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Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.","Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).","Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.","Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"collection_ssim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["24194"],"unitid_tesim":["24194"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Tazewell family"],"creator_ssim":["Tazewell family"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 21619 was purchased from Martha R. Adams,\n            Lynchburg, Virginia, 30 September 1939.","Acc. 21673 was purchased from Mrs. A. J. Davis,\n            Richmond, Virginia, 1 February 1940.","Acc. 22066 was purchased from James Lewis Hook,\n            Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, 22 July 1942.","Acc. 23749 was purchased from Mrs. C. W. Tazewell,\n            Tampa, Florida, 19 November 1951.","Acc. 24194 was purchased from C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 16 July 1954.","Acc. 24199 lent for copying by C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 3 August 1954.","Acc. 24230 lent for copying by Colonial Williamsburg\n            Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, 21 October 1954.","Acc. 27157 was a gift from Edmund Berkeley, Jr., acting\n            curator at the University of Virginia library,\n            Charlottesville, Virginia, June 30 1969."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["6.435 cubic\n         feet"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eArranged chronologically within each series.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n      ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOrganized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\u003c/p\u003e\n\t\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n    "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged chronologically within each series.","Organization\n        Organized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHenry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. 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Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. 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Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Physical Location\"\u003ePersonal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194\u003c/physloc\u003e\n      "],"physloc_tesim":["Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":4057,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:08:22.920Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c2233"}},{"id":"vi_vi00516_c2516","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"10 December 1842","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c2516#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eEdmund F. 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Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.","Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).","Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.","Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"collection_ssim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["24194"],"unitid_tesim":["24194"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Tazewell family"],"creator_ssim":["Tazewell family"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 21619 was purchased from Martha R. Adams,\n            Lynchburg, Virginia, 30 September 1939.","Acc. 21673 was purchased from Mrs. A. J. Davis,\n            Richmond, Virginia, 1 February 1940.","Acc. 22066 was purchased from James Lewis Hook,\n            Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, 22 July 1942.","Acc. 23749 was purchased from Mrs. C. W. Tazewell,\n            Tampa, Florida, 19 November 1951.","Acc. 24194 was purchased from C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 16 July 1954.","Acc. 24199 lent for copying by C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 3 August 1954.","Acc. 24230 lent for copying by Colonial Williamsburg\n            Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, 21 October 1954.","Acc. 27157 was a gift from Edmund Berkeley, Jr., acting\n            curator at the University of Virginia library,\n            Charlottesville, Virginia, June 30 1969."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["6.435 cubic\n         feet"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eArranged chronologically within each series.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n      ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOrganized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. 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Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHenry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Physical Location\"\u003ePersonal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194\u003c/physloc\u003e\n      "],"physloc_tesim":["Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":4057,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:08:22.920Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c2516"}},{"id":"vi_vi00516_c2517","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"10 December 1842","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c2517#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eJames Lyons of Richmond to John N. 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Tazewell-putting sale of Rocky Mills on hold until hears from John about the sale"],"_nest_path_":"/components#2516","timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:08:22.920Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vi_vi00516","ead_ssi":"vi_vi00516","_root_":"vi_vi00516","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi00516","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/lva/vi00516.xml","title_ssm":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"title_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"text":["Papers, 1623-1930","24194","6.435 cubic\n         feet","Arranged chronologically within each series.","Organization\n        Organized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.","Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).","Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. 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Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 3 August 1954.","Acc. 24230 lent for copying by Colonial Williamsburg\n            Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, 21 October 1954.","Acc. 27157 was a gift from Edmund Berkeley, Jr., acting\n            curator at the University of Virginia library,\n            Charlottesville, Virginia, June 30 1969."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["6.435 cubic\n         feet"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eArranged chronologically within each series.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n      ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOrganized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\u003c/p\u003e\n\t\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n    "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged chronologically within each series.","Organization\n        Organized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. 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He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Physical Location\"\u003ePersonal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194\u003c/physloc\u003e\n      "],"physloc_tesim":["Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":4057,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:08:22.920Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c2517"}},{"id":"vi_vi00516_c2637","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"[10 December 1844]","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c2637#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell to Ann N. 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Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.","Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).","Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.","Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"collection_ssim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["24194"],"unitid_tesim":["24194"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Tazewell family"],"creator_ssim":["Tazewell family"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 21619 was purchased from Martha R. Adams,\n            Lynchburg, Virginia, 30 September 1939.","Acc. 21673 was purchased from Mrs. A. J. Davis,\n            Richmond, Virginia, 1 February 1940.","Acc. 22066 was purchased from James Lewis Hook,\n            Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, 22 July 1942.","Acc. 23749 was purchased from Mrs. C. W. Tazewell,\n            Tampa, Florida, 19 November 1951.","Acc. 24194 was purchased from C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 16 July 1954.","Acc. 24199 lent for copying by C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 3 August 1954.","Acc. 24230 lent for copying by Colonial Williamsburg\n            Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, 21 October 1954.","Acc. 27157 was a gift from Edmund Berkeley, Jr., acting\n            curator at the University of Virginia library,\n            Charlottesville, Virginia, June 30 1969."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["6.435 cubic\n         feet"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eArranged chronologically within each series.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n      ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOrganized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\u003c/p\u003e\n\t\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n    "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged chronologically within each series.","Organization\n        Organized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHenry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Physical Location\"\u003ePersonal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194\u003c/physloc\u003e\n      "],"physloc_tesim":["Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":4057,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:08:22.920Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c2637"}},{"id":"vi_vi00516_c2807","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"10 December 1850","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c2807#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eJohn S. 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Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.","Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).","Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.","Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"collection_ssim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["24194"],"unitid_tesim":["24194"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Tazewell family"],"creator_ssim":["Tazewell family"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 21619 was purchased from Martha R. Adams,\n            Lynchburg, Virginia, 30 September 1939.","Acc. 21673 was purchased from Mrs. A. J. Davis,\n            Richmond, Virginia, 1 February 1940.","Acc. 22066 was purchased from James Lewis Hook,\n            Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, 22 July 1942.","Acc. 23749 was purchased from Mrs. C. W. Tazewell,\n            Tampa, Florida, 19 November 1951.","Acc. 24194 was purchased from C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 16 July 1954.","Acc. 24199 lent for copying by C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 3 August 1954.","Acc. 24230 lent for copying by Colonial Williamsburg\n            Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, 21 October 1954.","Acc. 27157 was a gift from Edmund Berkeley, Jr., acting\n            curator at the University of Virginia library,\n            Charlottesville, Virginia, June 30 1969."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["6.435 cubic\n         feet"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eArranged chronologically within each series.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n      ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOrganized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. 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He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. 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Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. 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Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Physical Location\"\u003ePersonal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194\u003c/physloc\u003e\n      "],"physloc_tesim":["Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":4057,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:08:22.920Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c2807"}},{"id":"vi_vi00516_c2828","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"10 December 1851","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c2828#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eJohn H. 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Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.","Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).","Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.","Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"collection_ssim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["24194"],"unitid_tesim":["24194"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Tazewell family"],"creator_ssim":["Tazewell family"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 21619 was purchased from Martha R. 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Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 3 August 1954.","Acc. 24230 lent for copying by Colonial Williamsburg\n            Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, 21 October 1954.","Acc. 27157 was a gift from Edmund Berkeley, Jr., acting\n            curator at the University of Virginia library,\n            Charlottesville, Virginia, June 30 1969."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["6.435 cubic\n         feet"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eArranged chronologically within each series.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n      ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOrganized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. 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He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. 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Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Physical Location\"\u003ePersonal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194\u003c/physloc\u003e\n      "],"physloc_tesim":["Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":4057,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:08:22.920Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c2828"}},{"id":"vi_vi00516_c2842","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"10 December 1852","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c2842#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eCharles Lasalle of NY and the Courrier des Etats-Unis Journal quotidein and Hebdomadaire to John N. 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Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.","Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).","Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.","Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"collection_ssim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["24194"],"unitid_tesim":["24194"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Tazewell family"],"creator_ssim":["Tazewell family"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 21619 was purchased from Martha R. Adams,\n            Lynchburg, Virginia, 30 September 1939.","Acc. 21673 was purchased from Mrs. A. J. Davis,\n            Richmond, Virginia, 1 February 1940.","Acc. 22066 was purchased from James Lewis Hook,\n            Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, 22 July 1942.","Acc. 23749 was purchased from Mrs. C. W. Tazewell,\n            Tampa, Florida, 19 November 1951.","Acc. 24194 was purchased from C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 16 July 1954.","Acc. 24199 lent for copying by C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 3 August 1954.","Acc. 24230 lent for copying by Colonial Williamsburg\n            Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, 21 October 1954.","Acc. 27157 was a gift from Edmund Berkeley, Jr., acting\n            curator at the University of Virginia library,\n            Charlottesville, Virginia, June 30 1969."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["6.435 cubic\n         feet"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eArranged chronologically within each series.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n      ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOrganized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\u003c/p\u003e\n\t\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n    "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged chronologically within each series.","Organization\n        Organized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHenry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Physical Location\"\u003ePersonal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194\u003c/physloc\u003e\n      "],"physloc_tesim":["Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":4057,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:08:22.920Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c2842"}},{"id":"vi_vi00516_c110","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"10 February 1780","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c110#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eletter from Mrs. William (C.) 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Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.","Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).","Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.","Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"collection_ssim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["24194"],"unitid_tesim":["24194"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Tazewell family"],"creator_ssim":["Tazewell family"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 21619 was purchased from Martha R. Adams,\n            Lynchburg, Virginia, 30 September 1939.","Acc. 21673 was purchased from Mrs. A. J. Davis,\n            Richmond, Virginia, 1 February 1940.","Acc. 22066 was purchased from James Lewis Hook,\n            Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, 22 July 1942.","Acc. 23749 was purchased from Mrs. C. W. Tazewell,\n            Tampa, Florida, 19 November 1951.","Acc. 24194 was purchased from C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 16 July 1954.","Acc. 24199 lent for copying by C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 3 August 1954.","Acc. 24230 lent for copying by Colonial Williamsburg\n            Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, 21 October 1954.","Acc. 27157 was a gift from Edmund Berkeley, Jr., acting\n            curator at the University of Virginia library,\n            Charlottesville, Virginia, June 30 1969."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["6.435 cubic\n         feet"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eArranged chronologically within each series.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n      ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOrganized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\u003c/p\u003e\n\t\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n    "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged chronologically within each series.","Organization\n        Organized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHenry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. 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Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. 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Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Physical Location\"\u003ePersonal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194\u003c/physloc\u003e\n      "],"physloc_tesim":["Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":4057,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:08:22.920Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c110"}},{"id":"vi_vi00516_c285","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"10 February 1789","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c285#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003ereceipt from John Byrd to Timothy Richards (Tazewell's overseer?) for 500 bundles of fodder from Henry Tazewell \u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c285#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vi_vi00516_c285","ref_ssm":["vi_vi00516_c285"],"id":"vi_vi00516_c285","ead_ssi":"vi_vi00516","_root_":"vi_vi00516","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi00516","parent_ssi":"vi_vi00516","parent_ssim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vi_vi00516"],"title_filing_ssi":"10 February 1789","title_ssm":["10 February 1789"],"title_tesim":["10 February 1789"],"normalized_title_ssm":["10 February 1789"],"text":["10 February 1789","Papers, 1623-1930","box 1","folder 11","receipt from John Byrd to Timothy Richards (Tazewell's overseer?) for 500 bundles of fodder from Henry Tazewell"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"level_ssm":["Item"],"level_ssim":["Item"],"component_level_isim":[1],"sort_isi":285,"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"collection_ssim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"containers_ssim":["box 1","folder 11"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ereceipt from John Byrd to Timothy Richards (Tazewell's overseer?) for 500 bundles of fodder from Henry Tazewell\n\u003c/p\u003e\n        "],"scopecontent_tesim":["receipt from John Byrd to Timothy Richards (Tazewell's overseer?) for 500 bundles of fodder from Henry Tazewell"],"_nest_path_":"/components#284","timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:08:22.920Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vi_vi00516","ead_ssi":"vi_vi00516","_root_":"vi_vi00516","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi00516","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/lva/vi00516.xml","title_ssm":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"title_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"text":["Papers, 1623-1930","24194","6.435 cubic\n         feet","Arranged chronologically within each series.","Organization\n        Organized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.","Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).","Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.","Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"collection_ssim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["24194"],"unitid_tesim":["24194"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Tazewell family"],"creator_ssim":["Tazewell family"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 21619 was purchased from Martha R. Adams,\n            Lynchburg, Virginia, 30 September 1939.","Acc. 21673 was purchased from Mrs. A. J. Davis,\n            Richmond, Virginia, 1 February 1940.","Acc. 22066 was purchased from James Lewis Hook,\n            Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, 22 July 1942.","Acc. 23749 was purchased from Mrs. C. W. Tazewell,\n            Tampa, Florida, 19 November 1951.","Acc. 24194 was purchased from C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 16 July 1954.","Acc. 24199 lent for copying by C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 3 August 1954.","Acc. 24230 lent for copying by Colonial Williamsburg\n            Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, 21 October 1954.","Acc. 27157 was a gift from Edmund Berkeley, Jr., acting\n            curator at the University of Virginia library,\n            Charlottesville, Virginia, June 30 1969."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["6.435 cubic\n         feet"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eArranged chronologically within each series.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n      ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOrganized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. 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Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHenry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Physical Location\"\u003ePersonal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194\u003c/physloc\u003e\n      "],"physloc_tesim":["Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194"],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":4057,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:08:22.920Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c285"}},{"id":"vi_vi00516_c286","type":"Item","attributes":{"title":"10 February 1789","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c286#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Lyons to Henry Tazewell-has not read letter, will not travel, will not think about courts and justices-justice on court \u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://arvasarchive.org/catalog/vi_vi00516_c286#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"ref_ssi":"vi_vi00516_c286","ref_ssm":["vi_vi00516_c286"],"id":"vi_vi00516_c286","ead_ssi":"vi_vi00516","_root_":"vi_vi00516","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi00516","parent_ssi":"vi_vi00516","parent_ssim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"parent_ids_ssim":["vi_vi00516"],"title_filing_ssi":"10 February 1789","title_ssm":["10 February 1789"],"title_tesim":["10 February 1789"],"normalized_title_ssm":["10 February 1789"],"text":["10 February 1789","Papers, 1623-1930","box 1","folder 11","Peter Lyons to Henry Tazewell-has not read letter, will not travel, will not think about courts and justices-justice on court"],"parent_unittitles_ssm":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"parent_unittitles_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"level_ssm":["Item"],"level_ssim":["Item"],"component_level_isim":[1],"sort_isi":286,"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"collection_ssim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"containers_ssim":["box 1","folder 11"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":0,"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePeter Lyons to Henry Tazewell-has not read letter, will not travel, will not think about courts and justices-justice on court\n\u003c/p\u003e\n        "],"scopecontent_tesim":["Peter Lyons to Henry Tazewell-has not read letter, will not travel, will not think about courts and justices-justice on court"],"_nest_path_":"/components#285","timestamp":"2026-07-23T21:08:22.920Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vi_vi00516","ead_ssi":"vi_vi00516","_root_":"vi_vi00516","_nest_parent_":"vi_vi00516","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/lva/vi00516.xml","title_ssm":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"title_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"text":["Papers, 1623-1930","24194","6.435 cubic\n         feet","Arranged chronologically within each series.","Organization\n        Organized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.","Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).","Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.","Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194","English"],"collection_title_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"collection_ssim":["Papers, 1623-1930"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["24194"],"unitid_tesim":["24194"],"repository_ssm":["Library of Virginia"],"repository_ssim":["Library of Virginia"],"creator_ssm":["Tazewell family"],"creator_ssim":["Tazewell family"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Acc. 21619 was purchased from Martha R. Adams,\n            Lynchburg, Virginia, 30 September 1939.","Acc. 21673 was purchased from Mrs. A. J. Davis,\n            Richmond, Virginia, 1 February 1940.","Acc. 22066 was purchased from James Lewis Hook,\n            Bala-Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, 22 July 1942.","Acc. 23749 was purchased from Mrs. C. W. Tazewell,\n            Tampa, Florida, 19 November 1951.","Acc. 24194 was purchased from C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 16 July 1954.","Acc. 24199 lent for copying by C. W. Tazewell, Tampa,\n            Florida, 3 August 1954.","Acc. 24230 lent for copying by Colonial Williamsburg\n            Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, 21 October 1954.","Acc. 27157 was a gift from Edmund Berkeley, Jr., acting\n            curator at the University of Virginia library,\n            Charlottesville, Virginia, June 30 1969."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["6.435 cubic\n         feet"],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eArranged chronologically within each series.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n      ","\u003carrangement\u003e\n        \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003eOrganized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\u003c/p\u003e\n\t\u003cp\u003eMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11.\u003c/p\u003e\n      \u003c/arrangement\u003e\n    "],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Arranged chronologically within each series.","Organization\n        Organized into the following five series: Series I:\n            Papers, 1623-1890. Series II: Undated Papers,\n            Correspondence, Legal Papers, Essays, Clippings, and\n            Miscellaneous Papers. Series III: Diaries, Account Books,\n            Family Sketches, 1650-1930. Series IV: Political\n            Correspondence, 1794-1858. Series V: Wills, Legal Papers,\n            Correspondence, and notes, 1673-1890.\n\tMiscellaneous microfilm reels correspond thusly: Misc. reel 670-Box 1, Folder 1; Misc. reel 671-Box 1, Folder 16; Misc. reel 672-Box 3, Folder 1; Misc. reel 673-Box 4, folder 4; Misc. reel 674-Box 5, Folder 7; Misc. reel 675-Box 6, Folder 11; Misc. reel 676-Box 7, Folder 11; Misc. reel 677-Box 8, Folder 10; Misc. reel 678-Box 9, Folder 13; Misc. reel 679-Box 10, Folder 11; Misc. reel 680-Box 11, Folder 7; Misc. reel 681-Box 12, Folder 11."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHenry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eLittleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877).\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Henry Tazewell was born 27 November 1753 in Brunswick\n         County, Virginia, to Littleton Tazewell and Mary Gray\n         Tazewell. He attended the College of William and Mary, then\n         studied law under his uncle John Tazewell in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia. He represented Brunswick County and then\n         Williamsburg in the House of Delegates from 1776 to 1786.\n         Tazewell was appointed to the General Court in 1785, and\n         served as chief justice from 1789 to 1793. He then was\n         appointed judge of the Virginia Court of Appeals that year.\n         The Virginia General Assembly appointed Tazewell United States\n         Senator in 1794 and he served until his death in Philadelphia,\n         Pennsylvania, 24 January 1799. He was buried at Christ Church\n         in Philadelphia. Tazewell married Dorothea Elizabeth Waller\n         (1754-1777), daugher of Benjamin Waller (1716-1786), 13\n         January 1774, and they had two children, Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell and Sophia Ann Tazewell who married Benjamin\n         Taliaferro (d. 1801) of Williamsburg.","Littleton Waller Tazewell was born in Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, 17 December 1774 to Henry Tazewell and Dorothea\n         Elizabeth Waller. Educated by his grandfather Benjamin Waller\n         and George Wythe (1726-1806), Tazewell attended the College of\n         William and Mary, graduating in 1791. He studied law under\n         John Wickham (1763-1839) of Richmond, Virginia, and was\n         admitted to the bar in 1796. Tazewell represented James City\n         County in the House of Delegates from 1798 to 1800. That year,\n         he was elected to the United States House of Representatives\n         and served until 1801. In 1802, Tazewell relocated to Norfolk,\n         Virginia, to continue his law practice. He represented Norfolk\n         in the House of Delegates from 1804 to 1806 and in 1816.\n         President James Monroe appointed Tazewell a commissioner to\n         settle claims under the treaty in which Spain ceded Florida to\n         the United States. In 1824, Tazewell was appointed to the\n         United States Senate, and he served eight years before\n         resigning 16 July 1832. He served as a member of the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829- 1830. Tazewell was elected\n         governor of Virginia in 1834 and served until 1836, when he\n         resigned. Tazewell returned to Norfolk where he spent most of\n         his time running his plantations in Northampton County,\n         Virginia. Tazewell died 6 May 1860 in Norfolk, and was buried\n         at King's Creek plantation in Northampton County. He was\n         reinterred at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk.","Littleton Waller Tazewell married Ann Stratton Nivison\n         (1785-1859) 15 July 1802, and they had nine children: Louisa\n         Nivison Tazewell (1804-1873), Henry Tazewell (1805-1828), John\n         Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869), Sarah Tazewell (1809-1810),\n         Sarah Ann \"Sally\" Tazewell (1812-1892), Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1815-1848), Ann Elizabeth Tazewell (1817-1898), Mary\n         Tazewell (1822-1886), Ella Waller Tazewell (1826-1885). Ann\n         Elizabeth Tazewell married Edmund Bradford (1816-1889), Mary\n         Tazewell married Matthew Page Waller (1823-1861), and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell married Sarah Elizabeth Walters (ca.\n         1821-1877)."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.\u003c/p\u003e\n      ","\u003cp\u003eSeries V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education.\u003c/p\u003e\n    "],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1623-1930, of the Tazewell family of Williamsburg,\n         Virginia, and Norfolk, Virginia, consisting of the personal\n         and family papers, including account books, accounts,\n         advertisements, agreements, bills of sale, clippings,\n         commissions, correspondence, deeds, diaries, essays,\n         genealogies, insurance policies, judicial records, legal\n         papers, notes, receipts, speeches, tax records, and wills.","Series I: Papers, 1650-1890, contain the legal, political,\n         business, and personal papers of the Tazewell family, mainly\n         those of Henry Tazewell (1753-1799) and Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell (1774-1860). Papers contain deeds from James City\n         County, Northampton County and Norfolk, Virginia, as well as\n         other counties; wills of members of the Tazewell family, and\n         accounts of their plantations in James City County,\n         Northampton County, and Princess Anne County, Virginia. Also\n         includes the political correspondence of Henry Tazewell and\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell, both of whom were senators from\n         Virginia; Littleton Waller Tazewell also served as a\n         congressman and as governor of Virginia. Also contains\n         correspondence between John Nivison Tazewell (1807-1869) and\n         Hugh Blair Grigsby (1806-1881) concerning the Virginia\n         Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830. Papers also include\n         the personal papers of Littleton Waller Tazewell's children,\n         including correspondence from Ann Tazewell Bradford\n         (1817-1898) regarding the confiscation by the federal\n         government of Sandhills Plantation in Princess Anne County\n         during the Civil War.","Series II: Undated papers, correspondence, legal papers,\n         political essays, clippings, and miscellaneous papers.\n         Contains political essays by and legal of Henry Tazewell;\n         typescript copies of letters, 1782- 1825, from Thomas\n         Jefferson to Henry and Littleton Waller Tazewell; undated\n         legal, business, political, and personal correspondence of\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell; legal papers of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; estate papers of Benjamin Taliaferro; papers related\n         to Littleton Waller Tazewell's plantations in Northampton\n         County; correspondence of John Nivison of Norfolk, Virginia;\n         deeds and other legal papers; obituaries of William T. Nivison\n         and of Littleton Waller Tazewell; remarks on the death of\n         Jefferson Davis; and newspaper clippings.","Series III: Diaries, Account Books, and Family Sketches,\n         1650-1930, contain a family sketch, 1823, written by Littleton\n         Waller Tazewell; account books, 1820-1826, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; field notes for land grants in what became\n         Northampton County from 1623 to 1629, made by Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell in 1835; plantation books, 1836-1852, for King's\n         Creek, Old Plantation, and New Quarter plantations in\n         Northampton County; plantation books, 1829-1849, for Sandhills\n         Plantation in Princess Anne County; diaries, 1847-1852, of\n         John N. Tazewell; letterbook, 1829-1830, of John N. Tazewell;\n         register, 1821-1854, of letters received by John N. Tazewell;\n         household account book, 1836-1837, of Littleton Waller\n         Tazewell; inscriptions from St. Paul's Church in Norfolk made\n         by C. W. Tazewell; and typescripts of letters to Henry\n         Tazewell and Littleton Waller Tazewell from Stephen Decatur,\n         William B. Giles, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, William\n         Ludwell Lee, and Benjamin Watkins Leigh, among others.","Series IV: Political correspondence, 1794-1858, including\n         letters, 1794-1798, from John Taylor to Henry Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics, including the\n         presidential election of 1796; letters, 1831-1834, from John\n         Floyd to Littleton Waller Tazewell regarding national and\n         Virginia politics, Andrew Jackson, and whether Tazewell will\n         run for governor; letters, 1789-1830, from St. George Tucker,\n         Henry St. George Tucker, and Beverley Tucker to Henry Tazewell\n         and Littleton Waller Tazewell concerning national and Virginia\n         politics; letters, 1841-1846, from Francis H. Smith to John N.\n         Tazewell regarding the Virginia Military Institute; letters,\n         1832-1858, from John M. Patton to Littleton Waller Tazewell\n         concerning national and Virginia politics and legal\n         matters.","Series V: Wills, Legal Papers, Notes, and Correspondence,\n         1623-1890. Contains copies of land patents, 1623-1675, which\n         became Littleton Waller Tazewell's holdings in Northampton\n         County; wills, 1656-1890, of members of the Tazewell family;\n         depositions, 1759, for a case in King George County, Virginia;\n         deeds, 1790, in Norfolk County; letters, 1822-1823, from\n         Littleton Waller Tazewell to his sons Henry and John Nivison\n         Tazewell concerning their education."],"physloc_html_tesm":["\u003cphysloc label=\"Physical Location\"\u003ePersonal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 24194\u003c/physloc\u003e\n      "],"physloc_tesim":["Personal Papers Collection,\n         Acc. 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