Papers of the Baylor family [manuscript], 1662-1867.

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Papers of the Baylor family [manuscript], 1662-1867.

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Include land grants, deeds, wills, indentures, bills, receipts (some for taxes) and surveys, 1662-1813, of family members; and some family correspondence, 1820-1867, chiefly on business, agricultural, and financial matters. Also include ledger, 1746-1749, of Richard Baylor containing accounts with many prominent Virginians including Landon Carter, Charles Carter, Thomas Lee, Fielding Lewis, Philip Lightfoot, Thomas Nelson, William Nelson, Lawrence Washington, John Wayles and Ralph Wormeley. Also include ledger, 1815-1818, of a merchant in Essex County, Va.; and a journal, 1844-1849, of Richard Baylor on settling the estate of Robert P. Waring of Essex County, including slave inventories and valuations and livestock.

1 reel; 33 mm.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Nelson, Thomas, 1716-1782.

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Wayles, John, 1715-1773.

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Carter, Landon, 1710-1778

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Nelson, William, 1711-1772

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Carter, Charles, 1707-1765.

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Wormeley, Ralph, 1715-1773.

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Lee, Thomas, 1690-1750

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Washington, Lawrence, 1718-1752

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Lawrence Washington was the elder half-brother of George Washington, being the oldest living child of Augustine Washington and his first wife Jane Butler. Lawrence Washington was born in 1718, in Westmoreland County, Virginia. On June 9, 1740 Washington was given a commission as a Captain in one of four Virginia Foot Regiments being raised to fight in the War of Jenkins’ Ear, a war in the West Indies between Britain and Spain. The commission came from the court of King George II of England. Wh...

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Waring, Robert Payne, 1775-1844

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Baylor, Richard (18th century)

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Lightfoot, Philip, 1689-1748.

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