Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Tayloe Family Papers, Accession 38-62, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

This collection was loaned to the library by Bladen Tasker Tayloe on March 15, 1932, and was changed to a gift in 1984 by his daughter, Mrs. Benjamin A.G. Fuller.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

This collection consists of 3 bound volumes, one concerning Loyde family business and the other two pertaining to the Tayloe family 's farm. Also in the collection is a 100-page letter book, 1829, kept by Edward T. Tayloe in Bogota, Colombia .

The earliest item in this collection is a mercantile journal and account book, 1708-1710, kept by Lyonel and Stephen Loyde of Virginia , trading with their brother James Loyde of London . The entries generally concern sales of merchandise, tobacco transactions and the purchase of slaves, including an account of the slaves imported aboard the "Leopard Galley" from "Guinea" arriving in Virginia July 4, 1710. In the back of the volume is a memorandum of Stephen Loyde 's proposal of February 20, 1708/1709, for a "joint trade" and James Loyde 's acceptance. Stephen Loyde may have been the man who in 1705 was master of a merchant ship in the Virginia trade, justice of the peace in Essex County in 1710 and who died in 1715.

Edward T. Tayloe 's letter book consists of his correspondence from Bogota, Colombia , with various people in 1829, discussing the political and economic situation in Colombia , including Simon Bolivar , the war between Colombia and Peru , and the Convention of Ocana .

The ca. 500 page farm journal kept by Edward Tayloe in King George County , 1850-1869, contains a separate section for each year and a 24-page index. The journal records information on rainfall and temperatures, inventories of farm animals, detailed records of crop production, layouts for his orchards and inventories of slaves. The slave records are broken down by trade and show "invalids," births, deaths, and the children of each mother for the years 1850-1863, as well as those slaves who "deserted" to the Northern forces during the Civil War. Also mentioned in the journal are elections and other events including the Civil War and Tayloe's arrest and imprisonment.

The farm account book, 1866-1890, begun by Edward Tayloe , includes records of merchandise purchases, crop production and sales.