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Note: Court Order Book 21, 1795 - Amelia County, VA Transcript by Marna L. Clemons, 4 July 2006 1805 GEORGIA LAND LOTTERY Transcribed and Indexed by Virginia S. Wood, Ralph V. Wood 5th District Wilkinson County, GA 1805 Land Lottery Land Lot Name From County Date of Possession Other Owner 56 Edward Tabb Sr..B B Burke 13 Nov 1805 ************************************** Augusta Chronicle 5 Jan 1805 page 4 Notice. After the expiration of nine months from the publication hereof, application will be made to the honorable the Inferior Court of Burke county, to sell the real estate of James Redd, deceased, consisting of Five hundred and seventy five acres of land, on part of which he lately resided, situate in Burke county, on the North side of Briar creek, adjoining lands of Dr. John Powell, John Price, Edward Tabb, Senr. and James Beal, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of the deceased. Isaiah Carter, Adm'r. Waynesboro, Nov. 3, 1804. ******************************************** 1807 Land Lottery of Ga. three TABBS drew from Burke Co., GA.: JEAN TABB (widow), THOMAS, and THOMAS all from Ballards Military District. *********************************************** Edward Tabb served in the American Army during the Revolution. Amelia County, Virginia, was in bad financial trouble after the American Revolution. They had loaned so much money and food to the cause and in the late 1790s, a wheat crop failure added to their problems. At the same time that Edward and Jean left Virginia, his younger brother, Langhorne Tabb, married Judith Cox and left Powhatan County, Virginia and may have traveled south together. Langhorne stopped in Rowan County, North Carolina, and Edward and Jean kept going to Burke County, Georgia, where they lived near Waynesboro. Children of John and Frances Booker Clement 1. Jean Clement married Edward Tabb (9 Sept. 1742 ) in Amelia County 22 December bond 1763. Thomas Tabb was security. Edward was the son of Thomas Tabb, 5 Sept. 1719 - April 1782, and Lockey Langhorne, of Cumberland County. Thomas Tabb named his son Edward first in his 1782 will in Cumberland County. On 23 April 1778 the Amelia County justices recommended Edward Tabb as a captain in Capt. James Jenkins Company of Militia. Edward Tabb was head of a household of nine whites and nine blacks in Amelia County in 1782. Eight whites were there in 1785. Jane Tabb relinquished her dower right when Edward deeded 134 acres to John Wingo in 1798.
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