Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

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

Charles D. Tibbetts Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 00/00/2008.

Custodial History

The papers were located in the old Digges House in Mathews, Virginia.

Biographical Note

Probably born in Virginia.  Died in Phoebus, Virginia.  Participated in the Mexican War. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Charles D. Tibbetts">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Charles D. Tibbetts</a>.

Scope and Contents

Papers of Charles D. Tibbetts who died in Phoebus, Virginia in 1924 at the age of 94 or 96.  The collection includes a few financial and personal documents and personal correspondence, but it is mostly correspondence between people involved with Tibbetts' inheritance. Tibbetts enlisted in the army in Richmond, Virginia when he was 17 years old and fought in the Mexican War.  Genealogy of the Tibbetts, Stover and Cunningham families are partially shown in the letters searching for heirs.

Arrangement of Materials

Divided by genre, then chronologically.

Index Terms

Family Name:

• Cunningham family.
• Stover family.
• Tibbetts family.

Genre/Form of Material:

• Correspondence
• Financial records

Geographic Name:

• United States--Social life and customs

Topical Term:

• United States. Army--Appointments, promotions, salaries, etc.

Additional Information