<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 https://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"><eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"><eadid countrycode="US" mainagencycode="US-viw">Tabb-Family-Papers</eadid><filedesc><titlestmt><titleproper type="filing">Tabb Family Papers</titleproper><titleproper>Guide to the Tabb Family Papers <num>Mss. 65 T14</num></titleproper><author>Finding Aid Authors: Special Collections Staff.</author></titlestmt><publicationstmt><publisher>Special Collections Research Center</publisher><p id="logostmt"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/logos/wm.jpg" xlink:show="embed" xlink:type="simple"/></p><p><date>2007-07-06</date></p><address><addressline>William &amp; Mary Special Collections Research Center</addressline><addressline>Earl Gregg Swem Library</addressline><addressline>400 Landrum Dr</addressline><addressline>Williamsburg, Virginia</addressline><addressline>Business Number: 757-221-3090</addressline><addressline>spcoll@wm.edu</addressline><addressline>URL: <extptr xlink:href="https://libraries.wm.edu/libraries-spaces/special-collections" xlink:show="new" xlink:title="https://libraries.wm.edu/libraries-spaces/special-collections" xlink:type="simple"/></addressline></address></publicationstmt></filedesc><profiledesc><creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2026-01-13 07:01:53 -0500</date>.</creation><langusage>The collection description/finding aid is written in <language encodinganalog="041" langcode="eng">English</language></langusage></profiledesc></eadheader><archdesc level="collection">
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    <unittitle>Tabb Family Papers</unittitle>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <famname source="lcnaf">Tabb family</famname>
    </origination>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname source="lcnaf">Tabb, H. A., fl. 1870-1875</persname>
    </origination>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname source="lcnaf">Tabb, John Henry</persname>
    </origination>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname source="lcnaf">Tabb, John N., fl. 1870-1875</persname>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1.00 Linear Feet</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1797/1875" type="inclusive">1797-1875</unitdate>
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      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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    <head>General</head>
<p>Other Information:</p><p> A PDF document of this inventory is available online.</p><p> Additional information may be found at http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/findingaids/65_T14_Tabb-Family.pdf</p>  </odd>
  <bioghist id="aspace_7c2e32a703808c38b4dc0535d2ee9ee7">
    <head>Family History:</head>
<p>Information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <extref xlink:actuate="onrequest" audience="external" linktype="simple" xlink:show="embed" xlink:href="http://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Tabb_family" xlink:title="Tabb family"/></p>  </bioghist>
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    <head>Acquisition Information:</head>
<p>Gift</p>  </acqinfo>
  <separatedmaterial id="aspace_dee015d5b1fcecb733969bfb9b5d4c7b">
    <head>Separated Materials:</head>
<p>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.</p>  </separatedmaterial>
  <userestrict id="aspace_6547e5dbfc5f1d969251e49893991f33">
    <head>Conditions Governing Use:</head>
<p>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.</p>  </userestrict>
  <accessrestrict id="aspace_09fa5e7c9f44fcc97bf67af077fd5152">
    <head>Conditions Governing Access:</head>
<p>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.</p>  </accessrestrict>
  <prefercite id="aspace_0e67ee2f9eb3827ce4a5dfed158ed642">
    <head>Preferred Citation:</head>
<p>Tabb Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.</p>  </prefercite>
  <relatedmaterial id="aspace_ef390a1ce314ede894a1b68ea5be376a">
    <head>Related Materials:</head>
<p>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.</p>  </relatedmaterial>
  <scopecontent id="aspace_4c055539fcf2e53960fff0e24834d853">
    <head>Scope and Contents</head>
<p>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.</p>  </scopecontent>
  <controlaccess>
    <genreform source="aat">Correspondence</genreform>
    <genreform source="aat">Financial records</genreform>
    <genreform source="aat">Receipts (financial records)</genreform>
    <subject source="lcsh">Danville (Va.)--History--19th century</subject>
    <subject source="lcsh">Mathews County (Va.)--History--19th century</subject>
    <subject source="local">Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century</subject>
    <subject source="local">Pittsylvania County (Va.)--History--19th century</subject>
    <famname source="lcsh">Tabb family</famname>
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Tabb, merchant in Danville, Virginia</unittitle><unitid>id161456</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80225</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1829-1839</unitdate><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_266afb7693aec656f84bdbdec7ae6ebe" label="Mixed materials" type="Box">1</container><container id="aspace_641c883c3738994bc978e6d8ef60ae91" parent="aspace_266afb7693aec656f84bdbdec7ae6ebe" type="Folder">2</container></did></c><c id="aspace_d5dcd0f4532ab57c1346ac32c40567d3" level="file"><did><unittitle>Business papers and accounts of John H. Tabb, merchant in Danville, Virginia</unittitle><unitid>id161457</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80226</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1829-1839</unitdate><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_2e90537f9a3628133cbb45ac46a26f2d" label="Mixed materials" type="Box">1</container><container id="aspace_5c91fb2ba034a636ae9975daff93756a" parent="aspace_2e90537f9a3628133cbb45ac46a26f2d" type="Folder">3</container></did></c><c id="aspace_29d87dbf7013ef7215ba956bd317cbe3" level="file"><did><unittitle>Business papers and accounts of John H. Tabb, merchant in Danville, Virginia</unittitle><unitid>id161458</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80227</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1829-1839</unitdate><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_d3c62bef9a6a109a3239b461b321649e" label="Mixed materials" type="Box">1</container><container id="aspace_65f9b0af0c6f055660c53705437d0737" parent="aspace_d3c62bef9a6a109a3239b461b321649e" type="Folder">4</container></did></c><c id="aspace_9dad514a4cd2eddd4176977542d30cad" level="file"><did><unittitle>Business papers and accounts of John H. Tabb, merchant in Danville, Virginia</unittitle><unitid>id161459</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80228</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1829-1839</unitdate><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_a8480594bda762ead6e75356dab65d72" label="Mixed materials" type="Box">1</container><container id="aspace_a8fa709a18a1f8ad764abe73289c1e59" parent="aspace_a8480594bda762ead6e75356dab65d72" type="Folder">5</container></did></c><c id="aspace_b30b5718dc78d8bd076dab08bb1d636a" level="file"><did><unittitle>Business letters, papers, and accounts of John N. and H.A. Tabb, merchants in Mathews County, Virginia</unittitle><unitid>id161462</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80229</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1870-1875</unitdate><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_895b5bd66dff6482f7542da69f19545f" label="Mixed materials" type="Box">1</container><container id="aspace_0b242e994ab3b39507edd4f820c1a233" parent="aspace_895b5bd66dff6482f7542da69f19545f" type="Folder">6</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_58407c0e7de5da0510ba330d16df4940"><head>Scope and Contents</head><p>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.</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_66e91a242e0e554fdbcc000d1251f5ac" level="file"><did><unittitle>Business letters, papers, and accounts of John N. and H.A. Tabb, merchants in Mathews County, Virginia</unittitle><unitid>id161463</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80230</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1870-1875</unitdate><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_ad5e69eb7c27f5546342b95627648341" label="Mixed materials" type="Box">1</container><container id="aspace_4dabe8b207315c375903b689d55efc26" parent="aspace_ad5e69eb7c27f5546342b95627648341" type="Folder">7</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_f4c10bfc4fa2ebc5d74ff5524d5e8dd3"><head>Scope and Contents</head><p>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.</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_9dd5d0a8c5256a1e8fdce565a18c6c9b" level="file"><did><unittitle>Business letters, papers, and accounts of John N. and H.A. Tabb, merchants in Mathews County, Virginia</unittitle><unitid>id161464</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80231</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1870-1875</unitdate><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_f5175836b037bbdd74e4a448f9543d0e" label="Mixed materials" type="Box">1</container><container id="aspace_66752ee598e64e6ea9fbd7518fe7ebbb" parent="aspace_f5175836b037bbdd74e4a448f9543d0e" type="Folder">8</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_763ef29b7531347d3b797eac721d12d6"><head>Scope and Contents</head><p>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.</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_67be21807addd7af5f828a5052a8bc46" level="file"><did><unittitle>Business letters, papers, and accounts of John N. and H.A. Tabb, merchants in Mathews County, Virginia</unittitle><unitid>id161465</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80232</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1870-1875</unitdate><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_d0c914ddf5c12106abc3d37a95ebcd87" label="Mixed materials" type="Box">1</container><container id="aspace_0e19f83a70bd469fc7e549670e4ece4c" parent="aspace_d0c914ddf5c12106abc3d37a95ebcd87" type="Folder">9</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_fbe4b1413e4501abf33520af74f7872d"><head>Scope and Contents</head><p>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.</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_8089637c69fb72da7d0507dbf94a6ed5" level="file"><did><unittitle>Illinois tax recepits and papers relative to property owned by Charles L. Powell, his brothers-in-law Richard and Fred Lloyd, and his son Lloyod Powell</unittitle><unitid>id161468</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80233</unitid><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_676839bfdcabb1d2ab5901fbb25420a3" label="Mixed materials" type="Box">2</container><container id="aspace_937e9d5048763d6a1ecd8c4ef4297191" parent="aspace_676839bfdcabb1d2ab5901fbb25420a3" type="Folder">1</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_aeab147bc91b5e466455e69e28e6a893"><head>Scope and Contents</head><p>Also personal receipts of Lloyd Powell (see Powell Family Papers).</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_16c9d280dd86abc929cfad0d12558983" level="file"><did><unittitle>Powell family accounts and letters relating to them</unittitle><unitid>id161470</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80234</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1852-1894</unitdate><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_83e81cca68f0a7bfcd172daf31a18bc9" label="Mixed materials" type="Box">2</container><container id="aspace_5c1f5a21f3d1e293d4a8b7f520b4e261" parent="aspace_83e81cca68f0a7bfcd172daf31a18bc9" type="Folder">2</container></did></c><c id="aspace_27a1a15fbcb5b07aa07a8fd079085b94" level="file"><did><unittitle>Court order and sheriff papers of Pittsylvania County, Virginia</unittitle><unitid>id161471</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80235</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1830-1837</unitdate><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_832f71425bbf3595e8129731df050dfa" label="Mixed materials" type="Box">2</container><container id="aspace_1ddae0f5d9cbcc888c0baeda8bd0a3ca" parent="aspace_832f71425bbf3595e8129731df050dfa" type="Folder">3</container></did></c><c id="aspace_9dc8795e94226cac70f03492ab07c17e" level="file"><did><unittitle>Edition Gloucester Herald (Court House, Virginia)</unittitle><unitid>id161473</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80236</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">April 25, 1874</unitdate><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_4f7aa7596c997e96eed9d7dd917ec0b9" label="Mixed materials" type="Box">2</container><container id="aspace_96696804ed1aea6b5ce4d15768181fda" parent="aspace_4f7aa7596c997e96eed9d7dd917ec0b9" type="Folder">4</container></did></c><c id="aspace_e005d1dc88799fe14efc638898d322fc" level="file"><did><unittitle>Market reports and broadsides including Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine Company</unittitle><unitid>id161475</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80237</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1872-1874</unitdate><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_287ac09b4f622d4ba0e720a234c7dd50" label="Mixed materials" type="Box">2</container><container id="aspace_62ba01ba2b1c82dbff4dd23f0a20768f" parent="aspace_287ac09b4f622d4ba0e720a234c7dd50" type="Folder">5</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_d1f947f53849f59995224351598f9bf9"><head>Scope and Contents</head><p>E.I. Horsman (New York) card games, toys, dolls. P.H. Starke (Richmond, Virginia) Dixie Plows. Dr. Worthington's cholera and diarrhea medicine.</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_cfc56260161ea5e76969b93284dbf4d1" level="file"><did><unittitle>Deeds, bills of sale, letters relating to Powell family land in Illinois</unittitle><unitid>id161478</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80238</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1818-1898</unitdate></did><relatedmaterial id="aspace_8fa7fb3ad4215184a47644bad1d03097"><head>Related Materials</head><p>Folder moved to the Powell Family papers, Mss. 65 P875.</p></relatedmaterial></c><c id="aspace_70b314ce8d9dcc0293562ae7566572f0" level="file"><did><unittitle>Accounts of customers with Tabb's Store in Mathews County, Virginia</unittitle><unitid>id161480</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80239</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1872-1875</unitdate><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_83b2a1584e95bb9bb25733e085463fbd" label="Mixed materials" type="Box">2</container><container id="aspace_a502c4fdf0ddd0887eab8d347eca9809" parent="aspace_83b2a1584e95bb9bb25733e085463fbd" type="Folder">6</container></did></c><c id="aspace_f476f61c088379021c7154eb26428e73" level="file"><did><unittitle>Accounts of customers with Tabb's Store in Mathews County, Virginia</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/558736</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1872-1875</unitdate><langmaterial><language langcode="eng">English</language></langmaterial><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_72dc713ba208a8bf439d09be38ee1012" label="Mixed materials" type="Box">2</container><container id="aspace_01bd8cbb9bbddeaa5d9409531750a883" parent="aspace_72dc713ba208a8bf439d09be38ee1012" type="Folder">7</container></did></c><c id="aspace_37e16e3e660d3f334aac36f36fb07711" level="file"><did><unittitle>Business letters and accounts to John H. Tabb, Danville, Virginia</unittitle><unitid>id161483</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80240</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1831-1838</unitdate><container altrender="Oversize Box 11 x 14" id="aspace_ed0115feecc44f3d44cbaf4d174432d5" label="Mixed materials" type="box">3</container><container id="aspace_5962d962f686d8d406ec937f840e4f5d" parent="aspace_ed0115feecc44f3d44cbaf4d174432d5" type="Folder">8</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_4aa1eabef0b679af2b1953d1bea39e09"><head>Scope and Contents</head><p>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.</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_94aa357c9c1ad211d2bbdfd2e5eaad96" level="file"><did><unittitle>Tabb family legal papers</unittitle><unitid>id161484</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80241</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1797-1874</unitdate><container altrender="Oversize Box 11 x 14" id="aspace_4b7417a53bfbb677348124b295d00129" label="Mixed materials" type="box">3</container><container id="aspace_0e9826ab940e6e83a74a7db3edb1dec1" parent="aspace_4b7417a53bfbb677348124b295d00129" type="Folder">9</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_4a61cb7aefd7ceafefd0e2eb900a123c"><head>Scope and Contents</head><p>Illinois land grant signed by James Monroe, February 18, 1818.</p></scopecontent></c><c id="aspace_8180fb234f6f39fe49753ecba5c42340" level="file"><did><unittitle>Undated accounts and receipts.</unittitle><unitid>id161486</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80242</unitid><container altrender="Oversize Box 11 x 14" id="aspace_24e2e871c57f24efea76dbac15168596" label="Mixed materials" type="box">3</container><container id="aspace_0eec3d39765d373b8d85f4ae0e250642" parent="aspace_24e2e871c57f24efea76dbac15168596" type="Folder">10</container></did></c><c id="aspace_c8d842892667d087dfda3c241135d11d" level="file"><did><unittitle>Business letters and accounts of Tabb Store in Matthews County, Virginia</unittitle><unitid>id161487</unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/80243</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1870-1875</unitdate><container altrender="Oversize Box 11 x 14" id="aspace_a2e38467bd240ad71354464dd36ce3eb" label="Mixed materials" type="box">3</container><container id="aspace_becd3383e8cb2b4e56ad93c923b13ab6" parent="aspace_a2e38467bd240ad71354464dd36ce3eb" type="Folder">11</container></did></c></dsc>
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