Papers of the Tayloe family, 1823-1917.

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Papers of the Tayloe family, 1823-1917.

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The collection contains correspondence of Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, George P. Tayloe, and Edward Thornton Tayloe; deeds, surveys, and legal papers relating to Nanjemoy plantation, Charles County, Maryland; inventory, 1860, of slaves on Windsor plantation, Marengo County, Alabama; items pertaining to E.T. Tayloe's amnesty; items relating to the sale of Octagon House in Washington, D.C., to the American Institute of Architects; and material relating to land in Illinois and Arkansas. Further topics and people mentioned include: Maryland; Washington, D.C., the Civil War, land in Illinois and Arkansas, Henry Clay, Corcoran & Riggs, Washington, D.C.; John Witherspoon DuBose, G. Tayloe Gwathmey, W.W. Gwathmey, Nannie Henley, Nannie Langhorne, R.A. Morgan, Thomas T. Munford, Walter Smith, Sophia C. Snyder, Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, Edward Dickinson Tayloe, George P. Tayloe, and John Tayloe. Additional topics mentioned: Thornton Tayloe, George H. Varnell, Eugenia Phebe Warren, Washington Loan and Trust Company, M.E. Whitehead, and William E. Woodruff. Final items included are: a Confederate roll of honor; maps of Tusculum and Ostia plantations in Montgomery County, Maryland; and Benjamin Ogle Tayloe's will.

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Henley, Nannie.

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Snyder, Sophia.

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