Box 12
Contains 69 Results:
Henry Brown, Jr., Lynchburg, to Dr. Gustavus Rose, 1830 October 5
Samuel Brown, Fort Wayne, Indiana, to his father, Captain Henry Brown, 1830 October 17
"...the last day I rode more than thirty miles through a dreary wilderness without seeing a single house...I am yet travelling alone and have come six hundred miles without a single man travelling my course..."
Samuel (son of Samuel Brown), Princeton, New Jersey, to his uncle, Henry Brown, 1831 January 1
His progress in college.
Rev. James M. Brown (son of Samuel Brown), near Martinsburg, to his uncle, Henry Brown, 1832 January 3
His progress in repaying a debt to the estate of his uncle, Daniel.
Rev. J. M. Brown, near Martinsburg, to Henry Brown, 1833 July 23
Scope and Contents Report of workers on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal dying from Cholera.
Henry Brown, Jr. to Henry Brown
On the death of his maternal grandfather, John Thompson.
Henry G. Brown to his uncle, Captain Henry Brown, 1834 March 22
Henry G. Brown is the son of Samuel Brown.
Letters from Henry Brown, Jr., Red Sulphur Springs, to Henry Brown, 1834 March-August
Rev. S. Brown, Bath County, to Henry Brown, 1834 April 8
Henry Brown, Jr. to Henry Brown, 1835 February 13
Leaving for New York to lay in goods.
Letters from Henry Brown, Jr., Lynchburg and New York, to Henry Brown, 1836 March-April
Scope and Contents Hopes for his store despite illness and some hostile feeling toward his former partner, Ammon Hancock.
Jesse Miller to Henry Brown, 1836 June 12
On the death of Henry Brown. (Henry Brown, Jr. died while he and his wife were on a shopping trip for the store.)
William Brown, Staunton, to Henry Brown, 1836 July 30
William Brown is the son of Samuel Brown. On the changing population: "The people still retain the simple manners of the old Scotch-Irish and, I may add, much of the intelligence and piety. But the restless spirit of emigration is taking away our best people and in their place we generally get Germans, who commonly are deplorably ignorant and will do very little toward supporting the Gospel."
Letters from K. B. Townley, Lynchburg, to Henry Brown, 1836 September-December
Scope and Contents A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes to settle accounts and close the store.
Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown, Lynchburg, to Henry Brown, 1836 October 10
The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the disposal of her house.
Dr. Will Steptoe to Edwin Robinson, 1836 December 12
To Frances Brown's husband, on the loss of her two brothers, "and such brothers too, in so short a time." (Henry Brown, Jr. died in June, 1836, and his brother, John Thompson Brown, in December of that same year.)
Henry J. Brown to Henry Brown, 1836 December 15
Henry J. Brown is the son of Samuel Brown.
K. B. Townley, Lynchburg, to Henry Brown, 1837 February
Scope and Contents 2 letters. On the sale of merchandise and an expected loss.
P. Echols, Inn-holder at New London, to Henry Brown, 1837 May 9
Agrees to furnish Gould B. Raymond, manager of the Menagerie Co., lodging for 30 men, 65 horses, 1 elephant, 1 camel and 2 ponies.
Mrs. Mary E. Brown, Petersburg, to Mrs. Edwin (Frances B.) Robinson
The inscription on the tomb of her late husband, John Thompson Brown.
Mrs. Eleanor to Miss Alice Brown, 1837 May
The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the death of her husband a year ago.
Mrs. Frances B. Robinson to her father, Henry Brown, Undated
Mrs. Mary E. Brown to her father-in-law, Henry Brown, 1838 January 27
The widow of John Thompson Brown writes regarding her three sons.
Mrs. Eleanor C. L. Brown, Lynchburg, to Henry Brown, 1838 April 24
S. H. Guiland, Lynchburg, to Henry Brown, 1838 May 10
Scope and Contents The executor of an estate demands payment of a note on which Henry Brown, Jr. was a cosigner.