in Licking Hole, Goochland County, Virginia eldest son of William Cabell;
joined his father as a vestryman of St. Anne's Parish, Albemarle County, Virginia in 1751;
took over his father's position as a surveyor in 1753;
a commissioner for arranging military claims in 1758;
prior to American Revolutionary War, was a delegate to all conventions for securing independence;
was a member of the committee that drew up the Declaration of Rights;
of January 7, 1789 he was one of the presidential electors who voted for George Washington as the first President of the United States;
died in Union Hill, Virginia.