594. TAYLOR FAMILY PAPERS
ca. 500 items, ca. 1800-1890,
microfilm (M-2109)
Personal, legal, and business correspondence of
this family of Westmoreland County. References to
slavery include a December 31, 1863, letter
from Henry Taylor refusing to hire out his slave
to Thomas Watson because the slave was previously
returned from Watson without the usual clothes provided and a June 5, 1865 letter of William Robertson in Charlottesville
to Henry Taylor discussing and outlining the
results of a meeting of "Masters" about how they would handle emancipation.
(Acc. 4653)
