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candidate for governor of the state on the Republican ticket, but was defeated by his opponent, Return J. Meigs, whereupon Mr. Massie raised the question of the eligibility o( his opponent, and the general assembly in joint convention declared him ineligible under the constitution, but Mr. Massie does not appear by the official records to have claimed the office; he served as major-gen- eral of the state militia for a number of years; he died at Paint Creek Falls, Ohio, November 13, 1813, in the prime of life, he not having attained the age of fifty years.

Cabell, Landon, born before February 21, 1765, son of Col. William Cabell, of **Union Hill," Nelson county, Virginia. He attend- ed private schools, and Hampden-Sidney College. He was at William and Mary Col- lege from March, 1780, to May, 1781, when the college was suspended on account of the British occupation. He was at the last meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, in January, 1781. He served at Yorktown, in the college company attached to his Uncle Joseph Cabell's regiment of militia. In 1783 he reentered William and Mary Col- lege, remaining until 1785. He was long a justice of the peace in Amherst county, and for many years in Nelson county. He was offered a seat in the cabinet of President Madison, but declined. He died in January, 1834.

Lewis, Lawrence, born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, April 4, 1767, son of Col. Fielding and Elizabeth (Washington) Lewis, and grandson of Augustine and Mary (Ball) Washington; he was Gen. Washington's favorite nephew and after Washington's re- tirement from public life, resided with him at Mt. Vernon ; he was the last living exec-

utor of the will of Gen. Washington, and continued to reside at Mt. Vernon until the death of Martha Washington, May 22, 1802 ; in 1794 Lawrence Lewis served as an aide to Gen. Morgan in his expedition to quell an insurrection in Pennsylvania; mar- ried, February 22, 1799, Eleanor Parke, daughter of John Parke Custis, and a grand- daughter of Martha (Custfs) Washington; she was adopted with her brother, George Washington Parke Custis, by Gen. Wash- ington on the death of their father in 1783; Mrs. Lewis was born March 21, 1779, died a: Audley, Virginia, July 15, 1852; she sur- vived her husband, who died at Arlington, Virginia, November 30, 1839.

George, Enoch, was born in Lancaster county, Virginia, in 1767, died in Staunton, Virginia, in August, 1828. He was under the ministry of Rev. Devereaux Jarratt, then of the Church of England, and was in early life the subject of deep religious im- pressions; but having been separated from Mr. Jarratt's ministry, he became negligent of his religious duties, till, after several years, the place was visited by a Methodist evangelist, under whose exhortations young George became connected with the little Methodist Society of his neighborhood. In 1790 he was admitted on trial into the Vir- ginia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and served for two years as junior preacher in Caswell circuit. After this he went to South Carolina, and in 1796 was presiding elder of Charleston district, and the next year on account of impaired health, he retired from active work in the ministry. In 1803 he entered the Baltimore confer- ence, where he labored with great zeal and success, till at the general conference, held

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