Taliaferro family papers, 1820–1920. 42 items. Mss1T1438a.
Papers of Montague and Taliaferro family members of Belleville, Gloucester County, and
Richmond. Section 2 contains an extensive account, 1845–1846, covering the hiring out
of more than thirty slaves on behalf of William Throckmorton Taliaferro by the firm of
Philip M. Tabb & Son, along with an 1859 account of the sale of slave women by auction
and notes concerning the hiring out of Amanda, who later ran away. Another 1845
account concerns the hiring out of slaves by Philip M. Tabb & Son on behalf of William
Booth Taliaferro and includes expenses for the maintenance of the slaves (section 8).
Tanner, Evans (b. 1796?), papers, 1816–1887. 50 items. Mss2T1577b.
Include an 1864 receipt issued to Edward Walker by the enrolling office of Mecklenburg
County for the impressment of the slave David for thirty days.
Tarry family papers, 1765–1915. 134 items. Mss1T1777a.
Papers of members of the farming families of Tarry and Watson of Mecklenburg and
Prince Edward counties. Collection includes an undated deed of Abner Nash for slaves in
Prince Edward County (section 21) and a 1786 deed of John Potter of Granville County,
N.C., to William Taylor of Mecklenburg County, Va., for slaves (section 26).
Tayloe family of Richmond County, Va., papers, 1650–1970. 27,925 items.
Mss1T2118d. Microfilm reels C163–213.
Papers of a prominent family of Richmond County, with plantations in Prince William,
King George, Essex, and Richmond counties and including the papers of Henry
Augustine Tayloe, who moved to Alabama and owned plantations there from the 1840s
until after the Civil War.
In this collection much of the pertinent information about African Americans is contained
in inventories. Although some of the inventories relate to estate settlements (sections 113
and 251, for Adventure, Marengo County, Ala.) and suits in court (section 254, Essex
County, Va.), most were compiled as a matter of routine plantation business and record
such data as name, age, mother’s name, trade or occupation, tax status, shoe, clothing,
and blanket distributions, and (in some cases) designation as invalids. Most of these lists
are found in inventory books and plantation books for specific plantations. An account
book, 1808–1827 (section 49) records inventories of slaves at Gwinfield in Essex County,
Deogge, Hopyard, and Oaken Brow in King George County, Deep Hole, Neabsco, and
Wellington in Prince William County, Doctor’s Hall, Forkland, Marske, Menokin, Mount
Airy, and Old House in Richmond County, and Nanjemoy in Charles County, Md.
Additional account books also contain inventories and some individual accounts for the
aforementioned Virginia plantations, along with plantations in Alabama (sections 185,
188, 189, 192, 195, 199, 200, 202, 204, and 205; for years 1829–1854). Loose inventories
are in section 113 and are organized by Virginia counties, with the last folder containing
records of the Alabama plantations—Windsor in Hale County, Larkin in Perry County,
and Oakland, Walnut Grove, and Adventure in Marengo County. A second edition of the
popular Plantation and Farm Instruction, Regulation, Record, Inventory and Account
Book, by J. W. Randolph (Richmond, 1852) differs from the first in that it includes a
section entitled "Marriages of Negroes" with instructions to record births, deaths,