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Preferred Citation:
Tabb Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Acquisition Information:
Gift
Family History:
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Scope and Contents
Papers, 1797-1875, of the Tabb family. Includes correspondence and accounts, 1829-1839, of John Henry Tabb, merchant of Danville, Va.; and papers, 1870-1875, of John N. Tabb and H. A. Tabb, merchants of Mathews County.
Related Material
See also the John H. Tabb Papers, the Tabb Family Diary, and the Dr. Henry W. Tabb Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Separated Material
Papers concerning the Powell Family were removed and arranged as the Powell Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Correspondence
- Danville (Va.)--History--19th century
- Financial records
- Mathews County (Va.)--History--19th century
- Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century
- Pittsylvania County (Va.)--History--19th century
- Receipts (financial records)
- Tabb family
General
Other Information:
A PDF document of this inventory is available online.
Additional information may be found at http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/findingaids/65_T14_Tabb-Family.pdf
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Tabb, H. A., fl. 1870-1875
- Tabb, John Henry
- Tabb, John N., fl. 1870-1875
Container List
In this box is a package of manuscript notes by Mrs. Hopkins identifying many persons and places mentioned in the Powell, Tabb, and Taliaferro Papers.
In this box is a package of manuscript notes by Mrs. Hopkins identifying many persons and places mentioned in the Powell, Tabb, and Taliaferro Papers.
In this box is a package of manuscript notes by Mrs. Hopkins identifying many persons and places mentioned in the Powell, Tabb, and Taliaferro Papers.
In this box is a package of manuscript notes by Mrs. Hopkins identifying many persons and places mentioned in the Powell, Tabb, and Taliaferro Papers.
Also personal receipts of Lloyd Powell (see Powell Family Papers).
E.I. Horsman (New York) card games, toys, dolls. P.H. Starke (Richmond, Virginia) Dixie Plows. Dr. Worthington's cholera and diarrhea medicine.
Letter from Joseph H. Street, Natchez, Mississippi, December 17, 1829, on personal affairs and general conditions in Mississippi, reviewing his peronal fortunes since moving there.
Illinois land grant signed by James Monroe, February 18, 1818.