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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC03434.22 |
| From Archive Folder | Middlesex County Virginia documents |
| Title | Last will and testament of Henry W. Tabb |
| Date | 16 May 1860 |
| Author | Tabb, Henry W. (1791-1864) |
| Document Type | Business and financial document; Legal document |
| Content Description | Last will of Henry W. Tabb, making provisions for his lands, children and slaves. Provides two hundred dollars per year for the education of each younger child. Wants his main plantation maintained, "for the support and education of my children," with forty slaves and an overseer. Desires that an additional slave "between the ages of twelve and sixteen" be given to each of his younger children. Wishes the remaining of his slaves to be sold, but orders that "In making sale of the slaves, I wish my executors to sell them as far as convenient in families so as not to separate children from their parents more than necessary." Includes a later codicil, dated 26 June 1863, and a court docket dated 5 October 1865 following Tabb's death. Court docked signed and authorized by Shepard G. Miller. |
| Subjects | Estate Death Children and Family Slavery Education Finance African American History Slave Sale Slave Life Land Transaction |
| People | Tabb, Henry Wythe (1791-1864) |
| Place written | Matthews County, Virginia |
| Theme | Banking & Economics; Law; Children & Family; Women in American History; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Additional Information | Henry W. Tabb was a prominent Virginia physician and plantation owner. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |