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Abraham Bedford Venable

Abraham Bedford Venable

Male 1758 - 1811  (53 years)

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  • Name Abraham Bedford Venable 
    Birth 20 Nov 1758 
    Gender Male 
    Death 26 Dec 1811  Richmond, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I19280  Bob Juch's Tree
    Last Modified 31 Dec 2022 

    Father Nathaniel Venable,   b. 21 Nov 1733, Hanover County, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Dec 1804, Prince Edward County, VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Elizabeth Michaux Woodson,   b. 6 Jun 1740   d. 27 Sep 1791, Prince Edward County, VA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 29 Mar 1755 
    • "Poplar Hill", Prince Edward Co., VA
    Family ID F7305  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 26 Dec 1811 - Richmond, Virginia, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • DAR # 649174
      "Word Pictures of Longwood," by Harriet V. Miller, private printing, 1941, pp. 14-15: Abraham died "in the Richmond Theater Disaster, 26 Dec 1811. "Abraham resigned from the US Senate to found the first Bank of VA and become its first President. Trustee of Hampden-Sidney College; never married and died intestate. When his property was divided, "Longwood,"the plantation home, fell to his older brother, Samuel Woodson Venable.

      "Gabriel's Rebellion: The VA Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802," by D.R. Egerton: "Abraham B. Venable, to whose committee the question had been referred, rose unsteadily and began to read a two-part resolution...."this committee suggested that a homeland be obtained "to which free negroes or mulattoes, and such negroes or mulattoes as may be emancipated, may be sent or choose to remove as a place of asylum"