Every document is a thread. Every story is part of the weave.
Archives
The Tarbell story does not belong to any single document.
It lives in letters and land records. In oral histories passed down at the reference desk of a library in Groton. In a genealogist tracing a lineage from Zachariah. In a photograph taken at a coffee shop in Vancouver where a former chief told a story no one had asked him to tell in quite this way before.
This is where those threads are collected.
What the Archives Hold
The Tarbell Charitable Trust Archives are a growing collection of stories, documents, photographs, and media related to the Tarbell family — Mohawk and American — and the making of the 2030 exhibition. Materials come from family members, partner institutions, community contributors, and the documentary record of the exhibition itself as it is built.
Have a Story or Document to Share?
If you have a connection to the Tarbell name — on either side of the family — we want to hear from you. A photograph. A letter. A family story. A memory. If it is related to the Tarbell story, it has a home here.
This is not a captive story. It is a family story. And families keep records together.
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This document dates back to when the Tarbell name came into existence in Europe. There is a myth that the bell in Tarbell relates to the bell in St Regis.