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Col. John Tayloe II (28 May 1721 – 18 April 1779) was the premier Virginia planter; a politician, and colonial Colonel in the Virginia Militia. Virginia . [1] He served in public office including the Virginia Governor's Council , also known as the Virginia Council of State.
References. John Tayloe III. Col. John Tayloe III (September 2, 1770 – March 23, 1828), of Richmond County, Virginia, was the premier Virginia planter; a politician, businessman, and tidewater gentry scion. He was prominent in elite social circles.
When John Tayloe II was born on 28 May 1721, in Richmond, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, John Tayloe, was 33 and his mother, Elizabeth Gwynn, was 28. He married Rebecca Plater on 21 May 1747, in Middlesex, Virginia, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 9 daughters.
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Tayloe II (1721-79), and John Tayloe III (1771-1828). Each of these patriarchs impressively expanded the family holdings. In 1710 John I inherited from his father, William, an estate of three thousand acres and 21 slaves; by his death, John I had assembled a fiefdom of twenty thou-sand acres and 327 slaves. His son, John II, grew that estate to ...
John Tayloe II further enhanced the prestige of his family by constructing the present Mount Airy. Tayloe, who probably acted as the designer, although perhaps with some advice, turned to James Gibbs's Book of Architecture (1728), plate 58, for the south elevation, and plate 55 for the plan.
built by his father, John Tayloe II, around 1758, which his descendants have occupied ever since. In 1808 the Mount Airy slave force was divided into two parts: 105 people—domestics, craft workers, and their young chil dren—lived at the home plantation, and 270 people—agricultural workers
A portrait of John Tayloe II, a planter and politician from Virginia, by John Wollaston. He is depicted in a blue jacket and white waistcoat, with a queue ribbon and a stone plinth.
