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Irons in the fire : the business history of the Tayloe family and Virginia's gentry, 1700-1860
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the Tayloes, the Virginia gentry, and the early American economy
- "To the great benefit of this poor country" : John Tayloe and the roots of entrepreneurship
- Building the Tayloe estate : land, slaves, and the foundation of Virginia's regional economy
- Neabsco and Occoquan : iron, slaves, and the success of John Tayloe II
- Adjustments at Mount Airy : John Tayloe III and post-revolutionary Virginia
- John Tayloe III, engaged in the business of the new nation
- Epilogue : the Tayloes and change in antebellum Virginia
- Appendix A : Tayloe family genealogy
- Appendix B : the Chesapeake iron industry
- Appendix C : The one hundred.