1811 Virginia Indenture. Signed John Tayloe & John
Tayloe Lomax. Middlesex Co.
Document Signed. John Tayloe & John
Tayloe Lomax as trustees of the estate of Ralph Wormeley, deceased.
Transferring title to 121.5 acres in Middlesex
County to Christopher Harwood for $607.50
Also Signed by witnesses: James Ross; Elliott Muse;
(?) Banks; George D. Nicolson.
Manuscript document in ink. Single sheet written on both sides. 11-3/4 x 7-5/8
inches. Overall very good condition.
Historical
Notes:
John
Tayloe III (1770-1828) Plantation owner, Mt. Airy in Richmond
County, Virginia. Businessman, shipbuilding at Neabsco Iron Works, Woodbridge,
Prince William County, Virginia. Military officer, as Captain of Dragoons
during the Whiskey Rebellion and in 1799 President John Adams appointed him
Major of the Light dragoons; during the War of 1812 Tayloe was made commander
of the cavalry of the District of Columbia. Tayloe served in the Virginia House
of Delegates and Senate of Virginia. Tayloe built the Octagon House in
Washington, D.C.
John
Tayloe Lomax (1781-1862) First professor of Law at
the University of Virginia. Jurist. Author. Born Port Tobago, Caroline County,
Virginia; died in Fredericksburg.
James
Ross
operated a store in the Old Tobacco Warehouse in the town of Urbanna.
Emancipated slaves in 1802.
Elliott
Muse
Bought and sold several estates in Middlesex County including “Glebe” & “Hampstead.”
Rev.
(?) Banks. We locate two Reverend
Banks in Middlesex; Temple Banks & James Banks.
George
Dudley Nicolson M.D. of Williamsburg built home “Deer Chase”
in Middlesex in 1812. Surgeon in the War of 1812. Married Sara Tayloe Wormeley,
his cousin.
Christopher
Harwood (carpenter, contractor)
Ralph
Wormeley V (1744-1806) Member of the Virginia House of
Delegates and in the Virginia Convention of 1788. Owned Rosegill estate in
Middlesex County, Virginia.
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