Haw Branch

Haw Branch is an historic plantation house located in Amelia County, Virginia, United States. The plantation was established by Thomas Tabb, a wealthy merchant who moved to Amelia from Gloucester County, Virginia in the mid 1730s. In 1745 he was taxed on a mansion house at Haw Branch, but actually lived at another plantation in Amelia County, called Clay Hill. Thomas Tabb represented Amelia County in the House of Burgesses and also served as sheriff, justice of the peace and Colonel of the Militia. After Tabb died in 1767, his son John Tabb inherited Haw Branch and built the current manor house, as well as increased Tabb holdings in Amelia to include eleven plantations. The younger Tabb also served in local office, as Colonel of the Militia, was one of eleven members of the Virginia Committee of Safety, and continued to serve in the Virginia House of Delegates. By Tabb's death in 1797, the total of his Amelia County holdings was nearly 25,000 acres and included Obslo, Doolittle, Grub Hill, Fairy Wood, Moulsons, Coxes, Clarks, Lortons, Wintercomack, Haw Branch and the home plantation, Clay Hill. Additionally, John Tabb owned Monk's Neck plantation in Dinwiddie County, commercial property in Petersburg, and partial ownership in a Liverpool trading firm named Rumbold, Walker, and Tabb. John Tabb's youngest daughter, Marianna Elizabeth Tabb inherited Haw Branch upon her father's d

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