John Henry Tabb Papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

John Henry Tabb Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
269.00 Items
Creator:
Tabb, John Henry
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

John Henry Tabb Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Chiefly papers, 1826-1856, of John Henry Tabb of Gloucester County, Va. who moved to Danville, Va. where he was a merchant (Tabb, Allmand & Co.). Collection includes correspondence of members of the Tabb family with Tabb and business letters written to him.

The letters primarily concern the business that Tabb conducted in Danville, Virginia. Letter comments on dining at "White Marsh" for three and one half hours and the $20,000 worth of silver on the table, December 26, 1838. Second page of letter is itemized list of supplies shipped from Baltimore to a Gloucester County estate, May 11, 1827. Comment on Virginia Constitutional Convention, November 23, 1829 and personal expression of desire for separation of eastern and western Virginia. Letter from Danville, Virginia, October 8, 1832, commenting on two female seminaries there; bank reorganizations and general news.

Also contains a photographic print; 1908 or 1909, 8"x 10", black and white, of the last ring tournament in Gloucester County, Va., held at "White Marsh," the seat of Capt. John Tabb. The sixteen participants were identified by Monroe J. Cockrell as: Robert Corbell, Mensin Cooke (?), Dunham Withers, Edwin Curtis, Lockie Sinclair, Roland Sinclair, John Henry Tabb, Fred Parrish, Capt. John Tabb, Powell Catlett, Frank Sinclair, Barnes Lawson, Hayes Hogg, Colgate Selden, Harry Tabb, and Jack Sinclair.

Biographical / historical:

John Henry Tabb of Gloucester County, VA who moved to Danville, VA where he was a merchant (Tabb, Allmand & Co.). Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/John Henry Tabb

Acquisition information:
Gift