Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700-1860 Book

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction: The Tayloes, the Virginia Gentry, and the Early American Economy     1
"To the Great Benefit of This Poor Country": John Tayloe and the Roots of Entrepreneurship     13
Building the Tayloe Estate: Land, Slaves, and the Foundation of Virginia's Regional Economy     33
Neabsco and Occoquan: Iron, Slaves, and the Success of John Tayloe II     62
Adjustments at Mount Airy: John Tayloe III and Post-Revolutionary Virginia     93
John Tayloe III, Engaged in the Business of the New Nation     125
Epilogue: The Tayloes and Change in Antebellum Virginia     151
Tayloe Family Genealogy     164
The Chesapeake Iron Industry     166
The One Hundred     172
Notes     175
Index     213