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Preferred Citation:
Tabb Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
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.
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.
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.
Business papers and accounts of John H. Tabb, merchant in Danville, Virginia
1829-1839
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 id161456
Business papers and accounts of John H. Tabb, merchant in Danville, Virginia
1829-1839
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 id161457
Business papers and accounts of John H. Tabb, merchant in Danville, Virginia
1829-1839
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 id161458
Business papers and accounts of John H. Tabb, merchant in Danville, Virginia
1829-1839
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 id161459
Business papers and accounts of John H. Tabb, merchant in Danville, Virginia
1829-1839
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 id161462
Business letters, papers, and accounts of John N. and H.A. Tabb, merchants in Mathews County, Virginia
1870-1875
Scope and Contents
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.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 id161463
Business letters, papers, and accounts of John N. and H.A. Tabb, merchants in Mathews County, Virginia
1870-1875
Scope and Contents
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.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 id161464
Business letters, papers, and accounts of John N. and H.A. Tabb, merchants in Mathews County, Virginia
1870-1875
Scope and Contents
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.
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 id161465
Business letters, papers, and accounts of John N. and H.A. Tabb, merchants in Mathews County, Virginia
1870-1875
Scope and Contents
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.
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 1 id161468
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
Scope and Contents
Also personal receipts of Lloyd Powell (see Powell Family Papers).
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 2 id161470
Powell family accounts and letters relating to them
1852-1894
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 3 id161471
Court order and sheriff papers of Pittsylvania County, Virginia
1830-1837
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 4 id161473
Edition Gloucester Herald (Court House, Virginia)
April 25, 1874
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 5 id161475
Market reports and broadsides including Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machine Company
1872-1874
Scope and Contents
E.I. Horsman (New York) card games, toys, dolls. P.H. Starke (Richmond, Virginia) Dixie Plows. Dr. Worthington's cholera and
diarrhea medicine.
id161478
Deeds, bills of sale, letters relating to Powell family land in Illinois
1818-1898
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 6 id161480
Accounts of customers with Tabb's Store in Mathews County, Virginia
1872-1875
Mixed Materials Box: 2 Folder: 7
Accounts of customers with Tabb's Store in Mathews County, Virginia
1872-1875English
Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 8 id161483
Business letters and accounts to John H. Tabb, Danville, Virginia
1831-1838
Scope and Contents
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.
Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 9 id161484
Tabb family legal papers
1797-1874
Scope and Contents
Illinois land grant signed by James Monroe, February 18, 1818.
Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 10 id161486
Undated accounts and receipts.
Mixed Materials box: 3 Folder: 11 id161487
Business letters and accounts of Tabb Store in Matthews County, Virginia
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