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- Virginia genealogies : a genealogy of the Glassell family of Scotland and Virginia, p. 7. (By: Horace Edwin Hayden).
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A history of St. Mark's Parish, Culpeper County, Virginia, p. 122-124. By: Philip Slaughter
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Benjamin Cave came to Virginia from England in 1725.
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Benjamin was overseer of the Germana Road in place of Robert Slaughter on November 2, 1726.
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Benjamin was given a county levy of 1240 lbs. tobacco for "Marking and Clearing" a road from Germana to Northanna on November 8, 1727.
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Benjamin was overseer of the Germana Road in place of Thomas Dowday on July 3, 1728.
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Benjamin was discharged as overseer of the Germana road on September 3, 1729.
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Benjamin was an overseer of several other road and bridge building projects in addition to those cited above.
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He and Abraham Bledsoe, his brother-in-law, held patent for 1000 acres of land on the Rapidan river September 28, 1728 (Done in Williamsburg under the seal of the Colony of Virginia).
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He was a vestry-man for St. Mark's Parish in Culpeper Co., Virginia, from 1731 through 1740, and at St. Thomas' Parish, Orange Co., Virginia, from 1740 until his death. This family were all of the Established Church of England.
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Benjamin Cave represented Orange Co. in the house of Burgess in 1756, 1760.
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