Box 14
Contains 42 Results:
James H. Otey, Mount Prospect, to John Thompson Brown, 1816 December 6
Letter from a schoolboy friend regarding New London Academy.
Ann T. Brown to her brother, Henry Brown, in Franklin County, circa 1816
John Thompson Brown's examinations at the New London Academy.
John Thompson Brown, Princeton, New Jersey, to Henry Brown, 1817 November 4
"I have just been examined by the faculty and am admitted to the Sophomore Class, which is the second in the college." His expenses are estimated at $200.00 for the first term and $90.00 for the second. "I will pledge myself not to spend one cent more than is really necessary."
Letters from Dr. William B. Steptoe, New London, to John Thompson Brown, 1817 November-December
Scope and Contents News from home; a rumor that some boys were expelled from Chapel Hill for their politics. John Thompson Brown is his brother-in-law.
Letters from Dr. William B. Steptoe, New London, to John Thompson Brown, 1818 January-November
Scope and Contents Medical advice; a suggested teacher for New London Academy ("Has he energy enough manage southern students?"); the death of Polly [Mrs. Mary Brown Clayton], sister of John Thompson Brown.
Dr. William B. Steptoe, New London, to John Thompson Brown, 1818 March 21
The political upheaval at William and Mary College; deputies appointed "...to fix upon the site of the Virginia University."
Letters from John Thompson Brown, Princeton, to Henry Brown, 1818 May-October
Scope and Contents "My expenses have far exceeded what was necessary or what you expect. I now see my error and repent..." Three months later he offers to leave school because of his additional debts. Later in Baltimore, he is robbed of $200.00. His father adds up the year's expenses to a total of $670.00. Henry Brown is John Thompson Brown's father.
Report of John Thompson Brown, Princeton, New Jersey, to Henry Brown, 1818 September 29
Behavior, No. 1. distinguished; Industry, No. 1. distinguished; Scholarship, No. 1. distinguished (1) "If under the article scholarship, a student is marked No. 1 distinguished (1), he is considered as ranking among the first in his class." (From printed explanation of the report.) John Thompson Brown is of the sophomore class at Princeton.
Letters from James H. Otey, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to John Thompson Brown, 1819 January-September
Scope and Contents "Once the busy scene of commercial enterprise...now lifeless and inactive." Concerning Lynchburg.
Letters from Dr. William B. Steptoe, New London, to John Thompson Brown, 1819 January-December
Scope and Contents The University of Virginia is established at Charlottesville with an annual appropriation of $15,000; news of a threat of slave uprisings in Fredericksburg.
Report of John Thompson Brown, Princeton, New Jersey, to Henry Brown, 1819 April 14, 1819 September 29
John Thompson Brown is of the junior class at Princeton. Two reports. Printed document signed. Similar reports to that of 1818. Warning is added to the September report concerning excessive expenditures by students: "the trustees of the college give this notice to the parents and guardians of the youth, that they ought to pay no debt contracted in this town, which they have not specifically authorized."
List of the names of members of the class, Undated
Endorsed: "Collegians mei consocui." He knew 162 fellow students.
John Thompson Brown, Princeton, to Dr. William B. Steptoe, 1820 January 28
On the "present session of Congress."
Letters from J. H. Otey, Chapel Hill, to John Thompson Brown, 1820 January-May
Scope and Contents Rumor of a great rebellion that has taken place at Princeton; the Missouri question.
Report of John Thompson Brown, Princeton, to Henry Brown, 1820 April 11
John Thompson Brown is of the senior class of Princeton.
Dr. William B. Steptoe, New London, to John Thompson Brown, 1820 July 29
A Fourth of July oration supporting the idea of colonizing the free Negroes in Africa.
Travel book kept by John Thompson Brown, circa 1821 January
The content is on his trip to the South. 15 pages. Autographed document.
John Thompson Brown, New Orleans, to his brother, Henry Brown, Jr., 1821 January 14
"My father may justly complain of the great sums which he has expended on me, but his kindness shall not be abused much longer, as I hope to be in a situation to support myself." Endorsed: "Brother J.--after his return from Princeton went South--through the Cherokee Nation [Alabama and Georgia] to Pensacola, and on to New Orleans--thence to Cuba and returned to U. States in the U.S. Frigate 'Hornet,' as a guest of the officers. Samuel T. Brown."
John Thompson Brown, Lynchburg, to Henry Brown, 1823 May 27
A gambling scrape he was involved in; asks his father's forgiveness.
John Thompson Brown, Needham, to Henry Brown, 1823 November 10
"Chancellor Taylor has been of incalculable service to me in the study of law." (Needham was a law school operated by Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland County in the years 1821-1836.)
Clarksburg, Virginia For the Intelligencer, signed "Phocion", 1825 December 17
Concerning "The President's message."
Committee Report, 1827-1828
Report of a committee, appointed to enquire into the nature and extent of the evils arising from the present unsettled state of Land Titles on the Western Waters of Virginia
Virginia Legislature, Speech of Mr. Brown, Harrison, 1829 January 31
Speech in Committee of the Whole, Jan. 13th, Saturday.
Virginia Legislature, 1830 January 12
A Bill authorizing a loan of $6,000.00 on the credit of the state, for the construction of Turnpike Road from Winchester to Parkersburg by way of Clarksburg, being under consideration.
To "A Voter", 1831 August 10
"Sir:--I have read in the "Intelligencer" of the 9th inst. your communications to the Editors of the paper, in which you remark, substantially, that the only Candidate to represent the town of Petersburg in the General Assembly is a stranger to most voters...Not doubting that I am the person alluded to...," signed John Thompson Brown".