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Bayard, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1796-1868. Papers of the Tayloe family [manuscript], 1756-1893.

Title: Papers of the Tayloe family [manuscript], 1756-1893.

The collection contains the family and business correspondence of the Tayloe family, particularly John Tayloe, Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, William Henry Tayloe, Edward T. Tayloe and Henry Tayloe. Much of the correspondence concerns family plantations in Virginia, Maryland and Alabama. Topics include plantation management; cotton cultivation in Alabama and transactions with cotton brokers in New Orleans and Mobile; the Civil War and difficulties of running a plantation under wartime conditions; transportation of slaves from Virginia to Alabama, slave sales and runaways; the Octagon House, Washington, D.C.; horse racing and breeding; and family finances and legal affairs. Of interest is a letter from Edward Tayloe to Benjamin O. Tayloe, 1824 September 19, describing a visit to Thomas Jefferson at Monticello. Business papers, 1795-1820, concern real estate transactions in Georgetown and Washington, D.C. In addition there are letterbooks and a diary of Mrs. Ogle Tayloe. Of interest are letters from Edward Thornton Tayloe in Mexico and Bogotà discussing the countries, their government, people, religion, and mining operations and mentioning Joel Poinsett, David Porter, Simón Bolivár, Vicente Guerrero, William Henry Harrison, José María Córdova, and James Henderson.

ArchivalResource: 200 items.

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Loyde, James, fl. 1708-1710. Papers of the Tayloe family [manuscript], 1708-1890.

Title: Papers of the Tayloe family [manuscript], 1708-1890.

The collection contains the mercantile account book, 1708-1710, of Lyonel Loyde and Stephen Loyde trading with their brother James Loyde of London. It contains records of tobacco sales and includes an account of slaves imported from "Guinea" on the "Leopard Galley" 1710 July 4. A copy of a letterbook, 1829, kept by Edward Thornton Tayloe of the U.S. legation in Bogotá contains information on Simón Bolívar and the war between Colombia and Peru. Tayloe discusses the Convention of Ocaña at length, and accusations by the Colombian government that U.S. minister William Henry Harrison and British consul James Henderson were supporting enemies of Bolívar. Descriptions of Bogotá and surrounding sights are included. Tayloe's farm journal, 1850-1869, for Powhatan Hill, King George County, contains information on weather, crops, livestock and slaves including runaways, and mentions local and political events. A narration of his arrest and two months detention by the Union Army in 1864 is included. A farm account book, 1866-1890, begun by Tayloe, contains records of merchandise purchases, crop production and sales.

ArchivalResource: 4 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647824481 View