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Box 12

 Container

Contains 69 Results:

Samuel Brown, Rockbridge, to his brother, Henry, 1797 October 3

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 1
Identifier: id177781
Scope and Contents

Purchase of a watch in Winchester; requests 30 dollars to repay a debt.

Dates: 1797 October 3
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Samuel Brown, Lexington, to Henry Brown, 1799 June 6

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 2
Identifier: id177782
Scope and Contents

His wife's estate; purchase of a Negro girl.

Dates: 1799 June 6
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Samuel Brown to his niece, Nancy Brown, 1808 March 10

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 3
Identifier: id177783
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Correspondence of the immediate family of Captain Henry Brown. Also includes personal correspondence of Henry Brown with his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children. The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son, John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19. Also, letters from the sons and daughters of Samuel, brother of Henry Brown. In a separate group are collected letters written by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from West Point Military Academy and from the Indian...
Dates: 1808 March 10
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Daniel Brown, Franklin, to his brother, Henry Brown, 1811 August 6

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 4
Identifier: id177784
Scope and Contents

On his return from the Spring; attack of "bilious Cholic" and his treatment.

Dates: 1811 August 6
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Samuel Brown to Henry Brown, 1813 November 13

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 5
Identifier: id177785
Scope and Contents

Concerning "the purchase of some land at $20 per acre..."

Dates: 1813 November 13
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Samuel Brown, Brownsburg, to Henry Brown, 1814 December 30

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 6
Identifier: id177786
Scope and Contents

Beats female slave, using a walking stick, his wife using a cowhide whip. The slave's mate attempted to protect her with an axe but he was subdued, beaten and sent to jail the next day. Hopes for peace, unpopularity of the conscription law and the whiskey tax.

Dates: 1814 December 30
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Mary Brown, Ann Smith Academy, to her father, Henry Brown, 1815 August 2

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 7
Identifier: id177787
Scope and Contents

On her studies: Blair's lectures, piano playing, drawing, painting and embroidery.

Dates: 1815 August 2
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Will Steptoe, Bedford, to his sister-in-law, Mary Brown, 1815 August 20

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 8
Identifier: id177788
Scope and Contents

The husband of Nancy Brown writes: "...Bounaparte is on his way to this country. If so I greatly fear we shall go backwards with accelerated velocity in all peaceful, literary and ornamental pursuits..."

Dates: 1815 August 20
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Daniel Brown to Henry Brown, circa 1817

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 9
Identifier: id177789
Scope and Contents

Advice on a move to the State of Ohio. "Although I like Slavery as little as you or anyone else, still...I think it probable that we should be as unhappy as we are with them" (Daniel died in 1818. For the next 20 years Henry administered his estate for the benefit of his wife and children.)

Dates: circa 1817
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Letters from Samuel Clayton, Red Sulphur Springs, to Henry Brown, 1818 August-September

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 10
Identifier: id177790
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Henry Brown is Clayton's father-in-law. The letters discuss Mary Brown's illness at the Springs (she was to die within a year).

Dates: 1818 August-September
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Samuel Brown to Henry Brown, 1818 October 6

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 11
Identifier: id177791
Scope and Contents

The building of his house and the health of his family.

Dates: 1818 October 6
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Lavinia A. Brown, Rockbridge, to Henry Brown, 1822 November 6

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 12
Identifier: id177792
Scope and Contents

The daughter of Samuel Brown, writes to console her Uncle on the death of his brothers and his two daughters, Mrs. Anne [Nancy] B. Steptoeand Mrs. Mary [Polly] B. Clayton.

Dates: 1822 November 6
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Doctor's bill from Dr. Will Steptoe to the estate of James Jones, 1824 September

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 13
Identifier: id177793
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Correspondence of the immediate family of Captain Henry Brown. Also includes personal correspondence of Henry Brown with his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children. The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son, John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19. Also, letters from the sons and daughters of Samuel, brother of Henry Brown. In a separate group are collected letters written by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from West Point Military Academy and from the Indian...
Dates: 1824 September
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

James Morrison, Brownsburg, to Henry Brown, 1824 October 11

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 14
Identifier: id177795
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Correspondence of the immediate family of Captain Henry Brown. Also includes personal correspondence of Henry Brown with his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children. The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son, John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19. Also, letters from the sons and daughters of Samuel, brother of Henry Brown. In a separate group are collected letters written by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from West Point Military Academy and from the Indian...
Dates: 1824 October 11
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Samuel Brown, Greenbrier, to Henry Brown, Jr., 1825 March 6

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 15
Identifier: id177796
Scope and Contents

An uncle of Henry Brown writes, "My grandson wishes to get in to Business in a store..." (Henry Brown, Jr. now has a store in Lynchburg.)

Dates: 1825 March 6
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Henry Brown, Jr., Deerwood, to Henry Brown, 1825 August 14

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 16
Identifier: id177797
Scope and Contents

His continued bad health. The death of James Leftwich, Captain Brown's business partner.

Dates: 1825 August 14
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

J. C. Steptoe, to Henry Brown, 1826 February 12

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 17
Identifier: id177798
Scope and Contents

Requests assistance in obtaining appointment as Clerk of Court at Bedford.

Dates: 1826 February 12
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

James Williams, Liberty, Bedford County, to Samuel Clayton, 1826 June 17

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 18
Identifier: id177799
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Correspondence of the immediate family of Captain Henry Brown. Also includes personal correspondence of Henry Brown with his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children. The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son, John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19. Also, letters from the sons and daughters of Samuel, brother of Henry Brown. In a separate group are collected letters written by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from West Point Military Academy and from the Indian...
Dates: 1826 June 17
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Henry Brown, Jr., Deerwood, to Henry Brown, 1827 January 20

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 19
Identifier: id177800
Scope and Contents

The value of the Deerwood tract.

Dates: 1827 January 20
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Dr. Will Steptoe to Henry Brown, 1828 April 5

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 20
Identifier: id177851
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Correspondence of the immediate family of Captain Henry Brown. Also includes personal correspondence of Henry Brown with his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children. The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son, John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19. Also, letters from the sons and daughters of Samuel, brother of Henry Brown. In a separate group are collected letters written by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from West Point Military Academy and from the Indian...
Dates: 1828 April 5
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

James Morrison, Brownsburg, to Henry Brown, 1828 July 22

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 21
Identifier: id177852
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Correspondence of the immediate family of Captain Henry Brown. Also includes personal correspondence of Henry Brown with his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children. The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son, John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19. Also, letters from the sons and daughters of Samuel, brother of Henry Brown. In a separate group are collected letters written by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from West Point Military Academy and from the Indian...
Dates: 1828 July 22
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Frances Brown to her father, Captain Henry Brown

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 22
Identifier: id177853
Scope and Contents

Begs her father to let her have money to go to the inauguration of President Jackson.

Dates: 1797-1841
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Frances Brown, Audley, to her father, 1829 February 8

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 23
Identifier: id177854
Scope and Contents

On her visit to Washington: "this is the thickest settled neighborhood that I ever was in--the neighbors are situated all around, some in view and others not more than a quarter of a mile from the house..."

Dates: 1829 February 8
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Henry Brown, Jr., Audley, to Henry Brown, 1829 March, 1829 July

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 24
Identifier: id177855
Scope and Contents

On his visit with his brothers, John Thompson Brown, in "Washington City." Description of crowded Washington, full of pickpockets and of the confusion even in the President's house.

Dates: 1829 March, 1829 July
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family

Letters from Henry Brown, Jr., Lynchburg, to Henry Brown, 1830 August

 File — Box: 12, Folder: 25
Identifier: id177856
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Correspondence of the immediate family of Captain Henry Brown. Also includes personal correspondence of Henry Brown with his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children. The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son, John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19. Also, letters from the sons and daughters of Samuel, brother of Henry Brown. In a separate group are collected letters written by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from West Point Military Academy and from the Indian...
Dates: 1830 August
Found in: Special Collections Research Center / Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I) / GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers / Correspondence of the Brown family