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Henry Adams Tabb, only surviving sen of Dr. Henry W. Tabb. and his third vvife Ellen Foster, was born February 24, 1848. at Auburn, Mathews county. Virginia, and was educated under private tutors and in a private school at Petersville, Maryland. He is a member of the Southern Society md the Virginians of New York City, the Statcn island Association of Arts and Sciences, c.ie Civic League and the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York. His home is at Arro- char, Staten Island. He married Jeannie 1-. Shepard. born on Tabb street, Petersburg. \'irginia. daughter of Charles Shepard, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and Mary (Swan) Shepard, his wife, of Petersburg, Virginia. The elder daughter, Cynthia Claxton Tabb, married her cousin, Hon. John N. Tabb, ^^'f Newstead. Gloucester county, V^irginia. They live on their farm "Showan," and have two sons: Hr. Henry A. Tabb and John II. Tabb, attorney. The younger daughter Susy Vanderpoel Tabb, married David P. Sanders; they have one son. Vanblbber Sanders, and live on their farm "Clerm'.mt,"' Gloucester county. X'irginia.

Theodore Jackson Wool. James Harvey Wool. A study of the Wool family in America carries one to the early colonial days when two Wool brothers came from Holland, settling in New York state. Six sons of these emigrants served in the re\-o- lutionary war, and in the city of Troy. New York, is a monument to a descendant, Gen- eral John E. Wool, who served with dis- tinction in the Mexican war. Through their mother, Theodore J. and James H. Wool, of Norfolk, trace to the famous Anneke Jans and Rev. FIvardus IJogardus, of early New Amsterdam, and from whom the celebrated Trinity Church property controversy sprang. This line of descent traces through Elmira (Demarest) \\'ool. daughter of Abraham C. and Elizabeth (Brower) Dema- rest, who were married June 6, 1818. F.li/a- beth Brower was a daughter of Abraham and Rebecca (Stevens) Brower, and grand- daughter of Uldric Brower and his wife. Nancy (Campbell) Brower. Uldric was a son of Abraham and I'Tizabeth (Ackerman) Brower. who were married in 1725, and a grandson of Sybrant Brower. who married Sarah Webber. May 22. 1706. Sybrant Brower was a son of Jacob Brower. who married, January 29. 1682, at New y'vmstcr-

dam. Antia Bogardus. born October 3, 1662, daughter of William Bogardus and Vv in^^ie •' Sybrant) Bogardus. the latter married Au- gust 29, 1659. \Villiam was the son of Rev. F.vardus Bogardus, who was the second husband of Anneke Jans. Her first husband, Robert Jans. Anneke Jans, whose maiden name was Webber, is said to have l^een a descendant of William IV. of Holland.

(I) James Wool, the first in this line of whom there is record, settled in the vj-vn of Roxbury, Delaware county, New York, prior to the French and Indian war. He erected a saw and grist mill at Roxbury, but later, becoming alarmed at the threats of the Indians, buried his valuables and moved with his family to Orange county, New York, his then youngest son, Robert, mak- ing the journey in a basket, swung over the horses' backs. Later he moved northward, settling in Lansingburg. now Troy, Rens- selaer county. New York. There he settled on a farm that was long in the possessi(Mi ot his descendants. He was compelled to leave the farm in 1776 and seek refuge in the town to escape the raiding Indians and Tories. James Wool had six sons, all of wh<,m served in the revolutionary army, omj: of them. Isaiah, being a captain of artillery. Jeremiah was a member of the committee of safety in New York City. Ellis was taken prisoner and died in the old sugar house prison in New Yojk. John was with Wayne at Stony Point, and also was a prisoner in the old sugar house and there died. He was the father of General John Ellis AX'ool. of previous mention. James (2). the youngest son. was only fifteen years of age when he fought at Bennington. "I was a tall strong lad. and they let me fight." He lived in Lansingburg until his death, al:)OUt 1S54. aged ninety years.

(IT) Robert Wool, son of James Wool, was born 'n Delaware county, New York, but his youth was spent in Orange cou'ny, in that state, and there he married. He en- listed in a company formed in Orange county to repel the British in their march up the Hudson to relieve Burgoyne. and in an engagement was taken prisoner. He was confined first on a prison ship in the Hud- son, with his brothers, John and Ellis, but after six weeks there they were taken to the old sugar house prison. Here John and Ellis died from the efifects of their inhuman treatment — contracting prison fever. Rob-