<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 https://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"><eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"><eadid countrycode="US" mainagencycode="US-viw">Evans-Tanner-Papers</eadid><filedesc><titlestmt><titleproper type="filing">Tanner, Evans papers</titleproper><titleproper>Guide to the Evans Tanner Papers <num>Mss. 39.2 T16</num></titleproper><author>Finding Aid Authors: Special Collections Staff.</author></titlestmt><publicationstmt><publisher>Special Collections Research Center</publisher><p id="logostmt"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/logos/wm.jpg" xlink:show="embed" xlink:type="simple"/></p><p><date>2007-07-05</date></p><address><addressline>William &amp; Mary Special Collections Research Center</addressline><addressline>Earl Gregg Swem Library</addressline><addressline>400 Landrum Dr</addressline><addressline>Williamsburg, Virginia</addressline><addressline>Business Number: 757-221-3090</addressline><addressline>spcoll@wm.edu</addressline><addressline>URL: <extptr xlink:href="https://libraries.wm.edu/libraries-spaces/special-collections" xlink:show="new" xlink:title="https://libraries.wm.edu/libraries-spaces/special-collections" xlink:type="simple"/></addressline></address></publicationstmt></filedesc><profiledesc><creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2025-05-15 12:30:14 -0400</date>.</creation><langusage>The collection description/finding aid is written in <language encodinganalog="041" langcode="eng">English</language></langusage></profiledesc></eadheader><archdesc level="collection">
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    <head>Biographical Information:</head>
<p>Evans Tanner was a postmaster and merchant of Tanner's Store, Mecklenburg County, VA. Part of his business included tobacco trade.</p>  </bioghist>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Access:</head>
<p>Collection is open to all researchers. Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Manuscripts and Rare Books Librarian, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Preferred Citation:</head>
<p>Evans Tanner Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Scope and Contents</head>
<p>Papers, 1830-1880, of Evans Tanner of Tanner's Store, Mecklenburg County, Va., many concerning the tobacco trade. Includes letters, 1843-1855 and accounts, 1849-1880, of Evans Tanner; accounts, 1844-1848, of King, Walker &amp; Co., Mecklenburg County, Va.; and accounts, 1852-1854, of Walker &amp; Tanner, Mecklenburg County, Va.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <genreform source="aat">Correspondence</genreform>
    <genreform source="aat">Financial records</genreform>
    <genreform source="aat">Receipts (financial records)</genreform>
    <geogname source="local">Mecklenburg County (Va.)</geogname>
    <subject source="lcsh">Legal documents</subject>
    <subject source="local">Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century</subject>
    <subject source="lcsh">Tobacco--Virginia--History--19th century</subject>
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  <dsc><c id="aspace_cce1799799725b043c1c51a2e21cd07a" level="file"><did><unittitle>Papers</unittitle><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/2/archival_objects/270552</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" type="inclusive">1830-1880</unitdate><langmaterial><language langcode="eng">English</language></langmaterial><container altrender="Century Box" id="aspace_771c3ec85ad9f8b8ec4321b628f45336" label="Mixed Materials" type="Box">Manuscripts Group 2 Box 30</container><container id="aspace_4fb8f5abdf72d41bee8ab5c9b3bb4a15" parent="aspace_771c3ec85ad9f8b8ec4321b628f45336" type="folder">1</container></did><scopecontent id="aspace_87245ccde5ef3552691f9cf41be796ee"><head>Scope and Contents</head><p>Letters, 1843-1855</p><p>Item 1: J.B. Northington, House of Delegates, Richmond, to Evans Tanner, Tanners Store, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, February 10, 1843</p><p>Item 2: Martha Poole, Plymouth, Lowndes Co., Miss., to "Cousin Evans" Tanner, Tanners Store, Mecklenburg Co., Va., February 4, 1846</p><p>Item 3: Samuel Saunders, Harrisonville, Missouri, to Evans Tanner, Tanners Store, Mecklenburg Co., Va., April 30, 1846</p><p>
Item 4: Carrington, Cowardin &amp; David, Richmond, Va., to Evans Tanner, Tanners Store, Mecklenburg Co., Va., March 31, 1847</p><p>Item 5: John Tanner, Marianna, Fla., to Evans Tanner, Tanners Store, Mecklenburg Co., Va., January 18, 1848</p><p>Item 6: R.B. Hicks, Brunswick Co., Va., to Evans Tanner, Tanners Store, Mecklenburg Co., Va., September 19, 1848</p><p>Item 7: Floyd F[?]. Young, Petersburg, to Evans Tanner, Tanners Store, Va., April 12, 1849</p><p>Item 8: James Whitehead, Cane Creek Factory, N.C., to Evans Tanner, Tanners Store, Va., November 13, 1849</p><p>Item 9: Samuel Saunders, Cass County, Mo., to Evans Tanner, Tanners Store, Mecklenburg County, Va., November 29, 1849</p><p>Item 10: Hannah Farrar, St. Francis, Ark., to "mother", Angelica Walker, Tanners Store, Mecklenburg Co., Virginia, July 16, 1850</p><p>Item 11: Samuel Saunders, Cass County, Mo., to Evans Tanner, Tanners Store, Va., September 4, 1850</p><p>Item 12: Samuel Saunders, Cass County, Mo., to Evans Tanner, Tanners Store, Mecklenburg County, Va., February 9, 1851</p><p>Item 13: John Walters, Henry Co., Tennessee, to Evans Tanner, Tanner's Store, Va., April 2, 1853</p><p>Item 14: Hartwell Arnold, South Lowell, N.C., to Evans Tanner, June 6, 1853</p><p>Item 15: Vaughan &amp; Young, Oaks Warehouse, to Evans Tanner, Tanners Store, Mecklenburg Co., Va., May 2, 1854</p><p>Item 16: Vaughan &amp; Young, Oaks Warehouse, to Evans Tanner, Tanners Store, Mecklenburg Co., Va., November 7, 1854</p><p>Item 17: Vaughan &amp; Young, Oaks Warehouse, to Evans Tanner, Tanners Store, Mecklenburg Co., Va., January 17, 1855</p><p>Item 18: Vaughan &amp; Young, Oaks Warehouse, to Evans Tanner, Tanners Store, Mecklenburg Co., Va., March 5, 1855</p><p>Item 19: William Poole, Warrenton, Mo., to Evans Tanner, Tanners Store, [Mecklenburg Co.], Va., May 8</p><p>Item 20: Commissioners Report of Betsey A. Daley's estate, June 7, 1830</p><p>Item 21: Agreement for the lease of a tract of land in Mecklenburg County, between the party of Susan, Coleman, and Parley Jones and the party of Evans Tanner, December 6, 1831</p><p>Item 22: Deed to a tract of land in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, made between the party of Evans Tanner and wife and the party of Tally Division No. 379, Sons of Temperance, and Meridian Lodge No. 119, Freemasons, September 27, 1851</p><p>Item 23: Charles King, 1844</p><p>Item 24: King, Walker &amp; Co., 1844-1848</p><p>Item 25: William Poole estate, 1852</p><p>Item 26: Evans Tanner, 1849-1880</p><p>Item 27: Walker &amp; Tanner, 1852-1854</p></scopecontent></c></dsc>
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