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Sources consulted for the biography of:James Thomas Sammons Taylor (1840–1918)
Primary Sources
- Birth and death dates, full name, and parents' names in Death Certificate, Charlottesville, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Date of marriage and list of children in Federal Pension Application Files, certificate numbers 855,062 and 863,849 in Records of the Veterans Administration, Record Group 15, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Compiled Service Military Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served With the U. S. Colored Troops, 2nd through 7th Colored Infantry, 1861–1865, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, Record Group 94, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Taylor's request for back-pay from the army, April 17, 1866, in Subordinate Field Offices, Charlottesville (Albemarle County, Asst. Subassistant Commissioner), Letters Received, March 1866–January 1868, Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia (1865–1872), Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, M1913, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia, Convened in the City of Richmond, December 3, 1867… [1868], esp. 16, 28, 29, 389.
- Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia, Assembled at the City of Richmond, Tuesday, December 3, 1867… (1868), esp. 151, 248, 374, 454, 603–604, 719–720, 736.
- 1869 election results in General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870), "Summary of the result of the election for members of the House of Delegates of Virginia, held on the 6th day of July, 1869," 3.
- Papers and Testimony in the Contested-Election case of John E. Massey vs. John S. Wise, from the State of Virginia at Large, 48th Congress, 1st session, House of Representatives Misc. Document 27, serial 2226, part 1, esp. pp. 174–177.
- Albemarle County Deed Book No. 69, pp. 152–153, Library of Virginia.
- Interview with Mrs. Eliza Ann Taylor by Susie R. C. Byrd, March 5, 1937, LH01410, Virginia Writers' Project, Accession 36002, Federal Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 41.
- Joseph C. Vance, "The Negro in the Reconstruction of Albemarle County, Virginia" (Master's thesis, University of Virginia, 1953).
- Richard L. Hume, "The Membership of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868: A Study of the Beginnings of Congressional Reconstruction in the Upper South," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (1978): 461–484.
- Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 347.
Newspapers
- 1867 election results in Staunton Spectator, October 29, 1867
- Alexandria Gazette, October 4, 1867
- Charlottesville Chronicle, October 3, 24, 1867
- Richmond Daily State Journal, June 17, 1872
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, November 3, 1875
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