Roads to Civil War mapped by a Quaker
Yardley Taylor grew apple trees, delivered county mail, wrote anti-slavery essays, and in 1853 surveyed a map of Loudoun County.Continue Reading
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Nest of Abolitionists and the 1820’s Manumission and Emigration movement
The Library of Virginia, in their Out of the Box archives, has a series of articles about the anti-slavery and abolitionist societies which spreadContinue Reading
Roads to Civil War: a Quaker’s map of Loudoun County
Yardley Taylor grew apple trees, delivered county mail, wrote anti-slavery essays, and in 1853 surveyed a map of Loudoun County.Continue Reading
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Reconstruction begins: Yardley Taylor’s letter to Governor Francis Pierpont
Men have attempted to practice a morality inconsistent with Christianity, while professing its principles, and the consequence has been the last cruel, unjust and wicked war, a war begun and carried on to uphold slavery.
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“I refer you to…Samuel M. Janney or Yardley Taylor of Loudoun County.”
At the end of the Civil War, the Union army occupied the former Confederacy, supplying government for a South stillContinue Reading
Yardley Taylor in newly revealed daguerreotype and: is this Hannah Taylor?
A collector recently came across the items shown here, when at auction in Pennsylvania. Mr. Brian Murphy, the new ownerContinue Reading
