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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Hugh T. Taggart collection relating to the District of Columbia and Maryland, 1751-1889 (bulk 1791-1880)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Taggart, Hugh T. (Hugh Thomas)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1844-1914</namePart>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>200</extent>
    <extent>17 1</extent>
    <extent>2.8</extent>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, letterbooks, daybooks, minutes, notebooks, legal briefs, financial records, scrapbook, printed matter, broadside, and other papers and records collected by Taggart probably during his work on the Potomac Flats case determining waterfront boundary issues.  Relates chiefly to the assessment, sale, and survey of property in the District of Columbia, Georgetown, and Maryland.  Includes an account book of Charles Beatty; survey notebooks of Lewis Canberry; daybook and letterbook of Robert Cruikshank, a book dealer in Georgetown; survey notes of Rt. King; Robert Swan's sale catalog of books; daybooks of the Falls Bridge Turnpike Company and the Georgetown and Leesburg Turnpike Company; minutes of the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) Board of Commissioners and the District of Columbia Levy Court (Washington County); assessments of personal property in Georgetown; surveys and sales of lots in the District of Columbia; and a book with manuscript mathematical exercises and colored drawings.  Subjects include Daniel Carroll of Duddington, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the colonial history of Maryland, and the Washington Canal, Washington, D.C.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Selected materials transferred to appropriate custodial divisions of the Library of Congress.</note>
  <note>U.S. district attorney.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010015">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010015</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Carroll, Daniel</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1764-1849</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>L'Enfant, Pierre Charles</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1754-1825</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Canals</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Mathematics</topic>
    <topic>Problems, exercises, etc</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Real property</topic>
    <geographic>Maryland</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Real property</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Roads</topic>
    <geographic>Virginia</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Roads</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Waterfronts</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Georgetown (Washington, D.C.)</geographic>
    <topic>Surveys</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Maryland</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Maryland</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775</temporal>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Maryland</geographic>
    <topic>Surveys</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Washington Canal (Washington, D.C.)</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
    <topic>Surveys</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Lawyers</occupation>
  </subject>
  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Charles Beatty account book. 1750-1809</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Beatty, Charles,</namePart>
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">of Georgetown, Md</namePart>
    </name>
  </relatedItem>
  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Lewis Canberry survey notebooks. 1791-1828</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Canberry, Lewis.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Robert Cruikshank daybook and letterbook. 1827-1831</title>
    </titleInfo>
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cruikshank, Robert.</namePart>
    </name>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Rt. King survey notes. 1793-1795</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>King, Rt. (Robert),</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1774 or 1775-1831</namePart>
    </name>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Robert Swan sale catalog of books. circa 1828</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Swan, Robert,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">active approximately 1828</namePart>
    </name>
  </relatedItem>
  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>District of Columbia. Levy Court (Washington County) minutes. 1835-1847</title>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>District of Columbia.</namePart>
      <namePart>Levy Court (Washington County)</namePart>
    </name>
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    <titleInfo>
      <title>Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) Board of Commissioners minutes. 1751-1789</title>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Georgetown (Washington, D.C.).</namePart>
      <namePart>Board of Commissioners.</namePart>
    </name>
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    <titleInfo>
      <title>Falls Bridge Turnpike Company daybooks. 1836-1852</title>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Falls Bridge Turnpike Company.</namePart>
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  <relatedItem>
    <titleInfo>
      <title>Georgetown and Leesburg Turnpike Company daybooks. 1816-1836</title>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Georgetown and Leesburg Turnpike Company.</namePart>
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