Anderson, James. Papers of the Baylor family of Newmarket, Caroline County, Va, in part transcripts: [manuscript], 1653-1915.
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Papers of the Baylor family of Newmarket, Caroline County, Va, in part transcripts: [manuscript], 1653-1915.
Correspondence, business ledgers, indentures, land grants, plat maps, genealogical notes, student notebooks, and other papers. The collection contains papers of John Baylor, 1650-1722? comprising business ledgers, 1719-1721, and other material. The collection also contains papers of John Baylor, 1705-1772, concerning the trans-Atlantic tobacco trade, thoroughbred horses, and services as county lieutenant. The papers of John Baylor, 1750-1808, concern life at Putney School and Caius College, Cambridge, education of Americans abroad, the legal efforts of Edmund Pendleton and John Taylor to settle his estate, and a trip from Caroline County to Warm Springs, 1784. The papers of George S Baylor, 1752-1784, commander of the third Regiment of Light Dragoons in the Revolution, consist of correspondence with other soldiers. The papers of John Roy Baylor, 1820-1897 include student notebooks, and correspondence with the Bruce family members and others. The papers of James Bowen Baylor, consist of notebooks and ledgers, 1870-1905, dealing mostly with his work for the Coast and Geodetic Survey in Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama and on the Canadian Boundary, as well as surveying oyster grounds. The collection also contains land grants to Richard Bennett (1653) and Bartholomew Yates and others (1722); genealogical information on the Armistead, Braxton, Frere Norton and Roy families; a family bible; a manuscript volume of the Letters of Junius; and a document (1773) of the Virginia Committee of Correspondence. Correspondents include James Anderson, John Backhouse, Theodorick Bland, C M Braxton, David Bullock, Richard Call, A Clough, Charles Dick, John Frere, Ben Garnett, Armistead C Gordon, James Madison, James Meriwether, John Minor, John Morgan, John Nicholson, H H Norton, Thomas Nelson Page, William Page, William P Palmer, Benjamin Parke, Edmund Pendleton, William J Robertson, John Taylor, Henry St George Tucker, Micajah Wood, and John Wormeley.
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1900 items.
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