Edward Thornton Tayloe journals

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{"value"=>"Edward Thornton Tayloe journals"}

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{"value"=>"1819-1834", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1819/1834"}

{"value"=>"1850-1858", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1850/1858"}

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abstract

{"value"=>"Journals kept by Edward Thornton Tayloe, 1819-1834 and 1850-1858, recording his expenses and income during various periods of his life. Included are records from Tayloe's time as a student at Harvard, as Secretary of the Legation in Mexico under Joel R. Poinsett, as bearer of treaties from Mexico to the United States in 1828, as Secretary of the Legation in Columbia in 1828, and during travel throughout the eastern United States. Also included are accounts of Tayloe's plantation in King George County, Virginia (\"Powhatan\"), recording taxes, slave prices, wharfage, household expenses, grain accounts, stable expenses, subscriptions to magazines and newspapers, books, entertainment, bonds and notes, and costs of education for his children at the Virginia Military Institute and elsewhere"}

date_inclusive_start

1819

date_inclusive_end

1858

origination

{"value"=>"Tayloe, Edward T. (Edward Thornton), 1803-1876", "type"=>"persname"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Copyright retained by any document's creator</p>"}

keydate

1819

prefercite

{"value"=>"Edward Thornton Tayloe journals, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library"}

extent_statement

.25 linear feet (2 volumes)

date_start

1819

date_end

1858

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