Tailyour family papers 1743-2003 1780-1840 Tailyour family

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Tailyour family papers 1743-2003 1780-1840 Tailyour family

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The collection focuses primarily on John Tailyour, a Scottish merchant who traveled to North America and Jamaica in the 1770s and 1780s to conduct business, before finally returning to his home in Scotland in 1792. His correspondence is heavily business related, centering especially on his trading of slaves, foodstuffs, and sundry goods. It also chronicles the current events in both Jamaica and the Empire. Many of Tailyour's correspondents debate the meaning and merit of the cessation of the slave trade in the late 18th century, as well as the military events of the American and Haitian revolutions, and of the Maroon rebellion of 1795. The papers also include letters between John and his family in Scotland regarding John's mixed-race Jamaican children. He sent three of his children to Britain to be educated, which caused much family concern. Tailyour's account books and financial papers relate both to his Jamaican estate and business, and to his Scottish estate, from which he received added income from rents. The accounts for this estate continue for several decades after Tailyour’s death in 1815. A number of disparate and miscellaneous letters, war records, photographs, and realia that belonged to various members of the extended Tailyour family date mainly from the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6392297

William L. Clements Library

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There are 27 Entities related to this resource.

Tailyour, James.

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Tailyour, John, 1755-1815

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McCall, John

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Epithet: Tasmanian Agent-General in London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x0002dc ...

Tailyour, George H. F.

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Taylor, Robert, 1940 June 1-

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Epithet: of Rockington, county Lincolnshire British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x000350 Epithet: shipping agent British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x000372 Epithet: brother of W Taylor, the elder British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x000340...

Tailyour, George.

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Fairlie, James

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Epithet: Bishop of Lismore or Argyll British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000818.0x0001a8 ...

Tailyour, Joan.

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McCall, George, d. 1810

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Tailyour, Ian Stewart.

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Tailyour family

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John Tailyour was born to Robert and Jean (Carnegie) Tailyour on February 29, 1755, in Marykirk, Scotland. Robert sent young John to Glasgow to work as a clerk in the merchant firm of George McCall. In 1775, McCall helped John find employment in Virginia as a factor in the Glasgow-Virginia tobacco trade, but the chaos resulting from the onset of the Revolution forced John to leave for home. He returned to America two years later to trade between New York and the West Indies, but aga...

Anderson, John

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Epithet: of Add MS 33106 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000923.0x0002f9 Epithet: Major; Bengal Engineers British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000923.0x0003d9 Epithet: Reverend; of the General Register House, Edinburgh British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_10000000092...

Tailyour, George Robert, b. 1805

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Tailyour, William Gordon.

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Tailyour, Kenneth R. H.

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Taylor, George, 1948-....

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Epithet: of Add MS 38393 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x0001e1 Epithet: of Bolton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000206.0x0002ee Epithet: of Manchester British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001151.0x0001e4 Epithet: biographer of R Surtee...

Tailyour, Mrs. H.

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Dick, David

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Anderson, Alex

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Tailyour, Norman Hastings.

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Renny, Thomas, d. 1799

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Tailyour, Robert.

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Ballantine, Peter

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Tailyour, Ada.

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Taylor, James, b. 1786

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Tailyour, George Robert.

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Taylor, Simon, 1740-1815

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