Tabb, John, 1784-1860

John Tabb was a successful flour merchant of Norfolk who later settled in Gloucester County at his estate White Marsh. He was the son of Phillip Edward Tabb and Mary Mason Wythe Tabb of Toddbury, Virginia. He married Evalina Matilda Prosser in Norfolk on December 18, 1817, and they had four children. In the 1820 U.S. census, he lived in a household of eleven people, seven of who he enslaved.