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Special Collections Research Center
William & Mary Special Collections Research CenterEarl Gregg Swem Library
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Williamsburg, Virginia
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Finding Aid Authors: Anne Johnson.
Administrative Information
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Conditions Governing Access:
Collection is open to all researchers. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, such as the Virginia Public Records Act (Code of Virginia. § 42.1-76-91); and the Virginia Freedom of Information Act (Code of Virginia § 2.2-3705.5). Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. If sensitive material is found in this collection, please contact a staff member immediately. The disclosure of personally identifiable information pertaining to a living individual may have legal consequences for which the College of William and Mary assumes no responsibility.
Acquisition Information:
Gift.
Processing Information:
Processed by Anne Johnson in December 2010.
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Scope and Contents
Correspondence, financial, legal and other written material of the John P. Taliaferro Family and Richard P. Taliaferro Family of Gloucester and Ware Neck, Virginia. Richard P. Taliaferro was the son of John P. Taliaferro. Genealogical material on the Fox, Oliver and Read family included. Includes a 1857 letter from a servant, possibly a slave, asking for her "mistress" to bring Patsy for a visit and a 1856 list of hired out slaves.
Related Material
Mss. 82 T14 John P. Taliaferro Papers
Mss. Acc. 1997.28b Richard P. Taliaferro Papers
Mss. 93 T14 John Earl Taliaferro Photograph Album and Letters
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Gloucester County (Va.)--History--19th century
- King and Queen County (Va.)--History--19th century
- Slave labor
- Slavery--Virginia--19th century
- Slaves--Virginia--Social conditions
- Taliaferro family
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Ware Neck (Va.)--History--19th century
Significant Places Associated With the Collection
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
- Ware Neck (Va.)--History--19th century
Container List
Correspondence of the John P. Taliaferro Family. Correspondents include Mrs. E. M. Marshall, W. L. Faunteroy, P. R. Page, Marcellus Eells, Benjamin S. Ewell of Williamsburg, John P. Taliaferro to his wife, Leah L. Taliaferro, E. W. Taliaferro and John Eells.
Civil War letters are from J. P. Smith while camped near Williamsburg (1861), letter from General Thomas L. Rofson about the death of John Eells (1863), John P. Taliaferro to his wife, while at camp in Augusta County, Virginia, about camp news and general news (1864) and John P. Taliaferro to his wife, while in Richmond, Virginia, about being unfit to perform military duties and detailed as a farmer plus war news (April 1, 1865).
Includes a September 24, 1857 letter to "My Dear Mistress" from "Your affectionate Servant, Dolly Cooke" about her wish that "I hope that my dear mistress you will be so kind as to bring Patsy up with you when you come up again and let her come to see me. I am very anxious to see her and I am sure you will oblige your servant in this request. I am very anxious to see you and master."
Courting letters written by Richard P. Taliaferro to Fannie Johnson.
Includes sale of a negro man, invoices, account statement between Ransome White and John P. Taliaferro and "List of hire of my negros for the year 1856 hired by the months."
Letters from William Carter Stubbs of New Orleans about the Perrin, Read and other families and a handwritten note about the John Fox and Oliver families.
Agreements between William H. Anderson and John P. Taliaferro that John P. Taliaferro intermarried with E. W. Anderson (1849), Deed between George E. Tabb and Mary his wife of Mathews County and Thomas S. Tabb (1849), Deed between Benjamin N. Robinson and John P. Taliaferro (1852), agreement for land between Augustine Brown and John P. Taliaferro (1854), agreement by John P. Taliaferro to pay to Thos. S. Tabb for the estate called Toddsbury (1866), indenture between John P. Taliaferro and Dr. William Taliaferro for sale of farm in King and Queen County (1867), letter of agreement for a bond between Eleanor Taliaferro and Mary A. Tabb (1872), letter about estate of Eleanor Taliaferro (undated). Includes 1889 passport for Fannie Nevis Johnson which gives a full description of her.
Poems entitled, "A Confederate Bank Note, "Father Dear" and "I will often Think of Thee." Essays on wheat by John P. Taliaferro and on "Yellow Pickles" by Mrs. Peans, a draft of a speech on the American Revolution by John P. Taliaferro and another speech draft.