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General Assembly.\n House of Delegates.","Virginia--Politics and\n government--1775-1865.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Bedford County--19th\n century.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Campbell County--19th\n century.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Lynchburg--19th century.","3,433 items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization This collection is organized into four series; Series 1\n is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker\n Families; Series 2 is Group B, containing the papers of\n Capt. Henry Brown and his family; Series 3 is Group C,\n containing the papers of John Thompson Brown; and Series 4\n is Group D, containing the papers of the Brown and Tucker\n Families.","This collection is organized into four series; Series 1\n is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker\n Families; Series 2 is Group B, containing the papers of\n Capt. Henry Brown and his family; Series 3 is Group C,\n containing the papers of John Thompson Brown; and Series 4\n is Group D, containing the papers of the Brown and Tucker\n Families.","Arrangement Each series in the collection has been arranged into\n various subseries by family names, personal names or\n subjects. The material in each subseries may contain the\n names of various other persons but the most prominent name\n is the one used to describe the subseries. Series 1\n contains the following subseries: John Coalter; Children of\n John Coalter, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, and St. George\n Tucker Coalter; and Grandchild of John Coalter, Frances\n Bland Coalter. Series 2 contains the following subseries:\n Capt. Henry Brown; Immediate Family of Capt. Henry Brown;\n and Children of Capt. Henry Brown, Henry Brown, Jr. and\n Samuel T. Brown. Series 3 contains six subseries pertaining\n to John Thompson Brown. Series 4 contains the following\n subseries: Col. John Thompson Brown II, Henry Peronneau\n Brown, John Thompson Brown III, Later Family Member, and\n Miscellaneous.","Each series in the collection has been arranged into\n various subseries by family names, personal names or\n subjects. The material in each subseries may contain the\n names of various other persons but the most prominent name\n is the one used to describe the subseries. Series 1\n contains the following subseries: John Coalter; Children of\n John Coalter, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, and St. George\n Tucker Coalter; and Grandchild of John Coalter, Frances\n Bland Coalter. Series 2 contains the following subseries:\n Capt. Henry Brown; Immediate Family of Capt. Henry Brown;\n and Children of Capt. Henry Brown, Henry Brown, Jr. and\n Samuel T. Brown. Series 3 contains six subseries pertaining\n to John Thompson Brown. Series 4 contains the following\n subseries: Col. John Thompson Brown II, Henry Peronneau\n Brown, John Thompson Brown III, Later Family Member, and\n Miscellaneous.","Describes life on Walker's Creek, Rockbridge\n County; his responsibility for the farm while\n his father is away at war.","Samuel Brown is a young lawyer, earning\n 40£ per year as usher for John\n Holt.","Describes his new position as tutor to the\n children of St. George Tucker.","The death of Mrs. Tucker; plans of St.\n George Tucker to move because the plantation,\n Matoax, reverts to the sons of Mrs. Tucker\n (Richard, John, and Theodorick Randolph). He\n intends to move to Williamsburg, but he can no\n longer pay John Coalter 30£ per\n annum; offers to give legal training in\n exchange for tutoring services.","James Rind, had been studying law with St.\n George Tucker in Williamsburg but left to take\n a position with \"Col. N.\" Maria Rind remains in\n the household of St. George Tucker, where she\n cared for the children.","Honors Thesis Paper written by a student of the College\n of William and Mary. A Bibliography can be found on pages\n 75-77. Call Number: LD6051 .W5m Hist., 1987, B66","Boone, Jennifer\n Kathryn. \"In Praise of the Family\": A\n Study of Three Generations. 1987.","Note: The superscript numbers denote generations within\n each family.","Brown Family Henry Brown \n 1 (1716-1766) was born in Bedford\n County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven\n children including; Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel\n Brown (1770-1818).","Henry Brown \n 2 (1760-1841), later commissioned\n as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the\n war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell)\n County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting\n life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several\n ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his\n time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax\n Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of\n revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a\n treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New\n London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day\n Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers\n present a picture of the successful business man of that day.\n No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this\n collection, though many references to letters he had written\n are to be found. Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), married\n Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry\n Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T.\n Brown, who married Lissie Huger; \n Locky [Lockie] T. Brown (b.\n 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who\n married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M.\n Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married\n Mary E. Willcox.","Many papers of Henry Brown, Jr. \n 3 (1797-1836), are included in this\n collection, but his personality makes little impression on the\n reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his\n father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own.\n Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness\n that had plagued him from his early years.","John Thompson Brown \n 3 (1802-1836) was born near Bedford\n County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later\n read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the\n House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia\n (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his\n marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading\n citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of\n Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery,\n states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson\n period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their\n insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period.\n He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned\n as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the\n State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have\n been an important figure in national politics if he had not\n suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary\n Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894),\n John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II\n (1835-1864).","Col. John Thompson Brown II \n 4 (1835-1864), was less than two\n years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his\n father's ideas in the next generation when the debate\n regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by\n recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war\n fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the\n artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6,\n 1864.","Henry Peronneau Brown \n 4 (1832-1894), was named after a\n Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's,\n Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry\n Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his\n father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown\n with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the\n insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and\n the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894),\n married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were\n the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married\n Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker\n family with the line. They in turn had five children; John\n Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown;\n Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas\n Brown; and Willcox Brown.","Coalter Family John Coalter \n 1 (1769-1838), was born in 1769 to\n parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father\n was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter\n and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in\n Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became\n tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and\n Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death\n of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg,\n serving without pay in return for the legal training he\n received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While\n studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of\n William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In\n December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year\n later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a\n Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for\n the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter\n (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport\n (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within\n the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of\n St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John\n Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore\n him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter\n (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and\n St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later\n became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and\n bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter\n continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to\n Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In\n 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones)\n Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and\n interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in\n Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\" plantation in\n Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter \n 2 (1805-1853), married John\n Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831\n and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They\n had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia\n Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph\n Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George\n Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman\n Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).","St. George Tucker Coalter \n 2 (1809-1839), married the\n strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out\n his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his\n farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters,\n which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine\n Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were\n prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters\n give an interesting and informative picture of life in\n Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St.\n George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin\n Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker\n (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who\n married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia\n Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in\n 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married\n Amelia Downy in 1862 and Charlotte (Downy) Terrill in 1868.\n See Brown Family","Tucker Family St. George Tucker \n 1 (1752-1827), was born in 1752\n near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry\n Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career\n in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William\n and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served\n as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth\n attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at\n the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge\n for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland)\n Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous\n marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and\n John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph\n Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker\n (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker\n (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel\n Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph\n plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until\n the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St.\n George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795).\n None of their three children lived to adulthood.","Henry St. George Tucker \n 2 (1780-1848), served as a\n professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the\n Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress,\n 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married\n Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children,\n including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances\n Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John\n Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).","Randolph Tucker \n 3 married Lucy (?). The couple had\n children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.","Dr. David Hunter Tucker \n 3 married Eliz Dallas and had Rev.\n Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.","John Randolph Tucker \n 3 (1823-1897), married Laura Holmes\n Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as\n attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at\n Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University);\n and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.","Ann Frances Bland Tucker \n 2 (1785-1813), married John Coalter\n (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.","Nathaniel Beverley Tucker \n 2 (1784-1851), graduated from the\n College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he\n married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter\n (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court\n Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried\n twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He\n returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in\n 1834.","Other People William Munford (1775- 1825) \n A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his\n Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some\n note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting\n reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard\n University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants\n in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the\n British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He\n lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later\n moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks\n on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on\n that important member of the legal profession in the new\n nation.","Gary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is\n unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods\n stores and the household supply stores are included in the\n collection.","Cynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of\n Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.","Judge John Randolph Tucker (ca. 1915) \n Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska\n concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (ca.\n 1915).","Capt. David Tucker Brown (ca. 1918), was a member of the\n 1918 Peace Commission, Paris France.","There are two collections within the Manuscripts and\n Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n Mary that relate to this Collection. They include the\n Barnes Family Papers and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.","Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. \n Barnes Family Papers, \n 1797-1926,\n 1818-1875. 247 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26 Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman\n Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes\n of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County,\n Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and\n also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are\n members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver\n families.","Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. \n Tucker-Coleman Papers, \n 1664-1945,\n 1770-1907. 30,000 items. Collection number: Mss. 40 T79 Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and\n Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington,\n Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George\n Tucker(1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851),\n Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland\n (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838),\n John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker\n Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family\n members.","Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter, Tucker families\n including the papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the\n Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and John Thompson Brown\n (1802-1836), member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Among\n the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George\n Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St.\n George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev.\n Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.","Papers include John Coalter's autobiographical sketch\n (to age 18), 54 poems written by Coalter, St. George\n Tucker, and others including several by female writers.\n Correspondents of the Coalter family include St. George\n Tucker, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, William Munford,\n Judith Randolph, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter and Maria\n Rind Coalter. Subjects include John Randolph of Roanoke\n (and his will), George Wythe, the Embargo of 1807-1809,\n College of William and Mary, War of 1812; and the\n springs of Virginia.","Group A also includes papers of Coalter's children:\n Elizabeth Tucker Coalter; and St. George Tucker Coalter\n and his wife Judith H. Tomlin and the correspondence of\n Coalter's granddaughter Frances Lelia Bland Coalter\n Brown. Her letters concern her education and friendship\n with Moses Drury Hoge.","The record of the gift of the collection,\n genealogical charts of the Tucker, Coalter, Tomlin\n and Brown families, and sundry genealogical notes\n which form a preface to the collection, are placed\n at the beginning of this box. The collection\n begins with 54 poems, the first of which is signed\n by St. George Tucker. Two signed poems by William\n Munford are included. The largest group of poems\n are those exchanged by John Coalter and Maria\n Rind, his first wife. Others were collected in the\n family papers until the middle or the latter part\n of the nineteenth century.","The bulk of the material in Box 1 concerns John\n Coalter: an autobiographical sketch written by him\n on his 18th birthday, and letters covering the\n period of his early life from 1787, when he went\n to live with the St. George Tucker family, until\n the death of his first wife in 1793. Interesting\n letters from John Munford, a classmate of Coalter,\n are included, several of which concern the College\n of William and Mary and Harvard College.","Genealogical charts: 1. Coalter, with\n Tucker and Randolph connections; 2. Tomlin,\n as connected with Coalter and Brown; 3.\n Brown, as connected with Coalter and\n Tucker.","His father hopes that John Coalter will\n return home, to the higher country, for the\n \"sickly season.\"","Samuel Brown gives details of his studies at\n Dickinson College, and congratulates John\n Coalter on his chance to study law with St.\n George Tucker.","Attending lectures of the Rev. James\n Madison, President of the College of William\n and Mary, on Natural Philosophy, and of Mr.\n Wythe on Law. When John Coalter loses his\n ribbon he must let his hair hang free for want\n of money to buy another.","Two young cousins, in custody of Indians for\n 3 and 6 years respectively, were freed by the\n army in Detroit.","Concerning his wedding trip.","John Grierson Rind is a brother of Maria\n Rind. He mentions the need of John Coalter for\n a coat and a pair of spectacles.","Approval of the Constitution by South\n Carolina is still in doubt; threat of an Indian\n War in Georgia. \" \n Brother\n Dav[i]d is over in Gloucester. If he has\n success in purchasing Negroes, I hope we will\n be ready to sett [sic] out on our \n rout[e] to the\n South.\"","First letter of young Micajah Coalter, who\n is learning to write.","\"Have you been exempted from paying the\n oppressive Duty which most of our Backwoods\n Gentlemen have paid for that Knowledge which\n they have gathered at Williamsburg in Autumn--I\n mean the loss of Health and a good\n complexion.\"","Mentions John Coalter's desire to return\n home.","Expresses desire to marry and to live on the\n farm while he is getting started in his law\n practice.","\"...nothing can be expected without\n riches...however deserving of a better fate the\n poor always meet\n with rudeness and contempt.\" (Children of a\n Williamsburg printer, the Rinds were orphaned\n at an early age and were helped by the\n Tuckers.)","His father does not have land to give him at\n that time, so he cannot marry at once. He has\n decided to move to Staunton, and continue his\n studies. In September he writes that he hopes\n to visit Williamsburg around Christmas, and\n apply for admission to the bar.","The letters are written with great\n difficulty, and show a lack of schooling.","Mentions \"your quondam charges, Henry,\n Tudor, Beverley, and Fanny (Tucker) and John\n and Theodorick Randolph.\" Hopes he may live and\n study with Mr. Wythe. \"Nothing would advance me\n faster in the world than the reputation of\n having been educated by Mr. Wythe, for such a\n man as he, casts a light upon all around\n him.\"","John Coalter has borrowed a horse from him\n for the trip to Staunton.","\"I...was much pleased to hear of your\n gallantry but am affeared it has been attended\n with some accident which occasioned your move\n to the mountains again...\" (Evidently John\n Coalter did something to protect Maria Rind. He\n then decided to leave Williamsburg in order to\n establish himself and be in a position to\n support her as his wife.)","After obtaining his license in Williamsburg,\n John Coalter has his first case in Amherst. Of\n St. George Tucker, he writes: \"I would rather\n have the approbation of that man than worlds\n for my admirers.\" Advice is given in regard to\n the torment by John Randolph; plans are made\n for their marriage in autumn.","In April she writes that Mr. Tucker plans to\n remarry; she wishes to move up the date of\n their marriage. She dreads \"the prospect of\n Johnny Randolph returning and you well know, my\n love, how liable your dear is to be insulted by\n him...\"","\"...thru the surprising friendship of Mr.\n Wythe, I live in his house and board at his\n table...In this happy situation tomorrow I\n begin the Study of Law.\"","Congratulates James Rind on receiving his\n license to practice law.","\"We visit very often at the different houses\n in the neighborhood, at Westover, Nesting, and\n Shirley, where I saw Robin Carter...we may\n expect to see you after Mrs. Carter has become\n Mrs. Tucker.\"","On the return of a wagon and horses;\n purchases of additional farm animals.","Living and studying with Mr. Wythe. John\n Thompson (grandfather of John Thompson Brown)\n was among the 4th of July orators. Verse and\n poetic criticism of St. George Tucker. George\n Wythe is teaching his servant to write.","This law practice is discouraging; entrusts\n Maria Rind to his care, and sends greetings on\n St. George Tucker's 39th birthday.","Discourages John Coalter from coming \"across\n the Alps\" -- there are too many lawyers\n already.","Has moved to Richmond with Mr. Wythe.\n Mentions building of the canal. Samuel Brown to\n study in Scotland; congratulates John Coalter\n on his marriage to Maria Rind.","Elizabeth Tucker is sister of St. George\n Tucker, and an aunt of Fanny Tucker. Mentions\n other Tucker children, Henry, Tudor, Beverly,\n and Elizabeth, as well as Theodorick and\n Richard Randolph and the latter's wife, Judith.\n Comments on the proposed marriage of St. George\n Tucker to Mrs. Carter, and the small children\n she will be bringing to the marriage.","Description of George Washington delivering\n an address in Philadelphia. Congratulates John\n Coalter on his marriage and sends compliments\n to his brothers. (This Samuel Brown may be the\n uncle of John Thompson Brown.)","The letter was written soon after Mrs.\n Coalter had gone to Staunton with her\n husband.","On the marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs.\n Lelia (Skipwith) Carter.","Death of Maria Skipwith; the great distress\n of Mrs. (Lelia Skipwith) Tucker.","His wages are to be 15£ or\n 20£ per year as a clerk.","The letter from Edinburgh contains an\n interesting description of life in the Scottish\n capital, the coldness of his fellow students\n until they are introduced, and his warm\n reception by a family to which he had a letter\n of introduction.","Reports that there are about forty students\n at the College of William and Mary; Theodorick\n Randolph has died; \"Thompson has left W. \u0026\n M.,\" and his mother proposes to send him to\n Harvard.","Enquires about Maria, and their expected\n first child. (Both mother and child died.)","The \"distressing news\" that his wife has\n died in childbirth.","War reports; the parade of the Richmond\n Grenadiers, Light Horse and Light Infantry.","Consoles John Coalter on the loss of his\n wife; reports the Independence Day orations at\n the College of William and Mary, and mentions\n the raising of subscriptions to aid distressed\n French immigrants at Norfolk.","The contents of Box 2 trace the legal career of\n John Coalter from 10 April 1795, when St. George\n Tucker recommended him for the position of Clerk\n of the Court in Staunton, through the period of\n his second and third marriages to Margaret\n Davenport, 1795 (she died in 1797), and to Frances\n Bland Tucker, 1802.","Included also are letters to Mrs. Frances Bland\n Tucker Coalter from her father St. George Tucker,\n her stepmother Mrs. Lelia Skipwith Tucker, her\n sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph of Bizarre, and\n others. Correspondence with William Munford, in\n Williamsburg, is also included.","Recommends John Coalter as Clerk of the\n Staunton Court.","\"Yes, Peggy, my Maria is gone! The worst of\n evils has befallen your friend.\"","Requests payment of a debt.","William Munford has returned to the College\n of William and Mary, and is \"in constant\n attendance on Mr. (St. George) Tucker...Mrs.\n Tucker has lately been so unfortunate as to\n lose a newborn child.\"","Accuses John Coalter of \"making a stroke at\n her character\"; makes insulting statements\n regarding John Coalter's late wife. John\n Coalter responds by threatening to take Jenny\n Stuart into court, after which she offers to\n return John Coalter's letter.","James Coalter is a merchant, dealing largely\n in indigo.","Recounts a voyage to Hampton Roads to view\n the French Fleet, consisting of 150 ships,\n including three men of war, five or six\n frigates, and armed merchantmen laden with\n flour. Party spirit in Norfolk; Aristocrats\n more prominent; acrimony inflamed by the\n presence of the French fleet and a British\n frigate. William Munford is ready to apply for\n his law license.","\"There can be but one in the world\" for her,\n but he is \"out of her reach.\" At a recent\n dinner the first toast by Governor Lee was to\n her.","Congratulations on the occasion of her\n marriage to John Coalter.","The difficulty of finding passage for Mrs.\n Coalter and her mother from Williamsburg to\n Staunton. John Coalter is finally able to\n borrow a phaeton which he has overhauled and\n supplied with an umbrella. Advice regarding\n divorce of F. C[?]y.","Concerning a mare to be serviced.","The \"war\" and Indian victory are mentioned\n and a bloody spring season is predicted.","Divorce proceedings for a Mrs. Matthews\n before the Georgia Legislature.","Mention is made of a child expected by Mrs.\n Coalter.","Condolences \"on this distressing occasion\"\n (the death of John Coalter's wife in\n childbirth; the child also died.)","Business letter concerning collections to be\n made in Virginia.","She should \"by this time be fatigued with\n the name of Tucker\" and that she \"had better\n look about\" (for a husband).","The letter is from the papers of John\n Coalter.","Judith Randolph, wife of Richard Randolph,\n half brother of Frances Tucker, sends greetings\n to Polly and Charles (Carter), step-sister and\n brother of Frances Tucker. The \"Mama\" mentioned\n is Mrs. Lelia Carter Tucker.","Complains that she is \"surrounded by the\n real evils of life.\" (Her husband had been\n linked with her sister in the famous scandal\n proceedings.)","Concerning a horse in which he is\n interested.","Hint of a June wedding for Frances\n Tucker.","Fanny B. Tucker has just married John\n Coalter and returned with him to Staunton. Anne\n H. Nicholas writes that Lelia Byrd has died at\n the age of 18.","Elm Grove was the new home of the Coalters.\n Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter was in the\n Warm Springs for her health in September.","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter returns to\n Williamsburg for the birth of her first child,\n Francis Lelia; the burning of the buildings of\n Lexington Academy.","John Coalter was on the court circuit.","The letters are undated, but are replies to\n those from Frances Bland Tucker Coalter to John\n Coalter.","F. Davenport was the mother of the second\n wife of John Coalter, who continued to live\n with the Coalters.","Concerning deed to property, probably Elm\n Grove, the home bought by John Coalter.","Maria Carter was a step-daughter of St.\n George Tucker.","Writes of obtaining a clerk's position with\n the Ohio Assembly at $4.00 per day.","Death of her husband and her straitened\n circumstances; Bizarre in bad condition; hopes\n to send her son, St. George, to Europe to cure\n his deafness.","In June, St. George Tucker and Mrs. Tucker\n set out for Staunton in order to be there for\n the lying-in of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter.","First mention of the second Coalter child,\n Elizabeth.","The illness of Tudor Randolph.","Congratulates John Coalter on the birth of\n his second daughter and the purchase of Elm\n Grove. He writes at length about the difficulty\n in buying good house servants.","Financial matters, mainly about bank shares\n and dividends.","St. George Randolph's visit to England; her\n disappointment over continued his deafness Dr.\n Cooper says \"occasioned by the irruption of his\n ears at nine months old.\" Has no authority over\n the servants. Illness of Polly the\n seamstress.","Thirty sick Negroes. Poverty.","John Naylor married to Jane, sister of John\n Coalter.","Payment of $1,230 on bank shares.","The marriage of Beverley Tucker to Mary\n Coalter.","Small pox.","Difficulties in South Carolina caused by the\n embargo.","His wife Evelina has given birth to a\n son.","Anne Catherine Coalter was visiting the\n Coalters at Elm Grove.","Mention of her young daughters, Fancilea\n (Francis Lelia) and Lizba (Elizabeth Tucker\n Coalter).","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter spent every\n summer at the medicinal springs for her\n health.","Interesting comments on the effect of the\n embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the\n War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found\n in these letters. There is also a report of the\n destruction wrought in Bruton Parish Church by the\n \"youth of Williamsburg,\" and remarks of Saint\n George Tucker (14 June 1809) upon the occasion of\n the birth of his first grandson, St. George\n Coalter, in which he strongly condemns the\n academies and colleges of that day.","Letters include those exchanged by John Coalter\n with his third wife Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter\n from 1809-1811, when John Coalter was serving as\n Circuit Judge. In 1811 he accepted an appointment\n as judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals;\n the family then moved to Richmond. There are many\n letters received by Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter between 1809 and her death in 1813, from\n her father St. George Tucker, and stepmother Mrs.\n Lelia Tucker, in Williamsburg, from her\n sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph at Bizarre, and\n from other members of the family. There also are\n many letters to the daughters of John Coalter,\n Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker, from their\n grandparents, from 1813 to the death of Frances\n Lelia Coalter in 1821.","On the appointment of John Coalter to his\n position as \"a judge under the new Judiciary\n System.\" (John Coalter was appointed February\n 7, 1807).","Mentions a visit from the newly married \n Beverley\n [Tucker] and \n Polly\n [Coalter] and writes concerning her sons\n Saint (George) and Tudor.","Written by John Coalter during spring and\n autumn sessions of the Circuit Court. Contain\n instructions for planting, the upkeep of Elm\n Grove, and other matters.","One of the letters concerns the troubles\n with the English and the hope for a peaceful\n settlement.","In the letter of June 14, St. George Tucker\n mentions the birth of John Coalter's first son\n his first grandson (St. George Tucker Coalter)\n \"who, if my prayers for him may be heard, will\n never descend from the dignity of a private\n station.\" Concerning the education of his\n grandson, he writes, \"unless the manners of our\n youth, or the management of their tutor, shall\n undergo a most surprising and happy change in\n this Country, I had rather he should never hear\n of an Academy or a College, than enter the\n walls of one.","Congratulations on the birth of a son.","This series of letters is concerned, among\n other problems, with the difficulty of meeting\n payments on Elm Grove, of a fight between two\n of their slaves, the treatment of one of the\n wives by slave husband and the imprisonment on\n the plantation of the two slaves. Effort to get\n a tooth pulled. Two doctors and, finally, \"a\n shoemaker named Cease\" were able to extract the\n tooth about a week after the first attempt was\n made. Alcoholism of a friend. Afflicting\n account of sister's situation at Bizarre. \"she\n must come to us, as soon as she can leave\n Bizarre; which she says cannot be before Xmas,\n that she may complete the clothing of the\n Negroes.\"","Appeals to James All to represent the\n district. About the war situation: \"We are more\n Colonies than ever--i.e. we give our \n whole trade to\n aid Britain in her wars--were we Colonies we\n would only give the revenue arising from\n trade.\"","Her parents were trying to buy a cook for\n Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter without great\n success.","These letters although undated, are believed\n to have been written in 1810.","Reports that Bruton Parish Church has been\n \"totally and wantonly destroyed...the Bellows\n and many of the pipes cut to pieces,\" evidently\n by the youth of the town.","John Coalter attending the spring and autumn\n sittings of the Circuit Court, sends\n instructions for the management of the\n farm.","News of the farm, the slaves, and family.\n Relays questions from slave Ned about the farm\n and permission for him to visit his daughter in\n Rockingham and his wife's petition to accompany\n him.","Concerning a cook for sale.","D[avid]\n C[oalter] , Mary's father.","These letters from relatives of Mrs. Frances\n Bland Tucker Coalter are placed in one\n folder.","These letters are undated but are presumed\n to date from 1811, and placed in one\n folder.","In May, John Coalter writes of his\n appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of\n Appeals of Virginia (May 11, 1811). \"God help\n me, I know not what to do. All have advised my\n acceptance.\" In October he writes of\n arrangements made for the move to Richmond, and\n of plans to sell the cattle at Elm Grove.","In April Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter\n writes, \"I very much fear I shall never be\n reconciled to our fate\"--of separation for such\n long periods when John Coalter is absent on the\n court circuit. (A month later John Coalter was\n appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of\n Appeals.) Also mentions a \"terrible whipping\"\n their two year old son St. George Tucker\n Coalter had \"for obstinacy.\"","Tucker strongly advises his brother-in-law\n against accepting his new appointment: \"Rest\n assured that no other Judge of the General\n Court will accept the office which is tendered\n you.\"","John St. George Randolph is a son of Mrs.\n Judith Randolph.","Speaking of himself as an \"ex-judge,\" Tucker\n advises John Coalter regarding his new\n appointment; concern for the health of Mrs.\n Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Frances Lelia Coalter writes with concern\n about her mother's health.","News of the children sent to Mrs. Frances\n Bland Tucker Coalter who is quite ill.","Concern for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter's poor health.","The troubled times are reflected in this\n series of letters. In July, Tucker comments on\n the American privateer with one nine-pounder\n which took a British schooner armed with four\n twelve pounders. In August he gives an account\n of the Baltimore riot in which a jail was\n broken into and prisoners assassinated. He\n writes that such action \"is beyond measure\n horrible and obnoxious; and every good Citizen\n ought to set his face against such damnable\n proceedings,\" but concludes, \"The Yankees, no\n doubt, will be glad of the precedent...I look\n forward to a dissolution of the Union, as an\n Event not far off.\"","Concerning the sale of Elm Grove.","Reflects the uncertainty of the war\n situation in his letter.","Frances L. Coalter writes to her father who\n is with her mother, Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter, in her last illness at the medicinal\n springs.","Writing to his daughter before she goes to\n the Springs for her final siege of illness, St.\n George Tucker sends the news that the enemy had\n left the waters about Williamsburg after much\n destruction and property along the river.","In these letters it is apparent that Mrs.\n Frances Bland Tucker Coalter is near death.","Letters of hope and prayer for the recovery\n of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Reports of the war: \"the conduct of the\n British at Craney Island was the most cowardly\n imaginable,\" and \"We have just been informed by\n rumor that the British Squadron in the\n Chesapeake has been reinforced...\"","Writes of his \"great and irretrievable loss\"\n his wife died \"on Sunday evening, the 12th\n instant.\"","The first letters written after the death of\n St. George Tucker's daughter.","To her granddaughter, the second child of\n John Coalter and his late wife. (A biographical\n note of John Coalter's family is enclosed in\n the folder with this letter.)","She writes that \"the events of the present\n week will supply to you the want of a Mother\n and Sister, which you have so severly felt,\n particularly in the last six or eight months.\"\n Frances L. Coalter, the sister of Elizabeth T.\n Coalter, died in 1821 at the age of 18. John\n Coalter was soon to marry his fourth wife, a\n widow Williamson.","Second is titled \"Tucker-Green Annals.\"","The Tuckers are in their summer home at\n Warminster, with Maria Carter Cabell, daughter\n of Mrs. L. Tucker, and her husband Joseph\n Cabell.","A New Year's greeting to his\n granddaughters.","The letters in this box are primarily those of\n the two surviving children of John and Francis\n Bland Tucker Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter\n Bryan and St. George Tucker Coalter, and their\n respective spouses, John Randolph Bryan and Judith\n H. Tomlin Coalter.","This group includes genealogical material on\n the Tomlin family, and correspondence of Judith H.\n Tomlin before her marriage to St. George Tucker\n Coalter. Her letters form an important part of the\n collection from this time until her death in\n 1859.","The last letters from their grandparents, Mr.\n and Mrs. St. George Tucker, are preserved, as well\n as letters to their uncles Henry and Beverley\n Tucker and John Randolph of Roanoke. Of special\n note is a letter of October, 1831 in which St.\n George Tucker Coalter writes fully of Randolph\n during a visit to Roanoke. After his death in\n 1833, Randolph's will caused great difficulty and\n misunderstanding in the family, and appears to\n cast a slur on his step-father St. George\n Tucker.","The letters of St. George Tucker Coalter to his\n wife and sister, especially those written from the\n springs which he visits each year, form the\n largest single group. In these letters an\n interesting picture of nineteenth century social\n life is to be found.","Schoolgirl letters written by J. H. T.\n before her marriage.","Judith H. Tomlin writes of her visit to\n Yorktown to see Lafayette on his return visit\n to America.","Judith H. Tucker writes to congratulate\n Virgilia Savage in December on her\n marriage.","Endorsed: \"Letters of my dear and venerated\n Grandfather, S. G. Tucker, High Souled,\n Generous Gentleman.\"","Thomas T. Tucker, a brother of St. George\n Tucker, enclosed these two letters in a packet\n which he forwarded from Beverley Tucker.","St. George Tucker complains about his sight\n and signs himself \"Your old blind Grandpa\" in\n the first of these letters. The last is\n endorsed: \"All the letters concerning my most\n dear Grandfather's illness and death are\n omitted and put to themselves.\"","These were written after the death of St.\n George Tucker.","Writes in regard to his instruction in law,\n as suggested by Elizabeth T. Coalter. He\n mentions the poor health of his step-brother,\n John Randolph, of Roanoke; and suspects that\n his brother, Beverley, \"will not return to\n Virginia as a resident.\" Beverley Tucker, then\n in Missouri, did return to Williamsburg, and\n later became Professor of Law at the College of\n William and Mary.","Tucker enclosed his \"Introductory Lecture,\"\n reprinted from his \n Commentory on the Laws\n of Virginia . . . Lectures delivered at the\n Winchester Law School , pp. 7-14.","The first is a printed invitation to a ball\n at the Jefferson Hotel with a message added;\n the second is a Temperance pledge signed by St.\n George Tucker Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin and\n three others.","Evidently left in charge of his father's\n estate, Chatham, he writes concerning\n examinations at the College of William and Mary\n and of his experiences in vaccinating and\n performing minor operations on the slaves. (He\n was a 20 year old farmer with no medical\n training!)","St. George Tucker Coalter prepares to leave\n school to marry.","The first letter to Judith Tomlin Coalter\n after her marriage to St. George Tucker\n Coalter, December 16, 1829. \"Tell St. George\n that yesterday Uncle R. (John Randolph of\n Roanoke) made an attack \n on the\n Judiciary and Papa (John Coalter),\n finding no one else would rise to their\n defense, answered him...\"","His \"chill and fever,\" the recurring\n sickness which was to bring on his early death\n in 1839. His wife goes to Chatham, the Coalter\n family home, for the birth of her first child,\n Walker Tomlin Coalter.","In October he writes: \"Uncle R. (John\n Randolph of Roanoke) looks dreadfully, is much\n worn away by disease...\" Two weeks later he\n writes describing Randolph's estate and\n personality: \"He is very agreeable indeed and\n entertains me highly with his conversation on\n all subjects...He is a man of the finest and\n nicest feelings I have ever met with...\"","On her husband's financial difficulties.","Writes to his sister about crops, planting,\n and the like.","The two cousins, grandsons of John Coalter,\n are infants; this letter is written by St.\n George Tucker Coalter.","In the January letter, he announces the\n birth of a son, Henry St. George Tucker\n Coalter. From White Sulphur Springs, he writes\n (July 27) that \"the shortness of breath and the\n hacking cough have left me entirely.\"","Her husband is at the Springs; she would\n like to join him but cannot afford it. \"He says\n he never wished for money before, as the want\n of it keeps him from having company...\"","An interesting group of letters describing\n life at several of the medicinal springs which\n were so popular in the 19th century. He\n describes his daily regimen, the meals, the\n baths, other tourists, the costs, and the\n physical characteristics of the resorts.","Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her husband\n about family matters while he is at the springs\n for his health.","A continuation of his previous letters,\n including a crude drawing of the buildings and\n grounds of Salt Sulphur Springs.","In November she mentions that Beverley\n Tucker called on way to Williamsburg.","The boys, who are just learning to write,\n add their notes to the letter to their\n grandfather.","Her husband is overworking, and she fears\n for his health.","The brother of Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes\n to her father-in-law asking help in gaining a\n position with a Richmond company.","He writes about his poor health; mentions\n his uncle, Beverley Tucker.","John Coalter is very much concerned with\n gold mine projects; he now orders St. George\n Tucker Coalter about at his will, and has\n decided that the family shall move closer to\n him. They are dependent on John Coalter\n financially.","Life at the springs, his continuing illness\n and his poverty.","His discouragement as he contemplates the\n move insisted upon by his father: \"after seven\n years we have to begin the world afresh and fix\n and build and lay out and all that -- oh\n thunder - -how I dread and hate it.\"","Regarding the move from Cumberland, New Kent\n County, to St. George's Park, King William\n County, and the difficulty of the move.","John Coalter is very ill, and the new place\n is slow in getting established. Mention of the\n will of John Randolph of Roanoke.","The will of John Randolph of Roanoke, in\n which the good name of St. George Tucker is\n slighted. Henry and Beverley Tucker, sons of\n St. George Tucker are also involved.","Home has not been settled since leaving\n Cumberland. Her husband has finally bought a\n place \"about 2 hundred and 50 acres, very poor,\n with a new house but a very indifferent\n one.\"","Concerning the \"continued illness\" of Judge\n (John) Coalter; offers to be of any help that\n he can. (John Coalter died the day this letter\n was written.)","The correspondence between St. George T.\n Coalter, his wife, his sister Mrs. Elizabeth T.\n Bryan, and her husband John Randolph Bryan, form\n the core of the material in this box. St. George\n Tucker Coalter attempts to establish a new home\n where his late father John Coalter forced him to\n move (St. George Tucker Coalter was never\n financially independent of his father). A doctor's\n prescription, 28 April 1839, for the man who has\n been slowly dying of lung trouble and constant\n fever is: salts to be taken internally, salve\n rubbed on externally, baths at the medicinal\n springs and regular exercise. Four months later\n St. George Tucker Coalter died.","The five surviving children of Mrs. Coalter and\n the nine children of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan add\n to the correspondence as the years go on, for the\n families are very attached to one another and\n there is much visiting back and forth as well as\n letter writing. The letters of the cousins have\n been combined in this collection, so that an\n interesting picture is given of the life of this\n period; see a report of a traveling entertainer\n who visits the great houses (23 February 1847), a\n description of a costume ball at Warner Hall (8\n February 1851) and a list of courses studied at a\n Girl's school (2 February 1852).","There is much discussion of diseases which were\n prevalent: consumption, scarlet fever, typhoid\n fever, cholera, and influenza. 16-year-old John\n Coalter copied out a cholera cure sent by his aunt\n for use by two local doctors (13 July 1849).","The first letter is endorsed by John\n Randolph Bryan. The second was started by St.\n George Tucker Coalter but was completed and\n signed by his wife.","Concerned principally with the rapidly\n deteriorating health of St. George T. Coalter.\n In June he begins a letter that he is unable to\n finish but by November he is again supervising\n the farm activity. The establishment of the new\n farm and the erection of additional buildings\n is a great strain.","Mrs. Coalter wrote the first two letters for\n her husband who was too weak to write, but by\n December he was again active in supervising St.\n George's Park, their new home.","Coalter visits his uncle, Beverley Tucker,\n who has moved back to Williamsburg.","Visiting the family home of Mrs. Coalter\n their son, John, falls down the basement stairs\n and is unconscious for a time. His father\n writes, \"the Doctor bled him and yesterday\n morning we gave him a dose of salts...he is now\n to all appearances as well as ever tho' from\n loss of blood, the shock, the Salts and low\n diet he is a little fainty when he first begins\n to move about in the morning.\" (The child\n survived the ministrations of the doctor!)","A receipt for $100.00 and a demand for\n another $100.00 on shares of stock.","Concerned with the business of a ferry, gold\n mines, and a mill, evidently part of the estate\n left by John Coalter to his two children.","Mr. Coalter has had a relapse, and \"has lost\n all the flesh and muscle he had gained. Yet he\n makes a trip down country in April, only to\n return much worse.","He marks his 30th birthday: \"I can neither\n eat nor sleep nor move about with comfort and\n am so weak from fever...that I can hardly stand\n up or sit down.\"","Letters written to her husband when he is on\n his last trip from home.","A doctor's prescription: salts, used\n internally, salves externally, baths at the Hot\n Springs, and continued exercise.","Announces the birth of a child to Mrs.\n Coalter. St. George Tucker Coalter writes of\n the \"fire in my breast that must soon burn me\n out.\"","News of a young son; congratulates Mrs.\n Bryan on the birth of a daughter. St. George\n Tucker Coalter adds a note in July 4th letter:\n \"I can't make much hand at writing this evening\n but I send you these few words to comfort\n you...my thoughts and prayers are with you may\n the Lord work all things together for our\n good.\" To this Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan has\n added the endorsement, \"The last line I ever\n got from him.\"","After the death of her husband, Mrs. Coalter\n has gone to live with her sister-in-law at\n Eagle Point.","Mrs. Coalter moved from St. George's Park to\n Presley. Her brother, Harrison Tomlin, was\n living with the family and takes the place of a\n father to the children.","Of her poverty and of the need for means to\n educate her children.","The son of Mrs. Coalter writes to his young\n cousin, the son of John Randolph Bryan, at\n Roanoke, a plantation that had been in\n litigation since the death of John Randolph.\n The property was being administered by J. R.\n Bryan, one of the heirs. Young John C. Bryan,\n was one of the chief beneficiaries of the will,\n then being contested.","Announcing the birth of a child.","Preparations are made to send Fanny (Frances\n Bland Coalter) to live with her grandmother and\n to attend school in Fredericksburg. The sale of\n the estate of her late husband took place in\n October.","Enquires about money from the estate of John\n Randolph of Roanoke; her plans to send John and\n Henry Coalter away to school. (St. George\n Tucker Coalter, father of John and Henry, was a\n nephew of John Randolph, and it was expected\n that the Coalter children would inherit\n something from his estate.)","Written from school to his aunt; \"all of the\n boys have to get in school by sunrise and stay\n there until five in the evening.\"","The Bryan place, Eagle Point in Gloucester\n County, is so isolated and the family growing\n so large that a school teacher was kept there\n for the other children. She mentions her\n brothers and sisters, and tells of a traveling\n entertainer: \"De [Delia] and myself went to\n Warner Hall...and there found an Italian\n ventriloquist with a hat on that had little\n bells all around the brim...if he comes to\n Chatham you will probably be deceived by\n him...\"","He tells his sister: \"I reckon this is the\n coldest and most melancholy place in the\n world.\"","Hopes to get a place from the sale of the\n estate. \"Seven years this last Christmas is a\n long time not to have a house to call your\n own.\" Her hopes for the settlement of the\n Randolph estate are not fulfilled.","Congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a\n son, her 8th child. Mentions shopping trips to\n Richmond and the remodeling of the house, so,\n perhaps, some money may have been received from\n the Randolph estate.","A 9-year old writes of attending a dance at\n Warner Hall and staying until 11 p.m. \"We take\n dancing lesson of 2 hours length every\n Saturday.\"","Consumption and Cholera are discussed as\n well as the final division of the estate. Mrs.\n Coalter still hopes to be able to buy a home of\n her own. Sons John and Henry left in September\n for the University of Virginia where they room\n with their cousins, Jack Coalter and J.\n Braxton. On Christmas Day she mentions \"A\n dreadful affair has lately occurred at the\n University, one young man killed another, both\n intoxicated and from the south; as wicked as\n that is, it takes the \n cold\n blooded yankees to perpetrate the\n refinement of barbarism in \n stewing , and\n boiling...living people...\"","Henry T. Coalter, 16 years old, writes that\n he has had charge of the harvest at the farm\n because the overseer was sick. He has also\n advised the local doctors on Cholera cures:\n \"Mama received your letter by the last post and\n was much obliged to you for the copy you sent\n her of the cure for the Cholera. Since it\n reached here I have copied it twice for\n different doctors who seemed much pleased with\n the proscription (sic).\"","A beautiful description of the Cove and the\n island as seen from the Eagle Point house.","Mrs. Lacy, related through the fourth wife\n of her grandfather, John Coalter, was like an\n older sister to Frances Bland Coalter, and the\n affectionate relationship between the two\n continued for many years.","The Lacy's are preparing to move into\n Ellwood, the former summer home of John\n Coalter.","Letters written before and after a long\n visit. There were ties between the families\n despite the distance between them. Mrs. Coalter\n fears her youngest son, \n Saint\n [George] , has Typhoid fever.","A school friend tells of a visit to Richmond\n to see the relics of Gen. and Mrs.\n Washington.","About life in the great houses of Virginia,\n excursions on river boats, dances, and the\n like. Mentions a fancy ball where everyone\n appeared in a mask and gown, \"You cannot tell a\n man from a woman. They go about in this costume\n for some time and have a dance...one gentleman\n went draped as a lady and no one found him\n out,...one went as a monk in robes and with his\n beads...\"","\"When will your new house, or rather, new\n home be ready for you? (Frances Bland Coalter's\n mother has finally been able to buy a house,\n Stanley.)","Mentions the war threat: \"my anxiety about a\n lasting peace\n and the welfare of my children preys very much\n on my spirits.\"","Announces the birth of a daughter to Mrs.\n Lacy.","Fanny Coalter is attending a school\n conducted by Rev. Moses D. Hoge.","Endorses note from Mrs. Judith H.\n Coalter.","About her daughter, Agnes, and the progress\n on the improvements at Ellwood.","\"Rumors of a great revival at Mr. H.'s\n school have reached us from different quarters\n and report says Jinney and yourself acted a\n conspicuous part.\"","A school friend writes of her textbooks:\n \"Paley's Moral Philosophy, Olinstead's Natural\n Philosophy, Hume's History of England, Conic\n Sections, Thompson's Arithmetic and French\n Studies.\"","Includes a most interesting account of trip\n by boat from Gloucester County, \n via Jamestown,\n to Richmond.","The first letters written by Mrs. Coalter's\n youngest child.","A schoolmate who has left Rev. Mr. Hoge's\n school writes back.","An offer to abate charges so that Fanny B.\n Coalter could remain in school.","Writes that he has stood his examination for\n license to practice law; reports on his\n brothers and sisters.","Fanny has returned to Rev. Hoge's school;\n her friend writes regarding scarlet fever.","This box consists largely of papers collected by\n Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she\n is preparing to leave school, and December 1858, when\n she married Henry Peronneau Brown. Through this\n marriage the Tucker-Coalter line was connected with\n the Brown line; thus, the papers of the two families\n were brought together into one.","The collection gives an interesting picture of the\n life and interests of a young lady of moderate\n circumstances in the mid-l9th century. Of special\n interest are the letters concerning the Rev. Moses D.\n Hoge, whose school in Richmond Fanny Coalter had\n attended. Shortly after she left school, the Rev. Mr.\n Hoge carried on a very romantic correspondence with\n Fanny, although he was a married man with several\n children. The correspondence became more ardent in\n the early months of 1854 and, when Mrs. Hoge wrote\n that her husband had gone to Baltimore to stay with\n his brother who was ill, Fanny followed him there.\n According to the gossip of Mattie and Lizzie Morton,\n she went there to \"entrap him.\" In October it was\n suggested that the brother, William Hoge, was the one\n in whom she was interested. The Rev. Mr. Hoge later\n sought to calm the fervours of his correspondent, as\n shown by his letters of 28 January 1855, 19 June\n 1856, and 19 March 1857.","Fanny B. Coalter did not lack for other suitors,\n however, for she preserved a letter of 17 July 1854,\n a proposal of marriage from Alfred B. Tucker. A year\n later there are reports of her interest in the Brown\n brothers, John Thompson and Peronneau, of Petersburg,\n both of whom were courting her. She finally settled\n on the latter; some acceptances to the marriage\n invitation are included in this box.","Letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her husband\n Henry Peronneau Brown continue in Box 21. The\n intervening boxes contain manuscripts of the Brown\n family, especially Capt. Henry Brown, grandfather of\n Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 7-13); the Hon. John\n Thompson Brown, father of Henry Peronneau Brown\n (Boxes 14-19); and Col. John Thompson Brown II,\n brother of Henry Peronneau Brown (Box 20).","Fanny is preparing to leave the school, having\n finished the course.","A schoolmate and Fanny's sister write after she\n leaves school.","Reports that Jack Bryan, oldest son of Mrs.\n Elizabeth T. Bryan is dying at the Coalter home,\n Presley.","After many years of waiting (since the death of\n her husband in 1839) Mrs. Coalter is finally able\n to buy her own place, Stanley. She tells of her\n move and of the illness that put her in bed\n afterward.","The school is closed for the summer, his wife\n and children are away, so he enlivens his solitude\n \"by having a little chat with you...and where I\n always think of you and the delightful morning\n when we enjoyed the scene together...how I cherish\n every memorial of you. \"I greatly enjoyed your\n last brief visit to us and that evening (do you\n remember it?) when the music room being full of\n company we found quiet, and cool breezes in the\n back porch. I have been sitting there tonight.\" (A\n strange letter, indeed, and one which was to cause\n some upset in the heart of Frances Bland Coalter,\n as subsequent correspondence show.)","Written to Mrs. Judith H. Coalter soon after\n she purchased her home, Stanley.","\"This letter cannot hold any news, so I will\n fill it with love...entertaining myself by wishing\n that you could walk into the room and occupy a\n vacant chair hard by .\"I hope to see you\n sometimes...nothing to what I would enjoy were I\n to keep house in a quiet way and have you for my\n guest a week at a time...\"I would like you to\n marry some fine fellow and live in Richmond, only\n I...like you best as you are, except that you are\n too far from me.\"","\"When I woke up yesterday morning and found it\n raining, my spirits fell as low as the mercury for\n I feared you would not come to Hampstead...\"","\"You ask me why it is that I am so partial to\n you--well, the very first time we get a chance to\n have a talk by ourselves I will tell you...When\n shall the opportunity come? There is always so\n much company at your house...\"","He conducts a school: \"I succeeded in six days\n of raising 21 scholars.\" He writes that Henry has\n graduated in Law with distinction.","\"I think from his letter, \n Brother\n [William Hoge] has been much sicker than we\n had any idea of \n Mr. [Moses D.]\n Hoge is going on Thursday to see him and\n will probably remain in Baltimore until he is well\n enough to travel...\"","Addressed to Fanny at Baltimore. Her friend\n writes, \"Cousin Joe says you went to Baltimore\n purposely to see Mr. Hoge.\"","Reports gossip concerning Fanny's Baltimore\n trip.","\"Often when (I am) abroad, you will be in my\n mind and heart. Neither do I want you to get\n married before I return. I am to perform that\n service, you know...\"","Concerning the gossip regarding Fanny and Rev.\n Hoge: \"Surely you could not think me so deceitful\n as to profess to love you and then say that you\n would \n try to entrap a\n gentleman . \n I did not say so .\n I remember saying that if you went to Baltimore\n and were thrown with Mr. Hoge I believed he would\n address you, because I know he admired you very\n sincerely...\"","A proposal of marriage.","A rumor that Frances Bland Coalter is to\n marry.","\"Julia Green was here...when I told her that\n you had gotten a letter from Mr. Hoge she said she\n was so jealous of you that she was ready to\n fight...\"","\"I am going to Baltimore...and I shall see Mr.\n Wm. Hoge! Don't you wish you were going? What\n shall I tell him for you?\"","St. George is now in school at Staunton.","Construction work to be done at the University\n of Virginia.","\"I hope that it will not be long before I have\n the pleasure of seeing you, my dear and constantly\n remembered friend.\"","\"I have heard several times of your engagement\n to Thomas--who has made himself very scarce.\"","Accepts invitation to the marriage of Virginia,\n younger sister of Fanny Coalter.","Now a practicing lawyer, he writes to his aunt\n on business.","To her cousin regarding \"Mr. President\" and\n \"The Vice.\" (This appears to refer to the Brown\n brothers, John Thompson and Henry Peronneau.\n Frances Bland Coalter was to marry the\n latter.)","\"I wish you to be very particular in your\n conversations with \n P[eronneau] not to\n let him have the least idea of the tenor of my\n remarks to you yesterday and at the same time\n manage to convince him that I am not in love with\n you, as I am afraid such is his present\n opinion.\"","Trouble in: finding a teacher for her children;\n \"the Roanoke business\"--(evidently a reference to\n the still unsettled will of John Randolph of\n Roanoke.)","Concerned about the health of Fanny's mother,\n has a horror of those \"distracting springs\" for\n invalids.","The solution to a problem in surveying (this\n may be the \"Thomas\" to whom Frances Bland Coalter\n was rumored to be engaged).","On the death of Mrs. E. T. Bryan, aunt of Fanny\n Bland Coalter.","On the death of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan.","Thanks Fanny for her help at the time of the\n death of Mrs. Bryan, her mother.","Is in charge of the plantation since her\n mother's death; busy making summer clothes for the\n slaves.","Suggests a visit together to \"cousin Horace\n Lacy.\"","P[eronneau]\n Brown and his brother, Thompson, are\n mentioned. (See letters of December 1855,\n Box-folder 6:44-45.)","Writes to ask Mrs. Coalter to stay with his\n daughters during his absence in the south.","Has charge of the large plantation, keeping\n four seamstresses, three spinners and a weaver\n busy.","\"No, my dear Fanny, my affection for you has\n not changed.\"","Regarding Mr. Willcox Brown and his brother\n Peronneau, future husband of Frances Bland\n Coalter.","Invitation to the commencement party at Hampden\n Sidney College.","Accompanying his uncle on a business trip, he\n has visited the main cities of the south and\n attended the opera in New Orleans. \"I must confess\n that I have been rather disappointed in the people\n that live in these rich lands--they are as rough\n as possible...live in log houses and on the very\n poorest fare.\"","\"I suppose your wedding will be postponed\n unless Mr. Brown's recovery is unusually\n rapid.\"","\"The news of your engagement [to Henry P.\n Brown] did not surprise me...how heartily I\n approve of your choice...\"","\"If my letter arrives too late for Miss Fanny\n Coalter, I hope Mrs. Brown will have enough\n affection for the old name to lay claim to\n it.\"","Regrets that he cannot attend the wedding.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","These letters are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","These letters are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This item is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","These covers are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","Papers of Henry Brown, a merchant and county official\n include a manuscript map of Guilford C. H., business\n records and correspondence of Brown and Clayton, New\n London, Bedford (now Campbell County), Virginia and\n Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, Virginia. Collection also\n includes papers concerning a lawsuit against Pleasant\n Murphy and estate papers of Daniel Brown and Henry\n Brown's father-in-law John Thompson. There are papers of\n his immediate family including Henry Brown, Jr.","The Brown family papers begin with the letters\n and papers of Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841),\n successful merchant of Bedford County and\n Lynchburg, who established the family fortune. He\n was the father of John Thompson Brown, Delegate to\n the Virginia Assembly, whose letters and papers\n are collected in the next section (Boxes\n 14-19).","A few letters and receipts pertaining to Henry\n Brown, 1712-1798, the father of Capt. Henry Brown,\n are included. The great bulk of the material,\n however, relates to Capt. Brown, beginning with a\n map of a Revolutionary War battle, 1777, in which\n he was wounded. With his brother, Daniel, he\n opened a general store in Bedford soon after the\n conclusion of the war. A partnership agreement of\n April 1797, which brought James Leftwich into the\n business, is preserved and the bulk of the\n material in this box pertains to the business of\n the store. A good picture of early merchandising\n is given by the accounts, letters relating to\n buying and selling trips, and the court actions\n taken to collect accounts.","Also, starting with folder 60, are 39 items\n relating to the duties of Henry Brown as tax\n collector in the Bedford area in the years 1800 to\n 1803.","\"Your friends here tremble for you and\n apprehend the worst from the dangers that\n encompass you...the deadly rifle, the scalping\n knife, tomahawk...return to us in all\n speed.\"","Endorsed: \"Map of revolutionary battle,\n found 1926 by F. B. Saunders in old papers from\n Ivy Cliff. Capt. Henry Brown, born at Ivy Cliff\n about 1760, was wounded at Guildford C. H.\"","Concerning goods for a retail store.","Endorsed: \"Note Henry Brown, payable 1\n September, 1793.\"","Regarding saddle goods in stock at the\n store.","Writes to his brother concerning tobacco\n prices.","Concerning business affairs a suit for debt,\n purchase of tobacco and a \"Negro wench\" for the\n store, etc. \"P.S. I heard at court they had\n made you a Captain.\"","Includes a list of the new officers of the\n Farmer's Bank in Richmond.","Concerning the division of Negroes, total\n value £815, between Leftwich and the\n Brown brothers.","Regarding loss of West India produce on\n which $5,000.00 was borrowed. Endorsed: \"I fear\n our loss will be considerable.\"","Receipt is for $130.43 to be paid to John\n Roberts on land that Capt. Henry Brown sold to\n William Woodford.","Tobacco sold by Leftwich to a man who was a\n bad risk: \"...we are thrown out of between 20\n and 30 thousand dollars...one fourth of what it\n has taken us 20 years to earn is lost for want\n of prudence.\"","Directions for sending tax collections.","Business records and correspondence of Henry\n Brown and Samuel P. Clayton. After the death of\n his brother Daniel in 1818, Brown entered into a\n partnership with Clayton, his son-in-law. Brown\n survived Clayton, who died in 1832; this box also\n includes papers from 1833 to 1839 made out to\n Henry Brown, surviving partner of Brown and\n Clayton Company.","The accounts of Henry Brown with Hancock and\n Brown, Lynchburg, 1824-1833, are retained as one\n group.","Also retained as a separate group are the\n papers relating to the court suits of Brown and\n Pleasant Murphy. All notes of the period carried a\n 100 percent penalty clause. This resulted in many\n law suits being brought to establish what would\n now be considered exorbitant claims. In one case\n (see entry for March 10, 1823) for a debt of\n $42.05, the debtor surrendered 1 sound filly, 2\n cows, a calf, 2 feather beds, all household and\n kitchen furniture, all plantation utensils, and 6\n hogs!","Captain Henry Brown had many interests in his\n long life apart from the purely commercial\n activities upon which his considerable fortune was\n built. Included in this box are the papers\n relating to his other interests.","Business papers of Henry Brown, not directly\n connected with any of his various business\n enterprises, but concerned principally with court\n suits involving debts to him. Included is an\n interesting case of Mark Anthony, who took the\n oath of an Insolvent Debtor, making out a deed of\n trust of all his property to his creditors (11\n April 1829 and 6 July 1833).","Also includes papers concerned with the suit of\n Henry Brown vs. Nicodemus Leftwich, 1832-1840.\n Brown pays for the attendance of witnesses at the\n court and pays the county Jailor \"for imprisoning\n and releasing\" Leftwich.","Household, family and personal bills preserved\n by Henry Brown, an interesting collection of a\n family illustrating the activities of eight\n children in the second quarter of the nineteenth\n century, 1819-1841.","The personal correspondence of Henry Brown with\n his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children.\n The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son,\n John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19.","Also letters from the sons and daughters of\n Samuel, brother of Henry Brown.","In a separate group are collected letters written\n by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from\n West Point Military Academy and from the Indian Wars\n in Florida, where he served after he was\n commissioned.","Purchase of a watch in Winchester; requests 30\n Dollars to repay a debt.","His wife's estate; purchase of a Negro\n girl.","On his return from the Spring; attack of\n \"bilious Cholic;\" his treatment.","Concerning \"the purchase of some land at $20.\n per acre...\"","Beats female slave, using a walking stick, his\n wife using a cowhide whip. The slave's mate\n attempted to protect her with an axe but he was\n subdued, beaten and sent to jail the next day.\n Hopes for peace, unpopularity of the conscription\n law and the whiskey tax.","On her studies: Blair's lectures, piano\n playing, drawing, painting and embroidery.","The husband of Nancy Brown writes:\n \"...Bounaparte is on his way to this country. If\n so I greatly fear we shall go backwards with\n accelerated velocity in all peaceful, literary and\n ornamental pursuits...\"","Advice on a move to the State of Ohio.\n \"Although I like Slavery as little as you or\n anyone else, still...I think it probable that we\n should be as unhappy as we are with them\" (Daniel\n died in 1818. For the next 20 years Henry\n administered his estate for the benefit of his\n wife and children.)","Mary Brown's illness at the Springs (she was to\n die within a year).","The building of his house and the health of his\n family.","The daughter of Samuel Brown, writes to console\n her Uncle on the death of his brothers and his two\n daughters, Mrs. \n Anne [Nancy]\n B. Steptoe and Mrs. \n Mary [Polly]\n B. Clayton .","An uncle of Henry Brown writes, \"My grandson\n wishes to get in to Business in a store...\" (Henry\n Brown, Jr. now has a store in Lynchburg.)","His continued bad health. The death of James\n Leftwich, Capt. Brown's business partner.","Requests assistance in obtaining appointment as\n Clerk of Court at Bedford.","The value of the Deerwood tract.","Begs her father to let her have money to go to\n the inauguration of President Jackson.","On her visit to Washington: \"this is the\n thickest settled neighborhood that I ever was\n in--the neighbors are situated all around, some in\n view and others not more than a quarter of a mile\n from the house...\"","On his visit with his brothers, John Thompson\n Brown, in \"Washington City.\" Description of\n crowded Washington, full of pickpockets and of the\n confusion even in the President's house.","\"...the last day I rode more than thirty miles\n through a dreary wilderness without seeing a\n single house...I am yet travelling alone and have\n come six hundred miles without a single man\n travelling my course...\"","His progress in college.","His progress in repaying a debt to the estate\n of his uncle, Daniel.","Report of workers on the Chesapeake and Ohio\n canal dying from Cholera.","On the death of his maternal grandfather, John\n Thompson.","Leaving for New York to lay in goods.","Hopes for his store despite illness and some\n hostile feeling toward his former partner, Ammon\n Hancock.","On the death of Henry Brown. (Henry Brown, Jr.\n died while he and his wife were on a shopping trip\n for the store.)","On the changing population: \"The people still\n retain the simple manners of the old Scotch-Irish\n and, I may add, much of the intelligence and\n piety. But the restless spirit of emigration is\n taking away our best people and in their place we\n generally get Germans, who commonly are deplorably\n ignorant and will do very little toward supporting\n the Gospel.\"","A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes\n to settle accounts and close the store.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the\n disposal of her house.","To Frances Brown's husband, on the loss of her\n two brothers, \"and such brothers too, in so short\n a time.\" (Henry Brown, Jr. died in June, 1836, and\n his brother, John Thompson Brown, in December of\n that same year.)","On the sale of merchandise and an expected\n loss.","Agrees to furnish Gould B. Raymond, manager of\n the Menagerie Co., lodging for 30 men, 65 horses,\n 1 elephant, 1 camel and 2 ponies.","The inscription on the tomb of her late\n husband, John Thompson Brown.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the\n death of her husband a year ago.","The widow of John Thompson Brown writes\n regarding her three sons.","The executor of an estate demands payment of a\n note on which Henry Brown, Jr. was a cosigner.","The youngest daughter of Henry Brown writes\n about her marriage and the first meeting with her\n new relatives.","On his marriage to Alice Brown.","Her wedding trip to New Orleans.","Her sickness on the way down the river due to\n fresh paint in the boat.","Concerning eventual conversion of Baptists to\n the Presbyterian Church.","\"...I left New Orleans the 28th of March and\n reach \n G[eorge].T[own] .\n The 15th of April...Sam (Brown) was in New Orleans\n the day before I left-he was not married but\n expected to be the 9th of April.\"","\"Last evening our darling Alice made me the\n happy father of a fine boy...\"","Report to his father of his first grades at the\n Academy.","To his grandfather regarding his first term\n marks.","\"The first two years of our course are\n exclusively devoted to Mathematics and French...\"\n Encloses a work sheet and \"Synopsis of the Course\n of Studies at the Military Academy.\"","\"The Congress must get rid of its 'sickly\n sympathy' (with the Indians) or, rely upon it,\n this is a war of years to come.\" Gives a vivid\n description of St. Augustine.","Contrasts the Cherokees in Tennessee with the\n Seminoles of Florida. Describes Savannah in a\n letter enclosed, dated February 16, 1839.","Letters of Henry Brown, Jr., oldest son of Capt.\n Henry Brown; Samuel Thompson Brown, youngest son; and\n other members of the immediate family.","Henry Brown, Jr., who suffered a grave illness in\n 1822 as a result of which he almost lost his\n eyesight, went into the partnership of his father\n with Amman Hancock. In 1835-1836, he opened his own\n store in Lynchburg, but died in May 1836, while on a\n buying trip to New York. Interesting items in this\n part of the collection include a 44 page book of\n mineral and chemical notes (31 July 1826), a 56 page\n diary kept by Henry Brown, Jr. on his trip abroad (24\n July 1831), drafts of letters by Henry Brown, Jr. to\n newspapers regarding horses, and instructions for\n horse care, and the like (13 April 1835-March 1836).\n The will of Henry Brown, Jr. (May-December 1830), and\n his deathbed statement dictated to his wife (May\n 1836), are also included.","The papers of Samuel Thompson Brown include the\n card which announced the opening of his law office in\n Bedford (8 May 1838), records of his marriage in\n Alabama (27 April 1840), and the death of his wife\n within the year (3 April 1841). A letter of 22\n January 1842, mentions the business failures taking\n place in Richmond and Lynchburg, and one of 27 August\n of the same year comments on the national political\n situation which is \"sadly out of joint.\" In a letter\n of 20 September [1845], there is a report of \"the\n thefts which were perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton\n whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\"","\"My eyes appear to have improved gradually.\"\n (His ailment seemed to be at its worst at this\n time, though he continued to suffer from the\n ailment until his death in 1836 at the age of 39\n years.)","A note for $1000.00. At this time he was\n getting started in the store, Hancock and Brown\n Co.","The \"most favorable accounts\" of John Thompson\n Brown from the members of the House of\n Delegates.","Concerning the business of \n Col. [Mark]\n Anthony , in which Henry Brown, Jr. appears\n to be involved.","Mentions the marriage of John Thompson\n Brown.","A letter of introduction for Henry Brown, Jr.,\n for use on his trip to England and the Continent\n in that year.","\"Oh, my dear husband, why was it that I did not\n accompany you?\" (None of these letters reached\n Henry Brown, Jr. on the trip, but followed him\n home).","News from a letter she received from Henry\n Brown, Jr. in England.","Payment of his debts in Lynchburg; hiring out\n of a slave.","\"it's really a sad case for me, to be sick from\n home and away from all that (are) Dear to\n me...\"","This was the store in Lynchburg in which Henry\n Brown was a partner and with which Henry Brown,\n Jr. was associated until he opened his own store\n in 1835.","Brother-in-law, \n Jack [Willcox] ;\n his brother, John's speech on the Petersburg Rail\n Road; and the house that Henry Brown has vacated\n in Lynchburg.","On a debt of Thomas Williams.","Appear to refer to pictures, and may date from\n the time of one of the buying trips that Henry\n Brown, Jr. made with his wife.","After breaking from the partnership of Hancock\n and Brown, he opened his own store.","Concerning the care for his horses, Young\n American Eclipse and Spring Hill, while he is\n away.","Written while she and her husband were on a\n buying trip for the Lynchburg store. In New York\n Henry Brown, Jr. was taken desperately ill and\n died.","Evidently taken down by Mrs. Eleanor C. L.\n Brown during the final days in New York.","An associate of Henry Brown, Jr. in the\n Lynchburg store, was liquidating the stock and\n selling horses in order to settle the estate.","A note regarding the settlement of the Henry\n Brown, Jr. estate.","Written from school, with endorsement by James\n Morrison, schoolmaster.","Signed Eleanor C. L. Brown.","Congratulating S. T. B. on his marriage.","Writes of the aged John Vaughan Willcox, her\n father, with whom she is living and for whom she\n is caring; Samuel T. Brown and his \"youthful\n bride.\"","His extended wedding trip; description of Gen\n Harrison's house.","Consolations upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T.\n Brown.","Condolences upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T.\n Brown.","A letter of consolation.","On the death of W. W. Worthington,\n brother-in-law of Samuel T. Brown. \"Your sister\n Alice is desirous of your attention to the affairs\n of Mr. W. in New Orleans prior to your return to\n Virginia.\"","Recording certain deeds for his son-in-law,\n Samuel T. Brown.","Written to his overseer with whom he has\n quarreled.","On the fees paid by Henry Brown in the Leftwich\n case: \"between twenty and twenty-five dollars for\n my services as an attorney.\" On the thefts\n \"perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student\n at Chapel Hill.\"","Concerning the cutting of trees on the property\n of Samuel T. Brown.","A reply to the above letter, Box-Folder\n 13:60.","On a charge of Ammon Hancock against the estate\n of Henry Brown, Jr.","Estimate for the cost of the construction of a\n bridge.","On the property in Mobile, Alabama, purchased\n by Samuel T. Brown.","The sale of a female slave \"with her\n Brood.\"","Papers concern John Thompson Brown's attendance at\n Princeton, study of law, and trips to the South and to\n the West Indies. Includes speeches and correspondence as\n well as his published writings (newspaper articles,\n bills and pamphlets). The collection emphasizes his\n political career in the Virginia House of Delegates\n including his views on slavery. Also includes\n architectural plans for a two room house and elevations\n (1827), drafts of toasts and letters concerning his\n fight with John Hampden Pleasants.","Prominent correspondents include William Segar\n Archer, James Murray Mason, John Hampden Pleasants,\n William Cabell Rives, Henry St. George Tucker and John\n Tyler.","John Thompson Brown (1802-1836) was born at Otter\n Hills, near Bedford, Virginia and was the son of\n Henry Brown (1760-1841). He attended the New London\n Academy, 1816; studied at Princeton, 1817-1820;\n traveled to the South and the West Indies, 1821; and\n studied law with Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland\n County, Virginia, 1822-1823. He began his law\n practice in Clarksburg, Virginia (later West\n Virginia), in 1824, and represented Harrison County\n in the House of Delegates, 1827-1830. He was a member\n of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n 1829-1830. He married Mary E. Willcox June, 1830, and\n moved to Petersburg, where he again was elected to\n the General Assembly, 1831-1836. He was a delegate to\n the national convention of the Republican (now\n Democratic) Party, but died on 20 November 1836, at\n his father's home, Otter Hills, after a brief\n illness.","The first two letters in Box 14 date from the\n period of his attendance at New London Academy; then\n follow the papers relating to Princeton, where he\n matriculated in 1817 at the age of 19. He was placed\n in the Sophomore Class on the basis of an examination\n before the faculty, and received the highest mark\n given at the College, in each of the three years he\n spent at the College. His report sheets show the\n requirements for entrance, lists of courses, and\n contain a resolution passed by the trustees which\n condemned the sharp practices of the merchants in\n town.","Some of the correspondence of John Thompson Brown\n with his brother-in-law Dr. William B. Steptoe in\n this period is interesting for the comments it\n contains on the Missouri question and other matters\n then being debated in the U.S. Senate. The remarks\n made by John Thompson Brown in letters from his\n collegiate period may be compared with his statements\n on the subject of slavery later made on the floor of\n the House of Delegates.","After graduating from Princeton, John Thompson\n Brown traveled to the South, and made a brief trip to\n the West Indies, keeping notes on his impressions.\n Upon his return he took up the study of law with\n Judge Taylor. From this period come interesting\n musings on such subjects as \"the family fireside,\"\n \"youthful recollection,\" \"friendship,\" and \"behavior\n of a lawyer if he is to succeed.\" His license to\n practice law, dated 7 March 1824, is included in the\n collection. He journeyed to Clarksburg, Virginia, to\n set up his law practice, and kept a notebook on the\n trip West which reveal his first impressions of the\n Clarksburg area.","At the end of this box is a scrapbook containing\n some of his published writings, speeches, and\n newspaper articles.","Letter from a schoolboy friend regarding New\n London Academy.","John Thompson Brown's examinations at the New\n London Academy.","\"I have just been examined by the faculty and\n am admitted to the Sophomore Class, which is the\n second in the college.\" His expenses are estimated\n at $200.00 for the first term and $90.00 for the\n second. \"I will pledge myself not to spend one\n cent more than is really necessary.\"","News from home; a rumor that some boys were\n expelled from Chapel Hill for their politics.","Medical advice; a suggested teacher for New\n London Academy (\"Has he energy enough manage\n southern students?\"); the death of Polly [Mrs.\n Mary Brown Clayton], sister of John Thompson\n Brown.","The political upheaval at William and Mary\n College; deputies appointed \"...to fix upon the\n site of the Virginia University.\"","\"My expenses have far exceeded what was\n necessary or what you expect. I now see my error\n and repent...\" Three months later he offers to\n leave school because of his additional debts.\n Later in Baltimore, he is robbed of $200.00. His\n father adds up the year's expenses to a total of\n $670.00.","Behavior, No. 1. distinguished; Industry, No.\n 1. distinguished; Scholarship, No. 1.\n distinguished (1) \"If under the article \n scholarship , a\n student is marked No. 1 distinguished (1), he is\n considered as ranking among the first in his\n class.\" (From printed explanation of the\n report.)","\"Once the busy scene of commercial\n enterprise...now lifeless and inactive.\"\n Concerning Lynchburg.","The University of Virginia is established at\n Charlottesville with an annual appropriation of\n $15,000; news of a threat of slave uprisings in\n Fredericksburg.","Similar reports to that of 1818. Warning is\n added to the September report concerning excessive\n expenditures by students: \"the trustees of the\n college give this notice to the parents and\n guardians of the youth, that they ought to pay no\n debt contracted in this town, which they have not\n specifically authorized.\"","Endorsed: \"Collegians mei consocui.\" He knew\n 162 fellow students.","On the \"present session of Congress.\"","Rumor of a great rebellion that has taken place\n at Princeton; the Missouri question.","A 4th of July oration supporting the idea of\n colonizing the free Negroes in Africa.","\"My father may justly complain of the great\n sums which he has expended on me, but his kindness\n shall not be abused much longer, as I hope to be\n in a situation to support myself.\" Endorsed:\n \"Brother J.--after his return from Princeton went\n South--through the Cherokee Nation [Alabama and\n Georgia] to Pensacola, and on to New\n Orleans--thence to Cuba and returned to U. States\n in the U.S. Frigate 'Hornet,' as a guest of the\n officers. Samuel T. Brown.\"","A gambling scrape he was involved in; asks his\n father's forgiveness.","\"Chancellor Taylor has been of incalculable\n service to me in the study of law.\" (Needham was a\n law school operated by Judge Creed Taylor in\n Cumberland County in the years 1821-1836.)","These are the continuous drafts of a multiple\n of letters. The first section consists of musings\n and youthful recollections; the second is a\n humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in\n Petersburg after his marriage.","Regarding the marriage of Dr. Steptoe.","Musings on Friendship and the wise behavior of\n a lawyer if he is to succeed.","A letter introducing John Thompson Brown when\n he went to Clarksburg to set up practice.","Musings written on a trip through Virginia:\n thoughts on a disappointing love affair; notes on\n \"Crab Orchard\" and the \"Creek Nation\" --the latter\n were to be incorporated into an Independence Day\n address delivered in Petersburg in 1831.","Impressions of Clarksburg; the countryside is\n beautiful and the land very rich, but \"The people\n have no money and are wretchedly poor and\n lazy...\"","His plans to establish himself.","The following newspaper clippings and pamphlets\n are included in a bound scrap book, with\n endorsements and were undoubtedly collected by\n John Thompson Brown himself.","Concerning \"several cases of contempt of\n court, occurring in various parts of the Union,\n in which the punishment inflicted, has been\n made a subject of grievous complaint.\"","Concerning \"...Mr. Jefferson...the\n disclosure of his poverty...\"","Concerning \"The President's message.\"","A Bill authorizing a loan of $6,000.00 on\n the credit of the state, for the construction\n of Turnpike Road from Winchester to Parkersburg\n by way of Clarksburg, being under\n consideration.","\"Sir:--I have read in the \"Intelligencer\" of\n the 9th inst. your communications to the\n Editors of the paper, in which you remark,\n substantially, that the only Candidate to\n represent the town of Petersburg in the General\n Assembly is a stranger to most voters...Not\n doubting that I am the person alluded to...,\"\n signed John Thompson Brown\"","\"The following copy of a Petition to the\n Legislature of Virginia, we insert at the\n request of a number of our Citizens.\"","\"On motion of Mr. Brown of Petersburg, the\n report of the committee on slaves, free Negroes\n and mulattoes, and the amendment of Mr. Preston\n were taken up; when Mr. Brown rose and\n addressed the house as follows:...\"","\"The bill to amend an act authorizing the\n Board of Public Works to subscribe on behalf of\n the Commonwealth, to the stock of the\n Petersburg Rail Road, was read a third time.\n Mr. Brown said...\"","\"Andrew Jackson was unanimously recommended\n to the Citizens of Virginia, as the next\n President. \"Mr. Miller of Powhatan then\n submitted the following\n Resolution...\"(Concerning the Vice-President).\n Mr. Brown of Petersburg, then submitted the\n following by way of substitute for the\n above...\"","The material in this box covers the period 1825 to\n 1829, when John Thompson Brown was resident of\n Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West\n Virginia). In this period John Thompson Brown wrote\n some of the \"Letters to the Editor,\" printed in the\n Clarksburg \n Enquirer , contained in\n the scrap book noted above in Box 14. A draft of a\n part of the letter concerning the poverty of Mr.\n Jefferson is to be found in this box (1825).","In July 1826, John Thompson Brown wrote to his\n brother Henry Brown, Jr. of his aim to run for the\n U.S. Congress. In 1827 he was elected to the House of\n Delegates; he was re-elected in 1828 and 1829. This\n box also contains various printed and manuscript\n material touching upon his career in the General\n Assembly.","By the end of 1829, John Thompson Brown had\n established himself in Clarksburg, built a house, and\n planned to buy into a partnership in a store to\n advance his financial position. In a letter of March\n 23, 1829 he mentions his desire to run in the next\n election for the U.S. Congress.","\"...the friends of Old Hickory...hear Adamses\n success spoken of and the probability of Clay's\n being made Secretary of State...\"","Encloses a legal opinion concerning sheriffs,\n which his father apparently requested.","A flowery letter to an old friend from\n Princeton. \"I have acquired some little reputation\n at the bar and a practice that supports me very\n decently.\"","Draft of an address to an investigating group\n (perhaps a grand jury), with endorsement: \"1. Act\n against cutting down trees. 2. Act providing for a\n good and sufficient jail.\"","This is part of a printed letter concerning\n \"Mr. Jefferson the disclosure of his poverty...\"\n over the signature Alexander. (See bound\n scrapbook, the last item in Box 14.)","Desire of John Thompson Brown to run for the\n U.S. Congress or for a seat in the General\n Assembly. Suggests that Henry Brown send $1,000.00\n to help achieve this.","\"I find that there is a serious and, I believe,\n a somewhat general wish to bring me out for the\n Legislature.\"","\"I am a candidate for the Legislature at the\n next election...\"","An announcement of the candidacy of John\n Thompson Brown for the General Assembly. He\n reviews what he considers to be the most important\n problems of the day, and discusses (1) the\n invasion of State sovereignty by the Federal\n program of \"internal development,\" (2) the harm\n done to Southern farmers by import duties, (3) the\n calling of a Constitutional Convention for the\n state of Virginia, (4) the dangers of the\n uncontrolled banking system.","His election to the General Assembly; hope of\n election to the U.S. Congress, and the purchase of\n a four acre lot in town. In the first letter which\n John Thompson Brown wrote from the House of\n Delegates he said \"I have not taken much part in\n the debates of the House and do not expect to do\n so...\"","His ride to Richmond in a coach with other,\n more experienced law-makers, \"having been, as you\n predicted, greatly edified and instructed by a\n coach-full of legislators 'big with the cares of\n state.\"","\"Resolving that members of the House of\n Delegates be requested to unite...in advancing the\n cause of this Society before the General Assembly\n of Virginia.\"","On John Thompson Brown's speech: \"considered\n the most able one that had been delivered in the\n House in 5 years.\"","\"Our Society, in the success of which, you are\n pleased to express so deep an interest, is I\n believe, making sure progress.\"","His legislature activities and speeches. \"I am\n a Jackson man like yourself but not perfectly\n orthodox, as you would say, on the subject of\n States Rights. I published my opinions, pamphlet\n of 30 pages, 12 months ago and will send you a\n copy...\"","A report to his constituents on such matters as\n (1) the state Constitutional Convention, (2) the\n lottery for the Randolph Academy in Clarksburg,\n (3) county elections, (4) the bill abolishing the\n chancery Courts and establishing a Superior Court,\n (5) a Turnpike to their area (defeated by the\n \"Eastern People\"), (6) the proposed Baltimore\n Railroad and (7) the settling of the question of\n land titles in Western Virginia. Included in the\n pamphlet are the full texts of the report of the\n committee on this subject, which he chaired, and\n the bill proposed by the committee.","Comment on the land titles, Chancery court\n bills.","\"Even now I am as comfortably situated as I\n could desire and shall support myself hereafter\n without any further drafts on your\n goodness...\"","Now well situated in his \"mansion,\" he\n discusses his prospects for Congress and of his\n plan to \"offer 2 years hence.\"","Endorsed: \"McConley's System of Sword\n Tactics.\"","Reflections on people met at the Medicinal\n Springs, as contrasted with those of his\n constituency.","In February, he forwards a copy of sheriff's\n commission to his father. During the year he\n borrows $400.00 for payments on his house in\n Clarksburg, and by the end of the year his father\n has agreed to advance enough capital for him to\n become a partner in a mercantile business. Upon\n the conclusion of the 1828-1829 session of the\n General Assembly, he writes that he will be a\n candidate once more, then run for Congress. In the\n letter of March 23rd, he writes that opposition\n has arisen \"on account of some laws we had passed\n last session authorizing the county court to levy\n a tax for repairing roads and, bridges.\" On March\n 23rd he relates his experiences in Washington at\n the inauguration of Jackson: on December 14th he\n predicts that the basis of votes for whites will\n be surrendered in the formation of the new State\n constitution.","Suggests they ride together to Alexandria, then\n go to Richmond by boat.","The Virginia Constitutional Convention: \"I had\n an opportunity of hearing the most distinguished\n members of the body--Mr. Madison and Mr. Marshall\n among the rest...\"","The change which was to occur in the life and\n fortunes of John Thompson Brown in the year 1830 is\n forecast in the first letter of this box, a letter\n received by Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg in\n [December] 1829, in which there is a discussion of\n \"Mr. B.\" Three months later (18 March 1830) in a\n letter to his father, John Thompson Brown announces\n his intention of leaving Clarksburg, and of his need\n for a horse and sulky so that he may arrive in\n Petersburg in a manner which should \"avoid the\n appearance of poverty and destitution.\" The next\n letter in the collection (9 [May] 1830), in draft,\n contains an account of his wedding, a wedding which\n was attended by no members of his immediate\n family.","Subsequent letters tell of the generosity of the\n new father-in-law John V. Willcox in the gift of a\n town house \"provided with servants,\" a draft of\n $1500, and the promise of as much more as he asks (22\n July 1830). Yet the position is not satisfactory and\n because John Thompson Brown feels that he is losing\n his independence, he returns to Clarksburg with the\n intention of resettling there and sending for his\n wife (2 May 1831). During a four week visit to\n Harrison County, he finds his political position has\n declined (7 June 1831), so he returns to Petersburg,\n and is invited to make the Independence Day address\n for the town (8 June 1831). As a result of this\n address (and the good influence of his father-in-law)\n he is nominated to represent the town in the House of\n Delegates, and is elected without opposition (26\n September 1831).","He successfully sponsors a bill in the Assembly\n for the Petersburg Railroad (28 December 1831), is\n appointed Judge of Elections for the Petersburg\n Office of the Bank of Virginia (29 December 1831),\n and is sought as a sponsor of a new newspaper which\n is being established in Richmond (20 October 1831).\n Of particular interest is a letter to his nephew\n outlining his philosophy of life and advising the\n young man on his future (3 October 1831). A report of\n the slave insurrection in Southhampton is described\n in a letter of 26 September 1831.","At the end of this box are collected more than a\n hundred drafts of toasts made by John Thompson\n Brown.","A friend writes regarding \"Mr. B.,\" \"a man of\n boundless pride and diffidence. His attachment was\n cut down in the bud and \n You , my sweetest\n Mary, have hoped whilst he desponded...\"","\"My friends, Webster, Goffard, and others\n believed I could certainly be elected to Congress\n next Spring...I wish to appear at \n P[etersburg] in a\n manner which would probably be expected and to\n avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution .\n Henry is to get me a sulky, horse, etc., and if\n you can spare this additional sum you may hand it\n over to him...\"","\"Our nuptials took place at the time expected\n and I cannot say that there was any other allay to\n my happiness, than that neither you nor any of my\n near relatives were present.\"","On his honeymoon: \"Peronneau Finley travels\n with us, as one of our immediate party. Mr.\n Willcox, Sr., and three of his friends are going\n to N. York to the races. They came with us thus\n far...\" There is much discussion about where they\n will live, but, \"I think it probable we shall\n reside in Petersburg...\"","On his Washington visit: \"we remained a week,\n were introduced to the President, etc., heard some\n interesting debates and saw all the great men of\n the nation...My situation is in all respects\n agreeable.\"","Congratulations on her marriage coupled with\n much advice.","After a visit with his father, he writes: \"I\n have nothing to add on the subject of my future\n arrangements. I shall pursue the course which you\n seemed to approve when we were together.\" He\n writes later that Mr. Willcox has turned over to\n them his town house \"furnished with servants\"; in\n another letter: \"He handed me a check for $1,500\n and said that I should always have as much as I\n wanted...\"","Sends advice to his younger brother and, and\n account of his own situation.","Letters from Harrison County report that \"the\n District needs me badly...but it is too\n late...\"","\"I regret that you have temporarily declined\n public life--for I would not believe you have\n abondoned it altogether.\"","Advice given to a young man summarizing John\n Thompson Brown's own philosophy of life.","On his return to Harrison County, \"I found that\n my position here was to be too dependent...\"","\"At a meeting of the citizens of\n Petersburg...'Resolved, that John Thompson Brown,\n Esq., he appointed Orator of the Day'.\"","The first important public speech of John\n Thompson Brown, in Petersburg, one which appears\n to have established his reputation, and which\n influenced his decision to remain there.","Regarding his Independence Day address; the\n wisdom of his brother's decision to visit\n England.","These are the continuous drafts of multiple\n letters. This draft concerns the second part which\n contains a humorous report on a 4th of July\n oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.","On July 25, he states that his brother has left\n on the packet for Baltimore on the way to\n Liverpool. Concerning his \"reasons of my\n determining not to remove to Harrison.\" On\n September 14 he writes that his wife has given\n birth to a son, who will be named Henry Peronneau,\n \"after you and my friend Peronneau Finley.\"","Henry Brown, Jr. writes of his journey, as a\n result of which \"I become more and more an\n American in feeling and principle...\"","\"I was elected without opposition, after\n announcing my sentiments freely and boldly.\" News\n of an insurrection of Negroes in Southampton,\n \"they killed 55 persons, mainly women and\n children.\"","Gives his opinions on the education of his\n nephew, Edward. He approves strongly of the\n emphasis on science to be found at West Point; on\n going to college among the Yankees: \"I partake in\n some measure of the prejudice against them--but\n think nevertheless that...southern \n fire would be none\n the worse for being somewhat cooled by the\n northern \n frost .\"","A new newspaper is proposed for the city of\n Richmond.","A request for help in covering a $3,000 debt to\n \"sharpers.\"","Describes the quarters he has for his wife and\n son. On the main question of the day he writes: \"I\n think no measure can or ought to be taken now for\n the abolition of slavery...\"","Concerning \"the bill now before the Legislature\n on the subject of our (Rail) Road.\"","Appointment of John Thompson Brown as judge of\n the election for directors of the Bank of Virginia\n in Petersburg.","Includes the following subjects: The Press,\n Lafayette, The Cuase of of Civil and Religious\n Liberty, The Militia Volunteers, Woman, Thomas\n Jefferson, Virginia, The Constitution, The\n Militia, State Rights, President of the United\n States, Our Guests, Benjamin Franklin, The\n Union, (\"Drank 1833.\" ADr.), The Day We\n Celebrate, Washington, and The Army and\n Navy.","Includes the following subjects: The Federal\n Consitiution, Free Press, President of the\n United States, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, Our\n Guests and Woman.","Includes the following subjects: The 4th of\n July, 1776, The Cause of Liberty Throughout the\n World, The Heroes and Statesmen of the\n Revolution, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, and\n The Federal Constitution.","Includes the following subject: The Union\n \"(This toast was drank, as a standing toast at\n the Petersburg Republican Celebration of Mr.\n Jefferson's election on the 29th of January,\n 1801).\" Most toast endorsed: \"Offered 1835, not\n adopted.\"","Includes the following subjects: The Day We\n Celebrated, The Memory of Washington, The Army\n and the Navy, Military Spirit, Free Press,\n Popular Suffrage, and National Character.","Includes the following subjects: The Friends\n of Constitutional Restriction, Political\n Toleration, National Character, The State\n Legislature, Virginia Military, Washington,\n Benjamin Franklin, Petersburg, The District of\n Columbia, The Right of Instruction, The Press\n and John Tyler.","The important and exciting national political\n events of the years 1832 and 1833, as they affected\n the people of Virginia, are seen through the eyes of\n John Thompson Brown in the items included in this\n box. A member from Petersburg in the House of\n Delegates of the Virginia Assembly, John Thompson\n Brown was placed in a position of leadership and\n strongly influenced the decisions taken in those\n critical years.","His speech on the abolition of slavery was\n considered so important that Judge Henry St. George\n Tucker and others raised the money to have it printed\n (18 January 1832). He was a member of the Virginia\n delegation to the national convention of the\n Republican Party; his resolution of the\n Vice-Presidential nominee (21-22 May 1832) was the\n one adopted by the Virginia caucus. As Chairman of\n the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates, the\n question of President Jackson's moves against the\n United States Bank was of particular concern to him\n (9 April 1833).","Great excitement was aroused by South Carolina's\n threat of nullification. John Thompson Brown was a\n member of the Committee on Federal Relations, and his\n substitute motion on the question is included in this\n box, as well as his speech on \n The State of the Relations\n between the United States and South Carolina ,\n delivered 5 January 1833, also published in pamphlet\n form.","John Thompson Brown was invited to be a Director\n of the Petersburg Railroad which he declined (7 May\n 1832), and was considered for the position of U.S.\n Senator, although he felt that he was not qualified\n by years or experience (December 1832). An\n interesting report of his meeting with President\n Jackson is included in a letter from John Thompson\n Brown to his wife (23 May 1832).","Also included in this box are letters from John\n Tyler, William Cabell Rives, and William Segar Archer\n (7 February, 3 March 1833).","Two poems, possibly written by John Thompson\n Brown, clipped from a newspaper, signed Julian are\n included at the end of this box.","Writes of the fortunes of the (Petersburg)\n Railroad Bill in the House of Delegates and State\n Senate.","Information regarding Rensselaer School. Samuel\n T. Brown, younger brother of John Thompson Brown,\n appears to have been interested in this\n school.","In this important speech John Thompson Brown\n took up several proposals for the freeing of\n slaves, including that of Thomas Jefferson, as\n submitted to the Legislature by Jefferson\n Randolph, his grandson, and argued against\n each.","\"My speech on abolition has had great \n eclat --a fund has\n been raised for publishing it in pamphlet form for\n general distribution... \n \n Judges [Henry St. George] Tucker and\n Brooke have taken active part in puffing the\n speech.\" He also reports, \"I have carried my\n Railroad Bill...and shall enjoy the credit of\n effecting it by my personal influence.\"","Includes in a \"Postscript\" an answer to a\n statement in \n The Enquirer over\n the signature of \n Jefferson\n [Randolph] . Reference is made to a remark\n made in \n The Wig that his\n argument \"had been far surpassed by the discussion\n of the subject by a stripling . Mr. Brown of\n Petersburg.\" General Assembly. Committee on\n Federal relations. Official Document Nos. 14, 15,\n 16.","Concerning a suggested amendment for the\n Circuit Court Law.","He cannot give his nephew, Edward Steptoe, an\n appointment to West Point because he has used his\n appointment for the session. \"...the Senate is\n involved in the Tariff discussion...The farther I\n have gone into it the more thoroughly have I\n convinced myself of its tyrannical and oppressive\n character.\"","A resolution from the Petersburg Rail Road\n Company to tender thanks for \"the zeal and ability\n with which our Delegate John T. Brown, Esq. and\n our Senator, Wm. Old, Esq. have exerted in\n procuring passage of the said (Rail Road)\n act.\"","This is the resolution presented by John\n Thompson Brown and reported in a newspaper article\n of this date preserved in the scrapbook to be\n found in Box 14.","\"I send you 2 copies of John's speech (on\n Slavery) and a paper with one of Jefferson\n Randolph's in reply to him.\"","Declines appointment as a member of the Board\n of Directors of the Petersburg Railroad.","Notes on the convention of the whole party and\n of the Virginia Caucus. At the latter the\n resolution of John Thompson Brown. was adopted,\n viz. that Virginia's vote should go first to P. P.\n Barbour for Vice- President, and when there was no\n longer a reasonable prospect of his selection, to\n Van Buren.","\"...on last evening we went to the President\n who is in excellent health and fine spirits. Many\n persons here, including some members of Congress\n from Virginia, seem to be much dissatisfied with\n our proceedings at Baltimore...\"","To his youngest brother, attending college,\n regarding the health of Henry, Jr.","On the death of Finley's brother.","The family has traveled south to escape an\n epidemic of Cholera.","In the letter of December 3 he discusses the\n election of U.S. Senators, stating that Mr. Leigh\n is out because of his opposition to President\n Jackson. Among those mentioned for the position\n are \n Judge\n [Henry St. George] Tucker , \n [John] Randolph\n Rives , and himself, though he feels that he\n has neither the years nor the experience for the\n position. President Jackson's message on the U.S.\n Bank is discussed. On nullification he writes: \"It\n will, I fear, be an exciting subject and one of\n engrossing interest...South Carolina is\n unquestionably wrong and \n as long as she remains in\n the Union, must obey its laws...\"","The possibility of his appointment as Senator\n to supply the vacancy left by Mr. Tazewell.","Excitement in Washington caused by the\n President's proclamation on nullification\n debate.","Regarding the removal of deposits from the U.S.\n Bank by the Federal Government.","\"I was rather mortified at making a very poor\n speech [on Federal Relations] in the House\n today...To avoid misrepresentation I shall have to\n write out my speech...\"","Doc. No. 14. \n Report of the Committee on\n Federal Relations Doc. No. 15. \n Mr. Marshall's Substitute\n to the Report... Doc. No. 16. \n Mr. M'dowell's Amendment to\n Mr. Marshall's Substitute,... Opinion on proceedings in South Carolina,\n the proclamation by Andrew Jackson, and \"the\n communication of the governor of this Commonwealth\n on the same subject.\"","After stating his opposition to protective\n tariffs, John Thompson Brown argued that they\n result from \"a perversion of the spirit and intent\n of the Constitution, rather than a violation of\n its literal principles.\"","He compliments the Chief Magistrate of the\n United States on his general policy but disputes\n the Proclamation of the President on other\n grounds, basing his argument on \n The Law of\n Nations by E. de Vattel.","As to the action of South Carolina, he contends\n that there is no possibility of nullification\n under the Constitution, but that the redress of\n the wrong done in the tariff act must come by\n recourse to the Supreme Court, to the \"Co-states\"\n acting in Congress, and if necessary, by an\n amendment to the Constitution.","Compliments John Thompson Brown on his\n resolutions.","\"I was anxious myself that Virginia should\n maintain an impartial and just attitude toward\n both S. Carolina and the President, but far the\n greater part of the Assembly seemed in favour of\n going into one extreme or other . . . whereas I\n thought there was error on both sides...\"","He remarks that \n Edward\n [Steptoe] has been successful in getting his\n appointment to West Point \"obtained (by Mr.\n Archer, the Senator) as a favour to me\" but\n \"without...your letter...the application could\n scarcely have been successful.\"","Appointment of Edward Steptoe to West Point;\n report of the enforcing bill in the President's\n proclamation, and the Tariff Bill.","In July he announces the birth of a son.","On the Force Bill and the Bank of the U.S.","\"On seeimg Miss ____ at Clarksburg,\" and\n \"Julian Abandoning His Muse.\" Possibly written by\n John Thompson Brown about this period.","The letters written by John Thompson Brown during\n portions of the 1833-1834 and the 1834-1835 sessions\n of the General Assembly are found in this box.","The manuscripts begin with letters reporting the\n legislative battle fought and lost against the\n Portsmouth-Norfolk road which John Thompson Brown\n believed would have disastrous effects on the future\n of Petersburg (January 1834). Near the end of the box\n are letters concerning John Thompson Brown's battle\n fought with fists and canes in the halls of the State\n Capitol with a fellow representative John Hampden\n Pleasants (January 1835). The fracas resulted from a\n heated debate on the election of a U.S. Senator. John\n Thompson Brown was one of those mentioned for the\n position of U.S. Senator (December 1834), but his\n youth (28 years) was against him and he did not enjoy\n the rough and tumble of party politics then\n developing.","Also of interest are the draft of a speech\n delivered on the occasion of the death of Lafayette\n (9 July 1834), and two notebooks used by John\n Thompson Brown as Chairman of the Finance Committee\n of the House of Delegates (January 1835).","News that his brother, Samuel, is ill at\n Harvard.","Reports on his progress at the college.","His attempts to defeat the Norfolk rail road in\n the Assembly; family news.","\"All is lost except our honour. The Portsmouth\n Bill [Norfolk railroad] has passed...our town\n [Petersburg] is prostrated...but the ancient\n spirit of our little town, which Mr. Madison\n called the 'cockade of the old Dominion' is not\n dead.\"","A patent for producing domestic salt.","Election of a U.S. Senator, for which he has\n been mentioned; Mr. Leigh's election. At the end\n of February and beginning of March he is kept in\n bed with an illness.","Gives his views of the political situation,\n mentioning the message President Jackson sent to\n Congress with the \"Force Bill,\" the President's\n plans for the Bank of the U.S., and objections to\n Van Buren and \"the N. York system of tactics which\n he will bring with him.\"","Plans for Samuel, John Thompson Brown's\n brother, to start his study of law with him.","Sold bank shares to help his brother go into\n business for himself; gives advice on racing\n horses.","Endorsed: \"To my sons, should they ever read\n it.\"","Report of his progress at the U.S. Military\n Academy.","Draft of a letter sending condolences for the\n death of a sister and congratulations on the birth\n of a son.","His resignation from the U.S. Senate.","\"No subject arouses anybody except the\n senatorial election.\"","He offers to place all his monetary resources\n at the service of his brother in his new business\n venture.","On the 17th he prepared a draft of a letter,\n which he sent on the 20th, giving an account of a\n fight in the halls of the General Assembly between\n himself and John Hampden Pleasants.","A letter of apology for the battle fought in\n the halls of the Virginia Capitol.","An account of his speech which was \"better\n received than anything I have ever made.\"","Points out the importance of this election for\n \"future political events and party combinations in\n the state,\" and defends the incumbent, Mr.\n Leigh.","Prepared for use in the Finance Committee of\n the House of Deputies.","Notes on taxes, license fees, and the like,\n prepared by John Thompson Brown for use on the\n Finance Committee of the House of Delegates.","The closing sessions of the State Legislature of\n 1834-1835 are reported in the letters at the\n beginning of this box. The party spirit runs high in\n Petersburg as the \"Jackson party\" opposes John\n Thompson Brown (March 1835). He is involved in a\n street fight with an opponent in which he receives a\n black eye, but the argument is made up after he wins\n the election (April 1835).","Before the next session of the legislature, John\n Thompson Brown is occupied in collecting more\n material on the question of slavery (August 1835),\n and prepared three long drafts written in opposition\n to the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President of\n the U.S. Undated drafts of notes on legal cases are\n included at the end of the 1835 section.","Henry Brown, Jr., the brother of John Thompson\n Brown, died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to\n Philadelphia and New York for his Lynchburg store.\n The trip of John Thompson Brown to meet the body of\n his brother, and his activity in settling his\n brother's affairs in Lynchburg are reported in the\n letters included in this box.","At the end of July he takes his family to his\n father's home, Otter Hills, near New London in\n Campbell County, for the funeral sermon of Henry\n Brown, Jr. While there he contracts an illness which\n keeps him there until his death on 26 November\n 1836.","Announces the birth of a son, John Thompson\n Brown II, and tells his brother that he had\n ordered $2800 placed to his account to support the\n store that he had opened.","Political activity in Petersburg.","\"The Jackson party has brought out the most\n popular man in Petersburg against...it is quite\n likely he will beat me.\"","On April 18 he writes, \"I was elected by a\n majority of 37 (13 of which were from Richmond).\"\n There is also a report of a street fight between\n John Thompson Brown and \"a Jackson man.\"","Concerning the chances of Van Buren to carry\n Virginia in the election.","Plans to retire from politics and seek a\n position as Judge of the courts.","He has sent a box of books to help him in his\n law studies, and describes a visit by his old\n friend Peronneau Finley and his family.","Writes to his father about plans to visit\n him.","Family discussion, especially concerned with\n the sisters who were yet to find husbands.","Notice of the election of John Thompson Brown\n as an honorary member of the Jefferson\n Society.","Signed \"Mr. Brown.\"","This series of drafts is in opposition to\n Martin Van Buren, candidate for the President\n of the United States.","Good reports of the new business venture of his\n brother, Henry Brown, Jr.","To his brother, on a buying trip to New York;\n political prospects now look bright, but \"the\n state is lost\" to the Anti-Van Buren forces.","Signed by Wyndham Robertson.","On the trip to accompany his sister-in-law and\n the body of Henry Brown, Jr. back to the family\n home, Otter Hills. Henry Brown, Jr. died while on\n a shopping trip to New York for supplies for his\n Lynchburg store.","The body of Henry Brown, Jr. was taken that\n morning for Virginia.","On the death of her father, Henry Brown Brown,\n Jr.","Taking inventory at the store of his late\n brother; preparing to settle his estate.","Reports on the stocktaking in the store of\n Henry Brown, Jr. On July 19 he wrote that he was\n coming to his father's place on the Sunday next to\n hear his brother's funeral preached. This is the\n last letter from John Thompson Brown to his\n father, for on that visit to Otter Hills he was\n taken with the illness from which he died.","On the disposal of the store inventory; sends a\n piano to her.","Mourning his brother's death, he makes\n arrangements for his own family to join him. (This\n is the last letter written by John Thompson Brown\n preserved in this collection.)","The niece of John Thompson Brown writes to her\n uncle regarding the recent death of her father,\n Henry Brown, Jr.","A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes\n regarding the settling of the store business.","Enclosures: \"A lock of the hair of John\n Thompson Brown, 29 years\"; envelope marked, \"For\n sister Mary from my dear brother John's Grave,\n Nov. 13th, 1845, \n [Mrs.]\n A[lice Brown] Worthington ,\" with clover\n leaves inside.","A resolution in memory of John Thompson\n Brown.","Signed D. M. Bernard, Clerk. Endorsement by\n James MacFarland, Jr., to Mrs. John Thompson\n Brown.","Condolences on the death of her husband.","A resolution that the members wear the usual\n badge of mourning for thirty days in honor of John\n Thompson Brown.","A copy of the unanimous resolution of the House\n of Delegates in memory of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of grief written by Mrs. Brown to her\n father-in-law.","A letter of consolation.","Includes: A dramatic sketch, Kentucky Land\n Laws, Goosawattee Indians, and map of the\n region around Bedford, Virginia","A large folded ink drawing of a building \"taken\n from the Colonade of the Temple of Minerva\n Parthenon at Athens,\" with notes of construction\n details. Ca. 1830.","Papers of John Thompson Brown, Colonel of 1st\n Regiment Virginia Artillery who was killed in action in\n 1864. Included are letters concerning a disagreement\n with William Nelson Pendleton. Papers also include\n correspondence of his son, Henry Peronneau Brown and his\n son's wife Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown as well as\n newspaper clippings concerning Judge John Randolph\n Tucker and the correspondence of Cynthia Beverley Tucker\n Coleman. There are also nineteenth century\n engravings.","This box contains the papers from the period after\n the death of John Thompson Brown, and concern John\n Thompson Brown II, born in 1835, some 18 months\n before the death of his father.","One letter (20 November 1844) lists the courses\n studied by boys at the ages of 9, 11, and 13; a\n travel book gives an interesting picture of Europe (4\n May 1857); and a draft of a letter describes the\n bleedings to which a tourist entering Italy had to\n submit.","John Thompson Brown II was elected Second\n Lieutenant by the members of his company (1 December\n 1859). Also included are notes of speeches made to\n rouse war enthusiasm. The receipt for a saber and\n belt (23 April 1861) mark the beginning of action,\n and other records follow John Thompson Brown II's\n rise to Major, then to Colonel. His request for a\n transfer to a more active field of war and an\n extended argument with his commanding officer, Brig.\n Gen. William Nelson Pendleton, are of interest. The\n box concludes with items which appear to have been on\n the person of Col. John Thompson Brown II, when he\n was killed in action on 6 May 1864.","Lists the courses in school taken by a nine\n year old boy and his two brothers, Wilicox, 11\n years old, and \n P[eronneau] , 13\n years old.","Certifies that John Thompson Brown II was\n elected Second Lieutenant by viva voce vote of the\n members of his company.","References to Douglas and the threat to\n slavery.","Concerns the raid on Harper's Ferry by John\n Brown, 19 October 1859, and the treatment of him\n as a martyr in the North.","\"I greatly fear that the time has passed when\n great questions of State equality are to be\n settled in the Halls of Congress...this settlement\n requires powder and ball...\"","Report on ammunition on hand.","Court Martial action taken for refusal to do\n guard duty, by a trooper under the command of Col.\n John Thompson Brown II.","Request for transfer, with his command, to the\n Division of Gen. D. H. Hills, so that he might be\n more actively engaged.","Concerning the families of the officers.","Concerning a dispute arising between the two\n over John Thompson Brown's command.","Request the return of his report on the battle\n of Chancellorsville so that he might submit it to\n Gen. Stuart.","Papers relating to the oldest son of John Thompson\n Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, begin with letters\n written by his mother Mrs. Mary E. Brown. She\n expresses concern that her son is more interested in\n affairs other than his studies (1 March 1849). His\n school career is traced briefly through his years at\n the University of Virginia (28 June 1851).","The letters exchanged between Henry Peronneau\n Brown and his fiancee, Frances Baland Coalter, 1858,\n lead into the family correspondence which completes\n this box. (Other letters of Frances Bland Coalter and\n her family are found in Box 6, Coalter and Tucker\n Papers.)","From May, 1861, all letters are concerned with the\n war. Letters written by John Coalter II, to his\n sister Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown in 1878 give a\n graphic picture of the struggle made by a southern\n farmer to re-establish himself after the war.","The widow of John Thompson Brown writes with\n concern about her oldest son, Peronneau, who is\n attending school in South Carolina. He was\n devoting too much time to outdoor affairs of\n college life and not enough to his studies.","Congratulating him on his success at Charleston\n College; a proposed biography of John Thompson\n Brown.","Concerning Henry Peronneau Brown, attending the\n \n University [of Virginia] .","Affectionate letters to her fiance.","In August she writes to console Mrs. Brown on\n the death of her mother, Mrs. Judith H.\n Coalter.","\"We are all as glad, dear Fanny, that your home\n is so lovely and you are so happy...for its\n mountain scenery.\"","Concerning the failing health of their\n mother.","Consolations on the death of Mrs. Coalter.","Concerning the loss of an infant.","The bachelor brother of Mrs. Brown writes that\n his loneliness on an out-of-the-way plantation is\n heading him to the madhouse.","She writes of the ladies making vests and\n shirts for the soldiers. News that the Yankees\n have landed at Hampton; the first of the war\n casualties in the family.","Making clothes for the army: \"1500 yards have\n just been received which we are to turn our\n attention to at once.\"","His house was set afire and cannon are firing\n all about. Comments on \"the tennessee\n company...the roughest men you ever saw...\"","The wife of John Thompson Brown II, is in \"this\n antiquated spot\" because her husband was drilling\n some new troops and sent for her to join him.","Their brother, Henry, is at a camp near\n Williamsburg; the other brother, John, is in\n Richmond.","\"adjoining the lands of Henry Peronneau Brown\n and others.\"","\"I am sorry Henry's name is not in the list of\n exchanged prisoners...\"","Request for someone to serve the Presbyterian\n Church at Tappahannock.","The settlement of the John Randolph estate\n which was in litigation for many years.","Refuses a request for $500 by his nephew;\n recommends that he stop drinking.","Note written on an early \"penny post card.\"","Letters written to his sister as he made a\n start in farming after the end of the war: \"I have\n not the means to buy me a suit of clothes.\" Later\n he added: \"I never was as poor in my life before\n as I am now...I have not spent during the whole\n year on myself more than $10...\"","First mention of Cassie Tucker, who was later\n to marry John Thompson Brown III.","A request for a purchase of a case of \"56 Home\n Remedies.\"","Writes of \n Cassie\n [Tucker] , wife of \n [John]\n Thompson [Brown III] . \"You have introduced\n into your home a very sunbeam.\"","Concerning the death of \n John [Coalter\n II] .","The letters in this box concerning John Thompson\n Brown III, begin with one from his mother, Mrs. Henry\n Peronneau Brown, the former Frances Bland Coalter.\n There are 6 report cards from The University School,\n Petersburg, Virginia (1877-1879). Of interest is a\n pamphlet of \n Resolutions Passed in 1894,\n 1895, and 1896...Denouncing the Bedford High School\n Act.","Many of the letters in the collection are from\n Mrs. Cynthia B. Tucker Coleman to her niece Cassie\n (Mrs. John Thompson Brown III). Letters from the\n children, John Thompson Brown IV, Frances Brown, and\n Henry Peronneau Brown II, are included as well as\n photographs of some members of the family and\n pictures of the family home, Ivy Cliff, Bedford\n County (formerly Otter Hill) the home of Capt. Henry\n Brown, great grandfather of John Thompson Brown\n III.","At the end of the box is a notebook containing\n sermons copied out by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown for\n her son John Thompson Brown III.","To her son [John Thompson Brown III] urging him\n to improve his writing and \"to read your Bible and\n say your prayers every day.\"","A description of the London Museum and Zoo.","Some contain letters by John Thompson Brown\n III, when the reports were sent home.","Recommends Bible reading as the antidote for\n \"the very corrupt sentiments which are scattered\n through the classical writers.\"","The recent death of her husband, Dr. Coleman;\n the serious illness of Mrs. Henry Peronneau\n Brown.","During her illness, Mrs. Brown's children are\n in the care of Mrs. Coleman.","A child's letter.","Rejoices that Cassie's health is \"entirely\n restored.\" Bev. Tucker and Braxton Bryan are\n mentioned as attending an assembly of the clergy\n at Jamestown.","\"...make haste and get well enough to come home\n where you are much missed.\"","\"Given to my son June 5, 1890. Let him read it\n carefully and may God have mercy on his soul.\n Amen.\" (Mrs. Frances B. Brown died in September\n 1894.)","This box contains material related to the Brown\n and Tucker families after 1900. Accounts of Cary A.\n Adams are placed at the beginning of the box.","Newspaper clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska,\n relate to Judge John Randolph Tucker. Another member\n of the family, Capt. David Tucker Brown, is\n represented by two letters (1918, 1919) written from\n France when he was serving as a member of the\n American Commission to negotiate peace.","At the end of the box are collected seventeen\n undated items concerning unidentified persons.","Endorsed: \"Pres. of Const. Convention,\n 1901-2.\"","Taken from the \n Nome Daily Nugget , \n Nome Democrat and \n Nome Industrial\n Worker .","With the \"American Commission to Negotiate\n Peace.\" There is also mention of John Thompson\n Brown IV, of Wilmington.","(\"From private who served you on the\n memorable 8th of Jany, 1815.\")","An alphabetical list of flowers with the\n characteristics of each expressed\n symbolically.","Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Manuscripts\n and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary. \n Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), \n \n 1791-1920. 941 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 B855 Papers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and\n Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland\n (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the\n Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John\n Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the\n Morton family.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.","Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown,\n Coalter, Tucker families.","College of William and Mary--History--18th\n century.","Princeton University--History.","University of Virginia--History--19th\n century.","Brown family,","Coulter family,","Tucker family,","Brown family.","Coalter family.","Coulter family.","Tucker family.","William Segar Archer,","Frances Bland Coalter Brown,","Henry Brown,","Henry Peronneau Brown,","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan,","John Randolph Bryan,","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter,","John Coalter,","Judith H. Tomlin Coalter,","Maria Rind Coalter,","St. George Tucker Coalter,","Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington\n Coleman,","Moses Drury Hoge,","J. M. (James Murray) Mason,","William Munford,","William Nelson Pendleton,","John Hampden Pleasants,","Judith Randolph Randolph,","William C. (William Cabell) Rives,","Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker,","Henry St. George Tucker,","St. George Tucker,","John Tyler.","Boone, Jennifer\n Kathryn.","Archer, William Segar,\n 1789-1855.","Brown, Frances Bland\n Coalter, 1835-1894.","Brown, Daniel.","Brown, Henry,\n 1797-1836.","Brown, Henry\n Peronneau.","Bryan, Elizabeth Tucker\n Coalter, b. 1805.","Bryan, John Randolph,\n 1806-1887.","Coalter, Frances Bland\n Tucker, 1785-1813.","Coalter, John,\n 1769-1838.","Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin,\n d. 1859.","Coalter, Maria Rind, d.\n 1792.","Coalter, St. George Tucker,\n 1809-1839.","Coleman, Cynthia Beverley\n Tucker Washington, 1832-1908.","Hoge, Moses Drury,\n 1818-1899.","Mason, J. M. (James Murray),\n 1798-1871.","Munford, William, 1775-\n 1825.","Murphy, Pleasants,\n 1786-1863.","Pendleton, William Nelson,\n 1809-1883.","Pleasants, John Hampden,\n 1797-1846.","Randolph, John,\n 1773-1833.","Randolph, Judith Randolph,\n fl. 1792-1813.","Rives, William C. (William\n Cabell), 1793-1868.","Thompson, John.","Tucker, Lelia Skipwith\n Carter, 1767-post 1833.","Tucker, Henry St. George,\n 1780-1848.","Tucker, John Randolph,\n 1823-1897.","Tucker, St. George,\n 1752-1827.","Tyler, John,\n 1790-1862.","Wythe, George,\n 1726-1806.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 B85"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), \n \n 1780-1929."],"collection_title_tesim":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), \n \n 1780-1929."],"collection_ssim":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), \n \n 1780-1929."],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Brown family, Coulter family, Tucker family, William Segar Archer, Frances Bland Coalter Brown, Henry Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan, John Randolph Bryan, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter, John Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin Coalter, Maria Rind Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington\n Coleman, Moses Drury Hoge, J. M. (James Murray) Mason, William Munford, William Nelson Pendleton, John Hampden Pleasants, Judith Randolph Randolph, William C. (William Cabell) Rives, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, Henry St. George Tucker, St. George Tucker, John Tyler."],"creator_ssim":["Brown family, Coulter family, Tucker family, William Segar Archer, Frances Bland Coalter Brown, Henry Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan, John Randolph Bryan, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter, John Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin Coalter, Maria Rind Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington\n Coleman, Moses Drury Hoge, J. M. (James Murray) Mason, William Munford, William Nelson Pendleton, John Hampden Pleasants, Judith Randolph Randolph, William C. (William Cabell) Rives, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, Henry St. George Tucker, St. George Tucker, John Tyler."],"creator_persname_ssim":["William Segar Archer,","Frances Bland Coalter Brown,","Henry Brown,","Henry Peronneau Brown,","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan,","John Randolph Bryan,","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter,","John Coalter,","Judith H. Tomlin Coalter,","Maria Rind Coalter,","St. George Tucker Coalter,","Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington\n Coleman,","Moses Drury Hoge,","J. M. (James Murray) Mason,","William Munford,","William Nelson Pendleton,","John Hampden Pleasants,","Judith Randolph Randolph,","William C. (William Cabell) Rives,","Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker,","Henry St. George Tucker,","St. George Tucker,","John Tyler."],"creator_famname_ssim":["Brown family,","Coulter family,","Tucker family,"],"creators_ssim":["William Segar Archer,","Frances Bland Coalter Brown,","Henry Brown,","Henry Peronneau Brown,","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan,","John Randolph Bryan,","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter,","John Coalter,","Judith H. Tomlin Coalter,","Maria Rind Coalter,","St. George Tucker Coalter,","Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington\n Coleman,","Moses Drury Hoge,","J. M. (James Murray) Mason,","William Munford,","William Nelson Pendleton,","John Hampden Pleasants,","Judith Randolph Randolph,","William C. (William Cabell) Rives,","Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker,","Henry St. George Tucker,","St. George Tucker,","John Tyler.","Brown family,","Coulter family,","Tucker family,"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift: 3,433 items, \n 03/04/1947."],"access_subjects_ssim":["American poetry.","Architecture,\n Domestic--Virginia.","Embargo, 1807-1809.","\n Education--Virginia--History-- 19th century.","Guilford Court House, Battle\n of, 1781.","Slavery--Virginia--\n History--18th century.","Springs--Virginia.","United States--History--War\n of 1812.","Virginia. General Assembly.\n House of Delegates.","Virginia--Politics and\n government--1775-1865.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Bedford County--19th\n century.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Campbell County--19th\n century.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Lynchburg--19th century."],"access_subjects_ssm":["American poetry.","Architecture,\n Domestic--Virginia.","Embargo, 1807-1809.","\n Education--Virginia--History-- 19th century.","Guilford Court House, Battle\n of, 1781.","Slavery--Virginia--\n History--18th century.","Springs--Virginia.","United States--History--War\n of 1812.","Virginia. General Assembly.\n House of Delegates.","Virginia--Politics and\n government--1775-1865.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Bedford County--19th\n century.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Campbell County--19th\n century.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Lynchburg--19th century."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["3,433 items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Restrictions on Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThis collection is organized into four series; Series 1\n is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker\n Families; Series 2 is Group B, containing the papers of\n Capt. Henry Brown and his family; Series 3 is Group C,\n containing the papers of John Thompson Brown; and Series 4\n is Group D, containing the papers of the Brown and Tucker\n Families.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis collection is organized into four series; Series 1\n is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker\n Families; Series 2 is Group B, containing the papers of\n Capt. Henry Brown and his family; Series 3 is Group C,\n containing the papers of John Thompson Brown; and Series 4\n is Group D, containing the papers of the Brown and Tucker\n Families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003carrangement\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eEach series in the collection has been arranged into\n various subseries by family names, personal names or\n subjects. The material in each subseries may contain the\n names of various other persons but the most prominent name\n is the one used to describe the subseries. Series 1\n contains the following subseries: John Coalter; Children of\n John Coalter, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, and St. George\n Tucker Coalter; and Grandchild of John Coalter, Frances\n Bland Coalter. Series 2 contains the following subseries:\n Capt. Henry Brown; Immediate Family of Capt. Henry Brown;\n and Children of Capt. Henry Brown, Henry Brown, Jr. and\n Samuel T. Brown. Series 3 contains six subseries pertaining\n to John Thompson Brown. Series 4 contains the following\n subseries: Col. John Thompson Brown II, Henry Peronneau\n Brown, John Thompson Brown III, Later Family Member, and\n Miscellaneous.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEach series in the collection has been arranged into\n various subseries by family names, personal names or\n subjects. The material in each subseries may contain the\n names of various other persons but the most prominent name\n is the one used to describe the subseries. Series 1\n contains the following subseries: John Coalter; Children of\n John Coalter, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, and St. George\n Tucker Coalter; and Grandchild of John Coalter, Frances\n Bland Coalter. Series 2 contains the following subseries:\n Capt. Henry Brown; Immediate Family of Capt. Henry Brown;\n and Children of Capt. Henry Brown, Henry Brown, Jr. and\n Samuel T. Brown. Series 3 contains six subseries pertaining\n to John Thompson Brown. Series 4 contains the following\n subseries: Col. John Thompson Brown II, Henry Peronneau\n Brown, John Thompson Brown III, Later Family Member, and\n Miscellaneous.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes life on Walker's Creek, Rockbridge\n County; his responsibility for the farm while\n his father is away at war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel Brown is a young lawyer, earning\n 40£ per year as usher for John\n Holt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his new position as tutor to the\n children of St. George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe death of Mrs. Tucker; plans of St.\n George Tucker to move because the plantation,\n Matoax, reverts to the sons of Mrs. Tucker\n (Richard, John, and Theodorick Randolph). He\n intends to move to Williamsburg, but he can no\n longer pay John Coalter 30£ per\n annum; offers to give legal training in\n exchange for tutoring services.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Rind, had been studying law with St.\n George Tucker in Williamsburg but left to take\n a position with \"Col. N.\" Maria Rind remains in\n the household of St. George Tucker, where she\n cared for the children.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Organization","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organization This collection is organized into four series; Series 1\n is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker\n Families; Series 2 is Group B, containing the papers of\n Capt. Henry Brown and his family; Series 3 is Group C,\n containing the papers of John Thompson Brown; and Series 4\n is Group D, containing the papers of the Brown and Tucker\n Families.","This collection is organized into four series; Series 1\n is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker\n Families; Series 2 is Group B, containing the papers of\n Capt. Henry Brown and his family; Series 3 is Group C,\n containing the papers of John Thompson Brown; and Series 4\n is Group D, containing the papers of the Brown and Tucker\n Families.","Arrangement Each series in the collection has been arranged into\n various subseries by family names, personal names or\n subjects. The material in each subseries may contain the\n names of various other persons but the most prominent name\n is the one used to describe the subseries. Series 1\n contains the following subseries: John Coalter; Children of\n John Coalter, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, and St. George\n Tucker Coalter; and Grandchild of John Coalter, Frances\n Bland Coalter. Series 2 contains the following subseries:\n Capt. Henry Brown; Immediate Family of Capt. Henry Brown;\n and Children of Capt. Henry Brown, Henry Brown, Jr. and\n Samuel T. Brown. Series 3 contains six subseries pertaining\n to John Thompson Brown. Series 4 contains the following\n subseries: Col. John Thompson Brown II, Henry Peronneau\n Brown, John Thompson Brown III, Later Family Member, and\n Miscellaneous.","Each series in the collection has been arranged into\n various subseries by family names, personal names or\n subjects. The material in each subseries may contain the\n names of various other persons but the most prominent name\n is the one used to describe the subseries. Series 1\n contains the following subseries: John Coalter; Children of\n John Coalter, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, and St. George\n Tucker Coalter; and Grandchild of John Coalter, Frances\n Bland Coalter. Series 2 contains the following subseries:\n Capt. Henry Brown; Immediate Family of Capt. Henry Brown;\n and Children of Capt. Henry Brown, Henry Brown, Jr. and\n Samuel T. Brown. Series 3 contains six subseries pertaining\n to John Thompson Brown. Series 4 contains the following\n subseries: Col. John Thompson Brown II, Henry Peronneau\n Brown, John Thompson Brown III, Later Family Member, and\n Miscellaneous.","Describes life on Walker's Creek, Rockbridge\n County; his responsibility for the farm while\n his father is away at war.","Samuel Brown is a young lawyer, earning\n 40£ per year as usher for John\n Holt.","Describes his new position as tutor to the\n children of St. George Tucker.","The death of Mrs. Tucker; plans of St.\n George Tucker to move because the plantation,\n Matoax, reverts to the sons of Mrs. Tucker\n (Richard, John, and Theodorick Randolph). He\n intends to move to Williamsburg, but he can no\n longer pay John Coalter 30£ per\n annum; offers to give legal training in\n exchange for tutoring services.","James Rind, had been studying law with St.\n George Tucker in Williamsburg but left to take\n a position with \"Col. N.\" Maria Rind remains in\n the household of St. George Tucker, where she\n cared for the children."],"bibliography_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHonors Thesis Paper written by a student of the College\n of William and Mary. A Bibliography can be found on pages\n 75-77. Call Number: LD6051 .W5m Hist., 1987, B66\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\n \u003cpersname role=\"author\"\u003eBoone, Jennifer\n Kathryn.\u003c/persname\u003e\n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003e\"In Praise of the Family\": A\n Study of Three Generations.\u003c/title\u003e\n \u003cimprint\u003e\n \u003cdate type=\"publication\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1987.\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003c/imprint\u003e\n \u003c/bibref\u003e"],"bibliography_heading_ssm":["Bibliography"],"bibliography_tesim":["Honors Thesis Paper written by a student of the College\n of William and Mary. A Bibliography can be found on pages\n 75-77. Call Number: LD6051 .W5m Hist., 1987, B66","Boone, Jennifer\n Kathryn. \"In Praise of the Family\": A\n Study of Three Generations. 1987."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNote: The superscript numbers denote generations within\n each family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBrown Family\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHenry Brown \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e1\u003c/emph\u003e(1716-1766) was born in Bedford\n County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven\n children including; Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel\n Brown (1770-1818).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e2\u003c/emph\u003e(1760-1841), later commissioned\n as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the\n war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell)\n County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting\n life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several\n ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his\n time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax\n Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of\n revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a\n treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New\n London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day\n Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers\n present a picture of the successful business man of that day.\n No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this\n collection, though many references to letters he had written\n are to be found. Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), married\n Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry\n Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T.\n Brown, who married Lissie Huger; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Locky T. Brown\"\u003eLocky [Lockie] T. Brown\u003c/abbr\u003e(b.\n 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who\n married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M.\n Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married\n Mary E. Willcox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany papers of Henry Brown, Jr. \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e3\u003c/emph\u003e(1797-1836), are included in this\n collection, but his personality makes little impression on the\n reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his\n father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own.\n Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness\n that had plagued him from his early years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e3\u003c/emph\u003e(1802-1836) was born near Bedford\n County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later\n read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the\n House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia\n (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his\n marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading\n citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of\n Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery,\n states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson\n period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their\n insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period.\n He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned\n as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the\n State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have\n been an important figure in national politics if he had not\n suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary\n Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894),\n John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II\n (1835-1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCol. John Thompson Brown II \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e4\u003c/emph\u003e(1835-1864), was less than two\n years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his\n father's ideas in the next generation when the debate\n regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by\n recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war\n fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the\n artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6,\n 1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Peronneau Brown \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e4\u003c/emph\u003e(1832-1894), was named after a\n Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's,\n Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry\n Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his\n father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown\n with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the\n insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and\n the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894),\n married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were\n the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married\n Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker\n family with the line. They in turn had five children; John\n Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown;\n Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas\n Brown; and Willcox Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eCoalter Family\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJohn Coalter \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e1\u003c/emph\u003e(1769-1838), was born in 1769 to\n parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father\n was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter\n and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in\n Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became\n tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and\n Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death\n of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg,\n serving without pay in return for the legal training he\n received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While\n studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of\n William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In\n December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year\n later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a\n Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for\n the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter\n (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport\n (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within\n the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of\n St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John\n Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore\n him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter\n (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and\n St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later\n became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and\n bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter\n continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to\n Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In\n 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones)\n Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and\n interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in\n Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\" plantation in\n Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Tucker Coalter \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e2\u003c/emph\u003e(1805-1853), married John\n Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831\n and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They\n had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia\n Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph\n Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George\n Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman\n Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker Coalter \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e2\u003c/emph\u003e(1809-1839), married the\n strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out\n his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his\n farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters,\n which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine\n Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were\n prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters\n give an interesting and informative picture of life in\n Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St.\n George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin\n Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker\n (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who\n married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia\n Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in\n 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married\n Amelia Downy in 1862 and Charlotte (Downy) Terrill in 1868.\n See Brown Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eTucker Family\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSt. George Tucker \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e1\u003c/emph\u003e(1752-1827), was born in 1752\n near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry\n Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career\n in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William\n and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served\n as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth\n attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at\n the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge\n for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland)\n Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous\n marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and\n John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph\n Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker\n (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker\n (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel\n Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph\n plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until\n the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St.\n George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795).\n None of their three children lived to adulthood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry St. George Tucker \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e2\u003c/emph\u003e(1780-1848), served as a\n professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the\n Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress,\n 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married\n Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children,\n including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances\n Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John\n Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRandolph Tucker \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e3\u003c/emph\u003emarried Lucy (?). The couple had\n children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. David Hunter Tucker \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e3\u003c/emph\u003emarried Eliz Dallas and had Rev.\n Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Randolph Tucker \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e3\u003c/emph\u003e(1823-1897), married Laura Holmes\n Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as\n attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at\n Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University);\n and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnn Frances Bland Tucker \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e2\u003c/emph\u003e(1785-1813), married John Coalter\n (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Beverley Tucker \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e2\u003c/emph\u003e(1784-1851), graduated from the\n College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he\n married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter\n (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court\n Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried\n twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He\n returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in\n 1834.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eOther People\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eWilliam Munford (1775- 1825) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his\n Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some\n note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting\n reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard\n University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants\n in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the\n British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He\n lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later\n moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks\n on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on\n that important member of the legal profession in the new\n nation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is\n unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods\n stores and the household supply stores are included in the\n collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of\n Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Randolph Tucker (ca. 1915) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNewspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska\n concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (ca.\n 1915).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCapt. David Tucker Brown (ca. 1918), was a member of the\n 1918 Peace Commission, Paris France.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Note: The superscript numbers denote generations within\n each family.","Brown Family Henry Brown \n 1 (1716-1766) was born in Bedford\n County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven\n children including; Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel\n Brown (1770-1818).","Henry Brown \n 2 (1760-1841), later commissioned\n as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the\n war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell)\n County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting\n life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several\n ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his\n time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax\n Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of\n revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a\n treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New\n London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day\n Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers\n present a picture of the successful business man of that day.\n No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this\n collection, though many references to letters he had written\n are to be found. Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), married\n Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry\n Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T.\n Brown, who married Lissie Huger; \n Locky [Lockie] T. Brown (b.\n 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who\n married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M.\n Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married\n Mary E. Willcox.","Many papers of Henry Brown, Jr. \n 3 (1797-1836), are included in this\n collection, but his personality makes little impression on the\n reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his\n father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own.\n Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness\n that had plagued him from his early years.","John Thompson Brown \n 3 (1802-1836) was born near Bedford\n County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later\n read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the\n House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia\n (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his\n marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading\n citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of\n Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery,\n states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson\n period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their\n insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period.\n He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned\n as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the\n State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have\n been an important figure in national politics if he had not\n suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary\n Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894),\n John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II\n (1835-1864).","Col. John Thompson Brown II \n 4 (1835-1864), was less than two\n years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his\n father's ideas in the next generation when the debate\n regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by\n recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war\n fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the\n artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6,\n 1864.","Henry Peronneau Brown \n 4 (1832-1894), was named after a\n Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's,\n Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry\n Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his\n father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown\n with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the\n insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and\n the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894),\n married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were\n the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married\n Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker\n family with the line. They in turn had five children; John\n Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown;\n Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas\n Brown; and Willcox Brown.","Coalter Family John Coalter \n 1 (1769-1838), was born in 1769 to\n parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father\n was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter\n and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in\n Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became\n tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and\n Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death\n of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg,\n serving without pay in return for the legal training he\n received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While\n studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of\n William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In\n December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year\n later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a\n Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for\n the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter\n (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport\n (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within\n the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of\n St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John\n Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore\n him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter\n (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and\n St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later\n became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and\n bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter\n continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to\n Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In\n 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones)\n Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and\n interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in\n Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\" plantation in\n Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter \n 2 (1805-1853), married John\n Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831\n and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They\n had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia\n Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph\n Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George\n Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman\n Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).","St. George Tucker Coalter \n 2 (1809-1839), married the\n strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out\n his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his\n farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters,\n which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine\n Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were\n prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters\n give an interesting and informative picture of life in\n Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St.\n George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin\n Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker\n (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who\n married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia\n Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in\n 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married\n Amelia Downy in 1862 and Charlotte (Downy) Terrill in 1868.\n See Brown Family","Tucker Family St. George Tucker \n 1 (1752-1827), was born in 1752\n near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry\n Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career\n in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William\n and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served\n as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth\n attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at\n the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge\n for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland)\n Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous\n marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and\n John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph\n Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker\n (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker\n (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel\n Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph\n plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until\n the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St.\n George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795).\n None of their three children lived to adulthood.","Henry St. George Tucker \n 2 (1780-1848), served as a\n professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the\n Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress,\n 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married\n Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children,\n including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances\n Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John\n Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).","Randolph Tucker \n 3 married Lucy (?). The couple had\n children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.","Dr. David Hunter Tucker \n 3 married Eliz Dallas and had Rev.\n Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.","John Randolph Tucker \n 3 (1823-1897), married Laura Holmes\n Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as\n attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at\n Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University);\n and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.","Ann Frances Bland Tucker \n 2 (1785-1813), married John Coalter\n (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.","Nathaniel Beverley Tucker \n 2 (1784-1851), graduated from the\n College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he\n married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter\n (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court\n Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried\n twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He\n returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in\n 1834.","Other People William Munford (1775- 1825) \n A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his\n Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some\n note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting\n reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard\n University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants\n in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the\n British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He\n lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later\n moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks\n on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on\n that important member of the legal profession in the new\n nation.","Gary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is\n unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods\n stores and the household supply stores are included in the\n collection.","Cynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of\n Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.","Judge John Randolph Tucker (ca. 1915) \n Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska\n concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (ca.\n 1915).","Capt. David Tucker Brown (ca. 1918), was a member of the\n 1918 Peace Commission, Paris France."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThis finding aid is also available in the microfilm\n format at the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem\n Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/bibref\u003e\n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAn additional index can be found at: National\n Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States\n available from Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., 1021 Prince Street,\n Alexandria, Va. 22314.\u003c/bibref\u003e\n \u003c/p\u003e"],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Additional Finding Aid Information"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["This finding aid is also available in the microfilm\n format at the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem\n Library, College of William and Mary. An additional index can be found at: National\n Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States\n available from Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., 1021 Prince Street,\n Alexandria, Va. 22314."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBrown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Manuscripts and Rare\n Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Manuscripts and Rare\n Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n Mary."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are two collections within the Manuscripts and\n Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n Mary that relate to this Collection. They include the\n Barnes Family Papers and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n \u003carchref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eBarnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. \n \u003cunittitle\u003eBarnes Family Papers, \n \u003cunitdate type=\"inclusive\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1797-1926,\n 1818-1875.\u003c/unitdate\u003e\u003c/unittitle\u003e\u003cphysdesc\u003e247 items.\u003c/physdesc\u003e\u003cunitid\u003eCollection number: Mss. 39.1 B26\u003c/unitid\u003e\u003cabstract\u003eCorrespondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman\n Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes\n of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County,\n Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and\n also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are\n members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver\n families.\u003c/abstract\u003e\u003c/archref\u003e\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n \u003carchref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eTucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. \n \u003cunittitle\u003eTucker-Coleman Papers, \n \u003cunitdate type=\"inclusive\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1664-1945,\n 1770-1907.\u003c/unitdate\u003e\u003c/unittitle\u003e\u003cphysdesc\u003e30,000 items.\u003c/physdesc\u003e\u003cunitid\u003eCollection number: Mss. 40 T79\u003c/unitid\u003e\u003cabstract\u003ePapers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and\n Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington,\n Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George\n Tucker(1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851),\n Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland\n (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838),\n John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker\n Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family\n members.\u003c/abstract\u003e\u003c/archref\u003e\n \u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["There are two collections within the Manuscripts and\n Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n Mary that relate to this Collection. They include the\n Barnes Family Papers and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.","Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. \n Barnes Family Papers, \n 1797-1926,\n 1818-1875. 247 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26 Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman\n Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes\n of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County,\n Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and\n also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are\n members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver\n families.","Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. \n Tucker-Coleman Papers, \n 1664-1945,\n 1770-1907. 30,000 items. Collection number: Mss. 40 T79 Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and\n Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington,\n Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George\n Tucker(1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851),\n Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland\n (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838),\n John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker\n Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family\n members."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter, Tucker families\n including the papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the\n Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and John Thompson Brown\n (1802-1836), member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Among\n the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George\n Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St.\n George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev.\n Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers include John Coalter's autobiographical sketch\n (to age 18), 54 poems written by Coalter, St. George\n Tucker, and others including several by female writers.\n Correspondents of the Coalter family include St. George\n Tucker, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, William Munford,\n Judith Randolph, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter and Maria\n Rind Coalter. Subjects include John Randolph of Roanoke\n (and his will), George Wythe, the Embargo of 1807-1809,\n College of William and Mary, War of 1812; and the\n springs of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGroup A also includes papers of Coalter's children:\n Elizabeth Tucker Coalter; and St. George Tucker Coalter\n and his wife Judith H. Tomlin and the correspondence of\n Coalter's granddaughter Frances Lelia Bland Coalter\n Brown. Her letters concern her education and friendship\n with Moses Drury Hoge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe record of the gift of the collection,\n genealogical charts of the Tucker, Coalter, Tomlin\n and Brown families, and sundry genealogical notes\n which form a preface to the collection, are placed\n at the beginning of this box. The collection\n begins with 54 poems, the first of which is signed\n by St. George Tucker. Two signed poems by William\n Munford are included. The largest group of poems\n are those exchanged by John Coalter and Maria\n Rind, his first wife. Others were collected in the\n family papers until the middle or the latter part\n of the nineteenth century.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe bulk of the material in Box 1 concerns John\n Coalter: an autobiographical sketch written by him\n on his 18th birthday, and letters covering the\n period of his early life from 1787, when he went\n to live with the St. George Tucker family, until\n the death of his first wife in 1793. Interesting\n letters from John Munford, a classmate of Coalter,\n are included, several of which concern the College\n of William and Mary and Harvard College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical charts: 1. Coalter, with\n Tucker and Randolph connections; 2. Tomlin,\n as connected with Coalter and Brown; 3.\n Brown, as connected with Coalter and\n Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis father hopes that John Coalter will\n return home, to the higher country, for the\n \"sickly season.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel Brown gives details of his studies at\n Dickinson College, and congratulates John\n Coalter on his chance to study law with St.\n George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttending lectures of the Rev. James\n Madison, President of the College of William\n and Mary, on Natural Philosophy, and of Mr.\n Wythe on Law. When John Coalter loses his\n ribbon he must let his hair hang free for want\n of money to buy another.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo young cousins, in custody of Indians for\n 3 and 6 years respectively, were freed by the\n army in Detroit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning his wedding trip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Grierson Rind is a brother of Maria\n Rind. He mentions the need of John Coalter for\n a coat and a pair of spectacles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApproval of the Constitution by South\n Carolina is still in doubt; threat of an Indian\n War in Georgia. \" \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Brother David\"\u003eBrother\n Dav[i]d\u003c/abbr\u003eis over in Gloucester. If he has\n success in purchasing Negroes, I hope we will\n be ready to sett [sic] out on our \n \u003cabbr expan=\"route\"\u003erout[e]\u003c/abbr\u003eto the\n South.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst letter of young Micajah Coalter, who\n is learning to write.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Have you been exempted from paying the\n oppressive Duty which most of our Backwoods\n Gentlemen have paid for that Knowledge which\n they have gathered at Williamsburg in Autumn--I\n mean the loss of Health and a good\n complexion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions John Coalter's desire to return\n home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses desire to marry and to live on the\n farm while he is getting started in his law\n practice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...nothing can be expected without\n riches...however deserving of a better fate the\n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003epoor\u003c/emph\u003ealways meet\n with rudeness and contempt.\" (Children of a\n Williamsburg printer, the Rinds were orphaned\n at an early age and were helped by the\n Tuckers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis father does not have land to give him at\n that time, so he cannot marry at once. He has\n decided to move to Staunton, and continue his\n studies. In September he writes that he hopes\n to visit Williamsburg around Christmas, and\n apply for admission to the bar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are written with great\n difficulty, and show a lack of schooling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions \"your quondam charges, Henry,\n Tudor, Beverley, and Fanny (Tucker) and John\n and Theodorick Randolph.\" Hopes he may live and\n study with Mr. Wythe. \"Nothing would advance me\n faster in the world than the reputation of\n having been educated by Mr. Wythe, for such a\n man as he, casts a light upon all around\n him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter has borrowed a horse from him\n for the trip to Staunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I...was much pleased to hear of your\n gallantry but am affeared it has been attended\n with some accident which occasioned your move\n to the mountains again...\" (Evidently John\n Coalter did something to protect Maria Rind. He\n then decided to leave Williamsburg in order to\n establish himself and be in a position to\n support her as his wife.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter obtaining his license in Williamsburg,\n John Coalter has his first case in Amherst. Of\n St. George Tucker, he writes: \"I would rather\n have the approbation of that man than worlds\n for my admirers.\" Advice is given in regard to\n the torment by John Randolph; plans are made\n for their marriage in autumn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn April she writes that Mr. Tucker plans to\n remarry; she wishes to move up the date of\n their marriage. She dreads \"the prospect of\n Johnny Randolph returning and you well know, my\n love, how liable your dear is to be insulted by\n him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...thru the surprising friendship of Mr.\n Wythe, I live in his house and board at his\n table...In this happy situation tomorrow I\n begin the Study of Law.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates James Rind on receiving his\n license to practice law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We visit very often at the different houses\n in the neighborhood, at Westover, Nesting, and\n Shirley, where I saw Robin Carter...we may\n expect to see you after Mrs. Carter has become\n Mrs. Tucker.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the return of a wagon and horses;\n purchases of additional farm animals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLiving and studying with Mr. Wythe. John\n Thompson (grandfather of John Thompson Brown)\n was among the 4th of July orators. Verse and\n poetic criticism of St. George Tucker. George\n Wythe is teaching his servant to write.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis law practice is discouraging; entrusts\n Maria Rind to his care, and sends greetings on\n St. George Tucker's 39th birthday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscourages John Coalter from coming \"across\n the Alps\" -- there are too many lawyers\n already.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas moved to Richmond with Mr. Wythe.\n Mentions building of the canal. Samuel Brown to\n study in Scotland; congratulates John Coalter\n on his marriage to Maria Rind.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Tucker is sister of St. George\n Tucker, and an aunt of Fanny Tucker. Mentions\n other Tucker children, Henry, Tudor, Beverly,\n and Elizabeth, as well as Theodorick and\n Richard Randolph and the latter's wife, Judith.\n Comments on the proposed marriage of St. George\n Tucker to Mrs. Carter, and the small children\n she will be bringing to the marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of George Washington delivering\n an address in Philadelphia. Congratulates John\n Coalter on his marriage and sends compliments\n to his brothers. (This Samuel Brown may be the\n uncle of John Thompson Brown.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter was written soon after Mrs.\n Coalter had gone to Staunton with her\n husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs.\n Lelia (Skipwith) Carter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Maria Skipwith; the great distress\n of Mrs. (Lelia Skipwith) Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis wages are to be 15£ or\n 20£ per year as a clerk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Edinburgh contains an\n interesting description of life in the Scottish\n capital, the coldness of his fellow students\n until they are introduced, and his warm\n reception by a family to which he had a letter\n of introduction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that there are about forty students\n at the College of William and Mary; Theodorick\n Randolph has died; \"Thompson has left W. \u0026amp;\n M.,\" and his mother proposes to send him to\n Harvard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnquires about Maria, and their expected\n first child. (Both mother and child died.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"distressing news\" that his wife has\n died in childbirth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar reports; the parade of the Richmond\n Grenadiers, Light Horse and Light Infantry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsoles John Coalter on the loss of his\n wife; reports the Independence Day orations at\n the College of William and Mary, and mentions\n the raising of subscriptions to aid distressed\n French immigrants at Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe contents of Box 2 trace the legal career of\n John Coalter from 10 April 1795, when St. George\n Tucker recommended him for the position of Clerk\n of the Court in Staunton, through the period of\n his second and third marriages to Margaret\n Davenport, 1795 (she died in 1797), and to Frances\n Bland Tucker, 1802.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded also are letters to Mrs. Frances Bland\n Tucker Coalter from her father St. George Tucker,\n her stepmother Mrs. Lelia Skipwith Tucker, her\n sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph of Bizarre, and\n others. Correspondence with William Munford, in\n Williamsburg, is also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends John Coalter as Clerk of the\n Staunton Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Yes, Peggy, my Maria is gone! The worst of\n evils has befallen your friend.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests payment of a debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Munford has returned to the College\n of William and Mary, and is \"in constant\n attendance on Mr. (St. George) Tucker...Mrs.\n Tucker has lately been so unfortunate as to\n lose a newborn child.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccuses John Coalter of \"making a stroke at\n her character\"; makes insulting statements\n regarding John Coalter's late wife. John\n Coalter responds by threatening to take Jenny\n Stuart into court, after which she offers to\n return John Coalter's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Coalter is a merchant, dealing largely\n in indigo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecounts a voyage to Hampton Roads to view\n the French Fleet, consisting of 150 ships,\n including three men of war, five or six\n frigates, and armed merchantmen laden with\n flour. Party spirit in Norfolk; Aristocrats\n more prominent; acrimony inflamed by the\n presence of the French fleet and a British\n frigate. William Munford is ready to apply for\n his law license.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"There can be but one in the world\" for her,\n but he is \"out of her reach.\" At a recent\n dinner the first toast by Governor Lee was to\n her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulations on the occasion of her\n marriage to John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe difficulty of finding passage for Mrs.\n Coalter and her mother from Williamsburg to\n Staunton. John Coalter is finally able to\n borrow a phaeton which he has overhauled and\n supplied with an umbrella. Advice regarding\n divorce of F. C[?]y.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a mare to be serviced.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"war\" and Indian victory are mentioned\n and a bloody spring season is predicted.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDivorce proceedings for a Mrs. Matthews\n before the Georgia Legislature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMention is made of a child expected by Mrs.\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolences \"on this distressing occasion\"\n (the death of John Coalter's wife in\n childbirth; the child also died.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness letter concerning collections to be\n made in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe should \"by this time be fatigued with\n the name of Tucker\" and that she \"had better\n look about\" (for a husband).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is from the papers of John\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudith Randolph, wife of Richard Randolph,\n half brother of Frances Tucker, sends greetings\n to Polly and Charles (Carter), step-sister and\n brother of Frances Tucker. The \"Mama\" mentioned\n is Mrs. Lelia Carter Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains that she is \"surrounded by the\n real evils of life.\" (Her husband had been\n linked with her sister in the famous scandal\n proceedings.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a horse in which he is\n interested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHint of a June wedding for Frances\n Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny B. Tucker has just married John\n Coalter and returned with him to Staunton. Anne\n H. Nicholas writes that Lelia Byrd has died at\n the age of 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElm Grove was the new home of the Coalters.\n Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter was in the\n Warm Springs for her health in September.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrances Bland Tucker Coalter returns to\n Williamsburg for the birth of her first child,\n Francis Lelia; the burning of the buildings of\n Lexington Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter was on the court circuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are undated, but are replies to\n those from Frances Bland Tucker Coalter to John\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eF. Davenport was the mother of the second\n wife of John Coalter, who continued to live\n with the Coalters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning deed to property, probably Elm\n Grove, the home bought by John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaria Carter was a step-daughter of St.\n George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of obtaining a clerk's position with\n the Ohio Assembly at $4.00 per day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of her husband and her straitened\n circumstances; Bizarre in bad condition; hopes\n to send her son, St. George, to Europe to cure\n his deafness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn June, St. George Tucker and Mrs. Tucker\n set out for Staunton in order to be there for\n the lying-in of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst mention of the second Coalter child,\n Elizabeth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe illness of Tudor Randolph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates John Coalter on the birth of\n his second daughter and the purchase of Elm\n Grove. He writes at length about the difficulty\n in buying good house servants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial matters, mainly about bank shares\n and dividends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Randolph's visit to England; her\n disappointment over continued his deafness Dr.\n Cooper says \"occasioned by the irruption of his\n ears at nine months old.\" Has no authority over\n the servants. Illness of Polly the\n seamstress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThirty sick Negroes. Poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Naylor married to Jane, sister of John\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of $1,230 on bank shares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe marriage of Beverley Tucker to Mary\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmall pox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDifficulties in South Carolina caused by the\n embargo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis wife Evelina has given birth to a\n son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnne Catherine Coalter was visiting the\n Coalters at Elm Grove.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMention of her young daughters, Fancilea\n (Francis Lelia) and Lizba (Elizabeth Tucker\n Coalter).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrances Bland Tucker Coalter spent every\n summer at the medicinal springs for her\n health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInteresting comments on the effect of the\n embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the\n War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found\n in these letters. There is also a report of the\n destruction wrought in Bruton Parish Church by the\n \"youth of Williamsburg,\" and remarks of Saint\n George Tucker (14 June 1809) upon the occasion of\n the birth of his first grandson, St. George\n Coalter, in which he strongly condemns the\n academies and colleges of that day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters include those exchanged by John Coalter\n with his third wife Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter\n from 1809-1811, when John Coalter was serving as\n Circuit Judge. In 1811 he accepted an appointment\n as judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals;\n the family then moved to Richmond. There are many\n letters received by Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter between 1809 and her death in 1813, from\n her father St. George Tucker, and stepmother Mrs.\n Lelia Tucker, in Williamsburg, from her\n sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph at Bizarre, and\n from other members of the family. There also are\n many letters to the daughters of John Coalter,\n Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker, from their\n grandparents, from 1813 to the death of Frances\n Lelia Coalter in 1821.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the appointment of John Coalter to his\n position as \"a judge under the new Judiciary\n System.\" (John Coalter was appointed February\n 7, 1807).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions a visit from the newly married \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Beverley Tucker\"\u003eBeverley\n [Tucker]\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Polly Coalter\"\u003ePolly\n [Coalter]\u003c/abbr\u003eand writes concerning her sons\n Saint (George) and Tudor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten by John Coalter during spring and\n autumn sessions of the Circuit Court. Contain\n instructions for planting, the upkeep of Elm\n Grove, and other matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of the letters concerns the troubles\n with the English and the hope for a peaceful\n settlement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the letter of June 14, St. George Tucker\n mentions the birth of John Coalter's first son\n his first grandson (St. George Tucker Coalter)\n \"who, if my prayers for him may be heard, will\n never descend from the dignity of a private\n station.\" Concerning the education of his\n grandson, he writes, \"unless the manners of our\n youth, or the management of their tutor, shall\n undergo a most surprising and happy change in\n this Country, I had rather he should never hear\n of an Academy or a College, than enter the\n walls of one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulations on the birth of a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series of letters is concerned, among\n other problems, with the difficulty of meeting\n payments on Elm Grove, of a fight between two\n of their slaves, the treatment of one of the\n wives by slave husband and the imprisonment on\n the plantation of the two slaves. Effort to get\n a tooth pulled. Two doctors and, finally, \"a\n shoemaker named Cease\" were able to extract the\n tooth about a week after the first attempt was\n made. Alcoholism of a friend. Afflicting\n account of sister's situation at Bizarre. \"she\n must come to us, as soon as she can leave\n Bizarre; which she says cannot be before Xmas,\n that she may complete the clothing of the\n Negroes.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppeals to James All to represent the\n district. About the war situation: \"We are more\n Colonies than ever--i.e. we give our \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ewhole\u003c/emph\u003etrade to\n aid Britain in her wars--were we Colonies we\n would only give the revenue arising from\n trade.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer parents were trying to buy a cook for\n Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter without great\n success.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters although undated, are believed\n to have been written in 1810.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Bruton Parish Church has been\n \"totally and wantonly destroyed...the Bellows\n and many of the pipes cut to pieces,\" evidently\n by the youth of the town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter attending the spring and autumn\n sittings of the Circuit Court, sends\n instructions for the management of the\n farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of the farm, the slaves, and family.\n Relays questions from slave Ned about the farm\n and permission for him to visit his daughter in\n Rockingham and his wife's petition to accompany\n him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a cook for sale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cabbr expan=\"David Coalter\"\u003eD[avid]\n C[oalter]\u003c/abbr\u003e, Mary's father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters from relatives of Mrs. Frances\n Bland Tucker Coalter are placed in one\n folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters are undated but are presumed\n to date from 1811, and placed in one\n folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn May, John Coalter writes of his\n appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of\n Appeals of Virginia (May 11, 1811). \"God help\n me, I know not what to do. All have advised my\n acceptance.\" In October he writes of\n arrangements made for the move to Richmond, and\n of plans to sell the cattle at Elm Grove.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn April Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter\n writes, \"I very much fear I shall never be\n reconciled to our fate\"--of separation for such\n long periods when John Coalter is absent on the\n court circuit. (A month later John Coalter was\n appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of\n Appeals.) Also mentions a \"terrible whipping\"\n their two year old son St. George Tucker\n Coalter had \"for obstinacy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTucker strongly advises his brother-in-law\n against accepting his new appointment: \"Rest\n assured that no other Judge of the General\n Court will accept the office which is tendered\n you.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn St. George Randolph is a son of Mrs.\n Judith Randolph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaking of himself as an \"ex-judge,\" Tucker\n advises John Coalter regarding his new\n appointment; concern for the health of Mrs.\n Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrances Lelia Coalter writes with concern\n about her mother's health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of the children sent to Mrs. Frances\n Bland Tucker Coalter who is quite ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcern for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter's poor health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe troubled times are reflected in this\n series of letters. In July, Tucker comments on\n the American privateer with one nine-pounder\n which took a British schooner armed with four\n twelve pounders. In August he gives an account\n of the Baltimore riot in which a jail was\n broken into and prisoners assassinated. He\n writes that such action \"is beyond measure\n horrible and obnoxious; and every good Citizen\n ought to set his face against such damnable\n proceedings,\" but concludes, \"The Yankees, no\n doubt, will be glad of the precedent...I look\n forward to a dissolution of the Union, as an\n Event not far off.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the sale of Elm Grove.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReflects the uncertainty of the war\n situation in his letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrances L. Coalter writes to her father who\n is with her mother, Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter, in her last illness at the medicinal\n springs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWriting to his daughter before she goes to\n the Springs for her final siege of illness, St.\n George Tucker sends the news that the enemy had\n left the waters about Williamsburg after much\n destruction and property along the river.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn these letters it is apparent that Mrs.\n Frances Bland Tucker Coalter is near death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters of hope and prayer for the recovery\n of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports of the war: \"the conduct of the\n British at Craney Island was the most cowardly\n imaginable,\" and \"We have just been informed by\n rumor that the British Squadron in the\n Chesapeake has been reinforced...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of his \"great and irretrievable loss\"\n his wife died \"on Sunday evening, the 12th\n instant.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first letters written after the death of\n St. George Tucker's daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo her granddaughter, the second child of\n John Coalter and his late wife. (A biographical\n note of John Coalter's family is enclosed in\n the folder with this letter.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe writes that \"the events of the present\n week will supply to you the want of a Mother\n and Sister, which you have so severly felt,\n particularly in the last six or eight months.\"\n Frances L. Coalter, the sister of Elizabeth T.\n Coalter, died in 1821 at the age of 18. John\n Coalter was soon to marry his fourth wife, a\n widow Williamson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSecond is titled \"Tucker-Green Annals.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Tuckers are in their summer home at\n Warminster, with Maria Carter Cabell, daughter\n of Mrs. L. Tucker, and her husband Joseph\n Cabell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA New Year's greeting to his\n granddaughters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters in this box are primarily those of\n the two surviving children of John and Francis\n Bland Tucker Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter\n Bryan and St. George Tucker Coalter, and their\n respective spouses, John Randolph Bryan and Judith\n H. Tomlin Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis group includes genealogical material on\n the Tomlin family, and correspondence of Judith H.\n Tomlin before her marriage to St. George Tucker\n Coalter. Her letters form an important part of the\n collection from this time until her death in\n 1859.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe last letters from their grandparents, Mr.\n and Mrs. St. George Tucker, are preserved, as well\n as letters to their uncles Henry and Beverley\n Tucker and John Randolph of Roanoke. Of special\n note is a letter of October, 1831 in which St.\n George Tucker Coalter writes fully of Randolph\n during a visit to Roanoke. After his death in\n 1833, Randolph's will caused great difficulty and\n misunderstanding in the family, and appears to\n cast a slur on his step-father St. George\n Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters of St. George Tucker Coalter to his\n wife and sister, especially those written from the\n springs which he visits each year, form the\n largest single group. In these letters an\n interesting picture of nineteenth century social\n life is to be found.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchoolgirl letters written by J. H. T.\n before her marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudith H. Tomlin writes of her visit to\n Yorktown to see Lafayette on his return visit\n to America.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudith H. Tucker writes to congratulate\n Virgilia Savage in December on her\n marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Letters of my dear and venerated\n Grandfather, S. G. Tucker, High Souled,\n Generous Gentleman.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas T. Tucker, a brother of St. George\n Tucker, enclosed these two letters in a packet\n which he forwarded from Beverley Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker complains about his sight\n and signs himself \"Your old blind Grandpa\" in\n the first of these letters. The last is\n endorsed: \"All the letters concerning my most\n dear Grandfather's illness and death are\n omitted and put to themselves.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese were written after the death of St.\n George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites in regard to his instruction in law,\n as suggested by Elizabeth T. Coalter. He\n mentions the poor health of his step-brother,\n John Randolph, of Roanoke; and suspects that\n his brother, Beverley, \"will not return to\n Virginia as a resident.\" Beverley Tucker, then\n in Missouri, did return to Williamsburg, and\n later became Professor of Law at the College of\n William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTucker enclosed his \"Introductory Lecture,\"\n reprinted from his \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eCommentory on the Laws\n of Virginia . . . Lectures delivered at the\n Winchester Law School\u003c/title\u003e, pp. 7-14.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first is a printed invitation to a ball\n at the Jefferson Hotel with a message added;\n the second is a Temperance pledge signed by St.\n George Tucker Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin and\n three others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEvidently left in charge of his father's\n estate, Chatham, he writes concerning\n examinations at the College of William and Mary\n and of his experiences in vaccinating and\n performing minor operations on the slaves. (He\n was a 20 year old farmer with no medical\n training!)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker Coalter prepares to leave\n school to marry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first letter to Judith Tomlin Coalter\n after her marriage to St. George Tucker\n Coalter, December 16, 1829. \"Tell St. George\n that yesterday Uncle R. (John Randolph of\n Roanoke) made an attack \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eon the\n Judiciary\u003c/emph\u003eand Papa (John Coalter),\n finding no one else would rise to their\n defense, answered him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis \"chill and fever,\" the recurring\n sickness which was to bring on his early death\n in 1839. His wife goes to Chatham, the Coalter\n family home, for the birth of her first child,\n Walker Tomlin Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn October he writes: \"Uncle R. (John\n Randolph of Roanoke) looks dreadfully, is much\n worn away by disease...\" Two weeks later he\n writes describing Randolph's estate and\n personality: \"He is very agreeable indeed and\n entertains me highly with his conversation on\n all subjects...He is a man of the finest and\n nicest feelings I have ever met with...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn her husband's financial difficulties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to his sister about crops, planting,\n and the like.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe two cousins, grandsons of John Coalter,\n are infants; this letter is written by St.\n George Tucker Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the January letter, he announces the\n birth of a son, Henry St. George Tucker\n Coalter. From White Sulphur Springs, he writes\n (July 27) that \"the shortness of breath and the\n hacking cough have left me entirely.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer husband is at the Springs; she would\n like to join him but cannot afford it. \"He says\n he never wished for money before, as the want\n of it keeps him from having company...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn interesting group of letters describing\n life at several of the medicinal springs which\n were so popular in the 19th century. He\n describes his daily regimen, the meals, the\n baths, other tourists, the costs, and the\n physical characteristics of the resorts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her husband\n about family matters while he is at the springs\n for his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA continuation of his previous letters,\n including a crude drawing of the buildings and\n grounds of Salt Sulphur Springs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn November she mentions that Beverley\n Tucker called on way to Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe boys, who are just learning to write,\n add their notes to the letter to their\n grandfather.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer husband is overworking, and she fears\n for his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe brother of Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes\n to her father-in-law asking help in gaining a\n position with a Richmond company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe writes about his poor health; mentions\n his uncle, Beverley Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter is very much concerned with\n gold mine projects; he now orders St. George\n Tucker Coalter about at his will, and has\n decided that the family shall move closer to\n him. They are dependent on John Coalter\n financially.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLife at the springs, his continuing illness\n and his poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis discouragement as he contemplates the\n move insisted upon by his father: \"after seven\n years we have to begin the world afresh and fix\n and build and lay out and all that -- oh\n thunder - -how I dread and hate it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the move from Cumberland, New Kent\n County, to St. George's Park, King William\n County, and the difficulty of the move.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter is very ill, and the new place\n is slow in getting established. Mention of the\n will of John Randolph of Roanoke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe will of John Randolph of Roanoke, in\n which the good name of St. George Tucker is\n slighted. Henry and Beverley Tucker, sons of\n St. George Tucker are also involved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHome has not been settled since leaving\n Cumberland. Her husband has finally bought a\n place \"about 2 hundred and 50 acres, very poor,\n with a new house but a very indifferent\n one.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the \"continued illness\" of Judge\n (John) Coalter; offers to be of any help that\n he can. (John Coalter died the day this letter\n was written.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence between St. George T.\n Coalter, his wife, his sister Mrs. Elizabeth T.\n Bryan, and her husband John Randolph Bryan, form\n the core of the material in this box. St. George\n Tucker Coalter attempts to establish a new home\n where his late father John Coalter forced him to\n move (St. George Tucker Coalter was never\n financially independent of his father). A doctor's\n prescription, 28 April 1839, for the man who has\n been slowly dying of lung trouble and constant\n fever is: salts to be taken internally, salve\n rubbed on externally, baths at the medicinal\n springs and regular exercise. Four months later\n St. George Tucker Coalter died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe five surviving children of Mrs. Coalter and\n the nine children of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan add\n to the correspondence as the years go on, for the\n families are very attached to one another and\n there is much visiting back and forth as well as\n letter writing. The letters of the cousins have\n been combined in this collection, so that an\n interesting picture is given of the life of this\n period; see a report of a traveling entertainer\n who visits the great houses (23 February 1847), a\n description of a costume ball at Warner Hall (8\n February 1851) and a list of courses studied at a\n Girl's school (2 February 1852).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is much discussion of diseases which were\n prevalent: consumption, scarlet fever, typhoid\n fever, cholera, and influenza. 16-year-old John\n Coalter copied out a cholera cure sent by his aunt\n for use by two local doctors (13 July 1849).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first letter is endorsed by John\n Randolph Bryan. The second was started by St.\n George Tucker Coalter but was completed and\n signed by his wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerned principally with the rapidly\n deteriorating health of St. George T. Coalter.\n In June he begins a letter that he is unable to\n finish but by November he is again supervising\n the farm activity. The establishment of the new\n farm and the erection of additional buildings\n is a great strain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Coalter wrote the first two letters for\n her husband who was too weak to write, but by\n December he was again active in supervising St.\n George's Park, their new home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCoalter visits his uncle, Beverley Tucker,\n who has moved back to Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisiting the family home of Mrs. Coalter\n their son, John, falls down the basement stairs\n and is unconscious for a time. His father\n writes, \"the Doctor bled him and yesterday\n morning we gave him a dose of salts...he is now\n to all appearances as well as ever tho' from\n loss of blood, the shock, the Salts and low\n diet he is a little fainty when he first begins\n to move about in the morning.\" (The child\n survived the ministrations of the doctor!)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA receipt for $100.00 and a demand for\n another $100.00 on shares of stock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerned with the business of a ferry, gold\n mines, and a mill, evidently part of the estate\n left by John Coalter to his two children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Coalter has had a relapse, and \"has lost\n all the flesh and muscle he had gained. Yet he\n makes a trip down country in April, only to\n return much worse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe marks his 30th birthday: \"I can neither\n eat nor sleep nor move about with comfort and\n am so weak from fever...that I can hardly stand\n up or sit down.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written to her husband when he is on\n his last trip from home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA doctor's prescription: salts, used\n internally, salves externally, baths at the Hot\n Springs, and continued exercise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces the birth of a child to Mrs.\n Coalter. St. George Tucker Coalter writes of\n the \"fire in my breast that must soon burn me\n out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of a young son; congratulates Mrs.\n Bryan on the birth of a daughter. St. George\n Tucker Coalter adds a note in July 4th letter:\n \"I can't make much hand at writing this evening\n but I send you these few words to comfort\n you...my thoughts and prayers are with you may\n the Lord work all things together for our\n good.\" To this Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan has\n added the endorsement, \"The last line I ever\n got from him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter the death of her husband, Mrs. Coalter\n has gone to live with her sister-in-law at\n Eagle Point.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Coalter moved from St. George's Park to\n Presley. Her brother, Harrison Tomlin, was\n living with the family and takes the place of a\n father to the children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOf her poverty and of the need for means to\n educate her children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe son of Mrs. Coalter writes to his young\n cousin, the son of John Randolph Bryan, at\n Roanoke, a plantation that had been in\n litigation since the death of John Randolph.\n The property was being administered by J. R.\n Bryan, one of the heirs. Young John C. Bryan,\n was one of the chief beneficiaries of the will,\n then being contested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnouncing the birth of a child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreparations are made to send Fanny (Frances\n Bland Coalter) to live with her grandmother and\n to attend school in Fredericksburg. The sale of\n the estate of her late husband took place in\n October.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnquires about money from the estate of John\n Randolph of Roanoke; her plans to send John and\n Henry Coalter away to school. (St. George\n Tucker Coalter, father of John and Henry, was a\n nephew of John Randolph, and it was expected\n that the Coalter children would inherit\n something from his estate.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from school to his aunt; \"all of the\n boys have to get in school by sunrise and stay\n there until five in the evening.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Bryan place, Eagle Point in Gloucester\n County, is so isolated and the family growing\n so large that a school teacher was kept there\n for the other children. She mentions her\n brothers and sisters, and tells of a traveling\n entertainer: \"De [Delia] and myself went to\n Warner Hall...and there found an Italian\n ventriloquist with a hat on that had little\n bells all around the brim...if he comes to\n Chatham you will probably be deceived by\n him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe tells his sister: \"I reckon this is the\n coldest and most melancholy place in the\n world.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes to get a place from the sale of the\n estate. \"Seven years this last Christmas is a\n long time not to have a house to call your\n own.\" Her hopes for the settlement of the\n Randolph estate are not fulfilled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a\n son, her 8th child. Mentions shopping trips to\n Richmond and the remodeling of the house, so,\n perhaps, some money may have been received from\n the Randolph estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA 9-year old writes of attending a dance at\n Warner Hall and staying until 11 p.m. \"We take\n dancing lesson of 2 hours length every\n Saturday.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsumption and Cholera are discussed as\n well as the final division of the estate. Mrs.\n Coalter still hopes to be able to buy a home of\n her own. Sons John and Henry left in September\n for the University of Virginia where they room\n with their cousins, Jack Coalter and J.\n Braxton. On Christmas Day she mentions \"A\n dreadful affair has lately occurred at the\n University, one young man killed another, both\n intoxicated and from the south; as wicked as\n that is, it takes the \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ecold\n blooded\u003c/emph\u003eyankees to perpetrate the\n refinement of barbarism in \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003estewing\u003c/emph\u003e, and\n boiling...living people...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry T. Coalter, 16 years old, writes that\n he has had charge of the harvest at the farm\n because the overseer was sick. He has also\n advised the local doctors on Cholera cures:\n \"Mama received your letter by the last post and\n was much obliged to you for the copy you sent\n her of the cure for the Cholera. Since it\n reached here I have copied it twice for\n different doctors who seemed much pleased with\n the proscription (sic).\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA beautiful description of the Cove and the\n island as seen from the Eagle Point house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Lacy, related through the fourth wife\n of her grandfather, John Coalter, was like an\n older sister to Frances Bland Coalter, and the\n affectionate relationship between the two\n continued for many years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Lacy's are preparing to move into\n Ellwood, the former summer home of John\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written before and after a long\n visit. There were ties between the families\n despite the distance between them. Mrs. Coalter\n fears her youngest son, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Saint George\"\u003eSaint\n [George]\u003c/abbr\u003e, has Typhoid fever.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA school friend tells of a visit to Richmond\n to see the relics of Gen. and Mrs.\n Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbout life in the great houses of Virginia,\n excursions on river boats, dances, and the\n like. Mentions a fancy ball where everyone\n appeared in a mask and gown, \"You cannot tell a\n man from a woman. They go about in this costume\n for some time and have a dance...one gentleman\n went draped as a lady and no one found him\n out,...one went as a monk in robes and with his\n beads...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"When will your new house, or rather, new\n home be ready for you? (Frances Bland Coalter's\n mother has finally been able to buy a house,\n Stanley.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions the war threat: \"my anxiety about a\n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003elasting\u003c/emph\u003epeace\n and the welfare of my children preys very much\n on my spirits.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces the birth of a daughter to Mrs.\n Lacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Coalter is attending a school\n conducted by Rev. Moses D. Hoge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorses note from Mrs. Judith H.\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbout her daughter, Agnes, and the progress\n on the improvements at Ellwood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Rumors of a great revival at Mr. H.'s\n school have reached us from different quarters\n and report says Jinney and yourself acted a\n conspicuous part.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA school friend writes of her textbooks:\n \"Paley's Moral Philosophy, Olinstead's Natural\n Philosophy, Hume's History of England, Conic\n Sections, Thompson's Arithmetic and French\n Studies.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a most interesting account of trip\n by boat from Gloucester County, \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003evia\u003c/emph\u003eJamestown,\n to Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first letters written by Mrs. Coalter's\n youngest child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA schoolmate who has left Rev. Mr. Hoge's\n school writes back.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn offer to abate charges so that Fanny B.\n Coalter could remain in school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites that he has stood his examination for\n license to practice law; reports on his\n brothers and sisters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny has returned to Rev. Hoge's school;\n her friend writes regarding scarlet fever.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box consists largely of papers collected by\n Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she\n is preparing to leave school, and December 1858, when\n she married Henry Peronneau Brown. Through this\n marriage the Tucker-Coalter line was connected with\n the Brown line; thus, the papers of the two families\n were brought together into one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection gives an interesting picture of the\n life and interests of a young lady of moderate\n circumstances in the mid-l9th century. Of special\n interest are the letters concerning the Rev. Moses D.\n Hoge, whose school in Richmond Fanny Coalter had\n attended. Shortly after she left school, the Rev. Mr.\n Hoge carried on a very romantic correspondence with\n Fanny, although he was a married man with several\n children. The correspondence became more ardent in\n the early months of 1854 and, when Mrs. Hoge wrote\n that her husband had gone to Baltimore to stay with\n his brother who was ill, Fanny followed him there.\n According to the gossip of Mattie and Lizzie Morton,\n she went there to \"entrap him.\" In October it was\n suggested that the brother, William Hoge, was the one\n in whom she was interested. The Rev. Mr. Hoge later\n sought to calm the fervours of his correspondent, as\n shown by his letters of 28 January 1855, 19 June\n 1856, and 19 March 1857.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny B. Coalter did not lack for other suitors,\n however, for she preserved a letter of 17 July 1854,\n a proposal of marriage from Alfred B. Tucker. A year\n later there are reports of her interest in the Brown\n brothers, John Thompson and Peronneau, of Petersburg,\n both of whom were courting her. She finally settled\n on the latter; some acceptances to the marriage\n invitation are included in this box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters of Frances Bland Coalter and her husband\n Henry Peronneau Brown continue in Box 21. The\n intervening boxes contain manuscripts of the Brown\n family, especially Capt. Henry Brown, grandfather of\n Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 7-13); the Hon. John\n Thompson Brown, father of Henry Peronneau Brown\n (Boxes 14-19); and Col. John Thompson Brown II,\n brother of Henry Peronneau Brown (Box 20).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny is preparing to leave the school, having\n finished the course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA schoolmate and Fanny's sister write after she\n leaves school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Jack Bryan, oldest son of Mrs.\n Elizabeth T. Bryan is dying at the Coalter home,\n Presley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter many years of waiting (since the death of\n her husband in 1839) Mrs. Coalter is finally able\n to buy her own place, Stanley. She tells of her\n move and of the illness that put her in bed\n afterward.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe school is closed for the summer, his wife\n and children are away, so he enlivens his solitude\n \"by having a little chat with you...and where I\n always think of you and the delightful morning\n when we enjoyed the scene together...how I cherish\n every memorial of you. \"I greatly enjoyed your\n last brief visit to us and that evening (do you\n remember it?) when the music room being full of\n company we found quiet, and cool breezes in the\n back porch. I have been sitting there tonight.\" (A\n strange letter, indeed, and one which was to cause\n some upset in the heart of Frances Bland Coalter,\n as subsequent correspondence show.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to Mrs. Judith H. Coalter soon after\n she purchased her home, Stanley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"This letter cannot hold any news, so I will\n fill it with love...entertaining myself by wishing\n that you could walk into the room and occupy a\n vacant chair hard by .\"I hope to see you\n sometimes...nothing to what I would enjoy were I\n to keep house in a quiet way and have you for my\n guest a week at a time...\"I would like you to\n marry some fine fellow and live in Richmond, only\n I...like you best as you are, except that you are\n too far from me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"When I woke up yesterday morning and found it\n raining, my spirits fell as low as the mercury for\n I feared you would not come to Hampstead...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"You ask me why it is that I am so partial to\n you--well, the very first time we get a chance to\n have a talk by ourselves I will tell you...When\n shall the opportunity come? There is always so\n much company at your house...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe conducts a school: \"I succeeded in six days\n of raising 21 scholars.\" He writes that Henry has\n graduated in Law with distinction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I think from his letter, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Brother William Hoge\"\u003eBrother\n [William Hoge]\u003c/abbr\u003ehas been much sicker than we\n had any idea of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Moses D. Hoge\"\u003eMr. [Moses D.]\n Hoge\u003c/abbr\u003eis going on Thursday to see him and\n will probably remain in Baltimore until he is well\n enough to travel...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAddressed to Fanny at Baltimore. Her friend\n writes, \"Cousin Joe says you went to Baltimore\n purposely to see Mr. Hoge.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports gossip concerning Fanny's Baltimore\n trip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Often when (I am) abroad, you will be in my\n mind and heart. Neither do I want you to get\n married before I return. I am to perform that\n service, you know...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the gossip regarding Fanny and Rev.\n Hoge: \"Surely you could not think me so deceitful\n as to profess to love you and then say that you\n would \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003etry to entrap a\n gentleman\u003c/emph\u003e. \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eI did not say so\u003c/emph\u003e.\n I remember saying that if you went to Baltimore\n and were thrown with Mr. Hoge I believed he would\n address you, because I know he admired you very\n sincerely...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA proposal of marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA rumor that Frances Bland Coalter is to\n marry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Julia Green was here...when I told her that\n you had gotten a letter from Mr. Hoge she said she\n was so jealous of you that she was ready to\n fight...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I am going to Baltimore...and I shall see Mr.\n Wm. Hoge! Don't you wish you were going? What\n shall I tell him for you?\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George is now in school at Staunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConstruction work to be done at the University\n of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I hope that it will not be long before I have\n the pleasure of seeing you, my dear and constantly\n remembered friend.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I have heard several times of your engagement\n to Thomas--who has made himself very scarce.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts invitation to the marriage of Virginia,\n younger sister of Fanny Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNow a practicing lawyer, he writes to his aunt\n on business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo her cousin regarding \"Mr. President\" and\n \"The Vice.\" (This appears to refer to the Brown\n brothers, John Thompson and Henry Peronneau.\n Frances Bland Coalter was to marry the\n latter.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I wish you to be very particular in your\n conversations with \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Peronneau\"\u003eP[eronneau]\u003c/abbr\u003enot to\n let him have the least idea of the tenor of my\n remarks to you yesterday and at the same time\n manage to convince him that I am not in love with\n you, as I am afraid such is his present\n opinion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrouble in: finding a teacher for her children;\n \"the Roanoke business\"--(evidently a reference to\n the still unsettled will of John Randolph of\n Roanoke.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerned about the health of Fanny's mother,\n has a horror of those \"distracting springs\" for\n invalids.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe solution to a problem in surveying (this\n may be the \"Thomas\" to whom Frances Bland Coalter\n was rumored to be engaged).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Mrs. E. T. Bryan, aunt of Fanny\n Bland Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Fanny for her help at the time of the\n death of Mrs. Bryan, her mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs in charge of the plantation since her\n mother's death; busy making summer clothes for the\n slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuggests a visit together to \"cousin Horace\n Lacy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cabbr expan=\"Peronneau Brown\"\u003eP[eronneau]\n Brown\u003c/abbr\u003eand his brother, Thompson, are\n mentioned. (See letters of December 1855,\n Box-folder 6:44-45.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to ask Mrs. Coalter to stay with his\n daughters during his absence in the south.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas charge of the large plantation, keeping\n four seamstresses, three spinners and a weaver\n busy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"No, my dear Fanny, my affection for you has\n not changed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding Mr. Willcox Brown and his brother\n Peronneau, future husband of Frances Bland\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to the commencement party at Hampden\n Sidney College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccompanying his uncle on a business trip, he\n has visited the main cities of the south and\n attended the opera in New Orleans. \"I must confess\n that I have been rather disappointed in the people\n that live in these rich lands--they are as rough\n as possible...live in log houses and on the very\n poorest fare.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I suppose your wedding will be postponed\n unless Mr. Brown's recovery is unusually\n rapid.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The news of your engagement [to Henry P.\n Brown] did not surprise me...how heartily I\n approve of your choice...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"If my letter arrives too late for Miss Fanny\n Coalter, I hope Mrs. Brown will have enough\n affection for the old name to lay claim to\n it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets that he cannot attend the wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese covers are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers of Henry Brown, a merchant and county official\n include a manuscript map of Guilford C. H., business\n records and correspondence of Brown and Clayton, New\n London, Bedford (now Campbell County), Virginia and\n Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, Virginia. Collection also\n includes papers concerning a lawsuit against Pleasant\n Murphy and estate papers of Daniel Brown and Henry\n Brown's father-in-law John Thompson. There are papers of\n his immediate family including Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Brown family papers begin with the letters\n and papers of Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841),\n successful merchant of Bedford County and\n Lynchburg, who established the family fortune. He\n was the father of John Thompson Brown, Delegate to\n the Virginia Assembly, whose letters and papers\n are collected in the next section (Boxes\n 14-19).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA few letters and receipts pertaining to Henry\n Brown, 1712-1798, the father of Capt. Henry Brown,\n are included. The great bulk of the material,\n however, relates to Capt. Brown, beginning with a\n map of a Revolutionary War battle, 1777, in which\n he was wounded. With his brother, Daniel, he\n opened a general store in Bedford soon after the\n conclusion of the war. A partnership agreement of\n April 1797, which brought James Leftwich into the\n business, is preserved and the bulk of the\n material in this box pertains to the business of\n the store. A good picture of early merchandising\n is given by the accounts, letters relating to\n buying and selling trips, and the court actions\n taken to collect accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso, starting with folder 60, are 39 items\n relating to the duties of Henry Brown as tax\n collector in the Bedford area in the years 1800 to\n 1803.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Your friends here tremble for you and\n apprehend the worst from the dangers that\n encompass you...the deadly rifle, the scalping\n knife, tomahawk...return to us in all\n speed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Map of revolutionary battle,\n found 1926 by F. B. Saunders in old papers from\n Ivy Cliff. Capt. Henry Brown, born at Ivy Cliff\n about 1760, was wounded at Guildford C. H.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning goods for a retail store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Note Henry Brown, payable 1\n September, 1793.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding saddle goods in stock at the\n store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to his brother concerning tobacco\n prices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning business affairs a suit for debt,\n purchase of tobacco and a \"Negro wench\" for the\n store, etc. \"P.S. I heard at court they had\n made you a Captain.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a list of the new officers of the\n Farmer's Bank in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the division of Negroes, total\n value £815, between Leftwich and the\n Brown brothers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding loss of West India produce on\n which $5,000.00 was borrowed. Endorsed: \"I fear\n our loss will be considerable.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt is for $130.43 to be paid to John\n Roberts on land that Capt. Henry Brown sold to\n William Woodford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco sold by Leftwich to a man who was a\n bad risk: \"...we are thrown out of between 20\n and 30 thousand dollars...one fourth of what it\n has taken us 20 years to earn is lost for want\n of prudence.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDirections for sending tax collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness records and correspondence of Henry\n Brown and Samuel P. Clayton. After the death of\n his brother Daniel in 1818, Brown entered into a\n partnership with Clayton, his son-in-law. Brown\n survived Clayton, who died in 1832; this box also\n includes papers from 1833 to 1839 made out to\n Henry Brown, surviving partner of Brown and\n Clayton Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe accounts of Henry Brown with Hancock and\n Brown, Lynchburg, 1824-1833, are retained as one\n group.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso retained as a separate group are the\n papers relating to the court suits of Brown and\n Pleasant Murphy. All notes of the period carried a\n 100 percent penalty clause. This resulted in many\n law suits being brought to establish what would\n now be considered exorbitant claims. In one case\n (see entry for March 10, 1823) for a debt of\n $42.05, the debtor surrendered 1 sound filly, 2\n cows, a calf, 2 feather beds, all household and\n kitchen furniture, all plantation utensils, and 6\n hogs!\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Henry Brown had many interests in his\n long life apart from the purely commercial\n activities upon which his considerable fortune was\n built. Included in this box are the papers\n relating to his other interests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness papers of Henry Brown, not directly\n connected with any of his various business\n enterprises, but concerned principally with court\n suits involving debts to him. Included is an\n interesting case of Mark Anthony, who took the\n oath of an Insolvent Debtor, making out a deed of\n trust of all his property to his creditors (11\n April 1829 and 6 July 1833).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes papers concerned with the suit of\n Henry Brown vs. Nicodemus Leftwich, 1832-1840.\n Brown pays for the attendance of witnesses at the\n court and pays the county Jailor \"for imprisoning\n and releasing\" Leftwich.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHousehold, family and personal bills preserved\n by Henry Brown, an interesting collection of a\n family illustrating the activities of eight\n children in the second quarter of the nineteenth\n century, 1819-1841.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe personal correspondence of Henry Brown with\n his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children.\n The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son,\n John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso letters from the sons and daughters of\n Samuel, brother of Henry Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn a separate group are collected letters written\n by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from\n West Point Military Academy and from the Indian Wars\n in Florida, where he served after he was\n commissioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of a watch in Winchester; requests 30\n Dollars to repay a debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis wife's estate; purchase of a Negro\n girl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his return from the Spring; attack of\n \"bilious Cholic;\" his treatment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"the purchase of some land at $20.\n per acre...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeats female slave, using a walking stick, his\n wife using a cowhide whip. The slave's mate\n attempted to protect her with an axe but he was\n subdued, beaten and sent to jail the next day.\n Hopes for peace, unpopularity of the conscription\n law and the whiskey tax.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn her studies: Blair's lectures, piano\n playing, drawing, painting and embroidery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe husband of Nancy Brown writes:\n \"...Bounaparte is on his way to this country. If\n so I greatly fear we shall go backwards with\n accelerated velocity in all peaceful, literary and\n ornamental pursuits...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvice on a move to the State of Ohio.\n \"Although I like Slavery as little as you or\n anyone else, still...I think it probable that we\n should be as unhappy as we are with them\" (Daniel\n died in 1818. For the next 20 years Henry\n administered his estate for the benefit of his\n wife and children.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary Brown's illness at the Springs (she was to\n die within a year).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe building of his house and the health of his\n family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe daughter of Samuel Brown, writes to console\n her Uncle on the death of his brothers and his two\n daughters, Mrs. \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Anne Nancy B. Steptoe\"\u003eAnne [Nancy]\n B. Steptoe\u003c/abbr\u003eand Mrs. \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mary Polly B. Clayton\"\u003eMary [Polly]\n B. Clayton\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn uncle of Henry Brown writes, \"My grandson\n wishes to get in to Business in a store...\" (Henry\n Brown, Jr. now has a store in Lynchburg.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis continued bad health. The death of James\n Leftwich, Capt. Brown's business partner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests assistance in obtaining appointment as\n Clerk of Court at Bedford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe value of the Deerwood tract.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegs her father to let her have money to go to\n the inauguration of President Jackson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn her visit to Washington: \"this is the\n thickest settled neighborhood that I ever was\n in--the neighbors are situated all around, some in\n view and others not more than a quarter of a mile\n from the house...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his visit with his brothers, John Thompson\n Brown, in \"Washington City.\" Description of\n crowded Washington, full of pickpockets and of the\n confusion even in the President's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...the last day I rode more than thirty miles\n through a dreary wilderness without seeing a\n single house...I am yet travelling alone and have\n come six hundred miles without a single man\n travelling my course...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis progress in college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis progress in repaying a debt to the estate\n of his uncle, Daniel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of workers on the Chesapeake and Ohio\n canal dying from Cholera.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of his maternal grandfather, John\n Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeaving for New York to lay in goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes for his store despite illness and some\n hostile feeling toward his former partner, Ammon\n Hancock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Henry Brown. (Henry Brown, Jr.\n died while he and his wife were on a shopping trip\n for the store.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the changing population: \"The people still\n retain the simple manners of the old Scotch-Irish\n and, I may add, much of the intelligence and\n piety. But the restless spirit of emigration is\n taking away our best people and in their place we\n generally get Germans, who commonly are deplorably\n ignorant and will do very little toward supporting\n the Gospel.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes\n to settle accounts and close the store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the\n disposal of her house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo Frances Brown's husband, on the loss of her\n two brothers, \"and such brothers too, in so short\n a time.\" (Henry Brown, Jr. died in June, 1836, and\n his brother, John Thompson Brown, in December of\n that same year.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the sale of merchandise and an expected\n loss.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgrees to furnish Gould B. Raymond, manager of\n the Menagerie Co., lodging for 30 men, 65 horses,\n 1 elephant, 1 camel and 2 ponies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe inscription on the tomb of her late\n husband, John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the\n death of her husband a year ago.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe widow of John Thompson Brown writes\n regarding her three sons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe executor of an estate demands payment of a\n note on which Henry Brown, Jr. was a cosigner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe youngest daughter of Henry Brown writes\n about her marriage and the first meeting with her\n new relatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his marriage to Alice Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer wedding trip to New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer sickness on the way down the river due to\n fresh paint in the boat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning eventual conversion of Baptists to\n the Presbyterian Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...I left New Orleans the 28th of March and\n reach \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Georgetown\"\u003eG[eorge].T[own]\u003c/abbr\u003e.\n The 15th of April...Sam (Brown) was in New Orleans\n the day before I left-he was not married but\n expected to be the 9th of April.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Last evening our darling Alice made me the\n happy father of a fine boy...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport to his father of his first grades at the\n Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo his grandfather regarding his first term\n marks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The first two years of our course are\n exclusively devoted to Mathematics and French...\"\n Encloses a work sheet and \"Synopsis of the Course\n of Studies at the Military Academy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Congress must get rid of its 'sickly\n sympathy' (with the Indians) or, rely upon it,\n this is a war of years to come.\" Gives a vivid\n description of St. Augustine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContrasts the Cherokees in Tennessee with the\n Seminoles of Florida. Describes Savannah in a\n letter enclosed, dated February 16, 1839.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters of Henry Brown, Jr., oldest son of Capt.\n Henry Brown; Samuel Thompson Brown, youngest son; and\n other members of the immediate family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown, Jr., who suffered a grave illness in\n 1822 as a result of which he almost lost his\n eyesight, went into the partnership of his father\n with Amman Hancock. In 1835-1836, he opened his own\n store in Lynchburg, but died in May 1836, while on a\n buying trip to New York. Interesting items in this\n part of the collection include a 44 page book of\n mineral and chemical notes (31 July 1826), a 56 page\n diary kept by Henry Brown, Jr. on his trip abroad (24\n July 1831), drafts of letters by Henry Brown, Jr. to\n newspapers regarding horses, and instructions for\n horse care, and the like (13 April 1835-March 1836).\n The will of Henry Brown, Jr. (May-December 1830), and\n his deathbed statement dictated to his wife (May\n 1836), are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Samuel Thompson Brown include the\n card which announced the opening of his law office in\n Bedford (8 May 1838), records of his marriage in\n Alabama (27 April 1840), and the death of his wife\n within the year (3 April 1841). A letter of 22\n January 1842, mentions the business failures taking\n place in Richmond and Lynchburg, and one of 27 August\n of the same year comments on the national political\n situation which is \"sadly out of joint.\" In a letter\n of 20 September [1845], there is a report of \"the\n thefts which were perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton\n whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My eyes appear to have improved gradually.\"\n (His ailment seemed to be at its worst at this\n time, though he continued to suffer from the\n ailment until his death in 1836 at the age of 39\n years.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA note for $1000.00. At this time he was\n getting started in the store, Hancock and Brown\n Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"most favorable accounts\" of John Thompson\n Brown from the members of the House of\n Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the business of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. Mark Anthony\"\u003eCol. [Mark]\n Anthony\u003c/abbr\u003e, in which Henry Brown, Jr. appears\n to be involved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions the marriage of John Thompson\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of introduction for Henry Brown, Jr.,\n for use on his trip to England and the Continent\n in that year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Oh, my dear husband, why was it that I did not\n accompany you?\" (None of these letters reached\n Henry Brown, Jr. on the trip, but followed him\n home).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews from a letter she received from Henry\n Brown, Jr. in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of his debts in Lynchburg; hiring out\n of a slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"it's really a sad case for me, to be sick from\n home and away from all that (are) Dear to\n me...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis was the store in Lynchburg in which Henry\n Brown was a partner and with which Henry Brown,\n Jr. was associated until he opened his own store\n in 1835.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrother-in-law, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Jack Willcox\"\u003eJack [Willcox]\u003c/abbr\u003e;\n his brother, John's speech on the Petersburg Rail\n Road; and the house that Henry Brown has vacated\n in Lynchburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn a debt of Thomas Williams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppear to refer to pictures, and may date from\n the time of one of the buying trips that Henry\n Brown, Jr. made with his wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter breaking from the partnership of Hancock\n and Brown, he opened his own store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the care for his horses, Young\n American Eclipse and Spring Hill, while he is\n away.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten while she and her husband were on a\n buying trip for the Lynchburg store. In New York\n Henry Brown, Jr. was taken desperately ill and\n died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEvidently taken down by Mrs. Eleanor C. L.\n Brown during the final days in New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn associate of Henry Brown, Jr. in the\n Lynchburg store, was liquidating the stock and\n selling horses in order to settle the estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA note regarding the settlement of the Henry\n Brown, Jr. estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from school, with endorsement by James\n Morrison, schoolmaster.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned Eleanor C. L. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulating S. T. B. on his marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of the aged John Vaughan Willcox, her\n father, with whom she is living and for whom she\n is caring; Samuel T. Brown and his \"youthful\n bride.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis extended wedding trip; description of Gen\n Harrison's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsolations upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T.\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolences upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T.\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of consolation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of W. W. Worthington,\n brother-in-law of Samuel T. Brown. \"Your sister\n Alice is desirous of your attention to the affairs\n of Mr. W. in New Orleans prior to your return to\n Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecording certain deeds for his son-in-law,\n Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to his overseer with whom he has\n quarreled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the fees paid by Henry Brown in the Leftwich\n case: \"between twenty and twenty-five dollars for\n my services as an attorney.\" On the thefts\n \"perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student\n at Chapel Hill.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the cutting of trees on the property\n of Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA reply to the above letter, Box-Folder\n 13:60.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn a charge of Ammon Hancock against the estate\n of Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEstimate for the cost of the construction of a\n bridge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the property in Mobile, Alabama, purchased\n by Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe sale of a female slave \"with her\n Brood.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers concern John Thompson Brown's attendance at\n Princeton, study of law, and trips to the South and to\n the West Indies. Includes speeches and correspondence as\n well as his published writings (newspaper articles,\n bills and pamphlets). The collection emphasizes his\n political career in the Virginia House of Delegates\n including his views on slavery. Also includes\n architectural plans for a two room house and elevations\n (1827), drafts of toasts and letters concerning his\n fight with John Hampden Pleasants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProminent correspondents include William Segar\n Archer, James Murray Mason, John Hampden Pleasants,\n William Cabell Rives, Henry St. George Tucker and John\n Tyler.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown (1802-1836) was born at Otter\n Hills, near Bedford, Virginia and was the son of\n Henry Brown (1760-1841). He attended the New London\n Academy, 1816; studied at Princeton, 1817-1820;\n traveled to the South and the West Indies, 1821; and\n studied law with Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland\n County, Virginia, 1822-1823. He began his law\n practice in Clarksburg, Virginia (later West\n Virginia), in 1824, and represented Harrison County\n in the House of Delegates, 1827-1830. He was a member\n of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n 1829-1830. He married Mary E. Willcox June, 1830, and\n moved to Petersburg, where he again was elected to\n the General Assembly, 1831-1836. He was a delegate to\n the national convention of the Republican (now\n Democratic) Party, but died on 20 November 1836, at\n his father's home, Otter Hills, after a brief\n illness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first two letters in Box 14 date from the\n period of his attendance at New London Academy; then\n follow the papers relating to Princeton, where he\n matriculated in 1817 at the age of 19. He was placed\n in the Sophomore Class on the basis of an examination\n before the faculty, and received the highest mark\n given at the College, in each of the three years he\n spent at the College. His report sheets show the\n requirements for entrance, lists of courses, and\n contain a resolution passed by the trustees which\n condemned the sharp practices of the merchants in\n town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome of the correspondence of John Thompson Brown\n with his brother-in-law Dr. William B. Steptoe in\n this period is interesting for the comments it\n contains on the Missouri question and other matters\n then being debated in the U.S. Senate. The remarks\n made by John Thompson Brown in letters from his\n collegiate period may be compared with his statements\n on the subject of slavery later made on the floor of\n the House of Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating from Princeton, John Thompson\n Brown traveled to the South, and made a brief trip to\n the West Indies, keeping notes on his impressions.\n Upon his return he took up the study of law with\n Judge Taylor. From this period come interesting\n musings on such subjects as \"the family fireside,\"\n \"youthful recollection,\" \"friendship,\" and \"behavior\n of a lawyer if he is to succeed.\" His license to\n practice law, dated 7 March 1824, is included in the\n collection. He journeyed to Clarksburg, Virginia, to\n set up his law practice, and kept a notebook on the\n trip West which reveal his first impressions of the\n Clarksburg area.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the end of this box is a scrapbook containing\n some of his published writings, speeches, and\n newspaper articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from a schoolboy friend regarding New\n London Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown's examinations at the New\n London Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I have just been examined by the faculty and\n am admitted to the Sophomore Class, which is the\n second in the college.\" His expenses are estimated\n at $200.00 for the first term and $90.00 for the\n second. \"I will pledge myself not to spend one\n cent more than is really necessary.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews from home; a rumor that some boys were\n expelled from Chapel Hill for their politics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMedical advice; a suggested teacher for New\n London Academy (\"Has he energy enough manage\n southern students?\"); the death of Polly [Mrs.\n Mary Brown Clayton], sister of John Thompson\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe political upheaval at William and Mary\n College; deputies appointed \"...to fix upon the\n site of the Virginia University.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My expenses have far exceeded what was\n necessary or what you expect. I now see my error\n and repent...\" Three months later he offers to\n leave school because of his additional debts.\n Later in Baltimore, he is robbed of $200.00. His\n father adds up the year's expenses to a total of\n $670.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBehavior, No. 1. distinguished; Industry, No.\n 1. distinguished; Scholarship, No. 1.\n distinguished (1) \"If under the article \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003escholarship\u003c/emph\u003e, a\n student is marked No. 1 distinguished (1), he is\n considered as ranking among the first in his\n class.\" (From printed explanation of the\n report.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Once the busy scene of commercial\n enterprise...now lifeless and inactive.\"\n Concerning Lynchburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe University of Virginia is established at\n Charlottesville with an annual appropriation of\n $15,000; news of a threat of slave uprisings in\n Fredericksburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSimilar reports to that of 1818. Warning is\n added to the September report concerning excessive\n expenditures by students: \"the trustees of the\n college give this notice to the parents and\n guardians of the youth, that they ought to pay no\n debt contracted in this town, which they have not\n specifically authorized.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Collegians mei consocui.\" He knew\n 162 fellow students.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the \"present session of Congress.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRumor of a great rebellion that has taken place\n at Princeton; the Missouri question.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA 4th of July oration supporting the idea of\n colonizing the free Negroes in Africa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My father may justly complain of the great\n sums which he has expended on me, but his kindness\n shall not be abused much longer, as I hope to be\n in a situation to support myself.\" Endorsed:\n \"Brother J.--after his return from Princeton went\n South--through the Cherokee Nation [Alabama and\n Georgia] to Pensacola, and on to New\n Orleans--thence to Cuba and returned to U. States\n in the U.S. Frigate 'Hornet,' as a guest of the\n officers. Samuel T. Brown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA gambling scrape he was involved in; asks his\n father's forgiveness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Chancellor Taylor has been of incalculable\n service to me in the study of law.\" (Needham was a\n law school operated by Judge Creed Taylor in\n Cumberland County in the years 1821-1836.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are the continuous drafts of a multiple\n of letters. The first section consists of musings\n and youthful recollections; the second is a\n humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in\n Petersburg after his marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the marriage of Dr. Steptoe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMusings on Friendship and the wise behavior of\n a lawyer if he is to succeed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter introducing John Thompson Brown when\n he went to Clarksburg to set up practice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMusings written on a trip through Virginia:\n thoughts on a disappointing love affair; notes on\n \"Crab Orchard\" and the \"Creek Nation\" --the latter\n were to be incorporated into an Independence Day\n address delivered in Petersburg in 1831.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImpressions of Clarksburg; the countryside is\n beautiful and the land very rich, but \"The people\n have no money and are wretchedly poor and\n lazy...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis plans to establish himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe following newspaper clippings and pamphlets\n are included in a bound scrap book, with\n endorsements and were undoubtedly collected by\n John Thompson Brown himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"several cases of contempt of\n court, occurring in various parts of the Union,\n in which the punishment inflicted, has been\n made a subject of grievous complaint.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"...Mr. Jefferson...the\n disclosure of his poverty...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"The President's message.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Bill authorizing a loan of $6,000.00 on\n the credit of the state, for the construction\n of Turnpike Road from Winchester to Parkersburg\n by way of Clarksburg, being under\n consideration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sir:--I have read in the \"Intelligencer\" of\n the 9th inst. your communications to the\n Editors of the paper, in which you remark,\n substantially, that the only Candidate to\n represent the town of Petersburg in the General\n Assembly is a stranger to most voters...Not\n doubting that I am the person alluded to...,\"\n signed John Thompson Brown\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The following copy of a Petition to the\n Legislature of Virginia, we insert at the\n request of a number of our Citizens.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"On motion of Mr. Brown of Petersburg, the\n report of the committee on slaves, free Negroes\n and mulattoes, and the amendment of Mr. Preston\n were taken up; when Mr. Brown rose and\n addressed the house as follows:...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The bill to amend an act authorizing the\n Board of Public Works to subscribe on behalf of\n the Commonwealth, to the stock of the\n Petersburg Rail Road, was read a third time.\n Mr. Brown said...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Andrew Jackson was unanimously recommended\n to the Citizens of Virginia, as the next\n President. \"Mr. Miller of Powhatan then\n submitted the following\n Resolution...\"(Concerning the Vice-President).\n Mr. Brown of Petersburg, then submitted the\n following by way of substitute for the\n above...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe material in this box covers the period 1825 to\n 1829, when John Thompson Brown was resident of\n Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West\n Virginia). In this period John Thompson Brown wrote\n some of the \"Letters to the Editor,\" printed in the\n Clarksburg \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eEnquirer\u003c/title\u003e, contained in\n the scrap book noted above in Box 14. A draft of a\n part of the letter concerning the poverty of Mr.\n Jefferson is to be found in this box (1825).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn July 1826, John Thompson Brown wrote to his\n brother Henry Brown, Jr. of his aim to run for the\n U.S. Congress. In 1827 he was elected to the House of\n Delegates; he was re-elected in 1828 and 1829. This\n box also contains various printed and manuscript\n material touching upon his career in the General\n Assembly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy the end of 1829, John Thompson Brown had\n established himself in Clarksburg, built a house, and\n planned to buy into a partnership in a store to\n advance his financial position. In a letter of March\n 23, 1829 he mentions his desire to run in the next\n election for the U.S. Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...the friends of Old Hickory...hear Adamses\n success spoken of and the probability of Clay's\n being made Secretary of State...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a legal opinion concerning sheriffs,\n which his father apparently requested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA flowery letter to an old friend from\n Princeton. \"I have acquired some little reputation\n at the bar and a practice that supports me very\n decently.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of an address to an investigating group\n (perhaps a grand jury), with endorsement: \"1. Act\n against cutting down trees. 2. Act providing for a\n good and sufficient jail.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is part of a printed letter concerning\n \"Mr. Jefferson the disclosure of his poverty...\"\n over the signature Alexander. (See bound\n scrapbook, the last item in Box 14.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDesire of John Thompson Brown to run for the\n U.S. Congress or for a seat in the General\n Assembly. Suggests that Henry Brown send $1,000.00\n to help achieve this.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I find that there is a serious and, I believe,\n a somewhat general wish to bring me out for the\n Legislature.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I am a candidate for the Legislature at the\n next election...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn announcement of the candidacy of John\n Thompson Brown for the General Assembly. He\n reviews what he considers to be the most important\n problems of the day, and discusses (1) the\n invasion of State sovereignty by the Federal\n program of \"internal development,\" (2) the harm\n done to Southern farmers by import duties, (3) the\n calling of a Constitutional Convention for the\n state of Virginia, (4) the dangers of the\n uncontrolled banking system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis election to the General Assembly; hope of\n election to the U.S. Congress, and the purchase of\n a four acre lot in town. In the first letter which\n John Thompson Brown wrote from the House of\n Delegates he said \"I have not taken much part in\n the debates of the House and do not expect to do\n so...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis ride to Richmond in a coach with other,\n more experienced law-makers, \"having been, as you\n predicted, greatly edified and instructed by a\n coach-full of legislators 'big with the cares of\n state.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Resolving that members of the House of\n Delegates be requested to unite...in advancing the\n cause of this Society before the General Assembly\n of Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn John Thompson Brown's speech: \"considered\n the most able one that had been delivered in the\n House in 5 years.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Our Society, in the success of which, you are\n pleased to express so deep an interest, is I\n believe, making sure progress.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis legislature activities and speeches. \"I am\n a Jackson man like yourself but not perfectly\n orthodox, as you would say, on the subject of\n States Rights. I published my opinions, pamphlet\n of 30 pages, 12 months ago and will send you a\n copy...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA report to his constituents on such matters as\n (1) the state Constitutional Convention, (2) the\n lottery for the Randolph Academy in Clarksburg,\n (3) county elections, (4) the bill abolishing the\n chancery Courts and establishing a Superior Court,\n (5) a Turnpike to their area (defeated by the\n \"Eastern People\"), (6) the proposed Baltimore\n Railroad and (7) the settling of the question of\n land titles in Western Virginia. Included in the\n pamphlet are the full texts of the report of the\n committee on this subject, which he chaired, and\n the bill proposed by the committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComment on the land titles, Chancery court\n bills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Even now I am as comfortably situated as I\n could desire and shall support myself hereafter\n without any further drafts on your\n goodness...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNow well situated in his \"mansion,\" he\n discusses his prospects for Congress and of his\n plan to \"offer 2 years hence.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"McConley's System of Sword\n Tactics.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReflections on people met at the Medicinal\n Springs, as contrasted with those of his\n constituency.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn February, he forwards a copy of sheriff's\n commission to his father. During the year he\n borrows $400.00 for payments on his house in\n Clarksburg, and by the end of the year his father\n has agreed to advance enough capital for him to\n become a partner in a mercantile business. Upon\n the conclusion of the 1828-1829 session of the\n General Assembly, he writes that he will be a\n candidate once more, then run for Congress. In the\n letter of March 23rd, he writes that opposition\n has arisen \"on account of some laws we had passed\n last session authorizing the county court to levy\n a tax for repairing roads and, bridges.\" On March\n 23rd he relates his experiences in Washington at\n the inauguration of Jackson: on December 14th he\n predicts that the basis of votes for whites will\n be surrendered in the formation of the new State\n constitution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuggests they ride together to Alexandria, then\n go to Richmond by boat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Virginia Constitutional Convention: \"I had\n an opportunity of hearing the most distinguished\n members of the body--Mr. Madison and Mr. Marshall\n among the rest...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe change which was to occur in the life and\n fortunes of John Thompson Brown in the year 1830 is\n forecast in the first letter of this box, a letter\n received by Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg in\n [December] 1829, in which there is a discussion of\n \"Mr. B.\" Three months later (18 March 1830) in a\n letter to his father, John Thompson Brown announces\n his intention of leaving Clarksburg, and of his need\n for a horse and sulky so that he may arrive in\n Petersburg in a manner which should \"avoid the\n appearance of poverty and destitution.\" The next\n letter in the collection (9 [May] 1830), in draft,\n contains an account of his wedding, a wedding which\n was attended by no members of his immediate\n family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubsequent letters tell of the generosity of the\n new father-in-law John V. Willcox in the gift of a\n town house \"provided with servants,\" a draft of\n $1500, and the promise of as much more as he asks (22\n July 1830). Yet the position is not satisfactory and\n because John Thompson Brown feels that he is losing\n his independence, he returns to Clarksburg with the\n intention of resettling there and sending for his\n wife (2 May 1831). During a four week visit to\n Harrison County, he finds his political position has\n declined (7 June 1831), so he returns to Petersburg,\n and is invited to make the Independence Day address\n for the town (8 June 1831). As a result of this\n address (and the good influence of his father-in-law)\n he is nominated to represent the town in the House of\n Delegates, and is elected without opposition (26\n September 1831).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe successfully sponsors a bill in the Assembly\n for the Petersburg Railroad (28 December 1831), is\n appointed Judge of Elections for the Petersburg\n Office of the Bank of Virginia (29 December 1831),\n and is sought as a sponsor of a new newspaper which\n is being established in Richmond (20 October 1831).\n Of particular interest is a letter to his nephew\n outlining his philosophy of life and advising the\n young man on his future (3 October 1831). A report of\n the slave insurrection in Southhampton is described\n in a letter of 26 September 1831.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the end of this box are collected more than a\n hundred drafts of toasts made by John Thompson\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA friend writes regarding \"Mr. B.,\" \"a man of\n boundless pride and diffidence. His attachment was\n cut down in the bud and \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eYou\u003c/emph\u003e, my sweetest\n Mary, have hoped whilst he desponded...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My friends, Webster, Goffard, and others\n believed I could certainly be elected to Congress\n next Spring...I wish to appear at \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Petersburg\"\u003eP[etersburg]\u003c/abbr\u003ein a\n manner which would probably be expected and to\n avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution .\n Henry is to get me a sulky, horse, etc., and if\n you can spare this additional sum you may hand it\n over to him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Our nuptials took place at the time expected\n and I cannot say that there was any other allay to\n my happiness, than that neither you nor any of my\n near relatives were present.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his honeymoon: \"Peronneau Finley travels\n with us, as one of our immediate party. Mr.\n Willcox, Sr., and three of his friends are going\n to N. York to the races. They came with us thus\n far...\" There is much discussion about where they\n will live, but, \"I think it probable we shall\n reside in Petersburg...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his Washington visit: \"we remained a week,\n were introduced to the President, etc., heard some\n interesting debates and saw all the great men of\n the nation...My situation is in all respects\n agreeable.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulations on her marriage coupled with\n much advice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter a visit with his father, he writes: \"I\n have nothing to add on the subject of my future\n arrangements. I shall pursue the course which you\n seemed to approve when we were together.\" He\n writes later that Mr. Willcox has turned over to\n them his town house \"furnished with servants\"; in\n another letter: \"He handed me a check for $1,500\n and said that I should always have as much as I\n wanted...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends advice to his younger brother and, and\n account of his own situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Harrison County report that \"the\n District needs me badly...but it is too\n late...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I regret that you have temporarily declined\n public life--for I would not believe you have\n abondoned it altogether.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvice given to a young man summarizing John\n Thompson Brown's own philosophy of life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his return to Harrison County, \"I found that\n my position here was to be too dependent...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"At a meeting of the citizens of\n Petersburg...'Resolved, that John Thompson Brown,\n Esq., he appointed Orator of the Day'.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first important public speech of John\n Thompson Brown, in Petersburg, one which appears\n to have established his reputation, and which\n influenced his decision to remain there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his Independence Day address; the\n wisdom of his brother's decision to visit\n England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are the continuous drafts of multiple\n letters. This draft concerns the second part which\n contains a humorous report on a 4th of July\n oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn July 25, he states that his brother has left\n on the packet for Baltimore on the way to\n Liverpool. Concerning his \"reasons of my\n determining not to remove to Harrison.\" On\n September 14 he writes that his wife has given\n birth to a son, who will be named Henry Peronneau,\n \"after you and my friend Peronneau Finley.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown, Jr. writes of his journey, as a\n result of which \"I become more and more an\n American in feeling and principle...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I was elected without opposition, after\n announcing my sentiments freely and boldly.\" News\n of an insurrection of Negroes in Southampton,\n \"they killed 55 persons, mainly women and\n children.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives his opinions on the education of his\n nephew, Edward. He approves strongly of the\n emphasis on science to be found at West Point; on\n going to college among the Yankees: \"I partake in\n some measure of the prejudice against them--but\n think nevertheless that...southern \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003efire\u003c/emph\u003ewould be none\n the worse for being somewhat cooled by the\n northern \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003efrost\u003c/emph\u003e.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA new newspaper is proposed for the city of\n Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA request for help in covering a $3,000 debt to\n \"sharpers.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the quarters he has for his wife and\n son. On the main question of the day he writes: \"I\n think no measure can or ought to be taken now for\n the abolition of slavery...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"the bill now before the Legislature\n on the subject of our (Rail) Road.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of John Thompson Brown as judge of\n the election for directors of the Bank of Virginia\n in Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the following subjects: The Press,\n Lafayette, The Cuase of of Civil and Religious\n Liberty, The Militia Volunteers, Woman, Thomas\n Jefferson, Virginia, The Constitution, The\n Militia, State Rights, President of the United\n States, Our Guests, Benjamin Franklin, The\n Union, (\"Drank 1833.\" ADr.), The Day We\n Celebrate, Washington, and The Army and\n Navy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the following subjects: The Federal\n Consitiution, Free Press, President of the\n United States, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, Our\n Guests and Woman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the following subjects: The 4th of\n July, 1776, The Cause of Liberty Throughout the\n World, The Heroes and Statesmen of the\n Revolution, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, and\n The Federal Constitution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the following subject: The Union\n \"(This toast was drank, as a standing toast at\n the Petersburg Republican Celebration of Mr.\n Jefferson's election on the 29th of January,\n 1801).\" Most toast endorsed: \"Offered 1835, not\n adopted.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the following subjects: The Day We\n Celebrated, The Memory of Washington, The Army\n and the Navy, Military Spirit, Free Press,\n Popular Suffrage, and National Character.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the following subjects: The Friends\n of Constitutional Restriction, Political\n Toleration, National Character, The State\n Legislature, Virginia Military, Washington,\n Benjamin Franklin, Petersburg, The District of\n Columbia, The Right of Instruction, The Press\n and John Tyler.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe important and exciting national political\n events of the years 1832 and 1833, as they affected\n the people of Virginia, are seen through the eyes of\n John Thompson Brown in the items included in this\n box. A member from Petersburg in the House of\n Delegates of the Virginia Assembly, John Thompson\n Brown was placed in a position of leadership and\n strongly influenced the decisions taken in those\n critical years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis speech on the abolition of slavery was\n considered so important that Judge Henry St. George\n Tucker and others raised the money to have it printed\n (18 January 1832). He was a member of the Virginia\n delegation to the national convention of the\n Republican Party; his resolution of the\n Vice-Presidential nominee (21-22 May 1832) was the\n one adopted by the Virginia caucus. As Chairman of\n the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates, the\n question of President Jackson's moves against the\n United States Bank was of particular concern to him\n (9 April 1833).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGreat excitement was aroused by South Carolina's\n threat of nullification. John Thompson Brown was a\n member of the Committee on Federal Relations, and his\n substitute motion on the question is included in this\n box, as well as his speech on \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe State of the Relations\n between the United States and South Carolina\u003c/title\u003e,\n delivered 5 January 1833, also published in pamphlet\n form.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown was invited to be a Director\n of the Petersburg Railroad which he declined (7 May\n 1832), and was considered for the position of U.S.\n Senator, although he felt that he was not qualified\n by years or experience (December 1832). An\n interesting report of his meeting with President\n Jackson is included in a letter from John Thompson\n Brown to his wife (23 May 1832).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso included in this box are letters from John\n Tyler, William Cabell Rives, and William Segar Archer\n (7 February, 3 March 1833).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo poems, possibly written by John Thompson\n Brown, clipped from a newspaper, signed Julian are\n included at the end of this box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of the fortunes of the (Petersburg)\n Railroad Bill in the House of Delegates and State\n Senate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation regarding Rensselaer School. Samuel\n T. Brown, younger brother of John Thompson Brown,\n appears to have been interested in this\n school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn this important speech John Thompson Brown\n took up several proposals for the freeing of\n slaves, including that of Thomas Jefferson, as\n submitted to the Legislature by Jefferson\n Randolph, his grandson, and argued against\n each.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My speech on abolition has had great \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eeclat\u003c/emph\u003e--a fund has\n been raised for publishing it in pamphlet form for\n general distribution... \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Henry St. George Tucker and Judge Brooke\"\u003e\n Judges [Henry St. George] Tucker and\n Brooke\u003c/abbr\u003ehave taken active part in puffing the\n speech.\" He also reports, \"I have carried my\n Railroad Bill...and shall enjoy the credit of\n effecting it by my personal influence.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes in a \"Postscript\" an answer to a\n statement in \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Enquirer\u003c/title\u003eover\n the signature of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Jefferson Randolph\"\u003eJefferson\n [Randolph]\u003c/abbr\u003e. Reference is made to a remark\n made in \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Wig\u003c/title\u003ethat his\n argument \"had been far surpassed by the discussion\n of the subject by a stripling . Mr. Brown of\n Petersburg.\" General Assembly. Committee on\n Federal relations. Official Document Nos. 14, 15,\n 16.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a suggested amendment for the\n Circuit Court Law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe cannot give his nephew, Edward Steptoe, an\n appointment to West Point because he has used his\n appointment for the session. \"...the Senate is\n involved in the Tariff discussion...The farther I\n have gone into it the more thoroughly have I\n convinced myself of its tyrannical and oppressive\n character.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA resolution from the Petersburg Rail Road\n Company to tender thanks for \"the zeal and ability\n with which our Delegate John T. Brown, Esq. and\n our Senator, Wm. Old, Esq. have exerted in\n procuring passage of the said (Rail Road)\n act.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is the resolution presented by John\n Thompson Brown and reported in a newspaper article\n of this date preserved in the scrapbook to be\n found in Box 14.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I send you 2 copies of John's speech (on\n Slavery) and a paper with one of Jefferson\n Randolph's in reply to him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeclines appointment as a member of the Board\n of Directors of the Petersburg Railroad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on the convention of the whole party and\n of the Virginia Caucus. At the latter the\n resolution of John Thompson Brown. was adopted,\n viz. that Virginia's vote should go first to P. P.\n Barbour for Vice- President, and when there was no\n longer a reasonable prospect of his selection, to\n Van Buren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...on last evening we went to the President\n who is in excellent health and fine spirits. Many\n persons here, including some members of Congress\n from Virginia, seem to be much dissatisfied with\n our proceedings at Baltimore...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo his youngest brother, attending college,\n regarding the health of Henry, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Finley's brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe family has traveled south to escape an\n epidemic of Cholera.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the letter of December 3 he discusses the\n election of U.S. Senators, stating that Mr. Leigh\n is out because of his opposition to President\n Jackson. Among those mentioned for the position\n are \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Henry St. George Tucker\"\u003eJudge\n [Henry St. George] Tucker\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Randolph Rives\"\u003e[John] Randolph\n Rives\u003c/abbr\u003e, and himself, though he feels that he\n has neither the years nor the experience for the\n position. President Jackson's message on the U.S.\n Bank is discussed. On nullification he writes: \"It\n will, I fear, be an exciting subject and one of\n engrossing interest...South Carolina is\n unquestionably wrong and \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eas long as she remains in\n the Union,\u003c/emph\u003emust obey its laws...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe possibility of his appointment as Senator\n to supply the vacancy left by Mr. Tazewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExcitement in Washington caused by the\n President's proclamation on nullification\n debate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the removal of deposits from the U.S.\n Bank by the Federal Government.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I was rather mortified at making a very poor\n speech [on Federal Relations] in the House\n today...To avoid misrepresentation I shall have to\n write out my speech...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoc. No. 14. \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eReport of the Committee on\n Federal Relations\u003c/title\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDoc. No. 15. \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eMr. Marshall's Substitute\n to the Report...\u003c/title\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDoc. No. 16. \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eMr. M'dowell's Amendment to\n Mr. Marshall's Substitute,...\u003c/title\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOpinion on proceedings in South Carolina,\n the proclamation by Andrew Jackson, and \"the\n communication of the governor of this Commonwealth\n on the same subject.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter stating his opposition to protective\n tariffs, John Thompson Brown argued that they\n result from \"a perversion of the spirit and intent\n of the Constitution, rather than a violation of\n its literal principles.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe compliments the Chief Magistrate of the\n United States on his general policy but disputes\n the Proclamation of the President on other\n grounds, basing his argument on \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Law of\n Nations\u003c/title\u003eby E. de Vattel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs to the action of South Carolina, he contends\n that there is no possibility of nullification\n under the Constitution, but that the redress of\n the wrong done in the tariff act must come by\n recourse to the Supreme Court, to the \"Co-states\"\n acting in Congress, and if necessary, by an\n amendment to the Constitution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompliments John Thompson Brown on his\n resolutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I was anxious myself that Virginia should\n maintain an impartial and just attitude toward\n both S. Carolina and the President, but far the\n greater part of the Assembly seemed in favour of\n going into one extreme or other . . . whereas I\n thought there was error on both sides...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe remarks that \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Steptoe\"\u003eEdward\n [Steptoe]\u003c/abbr\u003ehas been successful in getting his\n appointment to West Point \"obtained (by Mr.\n Archer, the Senator) as a favour to me\" but\n \"without...your letter...the application could\n scarcely have been successful.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of Edward Steptoe to West Point;\n report of the enforcing bill in the President's\n proclamation, and the Tariff Bill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn July he announces the birth of a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the Force Bill and the Bank of the U.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"On seeimg Miss ____ at Clarksburg,\" and\n \"Julian Abandoning His Muse.\" Possibly written by\n John Thompson Brown about this period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters written by John Thompson Brown during\n portions of the 1833-1834 and the 1834-1835 sessions\n of the General Assembly are found in this box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe manuscripts begin with letters reporting the\n legislative battle fought and lost against the\n Portsmouth-Norfolk road which John Thompson Brown\n believed would have disastrous effects on the future\n of Petersburg (January 1834). Near the end of the box\n are letters concerning John Thompson Brown's battle\n fought with fists and canes in the halls of the State\n Capitol with a fellow representative John Hampden\n Pleasants (January 1835). The fracas resulted from a\n heated debate on the election of a U.S. Senator. John\n Thompson Brown was one of those mentioned for the\n position of U.S. Senator (December 1834), but his\n youth (28 years) was against him and he did not enjoy\n the rough and tumble of party politics then\n developing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso of interest are the draft of a speech\n delivered on the occasion of the death of Lafayette\n (9 July 1834), and two notebooks used by John\n Thompson Brown as Chairman of the Finance Committee\n of the House of Delegates (January 1835).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews that his brother, Samuel, is ill at\n Harvard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports on his progress at the college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis attempts to defeat the Norfolk rail road in\n the Assembly; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"All is lost except our honour. The Portsmouth\n Bill [Norfolk railroad] has passed...our town\n [Petersburg] is prostrated...but the ancient\n spirit of our little town, which Mr. Madison\n called the 'cockade of the old Dominion' is not\n dead.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA patent for producing domestic salt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElection of a U.S. Senator, for which he has\n been mentioned; Mr. Leigh's election. At the end\n of February and beginning of March he is kept in\n bed with an illness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives his views of the political situation,\n mentioning the message President Jackson sent to\n Congress with the \"Force Bill,\" the President's\n plans for the Bank of the U.S., and objections to\n Van Buren and \"the N. York system of tactics which\n he will bring with him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlans for Samuel, John Thompson Brown's\n brother, to start his study of law with him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSold bank shares to help his brother go into\n business for himself; gives advice on racing\n horses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"To my sons, should they ever read\n it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of his progress at the U.S. Military\n Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of a letter sending condolences for the\n death of a sister and congratulations on the birth\n of a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis resignation from the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"No subject arouses anybody except the\n senatorial election.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe offers to place all his monetary resources\n at the service of his brother in his new business\n venture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the 17th he prepared a draft of a letter,\n which he sent on the 20th, giving an account of a\n fight in the halls of the General Assembly between\n himself and John Hampden Pleasants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of apology for the battle fought in\n the halls of the Virginia Capitol.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account of his speech which was \"better\n received than anything I have ever made.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoints out the importance of this election for\n \"future political events and party combinations in\n the state,\" and defends the incumbent, Mr.\n Leigh.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrepared for use in the Finance Committee of\n the House of Deputies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on taxes, license fees, and the like,\n prepared by John Thompson Brown for use on the\n Finance Committee of the House of Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe closing sessions of the State Legislature of\n 1834-1835 are reported in the letters at the\n beginning of this box. The party spirit runs high in\n Petersburg as the \"Jackson party\" opposes John\n Thompson Brown (March 1835). He is involved in a\n street fight with an opponent in which he receives a\n black eye, but the argument is made up after he wins\n the election (April 1835).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBefore the next session of the legislature, John\n Thompson Brown is occupied in collecting more\n material on the question of slavery (August 1835),\n and prepared three long drafts written in opposition\n to the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President of\n the U.S. Undated drafts of notes on legal cases are\n included at the end of the 1835 section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown, Jr., the brother of John Thompson\n Brown, died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to\n Philadelphia and New York for his Lynchburg store.\n The trip of John Thompson Brown to meet the body of\n his brother, and his activity in settling his\n brother's affairs in Lynchburg are reported in the\n letters included in this box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the end of July he takes his family to his\n father's home, Otter Hills, near New London in\n Campbell County, for the funeral sermon of Henry\n Brown, Jr. While there he contracts an illness which\n keeps him there until his death on 26 November\n 1836.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces the birth of a son, John Thompson\n Brown II, and tells his brother that he had\n ordered $2800 placed to his account to support the\n store that he had opened.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitical activity in Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Jackson party has brought out the most\n popular man in Petersburg against...it is quite\n likely he will beat me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn April 18 he writes, \"I was elected by a\n majority of 37 (13 of which were from Richmond).\"\n There is also a report of a street fight between\n John Thompson Brown and \"a Jackson man.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the chances of Van Buren to carry\n Virginia in the election.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlans to retire from politics and seek a\n position as Judge of the courts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe has sent a box of books to help him in his\n law studies, and describes a visit by his old\n friend Peronneau Finley and his family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to his father about plans to visit\n him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily discussion, especially concerned with\n the sisters who were yet to find husbands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotice of the election of John Thompson Brown\n as an honorary member of the Jefferson\n Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned \"Mr. Brown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series of drafts is in opposition to\n Martin Van Buren, candidate for the President\n of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGood reports of the new business venture of his\n brother, Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo his brother, on a buying trip to New York;\n political prospects now look bright, but \"the\n state is lost\" to the Anti-Van Buren forces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by Wyndham Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the trip to accompany his sister-in-law and\n the body of Henry Brown, Jr. back to the family\n home, Otter Hills. Henry Brown, Jr. died while on\n a shopping trip to New York for supplies for his\n Lynchburg store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe body of Henry Brown, Jr. was taken that\n morning for Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of her father, Henry Brown Brown,\n Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTaking inventory at the store of his late\n brother; preparing to settle his estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports on the stocktaking in the store of\n Henry Brown, Jr. On July 19 he wrote that he was\n coming to his father's place on the Sunday next to\n hear his brother's funeral preached. This is the\n last letter from John Thompson Brown to his\n father, for on that visit to Otter Hills he was\n taken with the illness from which he died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the disposal of the store inventory; sends a\n piano to her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMourning his brother's death, he makes\n arrangements for his own family to join him. (This\n is the last letter written by John Thompson Brown\n preserved in this collection.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe niece of John Thompson Brown writes to her\n uncle regarding the recent death of her father,\n Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes\n regarding the settling of the store business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosures: \"A lock of the hair of John\n Thompson Brown, 29 years\"; envelope marked, \"For\n sister Mary from my dear brother John's Grave,\n Nov. 13th, 1845, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Alice Brown Worthington\"\u003e[Mrs.]\n A[lice Brown] Worthington\u003c/abbr\u003e,\" with clover\n leaves inside.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA resolution in memory of John Thompson\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned D. M. Bernard, Clerk. Endorsement by\n James MacFarland, Jr., to Mrs. John Thompson\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolences on the death of her husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA resolution that the members wear the usual\n badge of mourning for thirty days in honor of John\n Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA copy of the unanimous resolution of the House\n of Delegates in memory of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of grief written by Mrs. Brown to her\n father-in-law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of consolation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes: A dramatic sketch, Kentucky Land\n Laws, Goosawattee Indians, and map of the\n region around Bedford, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA large folded ink drawing of a building \"taken\n from the Colonade of the Temple of Minerva\n Parthenon at Athens,\" with notes of construction\n details. Ca. 1830.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers of John Thompson Brown, Colonel of 1st\n Regiment Virginia Artillery who was killed in action in\n 1864. Included are letters concerning a disagreement\n with William Nelson Pendleton. Papers also include\n correspondence of his son, Henry Peronneau Brown and his\n son's wife Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown as well as\n newspaper clippings concerning Judge John Randolph\n Tucker and the correspondence of Cynthia Beverley Tucker\n Coleman. There are also nineteenth century\n engravings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains the papers from the period after\n the death of John Thompson Brown, and concern John\n Thompson Brown II, born in 1835, some 18 months\n before the death of his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter (20 November 1844) lists the courses\n studied by boys at the ages of 9, 11, and 13; a\n travel book gives an interesting picture of Europe (4\n May 1857); and a draft of a letter describes the\n bleedings to which a tourist entering Italy had to\n submit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown II was elected Second\n Lieutenant by the members of his company (1 December\n 1859). Also included are notes of speeches made to\n rouse war enthusiasm. The receipt for a saber and\n belt (23 April 1861) mark the beginning of action,\n and other records follow John Thompson Brown II's\n rise to Major, then to Colonel. His request for a\n transfer to a more active field of war and an\n extended argument with his commanding officer, Brig.\n Gen. William Nelson Pendleton, are of interest. The\n box concludes with items which appear to have been on\n the person of Col. John Thompson Brown II, when he\n was killed in action on 6 May 1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists the courses in school taken by a nine\n year old boy and his two brothers, Wilicox, 11\n years old, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Peronneau\"\u003eP[eronneau]\u003c/abbr\u003e, 13\n years old.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertifies that John Thompson Brown II was\n elected Second Lieutenant by viva voce vote of the\n members of his company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReferences to Douglas and the threat to\n slavery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns the raid on Harper's Ferry by John\n Brown, 19 October 1859, and the treatment of him\n as a martyr in the North.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I greatly fear that the time has passed when\n great questions of State equality are to be\n settled in the Halls of Congress...this settlement\n requires powder and ball...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on ammunition on hand.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt Martial action taken for refusal to do\n guard duty, by a trooper under the command of Col.\n John Thompson Brown II.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for transfer, with his command, to the\n Division of Gen. D. H. Hills, so that he might be\n more actively engaged.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the families of the officers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a dispute arising between the two\n over John Thompson Brown's command.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest the return of his report on the battle\n of Chancellorsville so that he might submit it to\n Gen. Stuart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers relating to the oldest son of John Thompson\n Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, begin with letters\n written by his mother Mrs. Mary E. Brown. She\n expresses concern that her son is more interested in\n affairs other than his studies (1 March 1849). His\n school career is traced briefly through his years at\n the University of Virginia (28 June 1851).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters exchanged between Henry Peronneau\n Brown and his fiancee, Frances Baland Coalter, 1858,\n lead into the family correspondence which completes\n this box. (Other letters of Frances Bland Coalter and\n her family are found in Box 6, Coalter and Tucker\n Papers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom May, 1861, all letters are concerned with the\n war. Letters written by John Coalter II, to his\n sister Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown in 1878 give a\n graphic picture of the struggle made by a southern\n farmer to re-establish himself after the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe widow of John Thompson Brown writes with\n concern about her oldest son, Peronneau, who is\n attending school in South Carolina. He was\n devoting too much time to outdoor affairs of\n college life and not enough to his studies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulating him on his success at Charleston\n College; a proposed biography of John Thompson\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning Henry Peronneau Brown, attending the\n \u003cabbr expan=\"The University of Virginia\"\u003e\n University [of Virginia]\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAffectionate letters to her fiance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn August she writes to console Mrs. Brown on\n the death of her mother, Mrs. Judith H.\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We are all as glad, dear Fanny, that your home\n is so lovely and you are so happy...for its\n mountain scenery.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the failing health of their\n mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsolations on the death of Mrs. Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the loss of an infant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe bachelor brother of Mrs. Brown writes that\n his loneliness on an out-of-the-way plantation is\n heading him to the madhouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe writes of the ladies making vests and\n shirts for the soldiers. News that the Yankees\n have landed at Hampton; the first of the war\n casualties in the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaking clothes for the army: \"1500 yards have\n just been received which we are to turn our\n attention to at once.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis house was set afire and cannon are firing\n all about. Comments on \"the tennessee\n company...the roughest men you ever saw...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe wife of John Thompson Brown II, is in \"this\n antiquated spot\" because her husband was drilling\n some new troops and sent for her to join him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir brother, Henry, is at a camp near\n Williamsburg; the other brother, John, is in\n Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"adjoining the lands of Henry Peronneau Brown\n and others.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I am sorry Henry's name is not in the list of\n exchanged prisoners...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for someone to serve the Presbyterian\n Church at Tappahannock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe settlement of the John Randolph estate\n which was in litigation for many years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefuses a request for $500 by his nephew;\n recommends that he stop drinking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote written on an early \"penny post card.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written to his sister as he made a\n start in farming after the end of the war: \"I have\n not the means to buy me a suit of clothes.\" Later\n he added: \"I never was as poor in my life before\n as I am now...I have not spent during the whole\n year on myself more than $10...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst mention of Cassie Tucker, who was later\n to marry John Thompson Brown III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA request for a purchase of a case of \"56 Home\n Remedies.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Cassie Tucker\"\u003eCassie\n [Tucker]\u003c/abbr\u003e, wife of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Thompson Brown III\"\u003e[John]\n Thompson [Brown III]\u003c/abbr\u003e. \"You have introduced\n into your home a very sunbeam.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the death of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Coalter II\"\u003eJohn [Coalter\n II]\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters in this box concerning John Thompson\n Brown III, begin with one from his mother, Mrs. Henry\n Peronneau Brown, the former Frances Bland Coalter.\n There are 6 report cards from The University School,\n Petersburg, Virginia (1877-1879). Of interest is a\n pamphlet of \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eResolutions Passed in 1894,\n 1895, and 1896...Denouncing the Bedford High School\n Act.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany of the letters in the collection are from\n Mrs. Cynthia B. Tucker Coleman to her niece Cassie\n (Mrs. John Thompson Brown III). Letters from the\n children, John Thompson Brown IV, Frances Brown, and\n Henry Peronneau Brown II, are included as well as\n photographs of some members of the family and\n pictures of the family home, Ivy Cliff, Bedford\n County (formerly Otter Hill) the home of Capt. Henry\n Brown, great grandfather of John Thompson Brown\n III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the box is a notebook containing\n sermons copied out by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown for\n her son John Thompson Brown III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo her son [John Thompson Brown III] urging him\n to improve his writing and \"to read your Bible and\n say your prayers every day.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA description of the London Museum and Zoo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome contain letters by John Thompson Brown\n III, when the reports were sent home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends Bible reading as the antidote for\n \"the very corrupt sentiments which are scattered\n through the classical writers.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe recent death of her husband, Dr. Coleman;\n the serious illness of Mrs. Henry Peronneau\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring her illness, Mrs. Brown's children are\n in the care of Mrs. Coleman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA child's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRejoices that Cassie's health is \"entirely\n restored.\" Bev. Tucker and Braxton Bryan are\n mentioned as attending an assembly of the clergy\n at Jamestown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...make haste and get well enough to come home\n where you are much missed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Given to my son June 5, 1890. Let him read it\n carefully and may God have mercy on his soul.\n Amen.\" (Mrs. Frances B. Brown died in September\n 1894.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains material related to the Brown\n and Tucker families after 1900. Accounts of Cary A.\n Adams are placed at the beginning of the box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska,\n relate to Judge John Randolph Tucker. Another member\n of the family, Capt. David Tucker Brown, is\n represented by two letters (1918, 1919) written from\n France when he was serving as a member of the\n American Commission to negotiate peace.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the box are collected seventeen\n undated items concerning unidentified persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Pres. of Const. Convention,\n 1901-2.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTaken from the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNome Daily Nugget\u003c/title\u003e, \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNome Democrat\u003c/title\u003eand \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNome Industrial\n Worker\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith the \"American Commission to Negotiate\n Peace.\" There is also mention of John Thompson\n Brown IV, of Wilmington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(\"From private who served you on the\n memorable 8th of Jany, 1815.\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn alphabetical list of flowers with the\n characteristics of each expressed\n symbolically.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter, Tucker families\n including the papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the\n Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and John Thompson Brown\n (1802-1836), member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Among\n the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George\n Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St.\n George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev.\n Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.","Papers include John Coalter's autobiographical sketch\n (to age 18), 54 poems written by Coalter, St. George\n Tucker, and others including several by female writers.\n Correspondents of the Coalter family include St. George\n Tucker, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, William Munford,\n Judith Randolph, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter and Maria\n Rind Coalter. Subjects include John Randolph of Roanoke\n (and his will), George Wythe, the Embargo of 1807-1809,\n College of William and Mary, War of 1812; and the\n springs of Virginia.","Group A also includes papers of Coalter's children:\n Elizabeth Tucker Coalter; and St. George Tucker Coalter\n and his wife Judith H. Tomlin and the correspondence of\n Coalter's granddaughter Frances Lelia Bland Coalter\n Brown. Her letters concern her education and friendship\n with Moses Drury Hoge.","The record of the gift of the collection,\n genealogical charts of the Tucker, Coalter, Tomlin\n and Brown families, and sundry genealogical notes\n which form a preface to the collection, are placed\n at the beginning of this box. The collection\n begins with 54 poems, the first of which is signed\n by St. George Tucker. Two signed poems by William\n Munford are included. The largest group of poems\n are those exchanged by John Coalter and Maria\n Rind, his first wife. Others were collected in the\n family papers until the middle or the latter part\n of the nineteenth century.","The bulk of the material in Box 1 concerns John\n Coalter: an autobiographical sketch written by him\n on his 18th birthday, and letters covering the\n period of his early life from 1787, when he went\n to live with the St. George Tucker family, until\n the death of his first wife in 1793. Interesting\n letters from John Munford, a classmate of Coalter,\n are included, several of which concern the College\n of William and Mary and Harvard College.","Genealogical charts: 1. Coalter, with\n Tucker and Randolph connections; 2. Tomlin,\n as connected with Coalter and Brown; 3.\n Brown, as connected with Coalter and\n Tucker.","His father hopes that John Coalter will\n return home, to the higher country, for the\n \"sickly season.\"","Samuel Brown gives details of his studies at\n Dickinson College, and congratulates John\n Coalter on his chance to study law with St.\n George Tucker.","Attending lectures of the Rev. James\n Madison, President of the College of William\n and Mary, on Natural Philosophy, and of Mr.\n Wythe on Law. When John Coalter loses his\n ribbon he must let his hair hang free for want\n of money to buy another.","Two young cousins, in custody of Indians for\n 3 and 6 years respectively, were freed by the\n army in Detroit.","Concerning his wedding trip.","John Grierson Rind is a brother of Maria\n Rind. He mentions the need of John Coalter for\n a coat and a pair of spectacles.","Approval of the Constitution by South\n Carolina is still in doubt; threat of an Indian\n War in Georgia. \" \n Brother\n Dav[i]d is over in Gloucester. If he has\n success in purchasing Negroes, I hope we will\n be ready to sett [sic] out on our \n rout[e] to the\n South.\"","First letter of young Micajah Coalter, who\n is learning to write.","\"Have you been exempted from paying the\n oppressive Duty which most of our Backwoods\n Gentlemen have paid for that Knowledge which\n they have gathered at Williamsburg in Autumn--I\n mean the loss of Health and a good\n complexion.\"","Mentions John Coalter's desire to return\n home.","Expresses desire to marry and to live on the\n farm while he is getting started in his law\n practice.","\"...nothing can be expected without\n riches...however deserving of a better fate the\n poor always meet\n with rudeness and contempt.\" (Children of a\n Williamsburg printer, the Rinds were orphaned\n at an early age and were helped by the\n Tuckers.)","His father does not have land to give him at\n that time, so he cannot marry at once. He has\n decided to move to Staunton, and continue his\n studies. In September he writes that he hopes\n to visit Williamsburg around Christmas, and\n apply for admission to the bar.","The letters are written with great\n difficulty, and show a lack of schooling.","Mentions \"your quondam charges, Henry,\n Tudor, Beverley, and Fanny (Tucker) and John\n and Theodorick Randolph.\" Hopes he may live and\n study with Mr. Wythe. \"Nothing would advance me\n faster in the world than the reputation of\n having been educated by Mr. Wythe, for such a\n man as he, casts a light upon all around\n him.\"","John Coalter has borrowed a horse from him\n for the trip to Staunton.","\"I...was much pleased to hear of your\n gallantry but am affeared it has been attended\n with some accident which occasioned your move\n to the mountains again...\" (Evidently John\n Coalter did something to protect Maria Rind. He\n then decided to leave Williamsburg in order to\n establish himself and be in a position to\n support her as his wife.)","After obtaining his license in Williamsburg,\n John Coalter has his first case in Amherst. Of\n St. George Tucker, he writes: \"I would rather\n have the approbation of that man than worlds\n for my admirers.\" Advice is given in regard to\n the torment by John Randolph; plans are made\n for their marriage in autumn.","In April she writes that Mr. Tucker plans to\n remarry; she wishes to move up the date of\n their marriage. She dreads \"the prospect of\n Johnny Randolph returning and you well know, my\n love, how liable your dear is to be insulted by\n him...\"","\"...thru the surprising friendship of Mr.\n Wythe, I live in his house and board at his\n table...In this happy situation tomorrow I\n begin the Study of Law.\"","Congratulates James Rind on receiving his\n license to practice law.","\"We visit very often at the different houses\n in the neighborhood, at Westover, Nesting, and\n Shirley, where I saw Robin Carter...we may\n expect to see you after Mrs. Carter has become\n Mrs. Tucker.\"","On the return of a wagon and horses;\n purchases of additional farm animals.","Living and studying with Mr. Wythe. John\n Thompson (grandfather of John Thompson Brown)\n was among the 4th of July orators. Verse and\n poetic criticism of St. George Tucker. George\n Wythe is teaching his servant to write.","This law practice is discouraging; entrusts\n Maria Rind to his care, and sends greetings on\n St. George Tucker's 39th birthday.","Discourages John Coalter from coming \"across\n the Alps\" -- there are too many lawyers\n already.","Has moved to Richmond with Mr. Wythe.\n Mentions building of the canal. Samuel Brown to\n study in Scotland; congratulates John Coalter\n on his marriage to Maria Rind.","Elizabeth Tucker is sister of St. George\n Tucker, and an aunt of Fanny Tucker. Mentions\n other Tucker children, Henry, Tudor, Beverly,\n and Elizabeth, as well as Theodorick and\n Richard Randolph and the latter's wife, Judith.\n Comments on the proposed marriage of St. George\n Tucker to Mrs. Carter, and the small children\n she will be bringing to the marriage.","Description of George Washington delivering\n an address in Philadelphia. Congratulates John\n Coalter on his marriage and sends compliments\n to his brothers. (This Samuel Brown may be the\n uncle of John Thompson Brown.)","The letter was written soon after Mrs.\n Coalter had gone to Staunton with her\n husband.","On the marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs.\n Lelia (Skipwith) Carter.","Death of Maria Skipwith; the great distress\n of Mrs. (Lelia Skipwith) Tucker.","His wages are to be 15£ or\n 20£ per year as a clerk.","The letter from Edinburgh contains an\n interesting description of life in the Scottish\n capital, the coldness of his fellow students\n until they are introduced, and his warm\n reception by a family to which he had a letter\n of introduction.","Reports that there are about forty students\n at the College of William and Mary; Theodorick\n Randolph has died; \"Thompson has left W. \u0026\n M.,\" and his mother proposes to send him to\n Harvard.","Enquires about Maria, and their expected\n first child. (Both mother and child died.)","The \"distressing news\" that his wife has\n died in childbirth.","War reports; the parade of the Richmond\n Grenadiers, Light Horse and Light Infantry.","Consoles John Coalter on the loss of his\n wife; reports the Independence Day orations at\n the College of William and Mary, and mentions\n the raising of subscriptions to aid distressed\n French immigrants at Norfolk.","The contents of Box 2 trace the legal career of\n John Coalter from 10 April 1795, when St. George\n Tucker recommended him for the position of Clerk\n of the Court in Staunton, through the period of\n his second and third marriages to Margaret\n Davenport, 1795 (she died in 1797), and to Frances\n Bland Tucker, 1802.","Included also are letters to Mrs. Frances Bland\n Tucker Coalter from her father St. George Tucker,\n her stepmother Mrs. Lelia Skipwith Tucker, her\n sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph of Bizarre, and\n others. Correspondence with William Munford, in\n Williamsburg, is also included.","Recommends John Coalter as Clerk of the\n Staunton Court.","\"Yes, Peggy, my Maria is gone! The worst of\n evils has befallen your friend.\"","Requests payment of a debt.","William Munford has returned to the College\n of William and Mary, and is \"in constant\n attendance on Mr. (St. George) Tucker...Mrs.\n Tucker has lately been so unfortunate as to\n lose a newborn child.\"","Accuses John Coalter of \"making a stroke at\n her character\"; makes insulting statements\n regarding John Coalter's late wife. John\n Coalter responds by threatening to take Jenny\n Stuart into court, after which she offers to\n return John Coalter's letter.","James Coalter is a merchant, dealing largely\n in indigo.","Recounts a voyage to Hampton Roads to view\n the French Fleet, consisting of 150 ships,\n including three men of war, five or six\n frigates, and armed merchantmen laden with\n flour. Party spirit in Norfolk; Aristocrats\n more prominent; acrimony inflamed by the\n presence of the French fleet and a British\n frigate. William Munford is ready to apply for\n his law license.","\"There can be but one in the world\" for her,\n but he is \"out of her reach.\" At a recent\n dinner the first toast by Governor Lee was to\n her.","Congratulations on the occasion of her\n marriage to John Coalter.","The difficulty of finding passage for Mrs.\n Coalter and her mother from Williamsburg to\n Staunton. John Coalter is finally able to\n borrow a phaeton which he has overhauled and\n supplied with an umbrella. Advice regarding\n divorce of F. C[?]y.","Concerning a mare to be serviced.","The \"war\" and Indian victory are mentioned\n and a bloody spring season is predicted.","Divorce proceedings for a Mrs. Matthews\n before the Georgia Legislature.","Mention is made of a child expected by Mrs.\n Coalter.","Condolences \"on this distressing occasion\"\n (the death of John Coalter's wife in\n childbirth; the child also died.)","Business letter concerning collections to be\n made in Virginia.","She should \"by this time be fatigued with\n the name of Tucker\" and that she \"had better\n look about\" (for a husband).","The letter is from the papers of John\n Coalter.","Judith Randolph, wife of Richard Randolph,\n half brother of Frances Tucker, sends greetings\n to Polly and Charles (Carter), step-sister and\n brother of Frances Tucker. The \"Mama\" mentioned\n is Mrs. Lelia Carter Tucker.","Complains that she is \"surrounded by the\n real evils of life.\" (Her husband had been\n linked with her sister in the famous scandal\n proceedings.)","Concerning a horse in which he is\n interested.","Hint of a June wedding for Frances\n Tucker.","Fanny B. Tucker has just married John\n Coalter and returned with him to Staunton. Anne\n H. Nicholas writes that Lelia Byrd has died at\n the age of 18.","Elm Grove was the new home of the Coalters.\n Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter was in the\n Warm Springs for her health in September.","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter returns to\n Williamsburg for the birth of her first child,\n Francis Lelia; the burning of the buildings of\n Lexington Academy.","John Coalter was on the court circuit.","The letters are undated, but are replies to\n those from Frances Bland Tucker Coalter to John\n Coalter.","F. Davenport was the mother of the second\n wife of John Coalter, who continued to live\n with the Coalters.","Concerning deed to property, probably Elm\n Grove, the home bought by John Coalter.","Maria Carter was a step-daughter of St.\n George Tucker.","Writes of obtaining a clerk's position with\n the Ohio Assembly at $4.00 per day.","Death of her husband and her straitened\n circumstances; Bizarre in bad condition; hopes\n to send her son, St. George, to Europe to cure\n his deafness.","In June, St. George Tucker and Mrs. Tucker\n set out for Staunton in order to be there for\n the lying-in of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter.","First mention of the second Coalter child,\n Elizabeth.","The illness of Tudor Randolph.","Congratulates John Coalter on the birth of\n his second daughter and the purchase of Elm\n Grove. He writes at length about the difficulty\n in buying good house servants.","Financial matters, mainly about bank shares\n and dividends.","St. George Randolph's visit to England; her\n disappointment over continued his deafness Dr.\n Cooper says \"occasioned by the irruption of his\n ears at nine months old.\" Has no authority over\n the servants. Illness of Polly the\n seamstress.","Thirty sick Negroes. Poverty.","John Naylor married to Jane, sister of John\n Coalter.","Payment of $1,230 on bank shares.","The marriage of Beverley Tucker to Mary\n Coalter.","Small pox.","Difficulties in South Carolina caused by the\n embargo.","His wife Evelina has given birth to a\n son.","Anne Catherine Coalter was visiting the\n Coalters at Elm Grove.","Mention of her young daughters, Fancilea\n (Francis Lelia) and Lizba (Elizabeth Tucker\n Coalter).","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter spent every\n summer at the medicinal springs for her\n health.","Interesting comments on the effect of the\n embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the\n War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found\n in these letters. There is also a report of the\n destruction wrought in Bruton Parish Church by the\n \"youth of Williamsburg,\" and remarks of Saint\n George Tucker (14 June 1809) upon the occasion of\n the birth of his first grandson, St. George\n Coalter, in which he strongly condemns the\n academies and colleges of that day.","Letters include those exchanged by John Coalter\n with his third wife Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter\n from 1809-1811, when John Coalter was serving as\n Circuit Judge. In 1811 he accepted an appointment\n as judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals;\n the family then moved to Richmond. There are many\n letters received by Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter between 1809 and her death in 1813, from\n her father St. George Tucker, and stepmother Mrs.\n Lelia Tucker, in Williamsburg, from her\n sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph at Bizarre, and\n from other members of the family. There also are\n many letters to the daughters of John Coalter,\n Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker, from their\n grandparents, from 1813 to the death of Frances\n Lelia Coalter in 1821.","On the appointment of John Coalter to his\n position as \"a judge under the new Judiciary\n System.\" (John Coalter was appointed February\n 7, 1807).","Mentions a visit from the newly married \n Beverley\n [Tucker] and \n Polly\n [Coalter] and writes concerning her sons\n Saint (George) and Tudor.","Written by John Coalter during spring and\n autumn sessions of the Circuit Court. Contain\n instructions for planting, the upkeep of Elm\n Grove, and other matters.","One of the letters concerns the troubles\n with the English and the hope for a peaceful\n settlement.","In the letter of June 14, St. George Tucker\n mentions the birth of John Coalter's first son\n his first grandson (St. George Tucker Coalter)\n \"who, if my prayers for him may be heard, will\n never descend from the dignity of a private\n station.\" Concerning the education of his\n grandson, he writes, \"unless the manners of our\n youth, or the management of their tutor, shall\n undergo a most surprising and happy change in\n this Country, I had rather he should never hear\n of an Academy or a College, than enter the\n walls of one.","Congratulations on the birth of a son.","This series of letters is concerned, among\n other problems, with the difficulty of meeting\n payments on Elm Grove, of a fight between two\n of their slaves, the treatment of one of the\n wives by slave husband and the imprisonment on\n the plantation of the two slaves. Effort to get\n a tooth pulled. Two doctors and, finally, \"a\n shoemaker named Cease\" were able to extract the\n tooth about a week after the first attempt was\n made. Alcoholism of a friend. Afflicting\n account of sister's situation at Bizarre. \"she\n must come to us, as soon as she can leave\n Bizarre; which she says cannot be before Xmas,\n that she may complete the clothing of the\n Negroes.\"","Appeals to James All to represent the\n district. About the war situation: \"We are more\n Colonies than ever--i.e. we give our \n whole trade to\n aid Britain in her wars--were we Colonies we\n would only give the revenue arising from\n trade.\"","Her parents were trying to buy a cook for\n Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter without great\n success.","These letters although undated, are believed\n to have been written in 1810.","Reports that Bruton Parish Church has been\n \"totally and wantonly destroyed...the Bellows\n and many of the pipes cut to pieces,\" evidently\n by the youth of the town.","John Coalter attending the spring and autumn\n sittings of the Circuit Court, sends\n instructions for the management of the\n farm.","News of the farm, the slaves, and family.\n Relays questions from slave Ned about the farm\n and permission for him to visit his daughter in\n Rockingham and his wife's petition to accompany\n him.","Concerning a cook for sale.","D[avid]\n C[oalter] , Mary's father.","These letters from relatives of Mrs. Frances\n Bland Tucker Coalter are placed in one\n folder.","These letters are undated but are presumed\n to date from 1811, and placed in one\n folder.","In May, John Coalter writes of his\n appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of\n Appeals of Virginia (May 11, 1811). \"God help\n me, I know not what to do. All have advised my\n acceptance.\" In October he writes of\n arrangements made for the move to Richmond, and\n of plans to sell the cattle at Elm Grove.","In April Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter\n writes, \"I very much fear I shall never be\n reconciled to our fate\"--of separation for such\n long periods when John Coalter is absent on the\n court circuit. (A month later John Coalter was\n appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of\n Appeals.) Also mentions a \"terrible whipping\"\n their two year old son St. George Tucker\n Coalter had \"for obstinacy.\"","Tucker strongly advises his brother-in-law\n against accepting his new appointment: \"Rest\n assured that no other Judge of the General\n Court will accept the office which is tendered\n you.\"","John St. George Randolph is a son of Mrs.\n Judith Randolph.","Speaking of himself as an \"ex-judge,\" Tucker\n advises John Coalter regarding his new\n appointment; concern for the health of Mrs.\n Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Frances Lelia Coalter writes with concern\n about her mother's health.","News of the children sent to Mrs. Frances\n Bland Tucker Coalter who is quite ill.","Concern for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter's poor health.","The troubled times are reflected in this\n series of letters. In July, Tucker comments on\n the American privateer with one nine-pounder\n which took a British schooner armed with four\n twelve pounders. In August he gives an account\n of the Baltimore riot in which a jail was\n broken into and prisoners assassinated. He\n writes that such action \"is beyond measure\n horrible and obnoxious; and every good Citizen\n ought to set his face against such damnable\n proceedings,\" but concludes, \"The Yankees, no\n doubt, will be glad of the precedent...I look\n forward to a dissolution of the Union, as an\n Event not far off.\"","Concerning the sale of Elm Grove.","Reflects the uncertainty of the war\n situation in his letter.","Frances L. Coalter writes to her father who\n is with her mother, Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter, in her last illness at the medicinal\n springs.","Writing to his daughter before she goes to\n the Springs for her final siege of illness, St.\n George Tucker sends the news that the enemy had\n left the waters about Williamsburg after much\n destruction and property along the river.","In these letters it is apparent that Mrs.\n Frances Bland Tucker Coalter is near death.","Letters of hope and prayer for the recovery\n of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Reports of the war: \"the conduct of the\n British at Craney Island was the most cowardly\n imaginable,\" and \"We have just been informed by\n rumor that the British Squadron in the\n Chesapeake has been reinforced...\"","Writes of his \"great and irretrievable loss\"\n his wife died \"on Sunday evening, the 12th\n instant.\"","The first letters written after the death of\n St. George Tucker's daughter.","To her granddaughter, the second child of\n John Coalter and his late wife. (A biographical\n note of John Coalter's family is enclosed in\n the folder with this letter.)","She writes that \"the events of the present\n week will supply to you the want of a Mother\n and Sister, which you have so severly felt,\n particularly in the last six or eight months.\"\n Frances L. Coalter, the sister of Elizabeth T.\n Coalter, died in 1821 at the age of 18. John\n Coalter was soon to marry his fourth wife, a\n widow Williamson.","Second is titled \"Tucker-Green Annals.\"","The Tuckers are in their summer home at\n Warminster, with Maria Carter Cabell, daughter\n of Mrs. L. Tucker, and her husband Joseph\n Cabell.","A New Year's greeting to his\n granddaughters.","The letters in this box are primarily those of\n the two surviving children of John and Francis\n Bland Tucker Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter\n Bryan and St. George Tucker Coalter, and their\n respective spouses, John Randolph Bryan and Judith\n H. Tomlin Coalter.","This group includes genealogical material on\n the Tomlin family, and correspondence of Judith H.\n Tomlin before her marriage to St. George Tucker\n Coalter. Her letters form an important part of the\n collection from this time until her death in\n 1859.","The last letters from their grandparents, Mr.\n and Mrs. St. George Tucker, are preserved, as well\n as letters to their uncles Henry and Beverley\n Tucker and John Randolph of Roanoke. Of special\n note is a letter of October, 1831 in which St.\n George Tucker Coalter writes fully of Randolph\n during a visit to Roanoke. After his death in\n 1833, Randolph's will caused great difficulty and\n misunderstanding in the family, and appears to\n cast a slur on his step-father St. George\n Tucker.","The letters of St. George Tucker Coalter to his\n wife and sister, especially those written from the\n springs which he visits each year, form the\n largest single group. In these letters an\n interesting picture of nineteenth century social\n life is to be found.","Schoolgirl letters written by J. H. T.\n before her marriage.","Judith H. Tomlin writes of her visit to\n Yorktown to see Lafayette on his return visit\n to America.","Judith H. Tucker writes to congratulate\n Virgilia Savage in December on her\n marriage.","Endorsed: \"Letters of my dear and venerated\n Grandfather, S. G. Tucker, High Souled,\n Generous Gentleman.\"","Thomas T. Tucker, a brother of St. George\n Tucker, enclosed these two letters in a packet\n which he forwarded from Beverley Tucker.","St. George Tucker complains about his sight\n and signs himself \"Your old blind Grandpa\" in\n the first of these letters. The last is\n endorsed: \"All the letters concerning my most\n dear Grandfather's illness and death are\n omitted and put to themselves.\"","These were written after the death of St.\n George Tucker.","Writes in regard to his instruction in law,\n as suggested by Elizabeth T. Coalter. He\n mentions the poor health of his step-brother,\n John Randolph, of Roanoke; and suspects that\n his brother, Beverley, \"will not return to\n Virginia as a resident.\" Beverley Tucker, then\n in Missouri, did return to Williamsburg, and\n later became Professor of Law at the College of\n William and Mary.","Tucker enclosed his \"Introductory Lecture,\"\n reprinted from his \n Commentory on the Laws\n of Virginia . . . Lectures delivered at the\n Winchester Law School , pp. 7-14.","The first is a printed invitation to a ball\n at the Jefferson Hotel with a message added;\n the second is a Temperance pledge signed by St.\n George Tucker Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin and\n three others.","Evidently left in charge of his father's\n estate, Chatham, he writes concerning\n examinations at the College of William and Mary\n and of his experiences in vaccinating and\n performing minor operations on the slaves. (He\n was a 20 year old farmer with no medical\n training!)","St. George Tucker Coalter prepares to leave\n school to marry.","The first letter to Judith Tomlin Coalter\n after her marriage to St. George Tucker\n Coalter, December 16, 1829. \"Tell St. George\n that yesterday Uncle R. (John Randolph of\n Roanoke) made an attack \n on the\n Judiciary and Papa (John Coalter),\n finding no one else would rise to their\n defense, answered him...\"","His \"chill and fever,\" the recurring\n sickness which was to bring on his early death\n in 1839. His wife goes to Chatham, the Coalter\n family home, for the birth of her first child,\n Walker Tomlin Coalter.","In October he writes: \"Uncle R. (John\n Randolph of Roanoke) looks dreadfully, is much\n worn away by disease...\" Two weeks later he\n writes describing Randolph's estate and\n personality: \"He is very agreeable indeed and\n entertains me highly with his conversation on\n all subjects...He is a man of the finest and\n nicest feelings I have ever met with...\"","On her husband's financial difficulties.","Writes to his sister about crops, planting,\n and the like.","The two cousins, grandsons of John Coalter,\n are infants; this letter is written by St.\n George Tucker Coalter.","In the January letter, he announces the\n birth of a son, Henry St. George Tucker\n Coalter. From White Sulphur Springs, he writes\n (July 27) that \"the shortness of breath and the\n hacking cough have left me entirely.\"","Her husband is at the Springs; she would\n like to join him but cannot afford it. \"He says\n he never wished for money before, as the want\n of it keeps him from having company...\"","An interesting group of letters describing\n life at several of the medicinal springs which\n were so popular in the 19th century. He\n describes his daily regimen, the meals, the\n baths, other tourists, the costs, and the\n physical characteristics of the resorts.","Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her husband\n about family matters while he is at the springs\n for his health.","A continuation of his previous letters,\n including a crude drawing of the buildings and\n grounds of Salt Sulphur Springs.","In November she mentions that Beverley\n Tucker called on way to Williamsburg.","The boys, who are just learning to write,\n add their notes to the letter to their\n grandfather.","Her husband is overworking, and she fears\n for his health.","The brother of Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes\n to her father-in-law asking help in gaining a\n position with a Richmond company.","He writes about his poor health; mentions\n his uncle, Beverley Tucker.","John Coalter is very much concerned with\n gold mine projects; he now orders St. George\n Tucker Coalter about at his will, and has\n decided that the family shall move closer to\n him. They are dependent on John Coalter\n financially.","Life at the springs, his continuing illness\n and his poverty.","His discouragement as he contemplates the\n move insisted upon by his father: \"after seven\n years we have to begin the world afresh and fix\n and build and lay out and all that -- oh\n thunder - -how I dread and hate it.\"","Regarding the move from Cumberland, New Kent\n County, to St. George's Park, King William\n County, and the difficulty of the move.","John Coalter is very ill, and the new place\n is slow in getting established. Mention of the\n will of John Randolph of Roanoke.","The will of John Randolph of Roanoke, in\n which the good name of St. George Tucker is\n slighted. Henry and Beverley Tucker, sons of\n St. George Tucker are also involved.","Home has not been settled since leaving\n Cumberland. Her husband has finally bought a\n place \"about 2 hundred and 50 acres, very poor,\n with a new house but a very indifferent\n one.\"","Concerning the \"continued illness\" of Judge\n (John) Coalter; offers to be of any help that\n he can. (John Coalter died the day this letter\n was written.)","The correspondence between St. George T.\n Coalter, his wife, his sister Mrs. Elizabeth T.\n Bryan, and her husband John Randolph Bryan, form\n the core of the material in this box. St. George\n Tucker Coalter attempts to establish a new home\n where his late father John Coalter forced him to\n move (St. George Tucker Coalter was never\n financially independent of his father). A doctor's\n prescription, 28 April 1839, for the man who has\n been slowly dying of lung trouble and constant\n fever is: salts to be taken internally, salve\n rubbed on externally, baths at the medicinal\n springs and regular exercise. Four months later\n St. George Tucker Coalter died.","The five surviving children of Mrs. Coalter and\n the nine children of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan add\n to the correspondence as the years go on, for the\n families are very attached to one another and\n there is much visiting back and forth as well as\n letter writing. The letters of the cousins have\n been combined in this collection, so that an\n interesting picture is given of the life of this\n period; see a report of a traveling entertainer\n who visits the great houses (23 February 1847), a\n description of a costume ball at Warner Hall (8\n February 1851) and a list of courses studied at a\n Girl's school (2 February 1852).","There is much discussion of diseases which were\n prevalent: consumption, scarlet fever, typhoid\n fever, cholera, and influenza. 16-year-old John\n Coalter copied out a cholera cure sent by his aunt\n for use by two local doctors (13 July 1849).","The first letter is endorsed by John\n Randolph Bryan. The second was started by St.\n George Tucker Coalter but was completed and\n signed by his wife.","Concerned principally with the rapidly\n deteriorating health of St. George T. Coalter.\n In June he begins a letter that he is unable to\n finish but by November he is again supervising\n the farm activity. The establishment of the new\n farm and the erection of additional buildings\n is a great strain.","Mrs. Coalter wrote the first two letters for\n her husband who was too weak to write, but by\n December he was again active in supervising St.\n George's Park, their new home.","Coalter visits his uncle, Beverley Tucker,\n who has moved back to Williamsburg.","Visiting the family home of Mrs. Coalter\n their son, John, falls down the basement stairs\n and is unconscious for a time. His father\n writes, \"the Doctor bled him and yesterday\n morning we gave him a dose of salts...he is now\n to all appearances as well as ever tho' from\n loss of blood, the shock, the Salts and low\n diet he is a little fainty when he first begins\n to move about in the morning.\" (The child\n survived the ministrations of the doctor!)","A receipt for $100.00 and a demand for\n another $100.00 on shares of stock.","Concerned with the business of a ferry, gold\n mines, and a mill, evidently part of the estate\n left by John Coalter to his two children.","Mr. Coalter has had a relapse, and \"has lost\n all the flesh and muscle he had gained. Yet he\n makes a trip down country in April, only to\n return much worse.","He marks his 30th birthday: \"I can neither\n eat nor sleep nor move about with comfort and\n am so weak from fever...that I can hardly stand\n up or sit down.\"","Letters written to her husband when he is on\n his last trip from home.","A doctor's prescription: salts, used\n internally, salves externally, baths at the Hot\n Springs, and continued exercise.","Announces the birth of a child to Mrs.\n Coalter. St. George Tucker Coalter writes of\n the \"fire in my breast that must soon burn me\n out.\"","News of a young son; congratulates Mrs.\n Bryan on the birth of a daughter. St. George\n Tucker Coalter adds a note in July 4th letter:\n \"I can't make much hand at writing this evening\n but I send you these few words to comfort\n you...my thoughts and prayers are with you may\n the Lord work all things together for our\n good.\" To this Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan has\n added the endorsement, \"The last line I ever\n got from him.\"","After the death of her husband, Mrs. Coalter\n has gone to live with her sister-in-law at\n Eagle Point.","Mrs. Coalter moved from St. George's Park to\n Presley. Her brother, Harrison Tomlin, was\n living with the family and takes the place of a\n father to the children.","Of her poverty and of the need for means to\n educate her children.","The son of Mrs. Coalter writes to his young\n cousin, the son of John Randolph Bryan, at\n Roanoke, a plantation that had been in\n litigation since the death of John Randolph.\n The property was being administered by J. R.\n Bryan, one of the heirs. Young John C. Bryan,\n was one of the chief beneficiaries of the will,\n then being contested.","Announcing the birth of a child.","Preparations are made to send Fanny (Frances\n Bland Coalter) to live with her grandmother and\n to attend school in Fredericksburg. The sale of\n the estate of her late husband took place in\n October.","Enquires about money from the estate of John\n Randolph of Roanoke; her plans to send John and\n Henry Coalter away to school. (St. George\n Tucker Coalter, father of John and Henry, was a\n nephew of John Randolph, and it was expected\n that the Coalter children would inherit\n something from his estate.)","Written from school to his aunt; \"all of the\n boys have to get in school by sunrise and stay\n there until five in the evening.\"","The Bryan place, Eagle Point in Gloucester\n County, is so isolated and the family growing\n so large that a school teacher was kept there\n for the other children. She mentions her\n brothers and sisters, and tells of a traveling\n entertainer: \"De [Delia] and myself went to\n Warner Hall...and there found an Italian\n ventriloquist with a hat on that had little\n bells all around the brim...if he comes to\n Chatham you will probably be deceived by\n him...\"","He tells his sister: \"I reckon this is the\n coldest and most melancholy place in the\n world.\"","Hopes to get a place from the sale of the\n estate. \"Seven years this last Christmas is a\n long time not to have a house to call your\n own.\" Her hopes for the settlement of the\n Randolph estate are not fulfilled.","Congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a\n son, her 8th child. Mentions shopping trips to\n Richmond and the remodeling of the house, so,\n perhaps, some money may have been received from\n the Randolph estate.","A 9-year old writes of attending a dance at\n Warner Hall and staying until 11 p.m. \"We take\n dancing lesson of 2 hours length every\n Saturday.\"","Consumption and Cholera are discussed as\n well as the final division of the estate. Mrs.\n Coalter still hopes to be able to buy a home of\n her own. Sons John and Henry left in September\n for the University of Virginia where they room\n with their cousins, Jack Coalter and J.\n Braxton. On Christmas Day she mentions \"A\n dreadful affair has lately occurred at the\n University, one young man killed another, both\n intoxicated and from the south; as wicked as\n that is, it takes the \n cold\n blooded yankees to perpetrate the\n refinement of barbarism in \n stewing , and\n boiling...living people...\"","Henry T. Coalter, 16 years old, writes that\n he has had charge of the harvest at the farm\n because the overseer was sick. He has also\n advised the local doctors on Cholera cures:\n \"Mama received your letter by the last post and\n was much obliged to you for the copy you sent\n her of the cure for the Cholera. Since it\n reached here I have copied it twice for\n different doctors who seemed much pleased with\n the proscription (sic).\"","A beautiful description of the Cove and the\n island as seen from the Eagle Point house.","Mrs. Lacy, related through the fourth wife\n of her grandfather, John Coalter, was like an\n older sister to Frances Bland Coalter, and the\n affectionate relationship between the two\n continued for many years.","The Lacy's are preparing to move into\n Ellwood, the former summer home of John\n Coalter.","Letters written before and after a long\n visit. There were ties between the families\n despite the distance between them. Mrs. Coalter\n fears her youngest son, \n Saint\n [George] , has Typhoid fever.","A school friend tells of a visit to Richmond\n to see the relics of Gen. and Mrs.\n Washington.","About life in the great houses of Virginia,\n excursions on river boats, dances, and the\n like. Mentions a fancy ball where everyone\n appeared in a mask and gown, \"You cannot tell a\n man from a woman. They go about in this costume\n for some time and have a dance...one gentleman\n went draped as a lady and no one found him\n out,...one went as a monk in robes and with his\n beads...\"","\"When will your new house, or rather, new\n home be ready for you? (Frances Bland Coalter's\n mother has finally been able to buy a house,\n Stanley.)","Mentions the war threat: \"my anxiety about a\n lasting peace\n and the welfare of my children preys very much\n on my spirits.\"","Announces the birth of a daughter to Mrs.\n Lacy.","Fanny Coalter is attending a school\n conducted by Rev. Moses D. Hoge.","Endorses note from Mrs. Judith H.\n Coalter.","About her daughter, Agnes, and the progress\n on the improvements at Ellwood.","\"Rumors of a great revival at Mr. H.'s\n school have reached us from different quarters\n and report says Jinney and yourself acted a\n conspicuous part.\"","A school friend writes of her textbooks:\n \"Paley's Moral Philosophy, Olinstead's Natural\n Philosophy, Hume's History of England, Conic\n Sections, Thompson's Arithmetic and French\n Studies.\"","Includes a most interesting account of trip\n by boat from Gloucester County, \n via Jamestown,\n to Richmond.","The first letters written by Mrs. Coalter's\n youngest child.","A schoolmate who has left Rev. Mr. Hoge's\n school writes back.","An offer to abate charges so that Fanny B.\n Coalter could remain in school.","Writes that he has stood his examination for\n license to practice law; reports on his\n brothers and sisters.","Fanny has returned to Rev. Hoge's school;\n her friend writes regarding scarlet fever.","This box consists largely of papers collected by\n Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she\n is preparing to leave school, and December 1858, when\n she married Henry Peronneau Brown. Through this\n marriage the Tucker-Coalter line was connected with\n the Brown line; thus, the papers of the two families\n were brought together into one.","The collection gives an interesting picture of the\n life and interests of a young lady of moderate\n circumstances in the mid-l9th century. Of special\n interest are the letters concerning the Rev. Moses D.\n Hoge, whose school in Richmond Fanny Coalter had\n attended. Shortly after she left school, the Rev. Mr.\n Hoge carried on a very romantic correspondence with\n Fanny, although he was a married man with several\n children. The correspondence became more ardent in\n the early months of 1854 and, when Mrs. Hoge wrote\n that her husband had gone to Baltimore to stay with\n his brother who was ill, Fanny followed him there.\n According to the gossip of Mattie and Lizzie Morton,\n she went there to \"entrap him.\" In October it was\n suggested that the brother, William Hoge, was the one\n in whom she was interested. The Rev. Mr. Hoge later\n sought to calm the fervours of his correspondent, as\n shown by his letters of 28 January 1855, 19 June\n 1856, and 19 March 1857.","Fanny B. Coalter did not lack for other suitors,\n however, for she preserved a letter of 17 July 1854,\n a proposal of marriage from Alfred B. Tucker. A year\n later there are reports of her interest in the Brown\n brothers, John Thompson and Peronneau, of Petersburg,\n both of whom were courting her. She finally settled\n on the latter; some acceptances to the marriage\n invitation are included in this box.","Letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her husband\n Henry Peronneau Brown continue in Box 21. The\n intervening boxes contain manuscripts of the Brown\n family, especially Capt. Henry Brown, grandfather of\n Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 7-13); the Hon. John\n Thompson Brown, father of Henry Peronneau Brown\n (Boxes 14-19); and Col. John Thompson Brown II,\n brother of Henry Peronneau Brown (Box 20).","Fanny is preparing to leave the school, having\n finished the course.","A schoolmate and Fanny's sister write after she\n leaves school.","Reports that Jack Bryan, oldest son of Mrs.\n Elizabeth T. Bryan is dying at the Coalter home,\n Presley.","After many years of waiting (since the death of\n her husband in 1839) Mrs. Coalter is finally able\n to buy her own place, Stanley. She tells of her\n move and of the illness that put her in bed\n afterward.","The school is closed for the summer, his wife\n and children are away, so he enlivens his solitude\n \"by having a little chat with you...and where I\n always think of you and the delightful morning\n when we enjoyed the scene together...how I cherish\n every memorial of you. \"I greatly enjoyed your\n last brief visit to us and that evening (do you\n remember it?) when the music room being full of\n company we found quiet, and cool breezes in the\n back porch. I have been sitting there tonight.\" (A\n strange letter, indeed, and one which was to cause\n some upset in the heart of Frances Bland Coalter,\n as subsequent correspondence show.)","Written to Mrs. Judith H. Coalter soon after\n she purchased her home, Stanley.","\"This letter cannot hold any news, so I will\n fill it with love...entertaining myself by wishing\n that you could walk into the room and occupy a\n vacant chair hard by .\"I hope to see you\n sometimes...nothing to what I would enjoy were I\n to keep house in a quiet way and have you for my\n guest a week at a time...\"I would like you to\n marry some fine fellow and live in Richmond, only\n I...like you best as you are, except that you are\n too far from me.\"","\"When I woke up yesterday morning and found it\n raining, my spirits fell as low as the mercury for\n I feared you would not come to Hampstead...\"","\"You ask me why it is that I am so partial to\n you--well, the very first time we get a chance to\n have a talk by ourselves I will tell you...When\n shall the opportunity come? There is always so\n much company at your house...\"","He conducts a school: \"I succeeded in six days\n of raising 21 scholars.\" He writes that Henry has\n graduated in Law with distinction.","\"I think from his letter, \n Brother\n [William Hoge] has been much sicker than we\n had any idea of \n Mr. [Moses D.]\n Hoge is going on Thursday to see him and\n will probably remain in Baltimore until he is well\n enough to travel...\"","Addressed to Fanny at Baltimore. Her friend\n writes, \"Cousin Joe says you went to Baltimore\n purposely to see Mr. Hoge.\"","Reports gossip concerning Fanny's Baltimore\n trip.","\"Often when (I am) abroad, you will be in my\n mind and heart. Neither do I want you to get\n married before I return. I am to perform that\n service, you know...\"","Concerning the gossip regarding Fanny and Rev.\n Hoge: \"Surely you could not think me so deceitful\n as to profess to love you and then say that you\n would \n try to entrap a\n gentleman . \n I did not say so .\n I remember saying that if you went to Baltimore\n and were thrown with Mr. Hoge I believed he would\n address you, because I know he admired you very\n sincerely...\"","A proposal of marriage.","A rumor that Frances Bland Coalter is to\n marry.","\"Julia Green was here...when I told her that\n you had gotten a letter from Mr. Hoge she said she\n was so jealous of you that she was ready to\n fight...\"","\"I am going to Baltimore...and I shall see Mr.\n Wm. Hoge! Don't you wish you were going? What\n shall I tell him for you?\"","St. George is now in school at Staunton.","Construction work to be done at the University\n of Virginia.","\"I hope that it will not be long before I have\n the pleasure of seeing you, my dear and constantly\n remembered friend.\"","\"I have heard several times of your engagement\n to Thomas--who has made himself very scarce.\"","Accepts invitation to the marriage of Virginia,\n younger sister of Fanny Coalter.","Now a practicing lawyer, he writes to his aunt\n on business.","To her cousin regarding \"Mr. President\" and\n \"The Vice.\" (This appears to refer to the Brown\n brothers, John Thompson and Henry Peronneau.\n Frances Bland Coalter was to marry the\n latter.)","\"I wish you to be very particular in your\n conversations with \n P[eronneau] not to\n let him have the least idea of the tenor of my\n remarks to you yesterday and at the same time\n manage to convince him that I am not in love with\n you, as I am afraid such is his present\n opinion.\"","Trouble in: finding a teacher for her children;\n \"the Roanoke business\"--(evidently a reference to\n the still unsettled will of John Randolph of\n Roanoke.)","Concerned about the health of Fanny's mother,\n has a horror of those \"distracting springs\" for\n invalids.","The solution to a problem in surveying (this\n may be the \"Thomas\" to whom Frances Bland Coalter\n was rumored to be engaged).","On the death of Mrs. E. T. Bryan, aunt of Fanny\n Bland Coalter.","On the death of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan.","Thanks Fanny for her help at the time of the\n death of Mrs. Bryan, her mother.","Is in charge of the plantation since her\n mother's death; busy making summer clothes for the\n slaves.","Suggests a visit together to \"cousin Horace\n Lacy.\"","P[eronneau]\n Brown and his brother, Thompson, are\n mentioned. (See letters of December 1855,\n Box-folder 6:44-45.)","Writes to ask Mrs. Coalter to stay with his\n daughters during his absence in the south.","Has charge of the large plantation, keeping\n four seamstresses, three spinners and a weaver\n busy.","\"No, my dear Fanny, my affection for you has\n not changed.\"","Regarding Mr. Willcox Brown and his brother\n Peronneau, future husband of Frances Bland\n Coalter.","Invitation to the commencement party at Hampden\n Sidney College.","Accompanying his uncle on a business trip, he\n has visited the main cities of the south and\n attended the opera in New Orleans. \"I must confess\n that I have been rather disappointed in the people\n that live in these rich lands--they are as rough\n as possible...live in log houses and on the very\n poorest fare.\"","\"I suppose your wedding will be postponed\n unless Mr. Brown's recovery is unusually\n rapid.\"","\"The news of your engagement [to Henry P.\n Brown] did not surprise me...how heartily I\n approve of your choice...\"","\"If my letter arrives too late for Miss Fanny\n Coalter, I hope Mrs. Brown will have enough\n affection for the old name to lay claim to\n it.\"","Regrets that he cannot attend the wedding.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","These letters are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","These letters are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This item is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","These covers are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","Papers of Henry Brown, a merchant and county official\n include a manuscript map of Guilford C. H., business\n records and correspondence of Brown and Clayton, New\n London, Bedford (now Campbell County), Virginia and\n Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, Virginia. Collection also\n includes papers concerning a lawsuit against Pleasant\n Murphy and estate papers of Daniel Brown and Henry\n Brown's father-in-law John Thompson. There are papers of\n his immediate family including Henry Brown, Jr.","The Brown family papers begin with the letters\n and papers of Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841),\n successful merchant of Bedford County and\n Lynchburg, who established the family fortune. He\n was the father of John Thompson Brown, Delegate to\n the Virginia Assembly, whose letters and papers\n are collected in the next section (Boxes\n 14-19).","A few letters and receipts pertaining to Henry\n Brown, 1712-1798, the father of Capt. Henry Brown,\n are included. The great bulk of the material,\n however, relates to Capt. Brown, beginning with a\n map of a Revolutionary War battle, 1777, in which\n he was wounded. With his brother, Daniel, he\n opened a general store in Bedford soon after the\n conclusion of the war. A partnership agreement of\n April 1797, which brought James Leftwich into the\n business, is preserved and the bulk of the\n material in this box pertains to the business of\n the store. A good picture of early merchandising\n is given by the accounts, letters relating to\n buying and selling trips, and the court actions\n taken to collect accounts.","Also, starting with folder 60, are 39 items\n relating to the duties of Henry Brown as tax\n collector in the Bedford area in the years 1800 to\n 1803.","\"Your friends here tremble for you and\n apprehend the worst from the dangers that\n encompass you...the deadly rifle, the scalping\n knife, tomahawk...return to us in all\n speed.\"","Endorsed: \"Map of revolutionary battle,\n found 1926 by F. B. Saunders in old papers from\n Ivy Cliff. Capt. Henry Brown, born at Ivy Cliff\n about 1760, was wounded at Guildford C. H.\"","Concerning goods for a retail store.","Endorsed: \"Note Henry Brown, payable 1\n September, 1793.\"","Regarding saddle goods in stock at the\n store.","Writes to his brother concerning tobacco\n prices.","Concerning business affairs a suit for debt,\n purchase of tobacco and a \"Negro wench\" for the\n store, etc. \"P.S. I heard at court they had\n made you a Captain.\"","Includes a list of the new officers of the\n Farmer's Bank in Richmond.","Concerning the division of Negroes, total\n value £815, between Leftwich and the\n Brown brothers.","Regarding loss of West India produce on\n which $5,000.00 was borrowed. Endorsed: \"I fear\n our loss will be considerable.\"","Receipt is for $130.43 to be paid to John\n Roberts on land that Capt. Henry Brown sold to\n William Woodford.","Tobacco sold by Leftwich to a man who was a\n bad risk: \"...we are thrown out of between 20\n and 30 thousand dollars...one fourth of what it\n has taken us 20 years to earn is lost for want\n of prudence.\"","Directions for sending tax collections.","Business records and correspondence of Henry\n Brown and Samuel P. Clayton. After the death of\n his brother Daniel in 1818, Brown entered into a\n partnership with Clayton, his son-in-law. Brown\n survived Clayton, who died in 1832; this box also\n includes papers from 1833 to 1839 made out to\n Henry Brown, surviving partner of Brown and\n Clayton Company.","The accounts of Henry Brown with Hancock and\n Brown, Lynchburg, 1824-1833, are retained as one\n group.","Also retained as a separate group are the\n papers relating to the court suits of Brown and\n Pleasant Murphy. All notes of the period carried a\n 100 percent penalty clause. This resulted in many\n law suits being brought to establish what would\n now be considered exorbitant claims. In one case\n (see entry for March 10, 1823) for a debt of\n $42.05, the debtor surrendered 1 sound filly, 2\n cows, a calf, 2 feather beds, all household and\n kitchen furniture, all plantation utensils, and 6\n hogs!","Captain Henry Brown had many interests in his\n long life apart from the purely commercial\n activities upon which his considerable fortune was\n built. Included in this box are the papers\n relating to his other interests.","Business papers of Henry Brown, not directly\n connected with any of his various business\n enterprises, but concerned principally with court\n suits involving debts to him. Included is an\n interesting case of Mark Anthony, who took the\n oath of an Insolvent Debtor, making out a deed of\n trust of all his property to his creditors (11\n April 1829 and 6 July 1833).","Also includes papers concerned with the suit of\n Henry Brown vs. Nicodemus Leftwich, 1832-1840.\n Brown pays for the attendance of witnesses at the\n court and pays the county Jailor \"for imprisoning\n and releasing\" Leftwich.","Household, family and personal bills preserved\n by Henry Brown, an interesting collection of a\n family illustrating the activities of eight\n children in the second quarter of the nineteenth\n century, 1819-1841.","The personal correspondence of Henry Brown with\n his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children.\n The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son,\n John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19.","Also letters from the sons and daughters of\n Samuel, brother of Henry Brown.","In a separate group are collected letters written\n by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from\n West Point Military Academy and from the Indian Wars\n in Florida, where he served after he was\n commissioned.","Purchase of a watch in Winchester; requests 30\n Dollars to repay a debt.","His wife's estate; purchase of a Negro\n girl.","On his return from the Spring; attack of\n \"bilious Cholic;\" his treatment.","Concerning \"the purchase of some land at $20.\n per acre...\"","Beats female slave, using a walking stick, his\n wife using a cowhide whip. The slave's mate\n attempted to protect her with an axe but he was\n subdued, beaten and sent to jail the next day.\n Hopes for peace, unpopularity of the conscription\n law and the whiskey tax.","On her studies: Blair's lectures, piano\n playing, drawing, painting and embroidery.","The husband of Nancy Brown writes:\n \"...Bounaparte is on his way to this country. If\n so I greatly fear we shall go backwards with\n accelerated velocity in all peaceful, literary and\n ornamental pursuits...\"","Advice on a move to the State of Ohio.\n \"Although I like Slavery as little as you or\n anyone else, still...I think it probable that we\n should be as unhappy as we are with them\" (Daniel\n died in 1818. For the next 20 years Henry\n administered his estate for the benefit of his\n wife and children.)","Mary Brown's illness at the Springs (she was to\n die within a year).","The building of his house and the health of his\n family.","The daughter of Samuel Brown, writes to console\n her Uncle on the death of his brothers and his two\n daughters, Mrs. \n Anne [Nancy]\n B. Steptoe and Mrs. \n Mary [Polly]\n B. Clayton .","An uncle of Henry Brown writes, \"My grandson\n wishes to get in to Business in a store...\" (Henry\n Brown, Jr. now has a store in Lynchburg.)","His continued bad health. The death of James\n Leftwich, Capt. Brown's business partner.","Requests assistance in obtaining appointment as\n Clerk of Court at Bedford.","The value of the Deerwood tract.","Begs her father to let her have money to go to\n the inauguration of President Jackson.","On her visit to Washington: \"this is the\n thickest settled neighborhood that I ever was\n in--the neighbors are situated all around, some in\n view and others not more than a quarter of a mile\n from the house...\"","On his visit with his brothers, John Thompson\n Brown, in \"Washington City.\" Description of\n crowded Washington, full of pickpockets and of the\n confusion even in the President's house.","\"...the last day I rode more than thirty miles\n through a dreary wilderness without seeing a\n single house...I am yet travelling alone and have\n come six hundred miles without a single man\n travelling my course...\"","His progress in college.","His progress in repaying a debt to the estate\n of his uncle, Daniel.","Report of workers on the Chesapeake and Ohio\n canal dying from Cholera.","On the death of his maternal grandfather, John\n Thompson.","Leaving for New York to lay in goods.","Hopes for his store despite illness and some\n hostile feeling toward his former partner, Ammon\n Hancock.","On the death of Henry Brown. (Henry Brown, Jr.\n died while he and his wife were on a shopping trip\n for the store.)","On the changing population: \"The people still\n retain the simple manners of the old Scotch-Irish\n and, I may add, much of the intelligence and\n piety. But the restless spirit of emigration is\n taking away our best people and in their place we\n generally get Germans, who commonly are deplorably\n ignorant and will do very little toward supporting\n the Gospel.\"","A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes\n to settle accounts and close the store.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the\n disposal of her house.","To Frances Brown's husband, on the loss of her\n two brothers, \"and such brothers too, in so short\n a time.\" (Henry Brown, Jr. died in June, 1836, and\n his brother, John Thompson Brown, in December of\n that same year.)","On the sale of merchandise and an expected\n loss.","Agrees to furnish Gould B. Raymond, manager of\n the Menagerie Co., lodging for 30 men, 65 horses,\n 1 elephant, 1 camel and 2 ponies.","The inscription on the tomb of her late\n husband, John Thompson Brown.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the\n death of her husband a year ago.","The widow of John Thompson Brown writes\n regarding her three sons.","The executor of an estate demands payment of a\n note on which Henry Brown, Jr. was a cosigner.","The youngest daughter of Henry Brown writes\n about her marriage and the first meeting with her\n new relatives.","On his marriage to Alice Brown.","Her wedding trip to New Orleans.","Her sickness on the way down the river due to\n fresh paint in the boat.","Concerning eventual conversion of Baptists to\n the Presbyterian Church.","\"...I left New Orleans the 28th of March and\n reach \n G[eorge].T[own] .\n The 15th of April...Sam (Brown) was in New Orleans\n the day before I left-he was not married but\n expected to be the 9th of April.\"","\"Last evening our darling Alice made me the\n happy father of a fine boy...\"","Report to his father of his first grades at the\n Academy.","To his grandfather regarding his first term\n marks.","\"The first two years of our course are\n exclusively devoted to Mathematics and French...\"\n Encloses a work sheet and \"Synopsis of the Course\n of Studies at the Military Academy.\"","\"The Congress must get rid of its 'sickly\n sympathy' (with the Indians) or, rely upon it,\n this is a war of years to come.\" Gives a vivid\n description of St. Augustine.","Contrasts the Cherokees in Tennessee with the\n Seminoles of Florida. Describes Savannah in a\n letter enclosed, dated February 16, 1839.","Letters of Henry Brown, Jr., oldest son of Capt.\n Henry Brown; Samuel Thompson Brown, youngest son; and\n other members of the immediate family.","Henry Brown, Jr., who suffered a grave illness in\n 1822 as a result of which he almost lost his\n eyesight, went into the partnership of his father\n with Amman Hancock. In 1835-1836, he opened his own\n store in Lynchburg, but died in May 1836, while on a\n buying trip to New York. Interesting items in this\n part of the collection include a 44 page book of\n mineral and chemical notes (31 July 1826), a 56 page\n diary kept by Henry Brown, Jr. on his trip abroad (24\n July 1831), drafts of letters by Henry Brown, Jr. to\n newspapers regarding horses, and instructions for\n horse care, and the like (13 April 1835-March 1836).\n The will of Henry Brown, Jr. (May-December 1830), and\n his deathbed statement dictated to his wife (May\n 1836), are also included.","The papers of Samuel Thompson Brown include the\n card which announced the opening of his law office in\n Bedford (8 May 1838), records of his marriage in\n Alabama (27 April 1840), and the death of his wife\n within the year (3 April 1841). A letter of 22\n January 1842, mentions the business failures taking\n place in Richmond and Lynchburg, and one of 27 August\n of the same year comments on the national political\n situation which is \"sadly out of joint.\" In a letter\n of 20 September [1845], there is a report of \"the\n thefts which were perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton\n whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\"","\"My eyes appear to have improved gradually.\"\n (His ailment seemed to be at its worst at this\n time, though he continued to suffer from the\n ailment until his death in 1836 at the age of 39\n years.)","A note for $1000.00. At this time he was\n getting started in the store, Hancock and Brown\n Co.","The \"most favorable accounts\" of John Thompson\n Brown from the members of the House of\n Delegates.","Concerning the business of \n Col. [Mark]\n Anthony , in which Henry Brown, Jr. appears\n to be involved.","Mentions the marriage of John Thompson\n Brown.","A letter of introduction for Henry Brown, Jr.,\n for use on his trip to England and the Continent\n in that year.","\"Oh, my dear husband, why was it that I did not\n accompany you?\" (None of these letters reached\n Henry Brown, Jr. on the trip, but followed him\n home).","News from a letter she received from Henry\n Brown, Jr. in England.","Payment of his debts in Lynchburg; hiring out\n of a slave.","\"it's really a sad case for me, to be sick from\n home and away from all that (are) Dear to\n me...\"","This was the store in Lynchburg in which Henry\n Brown was a partner and with which Henry Brown,\n Jr. was associated until he opened his own store\n in 1835.","Brother-in-law, \n Jack [Willcox] ;\n his brother, John's speech on the Petersburg Rail\n Road; and the house that Henry Brown has vacated\n in Lynchburg.","On a debt of Thomas Williams.","Appear to refer to pictures, and may date from\n the time of one of the buying trips that Henry\n Brown, Jr. made with his wife.","After breaking from the partnership of Hancock\n and Brown, he opened his own store.","Concerning the care for his horses, Young\n American Eclipse and Spring Hill, while he is\n away.","Written while she and her husband were on a\n buying trip for the Lynchburg store. In New York\n Henry Brown, Jr. was taken desperately ill and\n died.","Evidently taken down by Mrs. Eleanor C. L.\n Brown during the final days in New York.","An associate of Henry Brown, Jr. in the\n Lynchburg store, was liquidating the stock and\n selling horses in order to settle the estate.","A note regarding the settlement of the Henry\n Brown, Jr. estate.","Written from school, with endorsement by James\n Morrison, schoolmaster.","Signed Eleanor C. L. Brown.","Congratulating S. T. B. on his marriage.","Writes of the aged John Vaughan Willcox, her\n father, with whom she is living and for whom she\n is caring; Samuel T. Brown and his \"youthful\n bride.\"","His extended wedding trip; description of Gen\n Harrison's house.","Consolations upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T.\n Brown.","Condolences upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T.\n Brown.","A letter of consolation.","On the death of W. W. Worthington,\n brother-in-law of Samuel T. Brown. \"Your sister\n Alice is desirous of your attention to the affairs\n of Mr. W. in New Orleans prior to your return to\n Virginia.\"","Recording certain deeds for his son-in-law,\n Samuel T. Brown.","Written to his overseer with whom he has\n quarreled.","On the fees paid by Henry Brown in the Leftwich\n case: \"between twenty and twenty-five dollars for\n my services as an attorney.\" On the thefts\n \"perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student\n at Chapel Hill.\"","Concerning the cutting of trees on the property\n of Samuel T. Brown.","A reply to the above letter, Box-Folder\n 13:60.","On a charge of Ammon Hancock against the estate\n of Henry Brown, Jr.","Estimate for the cost of the construction of a\n bridge.","On the property in Mobile, Alabama, purchased\n by Samuel T. Brown.","The sale of a female slave \"with her\n Brood.\"","Papers concern John Thompson Brown's attendance at\n Princeton, study of law, and trips to the South and to\n the West Indies. Includes speeches and correspondence as\n well as his published writings (newspaper articles,\n bills and pamphlets). The collection emphasizes his\n political career in the Virginia House of Delegates\n including his views on slavery. Also includes\n architectural plans for a two room house and elevations\n (1827), drafts of toasts and letters concerning his\n fight with John Hampden Pleasants.","Prominent correspondents include William Segar\n Archer, James Murray Mason, John Hampden Pleasants,\n William Cabell Rives, Henry St. George Tucker and John\n Tyler.","John Thompson Brown (1802-1836) was born at Otter\n Hills, near Bedford, Virginia and was the son of\n Henry Brown (1760-1841). He attended the New London\n Academy, 1816; studied at Princeton, 1817-1820;\n traveled to the South and the West Indies, 1821; and\n studied law with Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland\n County, Virginia, 1822-1823. He began his law\n practice in Clarksburg, Virginia (later West\n Virginia), in 1824, and represented Harrison County\n in the House of Delegates, 1827-1830. He was a member\n of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n 1829-1830. He married Mary E. Willcox June, 1830, and\n moved to Petersburg, where he again was elected to\n the General Assembly, 1831-1836. He was a delegate to\n the national convention of the Republican (now\n Democratic) Party, but died on 20 November 1836, at\n his father's home, Otter Hills, after a brief\n illness.","The first two letters in Box 14 date from the\n period of his attendance at New London Academy; then\n follow the papers relating to Princeton, where he\n matriculated in 1817 at the age of 19. He was placed\n in the Sophomore Class on the basis of an examination\n before the faculty, and received the highest mark\n given at the College, in each of the three years he\n spent at the College. His report sheets show the\n requirements for entrance, lists of courses, and\n contain a resolution passed by the trustees which\n condemned the sharp practices of the merchants in\n town.","Some of the correspondence of John Thompson Brown\n with his brother-in-law Dr. William B. Steptoe in\n this period is interesting for the comments it\n contains on the Missouri question and other matters\n then being debated in the U.S. Senate. The remarks\n made by John Thompson Brown in letters from his\n collegiate period may be compared with his statements\n on the subject of slavery later made on the floor of\n the House of Delegates.","After graduating from Princeton, John Thompson\n Brown traveled to the South, and made a brief trip to\n the West Indies, keeping notes on his impressions.\n Upon his return he took up the study of law with\n Judge Taylor. From this period come interesting\n musings on such subjects as \"the family fireside,\"\n \"youthful recollection,\" \"friendship,\" and \"behavior\n of a lawyer if he is to succeed.\" His license to\n practice law, dated 7 March 1824, is included in the\n collection. He journeyed to Clarksburg, Virginia, to\n set up his law practice, and kept a notebook on the\n trip West which reveal his first impressions of the\n Clarksburg area.","At the end of this box is a scrapbook containing\n some of his published writings, speeches, and\n newspaper articles.","Letter from a schoolboy friend regarding New\n London Academy.","John Thompson Brown's examinations at the New\n London Academy.","\"I have just been examined by the faculty and\n am admitted to the Sophomore Class, which is the\n second in the college.\" His expenses are estimated\n at $200.00 for the first term and $90.00 for the\n second. \"I will pledge myself not to spend one\n cent more than is really necessary.\"","News from home; a rumor that some boys were\n expelled from Chapel Hill for their politics.","Medical advice; a suggested teacher for New\n London Academy (\"Has he energy enough manage\n southern students?\"); the death of Polly [Mrs.\n Mary Brown Clayton], sister of John Thompson\n Brown.","The political upheaval at William and Mary\n College; deputies appointed \"...to fix upon the\n site of the Virginia University.\"","\"My expenses have far exceeded what was\n necessary or what you expect. I now see my error\n and repent...\" Three months later he offers to\n leave school because of his additional debts.\n Later in Baltimore, he is robbed of $200.00. His\n father adds up the year's expenses to a total of\n $670.00.","Behavior, No. 1. distinguished; Industry, No.\n 1. distinguished; Scholarship, No. 1.\n distinguished (1) \"If under the article \n scholarship , a\n student is marked No. 1 distinguished (1), he is\n considered as ranking among the first in his\n class.\" (From printed explanation of the\n report.)","\"Once the busy scene of commercial\n enterprise...now lifeless and inactive.\"\n Concerning Lynchburg.","The University of Virginia is established at\n Charlottesville with an annual appropriation of\n $15,000; news of a threat of slave uprisings in\n Fredericksburg.","Similar reports to that of 1818. Warning is\n added to the September report concerning excessive\n expenditures by students: \"the trustees of the\n college give this notice to the parents and\n guardians of the youth, that they ought to pay no\n debt contracted in this town, which they have not\n specifically authorized.\"","Endorsed: \"Collegians mei consocui.\" He knew\n 162 fellow students.","On the \"present session of Congress.\"","Rumor of a great rebellion that has taken place\n at Princeton; the Missouri question.","A 4th of July oration supporting the idea of\n colonizing the free Negroes in Africa.","\"My father may justly complain of the great\n sums which he has expended on me, but his kindness\n shall not be abused much longer, as I hope to be\n in a situation to support myself.\" Endorsed:\n \"Brother J.--after his return from Princeton went\n South--through the Cherokee Nation [Alabama and\n Georgia] to Pensacola, and on to New\n Orleans--thence to Cuba and returned to U. States\n in the U.S. Frigate 'Hornet,' as a guest of the\n officers. Samuel T. Brown.\"","A gambling scrape he was involved in; asks his\n father's forgiveness.","\"Chancellor Taylor has been of incalculable\n service to me in the study of law.\" (Needham was a\n law school operated by Judge Creed Taylor in\n Cumberland County in the years 1821-1836.)","These are the continuous drafts of a multiple\n of letters. The first section consists of musings\n and youthful recollections; the second is a\n humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in\n Petersburg after his marriage.","Regarding the marriage of Dr. Steptoe.","Musings on Friendship and the wise behavior of\n a lawyer if he is to succeed.","A letter introducing John Thompson Brown when\n he went to Clarksburg to set up practice.","Musings written on a trip through Virginia:\n thoughts on a disappointing love affair; notes on\n \"Crab Orchard\" and the \"Creek Nation\" --the latter\n were to be incorporated into an Independence Day\n address delivered in Petersburg in 1831.","Impressions of Clarksburg; the countryside is\n beautiful and the land very rich, but \"The people\n have no money and are wretchedly poor and\n lazy...\"","His plans to establish himself.","The following newspaper clippings and pamphlets\n are included in a bound scrap book, with\n endorsements and were undoubtedly collected by\n John Thompson Brown himself.","Concerning \"several cases of contempt of\n court, occurring in various parts of the Union,\n in which the punishment inflicted, has been\n made a subject of grievous complaint.\"","Concerning \"...Mr. Jefferson...the\n disclosure of his poverty...\"","Concerning \"The President's message.\"","A Bill authorizing a loan of $6,000.00 on\n the credit of the state, for the construction\n of Turnpike Road from Winchester to Parkersburg\n by way of Clarksburg, being under\n consideration.","\"Sir:--I have read in the \"Intelligencer\" of\n the 9th inst. your communications to the\n Editors of the paper, in which you remark,\n substantially, that the only Candidate to\n represent the town of Petersburg in the General\n Assembly is a stranger to most voters...Not\n doubting that I am the person alluded to...,\"\n signed John Thompson Brown\"","\"The following copy of a Petition to the\n Legislature of Virginia, we insert at the\n request of a number of our Citizens.\"","\"On motion of Mr. Brown of Petersburg, the\n report of the committee on slaves, free Negroes\n and mulattoes, and the amendment of Mr. Preston\n were taken up; when Mr. Brown rose and\n addressed the house as follows:...\"","\"The bill to amend an act authorizing the\n Board of Public Works to subscribe on behalf of\n the Commonwealth, to the stock of the\n Petersburg Rail Road, was read a third time.\n Mr. Brown said...\"","\"Andrew Jackson was unanimously recommended\n to the Citizens of Virginia, as the next\n President. \"Mr. Miller of Powhatan then\n submitted the following\n Resolution...\"(Concerning the Vice-President).\n Mr. Brown of Petersburg, then submitted the\n following by way of substitute for the\n above...\"","The material in this box covers the period 1825 to\n 1829, when John Thompson Brown was resident of\n Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West\n Virginia). In this period John Thompson Brown wrote\n some of the \"Letters to the Editor,\" printed in the\n Clarksburg \n Enquirer , contained in\n the scrap book noted above in Box 14. A draft of a\n part of the letter concerning the poverty of Mr.\n Jefferson is to be found in this box (1825).","In July 1826, John Thompson Brown wrote to his\n brother Henry Brown, Jr. of his aim to run for the\n U.S. Congress. In 1827 he was elected to the House of\n Delegates; he was re-elected in 1828 and 1829. This\n box also contains various printed and manuscript\n material touching upon his career in the General\n Assembly.","By the end of 1829, John Thompson Brown had\n established himself in Clarksburg, built a house, and\n planned to buy into a partnership in a store to\n advance his financial position. In a letter of March\n 23, 1829 he mentions his desire to run in the next\n election for the U.S. Congress.","\"...the friends of Old Hickory...hear Adamses\n success spoken of and the probability of Clay's\n being made Secretary of State...\"","Encloses a legal opinion concerning sheriffs,\n which his father apparently requested.","A flowery letter to an old friend from\n Princeton. \"I have acquired some little reputation\n at the bar and a practice that supports me very\n decently.\"","Draft of an address to an investigating group\n (perhaps a grand jury), with endorsement: \"1. Act\n against cutting down trees. 2. Act providing for a\n good and sufficient jail.\"","This is part of a printed letter concerning\n \"Mr. Jefferson the disclosure of his poverty...\"\n over the signature Alexander. (See bound\n scrapbook, the last item in Box 14.)","Desire of John Thompson Brown to run for the\n U.S. Congress or for a seat in the General\n Assembly. Suggests that Henry Brown send $1,000.00\n to help achieve this.","\"I find that there is a serious and, I believe,\n a somewhat general wish to bring me out for the\n Legislature.\"","\"I am a candidate for the Legislature at the\n next election...\"","An announcement of the candidacy of John\n Thompson Brown for the General Assembly. He\n reviews what he considers to be the most important\n problems of the day, and discusses (1) the\n invasion of State sovereignty by the Federal\n program of \"internal development,\" (2) the harm\n done to Southern farmers by import duties, (3) the\n calling of a Constitutional Convention for the\n state of Virginia, (4) the dangers of the\n uncontrolled banking system.","His election to the General Assembly; hope of\n election to the U.S. Congress, and the purchase of\n a four acre lot in town. In the first letter which\n John Thompson Brown wrote from the House of\n Delegates he said \"I have not taken much part in\n the debates of the House and do not expect to do\n so...\"","His ride to Richmond in a coach with other,\n more experienced law-makers, \"having been, as you\n predicted, greatly edified and instructed by a\n coach-full of legislators 'big with the cares of\n state.\"","\"Resolving that members of the House of\n Delegates be requested to unite...in advancing the\n cause of this Society before the General Assembly\n of Virginia.\"","On John Thompson Brown's speech: \"considered\n the most able one that had been delivered in the\n House in 5 years.\"","\"Our Society, in the success of which, you are\n pleased to express so deep an interest, is I\n believe, making sure progress.\"","His legislature activities and speeches. \"I am\n a Jackson man like yourself but not perfectly\n orthodox, as you would say, on the subject of\n States Rights. I published my opinions, pamphlet\n of 30 pages, 12 months ago and will send you a\n copy...\"","A report to his constituents on such matters as\n (1) the state Constitutional Convention, (2) the\n lottery for the Randolph Academy in Clarksburg,\n (3) county elections, (4) the bill abolishing the\n chancery Courts and establishing a Superior Court,\n (5) a Turnpike to their area (defeated by the\n \"Eastern People\"), (6) the proposed Baltimore\n Railroad and (7) the settling of the question of\n land titles in Western Virginia. Included in the\n pamphlet are the full texts of the report of the\n committee on this subject, which he chaired, and\n the bill proposed by the committee.","Comment on the land titles, Chancery court\n bills.","\"Even now I am as comfortably situated as I\n could desire and shall support myself hereafter\n without any further drafts on your\n goodness...\"","Now well situated in his \"mansion,\" he\n discusses his prospects for Congress and of his\n plan to \"offer 2 years hence.\"","Endorsed: \"McConley's System of Sword\n Tactics.\"","Reflections on people met at the Medicinal\n Springs, as contrasted with those of his\n constituency.","In February, he forwards a copy of sheriff's\n commission to his father. During the year he\n borrows $400.00 for payments on his house in\n Clarksburg, and by the end of the year his father\n has agreed to advance enough capital for him to\n become a partner in a mercantile business. Upon\n the conclusion of the 1828-1829 session of the\n General Assembly, he writes that he will be a\n candidate once more, then run for Congress. In the\n letter of March 23rd, he writes that opposition\n has arisen \"on account of some laws we had passed\n last session authorizing the county court to levy\n a tax for repairing roads and, bridges.\" On March\n 23rd he relates his experiences in Washington at\n the inauguration of Jackson: on December 14th he\n predicts that the basis of votes for whites will\n be surrendered in the formation of the new State\n constitution.","Suggests they ride together to Alexandria, then\n go to Richmond by boat.","The Virginia Constitutional Convention: \"I had\n an opportunity of hearing the most distinguished\n members of the body--Mr. Madison and Mr. Marshall\n among the rest...\"","The change which was to occur in the life and\n fortunes of John Thompson Brown in the year 1830 is\n forecast in the first letter of this box, a letter\n received by Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg in\n [December] 1829, in which there is a discussion of\n \"Mr. B.\" Three months later (18 March 1830) in a\n letter to his father, John Thompson Brown announces\n his intention of leaving Clarksburg, and of his need\n for a horse and sulky so that he may arrive in\n Petersburg in a manner which should \"avoid the\n appearance of poverty and destitution.\" The next\n letter in the collection (9 [May] 1830), in draft,\n contains an account of his wedding, a wedding which\n was attended by no members of his immediate\n family.","Subsequent letters tell of the generosity of the\n new father-in-law John V. Willcox in the gift of a\n town house \"provided with servants,\" a draft of\n $1500, and the promise of as much more as he asks (22\n July 1830). Yet the position is not satisfactory and\n because John Thompson Brown feels that he is losing\n his independence, he returns to Clarksburg with the\n intention of resettling there and sending for his\n wife (2 May 1831). During a four week visit to\n Harrison County, he finds his political position has\n declined (7 June 1831), so he returns to Petersburg,\n and is invited to make the Independence Day address\n for the town (8 June 1831). As a result of this\n address (and the good influence of his father-in-law)\n he is nominated to represent the town in the House of\n Delegates, and is elected without opposition (26\n September 1831).","He successfully sponsors a bill in the Assembly\n for the Petersburg Railroad (28 December 1831), is\n appointed Judge of Elections for the Petersburg\n Office of the Bank of Virginia (29 December 1831),\n and is sought as a sponsor of a new newspaper which\n is being established in Richmond (20 October 1831).\n Of particular interest is a letter to his nephew\n outlining his philosophy of life and advising the\n young man on his future (3 October 1831). A report of\n the slave insurrection in Southhampton is described\n in a letter of 26 September 1831.","At the end of this box are collected more than a\n hundred drafts of toasts made by John Thompson\n Brown.","A friend writes regarding \"Mr. B.,\" \"a man of\n boundless pride and diffidence. His attachment was\n cut down in the bud and \n You , my sweetest\n Mary, have hoped whilst he desponded...\"","\"My friends, Webster, Goffard, and others\n believed I could certainly be elected to Congress\n next Spring...I wish to appear at \n P[etersburg] in a\n manner which would probably be expected and to\n avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution .\n Henry is to get me a sulky, horse, etc., and if\n you can spare this additional sum you may hand it\n over to him...\"","\"Our nuptials took place at the time expected\n and I cannot say that there was any other allay to\n my happiness, than that neither you nor any of my\n near relatives were present.\"","On his honeymoon: \"Peronneau Finley travels\n with us, as one of our immediate party. Mr.\n Willcox, Sr., and three of his friends are going\n to N. York to the races. They came with us thus\n far...\" There is much discussion about where they\n will live, but, \"I think it probable we shall\n reside in Petersburg...\"","On his Washington visit: \"we remained a week,\n were introduced to the President, etc., heard some\n interesting debates and saw all the great men of\n the nation...My situation is in all respects\n agreeable.\"","Congratulations on her marriage coupled with\n much advice.","After a visit with his father, he writes: \"I\n have nothing to add on the subject of my future\n arrangements. I shall pursue the course which you\n seemed to approve when we were together.\" He\n writes later that Mr. Willcox has turned over to\n them his town house \"furnished with servants\"; in\n another letter: \"He handed me a check for $1,500\n and said that I should always have as much as I\n wanted...\"","Sends advice to his younger brother and, and\n account of his own situation.","Letters from Harrison County report that \"the\n District needs me badly...but it is too\n late...\"","\"I regret that you have temporarily declined\n public life--for I would not believe you have\n abondoned it altogether.\"","Advice given to a young man summarizing John\n Thompson Brown's own philosophy of life.","On his return to Harrison County, \"I found that\n my position here was to be too dependent...\"","\"At a meeting of the citizens of\n Petersburg...'Resolved, that John Thompson Brown,\n Esq., he appointed Orator of the Day'.\"","The first important public speech of John\n Thompson Brown, in Petersburg, one which appears\n to have established his reputation, and which\n influenced his decision to remain there.","Regarding his Independence Day address; the\n wisdom of his brother's decision to visit\n England.","These are the continuous drafts of multiple\n letters. This draft concerns the second part which\n contains a humorous report on a 4th of July\n oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.","On July 25, he states that his brother has left\n on the packet for Baltimore on the way to\n Liverpool. Concerning his \"reasons of my\n determining not to remove to Harrison.\" On\n September 14 he writes that his wife has given\n birth to a son, who will be named Henry Peronneau,\n \"after you and my friend Peronneau Finley.\"","Henry Brown, Jr. writes of his journey, as a\n result of which \"I become more and more an\n American in feeling and principle...\"","\"I was elected without opposition, after\n announcing my sentiments freely and boldly.\" News\n of an insurrection of Negroes in Southampton,\n \"they killed 55 persons, mainly women and\n children.\"","Gives his opinions on the education of his\n nephew, Edward. He approves strongly of the\n emphasis on science to be found at West Point; on\n going to college among the Yankees: \"I partake in\n some measure of the prejudice against them--but\n think nevertheless that...southern \n fire would be none\n the worse for being somewhat cooled by the\n northern \n frost .\"","A new newspaper is proposed for the city of\n Richmond.","A request for help in covering a $3,000 debt to\n \"sharpers.\"","Describes the quarters he has for his wife and\n son. On the main question of the day he writes: \"I\n think no measure can or ought to be taken now for\n the abolition of slavery...\"","Concerning \"the bill now before the Legislature\n on the subject of our (Rail) Road.\"","Appointment of John Thompson Brown as judge of\n the election for directors of the Bank of Virginia\n in Petersburg.","Includes the following subjects: The Press,\n Lafayette, The Cuase of of Civil and Religious\n Liberty, The Militia Volunteers, Woman, Thomas\n Jefferson, Virginia, The Constitution, The\n Militia, State Rights, President of the United\n States, Our Guests, Benjamin Franklin, The\n Union, (\"Drank 1833.\" ADr.), The Day We\n Celebrate, Washington, and The Army and\n Navy.","Includes the following subjects: The Federal\n Consitiution, Free Press, President of the\n United States, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, Our\n Guests and Woman.","Includes the following subjects: The 4th of\n July, 1776, The Cause of Liberty Throughout the\n World, The Heroes and Statesmen of the\n Revolution, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, and\n The Federal Constitution.","Includes the following subject: The Union\n \"(This toast was drank, as a standing toast at\n the Petersburg Republican Celebration of Mr.\n Jefferson's election on the 29th of January,\n 1801).\" Most toast endorsed: \"Offered 1835, not\n adopted.\"","Includes the following subjects: The Day We\n Celebrated, The Memory of Washington, The Army\n and the Navy, Military Spirit, Free Press,\n Popular Suffrage, and National Character.","Includes the following subjects: The Friends\n of Constitutional Restriction, Political\n Toleration, National Character, The State\n Legislature, Virginia Military, Washington,\n Benjamin Franklin, Petersburg, The District of\n Columbia, The Right of Instruction, The Press\n and John Tyler.","The important and exciting national political\n events of the years 1832 and 1833, as they affected\n the people of Virginia, are seen through the eyes of\n John Thompson Brown in the items included in this\n box. A member from Petersburg in the House of\n Delegates of the Virginia Assembly, John Thompson\n Brown was placed in a position of leadership and\n strongly influenced the decisions taken in those\n critical years.","His speech on the abolition of slavery was\n considered so important that Judge Henry St. George\n Tucker and others raised the money to have it printed\n (18 January 1832). He was a member of the Virginia\n delegation to the national convention of the\n Republican Party; his resolution of the\n Vice-Presidential nominee (21-22 May 1832) was the\n one adopted by the Virginia caucus. As Chairman of\n the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates, the\n question of President Jackson's moves against the\n United States Bank was of particular concern to him\n (9 April 1833).","Great excitement was aroused by South Carolina's\n threat of nullification. John Thompson Brown was a\n member of the Committee on Federal Relations, and his\n substitute motion on the question is included in this\n box, as well as his speech on \n The State of the Relations\n between the United States and South Carolina ,\n delivered 5 January 1833, also published in pamphlet\n form.","John Thompson Brown was invited to be a Director\n of the Petersburg Railroad which he declined (7 May\n 1832), and was considered for the position of U.S.\n Senator, although he felt that he was not qualified\n by years or experience (December 1832). An\n interesting report of his meeting with President\n Jackson is included in a letter from John Thompson\n Brown to his wife (23 May 1832).","Also included in this box are letters from John\n Tyler, William Cabell Rives, and William Segar Archer\n (7 February, 3 March 1833).","Two poems, possibly written by John Thompson\n Brown, clipped from a newspaper, signed Julian are\n included at the end of this box.","Writes of the fortunes of the (Petersburg)\n Railroad Bill in the House of Delegates and State\n Senate.","Information regarding Rensselaer School. Samuel\n T. Brown, younger brother of John Thompson Brown,\n appears to have been interested in this\n school.","In this important speech John Thompson Brown\n took up several proposals for the freeing of\n slaves, including that of Thomas Jefferson, as\n submitted to the Legislature by Jefferson\n Randolph, his grandson, and argued against\n each.","\"My speech on abolition has had great \n eclat --a fund has\n been raised for publishing it in pamphlet form for\n general distribution... \n \n Judges [Henry St. George] Tucker and\n Brooke have taken active part in puffing the\n speech.\" He also reports, \"I have carried my\n Railroad Bill...and shall enjoy the credit of\n effecting it by my personal influence.\"","Includes in a \"Postscript\" an answer to a\n statement in \n The Enquirer over\n the signature of \n Jefferson\n [Randolph] . Reference is made to a remark\n made in \n The Wig that his\n argument \"had been far surpassed by the discussion\n of the subject by a stripling . Mr. Brown of\n Petersburg.\" General Assembly. Committee on\n Federal relations. Official Document Nos. 14, 15,\n 16.","Concerning a suggested amendment for the\n Circuit Court Law.","He cannot give his nephew, Edward Steptoe, an\n appointment to West Point because he has used his\n appointment for the session. \"...the Senate is\n involved in the Tariff discussion...The farther I\n have gone into it the more thoroughly have I\n convinced myself of its tyrannical and oppressive\n character.\"","A resolution from the Petersburg Rail Road\n Company to tender thanks for \"the zeal and ability\n with which our Delegate John T. Brown, Esq. and\n our Senator, Wm. Old, Esq. have exerted in\n procuring passage of the said (Rail Road)\n act.\"","This is the resolution presented by John\n Thompson Brown and reported in a newspaper article\n of this date preserved in the scrapbook to be\n found in Box 14.","\"I send you 2 copies of John's speech (on\n Slavery) and a paper with one of Jefferson\n Randolph's in reply to him.\"","Declines appointment as a member of the Board\n of Directors of the Petersburg Railroad.","Notes on the convention of the whole party and\n of the Virginia Caucus. At the latter the\n resolution of John Thompson Brown. was adopted,\n viz. that Virginia's vote should go first to P. P.\n Barbour for Vice- President, and when there was no\n longer a reasonable prospect of his selection, to\n Van Buren.","\"...on last evening we went to the President\n who is in excellent health and fine spirits. Many\n persons here, including some members of Congress\n from Virginia, seem to be much dissatisfied with\n our proceedings at Baltimore...\"","To his youngest brother, attending college,\n regarding the health of Henry, Jr.","On the death of Finley's brother.","The family has traveled south to escape an\n epidemic of Cholera.","In the letter of December 3 he discusses the\n election of U.S. Senators, stating that Mr. Leigh\n is out because of his opposition to President\n Jackson. Among those mentioned for the position\n are \n Judge\n [Henry St. George] Tucker , \n [John] Randolph\n Rives , and himself, though he feels that he\n has neither the years nor the experience for the\n position. President Jackson's message on the U.S.\n Bank is discussed. On nullification he writes: \"It\n will, I fear, be an exciting subject and one of\n engrossing interest...South Carolina is\n unquestionably wrong and \n as long as she remains in\n the Union, must obey its laws...\"","The possibility of his appointment as Senator\n to supply the vacancy left by Mr. Tazewell.","Excitement in Washington caused by the\n President's proclamation on nullification\n debate.","Regarding the removal of deposits from the U.S.\n Bank by the Federal Government.","\"I was rather mortified at making a very poor\n speech [on Federal Relations] in the House\n today...To avoid misrepresentation I shall have to\n write out my speech...\"","Doc. No. 14. \n Report of the Committee on\n Federal Relations Doc. No. 15. \n Mr. Marshall's Substitute\n to the Report... Doc. No. 16. \n Mr. M'dowell's Amendment to\n Mr. Marshall's Substitute,... Opinion on proceedings in South Carolina,\n the proclamation by Andrew Jackson, and \"the\n communication of the governor of this Commonwealth\n on the same subject.\"","After stating his opposition to protective\n tariffs, John Thompson Brown argued that they\n result from \"a perversion of the spirit and intent\n of the Constitution, rather than a violation of\n its literal principles.\"","He compliments the Chief Magistrate of the\n United States on his general policy but disputes\n the Proclamation of the President on other\n grounds, basing his argument on \n The Law of\n Nations by E. de Vattel.","As to the action of South Carolina, he contends\n that there is no possibility of nullification\n under the Constitution, but that the redress of\n the wrong done in the tariff act must come by\n recourse to the Supreme Court, to the \"Co-states\"\n acting in Congress, and if necessary, by an\n amendment to the Constitution.","Compliments John Thompson Brown on his\n resolutions.","\"I was anxious myself that Virginia should\n maintain an impartial and just attitude toward\n both S. Carolina and the President, but far the\n greater part of the Assembly seemed in favour of\n going into one extreme or other . . . whereas I\n thought there was error on both sides...\"","He remarks that \n Edward\n [Steptoe] has been successful in getting his\n appointment to West Point \"obtained (by Mr.\n Archer, the Senator) as a favour to me\" but\n \"without...your letter...the application could\n scarcely have been successful.\"","Appointment of Edward Steptoe to West Point;\n report of the enforcing bill in the President's\n proclamation, and the Tariff Bill.","In July he announces the birth of a son.","On the Force Bill and the Bank of the U.S.","\"On seeimg Miss ____ at Clarksburg,\" and\n \"Julian Abandoning His Muse.\" Possibly written by\n John Thompson Brown about this period.","The letters written by John Thompson Brown during\n portions of the 1833-1834 and the 1834-1835 sessions\n of the General Assembly are found in this box.","The manuscripts begin with letters reporting the\n legislative battle fought and lost against the\n Portsmouth-Norfolk road which John Thompson Brown\n believed would have disastrous effects on the future\n of Petersburg (January 1834). Near the end of the box\n are letters concerning John Thompson Brown's battle\n fought with fists and canes in the halls of the State\n Capitol with a fellow representative John Hampden\n Pleasants (January 1835). The fracas resulted from a\n heated debate on the election of a U.S. Senator. John\n Thompson Brown was one of those mentioned for the\n position of U.S. Senator (December 1834), but his\n youth (28 years) was against him and he did not enjoy\n the rough and tumble of party politics then\n developing.","Also of interest are the draft of a speech\n delivered on the occasion of the death of Lafayette\n (9 July 1834), and two notebooks used by John\n Thompson Brown as Chairman of the Finance Committee\n of the House of Delegates (January 1835).","News that his brother, Samuel, is ill at\n Harvard.","Reports on his progress at the college.","His attempts to defeat the Norfolk rail road in\n the Assembly; family news.","\"All is lost except our honour. The Portsmouth\n Bill [Norfolk railroad] has passed...our town\n [Petersburg] is prostrated...but the ancient\n spirit of our little town, which Mr. Madison\n called the 'cockade of the old Dominion' is not\n dead.\"","A patent for producing domestic salt.","Election of a U.S. Senator, for which he has\n been mentioned; Mr. Leigh's election. At the end\n of February and beginning of March he is kept in\n bed with an illness.","Gives his views of the political situation,\n mentioning the message President Jackson sent to\n Congress with the \"Force Bill,\" the President's\n plans for the Bank of the U.S., and objections to\n Van Buren and \"the N. York system of tactics which\n he will bring with him.\"","Plans for Samuel, John Thompson Brown's\n brother, to start his study of law with him.","Sold bank shares to help his brother go into\n business for himself; gives advice on racing\n horses.","Endorsed: \"To my sons, should they ever read\n it.\"","Report of his progress at the U.S. Military\n Academy.","Draft of a letter sending condolences for the\n death of a sister and congratulations on the birth\n of a son.","His resignation from the U.S. Senate.","\"No subject arouses anybody except the\n senatorial election.\"","He offers to place all his monetary resources\n at the service of his brother in his new business\n venture.","On the 17th he prepared a draft of a letter,\n which he sent on the 20th, giving an account of a\n fight in the halls of the General Assembly between\n himself and John Hampden Pleasants.","A letter of apology for the battle fought in\n the halls of the Virginia Capitol.","An account of his speech which was \"better\n received than anything I have ever made.\"","Points out the importance of this election for\n \"future political events and party combinations in\n the state,\" and defends the incumbent, Mr.\n Leigh.","Prepared for use in the Finance Committee of\n the House of Deputies.","Notes on taxes, license fees, and the like,\n prepared by John Thompson Brown for use on the\n Finance Committee of the House of Delegates.","The closing sessions of the State Legislature of\n 1834-1835 are reported in the letters at the\n beginning of this box. The party spirit runs high in\n Petersburg as the \"Jackson party\" opposes John\n Thompson Brown (March 1835). He is involved in a\n street fight with an opponent in which he receives a\n black eye, but the argument is made up after he wins\n the election (April 1835).","Before the next session of the legislature, John\n Thompson Brown is occupied in collecting more\n material on the question of slavery (August 1835),\n and prepared three long drafts written in opposition\n to the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President of\n the U.S. Undated drafts of notes on legal cases are\n included at the end of the 1835 section.","Henry Brown, Jr., the brother of John Thompson\n Brown, died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to\n Philadelphia and New York for his Lynchburg store.\n The trip of John Thompson Brown to meet the body of\n his brother, and his activity in settling his\n brother's affairs in Lynchburg are reported in the\n letters included in this box.","At the end of July he takes his family to his\n father's home, Otter Hills, near New London in\n Campbell County, for the funeral sermon of Henry\n Brown, Jr. While there he contracts an illness which\n keeps him there until his death on 26 November\n 1836.","Announces the birth of a son, John Thompson\n Brown II, and tells his brother that he had\n ordered $2800 placed to his account to support the\n store that he had opened.","Political activity in Petersburg.","\"The Jackson party has brought out the most\n popular man in Petersburg against...it is quite\n likely he will beat me.\"","On April 18 he writes, \"I was elected by a\n majority of 37 (13 of which were from Richmond).\"\n There is also a report of a street fight between\n John Thompson Brown and \"a Jackson man.\"","Concerning the chances of Van Buren to carry\n Virginia in the election.","Plans to retire from politics and seek a\n position as Judge of the courts.","He has sent a box of books to help him in his\n law studies, and describes a visit by his old\n friend Peronneau Finley and his family.","Writes to his father about plans to visit\n him.","Family discussion, especially concerned with\n the sisters who were yet to find husbands.","Notice of the election of John Thompson Brown\n as an honorary member of the Jefferson\n Society.","Signed \"Mr. Brown.\"","This series of drafts is in opposition to\n Martin Van Buren, candidate for the President\n of the United States.","Good reports of the new business venture of his\n brother, Henry Brown, Jr.","To his brother, on a buying trip to New York;\n political prospects now look bright, but \"the\n state is lost\" to the Anti-Van Buren forces.","Signed by Wyndham Robertson.","On the trip to accompany his sister-in-law and\n the body of Henry Brown, Jr. back to the family\n home, Otter Hills. Henry Brown, Jr. died while on\n a shopping trip to New York for supplies for his\n Lynchburg store.","The body of Henry Brown, Jr. was taken that\n morning for Virginia.","On the death of her father, Henry Brown Brown,\n Jr.","Taking inventory at the store of his late\n brother; preparing to settle his estate.","Reports on the stocktaking in the store of\n Henry Brown, Jr. On July 19 he wrote that he was\n coming to his father's place on the Sunday next to\n hear his brother's funeral preached. This is the\n last letter from John Thompson Brown to his\n father, for on that visit to Otter Hills he was\n taken with the illness from which he died.","On the disposal of the store inventory; sends a\n piano to her.","Mourning his brother's death, he makes\n arrangements for his own family to join him. (This\n is the last letter written by John Thompson Brown\n preserved in this collection.)","The niece of John Thompson Brown writes to her\n uncle regarding the recent death of her father,\n Henry Brown, Jr.","A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes\n regarding the settling of the store business.","Enclosures: \"A lock of the hair of John\n Thompson Brown, 29 years\"; envelope marked, \"For\n sister Mary from my dear brother John's Grave,\n Nov. 13th, 1845, \n [Mrs.]\n A[lice Brown] Worthington ,\" with clover\n leaves inside.","A resolution in memory of John Thompson\n Brown.","Signed D. M. Bernard, Clerk. Endorsement by\n James MacFarland, Jr., to Mrs. John Thompson\n Brown.","Condolences on the death of her husband.","A resolution that the members wear the usual\n badge of mourning for thirty days in honor of John\n Thompson Brown.","A copy of the unanimous resolution of the House\n of Delegates in memory of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of grief written by Mrs. Brown to her\n father-in-law.","A letter of consolation.","Includes: A dramatic sketch, Kentucky Land\n Laws, Goosawattee Indians, and map of the\n region around Bedford, Virginia","A large folded ink drawing of a building \"taken\n from the Colonade of the Temple of Minerva\n Parthenon at Athens,\" with notes of construction\n details. Ca. 1830.","Papers of John Thompson Brown, Colonel of 1st\n Regiment Virginia Artillery who was killed in action in\n 1864. Included are letters concerning a disagreement\n with William Nelson Pendleton. Papers also include\n correspondence of his son, Henry Peronneau Brown and his\n son's wife Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown as well as\n newspaper clippings concerning Judge John Randolph\n Tucker and the correspondence of Cynthia Beverley Tucker\n Coleman. There are also nineteenth century\n engravings.","This box contains the papers from the period after\n the death of John Thompson Brown, and concern John\n Thompson Brown II, born in 1835, some 18 months\n before the death of his father.","One letter (20 November 1844) lists the courses\n studied by boys at the ages of 9, 11, and 13; a\n travel book gives an interesting picture of Europe (4\n May 1857); and a draft of a letter describes the\n bleedings to which a tourist entering Italy had to\n submit.","John Thompson Brown II was elected Second\n Lieutenant by the members of his company (1 December\n 1859). Also included are notes of speeches made to\n rouse war enthusiasm. The receipt for a saber and\n belt (23 April 1861) mark the beginning of action,\n and other records follow John Thompson Brown II's\n rise to Major, then to Colonel. His request for a\n transfer to a more active field of war and an\n extended argument with his commanding officer, Brig.\n Gen. William Nelson Pendleton, are of interest. The\n box concludes with items which appear to have been on\n the person of Col. John Thompson Brown II, when he\n was killed in action on 6 May 1864.","Lists the courses in school taken by a nine\n year old boy and his two brothers, Wilicox, 11\n years old, and \n P[eronneau] , 13\n years old.","Certifies that John Thompson Brown II was\n elected Second Lieutenant by viva voce vote of the\n members of his company.","References to Douglas and the threat to\n slavery.","Concerns the raid on Harper's Ferry by John\n Brown, 19 October 1859, and the treatment of him\n as a martyr in the North.","\"I greatly fear that the time has passed when\n great questions of State equality are to be\n settled in the Halls of Congress...this settlement\n requires powder and ball...\"","Report on ammunition on hand.","Court Martial action taken for refusal to do\n guard duty, by a trooper under the command of Col.\n John Thompson Brown II.","Request for transfer, with his command, to the\n Division of Gen. D. H. Hills, so that he might be\n more actively engaged.","Concerning the families of the officers.","Concerning a dispute arising between the two\n over John Thompson Brown's command.","Request the return of his report on the battle\n of Chancellorsville so that he might submit it to\n Gen. Stuart.","Papers relating to the oldest son of John Thompson\n Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, begin with letters\n written by his mother Mrs. Mary E. Brown. She\n expresses concern that her son is more interested in\n affairs other than his studies (1 March 1849). His\n school career is traced briefly through his years at\n the University of Virginia (28 June 1851).","The letters exchanged between Henry Peronneau\n Brown and his fiancee, Frances Baland Coalter, 1858,\n lead into the family correspondence which completes\n this box. (Other letters of Frances Bland Coalter and\n her family are found in Box 6, Coalter and Tucker\n Papers.)","From May, 1861, all letters are concerned with the\n war. Letters written by John Coalter II, to his\n sister Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown in 1878 give a\n graphic picture of the struggle made by a southern\n farmer to re-establish himself after the war.","The widow of John Thompson Brown writes with\n concern about her oldest son, Peronneau, who is\n attending school in South Carolina. He was\n devoting too much time to outdoor affairs of\n college life and not enough to his studies.","Congratulating him on his success at Charleston\n College; a proposed biography of John Thompson\n Brown.","Concerning Henry Peronneau Brown, attending the\n \n University [of Virginia] .","Affectionate letters to her fiance.","In August she writes to console Mrs. Brown on\n the death of her mother, Mrs. Judith H.\n Coalter.","\"We are all as glad, dear Fanny, that your home\n is so lovely and you are so happy...for its\n mountain scenery.\"","Concerning the failing health of their\n mother.","Consolations on the death of Mrs. Coalter.","Concerning the loss of an infant.","The bachelor brother of Mrs. Brown writes that\n his loneliness on an out-of-the-way plantation is\n heading him to the madhouse.","She writes of the ladies making vests and\n shirts for the soldiers. News that the Yankees\n have landed at Hampton; the first of the war\n casualties in the family.","Making clothes for the army: \"1500 yards have\n just been received which we are to turn our\n attention to at once.\"","His house was set afire and cannon are firing\n all about. Comments on \"the tennessee\n company...the roughest men you ever saw...\"","The wife of John Thompson Brown II, is in \"this\n antiquated spot\" because her husband was drilling\n some new troops and sent for her to join him.","Their brother, Henry, is at a camp near\n Williamsburg; the other brother, John, is in\n Richmond.","\"adjoining the lands of Henry Peronneau Brown\n and others.\"","\"I am sorry Henry's name is not in the list of\n exchanged prisoners...\"","Request for someone to serve the Presbyterian\n Church at Tappahannock.","The settlement of the John Randolph estate\n which was in litigation for many years.","Refuses a request for $500 by his nephew;\n recommends that he stop drinking.","Note written on an early \"penny post card.\"","Letters written to his sister as he made a\n start in farming after the end of the war: \"I have\n not the means to buy me a suit of clothes.\" Later\n he added: \"I never was as poor in my life before\n as I am now...I have not spent during the whole\n year on myself more than $10...\"","First mention of Cassie Tucker, who was later\n to marry John Thompson Brown III.","A request for a purchase of a case of \"56 Home\n Remedies.\"","Writes of \n Cassie\n [Tucker] , wife of \n [John]\n Thompson [Brown III] . \"You have introduced\n into your home a very sunbeam.\"","Concerning the death of \n John [Coalter\n II] .","The letters in this box concerning John Thompson\n Brown III, begin with one from his mother, Mrs. Henry\n Peronneau Brown, the former Frances Bland Coalter.\n There are 6 report cards from The University School,\n Petersburg, Virginia (1877-1879). Of interest is a\n pamphlet of \n Resolutions Passed in 1894,\n 1895, and 1896...Denouncing the Bedford High School\n Act.","Many of the letters in the collection are from\n Mrs. Cynthia B. Tucker Coleman to her niece Cassie\n (Mrs. John Thompson Brown III). Letters from the\n children, John Thompson Brown IV, Frances Brown, and\n Henry Peronneau Brown II, are included as well as\n photographs of some members of the family and\n pictures of the family home, Ivy Cliff, Bedford\n County (formerly Otter Hill) the home of Capt. Henry\n Brown, great grandfather of John Thompson Brown\n III.","At the end of the box is a notebook containing\n sermons copied out by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown for\n her son John Thompson Brown III.","To her son [John Thompson Brown III] urging him\n to improve his writing and \"to read your Bible and\n say your prayers every day.\"","A description of the London Museum and Zoo.","Some contain letters by John Thompson Brown\n III, when the reports were sent home.","Recommends Bible reading as the antidote for\n \"the very corrupt sentiments which are scattered\n through the classical writers.\"","The recent death of her husband, Dr. Coleman;\n the serious illness of Mrs. Henry Peronneau\n Brown.","During her illness, Mrs. Brown's children are\n in the care of Mrs. Coleman.","A child's letter.","Rejoices that Cassie's health is \"entirely\n restored.\" Bev. Tucker and Braxton Bryan are\n mentioned as attending an assembly of the clergy\n at Jamestown.","\"...make haste and get well enough to come home\n where you are much missed.\"","\"Given to my son June 5, 1890. Let him read it\n carefully and may God have mercy on his soul.\n Amen.\" (Mrs. Frances B. Brown died in September\n 1894.)","This box contains material related to the Brown\n and Tucker families after 1900. Accounts of Cary A.\n Adams are placed at the beginning of the box.","Newspaper clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska,\n relate to Judge John Randolph Tucker. Another member\n of the family, Capt. David Tucker Brown, is\n represented by two letters (1918, 1919) written from\n France when he was serving as a member of the\n American Commission to negotiate peace.","At the end of the box are collected seventeen\n undated items concerning unidentified persons.","Endorsed: \"Pres. of Const. Convention,\n 1901-2.\"","Taken from the \n Nome Daily Nugget , \n Nome Democrat and \n Nome Industrial\n Worker .","With the \"American Commission to Negotiate\n Peace.\" There is also mention of John Thompson\n Brown IV, of Wilmington.","(\"From private who served you on the\n memorable 8th of Jany, 1815.\")","An alphabetical list of flowers with the\n characteristics of each expressed\n symbolically."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\n \u003carchref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eBrown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Manuscripts\n and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary. \n \u003cunittitle\u003eBrown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), \n \u003cunitdate type=\"inclusive\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e\n 1791-1920.\u003c/unitdate\u003e\u003c/unittitle\u003e\u003cphysdesc\u003e941 items.\u003c/physdesc\u003e\u003cunitid\u003eCollection number: Mss. 65 B855\u003c/unitid\u003e\u003cabstract\u003ePapers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and\n Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland\n (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the\n Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John\n Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the\n Morton family.\u003c/abstract\u003e\u003c/archref\u003e\n \u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Material"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Manuscripts\n and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary. \n Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), \n \n 1791-1920. 941 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 B855 Papers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and\n Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland\n (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the\n Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John\n Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the\n Morton family."],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBefore publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Publication Rights/Restrictions on Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract label=\"Abstract\"\u003ePapers, 1780-1929, of the Brown,\n Coalter, Tucker families.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown,\n Coalter, Tucker families."],"names_ssim":["College of William and Mary--History--18th\n century.","Princeton University--History.","University of Virginia--History--19th\n century.","Brown family,","Coulter family,","Tucker family,","Brown family.","Coalter family.","Coulter family.","Tucker family.","William Segar Archer,","Frances Bland Coalter Brown,","Henry Brown,","Henry Peronneau Brown,","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan,","John Randolph Bryan,","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter,","John Coalter,","Judith H. Tomlin Coalter,","Maria Rind Coalter,","St. George Tucker Coalter,","Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington\n Coleman,","Moses Drury Hoge,","J. M. (James Murray) Mason,","William Munford,","William Nelson Pendleton,","John Hampden Pleasants,","Judith Randolph Randolph,","William C. (William Cabell) Rives,","Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker,","Henry St. George Tucker,","St. George Tucker,","John Tyler.","Boone, Jennifer\n Kathryn.","Archer, William Segar,\n 1789-1855.","Brown, Frances Bland\n Coalter, 1835-1894.","Brown, Daniel.","Brown, Henry,\n 1797-1836.","Brown, Henry\n Peronneau.","Bryan, Elizabeth Tucker\n Coalter, b. 1805.","Bryan, John Randolph,\n 1806-1887.","Coalter, Frances Bland\n Tucker, 1785-1813.","Coalter, John,\n 1769-1838.","Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin,\n d. 1859.","Coalter, Maria Rind, d.\n 1792.","Coalter, St. George Tucker,\n 1809-1839.","Coleman, Cynthia Beverley\n Tucker Washington, 1832-1908.","Hoge, Moses Drury,\n 1818-1899.","Mason, J. M. (James Murray),\n 1798-1871.","Munford, William, 1775-\n 1825.","Murphy, Pleasants,\n 1786-1863.","Pendleton, William Nelson,\n 1809-1883.","Pleasants, John Hampden,\n 1797-1846.","Randolph, John,\n 1773-1833.","Randolph, Judith Randolph,\n fl. 1792-1813.","Rives, William C. (William\n Cabell), 1793-1868.","Thompson, John.","Tucker, Lelia Skipwith\n Carter, 1767-post 1833.","Tucker, Henry St. George,\n 1780-1848.","Tucker, John Randolph,\n 1823-1897.","Tucker, St. George,\n 1752-1827.","Tyler, John,\n 1790-1862.","Wythe, George,\n 1726-1806."],"corpname_ssim":["College of William and Mary--History--18th\n century.","Princeton University--History.","University of Virginia--History--19th\n century."],"famname_ssim":["Brown family,","Coulter family,","Tucker family,","Brown family.","Coalter family.","Coulter family.","Tucker family."],"persname_ssim":["William Segar Archer,","Frances Bland Coalter Brown,","Henry Brown,","Henry Peronneau Brown,","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan,","John Randolph Bryan,","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter,","John Coalter,","Judith H. Tomlin Coalter,","Maria Rind Coalter,","St. George Tucker Coalter,","Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington\n Coleman,","Moses Drury Hoge,","J. M. (James Murray) Mason,","William Munford,","William Nelson Pendleton,","John Hampden Pleasants,","Judith Randolph Randolph,","William C. (William Cabell) Rives,","Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker,","Henry St. George Tucker,","St. George Tucker,","John Tyler.","Boone, Jennifer\n Kathryn.","Archer, William Segar,\n 1789-1855.","Brown, Frances Bland\n Coalter, 1835-1894.","Brown, Daniel.","Brown, Henry,\n 1797-1836.","Brown, Henry\n Peronneau.","Bryan, Elizabeth Tucker\n Coalter, b. 1805.","Bryan, John Randolph,\n 1806-1887.","Coalter, Frances Bland\n Tucker, 1785-1813.","Coalter, John,\n 1769-1838.","Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin,\n d. 1859.","Coalter, Maria Rind, d.\n 1792.","Coalter, St. George Tucker,\n 1809-1839.","Coleman, Cynthia Beverley\n Tucker Washington, 1832-1908.","Hoge, Moses Drury,\n 1818-1899.","Mason, J. M. (James Murray),\n 1798-1871.","Munford, William, 1775-\n 1825.","Murphy, Pleasants,\n 1786-1863.","Pendleton, William Nelson,\n 1809-1883.","Pleasants, John Hampden,\n 1797-1846.","Randolph, John,\n 1773-1833.","Randolph, Judith Randolph,\n fl. 1792-1813.","Rives, William C. (William\n Cabell), 1793-1868.","Thompson, John.","Tucker, Lelia Skipwith\n Carter, 1767-post 1833.","Tucker, Henry St. George,\n 1780-1848.","Tucker, John Randolph,\n 1823-1897.","Tucker, St. George,\n 1752-1827.","Tyler, John,\n 1790-1862.","Wythe, George,\n 1726-1806."],"language_ssim":["English"],"total_component_count_is":1072,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-21T15:08:43.705Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"viw_viw00051","ead_ssi":"viw_viw00051","_root_":"viw_viw00051","_nest_parent_":"viw_viw00051","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/wm/viw00051.xml","title_ssm":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), \n \n 1780-1929."],"title_tesim":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), \n \n 1780-1929."],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["Mss. 65 B85"],"text":["Mss. 65 B85","Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), \n \n 1780-1929.","American poetry.","Architecture,\n Domestic--Virginia.","Embargo, 1807-1809.","\n Education--Virginia--History-- 19th century.","Guilford Court House, Battle\n of, 1781.","Slavery--Virginia--\n History--18th century.","Springs--Virginia.","United States--History--War\n of 1812.","Virginia. General Assembly.\n House of Delegates.","Virginia--Politics and\n government--1775-1865.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Bedford County--19th\n century.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Campbell County--19th\n century.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Lynchburg--19th century.","3,433 items.","Collection is open to all researchers.","Organization This collection is organized into four series; Series 1\n is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker\n Families; Series 2 is Group B, containing the papers of\n Capt. Henry Brown and his family; Series 3 is Group C,\n containing the papers of John Thompson Brown; and Series 4\n is Group D, containing the papers of the Brown and Tucker\n Families.","This collection is organized into four series; Series 1\n is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker\n Families; Series 2 is Group B, containing the papers of\n Capt. Henry Brown and his family; Series 3 is Group C,\n containing the papers of John Thompson Brown; and Series 4\n is Group D, containing the papers of the Brown and Tucker\n Families.","Arrangement Each series in the collection has been arranged into\n various subseries by family names, personal names or\n subjects. The material in each subseries may contain the\n names of various other persons but the most prominent name\n is the one used to describe the subseries. Series 1\n contains the following subseries: John Coalter; Children of\n John Coalter, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, and St. George\n Tucker Coalter; and Grandchild of John Coalter, Frances\n Bland Coalter. Series 2 contains the following subseries:\n Capt. Henry Brown; Immediate Family of Capt. Henry Brown;\n and Children of Capt. Henry Brown, Henry Brown, Jr. and\n Samuel T. Brown. Series 3 contains six subseries pertaining\n to John Thompson Brown. Series 4 contains the following\n subseries: Col. John Thompson Brown II, Henry Peronneau\n Brown, John Thompson Brown III, Later Family Member, and\n Miscellaneous.","Each series in the collection has been arranged into\n various subseries by family names, personal names or\n subjects. The material in each subseries may contain the\n names of various other persons but the most prominent name\n is the one used to describe the subseries. Series 1\n contains the following subseries: John Coalter; Children of\n John Coalter, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, and St. George\n Tucker Coalter; and Grandchild of John Coalter, Frances\n Bland Coalter. Series 2 contains the following subseries:\n Capt. Henry Brown; Immediate Family of Capt. Henry Brown;\n and Children of Capt. Henry Brown, Henry Brown, Jr. and\n Samuel T. Brown. Series 3 contains six subseries pertaining\n to John Thompson Brown. Series 4 contains the following\n subseries: Col. John Thompson Brown II, Henry Peronneau\n Brown, John Thompson Brown III, Later Family Member, and\n Miscellaneous.","Describes life on Walker's Creek, Rockbridge\n County; his responsibility for the farm while\n his father is away at war.","Samuel Brown is a young lawyer, earning\n 40£ per year as usher for John\n Holt.","Describes his new position as tutor to the\n children of St. George Tucker.","The death of Mrs. Tucker; plans of St.\n George Tucker to move because the plantation,\n Matoax, reverts to the sons of Mrs. Tucker\n (Richard, John, and Theodorick Randolph). He\n intends to move to Williamsburg, but he can no\n longer pay John Coalter 30£ per\n annum; offers to give legal training in\n exchange for tutoring services.","James Rind, had been studying law with St.\n George Tucker in Williamsburg but left to take\n a position with \"Col. N.\" Maria Rind remains in\n the household of St. George Tucker, where she\n cared for the children.","Honors Thesis Paper written by a student of the College\n of William and Mary. A Bibliography can be found on pages\n 75-77. Call Number: LD6051 .W5m Hist., 1987, B66","Boone, Jennifer\n Kathryn. \"In Praise of the Family\": A\n Study of Three Generations. 1987.","Note: The superscript numbers denote generations within\n each family.","Brown Family Henry Brown \n 1 (1716-1766) was born in Bedford\n County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven\n children including; Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel\n Brown (1770-1818).","Henry Brown \n 2 (1760-1841), later commissioned\n as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the\n war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell)\n County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting\n life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several\n ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his\n time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax\n Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of\n revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a\n treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New\n London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day\n Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers\n present a picture of the successful business man of that day.\n No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this\n collection, though many references to letters he had written\n are to be found. Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), married\n Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry\n Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T.\n Brown, who married Lissie Huger; \n Locky [Lockie] T. Brown (b.\n 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who\n married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M.\n Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married\n Mary E. Willcox.","Many papers of Henry Brown, Jr. \n 3 (1797-1836), are included in this\n collection, but his personality makes little impression on the\n reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his\n father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own.\n Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness\n that had plagued him from his early years.","John Thompson Brown \n 3 (1802-1836) was born near Bedford\n County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later\n read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the\n House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia\n (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his\n marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading\n citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of\n Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery,\n states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson\n period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their\n insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period.\n He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned\n as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the\n State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have\n been an important figure in national politics if he had not\n suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary\n Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894),\n John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II\n (1835-1864).","Col. John Thompson Brown II \n 4 (1835-1864), was less than two\n years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his\n father's ideas in the next generation when the debate\n regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by\n recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war\n fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the\n artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6,\n 1864.","Henry Peronneau Brown \n 4 (1832-1894), was named after a\n Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's,\n Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry\n Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his\n father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown\n with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the\n insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and\n the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894),\n married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were\n the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married\n Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker\n family with the line. They in turn had five children; John\n Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown;\n Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas\n Brown; and Willcox Brown.","Coalter Family John Coalter \n 1 (1769-1838), was born in 1769 to\n parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father\n was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter\n and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in\n Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became\n tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and\n Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death\n of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg,\n serving without pay in return for the legal training he\n received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While\n studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of\n William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In\n December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year\n later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a\n Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for\n the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter\n (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport\n (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within\n the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of\n St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John\n Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore\n him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter\n (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and\n St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later\n became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and\n bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter\n continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to\n Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In\n 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones)\n Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and\n interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in\n Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\" plantation in\n Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter \n 2 (1805-1853), married John\n Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831\n and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They\n had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia\n Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph\n Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George\n Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman\n Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).","St. George Tucker Coalter \n 2 (1809-1839), married the\n strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out\n his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his\n farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters,\n which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine\n Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were\n prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters\n give an interesting and informative picture of life in\n Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St.\n George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin\n Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker\n (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who\n married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia\n Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in\n 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married\n Amelia Downy in 1862 and Charlotte (Downy) Terrill in 1868.\n See Brown Family","Tucker Family St. George Tucker \n 1 (1752-1827), was born in 1752\n near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry\n Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career\n in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William\n and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served\n as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth\n attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at\n the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge\n for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland)\n Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous\n marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and\n John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph\n Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker\n (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker\n (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel\n Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph\n plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until\n the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St.\n George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795).\n None of their three children lived to adulthood.","Henry St. George Tucker \n 2 (1780-1848), served as a\n professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the\n Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress,\n 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married\n Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children,\n including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances\n Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John\n Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).","Randolph Tucker \n 3 married Lucy (?). The couple had\n children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.","Dr. David Hunter Tucker \n 3 married Eliz Dallas and had Rev.\n Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.","John Randolph Tucker \n 3 (1823-1897), married Laura Holmes\n Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as\n attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at\n Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University);\n and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.","Ann Frances Bland Tucker \n 2 (1785-1813), married John Coalter\n (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.","Nathaniel Beverley Tucker \n 2 (1784-1851), graduated from the\n College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he\n married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter\n (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court\n Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried\n twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He\n returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in\n 1834.","Other People William Munford (1775- 1825) \n A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his\n Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some\n note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting\n reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard\n University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants\n in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the\n British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He\n lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later\n moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks\n on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on\n that important member of the legal profession in the new\n nation.","Gary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is\n unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods\n stores and the household supply stores are included in the\n collection.","Cynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of\n Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.","Judge John Randolph Tucker (ca. 1915) \n Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska\n concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (ca.\n 1915).","Capt. David Tucker Brown (ca. 1918), was a member of the\n 1918 Peace Commission, Paris France.","There are two collections within the Manuscripts and\n Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n Mary that relate to this Collection. They include the\n Barnes Family Papers and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.","Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. \n Barnes Family Papers, \n 1797-1926,\n 1818-1875. 247 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26 Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman\n Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes\n of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County,\n Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and\n also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are\n members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver\n families.","Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. \n Tucker-Coleman Papers, \n 1664-1945,\n 1770-1907. 30,000 items. Collection number: Mss. 40 T79 Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and\n Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington,\n Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George\n Tucker(1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851),\n Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland\n (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838),\n John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker\n Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family\n members.","Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter, Tucker families\n including the papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the\n Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and John Thompson Brown\n (1802-1836), member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Among\n the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George\n Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St.\n George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev.\n Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.","Papers include John Coalter's autobiographical sketch\n (to age 18), 54 poems written by Coalter, St. George\n Tucker, and others including several by female writers.\n Correspondents of the Coalter family include St. George\n Tucker, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, William Munford,\n Judith Randolph, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter and Maria\n Rind Coalter. Subjects include John Randolph of Roanoke\n (and his will), George Wythe, the Embargo of 1807-1809,\n College of William and Mary, War of 1812; and the\n springs of Virginia.","Group A also includes papers of Coalter's children:\n Elizabeth Tucker Coalter; and St. George Tucker Coalter\n and his wife Judith H. Tomlin and the correspondence of\n Coalter's granddaughter Frances Lelia Bland Coalter\n Brown. Her letters concern her education and friendship\n with Moses Drury Hoge.","The record of the gift of the collection,\n genealogical charts of the Tucker, Coalter, Tomlin\n and Brown families, and sundry genealogical notes\n which form a preface to the collection, are placed\n at the beginning of this box. The collection\n begins with 54 poems, the first of which is signed\n by St. George Tucker. Two signed poems by William\n Munford are included. The largest group of poems\n are those exchanged by John Coalter and Maria\n Rind, his first wife. Others were collected in the\n family papers until the middle or the latter part\n of the nineteenth century.","The bulk of the material in Box 1 concerns John\n Coalter: an autobiographical sketch written by him\n on his 18th birthday, and letters covering the\n period of his early life from 1787, when he went\n to live with the St. George Tucker family, until\n the death of his first wife in 1793. Interesting\n letters from John Munford, a classmate of Coalter,\n are included, several of which concern the College\n of William and Mary and Harvard College.","Genealogical charts: 1. Coalter, with\n Tucker and Randolph connections; 2. Tomlin,\n as connected with Coalter and Brown; 3.\n Brown, as connected with Coalter and\n Tucker.","His father hopes that John Coalter will\n return home, to the higher country, for the\n \"sickly season.\"","Samuel Brown gives details of his studies at\n Dickinson College, and congratulates John\n Coalter on his chance to study law with St.\n George Tucker.","Attending lectures of the Rev. James\n Madison, President of the College of William\n and Mary, on Natural Philosophy, and of Mr.\n Wythe on Law. When John Coalter loses his\n ribbon he must let his hair hang free for want\n of money to buy another.","Two young cousins, in custody of Indians for\n 3 and 6 years respectively, were freed by the\n army in Detroit.","Concerning his wedding trip.","John Grierson Rind is a brother of Maria\n Rind. He mentions the need of John Coalter for\n a coat and a pair of spectacles.","Approval of the Constitution by South\n Carolina is still in doubt; threat of an Indian\n War in Georgia. \" \n Brother\n Dav[i]d is over in Gloucester. If he has\n success in purchasing Negroes, I hope we will\n be ready to sett [sic] out on our \n rout[e] to the\n South.\"","First letter of young Micajah Coalter, who\n is learning to write.","\"Have you been exempted from paying the\n oppressive Duty which most of our Backwoods\n Gentlemen have paid for that Knowledge which\n they have gathered at Williamsburg in Autumn--I\n mean the loss of Health and a good\n complexion.\"","Mentions John Coalter's desire to return\n home.","Expresses desire to marry and to live on the\n farm while he is getting started in his law\n practice.","\"...nothing can be expected without\n riches...however deserving of a better fate the\n poor always meet\n with rudeness and contempt.\" (Children of a\n Williamsburg printer, the Rinds were orphaned\n at an early age and were helped by the\n Tuckers.)","His father does not have land to give him at\n that time, so he cannot marry at once. He has\n decided to move to Staunton, and continue his\n studies. In September he writes that he hopes\n to visit Williamsburg around Christmas, and\n apply for admission to the bar.","The letters are written with great\n difficulty, and show a lack of schooling.","Mentions \"your quondam charges, Henry,\n Tudor, Beverley, and Fanny (Tucker) and John\n and Theodorick Randolph.\" Hopes he may live and\n study with Mr. Wythe. \"Nothing would advance me\n faster in the world than the reputation of\n having been educated by Mr. Wythe, for such a\n man as he, casts a light upon all around\n him.\"","John Coalter has borrowed a horse from him\n for the trip to Staunton.","\"I...was much pleased to hear of your\n gallantry but am affeared it has been attended\n with some accident which occasioned your move\n to the mountains again...\" (Evidently John\n Coalter did something to protect Maria Rind. He\n then decided to leave Williamsburg in order to\n establish himself and be in a position to\n support her as his wife.)","After obtaining his license in Williamsburg,\n John Coalter has his first case in Amherst. Of\n St. George Tucker, he writes: \"I would rather\n have the approbation of that man than worlds\n for my admirers.\" Advice is given in regard to\n the torment by John Randolph; plans are made\n for their marriage in autumn.","In April she writes that Mr. Tucker plans to\n remarry; she wishes to move up the date of\n their marriage. She dreads \"the prospect of\n Johnny Randolph returning and you well know, my\n love, how liable your dear is to be insulted by\n him...\"","\"...thru the surprising friendship of Mr.\n Wythe, I live in his house and board at his\n table...In this happy situation tomorrow I\n begin the Study of Law.\"","Congratulates James Rind on receiving his\n license to practice law.","\"We visit very often at the different houses\n in the neighborhood, at Westover, Nesting, and\n Shirley, where I saw Robin Carter...we may\n expect to see you after Mrs. Carter has become\n Mrs. Tucker.\"","On the return of a wagon and horses;\n purchases of additional farm animals.","Living and studying with Mr. Wythe. John\n Thompson (grandfather of John Thompson Brown)\n was among the 4th of July orators. Verse and\n poetic criticism of St. George Tucker. George\n Wythe is teaching his servant to write.","This law practice is discouraging; entrusts\n Maria Rind to his care, and sends greetings on\n St. George Tucker's 39th birthday.","Discourages John Coalter from coming \"across\n the Alps\" -- there are too many lawyers\n already.","Has moved to Richmond with Mr. Wythe.\n Mentions building of the canal. Samuel Brown to\n study in Scotland; congratulates John Coalter\n on his marriage to Maria Rind.","Elizabeth Tucker is sister of St. George\n Tucker, and an aunt of Fanny Tucker. Mentions\n other Tucker children, Henry, Tudor, Beverly,\n and Elizabeth, as well as Theodorick and\n Richard Randolph and the latter's wife, Judith.\n Comments on the proposed marriage of St. George\n Tucker to Mrs. Carter, and the small children\n she will be bringing to the marriage.","Description of George Washington delivering\n an address in Philadelphia. Congratulates John\n Coalter on his marriage and sends compliments\n to his brothers. (This Samuel Brown may be the\n uncle of John Thompson Brown.)","The letter was written soon after Mrs.\n Coalter had gone to Staunton with her\n husband.","On the marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs.\n Lelia (Skipwith) Carter.","Death of Maria Skipwith; the great distress\n of Mrs. (Lelia Skipwith) Tucker.","His wages are to be 15£ or\n 20£ per year as a clerk.","The letter from Edinburgh contains an\n interesting description of life in the Scottish\n capital, the coldness of his fellow students\n until they are introduced, and his warm\n reception by a family to which he had a letter\n of introduction.","Reports that there are about forty students\n at the College of William and Mary; Theodorick\n Randolph has died; \"Thompson has left W. \u0026\n M.,\" and his mother proposes to send him to\n Harvard.","Enquires about Maria, and their expected\n first child. (Both mother and child died.)","The \"distressing news\" that his wife has\n died in childbirth.","War reports; the parade of the Richmond\n Grenadiers, Light Horse and Light Infantry.","Consoles John Coalter on the loss of his\n wife; reports the Independence Day orations at\n the College of William and Mary, and mentions\n the raising of subscriptions to aid distressed\n French immigrants at Norfolk.","The contents of Box 2 trace the legal career of\n John Coalter from 10 April 1795, when St. George\n Tucker recommended him for the position of Clerk\n of the Court in Staunton, through the period of\n his second and third marriages to Margaret\n Davenport, 1795 (she died in 1797), and to Frances\n Bland Tucker, 1802.","Included also are letters to Mrs. Frances Bland\n Tucker Coalter from her father St. George Tucker,\n her stepmother Mrs. Lelia Skipwith Tucker, her\n sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph of Bizarre, and\n others. Correspondence with William Munford, in\n Williamsburg, is also included.","Recommends John Coalter as Clerk of the\n Staunton Court.","\"Yes, Peggy, my Maria is gone! The worst of\n evils has befallen your friend.\"","Requests payment of a debt.","William Munford has returned to the College\n of William and Mary, and is \"in constant\n attendance on Mr. (St. George) Tucker...Mrs.\n Tucker has lately been so unfortunate as to\n lose a newborn child.\"","Accuses John Coalter of \"making a stroke at\n her character\"; makes insulting statements\n regarding John Coalter's late wife. John\n Coalter responds by threatening to take Jenny\n Stuart into court, after which she offers to\n return John Coalter's letter.","James Coalter is a merchant, dealing largely\n in indigo.","Recounts a voyage to Hampton Roads to view\n the French Fleet, consisting of 150 ships,\n including three men of war, five or six\n frigates, and armed merchantmen laden with\n flour. Party spirit in Norfolk; Aristocrats\n more prominent; acrimony inflamed by the\n presence of the French fleet and a British\n frigate. William Munford is ready to apply for\n his law license.","\"There can be but one in the world\" for her,\n but he is \"out of her reach.\" At a recent\n dinner the first toast by Governor Lee was to\n her.","Congratulations on the occasion of her\n marriage to John Coalter.","The difficulty of finding passage for Mrs.\n Coalter and her mother from Williamsburg to\n Staunton. John Coalter is finally able to\n borrow a phaeton which he has overhauled and\n supplied with an umbrella. Advice regarding\n divorce of F. C[?]y.","Concerning a mare to be serviced.","The \"war\" and Indian victory are mentioned\n and a bloody spring season is predicted.","Divorce proceedings for a Mrs. Matthews\n before the Georgia Legislature.","Mention is made of a child expected by Mrs.\n Coalter.","Condolences \"on this distressing occasion\"\n (the death of John Coalter's wife in\n childbirth; the child also died.)","Business letter concerning collections to be\n made in Virginia.","She should \"by this time be fatigued with\n the name of Tucker\" and that she \"had better\n look about\" (for a husband).","The letter is from the papers of John\n Coalter.","Judith Randolph, wife of Richard Randolph,\n half brother of Frances Tucker, sends greetings\n to Polly and Charles (Carter), step-sister and\n brother of Frances Tucker. The \"Mama\" mentioned\n is Mrs. Lelia Carter Tucker.","Complains that she is \"surrounded by the\n real evils of life.\" (Her husband had been\n linked with her sister in the famous scandal\n proceedings.)","Concerning a horse in which he is\n interested.","Hint of a June wedding for Frances\n Tucker.","Fanny B. Tucker has just married John\n Coalter and returned with him to Staunton. Anne\n H. Nicholas writes that Lelia Byrd has died at\n the age of 18.","Elm Grove was the new home of the Coalters.\n Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter was in the\n Warm Springs for her health in September.","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter returns to\n Williamsburg for the birth of her first child,\n Francis Lelia; the burning of the buildings of\n Lexington Academy.","John Coalter was on the court circuit.","The letters are undated, but are replies to\n those from Frances Bland Tucker Coalter to John\n Coalter.","F. Davenport was the mother of the second\n wife of John Coalter, who continued to live\n with the Coalters.","Concerning deed to property, probably Elm\n Grove, the home bought by John Coalter.","Maria Carter was a step-daughter of St.\n George Tucker.","Writes of obtaining a clerk's position with\n the Ohio Assembly at $4.00 per day.","Death of her husband and her straitened\n circumstances; Bizarre in bad condition; hopes\n to send her son, St. George, to Europe to cure\n his deafness.","In June, St. George Tucker and Mrs. Tucker\n set out for Staunton in order to be there for\n the lying-in of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter.","First mention of the second Coalter child,\n Elizabeth.","The illness of Tudor Randolph.","Congratulates John Coalter on the birth of\n his second daughter and the purchase of Elm\n Grove. He writes at length about the difficulty\n in buying good house servants.","Financial matters, mainly about bank shares\n and dividends.","St. George Randolph's visit to England; her\n disappointment over continued his deafness Dr.\n Cooper says \"occasioned by the irruption of his\n ears at nine months old.\" Has no authority over\n the servants. Illness of Polly the\n seamstress.","Thirty sick Negroes. Poverty.","John Naylor married to Jane, sister of John\n Coalter.","Payment of $1,230 on bank shares.","The marriage of Beverley Tucker to Mary\n Coalter.","Small pox.","Difficulties in South Carolina caused by the\n embargo.","His wife Evelina has given birth to a\n son.","Anne Catherine Coalter was visiting the\n Coalters at Elm Grove.","Mention of her young daughters, Fancilea\n (Francis Lelia) and Lizba (Elizabeth Tucker\n Coalter).","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter spent every\n summer at the medicinal springs for her\n health.","Interesting comments on the effect of the\n embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the\n War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found\n in these letters. There is also a report of the\n destruction wrought in Bruton Parish Church by the\n \"youth of Williamsburg,\" and remarks of Saint\n George Tucker (14 June 1809) upon the occasion of\n the birth of his first grandson, St. George\n Coalter, in which he strongly condemns the\n academies and colleges of that day.","Letters include those exchanged by John Coalter\n with his third wife Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter\n from 1809-1811, when John Coalter was serving as\n Circuit Judge. In 1811 he accepted an appointment\n as judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals;\n the family then moved to Richmond. There are many\n letters received by Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter between 1809 and her death in 1813, from\n her father St. George Tucker, and stepmother Mrs.\n Lelia Tucker, in Williamsburg, from her\n sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph at Bizarre, and\n from other members of the family. There also are\n many letters to the daughters of John Coalter,\n Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker, from their\n grandparents, from 1813 to the death of Frances\n Lelia Coalter in 1821.","On the appointment of John Coalter to his\n position as \"a judge under the new Judiciary\n System.\" (John Coalter was appointed February\n 7, 1807).","Mentions a visit from the newly married \n Beverley\n [Tucker] and \n Polly\n [Coalter] and writes concerning her sons\n Saint (George) and Tudor.","Written by John Coalter during spring and\n autumn sessions of the Circuit Court. Contain\n instructions for planting, the upkeep of Elm\n Grove, and other matters.","One of the letters concerns the troubles\n with the English and the hope for a peaceful\n settlement.","In the letter of June 14, St. George Tucker\n mentions the birth of John Coalter's first son\n his first grandson (St. George Tucker Coalter)\n \"who, if my prayers for him may be heard, will\n never descend from the dignity of a private\n station.\" Concerning the education of his\n grandson, he writes, \"unless the manners of our\n youth, or the management of their tutor, shall\n undergo a most surprising and happy change in\n this Country, I had rather he should never hear\n of an Academy or a College, than enter the\n walls of one.","Congratulations on the birth of a son.","This series of letters is concerned, among\n other problems, with the difficulty of meeting\n payments on Elm Grove, of a fight between two\n of their slaves, the treatment of one of the\n wives by slave husband and the imprisonment on\n the plantation of the two slaves. Effort to get\n a tooth pulled. Two doctors and, finally, \"a\n shoemaker named Cease\" were able to extract the\n tooth about a week after the first attempt was\n made. Alcoholism of a friend. Afflicting\n account of sister's situation at Bizarre. \"she\n must come to us, as soon as she can leave\n Bizarre; which she says cannot be before Xmas,\n that she may complete the clothing of the\n Negroes.\"","Appeals to James All to represent the\n district. About the war situation: \"We are more\n Colonies than ever--i.e. we give our \n whole trade to\n aid Britain in her wars--were we Colonies we\n would only give the revenue arising from\n trade.\"","Her parents were trying to buy a cook for\n Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter without great\n success.","These letters although undated, are believed\n to have been written in 1810.","Reports that Bruton Parish Church has been\n \"totally and wantonly destroyed...the Bellows\n and many of the pipes cut to pieces,\" evidently\n by the youth of the town.","John Coalter attending the spring and autumn\n sittings of the Circuit Court, sends\n instructions for the management of the\n farm.","News of the farm, the slaves, and family.\n Relays questions from slave Ned about the farm\n and permission for him to visit his daughter in\n Rockingham and his wife's petition to accompany\n him.","Concerning a cook for sale.","D[avid]\n C[oalter] , Mary's father.","These letters from relatives of Mrs. Frances\n Bland Tucker Coalter are placed in one\n folder.","These letters are undated but are presumed\n to date from 1811, and placed in one\n folder.","In May, John Coalter writes of his\n appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of\n Appeals of Virginia (May 11, 1811). \"God help\n me, I know not what to do. All have advised my\n acceptance.\" In October he writes of\n arrangements made for the move to Richmond, and\n of plans to sell the cattle at Elm Grove.","In April Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter\n writes, \"I very much fear I shall never be\n reconciled to our fate\"--of separation for such\n long periods when John Coalter is absent on the\n court circuit. (A month later John Coalter was\n appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of\n Appeals.) Also mentions a \"terrible whipping\"\n their two year old son St. George Tucker\n Coalter had \"for obstinacy.\"","Tucker strongly advises his brother-in-law\n against accepting his new appointment: \"Rest\n assured that no other Judge of the General\n Court will accept the office which is tendered\n you.\"","John St. George Randolph is a son of Mrs.\n Judith Randolph.","Speaking of himself as an \"ex-judge,\" Tucker\n advises John Coalter regarding his new\n appointment; concern for the health of Mrs.\n Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Frances Lelia Coalter writes with concern\n about her mother's health.","News of the children sent to Mrs. Frances\n Bland Tucker Coalter who is quite ill.","Concern for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter's poor health.","The troubled times are reflected in this\n series of letters. In July, Tucker comments on\n the American privateer with one nine-pounder\n which took a British schooner armed with four\n twelve pounders. In August he gives an account\n of the Baltimore riot in which a jail was\n broken into and prisoners assassinated. He\n writes that such action \"is beyond measure\n horrible and obnoxious; and every good Citizen\n ought to set his face against such damnable\n proceedings,\" but concludes, \"The Yankees, no\n doubt, will be glad of the precedent...I look\n forward to a dissolution of the Union, as an\n Event not far off.\"","Concerning the sale of Elm Grove.","Reflects the uncertainty of the war\n situation in his letter.","Frances L. Coalter writes to her father who\n is with her mother, Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter, in her last illness at the medicinal\n springs.","Writing to his daughter before she goes to\n the Springs for her final siege of illness, St.\n George Tucker sends the news that the enemy had\n left the waters about Williamsburg after much\n destruction and property along the river.","In these letters it is apparent that Mrs.\n Frances Bland Tucker Coalter is near death.","Letters of hope and prayer for the recovery\n of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Reports of the war: \"the conduct of the\n British at Craney Island was the most cowardly\n imaginable,\" and \"We have just been informed by\n rumor that the British Squadron in the\n Chesapeake has been reinforced...\"","Writes of his \"great and irretrievable loss\"\n his wife died \"on Sunday evening, the 12th\n instant.\"","The first letters written after the death of\n St. George Tucker's daughter.","To her granddaughter, the second child of\n John Coalter and his late wife. (A biographical\n note of John Coalter's family is enclosed in\n the folder with this letter.)","She writes that \"the events of the present\n week will supply to you the want of a Mother\n and Sister, which you have so severly felt,\n particularly in the last six or eight months.\"\n Frances L. Coalter, the sister of Elizabeth T.\n Coalter, died in 1821 at the age of 18. John\n Coalter was soon to marry his fourth wife, a\n widow Williamson.","Second is titled \"Tucker-Green Annals.\"","The Tuckers are in their summer home at\n Warminster, with Maria Carter Cabell, daughter\n of Mrs. L. Tucker, and her husband Joseph\n Cabell.","A New Year's greeting to his\n granddaughters.","The letters in this box are primarily those of\n the two surviving children of John and Francis\n Bland Tucker Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter\n Bryan and St. George Tucker Coalter, and their\n respective spouses, John Randolph Bryan and Judith\n H. Tomlin Coalter.","This group includes genealogical material on\n the Tomlin family, and correspondence of Judith H.\n Tomlin before her marriage to St. George Tucker\n Coalter. Her letters form an important part of the\n collection from this time until her death in\n 1859.","The last letters from their grandparents, Mr.\n and Mrs. St. George Tucker, are preserved, as well\n as letters to their uncles Henry and Beverley\n Tucker and John Randolph of Roanoke. Of special\n note is a letter of October, 1831 in which St.\n George Tucker Coalter writes fully of Randolph\n during a visit to Roanoke. After his death in\n 1833, Randolph's will caused great difficulty and\n misunderstanding in the family, and appears to\n cast a slur on his step-father St. George\n Tucker.","The letters of St. George Tucker Coalter to his\n wife and sister, especially those written from the\n springs which he visits each year, form the\n largest single group. In these letters an\n interesting picture of nineteenth century social\n life is to be found.","Schoolgirl letters written by J. H. T.\n before her marriage.","Judith H. Tomlin writes of her visit to\n Yorktown to see Lafayette on his return visit\n to America.","Judith H. Tucker writes to congratulate\n Virgilia Savage in December on her\n marriage.","Endorsed: \"Letters of my dear and venerated\n Grandfather, S. G. Tucker, High Souled,\n Generous Gentleman.\"","Thomas T. Tucker, a brother of St. George\n Tucker, enclosed these two letters in a packet\n which he forwarded from Beverley Tucker.","St. George Tucker complains about his sight\n and signs himself \"Your old blind Grandpa\" in\n the first of these letters. The last is\n endorsed: \"All the letters concerning my most\n dear Grandfather's illness and death are\n omitted and put to themselves.\"","These were written after the death of St.\n George Tucker.","Writes in regard to his instruction in law,\n as suggested by Elizabeth T. Coalter. He\n mentions the poor health of his step-brother,\n John Randolph, of Roanoke; and suspects that\n his brother, Beverley, \"will not return to\n Virginia as a resident.\" Beverley Tucker, then\n in Missouri, did return to Williamsburg, and\n later became Professor of Law at the College of\n William and Mary.","Tucker enclosed his \"Introductory Lecture,\"\n reprinted from his \n Commentory on the Laws\n of Virginia . . . Lectures delivered at the\n Winchester Law School , pp. 7-14.","The first is a printed invitation to a ball\n at the Jefferson Hotel with a message added;\n the second is a Temperance pledge signed by St.\n George Tucker Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin and\n three others.","Evidently left in charge of his father's\n estate, Chatham, he writes concerning\n examinations at the College of William and Mary\n and of his experiences in vaccinating and\n performing minor operations on the slaves. (He\n was a 20 year old farmer with no medical\n training!)","St. George Tucker Coalter prepares to leave\n school to marry.","The first letter to Judith Tomlin Coalter\n after her marriage to St. George Tucker\n Coalter, December 16, 1829. \"Tell St. George\n that yesterday Uncle R. (John Randolph of\n Roanoke) made an attack \n on the\n Judiciary and Papa (John Coalter),\n finding no one else would rise to their\n defense, answered him...\"","His \"chill and fever,\" the recurring\n sickness which was to bring on his early death\n in 1839. His wife goes to Chatham, the Coalter\n family home, for the birth of her first child,\n Walker Tomlin Coalter.","In October he writes: \"Uncle R. (John\n Randolph of Roanoke) looks dreadfully, is much\n worn away by disease...\" Two weeks later he\n writes describing Randolph's estate and\n personality: \"He is very agreeable indeed and\n entertains me highly with his conversation on\n all subjects...He is a man of the finest and\n nicest feelings I have ever met with...\"","On her husband's financial difficulties.","Writes to his sister about crops, planting,\n and the like.","The two cousins, grandsons of John Coalter,\n are infants; this letter is written by St.\n George Tucker Coalter.","In the January letter, he announces the\n birth of a son, Henry St. George Tucker\n Coalter. From White Sulphur Springs, he writes\n (July 27) that \"the shortness of breath and the\n hacking cough have left me entirely.\"","Her husband is at the Springs; she would\n like to join him but cannot afford it. \"He says\n he never wished for money before, as the want\n of it keeps him from having company...\"","An interesting group of letters describing\n life at several of the medicinal springs which\n were so popular in the 19th century. He\n describes his daily regimen, the meals, the\n baths, other tourists, the costs, and the\n physical characteristics of the resorts.","Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her husband\n about family matters while he is at the springs\n for his health.","A continuation of his previous letters,\n including a crude drawing of the buildings and\n grounds of Salt Sulphur Springs.","In November she mentions that Beverley\n Tucker called on way to Williamsburg.","The boys, who are just learning to write,\n add their notes to the letter to their\n grandfather.","Her husband is overworking, and she fears\n for his health.","The brother of Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes\n to her father-in-law asking help in gaining a\n position with a Richmond company.","He writes about his poor health; mentions\n his uncle, Beverley Tucker.","John Coalter is very much concerned with\n gold mine projects; he now orders St. George\n Tucker Coalter about at his will, and has\n decided that the family shall move closer to\n him. They are dependent on John Coalter\n financially.","Life at the springs, his continuing illness\n and his poverty.","His discouragement as he contemplates the\n move insisted upon by his father: \"after seven\n years we have to begin the world afresh and fix\n and build and lay out and all that -- oh\n thunder - -how I dread and hate it.\"","Regarding the move from Cumberland, New Kent\n County, to St. George's Park, King William\n County, and the difficulty of the move.","John Coalter is very ill, and the new place\n is slow in getting established. Mention of the\n will of John Randolph of Roanoke.","The will of John Randolph of Roanoke, in\n which the good name of St. George Tucker is\n slighted. Henry and Beverley Tucker, sons of\n St. George Tucker are also involved.","Home has not been settled since leaving\n Cumberland. Her husband has finally bought a\n place \"about 2 hundred and 50 acres, very poor,\n with a new house but a very indifferent\n one.\"","Concerning the \"continued illness\" of Judge\n (John) Coalter; offers to be of any help that\n he can. (John Coalter died the day this letter\n was written.)","The correspondence between St. George T.\n Coalter, his wife, his sister Mrs. Elizabeth T.\n Bryan, and her husband John Randolph Bryan, form\n the core of the material in this box. St. George\n Tucker Coalter attempts to establish a new home\n where his late father John Coalter forced him to\n move (St. George Tucker Coalter was never\n financially independent of his father). A doctor's\n prescription, 28 April 1839, for the man who has\n been slowly dying of lung trouble and constant\n fever is: salts to be taken internally, salve\n rubbed on externally, baths at the medicinal\n springs and regular exercise. Four months later\n St. George Tucker Coalter died.","The five surviving children of Mrs. Coalter and\n the nine children of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan add\n to the correspondence as the years go on, for the\n families are very attached to one another and\n there is much visiting back and forth as well as\n letter writing. The letters of the cousins have\n been combined in this collection, so that an\n interesting picture is given of the life of this\n period; see a report of a traveling entertainer\n who visits the great houses (23 February 1847), a\n description of a costume ball at Warner Hall (8\n February 1851) and a list of courses studied at a\n Girl's school (2 February 1852).","There is much discussion of diseases which were\n prevalent: consumption, scarlet fever, typhoid\n fever, cholera, and influenza. 16-year-old John\n Coalter copied out a cholera cure sent by his aunt\n for use by two local doctors (13 July 1849).","The first letter is endorsed by John\n Randolph Bryan. The second was started by St.\n George Tucker Coalter but was completed and\n signed by his wife.","Concerned principally with the rapidly\n deteriorating health of St. George T. Coalter.\n In June he begins a letter that he is unable to\n finish but by November he is again supervising\n the farm activity. The establishment of the new\n farm and the erection of additional buildings\n is a great strain.","Mrs. Coalter wrote the first two letters for\n her husband who was too weak to write, but by\n December he was again active in supervising St.\n George's Park, their new home.","Coalter visits his uncle, Beverley Tucker,\n who has moved back to Williamsburg.","Visiting the family home of Mrs. Coalter\n their son, John, falls down the basement stairs\n and is unconscious for a time. His father\n writes, \"the Doctor bled him and yesterday\n morning we gave him a dose of salts...he is now\n to all appearances as well as ever tho' from\n loss of blood, the shock, the Salts and low\n diet he is a little fainty when he first begins\n to move about in the morning.\" (The child\n survived the ministrations of the doctor!)","A receipt for $100.00 and a demand for\n another $100.00 on shares of stock.","Concerned with the business of a ferry, gold\n mines, and a mill, evidently part of the estate\n left by John Coalter to his two children.","Mr. Coalter has had a relapse, and \"has lost\n all the flesh and muscle he had gained. Yet he\n makes a trip down country in April, only to\n return much worse.","He marks his 30th birthday: \"I can neither\n eat nor sleep nor move about with comfort and\n am so weak from fever...that I can hardly stand\n up or sit down.\"","Letters written to her husband when he is on\n his last trip from home.","A doctor's prescription: salts, used\n internally, salves externally, baths at the Hot\n Springs, and continued exercise.","Announces the birth of a child to Mrs.\n Coalter. St. George Tucker Coalter writes of\n the \"fire in my breast that must soon burn me\n out.\"","News of a young son; congratulates Mrs.\n Bryan on the birth of a daughter. St. George\n Tucker Coalter adds a note in July 4th letter:\n \"I can't make much hand at writing this evening\n but I send you these few words to comfort\n you...my thoughts and prayers are with you may\n the Lord work all things together for our\n good.\" To this Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan has\n added the endorsement, \"The last line I ever\n got from him.\"","After the death of her husband, Mrs. Coalter\n has gone to live with her sister-in-law at\n Eagle Point.","Mrs. Coalter moved from St. George's Park to\n Presley. Her brother, Harrison Tomlin, was\n living with the family and takes the place of a\n father to the children.","Of her poverty and of the need for means to\n educate her children.","The son of Mrs. Coalter writes to his young\n cousin, the son of John Randolph Bryan, at\n Roanoke, a plantation that had been in\n litigation since the death of John Randolph.\n The property was being administered by J. R.\n Bryan, one of the heirs. Young John C. Bryan,\n was one of the chief beneficiaries of the will,\n then being contested.","Announcing the birth of a child.","Preparations are made to send Fanny (Frances\n Bland Coalter) to live with her grandmother and\n to attend school in Fredericksburg. The sale of\n the estate of her late husband took place in\n October.","Enquires about money from the estate of John\n Randolph of Roanoke; her plans to send John and\n Henry Coalter away to school. (St. George\n Tucker Coalter, father of John and Henry, was a\n nephew of John Randolph, and it was expected\n that the Coalter children would inherit\n something from his estate.)","Written from school to his aunt; \"all of the\n boys have to get in school by sunrise and stay\n there until five in the evening.\"","The Bryan place, Eagle Point in Gloucester\n County, is so isolated and the family growing\n so large that a school teacher was kept there\n for the other children. She mentions her\n brothers and sisters, and tells of a traveling\n entertainer: \"De [Delia] and myself went to\n Warner Hall...and there found an Italian\n ventriloquist with a hat on that had little\n bells all around the brim...if he comes to\n Chatham you will probably be deceived by\n him...\"","He tells his sister: \"I reckon this is the\n coldest and most melancholy place in the\n world.\"","Hopes to get a place from the sale of the\n estate. \"Seven years this last Christmas is a\n long time not to have a house to call your\n own.\" Her hopes for the settlement of the\n Randolph estate are not fulfilled.","Congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a\n son, her 8th child. Mentions shopping trips to\n Richmond and the remodeling of the house, so,\n perhaps, some money may have been received from\n the Randolph estate.","A 9-year old writes of attending a dance at\n Warner Hall and staying until 11 p.m. \"We take\n dancing lesson of 2 hours length every\n Saturday.\"","Consumption and Cholera are discussed as\n well as the final division of the estate. Mrs.\n Coalter still hopes to be able to buy a home of\n her own. Sons John and Henry left in September\n for the University of Virginia where they room\n with their cousins, Jack Coalter and J.\n Braxton. On Christmas Day she mentions \"A\n dreadful affair has lately occurred at the\n University, one young man killed another, both\n intoxicated and from the south; as wicked as\n that is, it takes the \n cold\n blooded yankees to perpetrate the\n refinement of barbarism in \n stewing , and\n boiling...living people...\"","Henry T. Coalter, 16 years old, writes that\n he has had charge of the harvest at the farm\n because the overseer was sick. He has also\n advised the local doctors on Cholera cures:\n \"Mama received your letter by the last post and\n was much obliged to you for the copy you sent\n her of the cure for the Cholera. Since it\n reached here I have copied it twice for\n different doctors who seemed much pleased with\n the proscription (sic).\"","A beautiful description of the Cove and the\n island as seen from the Eagle Point house.","Mrs. Lacy, related through the fourth wife\n of her grandfather, John Coalter, was like an\n older sister to Frances Bland Coalter, and the\n affectionate relationship between the two\n continued for many years.","The Lacy's are preparing to move into\n Ellwood, the former summer home of John\n Coalter.","Letters written before and after a long\n visit. There were ties between the families\n despite the distance between them. Mrs. Coalter\n fears her youngest son, \n Saint\n [George] , has Typhoid fever.","A school friend tells of a visit to Richmond\n to see the relics of Gen. and Mrs.\n Washington.","About life in the great houses of Virginia,\n excursions on river boats, dances, and the\n like. Mentions a fancy ball where everyone\n appeared in a mask and gown, \"You cannot tell a\n man from a woman. They go about in this costume\n for some time and have a dance...one gentleman\n went draped as a lady and no one found him\n out,...one went as a monk in robes and with his\n beads...\"","\"When will your new house, or rather, new\n home be ready for you? (Frances Bland Coalter's\n mother has finally been able to buy a house,\n Stanley.)","Mentions the war threat: \"my anxiety about a\n lasting peace\n and the welfare of my children preys very much\n on my spirits.\"","Announces the birth of a daughter to Mrs.\n Lacy.","Fanny Coalter is attending a school\n conducted by Rev. Moses D. Hoge.","Endorses note from Mrs. Judith H.\n Coalter.","About her daughter, Agnes, and the progress\n on the improvements at Ellwood.","\"Rumors of a great revival at Mr. H.'s\n school have reached us from different quarters\n and report says Jinney and yourself acted a\n conspicuous part.\"","A school friend writes of her textbooks:\n \"Paley's Moral Philosophy, Olinstead's Natural\n Philosophy, Hume's History of England, Conic\n Sections, Thompson's Arithmetic and French\n Studies.\"","Includes a most interesting account of trip\n by boat from Gloucester County, \n via Jamestown,\n to Richmond.","The first letters written by Mrs. Coalter's\n youngest child.","A schoolmate who has left Rev. Mr. Hoge's\n school writes back.","An offer to abate charges so that Fanny B.\n Coalter could remain in school.","Writes that he has stood his examination for\n license to practice law; reports on his\n brothers and sisters.","Fanny has returned to Rev. Hoge's school;\n her friend writes regarding scarlet fever.","This box consists largely of papers collected by\n Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she\n is preparing to leave school, and December 1858, when\n she married Henry Peronneau Brown. Through this\n marriage the Tucker-Coalter line was connected with\n the Brown line; thus, the papers of the two families\n were brought together into one.","The collection gives an interesting picture of the\n life and interests of a young lady of moderate\n circumstances in the mid-l9th century. Of special\n interest are the letters concerning the Rev. Moses D.\n Hoge, whose school in Richmond Fanny Coalter had\n attended. Shortly after she left school, the Rev. Mr.\n Hoge carried on a very romantic correspondence with\n Fanny, although he was a married man with several\n children. The correspondence became more ardent in\n the early months of 1854 and, when Mrs. Hoge wrote\n that her husband had gone to Baltimore to stay with\n his brother who was ill, Fanny followed him there.\n According to the gossip of Mattie and Lizzie Morton,\n she went there to \"entrap him.\" In October it was\n suggested that the brother, William Hoge, was the one\n in whom she was interested. The Rev. Mr. Hoge later\n sought to calm the fervours of his correspondent, as\n shown by his letters of 28 January 1855, 19 June\n 1856, and 19 March 1857.","Fanny B. Coalter did not lack for other suitors,\n however, for she preserved a letter of 17 July 1854,\n a proposal of marriage from Alfred B. Tucker. A year\n later there are reports of her interest in the Brown\n brothers, John Thompson and Peronneau, of Petersburg,\n both of whom were courting her. She finally settled\n on the latter; some acceptances to the marriage\n invitation are included in this box.","Letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her husband\n Henry Peronneau Brown continue in Box 21. The\n intervening boxes contain manuscripts of the Brown\n family, especially Capt. Henry Brown, grandfather of\n Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 7-13); the Hon. John\n Thompson Brown, father of Henry Peronneau Brown\n (Boxes 14-19); and Col. John Thompson Brown II,\n brother of Henry Peronneau Brown (Box 20).","Fanny is preparing to leave the school, having\n finished the course.","A schoolmate and Fanny's sister write after she\n leaves school.","Reports that Jack Bryan, oldest son of Mrs.\n Elizabeth T. Bryan is dying at the Coalter home,\n Presley.","After many years of waiting (since the death of\n her husband in 1839) Mrs. Coalter is finally able\n to buy her own place, Stanley. She tells of her\n move and of the illness that put her in bed\n afterward.","The school is closed for the summer, his wife\n and children are away, so he enlivens his solitude\n \"by having a little chat with you...and where I\n always think of you and the delightful morning\n when we enjoyed the scene together...how I cherish\n every memorial of you. \"I greatly enjoyed your\n last brief visit to us and that evening (do you\n remember it?) when the music room being full of\n company we found quiet, and cool breezes in the\n back porch. I have been sitting there tonight.\" (A\n strange letter, indeed, and one which was to cause\n some upset in the heart of Frances Bland Coalter,\n as subsequent correspondence show.)","Written to Mrs. Judith H. Coalter soon after\n she purchased her home, Stanley.","\"This letter cannot hold any news, so I will\n fill it with love...entertaining myself by wishing\n that you could walk into the room and occupy a\n vacant chair hard by .\"I hope to see you\n sometimes...nothing to what I would enjoy were I\n to keep house in a quiet way and have you for my\n guest a week at a time...\"I would like you to\n marry some fine fellow and live in Richmond, only\n I...like you best as you are, except that you are\n too far from me.\"","\"When I woke up yesterday morning and found it\n raining, my spirits fell as low as the mercury for\n I feared you would not come to Hampstead...\"","\"You ask me why it is that I am so partial to\n you--well, the very first time we get a chance to\n have a talk by ourselves I will tell you...When\n shall the opportunity come? There is always so\n much company at your house...\"","He conducts a school: \"I succeeded in six days\n of raising 21 scholars.\" He writes that Henry has\n graduated in Law with distinction.","\"I think from his letter, \n Brother\n [William Hoge] has been much sicker than we\n had any idea of \n Mr. [Moses D.]\n Hoge is going on Thursday to see him and\n will probably remain in Baltimore until he is well\n enough to travel...\"","Addressed to Fanny at Baltimore. Her friend\n writes, \"Cousin Joe says you went to Baltimore\n purposely to see Mr. Hoge.\"","Reports gossip concerning Fanny's Baltimore\n trip.","\"Often when (I am) abroad, you will be in my\n mind and heart. Neither do I want you to get\n married before I return. I am to perform that\n service, you know...\"","Concerning the gossip regarding Fanny and Rev.\n Hoge: \"Surely you could not think me so deceitful\n as to profess to love you and then say that you\n would \n try to entrap a\n gentleman . \n I did not say so .\n I remember saying that if you went to Baltimore\n and were thrown with Mr. Hoge I believed he would\n address you, because I know he admired you very\n sincerely...\"","A proposal of marriage.","A rumor that Frances Bland Coalter is to\n marry.","\"Julia Green was here...when I told her that\n you had gotten a letter from Mr. Hoge she said she\n was so jealous of you that she was ready to\n fight...\"","\"I am going to Baltimore...and I shall see Mr.\n Wm. Hoge! Don't you wish you were going? What\n shall I tell him for you?\"","St. George is now in school at Staunton.","Construction work to be done at the University\n of Virginia.","\"I hope that it will not be long before I have\n the pleasure of seeing you, my dear and constantly\n remembered friend.\"","\"I have heard several times of your engagement\n to Thomas--who has made himself very scarce.\"","Accepts invitation to the marriage of Virginia,\n younger sister of Fanny Coalter.","Now a practicing lawyer, he writes to his aunt\n on business.","To her cousin regarding \"Mr. President\" and\n \"The Vice.\" (This appears to refer to the Brown\n brothers, John Thompson and Henry Peronneau.\n Frances Bland Coalter was to marry the\n latter.)","\"I wish you to be very particular in your\n conversations with \n P[eronneau] not to\n let him have the least idea of the tenor of my\n remarks to you yesterday and at the same time\n manage to convince him that I am not in love with\n you, as I am afraid such is his present\n opinion.\"","Trouble in: finding a teacher for her children;\n \"the Roanoke business\"--(evidently a reference to\n the still unsettled will of John Randolph of\n Roanoke.)","Concerned about the health of Fanny's mother,\n has a horror of those \"distracting springs\" for\n invalids.","The solution to a problem in surveying (this\n may be the \"Thomas\" to whom Frances Bland Coalter\n was rumored to be engaged).","On the death of Mrs. E. T. Bryan, aunt of Fanny\n Bland Coalter.","On the death of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan.","Thanks Fanny for her help at the time of the\n death of Mrs. Bryan, her mother.","Is in charge of the plantation since her\n mother's death; busy making summer clothes for the\n slaves.","Suggests a visit together to \"cousin Horace\n Lacy.\"","P[eronneau]\n Brown and his brother, Thompson, are\n mentioned. (See letters of December 1855,\n Box-folder 6:44-45.)","Writes to ask Mrs. Coalter to stay with his\n daughters during his absence in the south.","Has charge of the large plantation, keeping\n four seamstresses, three spinners and a weaver\n busy.","\"No, my dear Fanny, my affection for you has\n not changed.\"","Regarding Mr. Willcox Brown and his brother\n Peronneau, future husband of Frances Bland\n Coalter.","Invitation to the commencement party at Hampden\n Sidney College.","Accompanying his uncle on a business trip, he\n has visited the main cities of the south and\n attended the opera in New Orleans. \"I must confess\n that I have been rather disappointed in the people\n that live in these rich lands--they are as rough\n as possible...live in log houses and on the very\n poorest fare.\"","\"I suppose your wedding will be postponed\n unless Mr. Brown's recovery is unusually\n rapid.\"","\"The news of your engagement [to Henry P.\n Brown] did not surprise me...how heartily I\n approve of your choice...\"","\"If my letter arrives too late for Miss Fanny\n Coalter, I hope Mrs. Brown will have enough\n affection for the old name to lay claim to\n it.\"","Regrets that he cannot attend the wedding.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","These letters are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","These letters are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This item is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","These covers are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","Papers of Henry Brown, a merchant and county official\n include a manuscript map of Guilford C. H., business\n records and correspondence of Brown and Clayton, New\n London, Bedford (now Campbell County), Virginia and\n Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, Virginia. Collection also\n includes papers concerning a lawsuit against Pleasant\n Murphy and estate papers of Daniel Brown and Henry\n Brown's father-in-law John Thompson. There are papers of\n his immediate family including Henry Brown, Jr.","The Brown family papers begin with the letters\n and papers of Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841),\n successful merchant of Bedford County and\n Lynchburg, who established the family fortune. He\n was the father of John Thompson Brown, Delegate to\n the Virginia Assembly, whose letters and papers\n are collected in the next section (Boxes\n 14-19).","A few letters and receipts pertaining to Henry\n Brown, 1712-1798, the father of Capt. Henry Brown,\n are included. The great bulk of the material,\n however, relates to Capt. Brown, beginning with a\n map of a Revolutionary War battle, 1777, in which\n he was wounded. With his brother, Daniel, he\n opened a general store in Bedford soon after the\n conclusion of the war. A partnership agreement of\n April 1797, which brought James Leftwich into the\n business, is preserved and the bulk of the\n material in this box pertains to the business of\n the store. A good picture of early merchandising\n is given by the accounts, letters relating to\n buying and selling trips, and the court actions\n taken to collect accounts.","Also, starting with folder 60, are 39 items\n relating to the duties of Henry Brown as tax\n collector in the Bedford area in the years 1800 to\n 1803.","\"Your friends here tremble for you and\n apprehend the worst from the dangers that\n encompass you...the deadly rifle, the scalping\n knife, tomahawk...return to us in all\n speed.\"","Endorsed: \"Map of revolutionary battle,\n found 1926 by F. B. Saunders in old papers from\n Ivy Cliff. Capt. Henry Brown, born at Ivy Cliff\n about 1760, was wounded at Guildford C. H.\"","Concerning goods for a retail store.","Endorsed: \"Note Henry Brown, payable 1\n September, 1793.\"","Regarding saddle goods in stock at the\n store.","Writes to his brother concerning tobacco\n prices.","Concerning business affairs a suit for debt,\n purchase of tobacco and a \"Negro wench\" for the\n store, etc. \"P.S. I heard at court they had\n made you a Captain.\"","Includes a list of the new officers of the\n Farmer's Bank in Richmond.","Concerning the division of Negroes, total\n value £815, between Leftwich and the\n Brown brothers.","Regarding loss of West India produce on\n which $5,000.00 was borrowed. Endorsed: \"I fear\n our loss will be considerable.\"","Receipt is for $130.43 to be paid to John\n Roberts on land that Capt. Henry Brown sold to\n William Woodford.","Tobacco sold by Leftwich to a man who was a\n bad risk: \"...we are thrown out of between 20\n and 30 thousand dollars...one fourth of what it\n has taken us 20 years to earn is lost for want\n of prudence.\"","Directions for sending tax collections.","Business records and correspondence of Henry\n Brown and Samuel P. Clayton. After the death of\n his brother Daniel in 1818, Brown entered into a\n partnership with Clayton, his son-in-law. Brown\n survived Clayton, who died in 1832; this box also\n includes papers from 1833 to 1839 made out to\n Henry Brown, surviving partner of Brown and\n Clayton Company.","The accounts of Henry Brown with Hancock and\n Brown, Lynchburg, 1824-1833, are retained as one\n group.","Also retained as a separate group are the\n papers relating to the court suits of Brown and\n Pleasant Murphy. All notes of the period carried a\n 100 percent penalty clause. This resulted in many\n law suits being brought to establish what would\n now be considered exorbitant claims. In one case\n (see entry for March 10, 1823) for a debt of\n $42.05, the debtor surrendered 1 sound filly, 2\n cows, a calf, 2 feather beds, all household and\n kitchen furniture, all plantation utensils, and 6\n hogs!","Captain Henry Brown had many interests in his\n long life apart from the purely commercial\n activities upon which his considerable fortune was\n built. Included in this box are the papers\n relating to his other interests.","Business papers of Henry Brown, not directly\n connected with any of his various business\n enterprises, but concerned principally with court\n suits involving debts to him. Included is an\n interesting case of Mark Anthony, who took the\n oath of an Insolvent Debtor, making out a deed of\n trust of all his property to his creditors (11\n April 1829 and 6 July 1833).","Also includes papers concerned with the suit of\n Henry Brown vs. Nicodemus Leftwich, 1832-1840.\n Brown pays for the attendance of witnesses at the\n court and pays the county Jailor \"for imprisoning\n and releasing\" Leftwich.","Household, family and personal bills preserved\n by Henry Brown, an interesting collection of a\n family illustrating the activities of eight\n children in the second quarter of the nineteenth\n century, 1819-1841.","The personal correspondence of Henry Brown with\n his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children.\n The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son,\n John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19.","Also letters from the sons and daughters of\n Samuel, brother of Henry Brown.","In a separate group are collected letters written\n by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from\n West Point Military Academy and from the Indian Wars\n in Florida, where he served after he was\n commissioned.","Purchase of a watch in Winchester; requests 30\n Dollars to repay a debt.","His wife's estate; purchase of a Negro\n girl.","On his return from the Spring; attack of\n \"bilious Cholic;\" his treatment.","Concerning \"the purchase of some land at $20.\n per acre...\"","Beats female slave, using a walking stick, his\n wife using a cowhide whip. The slave's mate\n attempted to protect her with an axe but he was\n subdued, beaten and sent to jail the next day.\n Hopes for peace, unpopularity of the conscription\n law and the whiskey tax.","On her studies: Blair's lectures, piano\n playing, drawing, painting and embroidery.","The husband of Nancy Brown writes:\n \"...Bounaparte is on his way to this country. If\n so I greatly fear we shall go backwards with\n accelerated velocity in all peaceful, literary and\n ornamental pursuits...\"","Advice on a move to the State of Ohio.\n \"Although I like Slavery as little as you or\n anyone else, still...I think it probable that we\n should be as unhappy as we are with them\" (Daniel\n died in 1818. For the next 20 years Henry\n administered his estate for the benefit of his\n wife and children.)","Mary Brown's illness at the Springs (she was to\n die within a year).","The building of his house and the health of his\n family.","The daughter of Samuel Brown, writes to console\n her Uncle on the death of his brothers and his two\n daughters, Mrs. \n Anne [Nancy]\n B. Steptoe and Mrs. \n Mary [Polly]\n B. Clayton .","An uncle of Henry Brown writes, \"My grandson\n wishes to get in to Business in a store...\" (Henry\n Brown, Jr. now has a store in Lynchburg.)","His continued bad health. The death of James\n Leftwich, Capt. Brown's business partner.","Requests assistance in obtaining appointment as\n Clerk of Court at Bedford.","The value of the Deerwood tract.","Begs her father to let her have money to go to\n the inauguration of President Jackson.","On her visit to Washington: \"this is the\n thickest settled neighborhood that I ever was\n in--the neighbors are situated all around, some in\n view and others not more than a quarter of a mile\n from the house...\"","On his visit with his brothers, John Thompson\n Brown, in \"Washington City.\" Description of\n crowded Washington, full of pickpockets and of the\n confusion even in the President's house.","\"...the last day I rode more than thirty miles\n through a dreary wilderness without seeing a\n single house...I am yet travelling alone and have\n come six hundred miles without a single man\n travelling my course...\"","His progress in college.","His progress in repaying a debt to the estate\n of his uncle, Daniel.","Report of workers on the Chesapeake and Ohio\n canal dying from Cholera.","On the death of his maternal grandfather, John\n Thompson.","Leaving for New York to lay in goods.","Hopes for his store despite illness and some\n hostile feeling toward his former partner, Ammon\n Hancock.","On the death of Henry Brown. (Henry Brown, Jr.\n died while he and his wife were on a shopping trip\n for the store.)","On the changing population: \"The people still\n retain the simple manners of the old Scotch-Irish\n and, I may add, much of the intelligence and\n piety. But the restless spirit of emigration is\n taking away our best people and in their place we\n generally get Germans, who commonly are deplorably\n ignorant and will do very little toward supporting\n the Gospel.\"","A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes\n to settle accounts and close the store.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the\n disposal of her house.","To Frances Brown's husband, on the loss of her\n two brothers, \"and such brothers too, in so short\n a time.\" (Henry Brown, Jr. died in June, 1836, and\n his brother, John Thompson Brown, in December of\n that same year.)","On the sale of merchandise and an expected\n loss.","Agrees to furnish Gould B. Raymond, manager of\n the Menagerie Co., lodging for 30 men, 65 horses,\n 1 elephant, 1 camel and 2 ponies.","The inscription on the tomb of her late\n husband, John Thompson Brown.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the\n death of her husband a year ago.","The widow of John Thompson Brown writes\n regarding her three sons.","The executor of an estate demands payment of a\n note on which Henry Brown, Jr. was a cosigner.","The youngest daughter of Henry Brown writes\n about her marriage and the first meeting with her\n new relatives.","On his marriage to Alice Brown.","Her wedding trip to New Orleans.","Her sickness on the way down the river due to\n fresh paint in the boat.","Concerning eventual conversion of Baptists to\n the Presbyterian Church.","\"...I left New Orleans the 28th of March and\n reach \n G[eorge].T[own] .\n The 15th of April...Sam (Brown) was in New Orleans\n the day before I left-he was not married but\n expected to be the 9th of April.\"","\"Last evening our darling Alice made me the\n happy father of a fine boy...\"","Report to his father of his first grades at the\n Academy.","To his grandfather regarding his first term\n marks.","\"The first two years of our course are\n exclusively devoted to Mathematics and French...\"\n Encloses a work sheet and \"Synopsis of the Course\n of Studies at the Military Academy.\"","\"The Congress must get rid of its 'sickly\n sympathy' (with the Indians) or, rely upon it,\n this is a war of years to come.\" Gives a vivid\n description of St. Augustine.","Contrasts the Cherokees in Tennessee with the\n Seminoles of Florida. Describes Savannah in a\n letter enclosed, dated February 16, 1839.","Letters of Henry Brown, Jr., oldest son of Capt.\n Henry Brown; Samuel Thompson Brown, youngest son; and\n other members of the immediate family.","Henry Brown, Jr., who suffered a grave illness in\n 1822 as a result of which he almost lost his\n eyesight, went into the partnership of his father\n with Amman Hancock. In 1835-1836, he opened his own\n store in Lynchburg, but died in May 1836, while on a\n buying trip to New York. Interesting items in this\n part of the collection include a 44 page book of\n mineral and chemical notes (31 July 1826), a 56 page\n diary kept by Henry Brown, Jr. on his trip abroad (24\n July 1831), drafts of letters by Henry Brown, Jr. to\n newspapers regarding horses, and instructions for\n horse care, and the like (13 April 1835-March 1836).\n The will of Henry Brown, Jr. (May-December 1830), and\n his deathbed statement dictated to his wife (May\n 1836), are also included.","The papers of Samuel Thompson Brown include the\n card which announced the opening of his law office in\n Bedford (8 May 1838), records of his marriage in\n Alabama (27 April 1840), and the death of his wife\n within the year (3 April 1841). A letter of 22\n January 1842, mentions the business failures taking\n place in Richmond and Lynchburg, and one of 27 August\n of the same year comments on the national political\n situation which is \"sadly out of joint.\" In a letter\n of 20 September [1845], there is a report of \"the\n thefts which were perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton\n whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\"","\"My eyes appear to have improved gradually.\"\n (His ailment seemed to be at its worst at this\n time, though he continued to suffer from the\n ailment until his death in 1836 at the age of 39\n years.)","A note for $1000.00. At this time he was\n getting started in the store, Hancock and Brown\n Co.","The \"most favorable accounts\" of John Thompson\n Brown from the members of the House of\n Delegates.","Concerning the business of \n Col. [Mark]\n Anthony , in which Henry Brown, Jr. appears\n to be involved.","Mentions the marriage of John Thompson\n Brown.","A letter of introduction for Henry Brown, Jr.,\n for use on his trip to England and the Continent\n in that year.","\"Oh, my dear husband, why was it that I did not\n accompany you?\" (None of these letters reached\n Henry Brown, Jr. on the trip, but followed him\n home).","News from a letter she received from Henry\n Brown, Jr. in England.","Payment of his debts in Lynchburg; hiring out\n of a slave.","\"it's really a sad case for me, to be sick from\n home and away from all that (are) Dear to\n me...\"","This was the store in Lynchburg in which Henry\n Brown was a partner and with which Henry Brown,\n Jr. was associated until he opened his own store\n in 1835.","Brother-in-law, \n Jack [Willcox] ;\n his brother, John's speech on the Petersburg Rail\n Road; and the house that Henry Brown has vacated\n in Lynchburg.","On a debt of Thomas Williams.","Appear to refer to pictures, and may date from\n the time of one of the buying trips that Henry\n Brown, Jr. made with his wife.","After breaking from the partnership of Hancock\n and Brown, he opened his own store.","Concerning the care for his horses, Young\n American Eclipse and Spring Hill, while he is\n away.","Written while she and her husband were on a\n buying trip for the Lynchburg store. In New York\n Henry Brown, Jr. was taken desperately ill and\n died.","Evidently taken down by Mrs. Eleanor C. L.\n Brown during the final days in New York.","An associate of Henry Brown, Jr. in the\n Lynchburg store, was liquidating the stock and\n selling horses in order to settle the estate.","A note regarding the settlement of the Henry\n Brown, Jr. estate.","Written from school, with endorsement by James\n Morrison, schoolmaster.","Signed Eleanor C. L. Brown.","Congratulating S. T. B. on his marriage.","Writes of the aged John Vaughan Willcox, her\n father, with whom she is living and for whom she\n is caring; Samuel T. Brown and his \"youthful\n bride.\"","His extended wedding trip; description of Gen\n Harrison's house.","Consolations upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T.\n Brown.","Condolences upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T.\n Brown.","A letter of consolation.","On the death of W. W. Worthington,\n brother-in-law of Samuel T. Brown. \"Your sister\n Alice is desirous of your attention to the affairs\n of Mr. W. in New Orleans prior to your return to\n Virginia.\"","Recording certain deeds for his son-in-law,\n Samuel T. Brown.","Written to his overseer with whom he has\n quarreled.","On the fees paid by Henry Brown in the Leftwich\n case: \"between twenty and twenty-five dollars for\n my services as an attorney.\" On the thefts\n \"perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student\n at Chapel Hill.\"","Concerning the cutting of trees on the property\n of Samuel T. Brown.","A reply to the above letter, Box-Folder\n 13:60.","On a charge of Ammon Hancock against the estate\n of Henry Brown, Jr.","Estimate for the cost of the construction of a\n bridge.","On the property in Mobile, Alabama, purchased\n by Samuel T. Brown.","The sale of a female slave \"with her\n Brood.\"","Papers concern John Thompson Brown's attendance at\n Princeton, study of law, and trips to the South and to\n the West Indies. Includes speeches and correspondence as\n well as his published writings (newspaper articles,\n bills and pamphlets). The collection emphasizes his\n political career in the Virginia House of Delegates\n including his views on slavery. Also includes\n architectural plans for a two room house and elevations\n (1827), drafts of toasts and letters concerning his\n fight with John Hampden Pleasants.","Prominent correspondents include William Segar\n Archer, James Murray Mason, John Hampden Pleasants,\n William Cabell Rives, Henry St. George Tucker and John\n Tyler.","John Thompson Brown (1802-1836) was born at Otter\n Hills, near Bedford, Virginia and was the son of\n Henry Brown (1760-1841). He attended the New London\n Academy, 1816; studied at Princeton, 1817-1820;\n traveled to the South and the West Indies, 1821; and\n studied law with Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland\n County, Virginia, 1822-1823. He began his law\n practice in Clarksburg, Virginia (later West\n Virginia), in 1824, and represented Harrison County\n in the House of Delegates, 1827-1830. He was a member\n of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n 1829-1830. He married Mary E. Willcox June, 1830, and\n moved to Petersburg, where he again was elected to\n the General Assembly, 1831-1836. He was a delegate to\n the national convention of the Republican (now\n Democratic) Party, but died on 20 November 1836, at\n his father's home, Otter Hills, after a brief\n illness.","The first two letters in Box 14 date from the\n period of his attendance at New London Academy; then\n follow the papers relating to Princeton, where he\n matriculated in 1817 at the age of 19. He was placed\n in the Sophomore Class on the basis of an examination\n before the faculty, and received the highest mark\n given at the College, in each of the three years he\n spent at the College. His report sheets show the\n requirements for entrance, lists of courses, and\n contain a resolution passed by the trustees which\n condemned the sharp practices of the merchants in\n town.","Some of the correspondence of John Thompson Brown\n with his brother-in-law Dr. William B. Steptoe in\n this period is interesting for the comments it\n contains on the Missouri question and other matters\n then being debated in the U.S. Senate. The remarks\n made by John Thompson Brown in letters from his\n collegiate period may be compared with his statements\n on the subject of slavery later made on the floor of\n the House of Delegates.","After graduating from Princeton, John Thompson\n Brown traveled to the South, and made a brief trip to\n the West Indies, keeping notes on his impressions.\n Upon his return he took up the study of law with\n Judge Taylor. From this period come interesting\n musings on such subjects as \"the family fireside,\"\n \"youthful recollection,\" \"friendship,\" and \"behavior\n of a lawyer if he is to succeed.\" His license to\n practice law, dated 7 March 1824, is included in the\n collection. He journeyed to Clarksburg, Virginia, to\n set up his law practice, and kept a notebook on the\n trip West which reveal his first impressions of the\n Clarksburg area.","At the end of this box is a scrapbook containing\n some of his published writings, speeches, and\n newspaper articles.","Letter from a schoolboy friend regarding New\n London Academy.","John Thompson Brown's examinations at the New\n London Academy.","\"I have just been examined by the faculty and\n am admitted to the Sophomore Class, which is the\n second in the college.\" His expenses are estimated\n at $200.00 for the first term and $90.00 for the\n second. \"I will pledge myself not to spend one\n cent more than is really necessary.\"","News from home; a rumor that some boys were\n expelled from Chapel Hill for their politics.","Medical advice; a suggested teacher for New\n London Academy (\"Has he energy enough manage\n southern students?\"); the death of Polly [Mrs.\n Mary Brown Clayton], sister of John Thompson\n Brown.","The political upheaval at William and Mary\n College; deputies appointed \"...to fix upon the\n site of the Virginia University.\"","\"My expenses have far exceeded what was\n necessary or what you expect. I now see my error\n and repent...\" Three months later he offers to\n leave school because of his additional debts.\n Later in Baltimore, he is robbed of $200.00. His\n father adds up the year's expenses to a total of\n $670.00.","Behavior, No. 1. distinguished; Industry, No.\n 1. distinguished; Scholarship, No. 1.\n distinguished (1) \"If under the article \n scholarship , a\n student is marked No. 1 distinguished (1), he is\n considered as ranking among the first in his\n class.\" (From printed explanation of the\n report.)","\"Once the busy scene of commercial\n enterprise...now lifeless and inactive.\"\n Concerning Lynchburg.","The University of Virginia is established at\n Charlottesville with an annual appropriation of\n $15,000; news of a threat of slave uprisings in\n Fredericksburg.","Similar reports to that of 1818. Warning is\n added to the September report concerning excessive\n expenditures by students: \"the trustees of the\n college give this notice to the parents and\n guardians of the youth, that they ought to pay no\n debt contracted in this town, which they have not\n specifically authorized.\"","Endorsed: \"Collegians mei consocui.\" He knew\n 162 fellow students.","On the \"present session of Congress.\"","Rumor of a great rebellion that has taken place\n at Princeton; the Missouri question.","A 4th of July oration supporting the idea of\n colonizing the free Negroes in Africa.","\"My father may justly complain of the great\n sums which he has expended on me, but his kindness\n shall not be abused much longer, as I hope to be\n in a situation to support myself.\" Endorsed:\n \"Brother J.--after his return from Princeton went\n South--through the Cherokee Nation [Alabama and\n Georgia] to Pensacola, and on to New\n Orleans--thence to Cuba and returned to U. States\n in the U.S. Frigate 'Hornet,' as a guest of the\n officers. Samuel T. Brown.\"","A gambling scrape he was involved in; asks his\n father's forgiveness.","\"Chancellor Taylor has been of incalculable\n service to me in the study of law.\" (Needham was a\n law school operated by Judge Creed Taylor in\n Cumberland County in the years 1821-1836.)","These are the continuous drafts of a multiple\n of letters. The first section consists of musings\n and youthful recollections; the second is a\n humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in\n Petersburg after his marriage.","Regarding the marriage of Dr. Steptoe.","Musings on Friendship and the wise behavior of\n a lawyer if he is to succeed.","A letter introducing John Thompson Brown when\n he went to Clarksburg to set up practice.","Musings written on a trip through Virginia:\n thoughts on a disappointing love affair; notes on\n \"Crab Orchard\" and the \"Creek Nation\" --the latter\n were to be incorporated into an Independence Day\n address delivered in Petersburg in 1831.","Impressions of Clarksburg; the countryside is\n beautiful and the land very rich, but \"The people\n have no money and are wretchedly poor and\n lazy...\"","His plans to establish himself.","The following newspaper clippings and pamphlets\n are included in a bound scrap book, with\n endorsements and were undoubtedly collected by\n John Thompson Brown himself.","Concerning \"several cases of contempt of\n court, occurring in various parts of the Union,\n in which the punishment inflicted, has been\n made a subject of grievous complaint.\"","Concerning \"...Mr. Jefferson...the\n disclosure of his poverty...\"","Concerning \"The President's message.\"","A Bill authorizing a loan of $6,000.00 on\n the credit of the state, for the construction\n of Turnpike Road from Winchester to Parkersburg\n by way of Clarksburg, being under\n consideration.","\"Sir:--I have read in the \"Intelligencer\" of\n the 9th inst. your communications to the\n Editors of the paper, in which you remark,\n substantially, that the only Candidate to\n represent the town of Petersburg in the General\n Assembly is a stranger to most voters...Not\n doubting that I am the person alluded to...,\"\n signed John Thompson Brown\"","\"The following copy of a Petition to the\n Legislature of Virginia, we insert at the\n request of a number of our Citizens.\"","\"On motion of Mr. Brown of Petersburg, the\n report of the committee on slaves, free Negroes\n and mulattoes, and the amendment of Mr. Preston\n were taken up; when Mr. Brown rose and\n addressed the house as follows:...\"","\"The bill to amend an act authorizing the\n Board of Public Works to subscribe on behalf of\n the Commonwealth, to the stock of the\n Petersburg Rail Road, was read a third time.\n Mr. Brown said...\"","\"Andrew Jackson was unanimously recommended\n to the Citizens of Virginia, as the next\n President. \"Mr. Miller of Powhatan then\n submitted the following\n Resolution...\"(Concerning the Vice-President).\n Mr. Brown of Petersburg, then submitted the\n following by way of substitute for the\n above...\"","The material in this box covers the period 1825 to\n 1829, when John Thompson Brown was resident of\n Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West\n Virginia). In this period John Thompson Brown wrote\n some of the \"Letters to the Editor,\" printed in the\n Clarksburg \n Enquirer , contained in\n the scrap book noted above in Box 14. A draft of a\n part of the letter concerning the poverty of Mr.\n Jefferson is to be found in this box (1825).","In July 1826, John Thompson Brown wrote to his\n brother Henry Brown, Jr. of his aim to run for the\n U.S. Congress. In 1827 he was elected to the House of\n Delegates; he was re-elected in 1828 and 1829. This\n box also contains various printed and manuscript\n material touching upon his career in the General\n Assembly.","By the end of 1829, John Thompson Brown had\n established himself in Clarksburg, built a house, and\n planned to buy into a partnership in a store to\n advance his financial position. In a letter of March\n 23, 1829 he mentions his desire to run in the next\n election for the U.S. Congress.","\"...the friends of Old Hickory...hear Adamses\n success spoken of and the probability of Clay's\n being made Secretary of State...\"","Encloses a legal opinion concerning sheriffs,\n which his father apparently requested.","A flowery letter to an old friend from\n Princeton. \"I have acquired some little reputation\n at the bar and a practice that supports me very\n decently.\"","Draft of an address to an investigating group\n (perhaps a grand jury), with endorsement: \"1. Act\n against cutting down trees. 2. Act providing for a\n good and sufficient jail.\"","This is part of a printed letter concerning\n \"Mr. Jefferson the disclosure of his poverty...\"\n over the signature Alexander. (See bound\n scrapbook, the last item in Box 14.)","Desire of John Thompson Brown to run for the\n U.S. Congress or for a seat in the General\n Assembly. Suggests that Henry Brown send $1,000.00\n to help achieve this.","\"I find that there is a serious and, I believe,\n a somewhat general wish to bring me out for the\n Legislature.\"","\"I am a candidate for the Legislature at the\n next election...\"","An announcement of the candidacy of John\n Thompson Brown for the General Assembly. He\n reviews what he considers to be the most important\n problems of the day, and discusses (1) the\n invasion of State sovereignty by the Federal\n program of \"internal development,\" (2) the harm\n done to Southern farmers by import duties, (3) the\n calling of a Constitutional Convention for the\n state of Virginia, (4) the dangers of the\n uncontrolled banking system.","His election to the General Assembly; hope of\n election to the U.S. Congress, and the purchase of\n a four acre lot in town. In the first letter which\n John Thompson Brown wrote from the House of\n Delegates he said \"I have not taken much part in\n the debates of the House and do not expect to do\n so...\"","His ride to Richmond in a coach with other,\n more experienced law-makers, \"having been, as you\n predicted, greatly edified and instructed by a\n coach-full of legislators 'big with the cares of\n state.\"","\"Resolving that members of the House of\n Delegates be requested to unite...in advancing the\n cause of this Society before the General Assembly\n of Virginia.\"","On John Thompson Brown's speech: \"considered\n the most able one that had been delivered in the\n House in 5 years.\"","\"Our Society, in the success of which, you are\n pleased to express so deep an interest, is I\n believe, making sure progress.\"","His legislature activities and speeches. \"I am\n a Jackson man like yourself but not perfectly\n orthodox, as you would say, on the subject of\n States Rights. I published my opinions, pamphlet\n of 30 pages, 12 months ago and will send you a\n copy...\"","A report to his constituents on such matters as\n (1) the state Constitutional Convention, (2) the\n lottery for the Randolph Academy in Clarksburg,\n (3) county elections, (4) the bill abolishing the\n chancery Courts and establishing a Superior Court,\n (5) a Turnpike to their area (defeated by the\n \"Eastern People\"), (6) the proposed Baltimore\n Railroad and (7) the settling of the question of\n land titles in Western Virginia. Included in the\n pamphlet are the full texts of the report of the\n committee on this subject, which he chaired, and\n the bill proposed by the committee.","Comment on the land titles, Chancery court\n bills.","\"Even now I am as comfortably situated as I\n could desire and shall support myself hereafter\n without any further drafts on your\n goodness...\"","Now well situated in his \"mansion,\" he\n discusses his prospects for Congress and of his\n plan to \"offer 2 years hence.\"","Endorsed: \"McConley's System of Sword\n Tactics.\"","Reflections on people met at the Medicinal\n Springs, as contrasted with those of his\n constituency.","In February, he forwards a copy of sheriff's\n commission to his father. During the year he\n borrows $400.00 for payments on his house in\n Clarksburg, and by the end of the year his father\n has agreed to advance enough capital for him to\n become a partner in a mercantile business. Upon\n the conclusion of the 1828-1829 session of the\n General Assembly, he writes that he will be a\n candidate once more, then run for Congress. In the\n letter of March 23rd, he writes that opposition\n has arisen \"on account of some laws we had passed\n last session authorizing the county court to levy\n a tax for repairing roads and, bridges.\" On March\n 23rd he relates his experiences in Washington at\n the inauguration of Jackson: on December 14th he\n predicts that the basis of votes for whites will\n be surrendered in the formation of the new State\n constitution.","Suggests they ride together to Alexandria, then\n go to Richmond by boat.","The Virginia Constitutional Convention: \"I had\n an opportunity of hearing the most distinguished\n members of the body--Mr. Madison and Mr. Marshall\n among the rest...\"","The change which was to occur in the life and\n fortunes of John Thompson Brown in the year 1830 is\n forecast in the first letter of this box, a letter\n received by Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg in\n [December] 1829, in which there is a discussion of\n \"Mr. B.\" Three months later (18 March 1830) in a\n letter to his father, John Thompson Brown announces\n his intention of leaving Clarksburg, and of his need\n for a horse and sulky so that he may arrive in\n Petersburg in a manner which should \"avoid the\n appearance of poverty and destitution.\" The next\n letter in the collection (9 [May] 1830), in draft,\n contains an account of his wedding, a wedding which\n was attended by no members of his immediate\n family.","Subsequent letters tell of the generosity of the\n new father-in-law John V. Willcox in the gift of a\n town house \"provided with servants,\" a draft of\n $1500, and the promise of as much more as he asks (22\n July 1830). Yet the position is not satisfactory and\n because John Thompson Brown feels that he is losing\n his independence, he returns to Clarksburg with the\n intention of resettling there and sending for his\n wife (2 May 1831). During a four week visit to\n Harrison County, he finds his political position has\n declined (7 June 1831), so he returns to Petersburg,\n and is invited to make the Independence Day address\n for the town (8 June 1831). As a result of this\n address (and the good influence of his father-in-law)\n he is nominated to represent the town in the House of\n Delegates, and is elected without opposition (26\n September 1831).","He successfully sponsors a bill in the Assembly\n for the Petersburg Railroad (28 December 1831), is\n appointed Judge of Elections for the Petersburg\n Office of the Bank of Virginia (29 December 1831),\n and is sought as a sponsor of a new newspaper which\n is being established in Richmond (20 October 1831).\n Of particular interest is a letter to his nephew\n outlining his philosophy of life and advising the\n young man on his future (3 October 1831). A report of\n the slave insurrection in Southhampton is described\n in a letter of 26 September 1831.","At the end of this box are collected more than a\n hundred drafts of toasts made by John Thompson\n Brown.","A friend writes regarding \"Mr. B.,\" \"a man of\n boundless pride and diffidence. His attachment was\n cut down in the bud and \n You , my sweetest\n Mary, have hoped whilst he desponded...\"","\"My friends, Webster, Goffard, and others\n believed I could certainly be elected to Congress\n next Spring...I wish to appear at \n P[etersburg] in a\n manner which would probably be expected and to\n avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution .\n Henry is to get me a sulky, horse, etc., and if\n you can spare this additional sum you may hand it\n over to him...\"","\"Our nuptials took place at the time expected\n and I cannot say that there was any other allay to\n my happiness, than that neither you nor any of my\n near relatives were present.\"","On his honeymoon: \"Peronneau Finley travels\n with us, as one of our immediate party. Mr.\n Willcox, Sr., and three of his friends are going\n to N. York to the races. They came with us thus\n far...\" There is much discussion about where they\n will live, but, \"I think it probable we shall\n reside in Petersburg...\"","On his Washington visit: \"we remained a week,\n were introduced to the President, etc., heard some\n interesting debates and saw all the great men of\n the nation...My situation is in all respects\n agreeable.\"","Congratulations on her marriage coupled with\n much advice.","After a visit with his father, he writes: \"I\n have nothing to add on the subject of my future\n arrangements. I shall pursue the course which you\n seemed to approve when we were together.\" He\n writes later that Mr. Willcox has turned over to\n them his town house \"furnished with servants\"; in\n another letter: \"He handed me a check for $1,500\n and said that I should always have as much as I\n wanted...\"","Sends advice to his younger brother and, and\n account of his own situation.","Letters from Harrison County report that \"the\n District needs me badly...but it is too\n late...\"","\"I regret that you have temporarily declined\n public life--for I would not believe you have\n abondoned it altogether.\"","Advice given to a young man summarizing John\n Thompson Brown's own philosophy of life.","On his return to Harrison County, \"I found that\n my position here was to be too dependent...\"","\"At a meeting of the citizens of\n Petersburg...'Resolved, that John Thompson Brown,\n Esq., he appointed Orator of the Day'.\"","The first important public speech of John\n Thompson Brown, in Petersburg, one which appears\n to have established his reputation, and which\n influenced his decision to remain there.","Regarding his Independence Day address; the\n wisdom of his brother's decision to visit\n England.","These are the continuous drafts of multiple\n letters. This draft concerns the second part which\n contains a humorous report on a 4th of July\n oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.","On July 25, he states that his brother has left\n on the packet for Baltimore on the way to\n Liverpool. Concerning his \"reasons of my\n determining not to remove to Harrison.\" On\n September 14 he writes that his wife has given\n birth to a son, who will be named Henry Peronneau,\n \"after you and my friend Peronneau Finley.\"","Henry Brown, Jr. writes of his journey, as a\n result of which \"I become more and more an\n American in feeling and principle...\"","\"I was elected without opposition, after\n announcing my sentiments freely and boldly.\" News\n of an insurrection of Negroes in Southampton,\n \"they killed 55 persons, mainly women and\n children.\"","Gives his opinions on the education of his\n nephew, Edward. He approves strongly of the\n emphasis on science to be found at West Point; on\n going to college among the Yankees: \"I partake in\n some measure of the prejudice against them--but\n think nevertheless that...southern \n fire would be none\n the worse for being somewhat cooled by the\n northern \n frost .\"","A new newspaper is proposed for the city of\n Richmond.","A request for help in covering a $3,000 debt to\n \"sharpers.\"","Describes the quarters he has for his wife and\n son. On the main question of the day he writes: \"I\n think no measure can or ought to be taken now for\n the abolition of slavery...\"","Concerning \"the bill now before the Legislature\n on the subject of our (Rail) Road.\"","Appointment of John Thompson Brown as judge of\n the election for directors of the Bank of Virginia\n in Petersburg.","Includes the following subjects: The Press,\n Lafayette, The Cuase of of Civil and Religious\n Liberty, The Militia Volunteers, Woman, Thomas\n Jefferson, Virginia, The Constitution, The\n Militia, State Rights, President of the United\n States, Our Guests, Benjamin Franklin, The\n Union, (\"Drank 1833.\" ADr.), The Day We\n Celebrate, Washington, and The Army and\n Navy.","Includes the following subjects: The Federal\n Consitiution, Free Press, President of the\n United States, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, Our\n Guests and Woman.","Includes the following subjects: The 4th of\n July, 1776, The Cause of Liberty Throughout the\n World, The Heroes and Statesmen of the\n Revolution, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, and\n The Federal Constitution.","Includes the following subject: The Union\n \"(This toast was drank, as a standing toast at\n the Petersburg Republican Celebration of Mr.\n Jefferson's election on the 29th of January,\n 1801).\" Most toast endorsed: \"Offered 1835, not\n adopted.\"","Includes the following subjects: The Day We\n Celebrated, The Memory of Washington, The Army\n and the Navy, Military Spirit, Free Press,\n Popular Suffrage, and National Character.","Includes the following subjects: The Friends\n of Constitutional Restriction, Political\n Toleration, National Character, The State\n Legislature, Virginia Military, Washington,\n Benjamin Franklin, Petersburg, The District of\n Columbia, The Right of Instruction, The Press\n and John Tyler.","The important and exciting national political\n events of the years 1832 and 1833, as they affected\n the people of Virginia, are seen through the eyes of\n John Thompson Brown in the items included in this\n box. A member from Petersburg in the House of\n Delegates of the Virginia Assembly, John Thompson\n Brown was placed in a position of leadership and\n strongly influenced the decisions taken in those\n critical years.","His speech on the abolition of slavery was\n considered so important that Judge Henry St. George\n Tucker and others raised the money to have it printed\n (18 January 1832). He was a member of the Virginia\n delegation to the national convention of the\n Republican Party; his resolution of the\n Vice-Presidential nominee (21-22 May 1832) was the\n one adopted by the Virginia caucus. As Chairman of\n the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates, the\n question of President Jackson's moves against the\n United States Bank was of particular concern to him\n (9 April 1833).","Great excitement was aroused by South Carolina's\n threat of nullification. John Thompson Brown was a\n member of the Committee on Federal Relations, and his\n substitute motion on the question is included in this\n box, as well as his speech on \n The State of the Relations\n between the United States and South Carolina ,\n delivered 5 January 1833, also published in pamphlet\n form.","John Thompson Brown was invited to be a Director\n of the Petersburg Railroad which he declined (7 May\n 1832), and was considered for the position of U.S.\n Senator, although he felt that he was not qualified\n by years or experience (December 1832). An\n interesting report of his meeting with President\n Jackson is included in a letter from John Thompson\n Brown to his wife (23 May 1832).","Also included in this box are letters from John\n Tyler, William Cabell Rives, and William Segar Archer\n (7 February, 3 March 1833).","Two poems, possibly written by John Thompson\n Brown, clipped from a newspaper, signed Julian are\n included at the end of this box.","Writes of the fortunes of the (Petersburg)\n Railroad Bill in the House of Delegates and State\n Senate.","Information regarding Rensselaer School. Samuel\n T. Brown, younger brother of John Thompson Brown,\n appears to have been interested in this\n school.","In this important speech John Thompson Brown\n took up several proposals for the freeing of\n slaves, including that of Thomas Jefferson, as\n submitted to the Legislature by Jefferson\n Randolph, his grandson, and argued against\n each.","\"My speech on abolition has had great \n eclat --a fund has\n been raised for publishing it in pamphlet form for\n general distribution... \n \n Judges [Henry St. George] Tucker and\n Brooke have taken active part in puffing the\n speech.\" He also reports, \"I have carried my\n Railroad Bill...and shall enjoy the credit of\n effecting it by my personal influence.\"","Includes in a \"Postscript\" an answer to a\n statement in \n The Enquirer over\n the signature of \n Jefferson\n [Randolph] . Reference is made to a remark\n made in \n The Wig that his\n argument \"had been far surpassed by the discussion\n of the subject by a stripling . Mr. Brown of\n Petersburg.\" General Assembly. Committee on\n Federal relations. Official Document Nos. 14, 15,\n 16.","Concerning a suggested amendment for the\n Circuit Court Law.","He cannot give his nephew, Edward Steptoe, an\n appointment to West Point because he has used his\n appointment for the session. \"...the Senate is\n involved in the Tariff discussion...The farther I\n have gone into it the more thoroughly have I\n convinced myself of its tyrannical and oppressive\n character.\"","A resolution from the Petersburg Rail Road\n Company to tender thanks for \"the zeal and ability\n with which our Delegate John T. Brown, Esq. and\n our Senator, Wm. Old, Esq. have exerted in\n procuring passage of the said (Rail Road)\n act.\"","This is the resolution presented by John\n Thompson Brown and reported in a newspaper article\n of this date preserved in the scrapbook to be\n found in Box 14.","\"I send you 2 copies of John's speech (on\n Slavery) and a paper with one of Jefferson\n Randolph's in reply to him.\"","Declines appointment as a member of the Board\n of Directors of the Petersburg Railroad.","Notes on the convention of the whole party and\n of the Virginia Caucus. At the latter the\n resolution of John Thompson Brown. was adopted,\n viz. that Virginia's vote should go first to P. P.\n Barbour for Vice- President, and when there was no\n longer a reasonable prospect of his selection, to\n Van Buren.","\"...on last evening we went to the President\n who is in excellent health and fine spirits. Many\n persons here, including some members of Congress\n from Virginia, seem to be much dissatisfied with\n our proceedings at Baltimore...\"","To his youngest brother, attending college,\n regarding the health of Henry, Jr.","On the death of Finley's brother.","The family has traveled south to escape an\n epidemic of Cholera.","In the letter of December 3 he discusses the\n election of U.S. Senators, stating that Mr. Leigh\n is out because of his opposition to President\n Jackson. Among those mentioned for the position\n are \n Judge\n [Henry St. George] Tucker , \n [John] Randolph\n Rives , and himself, though he feels that he\n has neither the years nor the experience for the\n position. President Jackson's message on the U.S.\n Bank is discussed. On nullification he writes: \"It\n will, I fear, be an exciting subject and one of\n engrossing interest...South Carolina is\n unquestionably wrong and \n as long as she remains in\n the Union, must obey its laws...\"","The possibility of his appointment as Senator\n to supply the vacancy left by Mr. Tazewell.","Excitement in Washington caused by the\n President's proclamation on nullification\n debate.","Regarding the removal of deposits from the U.S.\n Bank by the Federal Government.","\"I was rather mortified at making a very poor\n speech [on Federal Relations] in the House\n today...To avoid misrepresentation I shall have to\n write out my speech...\"","Doc. No. 14. \n Report of the Committee on\n Federal Relations Doc. No. 15. \n Mr. Marshall's Substitute\n to the Report... Doc. No. 16. \n Mr. M'dowell's Amendment to\n Mr. Marshall's Substitute,... Opinion on proceedings in South Carolina,\n the proclamation by Andrew Jackson, and \"the\n communication of the governor of this Commonwealth\n on the same subject.\"","After stating his opposition to protective\n tariffs, John Thompson Brown argued that they\n result from \"a perversion of the spirit and intent\n of the Constitution, rather than a violation of\n its literal principles.\"","He compliments the Chief Magistrate of the\n United States on his general policy but disputes\n the Proclamation of the President on other\n grounds, basing his argument on \n The Law of\n Nations by E. de Vattel.","As to the action of South Carolina, he contends\n that there is no possibility of nullification\n under the Constitution, but that the redress of\n the wrong done in the tariff act must come by\n recourse to the Supreme Court, to the \"Co-states\"\n acting in Congress, and if necessary, by an\n amendment to the Constitution.","Compliments John Thompson Brown on his\n resolutions.","\"I was anxious myself that Virginia should\n maintain an impartial and just attitude toward\n both S. Carolina and the President, but far the\n greater part of the Assembly seemed in favour of\n going into one extreme or other . . . whereas I\n thought there was error on both sides...\"","He remarks that \n Edward\n [Steptoe] has been successful in getting his\n appointment to West Point \"obtained (by Mr.\n Archer, the Senator) as a favour to me\" but\n \"without...your letter...the application could\n scarcely have been successful.\"","Appointment of Edward Steptoe to West Point;\n report of the enforcing bill in the President's\n proclamation, and the Tariff Bill.","In July he announces the birth of a son.","On the Force Bill and the Bank of the U.S.","\"On seeimg Miss ____ at Clarksburg,\" and\n \"Julian Abandoning His Muse.\" Possibly written by\n John Thompson Brown about this period.","The letters written by John Thompson Brown during\n portions of the 1833-1834 and the 1834-1835 sessions\n of the General Assembly are found in this box.","The manuscripts begin with letters reporting the\n legislative battle fought and lost against the\n Portsmouth-Norfolk road which John Thompson Brown\n believed would have disastrous effects on the future\n of Petersburg (January 1834). Near the end of the box\n are letters concerning John Thompson Brown's battle\n fought with fists and canes in the halls of the State\n Capitol with a fellow representative John Hampden\n Pleasants (January 1835). The fracas resulted from a\n heated debate on the election of a U.S. Senator. John\n Thompson Brown was one of those mentioned for the\n position of U.S. Senator (December 1834), but his\n youth (28 years) was against him and he did not enjoy\n the rough and tumble of party politics then\n developing.","Also of interest are the draft of a speech\n delivered on the occasion of the death of Lafayette\n (9 July 1834), and two notebooks used by John\n Thompson Brown as Chairman of the Finance Committee\n of the House of Delegates (January 1835).","News that his brother, Samuel, is ill at\n Harvard.","Reports on his progress at the college.","His attempts to defeat the Norfolk rail road in\n the Assembly; family news.","\"All is lost except our honour. The Portsmouth\n Bill [Norfolk railroad] has passed...our town\n [Petersburg] is prostrated...but the ancient\n spirit of our little town, which Mr. Madison\n called the 'cockade of the old Dominion' is not\n dead.\"","A patent for producing domestic salt.","Election of a U.S. Senator, for which he has\n been mentioned; Mr. Leigh's election. At the end\n of February and beginning of March he is kept in\n bed with an illness.","Gives his views of the political situation,\n mentioning the message President Jackson sent to\n Congress with the \"Force Bill,\" the President's\n plans for the Bank of the U.S., and objections to\n Van Buren and \"the N. York system of tactics which\n he will bring with him.\"","Plans for Samuel, John Thompson Brown's\n brother, to start his study of law with him.","Sold bank shares to help his brother go into\n business for himself; gives advice on racing\n horses.","Endorsed: \"To my sons, should they ever read\n it.\"","Report of his progress at the U.S. Military\n Academy.","Draft of a letter sending condolences for the\n death of a sister and congratulations on the birth\n of a son.","His resignation from the U.S. Senate.","\"No subject arouses anybody except the\n senatorial election.\"","He offers to place all his monetary resources\n at the service of his brother in his new business\n venture.","On the 17th he prepared a draft of a letter,\n which he sent on the 20th, giving an account of a\n fight in the halls of the General Assembly between\n himself and John Hampden Pleasants.","A letter of apology for the battle fought in\n the halls of the Virginia Capitol.","An account of his speech which was \"better\n received than anything I have ever made.\"","Points out the importance of this election for\n \"future political events and party combinations in\n the state,\" and defends the incumbent, Mr.\n Leigh.","Prepared for use in the Finance Committee of\n the House of Deputies.","Notes on taxes, license fees, and the like,\n prepared by John Thompson Brown for use on the\n Finance Committee of the House of Delegates.","The closing sessions of the State Legislature of\n 1834-1835 are reported in the letters at the\n beginning of this box. The party spirit runs high in\n Petersburg as the \"Jackson party\" opposes John\n Thompson Brown (March 1835). He is involved in a\n street fight with an opponent in which he receives a\n black eye, but the argument is made up after he wins\n the election (April 1835).","Before the next session of the legislature, John\n Thompson Brown is occupied in collecting more\n material on the question of slavery (August 1835),\n and prepared three long drafts written in opposition\n to the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President of\n the U.S. Undated drafts of notes on legal cases are\n included at the end of the 1835 section.","Henry Brown, Jr., the brother of John Thompson\n Brown, died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to\n Philadelphia and New York for his Lynchburg store.\n The trip of John Thompson Brown to meet the body of\n his brother, and his activity in settling his\n brother's affairs in Lynchburg are reported in the\n letters included in this box.","At the end of July he takes his family to his\n father's home, Otter Hills, near New London in\n Campbell County, for the funeral sermon of Henry\n Brown, Jr. While there he contracts an illness which\n keeps him there until his death on 26 November\n 1836.","Announces the birth of a son, John Thompson\n Brown II, and tells his brother that he had\n ordered $2800 placed to his account to support the\n store that he had opened.","Political activity in Petersburg.","\"The Jackson party has brought out the most\n popular man in Petersburg against...it is quite\n likely he will beat me.\"","On April 18 he writes, \"I was elected by a\n majority of 37 (13 of which were from Richmond).\"\n There is also a report of a street fight between\n John Thompson Brown and \"a Jackson man.\"","Concerning the chances of Van Buren to carry\n Virginia in the election.","Plans to retire from politics and seek a\n position as Judge of the courts.","He has sent a box of books to help him in his\n law studies, and describes a visit by his old\n friend Peronneau Finley and his family.","Writes to his father about plans to visit\n him.","Family discussion, especially concerned with\n the sisters who were yet to find husbands.","Notice of the election of John Thompson Brown\n as an honorary member of the Jefferson\n Society.","Signed \"Mr. Brown.\"","This series of drafts is in opposition to\n Martin Van Buren, candidate for the President\n of the United States.","Good reports of the new business venture of his\n brother, Henry Brown, Jr.","To his brother, on a buying trip to New York;\n political prospects now look bright, but \"the\n state is lost\" to the Anti-Van Buren forces.","Signed by Wyndham Robertson.","On the trip to accompany his sister-in-law and\n the body of Henry Brown, Jr. back to the family\n home, Otter Hills. Henry Brown, Jr. died while on\n a shopping trip to New York for supplies for his\n Lynchburg store.","The body of Henry Brown, Jr. was taken that\n morning for Virginia.","On the death of her father, Henry Brown Brown,\n Jr.","Taking inventory at the store of his late\n brother; preparing to settle his estate.","Reports on the stocktaking in the store of\n Henry Brown, Jr. On July 19 he wrote that he was\n coming to his father's place on the Sunday next to\n hear his brother's funeral preached. This is the\n last letter from John Thompson Brown to his\n father, for on that visit to Otter Hills he was\n taken with the illness from which he died.","On the disposal of the store inventory; sends a\n piano to her.","Mourning his brother's death, he makes\n arrangements for his own family to join him. (This\n is the last letter written by John Thompson Brown\n preserved in this collection.)","The niece of John Thompson Brown writes to her\n uncle regarding the recent death of her father,\n Henry Brown, Jr.","A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes\n regarding the settling of the store business.","Enclosures: \"A lock of the hair of John\n Thompson Brown, 29 years\"; envelope marked, \"For\n sister Mary from my dear brother John's Grave,\n Nov. 13th, 1845, \n [Mrs.]\n A[lice Brown] Worthington ,\" with clover\n leaves inside.","A resolution in memory of John Thompson\n Brown.","Signed D. M. Bernard, Clerk. Endorsement by\n James MacFarland, Jr., to Mrs. John Thompson\n Brown.","Condolences on the death of her husband.","A resolution that the members wear the usual\n badge of mourning for thirty days in honor of John\n Thompson Brown.","A copy of the unanimous resolution of the House\n of Delegates in memory of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of grief written by Mrs. Brown to her\n father-in-law.","A letter of consolation.","Includes: A dramatic sketch, Kentucky Land\n Laws, Goosawattee Indians, and map of the\n region around Bedford, Virginia","A large folded ink drawing of a building \"taken\n from the Colonade of the Temple of Minerva\n Parthenon at Athens,\" with notes of construction\n details. Ca. 1830.","Papers of John Thompson Brown, Colonel of 1st\n Regiment Virginia Artillery who was killed in action in\n 1864. Included are letters concerning a disagreement\n with William Nelson Pendleton. Papers also include\n correspondence of his son, Henry Peronneau Brown and his\n son's wife Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown as well as\n newspaper clippings concerning Judge John Randolph\n Tucker and the correspondence of Cynthia Beverley Tucker\n Coleman. There are also nineteenth century\n engravings.","This box contains the papers from the period after\n the death of John Thompson Brown, and concern John\n Thompson Brown II, born in 1835, some 18 months\n before the death of his father.","One letter (20 November 1844) lists the courses\n studied by boys at the ages of 9, 11, and 13; a\n travel book gives an interesting picture of Europe (4\n May 1857); and a draft of a letter describes the\n bleedings to which a tourist entering Italy had to\n submit.","John Thompson Brown II was elected Second\n Lieutenant by the members of his company (1 December\n 1859). Also included are notes of speeches made to\n rouse war enthusiasm. The receipt for a saber and\n belt (23 April 1861) mark the beginning of action,\n and other records follow John Thompson Brown II's\n rise to Major, then to Colonel. His request for a\n transfer to a more active field of war and an\n extended argument with his commanding officer, Brig.\n Gen. William Nelson Pendleton, are of interest. The\n box concludes with items which appear to have been on\n the person of Col. John Thompson Brown II, when he\n was killed in action on 6 May 1864.","Lists the courses in school taken by a nine\n year old boy and his two brothers, Wilicox, 11\n years old, and \n P[eronneau] , 13\n years old.","Certifies that John Thompson Brown II was\n elected Second Lieutenant by viva voce vote of the\n members of his company.","References to Douglas and the threat to\n slavery.","Concerns the raid on Harper's Ferry by John\n Brown, 19 October 1859, and the treatment of him\n as a martyr in the North.","\"I greatly fear that the time has passed when\n great questions of State equality are to be\n settled in the Halls of Congress...this settlement\n requires powder and ball...\"","Report on ammunition on hand.","Court Martial action taken for refusal to do\n guard duty, by a trooper under the command of Col.\n John Thompson Brown II.","Request for transfer, with his command, to the\n Division of Gen. D. H. Hills, so that he might be\n more actively engaged.","Concerning the families of the officers.","Concerning a dispute arising between the two\n over John Thompson Brown's command.","Request the return of his report on the battle\n of Chancellorsville so that he might submit it to\n Gen. Stuart.","Papers relating to the oldest son of John Thompson\n Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, begin with letters\n written by his mother Mrs. Mary E. Brown. She\n expresses concern that her son is more interested in\n affairs other than his studies (1 March 1849). His\n school career is traced briefly through his years at\n the University of Virginia (28 June 1851).","The letters exchanged between Henry Peronneau\n Brown and his fiancee, Frances Baland Coalter, 1858,\n lead into the family correspondence which completes\n this box. (Other letters of Frances Bland Coalter and\n her family are found in Box 6, Coalter and Tucker\n Papers.)","From May, 1861, all letters are concerned with the\n war. Letters written by John Coalter II, to his\n sister Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown in 1878 give a\n graphic picture of the struggle made by a southern\n farmer to re-establish himself after the war.","The widow of John Thompson Brown writes with\n concern about her oldest son, Peronneau, who is\n attending school in South Carolina. He was\n devoting too much time to outdoor affairs of\n college life and not enough to his studies.","Congratulating him on his success at Charleston\n College; a proposed biography of John Thompson\n Brown.","Concerning Henry Peronneau Brown, attending the\n \n University [of Virginia] .","Affectionate letters to her fiance.","In August she writes to console Mrs. Brown on\n the death of her mother, Mrs. Judith H.\n Coalter.","\"We are all as glad, dear Fanny, that your home\n is so lovely and you are so happy...for its\n mountain scenery.\"","Concerning the failing health of their\n mother.","Consolations on the death of Mrs. Coalter.","Concerning the loss of an infant.","The bachelor brother of Mrs. Brown writes that\n his loneliness on an out-of-the-way plantation is\n heading him to the madhouse.","She writes of the ladies making vests and\n shirts for the soldiers. News that the Yankees\n have landed at Hampton; the first of the war\n casualties in the family.","Making clothes for the army: \"1500 yards have\n just been received which we are to turn our\n attention to at once.\"","His house was set afire and cannon are firing\n all about. Comments on \"the tennessee\n company...the roughest men you ever saw...\"","The wife of John Thompson Brown II, is in \"this\n antiquated spot\" because her husband was drilling\n some new troops and sent for her to join him.","Their brother, Henry, is at a camp near\n Williamsburg; the other brother, John, is in\n Richmond.","\"adjoining the lands of Henry Peronneau Brown\n and others.\"","\"I am sorry Henry's name is not in the list of\n exchanged prisoners...\"","Request for someone to serve the Presbyterian\n Church at Tappahannock.","The settlement of the John Randolph estate\n which was in litigation for many years.","Refuses a request for $500 by his nephew;\n recommends that he stop drinking.","Note written on an early \"penny post card.\"","Letters written to his sister as he made a\n start in farming after the end of the war: \"I have\n not the means to buy me a suit of clothes.\" Later\n he added: \"I never was as poor in my life before\n as I am now...I have not spent during the whole\n year on myself more than $10...\"","First mention of Cassie Tucker, who was later\n to marry John Thompson Brown III.","A request for a purchase of a case of \"56 Home\n Remedies.\"","Writes of \n Cassie\n [Tucker] , wife of \n [John]\n Thompson [Brown III] . \"You have introduced\n into your home a very sunbeam.\"","Concerning the death of \n John [Coalter\n II] .","The letters in this box concerning John Thompson\n Brown III, begin with one from his mother, Mrs. Henry\n Peronneau Brown, the former Frances Bland Coalter.\n There are 6 report cards from The University School,\n Petersburg, Virginia (1877-1879). Of interest is a\n pamphlet of \n Resolutions Passed in 1894,\n 1895, and 1896...Denouncing the Bedford High School\n Act.","Many of the letters in the collection are from\n Mrs. Cynthia B. Tucker Coleman to her niece Cassie\n (Mrs. John Thompson Brown III). Letters from the\n children, John Thompson Brown IV, Frances Brown, and\n Henry Peronneau Brown II, are included as well as\n photographs of some members of the family and\n pictures of the family home, Ivy Cliff, Bedford\n County (formerly Otter Hill) the home of Capt. Henry\n Brown, great grandfather of John Thompson Brown\n III.","At the end of the box is a notebook containing\n sermons copied out by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown for\n her son John Thompson Brown III.","To her son [John Thompson Brown III] urging him\n to improve his writing and \"to read your Bible and\n say your prayers every day.\"","A description of the London Museum and Zoo.","Some contain letters by John Thompson Brown\n III, when the reports were sent home.","Recommends Bible reading as the antidote for\n \"the very corrupt sentiments which are scattered\n through the classical writers.\"","The recent death of her husband, Dr. Coleman;\n the serious illness of Mrs. Henry Peronneau\n Brown.","During her illness, Mrs. Brown's children are\n in the care of Mrs. Coleman.","A child's letter.","Rejoices that Cassie's health is \"entirely\n restored.\" Bev. Tucker and Braxton Bryan are\n mentioned as attending an assembly of the clergy\n at Jamestown.","\"...make haste and get well enough to come home\n where you are much missed.\"","\"Given to my son June 5, 1890. Let him read it\n carefully and may God have mercy on his soul.\n Amen.\" (Mrs. Frances B. Brown died in September\n 1894.)","This box contains material related to the Brown\n and Tucker families after 1900. Accounts of Cary A.\n Adams are placed at the beginning of the box.","Newspaper clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska,\n relate to Judge John Randolph Tucker. Another member\n of the family, Capt. David Tucker Brown, is\n represented by two letters (1918, 1919) written from\n France when he was serving as a member of the\n American Commission to negotiate peace.","At the end of the box are collected seventeen\n undated items concerning unidentified persons.","Endorsed: \"Pres. of Const. Convention,\n 1901-2.\"","Taken from the \n Nome Daily Nugget , \n Nome Democrat and \n Nome Industrial\n Worker .","With the \"American Commission to Negotiate\n Peace.\" There is also mention of John Thompson\n Brown IV, of Wilmington.","(\"From private who served you on the\n memorable 8th of Jany, 1815.\")","An alphabetical list of flowers with the\n characteristics of each expressed\n symbolically.","Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Manuscripts\n and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary. \n Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), \n \n 1791-1920. 941 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 B855 Papers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and\n Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland\n (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the\n Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John\n Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the\n Morton family.","Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any\n materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of\n Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the\n copyright, if not Swem Library.","Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown,\n Coalter, Tucker families.","College of William and Mary--History--18th\n century.","Princeton University--History.","University of Virginia--History--19th\n century.","Brown family,","Coulter family,","Tucker family,","Brown family.","Coalter family.","Coulter family.","Tucker family.","William Segar Archer,","Frances Bland Coalter Brown,","Henry Brown,","Henry Peronneau Brown,","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan,","John Randolph Bryan,","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter,","John Coalter,","Judith H. Tomlin Coalter,","Maria Rind Coalter,","St. George Tucker Coalter,","Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington\n Coleman,","Moses Drury Hoge,","J. M. (James Murray) Mason,","William Munford,","William Nelson Pendleton,","John Hampden Pleasants,","Judith Randolph Randolph,","William C. (William Cabell) Rives,","Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker,","Henry St. George Tucker,","St. George Tucker,","John Tyler.","Boone, Jennifer\n Kathryn.","Archer, William Segar,\n 1789-1855.","Brown, Frances Bland\n Coalter, 1835-1894.","Brown, Daniel.","Brown, Henry,\n 1797-1836.","Brown, Henry\n Peronneau.","Bryan, Elizabeth Tucker\n Coalter, b. 1805.","Bryan, John Randolph,\n 1806-1887.","Coalter, Frances Bland\n Tucker, 1785-1813.","Coalter, John,\n 1769-1838.","Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin,\n d. 1859.","Coalter, Maria Rind, d.\n 1792.","Coalter, St. George Tucker,\n 1809-1839.","Coleman, Cynthia Beverley\n Tucker Washington, 1832-1908.","Hoge, Moses Drury,\n 1818-1899.","Mason, J. M. (James Murray),\n 1798-1871.","Munford, William, 1775-\n 1825.","Murphy, Pleasants,\n 1786-1863.","Pendleton, William Nelson,\n 1809-1883.","Pleasants, John Hampden,\n 1797-1846.","Randolph, John,\n 1773-1833.","Randolph, Judith Randolph,\n fl. 1792-1813.","Rives, William C. (William\n Cabell), 1793-1868.","Thompson, John.","Tucker, Lelia Skipwith\n Carter, 1767-post 1833.","Tucker, Henry St. George,\n 1780-1848.","Tucker, John Randolph,\n 1823-1897.","Tucker, St. George,\n 1752-1827.","Tyler, John,\n 1790-1862.","Wythe, George,\n 1726-1806.","English"],"unitid_tesim":["Mss. 65 B85"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), \n \n 1780-1929."],"collection_title_tesim":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), \n \n 1780-1929."],"collection_ssim":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), \n \n 1780-1929."],"repository_ssm":["College of William and Mary"],"repository_ssim":["College of William and Mary"],"creator_ssm":["Brown family, Coulter family, Tucker family, William Segar Archer, Frances Bland Coalter Brown, Henry Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan, John Randolph Bryan, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter, John Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin Coalter, Maria Rind Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington\n Coleman, Moses Drury Hoge, J. M. (James Murray) Mason, William Munford, William Nelson Pendleton, John Hampden Pleasants, Judith Randolph Randolph, William C. (William Cabell) Rives, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, Henry St. George Tucker, St. George Tucker, John Tyler."],"creator_ssim":["Brown family, Coulter family, Tucker family, William Segar Archer, Frances Bland Coalter Brown, Henry Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan, John Randolph Bryan, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter, John Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin Coalter, Maria Rind Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington\n Coleman, Moses Drury Hoge, J. M. (James Murray) Mason, William Munford, William Nelson Pendleton, John Hampden Pleasants, Judith Randolph Randolph, William C. (William Cabell) Rives, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, Henry St. George Tucker, St. George Tucker, John Tyler."],"creator_persname_ssim":["William Segar Archer,","Frances Bland Coalter Brown,","Henry Brown,","Henry Peronneau Brown,","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan,","John Randolph Bryan,","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter,","John Coalter,","Judith H. Tomlin Coalter,","Maria Rind Coalter,","St. George Tucker Coalter,","Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington\n Coleman,","Moses Drury Hoge,","J. M. (James Murray) Mason,","William Munford,","William Nelson Pendleton,","John Hampden Pleasants,","Judith Randolph Randolph,","William C. (William Cabell) Rives,","Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker,","Henry St. George Tucker,","St. George Tucker,","John Tyler."],"creator_famname_ssim":["Brown family,","Coulter family,","Tucker family,"],"creators_ssim":["William Segar Archer,","Frances Bland Coalter Brown,","Henry Brown,","Henry Peronneau Brown,","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan,","John Randolph Bryan,","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter,","John Coalter,","Judith H. Tomlin Coalter,","Maria Rind Coalter,","St. George Tucker Coalter,","Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington\n Coleman,","Moses Drury Hoge,","J. M. (James Murray) Mason,","William Munford,","William Nelson Pendleton,","John Hampden Pleasants,","Judith Randolph Randolph,","William C. (William Cabell) Rives,","Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker,","Henry St. George Tucker,","St. George Tucker,","John Tyler.","Brown family,","Coulter family,","Tucker family,"],"acqinfo_ssim":["Gift: 3,433 items, \n 03/04/1947."],"access_subjects_ssim":["American poetry.","Architecture,\n Domestic--Virginia.","Embargo, 1807-1809.","\n Education--Virginia--History-- 19th century.","Guilford Court House, Battle\n of, 1781.","Slavery--Virginia--\n History--18th century.","Springs--Virginia.","United States--History--War\n of 1812.","Virginia. General Assembly.\n House of Delegates.","Virginia--Politics and\n government--1775-1865.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Bedford County--19th\n century.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Campbell County--19th\n century.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Lynchburg--19th century."],"access_subjects_ssm":["American poetry.","Architecture,\n Domestic--Virginia.","Embargo, 1807-1809.","\n Education--Virginia--History-- 19th century.","Guilford Court House, Battle\n of, 1781.","Slavery--Virginia--\n History--18th century.","Springs--Virginia.","United States--History--War\n of 1812.","Virginia. General Assembly.\n House of Delegates.","Virginia--Politics and\n government--1775-1865.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Bedford County--19th\n century.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Campbell County--19th\n century.","\n Merchants--Virginia--Lynchburg--19th century."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["3,433 items."],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCollection is open to all researchers.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Restrictions on Access"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Collection is open to all researchers."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003carrangement\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eOrganization\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThis collection is organized into four series; Series 1\n is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker\n Families; Series 2 is Group B, containing the papers of\n Capt. Henry Brown and his family; Series 3 is Group C,\n containing the papers of John Thompson Brown; and Series 4\n is Group D, containing the papers of the Brown and Tucker\n Families.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis collection is organized into four series; Series 1\n is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker\n Families; Series 2 is Group B, containing the papers of\n Capt. Henry Brown and his family; Series 3 is Group C,\n containing the papers of John Thompson Brown; and Series 4\n is Group D, containing the papers of the Brown and Tucker\n Families.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003carrangement\u003e\n \u003chead\u003eArrangement\u003c/head\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eEach series in the collection has been arranged into\n various subseries by family names, personal names or\n subjects. The material in each subseries may contain the\n names of various other persons but the most prominent name\n is the one used to describe the subseries. Series 1\n contains the following subseries: John Coalter; Children of\n John Coalter, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, and St. George\n Tucker Coalter; and Grandchild of John Coalter, Frances\n Bland Coalter. Series 2 contains the following subseries:\n Capt. Henry Brown; Immediate Family of Capt. Henry Brown;\n and Children of Capt. Henry Brown, Henry Brown, Jr. and\n Samuel T. Brown. Series 3 contains six subseries pertaining\n to John Thompson Brown. Series 4 contains the following\n subseries: Col. John Thompson Brown II, Henry Peronneau\n Brown, John Thompson Brown III, Later Family Member, and\n Miscellaneous.\u003c/p\u003e\n \u003c/arrangement\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEach series in the collection has been arranged into\n various subseries by family names, personal names or\n subjects. The material in each subseries may contain the\n names of various other persons but the most prominent name\n is the one used to describe the subseries. Series 1\n contains the following subseries: John Coalter; Children of\n John Coalter, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, and St. George\n Tucker Coalter; and Grandchild of John Coalter, Frances\n Bland Coalter. Series 2 contains the following subseries:\n Capt. Henry Brown; Immediate Family of Capt. Henry Brown;\n and Children of Capt. Henry Brown, Henry Brown, Jr. and\n Samuel T. Brown. Series 3 contains six subseries pertaining\n to John Thompson Brown. Series 4 contains the following\n subseries: Col. John Thompson Brown II, Henry Peronneau\n Brown, John Thompson Brown III, Later Family Member, and\n Miscellaneous.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes life on Walker's Creek, Rockbridge\n County; his responsibility for the farm while\n his father is away at war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel Brown is a young lawyer, earning\n 40£ per year as usher for John\n Holt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes his new position as tutor to the\n children of St. George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe death of Mrs. Tucker; plans of St.\n George Tucker to move because the plantation,\n Matoax, reverts to the sons of Mrs. Tucker\n (Richard, John, and Theodorick Randolph). He\n intends to move to Williamsburg, but he can no\n longer pay John Coalter 30£ per\n annum; offers to give legal training in\n exchange for tutoring services.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Rind, had been studying law with St.\n George Tucker in Williamsburg but left to take\n a position with \"Col. N.\" Maria Rind remains in\n the household of St. George Tucker, where she\n cared for the children.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement","Organization","Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["Organization This collection is organized into four series; Series 1\n is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker\n Families; Series 2 is Group B, containing the papers of\n Capt. Henry Brown and his family; Series 3 is Group C,\n containing the papers of John Thompson Brown; and Series 4\n is Group D, containing the papers of the Brown and Tucker\n Families.","This collection is organized into four series; Series 1\n is Group A, containing the papers of Coalter and Tucker\n Families; Series 2 is Group B, containing the papers of\n Capt. Henry Brown and his family; Series 3 is Group C,\n containing the papers of John Thompson Brown; and Series 4\n is Group D, containing the papers of the Brown and Tucker\n Families.","Arrangement Each series in the collection has been arranged into\n various subseries by family names, personal names or\n subjects. The material in each subseries may contain the\n names of various other persons but the most prominent name\n is the one used to describe the subseries. Series 1\n contains the following subseries: John Coalter; Children of\n John Coalter, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, and St. George\n Tucker Coalter; and Grandchild of John Coalter, Frances\n Bland Coalter. Series 2 contains the following subseries:\n Capt. Henry Brown; Immediate Family of Capt. Henry Brown;\n and Children of Capt. Henry Brown, Henry Brown, Jr. and\n Samuel T. Brown. Series 3 contains six subseries pertaining\n to John Thompson Brown. Series 4 contains the following\n subseries: Col. John Thompson Brown II, Henry Peronneau\n Brown, John Thompson Brown III, Later Family Member, and\n Miscellaneous.","Each series in the collection has been arranged into\n various subseries by family names, personal names or\n subjects. The material in each subseries may contain the\n names of various other persons but the most prominent name\n is the one used to describe the subseries. Series 1\n contains the following subseries: John Coalter; Children of\n John Coalter, Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, and St. George\n Tucker Coalter; and Grandchild of John Coalter, Frances\n Bland Coalter. Series 2 contains the following subseries:\n Capt. Henry Brown; Immediate Family of Capt. Henry Brown;\n and Children of Capt. Henry Brown, Henry Brown, Jr. and\n Samuel T. Brown. Series 3 contains six subseries pertaining\n to John Thompson Brown. Series 4 contains the following\n subseries: Col. John Thompson Brown II, Henry Peronneau\n Brown, John Thompson Brown III, Later Family Member, and\n Miscellaneous.","Describes life on Walker's Creek, Rockbridge\n County; his responsibility for the farm while\n his father is away at war.","Samuel Brown is a young lawyer, earning\n 40£ per year as usher for John\n Holt.","Describes his new position as tutor to the\n children of St. George Tucker.","The death of Mrs. Tucker; plans of St.\n George Tucker to move because the plantation,\n Matoax, reverts to the sons of Mrs. Tucker\n (Richard, John, and Theodorick Randolph). He\n intends to move to Williamsburg, but he can no\n longer pay John Coalter 30£ per\n annum; offers to give legal training in\n exchange for tutoring services.","James Rind, had been studying law with St.\n George Tucker in Williamsburg but left to take\n a position with \"Col. N.\" Maria Rind remains in\n the household of St. George Tucker, where she\n cared for the children."],"bibliography_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eHonors Thesis Paper written by a student of the College\n of William and Mary. A Bibliography can be found on pages\n 75-77. Call Number: LD6051 .W5m Hist., 1987, B66\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003e\n \u003cpersname role=\"author\"\u003eBoone, Jennifer\n Kathryn.\u003c/persname\u003e\n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003e\"In Praise of the Family\": A\n Study of Three Generations.\u003c/title\u003e\n \u003cimprint\u003e\n \u003cdate type=\"publication\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1987.\u003c/date\u003e\n \u003c/imprint\u003e\n \u003c/bibref\u003e"],"bibliography_heading_ssm":["Bibliography"],"bibliography_tesim":["Honors Thesis Paper written by a student of the College\n of William and Mary. A Bibliography can be found on pages\n 75-77. Call Number: LD6051 .W5m Hist., 1987, B66","Boone, Jennifer\n Kathryn. \"In Praise of the Family\": A\n Study of Three Generations. 1987."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eNote: The superscript numbers denote generations within\n each family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eBrown Family\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eHenry Brown \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e1\u003c/emph\u003e(1716-1766) was born in Bedford\n County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven\n children including; Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel\n Brown (1770-1818).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e2\u003c/emph\u003e(1760-1841), later commissioned\n as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the\n war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell)\n County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting\n life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several\n ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his\n time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax\n Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of\n revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a\n treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New\n London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day\n Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers\n present a picture of the successful business man of that day.\n No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this\n collection, though many references to letters he had written\n are to be found. Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), married\n Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry\n Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T.\n Brown, who married Lissie Huger; \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Locky T. Brown\"\u003eLocky [Lockie] T. Brown\u003c/abbr\u003e(b.\n 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who\n married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M.\n Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married\n Mary E. Willcox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany papers of Henry Brown, Jr. \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e3\u003c/emph\u003e(1797-1836), are included in this\n collection, but his personality makes little impression on the\n reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his\n father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own.\n Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness\n that had plagued him from his early years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e3\u003c/emph\u003e(1802-1836) was born near Bedford\n County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later\n read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the\n House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia\n (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his\n marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading\n citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of\n Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery,\n states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson\n period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their\n insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period.\n He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned\n as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the\n State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have\n been an important figure in national politics if he had not\n suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary\n Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894),\n John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II\n (1835-1864).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCol. John Thompson Brown II \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e4\u003c/emph\u003e(1835-1864), was less than two\n years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his\n father's ideas in the next generation when the debate\n regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by\n recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war\n fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the\n artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6,\n 1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Peronneau Brown \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e4\u003c/emph\u003e(1832-1894), was named after a\n Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's,\n Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry\n Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his\n father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown\n with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the\n insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and\n the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894),\n married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were\n the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married\n Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker\n family with the line. They in turn had five children; John\n Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown;\n Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas\n Brown; and Willcox Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eCoalter Family\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eJohn Coalter \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e1\u003c/emph\u003e(1769-1838), was born in 1769 to\n parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father\n was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter\n and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in\n Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became\n tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and\n Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death\n of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg,\n serving without pay in return for the legal training he\n received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While\n studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of\n William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In\n December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year\n later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a\n Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for\n the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter\n (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport\n (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within\n the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of\n St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John\n Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore\n him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter\n (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and\n St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later\n became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and\n bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter\n continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to\n Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In\n 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones)\n Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and\n interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in\n Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\" plantation in\n Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Tucker Coalter \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e2\u003c/emph\u003e(1805-1853), married John\n Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831\n and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They\n had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia\n Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph\n Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George\n Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman\n Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker Coalter \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e2\u003c/emph\u003e(1809-1839), married the\n strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out\n his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his\n farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters,\n which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine\n Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were\n prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters\n give an interesting and informative picture of life in\n Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St.\n George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin\n Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker\n (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who\n married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia\n Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in\n 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married\n Amelia Downy in 1862 and Charlotte (Downy) Terrill in 1868.\n See Brown Family\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eTucker Family\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eSt. George Tucker \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e1\u003c/emph\u003e(1752-1827), was born in 1752\n near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry\n Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career\n in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William\n and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served\n as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth\n attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at\n the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge\n for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland)\n Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous\n marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and\n John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph\n Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker\n (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker\n (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel\n Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph\n plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until\n the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St.\n George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795).\n None of their three children lived to adulthood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry St. George Tucker \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e2\u003c/emph\u003e(1780-1848), served as a\n professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the\n Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress,\n 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married\n Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children,\n including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances\n Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John\n Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRandolph Tucker \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e3\u003c/emph\u003emarried Lucy (?). The couple had\n children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. David Hunter Tucker \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e3\u003c/emph\u003emarried Eliz Dallas and had Rev.\n Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Randolph Tucker \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e3\u003c/emph\u003e(1823-1897), married Laura Holmes\n Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as\n attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at\n Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University);\n and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnn Frances Bland Tucker \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e2\u003c/emph\u003e(1785-1813), married John Coalter\n (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Beverley Tucker \n \u003cemph render=\"super\"\u003e2\u003c/emph\u003e(1784-1851), graduated from the\n College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he\n married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter\n (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court\n Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried\n twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He\n returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in\n 1834.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cemph render=\"bold\"\u003eOther People\u003c/emph\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eWilliam Munford (1775- 1825) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eA friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his\n Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some\n note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting\n reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard\n University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants\n in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the\n British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He\n lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later\n moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks\n on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on\n that important member of the legal profession in the new\n nation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is\n unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods\n stores and the household supply stores are included in the\n collection.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of\n Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Randolph Tucker (ca. 1915) \n \u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eNewspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska\n concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (ca.\n 1915).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCapt. David Tucker Brown (ca. 1918), was a member of the\n 1918 Peace Commission, Paris France.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Note: The superscript numbers denote generations within\n each family.","Brown Family Henry Brown \n 1 (1716-1766) was born in Bedford\n County, Virginia. He married Alice Beard and had eleven\n children including; Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), and Daniel\n Brown (1770-1818).","Henry Brown \n 2 (1760-1841), later commissioned\n as a Captain, was wounded in the Revolutionary War. After the\n war he opened a store in New London, Bedford (later Campbell)\n County with his brother, Daniel. He had a full and interesting\n life in mercantile pursuits, being involved in several\n ventures with other partners, and spending a good deal of his\n time in court collecting debts. He acted as Federal Tax\n Collector in Bedford County, 1800-1803, a deputy inspector of\n revenue and served several terms as a Sheriff. He was also a\n treasurer of the New London Academy Meeting House and the New\n London Agricultural Society. New London is in present day\n Campbell County, Virginia. His business and personal papers\n present a picture of the successful business man of that day.\n No letters written by Captain Henry Brown are in this\n collection, though many references to letters he had written\n are to be found. Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841), married\n Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry\n Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T.\n Brown, who married Lissie Huger; \n Locky [Lockie] T. Brown (b.\n 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who\n married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M.\n Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married\n Mary E. Willcox.","Many papers of Henry Brown, Jr. \n 3 (1797-1836), are included in this\n collection, but his personality makes little impression on the\n reader. Toward the end of his short life he served in his\n father's store in Lynchburg, later opening a store of his own.\n Henry Brown Jr. married Eleanor Tucker. He died of an illness\n that had plagued him from his early years.","John Thompson Brown \n 3 (1802-1836) was born near Bedford\n County, Virginia. He was a graduate of Princeton who later\n read law under Judge Creed Taylor. John became a member of the\n House of Delegates from Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia\n (later West Virginia), at the age of 26. Following his\n marriage in 1830 to Mary E. Willcox, daughter of a leading\n citizen of Petersburg, he was elected to the House of\n Delegates. His speeches to the House of Delegates on slavery,\n states rights, and politics in the Jackson and post-Jackson\n period exist in pamphlet form and are valuable for their\n insight into the position taken by Virginians in this period.\n He also served as member of the Virginia Constitutional\n Convention from 1829-1830. At the age of 29 he was mentioned\n as a possible candidate for U.S. Senator (appointed by the\n State legislature at the time), and undoubtedly would have\n been an important figure in national politics if he had not\n suffered an untimely death at the age of 34. He and Mary\n Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894),\n John Willcox Brown (b. 1833), and Col. John Thompson Brown II\n (1835-1864).","Col. John Thompson Brown II \n 4 (1835-1864), was less than two\n years old when his father died. He lived to carry out his\n father's ideas in the next generation when the debate\n regarding state rights and slavery came to be settled by\n recourse to arms. His fiery speeches contributed to the war\n fever, a war in which he rose to the rank of Colonel in the\n artillery before being killed by a sniper's bullet on May 6,\n 1864.","Henry Peronneau Brown \n 4 (1832-1894), was named after a\n Princeton schoolmate and close friend of his father's,\n Peronneau Finley, of Charleston, South Carolina. Henry\n Peronneau Brown lived briefly with his namesake after his\n father's death. The correspondence of Henry Peronneau Brown\n with his wife and their relatives, is chiefly of value for the\n insight it gives into family affairs during the Civil War and\n the Reconstruction. Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894),\n married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894), in 1858. They were\n the parents of John Thompson Brown III (b. 1861), who married\n Cassie Dallas Tucker Brown (fl.1898), reuniting the Tucker\n family with the line. They in turn had five children; John\n Thompson Brown IV (b. 1896); Frances Bland Coalter Brown;\n Henry Peronneau Brown III; Charles Brown; Elizabeth Dallas\n Brown; and Willcox Brown.","Coalter Family John Coalter \n 1 (1769-1838), was born in 1769 to\n parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. While his father\n was away serving in the war against the British, John Coalter\n and his brothers worked the family farm on Walker's Creek in\n Rockbridge County, Virginia. After brief schooling he became\n tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and\n Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). Following the death\n of Mrs. Tucker, Coalter moved with the family to Williamsburg,\n serving without pay in return for the legal training he\n received from Judge St. George Tucker (1752-1827). While\n studying law, he also attended lectures at the College of\n William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. In\n December 1790, he received his license to practice law. A year\n later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a\n Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for\n the Tucker children. After the death of Maria Rind Coalter\n (d.1792), in childbirth, he married (1795), Margaret Davenport\n (d. 1795), of Williamsburg, who also died in childbirth within\n the year. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of\n St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. John\n Coalter had been her tutor twelve years before. She later bore\n him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter\n (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and\n St. George Tucker Coalter (1809- 1839). John Coalter later\n became a Circuit Judge of the Virginia General Court and\n bought \"Elm Grove,\" an estate in Staunton, Virginia. Coalter\n continued to live there until 1811, at which time he moved to\n Richmond to serve as Judge of the Circuit Court of Appeals. In\n 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones)\n Williamson. In his latter years he enjoyed wide holdings and\n interests, including a lively concern with gold mining in\n Virginia. John Tucker Coalter died at \"Chatham\" plantation in\n Stafford County, Virginia, 1838.","Elizabeth Tucker Coalter \n 2 (1805-1853), married John\n Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke) in 1831\n and lived at Eagle Point, Gloucester County, Virginia. They\n had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia\n Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph\n Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George\n Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman\n Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).","St. George Tucker Coalter \n 2 (1809-1839), married the\n strong-willed Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). He lived out\n his life fighting sickness and the losing battle of making his\n farm profitable. Judith Harrison Tomlin collected letters,\n which included many exchanged by the fourteen cousins (nine\n Bryans and five Coalters). Though none of these people were\n prominent on the large canvas of life, their collected letters\n give an interesting and informative picture of life in\n Virginia in the first half of the nineteenth century. St.\n George and Judith Coalter had six children; Walker Tomlin\n Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831-1883); Henry Tucker\n (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who\n married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia\n Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in\n 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married\n Amelia Downy in 1862 and Charlotte (Downy) Terrill in 1868.\n See Brown Family","Tucker Family St. George Tucker \n 1 (1752-1827), was born in 1752\n near Port Royal, Bermuda to Ann Butterfield Tucker and Henry\n Tucker, a merchant. St. George Tucker had a extensive career\n in law starting with his acceptance to the College of William\n and Mary under the tutelage of George Wythe in 1771. He served\n as clerk of courts of Dinwiddlie County, 1774; commonwealth\n attorney for Chesterfield County, 1783-1786; law professor at\n the College of William and Mary, 1790; and federal court judge\n for Virginia, 1813-1825. In 1771, he married Frances (Bland)\n Randolph, a widow, who had three children from a previous\n marriage; Richard Randolph, Theodorick Randolph (d. 1792), and\n John Randolph of Roanoke. St. George and Frances Randolph\n Tucker together, had five children; Henry St. George Tucker\n (1780-1848), Tudor Tucker, Ann Frances Bland Tucker\n (1785-1813), Elizabeth Tucker (b. 1788), and Nathaniel\n Beverley Tucker (1784-1851). They lived on the Randolph\n plantation, \"Mattoax\" in Chesterfield County, Virginia, until\n the death of France Randolph Tucker in 1813. In 1791, St.\n George remarried the widow Lelia Skipwith Carter (fl. 1795).\n None of their three children lived to adulthood.","Henry St. George Tucker \n 2 (1780-1848), served as a\n professor of law at the University of Virginia; in the\n Virginia House of Delegates, 1806-1807; in the U.S. Congress,\n 1815-1819; and in the Virginia Senate, 1819-1824. He married\n Anne Evelina Hunter in 1806 and had at least eleven children,\n including; Randolph Tucker, Dr. David Hunter Tucker, Frances\n Tucker, Mary Tucker, Virginia Tucker, Anne Tucker, and John\n Randolph Tucker (1823-1897).","Randolph Tucker \n 3 married Lucy (?). The couple had\n children; St. George Tucker and Judge Randolph Tucker.","Dr. David Hunter Tucker \n 3 married Eliz Dallas and had Rev.\n Dallas Tucker and Cassie Dallas Tucker.","John Randolph Tucker \n 3 (1823-1897), married Laura Holmes\n Powell in 1848 and had seven children. He was served as\n attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865; professor of law at\n Washington College (currently Washington and Lee University);\n and was elected to U.S. Congress, 1874-1887.","Ann Frances Bland Tucker \n 2 (1785-1813), married John Coalter\n (1769-1838). See Coalter Family.","Nathaniel Beverley Tucker \n 2 (1784-1851), graduated from the\n College of William and Mary with a law degree. In 1807, he\n married Mary Coalter (d. 1827), sister of John Coalter\n (1769-1838). He moved to Missouri and became the Circuit Court\n Judge of the Missouri Territory in 1817. Nathaniel remarried\n twice, to Eliza Naylor in 1828 and to Lucy Anne Smith. He\n returned to teach at the College of William and Mary in\n 1834.","Other People William Munford (1775- 1825) \n A friend of John Tucker Coalter's (1769-1838), from his\n Williamsburg days, William Munford, a poet and lawyer of some\n note, wrote letters to Coalter which contain interesting\n reports of the College of William and Mary and of Harvard\n University. He wrote of the poverty stricken French immigrants\n in Norfolk, and sent vivid descriptions of the activity of the\n British fleet in the Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. He\n lived and studied with George Wythe in Williamsburg, later\n moving with him to Richmond to serve as his clerk. His remarks\n on Wythe, for whom he had a great affection, throw light on\n that important member of the legal profession in the new\n nation.","Gary A. Adams' (fl. 1900), connection to the family is\n unknown. However, several bills to him from the dry goods\n stores and the household supply stores are included in the\n collection.","Cynthia Beverly (Tucker) Washington Coleman (1832-1908) of\n Williamsburg, was an aunt of Cassie Tucker.","Judge John Randolph Tucker (ca. 1915) \n Newspaper Clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska\n concern the term of judgeship of John Randolph Tucker, (ca.\n 1915).","Capt. David Tucker Brown (ca. 1918), was a member of the\n 1918 Peace Commission, Paris France."],"otherfindaid_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eThis finding aid is also available in the microfilm\n format at the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem\n Library, College of William and Mary.\u003c/bibref\u003e\n \u003cbibref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eAn additional index can be found at: National\n Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States\n available from Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., 1021 Prince Street,\n Alexandria, Va. 22314.\u003c/bibref\u003e\n \u003c/p\u003e"],"otherfindaid_heading_ssm":["Additional Finding Aid Information"],"otherfindaid_tesim":["This finding aid is also available in the microfilm\n format at the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem\n Library, College of William and Mary. An additional index can be found at: National\n Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States\n available from Chadwyck-Healey, Inc., 1021 Prince Street,\n Alexandria, Va. 22314."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBrown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Manuscripts and Rare\n Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n Mary.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Manuscripts and Rare\n Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n Mary."],"relatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThere are two collections within the Manuscripts and\n Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n Mary that relate to this Collection. They include the\n Barnes Family Papers and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n \u003carchref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eBarnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. \n \u003cunittitle\u003eBarnes Family Papers, \n \u003cunitdate type=\"inclusive\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1797-1926,\n 1818-1875.\u003c/unitdate\u003e\u003c/unittitle\u003e\u003cphysdesc\u003e247 items.\u003c/physdesc\u003e\u003cunitid\u003eCollection number: Mss. 39.1 B26\u003c/unitid\u003e\u003cabstract\u003eCorrespondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman\n Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes\n of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County,\n Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and\n also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are\n members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver\n families.\u003c/abstract\u003e\u003c/archref\u003e\n \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\n \u003carchref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eTucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. \n \u003cunittitle\u003eTucker-Coleman Papers, \n \u003cunitdate type=\"inclusive\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e1664-1945,\n 1770-1907.\u003c/unitdate\u003e\u003c/unittitle\u003e\u003cphysdesc\u003e30,000 items.\u003c/physdesc\u003e\u003cunitid\u003eCollection number: Mss. 40 T79\u003c/unitid\u003e\u003cabstract\u003ePapers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and\n Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington,\n Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George\n Tucker(1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851),\n Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland\n (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838),\n John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker\n Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family\n members.\u003c/abstract\u003e\u003c/archref\u003e\n \u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Material"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["There are two collections within the Manuscripts and\n Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and\n Mary that relate to this Collection. They include the\n Barnes Family Papers and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.","Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. \n Barnes Family Papers, \n 1797-1926,\n 1818-1875. 247 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26 Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman\n Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes\n of Richmond, Virginia and \"Greenfield,\" Culpeper County,\n Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and\n also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are\n members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver\n families.","Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books\n Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. \n Tucker-Coleman Papers, \n 1664-1945,\n 1770-1907. 30,000 items. Collection number: Mss. 40 T79 Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and\n Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington,\n Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George\n Tucker(1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851),\n Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland\n (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838),\n John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker\n Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family\n members."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003ePapers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter, Tucker families\n including the papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the\n Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and John Thompson Brown\n (1802-1836), member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Among\n the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George\n Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St.\n George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev.\n Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers include John Coalter's autobiographical sketch\n (to age 18), 54 poems written by Coalter, St. George\n Tucker, and others including several by female writers.\n Correspondents of the Coalter family include St. George\n Tucker, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, William Munford,\n Judith Randolph, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter and Maria\n Rind Coalter. Subjects include John Randolph of Roanoke\n (and his will), George Wythe, the Embargo of 1807-1809,\n College of William and Mary, War of 1812; and the\n springs of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGroup A also includes papers of Coalter's children:\n Elizabeth Tucker Coalter; and St. George Tucker Coalter\n and his wife Judith H. Tomlin and the correspondence of\n Coalter's granddaughter Frances Lelia Bland Coalter\n Brown. Her letters concern her education and friendship\n with Moses Drury Hoge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe record of the gift of the collection,\n genealogical charts of the Tucker, Coalter, Tomlin\n and Brown families, and sundry genealogical notes\n which form a preface to the collection, are placed\n at the beginning of this box. The collection\n begins with 54 poems, the first of which is signed\n by St. George Tucker. Two signed poems by William\n Munford are included. The largest group of poems\n are those exchanged by John Coalter and Maria\n Rind, his first wife. Others were collected in the\n family papers until the middle or the latter part\n of the nineteenth century.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe bulk of the material in Box 1 concerns John\n Coalter: an autobiographical sketch written by him\n on his 18th birthday, and letters covering the\n period of his early life from 1787, when he went\n to live with the St. George Tucker family, until\n the death of his first wife in 1793. Interesting\n letters from John Munford, a classmate of Coalter,\n are included, several of which concern the College\n of William and Mary and Harvard College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGenealogical charts: 1. Coalter, with\n Tucker and Randolph connections; 2. Tomlin,\n as connected with Coalter and Brown; 3.\n Brown, as connected with Coalter and\n Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis father hopes that John Coalter will\n return home, to the higher country, for the\n \"sickly season.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSamuel Brown gives details of his studies at\n Dickinson College, and congratulates John\n Coalter on his chance to study law with St.\n George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttending lectures of the Rev. James\n Madison, President of the College of William\n and Mary, on Natural Philosophy, and of Mr.\n Wythe on Law. When John Coalter loses his\n ribbon he must let his hair hang free for want\n of money to buy another.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo young cousins, in custody of Indians for\n 3 and 6 years respectively, were freed by the\n army in Detroit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning his wedding trip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Grierson Rind is a brother of Maria\n Rind. He mentions the need of John Coalter for\n a coat and a pair of spectacles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApproval of the Constitution by South\n Carolina is still in doubt; threat of an Indian\n War in Georgia. \" \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Brother David\"\u003eBrother\n Dav[i]d\u003c/abbr\u003eis over in Gloucester. If he has\n success in purchasing Negroes, I hope we will\n be ready to sett [sic] out on our \n \u003cabbr expan=\"route\"\u003erout[e]\u003c/abbr\u003eto the\n South.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst letter of young Micajah Coalter, who\n is learning to write.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Have you been exempted from paying the\n oppressive Duty which most of our Backwoods\n Gentlemen have paid for that Knowledge which\n they have gathered at Williamsburg in Autumn--I\n mean the loss of Health and a good\n complexion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions John Coalter's desire to return\n home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExpresses desire to marry and to live on the\n farm while he is getting started in his law\n practice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...nothing can be expected without\n riches...however deserving of a better fate the\n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003epoor\u003c/emph\u003ealways meet\n with rudeness and contempt.\" (Children of a\n Williamsburg printer, the Rinds were orphaned\n at an early age and were helped by the\n Tuckers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis father does not have land to give him at\n that time, so he cannot marry at once. He has\n decided to move to Staunton, and continue his\n studies. In September he writes that he hopes\n to visit Williamsburg around Christmas, and\n apply for admission to the bar.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are written with great\n difficulty, and show a lack of schooling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions \"your quondam charges, Henry,\n Tudor, Beverley, and Fanny (Tucker) and John\n and Theodorick Randolph.\" Hopes he may live and\n study with Mr. Wythe. \"Nothing would advance me\n faster in the world than the reputation of\n having been educated by Mr. Wythe, for such a\n man as he, casts a light upon all around\n him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter has borrowed a horse from him\n for the trip to Staunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I...was much pleased to hear of your\n gallantry but am affeared it has been attended\n with some accident which occasioned your move\n to the mountains again...\" (Evidently John\n Coalter did something to protect Maria Rind. He\n then decided to leave Williamsburg in order to\n establish himself and be in a position to\n support her as his wife.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter obtaining his license in Williamsburg,\n John Coalter has his first case in Amherst. Of\n St. George Tucker, he writes: \"I would rather\n have the approbation of that man than worlds\n for my admirers.\" Advice is given in regard to\n the torment by John Randolph; plans are made\n for their marriage in autumn.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn April she writes that Mr. Tucker plans to\n remarry; she wishes to move up the date of\n their marriage. She dreads \"the prospect of\n Johnny Randolph returning and you well know, my\n love, how liable your dear is to be insulted by\n him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...thru the surprising friendship of Mr.\n Wythe, I live in his house and board at his\n table...In this happy situation tomorrow I\n begin the Study of Law.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates James Rind on receiving his\n license to practice law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We visit very often at the different houses\n in the neighborhood, at Westover, Nesting, and\n Shirley, where I saw Robin Carter...we may\n expect to see you after Mrs. Carter has become\n Mrs. Tucker.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the return of a wagon and horses;\n purchases of additional farm animals.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLiving and studying with Mr. Wythe. John\n Thompson (grandfather of John Thompson Brown)\n was among the 4th of July orators. Verse and\n poetic criticism of St. George Tucker. George\n Wythe is teaching his servant to write.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis law practice is discouraging; entrusts\n Maria Rind to his care, and sends greetings on\n St. George Tucker's 39th birthday.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDiscourages John Coalter from coming \"across\n the Alps\" -- there are too many lawyers\n already.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas moved to Richmond with Mr. Wythe.\n Mentions building of the canal. Samuel Brown to\n study in Scotland; congratulates John Coalter\n on his marriage to Maria Rind.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Tucker is sister of St. George\n Tucker, and an aunt of Fanny Tucker. Mentions\n other Tucker children, Henry, Tudor, Beverly,\n and Elizabeth, as well as Theodorick and\n Richard Randolph and the latter's wife, Judith.\n Comments on the proposed marriage of St. George\n Tucker to Mrs. Carter, and the small children\n she will be bringing to the marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescription of George Washington delivering\n an address in Philadelphia. Congratulates John\n Coalter on his marriage and sends compliments\n to his brothers. (This Samuel Brown may be the\n uncle of John Thompson Brown.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter was written soon after Mrs.\n Coalter had gone to Staunton with her\n husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs.\n Lelia (Skipwith) Carter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of Maria Skipwith; the great distress\n of Mrs. (Lelia Skipwith) Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis wages are to be 15£ or\n 20£ per year as a clerk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter from Edinburgh contains an\n interesting description of life in the Scottish\n capital, the coldness of his fellow students\n until they are introduced, and his warm\n reception by a family to which he had a letter\n of introduction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that there are about forty students\n at the College of William and Mary; Theodorick\n Randolph has died; \"Thompson has left W. \u0026amp;\n M.,\" and his mother proposes to send him to\n Harvard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnquires about Maria, and their expected\n first child. (Both mother and child died.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"distressing news\" that his wife has\n died in childbirth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWar reports; the parade of the Richmond\n Grenadiers, Light Horse and Light Infantry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsoles John Coalter on the loss of his\n wife; reports the Independence Day orations at\n the College of William and Mary, and mentions\n the raising of subscriptions to aid distressed\n French immigrants at Norfolk.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe contents of Box 2 trace the legal career of\n John Coalter from 10 April 1795, when St. George\n Tucker recommended him for the position of Clerk\n of the Court in Staunton, through the period of\n his second and third marriages to Margaret\n Davenport, 1795 (she died in 1797), and to Frances\n Bland Tucker, 1802.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded also are letters to Mrs. Frances Bland\n Tucker Coalter from her father St. George Tucker,\n her stepmother Mrs. Lelia Skipwith Tucker, her\n sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph of Bizarre, and\n others. Correspondence with William Munford, in\n Williamsburg, is also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends John Coalter as Clerk of the\n Staunton Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Yes, Peggy, my Maria is gone! The worst of\n evils has befallen your friend.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests payment of a debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWilliam Munford has returned to the College\n of William and Mary, and is \"in constant\n attendance on Mr. (St. George) Tucker...Mrs.\n Tucker has lately been so unfortunate as to\n lose a newborn child.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccuses John Coalter of \"making a stroke at\n her character\"; makes insulting statements\n regarding John Coalter's late wife. John\n Coalter responds by threatening to take Jenny\n Stuart into court, after which she offers to\n return John Coalter's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Coalter is a merchant, dealing largely\n in indigo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecounts a voyage to Hampton Roads to view\n the French Fleet, consisting of 150 ships,\n including three men of war, five or six\n frigates, and armed merchantmen laden with\n flour. Party spirit in Norfolk; Aristocrats\n more prominent; acrimony inflamed by the\n presence of the French fleet and a British\n frigate. William Munford is ready to apply for\n his law license.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"There can be but one in the world\" for her,\n but he is \"out of her reach.\" At a recent\n dinner the first toast by Governor Lee was to\n her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulations on the occasion of her\n marriage to John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe difficulty of finding passage for Mrs.\n Coalter and her mother from Williamsburg to\n Staunton. John Coalter is finally able to\n borrow a phaeton which he has overhauled and\n supplied with an umbrella. Advice regarding\n divorce of F. C[?]y.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a mare to be serviced.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"war\" and Indian victory are mentioned\n and a bloody spring season is predicted.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDivorce proceedings for a Mrs. Matthews\n before the Georgia Legislature.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMention is made of a child expected by Mrs.\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolences \"on this distressing occasion\"\n (the death of John Coalter's wife in\n childbirth; the child also died.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness letter concerning collections to be\n made in Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe should \"by this time be fatigued with\n the name of Tucker\" and that she \"had better\n look about\" (for a husband).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter is from the papers of John\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudith Randolph, wife of Richard Randolph,\n half brother of Frances Tucker, sends greetings\n to Polly and Charles (Carter), step-sister and\n brother of Frances Tucker. The \"Mama\" mentioned\n is Mrs. Lelia Carter Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplains that she is \"surrounded by the\n real evils of life.\" (Her husband had been\n linked with her sister in the famous scandal\n proceedings.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a horse in which he is\n interested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHint of a June wedding for Frances\n Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny B. Tucker has just married John\n Coalter and returned with him to Staunton. Anne\n H. Nicholas writes that Lelia Byrd has died at\n the age of 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElm Grove was the new home of the Coalters.\n Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter was in the\n Warm Springs for her health in September.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrances Bland Tucker Coalter returns to\n Williamsburg for the birth of her first child,\n Francis Lelia; the burning of the buildings of\n Lexington Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter was on the court circuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are undated, but are replies to\n those from Frances Bland Tucker Coalter to John\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eF. Davenport was the mother of the second\n wife of John Coalter, who continued to live\n with the Coalters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning deed to property, probably Elm\n Grove, the home bought by John Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaria Carter was a step-daughter of St.\n George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of obtaining a clerk's position with\n the Ohio Assembly at $4.00 per day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeath of her husband and her straitened\n circumstances; Bizarre in bad condition; hopes\n to send her son, St. George, to Europe to cure\n his deafness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn June, St. George Tucker and Mrs. Tucker\n set out for Staunton in order to be there for\n the lying-in of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst mention of the second Coalter child,\n Elizabeth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe illness of Tudor Randolph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates John Coalter on the birth of\n his second daughter and the purchase of Elm\n Grove. He writes at length about the difficulty\n in buying good house servants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFinancial matters, mainly about bank shares\n and dividends.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Randolph's visit to England; her\n disappointment over continued his deafness Dr.\n Cooper says \"occasioned by the irruption of his\n ears at nine months old.\" Has no authority over\n the servants. Illness of Polly the\n seamstress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThirty sick Negroes. Poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Naylor married to Jane, sister of John\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of $1,230 on bank shares.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe marriage of Beverley Tucker to Mary\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSmall pox.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDifficulties in South Carolina caused by the\n embargo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis wife Evelina has given birth to a\n son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnne Catherine Coalter was visiting the\n Coalters at Elm Grove.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMention of her young daughters, Fancilea\n (Francis Lelia) and Lizba (Elizabeth Tucker\n Coalter).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrances Bland Tucker Coalter spent every\n summer at the medicinal springs for her\n health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInteresting comments on the effect of the\n embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the\n War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found\n in these letters. There is also a report of the\n destruction wrought in Bruton Parish Church by the\n \"youth of Williamsburg,\" and remarks of Saint\n George Tucker (14 June 1809) upon the occasion of\n the birth of his first grandson, St. George\n Coalter, in which he strongly condemns the\n academies and colleges of that day.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters include those exchanged by John Coalter\n with his third wife Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter\n from 1809-1811, when John Coalter was serving as\n Circuit Judge. In 1811 he accepted an appointment\n as judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals;\n the family then moved to Richmond. There are many\n letters received by Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter between 1809 and her death in 1813, from\n her father St. George Tucker, and stepmother Mrs.\n Lelia Tucker, in Williamsburg, from her\n sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph at Bizarre, and\n from other members of the family. There also are\n many letters to the daughters of John Coalter,\n Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker, from their\n grandparents, from 1813 to the death of Frances\n Lelia Coalter in 1821.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the appointment of John Coalter to his\n position as \"a judge under the new Judiciary\n System.\" (John Coalter was appointed February\n 7, 1807).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions a visit from the newly married \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Beverley Tucker\"\u003eBeverley\n [Tucker]\u003c/abbr\u003eand \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Polly Coalter\"\u003ePolly\n [Coalter]\u003c/abbr\u003eand writes concerning her sons\n Saint (George) and Tudor.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten by John Coalter during spring and\n autumn sessions of the Circuit Court. Contain\n instructions for planting, the upkeep of Elm\n Grove, and other matters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne of the letters concerns the troubles\n with the English and the hope for a peaceful\n settlement.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the letter of June 14, St. George Tucker\n mentions the birth of John Coalter's first son\n his first grandson (St. George Tucker Coalter)\n \"who, if my prayers for him may be heard, will\n never descend from the dignity of a private\n station.\" Concerning the education of his\n grandson, he writes, \"unless the manners of our\n youth, or the management of their tutor, shall\n undergo a most surprising and happy change in\n this Country, I had rather he should never hear\n of an Academy or a College, than enter the\n walls of one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulations on the birth of a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series of letters is concerned, among\n other problems, with the difficulty of meeting\n payments on Elm Grove, of a fight between two\n of their slaves, the treatment of one of the\n wives by slave husband and the imprisonment on\n the plantation of the two slaves. Effort to get\n a tooth pulled. Two doctors and, finally, \"a\n shoemaker named Cease\" were able to extract the\n tooth about a week after the first attempt was\n made. Alcoholism of a friend. Afflicting\n account of sister's situation at Bizarre. \"she\n must come to us, as soon as she can leave\n Bizarre; which she says cannot be before Xmas,\n that she may complete the clothing of the\n Negroes.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppeals to James All to represent the\n district. About the war situation: \"We are more\n Colonies than ever--i.e. we give our \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ewhole\u003c/emph\u003etrade to\n aid Britain in her wars--were we Colonies we\n would only give the revenue arising from\n trade.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer parents were trying to buy a cook for\n Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter without great\n success.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters although undated, are believed\n to have been written in 1810.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Bruton Parish Church has been\n \"totally and wantonly destroyed...the Bellows\n and many of the pipes cut to pieces,\" evidently\n by the youth of the town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter attending the spring and autumn\n sittings of the Circuit Court, sends\n instructions for the management of the\n farm.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of the farm, the slaves, and family.\n Relays questions from slave Ned about the farm\n and permission for him to visit his daughter in\n Rockingham and his wife's petition to accompany\n him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a cook for sale.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cabbr expan=\"David Coalter\"\u003eD[avid]\n C[oalter]\u003c/abbr\u003e, Mary's father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters from relatives of Mrs. Frances\n Bland Tucker Coalter are placed in one\n folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters are undated but are presumed\n to date from 1811, and placed in one\n folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn May, John Coalter writes of his\n appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of\n Appeals of Virginia (May 11, 1811). \"God help\n me, I know not what to do. All have advised my\n acceptance.\" In October he writes of\n arrangements made for the move to Richmond, and\n of plans to sell the cattle at Elm Grove.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn April Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter\n writes, \"I very much fear I shall never be\n reconciled to our fate\"--of separation for such\n long periods when John Coalter is absent on the\n court circuit. (A month later John Coalter was\n appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of\n Appeals.) Also mentions a \"terrible whipping\"\n their two year old son St. George Tucker\n Coalter had \"for obstinacy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTucker strongly advises his brother-in-law\n against accepting his new appointment: \"Rest\n assured that no other Judge of the General\n Court will accept the office which is tendered\n you.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn St. George Randolph is a son of Mrs.\n Judith Randolph.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSpeaking of himself as an \"ex-judge,\" Tucker\n advises John Coalter regarding his new\n appointment; concern for the health of Mrs.\n Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrances Lelia Coalter writes with concern\n about her mother's health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of the children sent to Mrs. Frances\n Bland Tucker Coalter who is quite ill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcern for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter's poor health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe troubled times are reflected in this\n series of letters. In July, Tucker comments on\n the American privateer with one nine-pounder\n which took a British schooner armed with four\n twelve pounders. In August he gives an account\n of the Baltimore riot in which a jail was\n broken into and prisoners assassinated. He\n writes that such action \"is beyond measure\n horrible and obnoxious; and every good Citizen\n ought to set his face against such damnable\n proceedings,\" but concludes, \"The Yankees, no\n doubt, will be glad of the precedent...I look\n forward to a dissolution of the Union, as an\n Event not far off.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the sale of Elm Grove.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReflects the uncertainty of the war\n situation in his letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrances L. Coalter writes to her father who\n is with her mother, Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter, in her last illness at the medicinal\n springs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWriting to his daughter before she goes to\n the Springs for her final siege of illness, St.\n George Tucker sends the news that the enemy had\n left the waters about Williamsburg after much\n destruction and property along the river.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn these letters it is apparent that Mrs.\n Frances Bland Tucker Coalter is near death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters of hope and prayer for the recovery\n of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports of the war: \"the conduct of the\n British at Craney Island was the most cowardly\n imaginable,\" and \"We have just been informed by\n rumor that the British Squadron in the\n Chesapeake has been reinforced...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of his \"great and irretrievable loss\"\n his wife died \"on Sunday evening, the 12th\n instant.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first letters written after the death of\n St. George Tucker's daughter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo her granddaughter, the second child of\n John Coalter and his late wife. (A biographical\n note of John Coalter's family is enclosed in\n the folder with this letter.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe writes that \"the events of the present\n week will supply to you the want of a Mother\n and Sister, which you have so severly felt,\n particularly in the last six or eight months.\"\n Frances L. Coalter, the sister of Elizabeth T.\n Coalter, died in 1821 at the age of 18. John\n Coalter was soon to marry his fourth wife, a\n widow Williamson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSecond is titled \"Tucker-Green Annals.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Tuckers are in their summer home at\n Warminster, with Maria Carter Cabell, daughter\n of Mrs. L. Tucker, and her husband Joseph\n Cabell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA New Year's greeting to his\n granddaughters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters in this box are primarily those of\n the two surviving children of John and Francis\n Bland Tucker Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter\n Bryan and St. George Tucker Coalter, and their\n respective spouses, John Randolph Bryan and Judith\n H. Tomlin Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis group includes genealogical material on\n the Tomlin family, and correspondence of Judith H.\n Tomlin before her marriage to St. George Tucker\n Coalter. Her letters form an important part of the\n collection from this time until her death in\n 1859.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe last letters from their grandparents, Mr.\n and Mrs. St. George Tucker, are preserved, as well\n as letters to their uncles Henry and Beverley\n Tucker and John Randolph of Roanoke. Of special\n note is a letter of October, 1831 in which St.\n George Tucker Coalter writes fully of Randolph\n during a visit to Roanoke. After his death in\n 1833, Randolph's will caused great difficulty and\n misunderstanding in the family, and appears to\n cast a slur on his step-father St. George\n Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters of St. George Tucker Coalter to his\n wife and sister, especially those written from the\n springs which he visits each year, form the\n largest single group. In these letters an\n interesting picture of nineteenth century social\n life is to be found.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchoolgirl letters written by J. H. T.\n before her marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudith H. Tomlin writes of her visit to\n Yorktown to see Lafayette on his return visit\n to America.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudith H. Tucker writes to congratulate\n Virgilia Savage in December on her\n marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Letters of my dear and venerated\n Grandfather, S. G. Tucker, High Souled,\n Generous Gentleman.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThomas T. Tucker, a brother of St. George\n Tucker, enclosed these two letters in a packet\n which he forwarded from Beverley Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker complains about his sight\n and signs himself \"Your old blind Grandpa\" in\n the first of these letters. The last is\n endorsed: \"All the letters concerning my most\n dear Grandfather's illness and death are\n omitted and put to themselves.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese were written after the death of St.\n George Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites in regard to his instruction in law,\n as suggested by Elizabeth T. Coalter. He\n mentions the poor health of his step-brother,\n John Randolph, of Roanoke; and suspects that\n his brother, Beverley, \"will not return to\n Virginia as a resident.\" Beverley Tucker, then\n in Missouri, did return to Williamsburg, and\n later became Professor of Law at the College of\n William and Mary.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTucker enclosed his \"Introductory Lecture,\"\n reprinted from his \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eCommentory on the Laws\n of Virginia . . . Lectures delivered at the\n Winchester Law School\u003c/title\u003e, pp. 7-14.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first is a printed invitation to a ball\n at the Jefferson Hotel with a message added;\n the second is a Temperance pledge signed by St.\n George Tucker Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin and\n three others.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEvidently left in charge of his father's\n estate, Chatham, he writes concerning\n examinations at the College of William and Mary\n and of his experiences in vaccinating and\n performing minor operations on the slaves. (He\n was a 20 year old farmer with no medical\n training!)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George Tucker Coalter prepares to leave\n school to marry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first letter to Judith Tomlin Coalter\n after her marriage to St. George Tucker\n Coalter, December 16, 1829. \"Tell St. George\n that yesterday Uncle R. (John Randolph of\n Roanoke) made an attack \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eon the\n Judiciary\u003c/emph\u003eand Papa (John Coalter),\n finding no one else would rise to their\n defense, answered him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis \"chill and fever,\" the recurring\n sickness which was to bring on his early death\n in 1839. His wife goes to Chatham, the Coalter\n family home, for the birth of her first child,\n Walker Tomlin Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn October he writes: \"Uncle R. (John\n Randolph of Roanoke) looks dreadfully, is much\n worn away by disease...\" Two weeks later he\n writes describing Randolph's estate and\n personality: \"He is very agreeable indeed and\n entertains me highly with his conversation on\n all subjects...He is a man of the finest and\n nicest feelings I have ever met with...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn her husband's financial difficulties.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to his sister about crops, planting,\n and the like.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe two cousins, grandsons of John Coalter,\n are infants; this letter is written by St.\n George Tucker Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the January letter, he announces the\n birth of a son, Henry St. George Tucker\n Coalter. From White Sulphur Springs, he writes\n (July 27) that \"the shortness of breath and the\n hacking cough have left me entirely.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer husband is at the Springs; she would\n like to join him but cannot afford it. \"He says\n he never wished for money before, as the want\n of it keeps him from having company...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn interesting group of letters describing\n life at several of the medicinal springs which\n were so popular in the 19th century. He\n describes his daily regimen, the meals, the\n baths, other tourists, the costs, and the\n physical characteristics of the resorts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her husband\n about family matters while he is at the springs\n for his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA continuation of his previous letters,\n including a crude drawing of the buildings and\n grounds of Salt Sulphur Springs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn November she mentions that Beverley\n Tucker called on way to Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe boys, who are just learning to write,\n add their notes to the letter to their\n grandfather.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer husband is overworking, and she fears\n for his health.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe brother of Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes\n to her father-in-law asking help in gaining a\n position with a Richmond company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe writes about his poor health; mentions\n his uncle, Beverley Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter is very much concerned with\n gold mine projects; he now orders St. George\n Tucker Coalter about at his will, and has\n decided that the family shall move closer to\n him. They are dependent on John Coalter\n financially.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLife at the springs, his continuing illness\n and his poverty.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis discouragement as he contemplates the\n move insisted upon by his father: \"after seven\n years we have to begin the world afresh and fix\n and build and lay out and all that -- oh\n thunder - -how I dread and hate it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the move from Cumberland, New Kent\n County, to St. George's Park, King William\n County, and the difficulty of the move.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Coalter is very ill, and the new place\n is slow in getting established. Mention of the\n will of John Randolph of Roanoke.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe will of John Randolph of Roanoke, in\n which the good name of St. George Tucker is\n slighted. Henry and Beverley Tucker, sons of\n St. George Tucker are also involved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHome has not been settled since leaving\n Cumberland. Her husband has finally bought a\n place \"about 2 hundred and 50 acres, very poor,\n with a new house but a very indifferent\n one.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the \"continued illness\" of Judge\n (John) Coalter; offers to be of any help that\n he can. (John Coalter died the day this letter\n was written.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence between St. George T.\n Coalter, his wife, his sister Mrs. Elizabeth T.\n Bryan, and her husband John Randolph Bryan, form\n the core of the material in this box. St. George\n Tucker Coalter attempts to establish a new home\n where his late father John Coalter forced him to\n move (St. George Tucker Coalter was never\n financially independent of his father). A doctor's\n prescription, 28 April 1839, for the man who has\n been slowly dying of lung trouble and constant\n fever is: salts to be taken internally, salve\n rubbed on externally, baths at the medicinal\n springs and regular exercise. Four months later\n St. George Tucker Coalter died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe five surviving children of Mrs. Coalter and\n the nine children of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan add\n to the correspondence as the years go on, for the\n families are very attached to one another and\n there is much visiting back and forth as well as\n letter writing. The letters of the cousins have\n been combined in this collection, so that an\n interesting picture is given of the life of this\n period; see a report of a traveling entertainer\n who visits the great houses (23 February 1847), a\n description of a costume ball at Warner Hall (8\n February 1851) and a list of courses studied at a\n Girl's school (2 February 1852).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is much discussion of diseases which were\n prevalent: consumption, scarlet fever, typhoid\n fever, cholera, and influenza. 16-year-old John\n Coalter copied out a cholera cure sent by his aunt\n for use by two local doctors (13 July 1849).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first letter is endorsed by John\n Randolph Bryan. The second was started by St.\n George Tucker Coalter but was completed and\n signed by his wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerned principally with the rapidly\n deteriorating health of St. George T. Coalter.\n In June he begins a letter that he is unable to\n finish but by November he is again supervising\n the farm activity. The establishment of the new\n farm and the erection of additional buildings\n is a great strain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Coalter wrote the first two letters for\n her husband who was too weak to write, but by\n December he was again active in supervising St.\n George's Park, their new home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCoalter visits his uncle, Beverley Tucker,\n who has moved back to Williamsburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVisiting the family home of Mrs. Coalter\n their son, John, falls down the basement stairs\n and is unconscious for a time. His father\n writes, \"the Doctor bled him and yesterday\n morning we gave him a dose of salts...he is now\n to all appearances as well as ever tho' from\n loss of blood, the shock, the Salts and low\n diet he is a little fainty when he first begins\n to move about in the morning.\" (The child\n survived the ministrations of the doctor!)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA receipt for $100.00 and a demand for\n another $100.00 on shares of stock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerned with the business of a ferry, gold\n mines, and a mill, evidently part of the estate\n left by John Coalter to his two children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Coalter has had a relapse, and \"has lost\n all the flesh and muscle he had gained. Yet he\n makes a trip down country in April, only to\n return much worse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe marks his 30th birthday: \"I can neither\n eat nor sleep nor move about with comfort and\n am so weak from fever...that I can hardly stand\n up or sit down.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written to her husband when he is on\n his last trip from home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA doctor's prescription: salts, used\n internally, salves externally, baths at the Hot\n Springs, and continued exercise.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces the birth of a child to Mrs.\n Coalter. St. George Tucker Coalter writes of\n the \"fire in my breast that must soon burn me\n out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews of a young son; congratulates Mrs.\n Bryan on the birth of a daughter. St. George\n Tucker Coalter adds a note in July 4th letter:\n \"I can't make much hand at writing this evening\n but I send you these few words to comfort\n you...my thoughts and prayers are with you may\n the Lord work all things together for our\n good.\" To this Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan has\n added the endorsement, \"The last line I ever\n got from him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter the death of her husband, Mrs. Coalter\n has gone to live with her sister-in-law at\n Eagle Point.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Coalter moved from St. George's Park to\n Presley. Her brother, Harrison Tomlin, was\n living with the family and takes the place of a\n father to the children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOf her poverty and of the need for means to\n educate her children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe son of Mrs. Coalter writes to his young\n cousin, the son of John Randolph Bryan, at\n Roanoke, a plantation that had been in\n litigation since the death of John Randolph.\n The property was being administered by J. R.\n Bryan, one of the heirs. Young John C. Bryan,\n was one of the chief beneficiaries of the will,\n then being contested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnouncing the birth of a child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreparations are made to send Fanny (Frances\n Bland Coalter) to live with her grandmother and\n to attend school in Fredericksburg. The sale of\n the estate of her late husband took place in\n October.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnquires about money from the estate of John\n Randolph of Roanoke; her plans to send John and\n Henry Coalter away to school. (St. George\n Tucker Coalter, father of John and Henry, was a\n nephew of John Randolph, and it was expected\n that the Coalter children would inherit\n something from his estate.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from school to his aunt; \"all of the\n boys have to get in school by sunrise and stay\n there until five in the evening.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Bryan place, Eagle Point in Gloucester\n County, is so isolated and the family growing\n so large that a school teacher was kept there\n for the other children. She mentions her\n brothers and sisters, and tells of a traveling\n entertainer: \"De [Delia] and myself went to\n Warner Hall...and there found an Italian\n ventriloquist with a hat on that had little\n bells all around the brim...if he comes to\n Chatham you will probably be deceived by\n him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe tells his sister: \"I reckon this is the\n coldest and most melancholy place in the\n world.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes to get a place from the sale of the\n estate. \"Seven years this last Christmas is a\n long time not to have a house to call your\n own.\" Her hopes for the settlement of the\n Randolph estate are not fulfilled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a\n son, her 8th child. Mentions shopping trips to\n Richmond and the remodeling of the house, so,\n perhaps, some money may have been received from\n the Randolph estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA 9-year old writes of attending a dance at\n Warner Hall and staying until 11 p.m. \"We take\n dancing lesson of 2 hours length every\n Saturday.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsumption and Cholera are discussed as\n well as the final division of the estate. Mrs.\n Coalter still hopes to be able to buy a home of\n her own. Sons John and Henry left in September\n for the University of Virginia where they room\n with their cousins, Jack Coalter and J.\n Braxton. On Christmas Day she mentions \"A\n dreadful affair has lately occurred at the\n University, one young man killed another, both\n intoxicated and from the south; as wicked as\n that is, it takes the \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003ecold\n blooded\u003c/emph\u003eyankees to perpetrate the\n refinement of barbarism in \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003estewing\u003c/emph\u003e, and\n boiling...living people...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry T. Coalter, 16 years old, writes that\n he has had charge of the harvest at the farm\n because the overseer was sick. He has also\n advised the local doctors on Cholera cures:\n \"Mama received your letter by the last post and\n was much obliged to you for the copy you sent\n her of the cure for the Cholera. Since it\n reached here I have copied it twice for\n different doctors who seemed much pleased with\n the proscription (sic).\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA beautiful description of the Cove and the\n island as seen from the Eagle Point house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Lacy, related through the fourth wife\n of her grandfather, John Coalter, was like an\n older sister to Frances Bland Coalter, and the\n affectionate relationship between the two\n continued for many years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Lacy's are preparing to move into\n Ellwood, the former summer home of John\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written before and after a long\n visit. There were ties between the families\n despite the distance between them. Mrs. Coalter\n fears her youngest son, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Saint George\"\u003eSaint\n [George]\u003c/abbr\u003e, has Typhoid fever.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA school friend tells of a visit to Richmond\n to see the relics of Gen. and Mrs.\n Washington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbout life in the great houses of Virginia,\n excursions on river boats, dances, and the\n like. Mentions a fancy ball where everyone\n appeared in a mask and gown, \"You cannot tell a\n man from a woman. They go about in this costume\n for some time and have a dance...one gentleman\n went draped as a lady and no one found him\n out,...one went as a monk in robes and with his\n beads...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"When will your new house, or rather, new\n home be ready for you? (Frances Bland Coalter's\n mother has finally been able to buy a house,\n Stanley.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions the war threat: \"my anxiety about a\n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003elasting\u003c/emph\u003epeace\n and the welfare of my children preys very much\n on my spirits.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces the birth of a daughter to Mrs.\n Lacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny Coalter is attending a school\n conducted by Rev. Moses D. Hoge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorses note from Mrs. Judith H.\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAbout her daughter, Agnes, and the progress\n on the improvements at Ellwood.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Rumors of a great revival at Mr. H.'s\n school have reached us from different quarters\n and report says Jinney and yourself acted a\n conspicuous part.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA school friend writes of her textbooks:\n \"Paley's Moral Philosophy, Olinstead's Natural\n Philosophy, Hume's History of England, Conic\n Sections, Thompson's Arithmetic and French\n Studies.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a most interesting account of trip\n by boat from Gloucester County, \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003evia\u003c/emph\u003eJamestown,\n to Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first letters written by Mrs. Coalter's\n youngest child.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA schoolmate who has left Rev. Mr. Hoge's\n school writes back.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn offer to abate charges so that Fanny B.\n Coalter could remain in school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites that he has stood his examination for\n license to practice law; reports on his\n brothers and sisters.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny has returned to Rev. Hoge's school;\n her friend writes regarding scarlet fever.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box consists largely of papers collected by\n Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she\n is preparing to leave school, and December 1858, when\n she married Henry Peronneau Brown. Through this\n marriage the Tucker-Coalter line was connected with\n the Brown line; thus, the papers of the two families\n were brought together into one.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe collection gives an interesting picture of the\n life and interests of a young lady of moderate\n circumstances in the mid-l9th century. Of special\n interest are the letters concerning the Rev. Moses D.\n Hoge, whose school in Richmond Fanny Coalter had\n attended. Shortly after she left school, the Rev. Mr.\n Hoge carried on a very romantic correspondence with\n Fanny, although he was a married man with several\n children. The correspondence became more ardent in\n the early months of 1854 and, when Mrs. Hoge wrote\n that her husband had gone to Baltimore to stay with\n his brother who was ill, Fanny followed him there.\n According to the gossip of Mattie and Lizzie Morton,\n she went there to \"entrap him.\" In October it was\n suggested that the brother, William Hoge, was the one\n in whom she was interested. The Rev. Mr. Hoge later\n sought to calm the fervours of his correspondent, as\n shown by his letters of 28 January 1855, 19 June\n 1856, and 19 March 1857.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny B. Coalter did not lack for other suitors,\n however, for she preserved a letter of 17 July 1854,\n a proposal of marriage from Alfred B. Tucker. A year\n later there are reports of her interest in the Brown\n brothers, John Thompson and Peronneau, of Petersburg,\n both of whom were courting her. She finally settled\n on the latter; some acceptances to the marriage\n invitation are included in this box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters of Frances Bland Coalter and her husband\n Henry Peronneau Brown continue in Box 21. The\n intervening boxes contain manuscripts of the Brown\n family, especially Capt. Henry Brown, grandfather of\n Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 7-13); the Hon. John\n Thompson Brown, father of Henry Peronneau Brown\n (Boxes 14-19); and Col. John Thompson Brown II,\n brother of Henry Peronneau Brown (Box 20).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFanny is preparing to leave the school, having\n finished the course.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA schoolmate and Fanny's sister write after she\n leaves school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports that Jack Bryan, oldest son of Mrs.\n Elizabeth T. Bryan is dying at the Coalter home,\n Presley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter many years of waiting (since the death of\n her husband in 1839) Mrs. Coalter is finally able\n to buy her own place, Stanley. She tells of her\n move and of the illness that put her in bed\n afterward.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe school is closed for the summer, his wife\n and children are away, so he enlivens his solitude\n \"by having a little chat with you...and where I\n always think of you and the delightful morning\n when we enjoyed the scene together...how I cherish\n every memorial of you. \"I greatly enjoyed your\n last brief visit to us and that evening (do you\n remember it?) when the music room being full of\n company we found quiet, and cool breezes in the\n back porch. I have been sitting there tonight.\" (A\n strange letter, indeed, and one which was to cause\n some upset in the heart of Frances Bland Coalter,\n as subsequent correspondence show.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to Mrs. Judith H. Coalter soon after\n she purchased her home, Stanley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"This letter cannot hold any news, so I will\n fill it with love...entertaining myself by wishing\n that you could walk into the room and occupy a\n vacant chair hard by .\"I hope to see you\n sometimes...nothing to what I would enjoy were I\n to keep house in a quiet way and have you for my\n guest a week at a time...\"I would like you to\n marry some fine fellow and live in Richmond, only\n I...like you best as you are, except that you are\n too far from me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"When I woke up yesterday morning and found it\n raining, my spirits fell as low as the mercury for\n I feared you would not come to Hampstead...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"You ask me why it is that I am so partial to\n you--well, the very first time we get a chance to\n have a talk by ourselves I will tell you...When\n shall the opportunity come? There is always so\n much company at your house...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe conducts a school: \"I succeeded in six days\n of raising 21 scholars.\" He writes that Henry has\n graduated in Law with distinction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I think from his letter, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Brother William Hoge\"\u003eBrother\n [William Hoge]\u003c/abbr\u003ehas been much sicker than we\n had any idea of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mr. Moses D. Hoge\"\u003eMr. [Moses D.]\n Hoge\u003c/abbr\u003eis going on Thursday to see him and\n will probably remain in Baltimore until he is well\n enough to travel...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAddressed to Fanny at Baltimore. Her friend\n writes, \"Cousin Joe says you went to Baltimore\n purposely to see Mr. Hoge.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports gossip concerning Fanny's Baltimore\n trip.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Often when (I am) abroad, you will be in my\n mind and heart. Neither do I want you to get\n married before I return. I am to perform that\n service, you know...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the gossip regarding Fanny and Rev.\n Hoge: \"Surely you could not think me so deceitful\n as to profess to love you and then say that you\n would \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003etry to entrap a\n gentleman\u003c/emph\u003e. \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eI did not say so\u003c/emph\u003e.\n I remember saying that if you went to Baltimore\n and were thrown with Mr. Hoge I believed he would\n address you, because I know he admired you very\n sincerely...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA proposal of marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA rumor that Frances Bland Coalter is to\n marry.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Julia Green was here...when I told her that\n you had gotten a letter from Mr. Hoge she said she\n was so jealous of you that she was ready to\n fight...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I am going to Baltimore...and I shall see Mr.\n Wm. Hoge! Don't you wish you were going? What\n shall I tell him for you?\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSt. George is now in school at Staunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConstruction work to be done at the University\n of Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I hope that it will not be long before I have\n the pleasure of seeing you, my dear and constantly\n remembered friend.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I have heard several times of your engagement\n to Thomas--who has made himself very scarce.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccepts invitation to the marriage of Virginia,\n younger sister of Fanny Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNow a practicing lawyer, he writes to his aunt\n on business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo her cousin regarding \"Mr. President\" and\n \"The Vice.\" (This appears to refer to the Brown\n brothers, John Thompson and Henry Peronneau.\n Frances Bland Coalter was to marry the\n latter.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I wish you to be very particular in your\n conversations with \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Peronneau\"\u003eP[eronneau]\u003c/abbr\u003enot to\n let him have the least idea of the tenor of my\n remarks to you yesterday and at the same time\n manage to convince him that I am not in love with\n you, as I am afraid such is his present\n opinion.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTrouble in: finding a teacher for her children;\n \"the Roanoke business\"--(evidently a reference to\n the still unsettled will of John Randolph of\n Roanoke.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerned about the health of Fanny's mother,\n has a horror of those \"distracting springs\" for\n invalids.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe solution to a problem in surveying (this\n may be the \"Thomas\" to whom Frances Bland Coalter\n was rumored to be engaged).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Mrs. E. T. Bryan, aunt of Fanny\n Bland Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThanks Fanny for her help at the time of the\n death of Mrs. Bryan, her mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIs in charge of the plantation since her\n mother's death; busy making summer clothes for the\n slaves.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuggests a visit together to \"cousin Horace\n Lacy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\u003cabbr expan=\"Peronneau Brown\"\u003eP[eronneau]\n Brown\u003c/abbr\u003eand his brother, Thompson, are\n mentioned. (See letters of December 1855,\n Box-folder 6:44-45.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to ask Mrs. Coalter to stay with his\n daughters during his absence in the south.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHas charge of the large plantation, keeping\n four seamstresses, three spinners and a weaver\n busy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"No, my dear Fanny, my affection for you has\n not changed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding Mr. Willcox Brown and his brother\n Peronneau, future husband of Frances Bland\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInvitation to the commencement party at Hampden\n Sidney College.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAccompanying his uncle on a business trip, he\n has visited the main cities of the south and\n attended the opera in New Orleans. \"I must confess\n that I have been rather disappointed in the people\n that live in these rich lands--they are as rough\n as possible...live in log houses and on the very\n poorest fare.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I suppose your wedding will be postponed\n unless Mr. Brown's recovery is unusually\n rapid.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The news of your engagement [to Henry P.\n Brown] did not surprise me...how heartily I\n approve of your choice...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"If my letter arrives too late for Miss Fanny\n Coalter, I hope Mrs. Brown will have enough\n affection for the old name to lay claim to\n it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegrets that he cannot attend the wedding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese letters are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis item is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese covers are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers of Henry Brown, a merchant and county official\n include a manuscript map of Guilford C. H., business\n records and correspondence of Brown and Clayton, New\n London, Bedford (now Campbell County), Virginia and\n Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, Virginia. Collection also\n includes papers concerning a lawsuit against Pleasant\n Murphy and estate papers of Daniel Brown and Henry\n Brown's father-in-law John Thompson. There are papers of\n his immediate family including Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Brown family papers begin with the letters\n and papers of Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841),\n successful merchant of Bedford County and\n Lynchburg, who established the family fortune. He\n was the father of John Thompson Brown, Delegate to\n the Virginia Assembly, whose letters and papers\n are collected in the next section (Boxes\n 14-19).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA few letters and receipts pertaining to Henry\n Brown, 1712-1798, the father of Capt. Henry Brown,\n are included. The great bulk of the material,\n however, relates to Capt. Brown, beginning with a\n map of a Revolutionary War battle, 1777, in which\n he was wounded. With his brother, Daniel, he\n opened a general store in Bedford soon after the\n conclusion of the war. A partnership agreement of\n April 1797, which brought James Leftwich into the\n business, is preserved and the bulk of the\n material in this box pertains to the business of\n the store. A good picture of early merchandising\n is given by the accounts, letters relating to\n buying and selling trips, and the court actions\n taken to collect accounts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso, starting with folder 60, are 39 items\n relating to the duties of Henry Brown as tax\n collector in the Bedford area in the years 1800 to\n 1803.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Your friends here tremble for you and\n apprehend the worst from the dangers that\n encompass you...the deadly rifle, the scalping\n knife, tomahawk...return to us in all\n speed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Map of revolutionary battle,\n found 1926 by F. B. Saunders in old papers from\n Ivy Cliff. Capt. Henry Brown, born at Ivy Cliff\n about 1760, was wounded at Guildford C. H.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning goods for a retail store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Note Henry Brown, payable 1\n September, 1793.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding saddle goods in stock at the\n store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to his brother concerning tobacco\n prices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning business affairs a suit for debt,\n purchase of tobacco and a \"Negro wench\" for the\n store, etc. \"P.S. I heard at court they had\n made you a Captain.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a list of the new officers of the\n Farmer's Bank in Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the division of Negroes, total\n value £815, between Leftwich and the\n Brown brothers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding loss of West India produce on\n which $5,000.00 was borrowed. Endorsed: \"I fear\n our loss will be considerable.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReceipt is for $130.43 to be paid to John\n Roberts on land that Capt. Henry Brown sold to\n William Woodford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTobacco sold by Leftwich to a man who was a\n bad risk: \"...we are thrown out of between 20\n and 30 thousand dollars...one fourth of what it\n has taken us 20 years to earn is lost for want\n of prudence.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDirections for sending tax collections.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness records and correspondence of Henry\n Brown and Samuel P. Clayton. After the death of\n his brother Daniel in 1818, Brown entered into a\n partnership with Clayton, his son-in-law. Brown\n survived Clayton, who died in 1832; this box also\n includes papers from 1833 to 1839 made out to\n Henry Brown, surviving partner of Brown and\n Clayton Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe accounts of Henry Brown with Hancock and\n Brown, Lynchburg, 1824-1833, are retained as one\n group.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso retained as a separate group are the\n papers relating to the court suits of Brown and\n Pleasant Murphy. All notes of the period carried a\n 100 percent penalty clause. This resulted in many\n law suits being brought to establish what would\n now be considered exorbitant claims. In one case\n (see entry for March 10, 1823) for a debt of\n $42.05, the debtor surrendered 1 sound filly, 2\n cows, a calf, 2 feather beds, all household and\n kitchen furniture, all plantation utensils, and 6\n hogs!\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCaptain Henry Brown had many interests in his\n long life apart from the purely commercial\n activities upon which his considerable fortune was\n built. Included in this box are the papers\n relating to his other interests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBusiness papers of Henry Brown, not directly\n connected with any of his various business\n enterprises, but concerned principally with court\n suits involving debts to him. Included is an\n interesting case of Mark Anthony, who took the\n oath of an Insolvent Debtor, making out a deed of\n trust of all his property to his creditors (11\n April 1829 and 6 July 1833).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes papers concerned with the suit of\n Henry Brown vs. Nicodemus Leftwich, 1832-1840.\n Brown pays for the attendance of witnesses at the\n court and pays the county Jailor \"for imprisoning\n and releasing\" Leftwich.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHousehold, family and personal bills preserved\n by Henry Brown, an interesting collection of a\n family illustrating the activities of eight\n children in the second quarter of the nineteenth\n century, 1819-1841.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe personal correspondence of Henry Brown with\n his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children.\n The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son,\n John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso letters from the sons and daughters of\n Samuel, brother of Henry Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn a separate group are collected letters written\n by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from\n West Point Military Academy and from the Indian Wars\n in Florida, where he served after he was\n commissioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of a watch in Winchester; requests 30\n Dollars to repay a debt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis wife's estate; purchase of a Negro\n girl.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his return from the Spring; attack of\n \"bilious Cholic;\" his treatment.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"the purchase of some land at $20.\n per acre...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBeats female slave, using a walking stick, his\n wife using a cowhide whip. The slave's mate\n attempted to protect her with an axe but he was\n subdued, beaten and sent to jail the next day.\n Hopes for peace, unpopularity of the conscription\n law and the whiskey tax.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn her studies: Blair's lectures, piano\n playing, drawing, painting and embroidery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe husband of Nancy Brown writes:\n \"...Bounaparte is on his way to this country. If\n so I greatly fear we shall go backwards with\n accelerated velocity in all peaceful, literary and\n ornamental pursuits...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvice on a move to the State of Ohio.\n \"Although I like Slavery as little as you or\n anyone else, still...I think it probable that we\n should be as unhappy as we are with them\" (Daniel\n died in 1818. For the next 20 years Henry\n administered his estate for the benefit of his\n wife and children.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMary Brown's illness at the Springs (she was to\n die within a year).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe building of his house and the health of his\n family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe daughter of Samuel Brown, writes to console\n her Uncle on the death of his brothers and his two\n daughters, Mrs. \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Anne Nancy B. Steptoe\"\u003eAnne [Nancy]\n B. Steptoe\u003c/abbr\u003eand Mrs. \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mary Polly B. Clayton\"\u003eMary [Polly]\n B. Clayton\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn uncle of Henry Brown writes, \"My grandson\n wishes to get in to Business in a store...\" (Henry\n Brown, Jr. now has a store in Lynchburg.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis continued bad health. The death of James\n Leftwich, Capt. Brown's business partner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequests assistance in obtaining appointment as\n Clerk of Court at Bedford.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe value of the Deerwood tract.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBegs her father to let her have money to go to\n the inauguration of President Jackson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn her visit to Washington: \"this is the\n thickest settled neighborhood that I ever was\n in--the neighbors are situated all around, some in\n view and others not more than a quarter of a mile\n from the house...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his visit with his brothers, John Thompson\n Brown, in \"Washington City.\" Description of\n crowded Washington, full of pickpockets and of the\n confusion even in the President's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...the last day I rode more than thirty miles\n through a dreary wilderness without seeing a\n single house...I am yet travelling alone and have\n come six hundred miles without a single man\n travelling my course...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis progress in college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis progress in repaying a debt to the estate\n of his uncle, Daniel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of workers on the Chesapeake and Ohio\n canal dying from Cholera.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of his maternal grandfather, John\n Thompson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLeaving for New York to lay in goods.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHopes for his store despite illness and some\n hostile feeling toward his former partner, Ammon\n Hancock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Henry Brown. (Henry Brown, Jr.\n died while he and his wife were on a shopping trip\n for the store.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the changing population: \"The people still\n retain the simple manners of the old Scotch-Irish\n and, I may add, much of the intelligence and\n piety. But the restless spirit of emigration is\n taking away our best people and in their place we\n generally get Germans, who commonly are deplorably\n ignorant and will do very little toward supporting\n the Gospel.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes\n to settle accounts and close the store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the\n disposal of her house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo Frances Brown's husband, on the loss of her\n two brothers, \"and such brothers too, in so short\n a time.\" (Henry Brown, Jr. died in June, 1836, and\n his brother, John Thompson Brown, in December of\n that same year.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the sale of merchandise and an expected\n loss.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgrees to furnish Gould B. Raymond, manager of\n the Menagerie Co., lodging for 30 men, 65 horses,\n 1 elephant, 1 camel and 2 ponies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe inscription on the tomb of her late\n husband, John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the\n death of her husband a year ago.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe widow of John Thompson Brown writes\n regarding her three sons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe executor of an estate demands payment of a\n note on which Henry Brown, Jr. was a cosigner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe youngest daughter of Henry Brown writes\n about her marriage and the first meeting with her\n new relatives.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his marriage to Alice Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer wedding trip to New Orleans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHer sickness on the way down the river due to\n fresh paint in the boat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning eventual conversion of Baptists to\n the Presbyterian Church.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...I left New Orleans the 28th of March and\n reach \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Georgetown\"\u003eG[eorge].T[own]\u003c/abbr\u003e.\n The 15th of April...Sam (Brown) was in New Orleans\n the day before I left-he was not married but\n expected to be the 9th of April.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Last evening our darling Alice made me the\n happy father of a fine boy...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport to his father of his first grades at the\n Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo his grandfather regarding his first term\n marks.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The first two years of our course are\n exclusively devoted to Mathematics and French...\"\n Encloses a work sheet and \"Synopsis of the Course\n of Studies at the Military Academy.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Congress must get rid of its 'sickly\n sympathy' (with the Indians) or, rely upon it,\n this is a war of years to come.\" Gives a vivid\n description of St. Augustine.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContrasts the Cherokees in Tennessee with the\n Seminoles of Florida. Describes Savannah in a\n letter enclosed, dated February 16, 1839.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters of Henry Brown, Jr., oldest son of Capt.\n Henry Brown; Samuel Thompson Brown, youngest son; and\n other members of the immediate family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown, Jr., who suffered a grave illness in\n 1822 as a result of which he almost lost his\n eyesight, went into the partnership of his father\n with Amman Hancock. In 1835-1836, he opened his own\n store in Lynchburg, but died in May 1836, while on a\n buying trip to New York. Interesting items in this\n part of the collection include a 44 page book of\n mineral and chemical notes (31 July 1826), a 56 page\n diary kept by Henry Brown, Jr. on his trip abroad (24\n July 1831), drafts of letters by Henry Brown, Jr. to\n newspapers regarding horses, and instructions for\n horse care, and the like (13 April 1835-March 1836).\n The will of Henry Brown, Jr. (May-December 1830), and\n his deathbed statement dictated to his wife (May\n 1836), are also included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe papers of Samuel Thompson Brown include the\n card which announced the opening of his law office in\n Bedford (8 May 1838), records of his marriage in\n Alabama (27 April 1840), and the death of his wife\n within the year (3 April 1841). A letter of 22\n January 1842, mentions the business failures taking\n place in Richmond and Lynchburg, and one of 27 August\n of the same year comments on the national political\n situation which is \"sadly out of joint.\" In a letter\n of 20 September [1845], there is a report of \"the\n thefts which were perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton\n whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My eyes appear to have improved gradually.\"\n (His ailment seemed to be at its worst at this\n time, though he continued to suffer from the\n ailment until his death in 1836 at the age of 39\n years.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA note for $1000.00. At this time he was\n getting started in the store, Hancock and Brown\n Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe \"most favorable accounts\" of John Thompson\n Brown from the members of the House of\n Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the business of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Col. Mark Anthony\"\u003eCol. [Mark]\n Anthony\u003c/abbr\u003e, in which Henry Brown, Jr. appears\n to be involved.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMentions the marriage of John Thompson\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of introduction for Henry Brown, Jr.,\n for use on his trip to England and the Continent\n in that year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Oh, my dear husband, why was it that I did not\n accompany you?\" (None of these letters reached\n Henry Brown, Jr. on the trip, but followed him\n home).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews from a letter she received from Henry\n Brown, Jr. in England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePayment of his debts in Lynchburg; hiring out\n of a slave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"it's really a sad case for me, to be sick from\n home and away from all that (are) Dear to\n me...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis was the store in Lynchburg in which Henry\n Brown was a partner and with which Henry Brown,\n Jr. was associated until he opened his own store\n in 1835.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBrother-in-law, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Jack Willcox\"\u003eJack [Willcox]\u003c/abbr\u003e;\n his brother, John's speech on the Petersburg Rail\n Road; and the house that Henry Brown has vacated\n in Lynchburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn a debt of Thomas Williams.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppear to refer to pictures, and may date from\n the time of one of the buying trips that Henry\n Brown, Jr. made with his wife.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter breaking from the partnership of Hancock\n and Brown, he opened his own store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the care for his horses, Young\n American Eclipse and Spring Hill, while he is\n away.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten while she and her husband were on a\n buying trip for the Lynchburg store. In New York\n Henry Brown, Jr. was taken desperately ill and\n died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEvidently taken down by Mrs. Eleanor C. L.\n Brown during the final days in New York.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn associate of Henry Brown, Jr. in the\n Lynchburg store, was liquidating the stock and\n selling horses in order to settle the estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA note regarding the settlement of the Henry\n Brown, Jr. estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten from school, with endorsement by James\n Morrison, schoolmaster.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned Eleanor C. L. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulating S. T. B. on his marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of the aged John Vaughan Willcox, her\n father, with whom she is living and for whom she\n is caring; Samuel T. Brown and his \"youthful\n bride.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis extended wedding trip; description of Gen\n Harrison's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsolations upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T.\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolences upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T.\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of consolation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of W. W. Worthington,\n brother-in-law of Samuel T. Brown. \"Your sister\n Alice is desirous of your attention to the affairs\n of Mr. W. in New Orleans prior to your return to\n Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecording certain deeds for his son-in-law,\n Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWritten to his overseer with whom he has\n quarreled.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the fees paid by Henry Brown in the Leftwich\n case: \"between twenty and twenty-five dollars for\n my services as an attorney.\" On the thefts\n \"perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student\n at Chapel Hill.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the cutting of trees on the property\n of Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA reply to the above letter, Box-Folder\n 13:60.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn a charge of Ammon Hancock against the estate\n of Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEstimate for the cost of the construction of a\n bridge.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the property in Mobile, Alabama, purchased\n by Samuel T. Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe sale of a female slave \"with her\n Brood.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers concern John Thompson Brown's attendance at\n Princeton, study of law, and trips to the South and to\n the West Indies. Includes speeches and correspondence as\n well as his published writings (newspaper articles,\n bills and pamphlets). The collection emphasizes his\n political career in the Virginia House of Delegates\n including his views on slavery. Also includes\n architectural plans for a two room house and elevations\n (1827), drafts of toasts and letters concerning his\n fight with John Hampden Pleasants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProminent correspondents include William Segar\n Archer, James Murray Mason, John Hampden Pleasants,\n William Cabell Rives, Henry St. George Tucker and John\n Tyler.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown (1802-1836) was born at Otter\n Hills, near Bedford, Virginia and was the son of\n Henry Brown (1760-1841). He attended the New London\n Academy, 1816; studied at Princeton, 1817-1820;\n traveled to the South and the West Indies, 1821; and\n studied law with Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland\n County, Virginia, 1822-1823. He began his law\n practice in Clarksburg, Virginia (later West\n Virginia), in 1824, and represented Harrison County\n in the House of Delegates, 1827-1830. He was a member\n of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n 1829-1830. He married Mary E. Willcox June, 1830, and\n moved to Petersburg, where he again was elected to\n the General Assembly, 1831-1836. He was a delegate to\n the national convention of the Republican (now\n Democratic) Party, but died on 20 November 1836, at\n his father's home, Otter Hills, after a brief\n illness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first two letters in Box 14 date from the\n period of his attendance at New London Academy; then\n follow the papers relating to Princeton, where he\n matriculated in 1817 at the age of 19. He was placed\n in the Sophomore Class on the basis of an examination\n before the faculty, and received the highest mark\n given at the College, in each of the three years he\n spent at the College. His report sheets show the\n requirements for entrance, lists of courses, and\n contain a resolution passed by the trustees which\n condemned the sharp practices of the merchants in\n town.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome of the correspondence of John Thompson Brown\n with his brother-in-law Dr. William B. Steptoe in\n this period is interesting for the comments it\n contains on the Missouri question and other matters\n then being debated in the U.S. Senate. The remarks\n made by John Thompson Brown in letters from his\n collegiate period may be compared with his statements\n on the subject of slavery later made on the floor of\n the House of Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter graduating from Princeton, John Thompson\n Brown traveled to the South, and made a brief trip to\n the West Indies, keeping notes on his impressions.\n Upon his return he took up the study of law with\n Judge Taylor. From this period come interesting\n musings on such subjects as \"the family fireside,\"\n \"youthful recollection,\" \"friendship,\" and \"behavior\n of a lawyer if he is to succeed.\" His license to\n practice law, dated 7 March 1824, is included in the\n collection. He journeyed to Clarksburg, Virginia, to\n set up his law practice, and kept a notebook on the\n trip West which reveal his first impressions of the\n Clarksburg area.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the end of this box is a scrapbook containing\n some of his published writings, speeches, and\n newspaper articles.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from a schoolboy friend regarding New\n London Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown's examinations at the New\n London Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I have just been examined by the faculty and\n am admitted to the Sophomore Class, which is the\n second in the college.\" His expenses are estimated\n at $200.00 for the first term and $90.00 for the\n second. \"I will pledge myself not to spend one\n cent more than is really necessary.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews from home; a rumor that some boys were\n expelled from Chapel Hill for their politics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMedical advice; a suggested teacher for New\n London Academy (\"Has he energy enough manage\n southern students?\"); the death of Polly [Mrs.\n Mary Brown Clayton], sister of John Thompson\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe political upheaval at William and Mary\n College; deputies appointed \"...to fix upon the\n site of the Virginia University.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My expenses have far exceeded what was\n necessary or what you expect. I now see my error\n and repent...\" Three months later he offers to\n leave school because of his additional debts.\n Later in Baltimore, he is robbed of $200.00. His\n father adds up the year's expenses to a total of\n $670.00.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBehavior, No. 1. distinguished; Industry, No.\n 1. distinguished; Scholarship, No. 1.\n distinguished (1) \"If under the article \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003escholarship\u003c/emph\u003e, a\n student is marked No. 1 distinguished (1), he is\n considered as ranking among the first in his\n class.\" (From printed explanation of the\n report.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Once the busy scene of commercial\n enterprise...now lifeless and inactive.\"\n Concerning Lynchburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe University of Virginia is established at\n Charlottesville with an annual appropriation of\n $15,000; news of a threat of slave uprisings in\n Fredericksburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSimilar reports to that of 1818. Warning is\n added to the September report concerning excessive\n expenditures by students: \"the trustees of the\n college give this notice to the parents and\n guardians of the youth, that they ought to pay no\n debt contracted in this town, which they have not\n specifically authorized.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Collegians mei consocui.\" He knew\n 162 fellow students.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the \"present session of Congress.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRumor of a great rebellion that has taken place\n at Princeton; the Missouri question.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA 4th of July oration supporting the idea of\n colonizing the free Negroes in Africa.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My father may justly complain of the great\n sums which he has expended on me, but his kindness\n shall not be abused much longer, as I hope to be\n in a situation to support myself.\" Endorsed:\n \"Brother J.--after his return from Princeton went\n South--through the Cherokee Nation [Alabama and\n Georgia] to Pensacola, and on to New\n Orleans--thence to Cuba and returned to U. States\n in the U.S. Frigate 'Hornet,' as a guest of the\n officers. Samuel T. Brown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA gambling scrape he was involved in; asks his\n father's forgiveness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Chancellor Taylor has been of incalculable\n service to me in the study of law.\" (Needham was a\n law school operated by Judge Creed Taylor in\n Cumberland County in the years 1821-1836.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are the continuous drafts of a multiple\n of letters. The first section consists of musings\n and youthful recollections; the second is a\n humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in\n Petersburg after his marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the marriage of Dr. Steptoe.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMusings on Friendship and the wise behavior of\n a lawyer if he is to succeed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter introducing John Thompson Brown when\n he went to Clarksburg to set up practice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMusings written on a trip through Virginia:\n thoughts on a disappointing love affair; notes on\n \"Crab Orchard\" and the \"Creek Nation\" --the latter\n were to be incorporated into an Independence Day\n address delivered in Petersburg in 1831.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eImpressions of Clarksburg; the countryside is\n beautiful and the land very rich, but \"The people\n have no money and are wretchedly poor and\n lazy...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis plans to establish himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe following newspaper clippings and pamphlets\n are included in a bound scrap book, with\n endorsements and were undoubtedly collected by\n John Thompson Brown himself.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"several cases of contempt of\n court, occurring in various parts of the Union,\n in which the punishment inflicted, has been\n made a subject of grievous complaint.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"...Mr. Jefferson...the\n disclosure of his poverty...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"The President's message.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Bill authorizing a loan of $6,000.00 on\n the credit of the state, for the construction\n of Turnpike Road from Winchester to Parkersburg\n by way of Clarksburg, being under\n consideration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sir:--I have read in the \"Intelligencer\" of\n the 9th inst. your communications to the\n Editors of the paper, in which you remark,\n substantially, that the only Candidate to\n represent the town of Petersburg in the General\n Assembly is a stranger to most voters...Not\n doubting that I am the person alluded to...,\"\n signed John Thompson Brown\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The following copy of a Petition to the\n Legislature of Virginia, we insert at the\n request of a number of our Citizens.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"On motion of Mr. Brown of Petersburg, the\n report of the committee on slaves, free Negroes\n and mulattoes, and the amendment of Mr. Preston\n were taken up; when Mr. Brown rose and\n addressed the house as follows:...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The bill to amend an act authorizing the\n Board of Public Works to subscribe on behalf of\n the Commonwealth, to the stock of the\n Petersburg Rail Road, was read a third time.\n Mr. Brown said...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Andrew Jackson was unanimously recommended\n to the Citizens of Virginia, as the next\n President. \"Mr. Miller of Powhatan then\n submitted the following\n Resolution...\"(Concerning the Vice-President).\n Mr. Brown of Petersburg, then submitted the\n following by way of substitute for the\n above...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe material in this box covers the period 1825 to\n 1829, when John Thompson Brown was resident of\n Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West\n Virginia). In this period John Thompson Brown wrote\n some of the \"Letters to the Editor,\" printed in the\n Clarksburg \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eEnquirer\u003c/title\u003e, contained in\n the scrap book noted above in Box 14. A draft of a\n part of the letter concerning the poverty of Mr.\n Jefferson is to be found in this box (1825).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn July 1826, John Thompson Brown wrote to his\n brother Henry Brown, Jr. of his aim to run for the\n U.S. Congress. In 1827 he was elected to the House of\n Delegates; he was re-elected in 1828 and 1829. This\n box also contains various printed and manuscript\n material touching upon his career in the General\n Assembly.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBy the end of 1829, John Thompson Brown had\n established himself in Clarksburg, built a house, and\n planned to buy into a partnership in a store to\n advance his financial position. In a letter of March\n 23, 1829 he mentions his desire to run in the next\n election for the U.S. Congress.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...the friends of Old Hickory...hear Adamses\n success spoken of and the probability of Clay's\n being made Secretary of State...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEncloses a legal opinion concerning sheriffs,\n which his father apparently requested.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA flowery letter to an old friend from\n Princeton. \"I have acquired some little reputation\n at the bar and a practice that supports me very\n decently.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of an address to an investigating group\n (perhaps a grand jury), with endorsement: \"1. Act\n against cutting down trees. 2. Act providing for a\n good and sufficient jail.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is part of a printed letter concerning\n \"Mr. Jefferson the disclosure of his poverty...\"\n over the signature Alexander. (See bound\n scrapbook, the last item in Box 14.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDesire of John Thompson Brown to run for the\n U.S. Congress or for a seat in the General\n Assembly. Suggests that Henry Brown send $1,000.00\n to help achieve this.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I find that there is a serious and, I believe,\n a somewhat general wish to bring me out for the\n Legislature.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I am a candidate for the Legislature at the\n next election...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn announcement of the candidacy of John\n Thompson Brown for the General Assembly. He\n reviews what he considers to be the most important\n problems of the day, and discusses (1) the\n invasion of State sovereignty by the Federal\n program of \"internal development,\" (2) the harm\n done to Southern farmers by import duties, (3) the\n calling of a Constitutional Convention for the\n state of Virginia, (4) the dangers of the\n uncontrolled banking system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis election to the General Assembly; hope of\n election to the U.S. Congress, and the purchase of\n a four acre lot in town. In the first letter which\n John Thompson Brown wrote from the House of\n Delegates he said \"I have not taken much part in\n the debates of the House and do not expect to do\n so...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis ride to Richmond in a coach with other,\n more experienced law-makers, \"having been, as you\n predicted, greatly edified and instructed by a\n coach-full of legislators 'big with the cares of\n state.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Resolving that members of the House of\n Delegates be requested to unite...in advancing the\n cause of this Society before the General Assembly\n of Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn John Thompson Brown's speech: \"considered\n the most able one that had been delivered in the\n House in 5 years.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Our Society, in the success of which, you are\n pleased to express so deep an interest, is I\n believe, making sure progress.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis legislature activities and speeches. \"I am\n a Jackson man like yourself but not perfectly\n orthodox, as you would say, on the subject of\n States Rights. I published my opinions, pamphlet\n of 30 pages, 12 months ago and will send you a\n copy...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA report to his constituents on such matters as\n (1) the state Constitutional Convention, (2) the\n lottery for the Randolph Academy in Clarksburg,\n (3) county elections, (4) the bill abolishing the\n chancery Courts and establishing a Superior Court,\n (5) a Turnpike to their area (defeated by the\n \"Eastern People\"), (6) the proposed Baltimore\n Railroad and (7) the settling of the question of\n land titles in Western Virginia. Included in the\n pamphlet are the full texts of the report of the\n committee on this subject, which he chaired, and\n the bill proposed by the committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComment on the land titles, Chancery court\n bills.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Even now I am as comfortably situated as I\n could desire and shall support myself hereafter\n without any further drafts on your\n goodness...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNow well situated in his \"mansion,\" he\n discusses his prospects for Congress and of his\n plan to \"offer 2 years hence.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"McConley's System of Sword\n Tactics.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReflections on people met at the Medicinal\n Springs, as contrasted with those of his\n constituency.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn February, he forwards a copy of sheriff's\n commission to his father. During the year he\n borrows $400.00 for payments on his house in\n Clarksburg, and by the end of the year his father\n has agreed to advance enough capital for him to\n become a partner in a mercantile business. Upon\n the conclusion of the 1828-1829 session of the\n General Assembly, he writes that he will be a\n candidate once more, then run for Congress. In the\n letter of March 23rd, he writes that opposition\n has arisen \"on account of some laws we had passed\n last session authorizing the county court to levy\n a tax for repairing roads and, bridges.\" On March\n 23rd he relates his experiences in Washington at\n the inauguration of Jackson: on December 14th he\n predicts that the basis of votes for whites will\n be surrendered in the formation of the new State\n constitution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuggests they ride together to Alexandria, then\n go to Richmond by boat.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Virginia Constitutional Convention: \"I had\n an opportunity of hearing the most distinguished\n members of the body--Mr. Madison and Mr. Marshall\n among the rest...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe change which was to occur in the life and\n fortunes of John Thompson Brown in the year 1830 is\n forecast in the first letter of this box, a letter\n received by Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg in\n [December] 1829, in which there is a discussion of\n \"Mr. B.\" Three months later (18 March 1830) in a\n letter to his father, John Thompson Brown announces\n his intention of leaving Clarksburg, and of his need\n for a horse and sulky so that he may arrive in\n Petersburg in a manner which should \"avoid the\n appearance of poverty and destitution.\" The next\n letter in the collection (9 [May] 1830), in draft,\n contains an account of his wedding, a wedding which\n was attended by no members of his immediate\n family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSubsequent letters tell of the generosity of the\n new father-in-law John V. Willcox in the gift of a\n town house \"provided with servants,\" a draft of\n $1500, and the promise of as much more as he asks (22\n July 1830). Yet the position is not satisfactory and\n because John Thompson Brown feels that he is losing\n his independence, he returns to Clarksburg with the\n intention of resettling there and sending for his\n wife (2 May 1831). During a four week visit to\n Harrison County, he finds his political position has\n declined (7 June 1831), so he returns to Petersburg,\n and is invited to make the Independence Day address\n for the town (8 June 1831). As a result of this\n address (and the good influence of his father-in-law)\n he is nominated to represent the town in the House of\n Delegates, and is elected without opposition (26\n September 1831).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe successfully sponsors a bill in the Assembly\n for the Petersburg Railroad (28 December 1831), is\n appointed Judge of Elections for the Petersburg\n Office of the Bank of Virginia (29 December 1831),\n and is sought as a sponsor of a new newspaper which\n is being established in Richmond (20 October 1831).\n Of particular interest is a letter to his nephew\n outlining his philosophy of life and advising the\n young man on his future (3 October 1831). A report of\n the slave insurrection in Southhampton is described\n in a letter of 26 September 1831.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the end of this box are collected more than a\n hundred drafts of toasts made by John Thompson\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA friend writes regarding \"Mr. B.,\" \"a man of\n boundless pride and diffidence. His attachment was\n cut down in the bud and \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eYou\u003c/emph\u003e, my sweetest\n Mary, have hoped whilst he desponded...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My friends, Webster, Goffard, and others\n believed I could certainly be elected to Congress\n next Spring...I wish to appear at \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Petersburg\"\u003eP[etersburg]\u003c/abbr\u003ein a\n manner which would probably be expected and to\n avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution .\n Henry is to get me a sulky, horse, etc., and if\n you can spare this additional sum you may hand it\n over to him...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Our nuptials took place at the time expected\n and I cannot say that there was any other allay to\n my happiness, than that neither you nor any of my\n near relatives were present.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his honeymoon: \"Peronneau Finley travels\n with us, as one of our immediate party. Mr.\n Willcox, Sr., and three of his friends are going\n to N. York to the races. They came with us thus\n far...\" There is much discussion about where they\n will live, but, \"I think it probable we shall\n reside in Petersburg...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his Washington visit: \"we remained a week,\n were introduced to the President, etc., heard some\n interesting debates and saw all the great men of\n the nation...My situation is in all respects\n agreeable.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulations on her marriage coupled with\n much advice.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter a visit with his father, he writes: \"I\n have nothing to add on the subject of my future\n arrangements. I shall pursue the course which you\n seemed to approve when we were together.\" He\n writes later that Mr. Willcox has turned over to\n them his town house \"furnished with servants\"; in\n another letter: \"He handed me a check for $1,500\n and said that I should always have as much as I\n wanted...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSends advice to his younger brother and, and\n account of his own situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters from Harrison County report that \"the\n District needs me badly...but it is too\n late...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I regret that you have temporarily declined\n public life--for I would not believe you have\n abondoned it altogether.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAdvice given to a young man summarizing John\n Thompson Brown's own philosophy of life.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn his return to Harrison County, \"I found that\n my position here was to be too dependent...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"At a meeting of the citizens of\n Petersburg...'Resolved, that John Thompson Brown,\n Esq., he appointed Orator of the Day'.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe first important public speech of John\n Thompson Brown, in Petersburg, one which appears\n to have established his reputation, and which\n influenced his decision to remain there.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding his Independence Day address; the\n wisdom of his brother's decision to visit\n England.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are the continuous drafts of multiple\n letters. This draft concerns the second part which\n contains a humorous report on a 4th of July\n oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn July 25, he states that his brother has left\n on the packet for Baltimore on the way to\n Liverpool. Concerning his \"reasons of my\n determining not to remove to Harrison.\" On\n September 14 he writes that his wife has given\n birth to a son, who will be named Henry Peronneau,\n \"after you and my friend Peronneau Finley.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown, Jr. writes of his journey, as a\n result of which \"I become more and more an\n American in feeling and principle...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I was elected without opposition, after\n announcing my sentiments freely and boldly.\" News\n of an insurrection of Negroes in Southampton,\n \"they killed 55 persons, mainly women and\n children.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives his opinions on the education of his\n nephew, Edward. He approves strongly of the\n emphasis on science to be found at West Point; on\n going to college among the Yankees: \"I partake in\n some measure of the prejudice against them--but\n think nevertheless that...southern \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003efire\u003c/emph\u003ewould be none\n the worse for being somewhat cooled by the\n northern \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003efrost\u003c/emph\u003e.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA new newspaper is proposed for the city of\n Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA request for help in covering a $3,000 debt to\n \"sharpers.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDescribes the quarters he has for his wife and\n son. On the main question of the day he writes: \"I\n think no measure can or ought to be taken now for\n the abolition of slavery...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning \"the bill now before the Legislature\n on the subject of our (Rail) Road.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of John Thompson Brown as judge of\n the election for directors of the Bank of Virginia\n in Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the following subjects: The Press,\n Lafayette, The Cuase of of Civil and Religious\n Liberty, The Militia Volunteers, Woman, Thomas\n Jefferson, Virginia, The Constitution, The\n Militia, State Rights, President of the United\n States, Our Guests, Benjamin Franklin, The\n Union, (\"Drank 1833.\" ADr.), The Day We\n Celebrate, Washington, and The Army and\n Navy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the following subjects: The Federal\n Consitiution, Free Press, President of the\n United States, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, Our\n Guests and Woman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the following subjects: The 4th of\n July, 1776, The Cause of Liberty Throughout the\n World, The Heroes and Statesmen of the\n Revolution, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, and\n The Federal Constitution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the following subject: The Union\n \"(This toast was drank, as a standing toast at\n the Petersburg Republican Celebration of Mr.\n Jefferson's election on the 29th of January,\n 1801).\" Most toast endorsed: \"Offered 1835, not\n adopted.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the following subjects: The Day We\n Celebrated, The Memory of Washington, The Army\n and the Navy, Military Spirit, Free Press,\n Popular Suffrage, and National Character.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes the following subjects: The Friends\n of Constitutional Restriction, Political\n Toleration, National Character, The State\n Legislature, Virginia Military, Washington,\n Benjamin Franklin, Petersburg, The District of\n Columbia, The Right of Instruction, The Press\n and John Tyler.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe important and exciting national political\n events of the years 1832 and 1833, as they affected\n the people of Virginia, are seen through the eyes of\n John Thompson Brown in the items included in this\n box. A member from Petersburg in the House of\n Delegates of the Virginia Assembly, John Thompson\n Brown was placed in a position of leadership and\n strongly influenced the decisions taken in those\n critical years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis speech on the abolition of slavery was\n considered so important that Judge Henry St. George\n Tucker and others raised the money to have it printed\n (18 January 1832). He was a member of the Virginia\n delegation to the national convention of the\n Republican Party; his resolution of the\n Vice-Presidential nominee (21-22 May 1832) was the\n one adopted by the Virginia caucus. As Chairman of\n the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates, the\n question of President Jackson's moves against the\n United States Bank was of particular concern to him\n (9 April 1833).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGreat excitement was aroused by South Carolina's\n threat of nullification. John Thompson Brown was a\n member of the Committee on Federal Relations, and his\n substitute motion on the question is included in this\n box, as well as his speech on \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe State of the Relations\n between the United States and South Carolina\u003c/title\u003e,\n delivered 5 January 1833, also published in pamphlet\n form.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown was invited to be a Director\n of the Petersburg Railroad which he declined (7 May\n 1832), and was considered for the position of U.S.\n Senator, although he felt that he was not qualified\n by years or experience (December 1832). An\n interesting report of his meeting with President\n Jackson is included in a letter from John Thompson\n Brown to his wife (23 May 1832).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso included in this box are letters from John\n Tyler, William Cabell Rives, and William Segar Archer\n (7 February, 3 March 1833).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTwo poems, possibly written by John Thompson\n Brown, clipped from a newspaper, signed Julian are\n included at the end of this box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of the fortunes of the (Petersburg)\n Railroad Bill in the House of Delegates and State\n Senate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eInformation regarding Rensselaer School. Samuel\n T. Brown, younger brother of John Thompson Brown,\n appears to have been interested in this\n school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn this important speech John Thompson Brown\n took up several proposals for the freeing of\n slaves, including that of Thomas Jefferson, as\n submitted to the Legislature by Jefferson\n Randolph, his grandson, and argued against\n each.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"My speech on abolition has had great \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eeclat\u003c/emph\u003e--a fund has\n been raised for publishing it in pamphlet form for\n general distribution... \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Henry St. George Tucker and Judge Brooke\"\u003e\n Judges [Henry St. George] Tucker and\n Brooke\u003c/abbr\u003ehave taken active part in puffing the\n speech.\" He also reports, \"I have carried my\n Railroad Bill...and shall enjoy the credit of\n effecting it by my personal influence.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes in a \"Postscript\" an answer to a\n statement in \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Enquirer\u003c/title\u003eover\n the signature of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Jefferson Randolph\"\u003eJefferson\n [Randolph]\u003c/abbr\u003e. Reference is made to a remark\n made in \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Wig\u003c/title\u003ethat his\n argument \"had been far surpassed by the discussion\n of the subject by a stripling . Mr. Brown of\n Petersburg.\" General Assembly. Committee on\n Federal relations. Official Document Nos. 14, 15,\n 16.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a suggested amendment for the\n Circuit Court Law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe cannot give his nephew, Edward Steptoe, an\n appointment to West Point because he has used his\n appointment for the session. \"...the Senate is\n involved in the Tariff discussion...The farther I\n have gone into it the more thoroughly have I\n convinced myself of its tyrannical and oppressive\n character.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA resolution from the Petersburg Rail Road\n Company to tender thanks for \"the zeal and ability\n with which our Delegate John T. Brown, Esq. and\n our Senator, Wm. Old, Esq. have exerted in\n procuring passage of the said (Rail Road)\n act.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis is the resolution presented by John\n Thompson Brown and reported in a newspaper article\n of this date preserved in the scrapbook to be\n found in Box 14.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I send you 2 copies of John's speech (on\n Slavery) and a paper with one of Jefferson\n Randolph's in reply to him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeclines appointment as a member of the Board\n of Directors of the Petersburg Railroad.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on the convention of the whole party and\n of the Virginia Caucus. At the latter the\n resolution of John Thompson Brown. was adopted,\n viz. that Virginia's vote should go first to P. P.\n Barbour for Vice- President, and when there was no\n longer a reasonable prospect of his selection, to\n Van Buren.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...on last evening we went to the President\n who is in excellent health and fine spirits. Many\n persons here, including some members of Congress\n from Virginia, seem to be much dissatisfied with\n our proceedings at Baltimore...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo his youngest brother, attending college,\n regarding the health of Henry, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of Finley's brother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe family has traveled south to escape an\n epidemic of Cholera.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn the letter of December 3 he discusses the\n election of U.S. Senators, stating that Mr. Leigh\n is out because of his opposition to President\n Jackson. Among those mentioned for the position\n are \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Judge Henry St. George Tucker\"\u003eJudge\n [Henry St. George] Tucker\u003c/abbr\u003e, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Randolph Rives\"\u003e[John] Randolph\n Rives\u003c/abbr\u003e, and himself, though he feels that he\n has neither the years nor the experience for the\n position. President Jackson's message on the U.S.\n Bank is discussed. On nullification he writes: \"It\n will, I fear, be an exciting subject and one of\n engrossing interest...South Carolina is\n unquestionably wrong and \n \u003cemph render=\"underline\"\u003eas long as she remains in\n the Union,\u003c/emph\u003emust obey its laws...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe possibility of his appointment as Senator\n to supply the vacancy left by Mr. Tazewell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eExcitement in Washington caused by the\n President's proclamation on nullification\n debate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRegarding the removal of deposits from the U.S.\n Bank by the Federal Government.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I was rather mortified at making a very poor\n speech [on Federal Relations] in the House\n today...To avoid misrepresentation I shall have to\n write out my speech...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDoc. No. 14. \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eReport of the Committee on\n Federal Relations\u003c/title\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDoc. No. 15. \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eMr. Marshall's Substitute\n to the Report...\u003c/title\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eDoc. No. 16. \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eMr. M'dowell's Amendment to\n Mr. Marshall's Substitute,...\u003c/title\u003e\u003clb\u003e\u003c/lb\u003eOpinion on proceedings in South Carolina,\n the proclamation by Andrew Jackson, and \"the\n communication of the governor of this Commonwealth\n on the same subject.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter stating his opposition to protective\n tariffs, John Thompson Brown argued that they\n result from \"a perversion of the spirit and intent\n of the Constitution, rather than a violation of\n its literal principles.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe compliments the Chief Magistrate of the\n United States on his general policy but disputes\n the Proclamation of the President on other\n grounds, basing his argument on \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Law of\n Nations\u003c/title\u003eby E. de Vattel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs to the action of South Carolina, he contends\n that there is no possibility of nullification\n under the Constitution, but that the redress of\n the wrong done in the tariff act must come by\n recourse to the Supreme Court, to the \"Co-states\"\n acting in Congress, and if necessary, by an\n amendment to the Constitution.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCompliments John Thompson Brown on his\n resolutions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I was anxious myself that Virginia should\n maintain an impartial and just attitude toward\n both S. Carolina and the President, but far the\n greater part of the Assembly seemed in favour of\n going into one extreme or other . . . whereas I\n thought there was error on both sides...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe remarks that \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Edward Steptoe\"\u003eEdward\n [Steptoe]\u003c/abbr\u003ehas been successful in getting his\n appointment to West Point \"obtained (by Mr.\n Archer, the Senator) as a favour to me\" but\n \"without...your letter...the application could\n scarcely have been successful.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAppointment of Edward Steptoe to West Point;\n report of the enforcing bill in the President's\n proclamation, and the Tariff Bill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn July he announces the birth of a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the Force Bill and the Bank of the U.S.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"On seeimg Miss ____ at Clarksburg,\" and\n \"Julian Abandoning His Muse.\" Possibly written by\n John Thompson Brown about this period.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters written by John Thompson Brown during\n portions of the 1833-1834 and the 1834-1835 sessions\n of the General Assembly are found in this box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe manuscripts begin with letters reporting the\n legislative battle fought and lost against the\n Portsmouth-Norfolk road which John Thompson Brown\n believed would have disastrous effects on the future\n of Petersburg (January 1834). Near the end of the box\n are letters concerning John Thompson Brown's battle\n fought with fists and canes in the halls of the State\n Capitol with a fellow representative John Hampden\n Pleasants (January 1835). The fracas resulted from a\n heated debate on the election of a U.S. Senator. John\n Thompson Brown was one of those mentioned for the\n position of U.S. Senator (December 1834), but his\n youth (28 years) was against him and he did not enjoy\n the rough and tumble of party politics then\n developing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso of interest are the draft of a speech\n delivered on the occasion of the death of Lafayette\n (9 July 1834), and two notebooks used by John\n Thompson Brown as Chairman of the Finance Committee\n of the House of Delegates (January 1835).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews that his brother, Samuel, is ill at\n Harvard.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports on his progress at the college.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis attempts to defeat the Norfolk rail road in\n the Assembly; family news.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"All is lost except our honour. The Portsmouth\n Bill [Norfolk railroad] has passed...our town\n [Petersburg] is prostrated...but the ancient\n spirit of our little town, which Mr. Madison\n called the 'cockade of the old Dominion' is not\n dead.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA patent for producing domestic salt.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElection of a U.S. Senator, for which he has\n been mentioned; Mr. Leigh's election. At the end\n of February and beginning of March he is kept in\n bed with an illness.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGives his views of the political situation,\n mentioning the message President Jackson sent to\n Congress with the \"Force Bill,\" the President's\n plans for the Bank of the U.S., and objections to\n Van Buren and \"the N. York system of tactics which\n he will bring with him.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlans for Samuel, John Thompson Brown's\n brother, to start his study of law with him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSold bank shares to help his brother go into\n business for himself; gives advice on racing\n horses.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"To my sons, should they ever read\n it.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport of his progress at the U.S. Military\n Academy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDraft of a letter sending condolences for the\n death of a sister and congratulations on the birth\n of a son.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis resignation from the U.S. Senate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"No subject arouses anybody except the\n senatorial election.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe offers to place all his monetary resources\n at the service of his brother in his new business\n venture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the 17th he prepared a draft of a letter,\n which he sent on the 20th, giving an account of a\n fight in the halls of the General Assembly between\n himself and John Hampden Pleasants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of apology for the battle fought in\n the halls of the Virginia Capitol.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn account of his speech which was \"better\n received than anything I have ever made.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePoints out the importance of this election for\n \"future political events and party combinations in\n the state,\" and defends the incumbent, Mr.\n Leigh.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePrepared for use in the Finance Committee of\n the House of Deputies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes on taxes, license fees, and the like,\n prepared by John Thompson Brown for use on the\n Finance Committee of the House of Delegates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe closing sessions of the State Legislature of\n 1834-1835 are reported in the letters at the\n beginning of this box. The party spirit runs high in\n Petersburg as the \"Jackson party\" opposes John\n Thompson Brown (March 1835). He is involved in a\n street fight with an opponent in which he receives a\n black eye, but the argument is made up after he wins\n the election (April 1835).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBefore the next session of the legislature, John\n Thompson Brown is occupied in collecting more\n material on the question of slavery (August 1835),\n and prepared three long drafts written in opposition\n to the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President of\n the U.S. Undated drafts of notes on legal cases are\n included at the end of the 1835 section.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHenry Brown, Jr., the brother of John Thompson\n Brown, died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to\n Philadelphia and New York for his Lynchburg store.\n The trip of John Thompson Brown to meet the body of\n his brother, and his activity in settling his\n brother's affairs in Lynchburg are reported in the\n letters included in this box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the end of July he takes his family to his\n father's home, Otter Hills, near New London in\n Campbell County, for the funeral sermon of Henry\n Brown, Jr. While there he contracts an illness which\n keeps him there until his death on 26 November\n 1836.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAnnounces the birth of a son, John Thompson\n Brown II, and tells his brother that he had\n ordered $2800 placed to his account to support the\n store that he had opened.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePolitical activity in Petersburg.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"The Jackson party has brought out the most\n popular man in Petersburg against...it is quite\n likely he will beat me.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn April 18 he writes, \"I was elected by a\n majority of 37 (13 of which were from Richmond).\"\n There is also a report of a street fight between\n John Thompson Brown and \"a Jackson man.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the chances of Van Buren to carry\n Virginia in the election.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePlans to retire from politics and seek a\n position as Judge of the courts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHe has sent a box of books to help him in his\n law studies, and describes a visit by his old\n friend Peronneau Finley and his family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites to his father about plans to visit\n him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFamily discussion, especially concerned with\n the sisters who were yet to find husbands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotice of the election of John Thompson Brown\n as an honorary member of the Jefferson\n Society.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned \"Mr. Brown.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis series of drafts is in opposition to\n Martin Van Buren, candidate for the President\n of the United States.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGood reports of the new business venture of his\n brother, Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo his brother, on a buying trip to New York;\n political prospects now look bright, but \"the\n state is lost\" to the Anti-Van Buren forces.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned by Wyndham Robertson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the trip to accompany his sister-in-law and\n the body of Henry Brown, Jr. back to the family\n home, Otter Hills. Henry Brown, Jr. died while on\n a shopping trip to New York for supplies for his\n Lynchburg store.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe body of Henry Brown, Jr. was taken that\n morning for Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the death of her father, Henry Brown Brown,\n Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTaking inventory at the store of his late\n brother; preparing to settle his estate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports on the stocktaking in the store of\n Henry Brown, Jr. On July 19 he wrote that he was\n coming to his father's place on the Sunday next to\n hear his brother's funeral preached. This is the\n last letter from John Thompson Brown to his\n father, for on that visit to Otter Hills he was\n taken with the illness from which he died.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOn the disposal of the store inventory; sends a\n piano to her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMourning his brother's death, he makes\n arrangements for his own family to join him. (This\n is the last letter written by John Thompson Brown\n preserved in this collection.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe niece of John Thompson Brown writes to her\n uncle regarding the recent death of her father,\n Henry Brown, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes\n regarding the settling of the store business.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosures: \"A lock of the hair of John\n Thompson Brown, 29 years\"; envelope marked, \"For\n sister Mary from my dear brother John's Grave,\n Nov. 13th, 1845, \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Mrs. Alice Brown Worthington\"\u003e[Mrs.]\n A[lice Brown] Worthington\u003c/abbr\u003e,\" with clover\n leaves inside.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA resolution in memory of John Thompson\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSigned D. M. Bernard, Clerk. Endorsement by\n James MacFarland, Jr., to Mrs. John Thompson\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCondolences on the death of her husband.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA resolution that the members wear the usual\n badge of mourning for thirty days in honor of John\n Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA copy of the unanimous resolution of the House\n of Delegates in memory of John Thompson Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of grief written by Mrs. Brown to her\n father-in-law.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA letter of consolation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes: A dramatic sketch, Kentucky Land\n Laws, Goosawattee Indians, and map of the\n region around Bedford, Virginia\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA large folded ink drawing of a building \"taken\n from the Colonade of the Temple of Minerva\n Parthenon at Athens,\" with notes of construction\n details. Ca. 1830.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers of John Thompson Brown, Colonel of 1st\n Regiment Virginia Artillery who was killed in action in\n 1864. Included are letters concerning a disagreement\n with William Nelson Pendleton. Papers also include\n correspondence of his son, Henry Peronneau Brown and his\n son's wife Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown as well as\n newspaper clippings concerning Judge John Randolph\n Tucker and the correspondence of Cynthia Beverley Tucker\n Coleman. There are also nineteenth century\n engravings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains the papers from the period after\n the death of John Thompson Brown, and concern John\n Thompson Brown II, born in 1835, some 18 months\n before the death of his father.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter (20 November 1844) lists the courses\n studied by boys at the ages of 9, 11, and 13; a\n travel book gives an interesting picture of Europe (4\n May 1857); and a draft of a letter describes the\n bleedings to which a tourist entering Italy had to\n submit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Thompson Brown II was elected Second\n Lieutenant by the members of his company (1 December\n 1859). Also included are notes of speeches made to\n rouse war enthusiasm. The receipt for a saber and\n belt (23 April 1861) mark the beginning of action,\n and other records follow John Thompson Brown II's\n rise to Major, then to Colonel. His request for a\n transfer to a more active field of war and an\n extended argument with his commanding officer, Brig.\n Gen. William Nelson Pendleton, are of interest. The\n box concludes with items which appear to have been on\n the person of Col. John Thompson Brown II, when he\n was killed in action on 6 May 1864.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLists the courses in school taken by a nine\n year old boy and his two brothers, Wilicox, 11\n years old, and \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Peronneau\"\u003eP[eronneau]\u003c/abbr\u003e, 13\n years old.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertifies that John Thompson Brown II was\n elected Second Lieutenant by viva voce vote of the\n members of his company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReferences to Douglas and the threat to\n slavery.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerns the raid on Harper's Ferry by John\n Brown, 19 October 1859, and the treatment of him\n as a martyr in the North.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I greatly fear that the time has passed when\n great questions of State equality are to be\n settled in the Halls of Congress...this settlement\n requires powder and ball...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on ammunition on hand.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCourt Martial action taken for refusal to do\n guard duty, by a trooper under the command of Col.\n John Thompson Brown II.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for transfer, with his command, to the\n Division of Gen. D. H. Hills, so that he might be\n more actively engaged.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the families of the officers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning a dispute arising between the two\n over John Thompson Brown's command.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest the return of his report on the battle\n of Chancellorsville so that he might submit it to\n Gen. Stuart.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePapers relating to the oldest son of John Thompson\n Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, begin with letters\n written by his mother Mrs. Mary E. Brown. She\n expresses concern that her son is more interested in\n affairs other than his studies (1 March 1849). His\n school career is traced briefly through his years at\n the University of Virginia (28 June 1851).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters exchanged between Henry Peronneau\n Brown and his fiancee, Frances Baland Coalter, 1858,\n lead into the family correspondence which completes\n this box. (Other letters of Frances Bland Coalter and\n her family are found in Box 6, Coalter and Tucker\n Papers.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFrom May, 1861, all letters are concerned with the\n war. Letters written by John Coalter II, to his\n sister Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown in 1878 give a\n graphic picture of the struggle made by a southern\n farmer to re-establish himself after the war.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe widow of John Thompson Brown writes with\n concern about her oldest son, Peronneau, who is\n attending school in South Carolina. He was\n devoting too much time to outdoor affairs of\n college life and not enough to his studies.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCongratulating him on his success at Charleston\n College; a proposed biography of John Thompson\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning Henry Peronneau Brown, attending the\n \u003cabbr expan=\"The University of Virginia\"\u003e\n University [of Virginia]\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAffectionate letters to her fiance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn August she writes to console Mrs. Brown on\n the death of her mother, Mrs. Judith H.\n Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"We are all as glad, dear Fanny, that your home\n is so lovely and you are so happy...for its\n mountain scenery.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the failing health of their\n mother.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConsolations on the death of Mrs. Coalter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the loss of an infant.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe bachelor brother of Mrs. Brown writes that\n his loneliness on an out-of-the-way plantation is\n heading him to the madhouse.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eShe writes of the ladies making vests and\n shirts for the soldiers. News that the Yankees\n have landed at Hampton; the first of the war\n casualties in the family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaking clothes for the army: \"1500 yards have\n just been received which we are to turn our\n attention to at once.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHis house was set afire and cannon are firing\n all about. Comments on \"the tennessee\n company...the roughest men you ever saw...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe wife of John Thompson Brown II, is in \"this\n antiquated spot\" because her husband was drilling\n some new troops and sent for her to join him.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTheir brother, Henry, is at a camp near\n Williamsburg; the other brother, John, is in\n Richmond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"adjoining the lands of Henry Peronneau Brown\n and others.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"I am sorry Henry's name is not in the list of\n exchanged prisoners...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRequest for someone to serve the Presbyterian\n Church at Tappahannock.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe settlement of the John Randolph estate\n which was in litigation for many years.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRefuses a request for $500 by his nephew;\n recommends that he stop drinking.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNote written on an early \"penny post card.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetters written to his sister as he made a\n start in farming after the end of the war: \"I have\n not the means to buy me a suit of clothes.\" Later\n he added: \"I never was as poor in my life before\n as I am now...I have not spent during the whole\n year on myself more than $10...\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFirst mention of Cassie Tucker, who was later\n to marry John Thompson Brown III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA request for a purchase of a case of \"56 Home\n Remedies.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWrites of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"Cassie Tucker\"\u003eCassie\n [Tucker]\u003c/abbr\u003e, wife of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Thompson Brown III\"\u003e[John]\n Thompson [Brown III]\u003c/abbr\u003e. \"You have introduced\n into your home a very sunbeam.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eConcerning the death of \n \u003cabbr expan=\"John Coalter II\"\u003eJohn [Coalter\n II]\u003c/abbr\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters in this box concerning John Thompson\n Brown III, begin with one from his mother, Mrs. Henry\n Peronneau Brown, the former Frances Bland Coalter.\n There are 6 report cards from The University School,\n Petersburg, Virginia (1877-1879). Of interest is a\n pamphlet of \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eResolutions Passed in 1894,\n 1895, and 1896...Denouncing the Bedford High School\n Act.\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMany of the letters in the collection are from\n Mrs. Cynthia B. Tucker Coleman to her niece Cassie\n (Mrs. John Thompson Brown III). Letters from the\n children, John Thompson Brown IV, Frances Brown, and\n Henry Peronneau Brown II, are included as well as\n photographs of some members of the family and\n pictures of the family home, Ivy Cliff, Bedford\n County (formerly Otter Hill) the home of Capt. Henry\n Brown, great grandfather of John Thompson Brown\n III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the box is a notebook containing\n sermons copied out by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown for\n her son John Thompson Brown III.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTo her son [John Thompson Brown III] urging him\n to improve his writing and \"to read your Bible and\n say your prayers every day.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA description of the London Museum and Zoo.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome contain letters by John Thompson Brown\n III, when the reports were sent home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRecommends Bible reading as the antidote for\n \"the very corrupt sentiments which are scattered\n through the classical writers.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe recent death of her husband, Dr. Coleman;\n the serious illness of Mrs. Henry Peronneau\n Brown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring her illness, Mrs. Brown's children are\n in the care of Mrs. Coleman.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eA child's letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRejoices that Cassie's health is \"entirely\n restored.\" Bev. Tucker and Braxton Bryan are\n mentioned as attending an assembly of the clergy\n at Jamestown.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"...make haste and get well enough to come home\n where you are much missed.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Given to my son June 5, 1890. Let him read it\n carefully and may God have mercy on his soul.\n Amen.\" (Mrs. Frances B. Brown died in September\n 1894.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains material related to the Brown\n and Tucker families after 1900. Accounts of Cary A.\n Adams are placed at the beginning of the box.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNewspaper clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska,\n relate to Judge John Randolph Tucker. Another member\n of the family, Capt. David Tucker Brown, is\n represented by two letters (1918, 1919) written from\n France when he was serving as a member of the\n American Commission to negotiate peace.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the box are collected seventeen\n undated items concerning unidentified persons.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEndorsed: \"Pres. of Const. Convention,\n 1901-2.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTaken from the \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNome Daily Nugget\u003c/title\u003e, \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNome Democrat\u003c/title\u003eand \n \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNome Industrial\n Worker\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eWith the \"American Commission to Negotiate\n Peace.\" There is also mention of John Thompson\n Brown IV, of Wilmington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(\"From private who served you on the\n memorable 8th of Jany, 1815.\")\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAn alphabetical list of flowers with the\n characteristics of each expressed\n symbolically.\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content Information"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter, Tucker families\n including the papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the\n Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and John Thompson Brown\n (1802-1836), member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Among\n the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George\n Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St.\n George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev.\n Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.","Papers include John Coalter's autobiographical sketch\n (to age 18), 54 poems written by Coalter, St. George\n Tucker, and others including several by female writers.\n Correspondents of the Coalter family include St. George\n Tucker, Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker, William Munford,\n Judith Randolph, Frances Bland Tucker Coalter and Maria\n Rind Coalter. Subjects include John Randolph of Roanoke\n (and his will), George Wythe, the Embargo of 1807-1809,\n College of William and Mary, War of 1812; and the\n springs of Virginia.","Group A also includes papers of Coalter's children:\n Elizabeth Tucker Coalter; and St. George Tucker Coalter\n and his wife Judith H. Tomlin and the correspondence of\n Coalter's granddaughter Frances Lelia Bland Coalter\n Brown. Her letters concern her education and friendship\n with Moses Drury Hoge.","The record of the gift of the collection,\n genealogical charts of the Tucker, Coalter, Tomlin\n and Brown families, and sundry genealogical notes\n which form a preface to the collection, are placed\n at the beginning of this box. The collection\n begins with 54 poems, the first of which is signed\n by St. George Tucker. Two signed poems by William\n Munford are included. The largest group of poems\n are those exchanged by John Coalter and Maria\n Rind, his first wife. Others were collected in the\n family papers until the middle or the latter part\n of the nineteenth century.","The bulk of the material in Box 1 concerns John\n Coalter: an autobiographical sketch written by him\n on his 18th birthday, and letters covering the\n period of his early life from 1787, when he went\n to live with the St. George Tucker family, until\n the death of his first wife in 1793. Interesting\n letters from John Munford, a classmate of Coalter,\n are included, several of which concern the College\n of William and Mary and Harvard College.","Genealogical charts: 1. Coalter, with\n Tucker and Randolph connections; 2. Tomlin,\n as connected with Coalter and Brown; 3.\n Brown, as connected with Coalter and\n Tucker.","His father hopes that John Coalter will\n return home, to the higher country, for the\n \"sickly season.\"","Samuel Brown gives details of his studies at\n Dickinson College, and congratulates John\n Coalter on his chance to study law with St.\n George Tucker.","Attending lectures of the Rev. James\n Madison, President of the College of William\n and Mary, on Natural Philosophy, and of Mr.\n Wythe on Law. When John Coalter loses his\n ribbon he must let his hair hang free for want\n of money to buy another.","Two young cousins, in custody of Indians for\n 3 and 6 years respectively, were freed by the\n army in Detroit.","Concerning his wedding trip.","John Grierson Rind is a brother of Maria\n Rind. He mentions the need of John Coalter for\n a coat and a pair of spectacles.","Approval of the Constitution by South\n Carolina is still in doubt; threat of an Indian\n War in Georgia. \" \n Brother\n Dav[i]d is over in Gloucester. If he has\n success in purchasing Negroes, I hope we will\n be ready to sett [sic] out on our \n rout[e] to the\n South.\"","First letter of young Micajah Coalter, who\n is learning to write.","\"Have you been exempted from paying the\n oppressive Duty which most of our Backwoods\n Gentlemen have paid for that Knowledge which\n they have gathered at Williamsburg in Autumn--I\n mean the loss of Health and a good\n complexion.\"","Mentions John Coalter's desire to return\n home.","Expresses desire to marry and to live on the\n farm while he is getting started in his law\n practice.","\"...nothing can be expected without\n riches...however deserving of a better fate the\n poor always meet\n with rudeness and contempt.\" (Children of a\n Williamsburg printer, the Rinds were orphaned\n at an early age and were helped by the\n Tuckers.)","His father does not have land to give him at\n that time, so he cannot marry at once. He has\n decided to move to Staunton, and continue his\n studies. In September he writes that he hopes\n to visit Williamsburg around Christmas, and\n apply for admission to the bar.","The letters are written with great\n difficulty, and show a lack of schooling.","Mentions \"your quondam charges, Henry,\n Tudor, Beverley, and Fanny (Tucker) and John\n and Theodorick Randolph.\" Hopes he may live and\n study with Mr. Wythe. \"Nothing would advance me\n faster in the world than the reputation of\n having been educated by Mr. Wythe, for such a\n man as he, casts a light upon all around\n him.\"","John Coalter has borrowed a horse from him\n for the trip to Staunton.","\"I...was much pleased to hear of your\n gallantry but am affeared it has been attended\n with some accident which occasioned your move\n to the mountains again...\" (Evidently John\n Coalter did something to protect Maria Rind. He\n then decided to leave Williamsburg in order to\n establish himself and be in a position to\n support her as his wife.)","After obtaining his license in Williamsburg,\n John Coalter has his first case in Amherst. Of\n St. George Tucker, he writes: \"I would rather\n have the approbation of that man than worlds\n for my admirers.\" Advice is given in regard to\n the torment by John Randolph; plans are made\n for their marriage in autumn.","In April she writes that Mr. Tucker plans to\n remarry; she wishes to move up the date of\n their marriage. She dreads \"the prospect of\n Johnny Randolph returning and you well know, my\n love, how liable your dear is to be insulted by\n him...\"","\"...thru the surprising friendship of Mr.\n Wythe, I live in his house and board at his\n table...In this happy situation tomorrow I\n begin the Study of Law.\"","Congratulates James Rind on receiving his\n license to practice law.","\"We visit very often at the different houses\n in the neighborhood, at Westover, Nesting, and\n Shirley, where I saw Robin Carter...we may\n expect to see you after Mrs. Carter has become\n Mrs. Tucker.\"","On the return of a wagon and horses;\n purchases of additional farm animals.","Living and studying with Mr. Wythe. John\n Thompson (grandfather of John Thompson Brown)\n was among the 4th of July orators. Verse and\n poetic criticism of St. George Tucker. George\n Wythe is teaching his servant to write.","This law practice is discouraging; entrusts\n Maria Rind to his care, and sends greetings on\n St. George Tucker's 39th birthday.","Discourages John Coalter from coming \"across\n the Alps\" -- there are too many lawyers\n already.","Has moved to Richmond with Mr. Wythe.\n Mentions building of the canal. Samuel Brown to\n study in Scotland; congratulates John Coalter\n on his marriage to Maria Rind.","Elizabeth Tucker is sister of St. George\n Tucker, and an aunt of Fanny Tucker. Mentions\n other Tucker children, Henry, Tudor, Beverly,\n and Elizabeth, as well as Theodorick and\n Richard Randolph and the latter's wife, Judith.\n Comments on the proposed marriage of St. George\n Tucker to Mrs. Carter, and the small children\n she will be bringing to the marriage.","Description of George Washington delivering\n an address in Philadelphia. Congratulates John\n Coalter on his marriage and sends compliments\n to his brothers. (This Samuel Brown may be the\n uncle of John Thompson Brown.)","The letter was written soon after Mrs.\n Coalter had gone to Staunton with her\n husband.","On the marriage of St. George Tucker to Mrs.\n Lelia (Skipwith) Carter.","Death of Maria Skipwith; the great distress\n of Mrs. (Lelia Skipwith) Tucker.","His wages are to be 15£ or\n 20£ per year as a clerk.","The letter from Edinburgh contains an\n interesting description of life in the Scottish\n capital, the coldness of his fellow students\n until they are introduced, and his warm\n reception by a family to which he had a letter\n of introduction.","Reports that there are about forty students\n at the College of William and Mary; Theodorick\n Randolph has died; \"Thompson has left W. \u0026\n M.,\" and his mother proposes to send him to\n Harvard.","Enquires about Maria, and their expected\n first child. (Both mother and child died.)","The \"distressing news\" that his wife has\n died in childbirth.","War reports; the parade of the Richmond\n Grenadiers, Light Horse and Light Infantry.","Consoles John Coalter on the loss of his\n wife; reports the Independence Day orations at\n the College of William and Mary, and mentions\n the raising of subscriptions to aid distressed\n French immigrants at Norfolk.","The contents of Box 2 trace the legal career of\n John Coalter from 10 April 1795, when St. George\n Tucker recommended him for the position of Clerk\n of the Court in Staunton, through the period of\n his second and third marriages to Margaret\n Davenport, 1795 (she died in 1797), and to Frances\n Bland Tucker, 1802.","Included also are letters to Mrs. Frances Bland\n Tucker Coalter from her father St. George Tucker,\n her stepmother Mrs. Lelia Skipwith Tucker, her\n sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph of Bizarre, and\n others. Correspondence with William Munford, in\n Williamsburg, is also included.","Recommends John Coalter as Clerk of the\n Staunton Court.","\"Yes, Peggy, my Maria is gone! The worst of\n evils has befallen your friend.\"","Requests payment of a debt.","William Munford has returned to the College\n of William and Mary, and is \"in constant\n attendance on Mr. (St. George) Tucker...Mrs.\n Tucker has lately been so unfortunate as to\n lose a newborn child.\"","Accuses John Coalter of \"making a stroke at\n her character\"; makes insulting statements\n regarding John Coalter's late wife. John\n Coalter responds by threatening to take Jenny\n Stuart into court, after which she offers to\n return John Coalter's letter.","James Coalter is a merchant, dealing largely\n in indigo.","Recounts a voyage to Hampton Roads to view\n the French Fleet, consisting of 150 ships,\n including three men of war, five or six\n frigates, and armed merchantmen laden with\n flour. Party spirit in Norfolk; Aristocrats\n more prominent; acrimony inflamed by the\n presence of the French fleet and a British\n frigate. William Munford is ready to apply for\n his law license.","\"There can be but one in the world\" for her,\n but he is \"out of her reach.\" At a recent\n dinner the first toast by Governor Lee was to\n her.","Congratulations on the occasion of her\n marriage to John Coalter.","The difficulty of finding passage for Mrs.\n Coalter and her mother from Williamsburg to\n Staunton. John Coalter is finally able to\n borrow a phaeton which he has overhauled and\n supplied with an umbrella. Advice regarding\n divorce of F. C[?]y.","Concerning a mare to be serviced.","The \"war\" and Indian victory are mentioned\n and a bloody spring season is predicted.","Divorce proceedings for a Mrs. Matthews\n before the Georgia Legislature.","Mention is made of a child expected by Mrs.\n Coalter.","Condolences \"on this distressing occasion\"\n (the death of John Coalter's wife in\n childbirth; the child also died.)","Business letter concerning collections to be\n made in Virginia.","She should \"by this time be fatigued with\n the name of Tucker\" and that she \"had better\n look about\" (for a husband).","The letter is from the papers of John\n Coalter.","Judith Randolph, wife of Richard Randolph,\n half brother of Frances Tucker, sends greetings\n to Polly and Charles (Carter), step-sister and\n brother of Frances Tucker. The \"Mama\" mentioned\n is Mrs. Lelia Carter Tucker.","Complains that she is \"surrounded by the\n real evils of life.\" (Her husband had been\n linked with her sister in the famous scandal\n proceedings.)","Concerning a horse in which he is\n interested.","Hint of a June wedding for Frances\n Tucker.","Fanny B. Tucker has just married John\n Coalter and returned with him to Staunton. Anne\n H. Nicholas writes that Lelia Byrd has died at\n the age of 18.","Elm Grove was the new home of the Coalters.\n Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter was in the\n Warm Springs for her health in September.","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter returns to\n Williamsburg for the birth of her first child,\n Francis Lelia; the burning of the buildings of\n Lexington Academy.","John Coalter was on the court circuit.","The letters are undated, but are replies to\n those from Frances Bland Tucker Coalter to John\n Coalter.","F. Davenport was the mother of the second\n wife of John Coalter, who continued to live\n with the Coalters.","Concerning deed to property, probably Elm\n Grove, the home bought by John Coalter.","Maria Carter was a step-daughter of St.\n George Tucker.","Writes of obtaining a clerk's position with\n the Ohio Assembly at $4.00 per day.","Death of her husband and her straitened\n circumstances; Bizarre in bad condition; hopes\n to send her son, St. George, to Europe to cure\n his deafness.","In June, St. George Tucker and Mrs. Tucker\n set out for Staunton in order to be there for\n the lying-in of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter.","First mention of the second Coalter child,\n Elizabeth.","The illness of Tudor Randolph.","Congratulates John Coalter on the birth of\n his second daughter and the purchase of Elm\n Grove. He writes at length about the difficulty\n in buying good house servants.","Financial matters, mainly about bank shares\n and dividends.","St. George Randolph's visit to England; her\n disappointment over continued his deafness Dr.\n Cooper says \"occasioned by the irruption of his\n ears at nine months old.\" Has no authority over\n the servants. Illness of Polly the\n seamstress.","Thirty sick Negroes. Poverty.","John Naylor married to Jane, sister of John\n Coalter.","Payment of $1,230 on bank shares.","The marriage of Beverley Tucker to Mary\n Coalter.","Small pox.","Difficulties in South Carolina caused by the\n embargo.","His wife Evelina has given birth to a\n son.","Anne Catherine Coalter was visiting the\n Coalters at Elm Grove.","Mention of her young daughters, Fancilea\n (Francis Lelia) and Lizba (Elizabeth Tucker\n Coalter).","Frances Bland Tucker Coalter spent every\n summer at the medicinal springs for her\n health.","Interesting comments on the effect of the\n embargo in South Carolina, and of episodes in the\n War of 1812 in the Chesapeake Bay area are found\n in these letters. There is also a report of the\n destruction wrought in Bruton Parish Church by the\n \"youth of Williamsburg,\" and remarks of Saint\n George Tucker (14 June 1809) upon the occasion of\n the birth of his first grandson, St. George\n Coalter, in which he strongly condemns the\n academies and colleges of that day.","Letters include those exchanged by John Coalter\n with his third wife Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter\n from 1809-1811, when John Coalter was serving as\n Circuit Judge. In 1811 he accepted an appointment\n as judge of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals;\n the family then moved to Richmond. There are many\n letters received by Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter between 1809 and her death in 1813, from\n her father St. George Tucker, and stepmother Mrs.\n Lelia Tucker, in Williamsburg, from her\n sister-in-law Mrs. Judith Randolph at Bizarre, and\n from other members of the family. There also are\n many letters to the daughters of John Coalter,\n Frances Lelia and Elizabeth Tucker, from their\n grandparents, from 1813 to the death of Frances\n Lelia Coalter in 1821.","On the appointment of John Coalter to his\n position as \"a judge under the new Judiciary\n System.\" (John Coalter was appointed February\n 7, 1807).","Mentions a visit from the newly married \n Beverley\n [Tucker] and \n Polly\n [Coalter] and writes concerning her sons\n Saint (George) and Tudor.","Written by John Coalter during spring and\n autumn sessions of the Circuit Court. Contain\n instructions for planting, the upkeep of Elm\n Grove, and other matters.","One of the letters concerns the troubles\n with the English and the hope for a peaceful\n settlement.","In the letter of June 14, St. George Tucker\n mentions the birth of John Coalter's first son\n his first grandson (St. George Tucker Coalter)\n \"who, if my prayers for him may be heard, will\n never descend from the dignity of a private\n station.\" Concerning the education of his\n grandson, he writes, \"unless the manners of our\n youth, or the management of their tutor, shall\n undergo a most surprising and happy change in\n this Country, I had rather he should never hear\n of an Academy or a College, than enter the\n walls of one.","Congratulations on the birth of a son.","This series of letters is concerned, among\n other problems, with the difficulty of meeting\n payments on Elm Grove, of a fight between two\n of their slaves, the treatment of one of the\n wives by slave husband and the imprisonment on\n the plantation of the two slaves. Effort to get\n a tooth pulled. Two doctors and, finally, \"a\n shoemaker named Cease\" were able to extract the\n tooth about a week after the first attempt was\n made. Alcoholism of a friend. Afflicting\n account of sister's situation at Bizarre. \"she\n must come to us, as soon as she can leave\n Bizarre; which she says cannot be before Xmas,\n that she may complete the clothing of the\n Negroes.\"","Appeals to James All to represent the\n district. About the war situation: \"We are more\n Colonies than ever--i.e. we give our \n whole trade to\n aid Britain in her wars--were we Colonies we\n would only give the revenue arising from\n trade.\"","Her parents were trying to buy a cook for\n Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter without great\n success.","These letters although undated, are believed\n to have been written in 1810.","Reports that Bruton Parish Church has been\n \"totally and wantonly destroyed...the Bellows\n and many of the pipes cut to pieces,\" evidently\n by the youth of the town.","John Coalter attending the spring and autumn\n sittings of the Circuit Court, sends\n instructions for the management of the\n farm.","News of the farm, the slaves, and family.\n Relays questions from slave Ned about the farm\n and permission for him to visit his daughter in\n Rockingham and his wife's petition to accompany\n him.","Concerning a cook for sale.","D[avid]\n C[oalter] , Mary's father.","These letters from relatives of Mrs. Frances\n Bland Tucker Coalter are placed in one\n folder.","These letters are undated but are presumed\n to date from 1811, and placed in one\n folder.","In May, John Coalter writes of his\n appointment as Judge of the Supreme Court of\n Appeals of Virginia (May 11, 1811). \"God help\n me, I know not what to do. All have advised my\n acceptance.\" In October he writes of\n arrangements made for the move to Richmond, and\n of plans to sell the cattle at Elm Grove.","In April Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter\n writes, \"I very much fear I shall never be\n reconciled to our fate\"--of separation for such\n long periods when John Coalter is absent on the\n court circuit. (A month later John Coalter was\n appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of\n Appeals.) Also mentions a \"terrible whipping\"\n their two year old son St. George Tucker\n Coalter had \"for obstinacy.\"","Tucker strongly advises his brother-in-law\n against accepting his new appointment: \"Rest\n assured that no other Judge of the General\n Court will accept the office which is tendered\n you.\"","John St. George Randolph is a son of Mrs.\n Judith Randolph.","Speaking of himself as an \"ex-judge,\" Tucker\n advises John Coalter regarding his new\n appointment; concern for the health of Mrs.\n Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Frances Lelia Coalter writes with concern\n about her mother's health.","News of the children sent to Mrs. Frances\n Bland Tucker Coalter who is quite ill.","Concern for Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter's poor health.","The troubled times are reflected in this\n series of letters. In July, Tucker comments on\n the American privateer with one nine-pounder\n which took a British schooner armed with four\n twelve pounders. In August he gives an account\n of the Baltimore riot in which a jail was\n broken into and prisoners assassinated. He\n writes that such action \"is beyond measure\n horrible and obnoxious; and every good Citizen\n ought to set his face against such damnable\n proceedings,\" but concludes, \"The Yankees, no\n doubt, will be glad of the precedent...I look\n forward to a dissolution of the Union, as an\n Event not far off.\"","Concerning the sale of Elm Grove.","Reflects the uncertainty of the war\n situation in his letter.","Frances L. Coalter writes to her father who\n is with her mother, Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker\n Coalter, in her last illness at the medicinal\n springs.","Writing to his daughter before she goes to\n the Springs for her final siege of illness, St.\n George Tucker sends the news that the enemy had\n left the waters about Williamsburg after much\n destruction and property along the river.","In these letters it is apparent that Mrs.\n Frances Bland Tucker Coalter is near death.","Letters of hope and prayer for the recovery\n of Mrs. Frances Bland Tucker Coalter.","Reports of the war: \"the conduct of the\n British at Craney Island was the most cowardly\n imaginable,\" and \"We have just been informed by\n rumor that the British Squadron in the\n Chesapeake has been reinforced...\"","Writes of his \"great and irretrievable loss\"\n his wife died \"on Sunday evening, the 12th\n instant.\"","The first letters written after the death of\n St. George Tucker's daughter.","To her granddaughter, the second child of\n John Coalter and his late wife. (A biographical\n note of John Coalter's family is enclosed in\n the folder with this letter.)","She writes that \"the events of the present\n week will supply to you the want of a Mother\n and Sister, which you have so severly felt,\n particularly in the last six or eight months.\"\n Frances L. Coalter, the sister of Elizabeth T.\n Coalter, died in 1821 at the age of 18. John\n Coalter was soon to marry his fourth wife, a\n widow Williamson.","Second is titled \"Tucker-Green Annals.\"","The Tuckers are in their summer home at\n Warminster, with Maria Carter Cabell, daughter\n of Mrs. L. Tucker, and her husband Joseph\n Cabell.","A New Year's greeting to his\n granddaughters.","The letters in this box are primarily those of\n the two surviving children of John and Francis\n Bland Tucker Coalter: Elizabeth Tucker Coalter\n Bryan and St. George Tucker Coalter, and their\n respective spouses, John Randolph Bryan and Judith\n H. Tomlin Coalter.","This group includes genealogical material on\n the Tomlin family, and correspondence of Judith H.\n Tomlin before her marriage to St. George Tucker\n Coalter. Her letters form an important part of the\n collection from this time until her death in\n 1859.","The last letters from their grandparents, Mr.\n and Mrs. St. George Tucker, are preserved, as well\n as letters to their uncles Henry and Beverley\n Tucker and John Randolph of Roanoke. Of special\n note is a letter of October, 1831 in which St.\n George Tucker Coalter writes fully of Randolph\n during a visit to Roanoke. After his death in\n 1833, Randolph's will caused great difficulty and\n misunderstanding in the family, and appears to\n cast a slur on his step-father St. George\n Tucker.","The letters of St. George Tucker Coalter to his\n wife and sister, especially those written from the\n springs which he visits each year, form the\n largest single group. In these letters an\n interesting picture of nineteenth century social\n life is to be found.","Schoolgirl letters written by J. H. T.\n before her marriage.","Judith H. Tomlin writes of her visit to\n Yorktown to see Lafayette on his return visit\n to America.","Judith H. Tucker writes to congratulate\n Virgilia Savage in December on her\n marriage.","Endorsed: \"Letters of my dear and venerated\n Grandfather, S. G. Tucker, High Souled,\n Generous Gentleman.\"","Thomas T. Tucker, a brother of St. George\n Tucker, enclosed these two letters in a packet\n which he forwarded from Beverley Tucker.","St. George Tucker complains about his sight\n and signs himself \"Your old blind Grandpa\" in\n the first of these letters. The last is\n endorsed: \"All the letters concerning my most\n dear Grandfather's illness and death are\n omitted and put to themselves.\"","These were written after the death of St.\n George Tucker.","Writes in regard to his instruction in law,\n as suggested by Elizabeth T. Coalter. He\n mentions the poor health of his step-brother,\n John Randolph, of Roanoke; and suspects that\n his brother, Beverley, \"will not return to\n Virginia as a resident.\" Beverley Tucker, then\n in Missouri, did return to Williamsburg, and\n later became Professor of Law at the College of\n William and Mary.","Tucker enclosed his \"Introductory Lecture,\"\n reprinted from his \n Commentory on the Laws\n of Virginia . . . Lectures delivered at the\n Winchester Law School , pp. 7-14.","The first is a printed invitation to a ball\n at the Jefferson Hotel with a message added;\n the second is a Temperance pledge signed by St.\n George Tucker Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin and\n three others.","Evidently left in charge of his father's\n estate, Chatham, he writes concerning\n examinations at the College of William and Mary\n and of his experiences in vaccinating and\n performing minor operations on the slaves. (He\n was a 20 year old farmer with no medical\n training!)","St. George Tucker Coalter prepares to leave\n school to marry.","The first letter to Judith Tomlin Coalter\n after her marriage to St. George Tucker\n Coalter, December 16, 1829. \"Tell St. George\n that yesterday Uncle R. (John Randolph of\n Roanoke) made an attack \n on the\n Judiciary and Papa (John Coalter),\n finding no one else would rise to their\n defense, answered him...\"","His \"chill and fever,\" the recurring\n sickness which was to bring on his early death\n in 1839. His wife goes to Chatham, the Coalter\n family home, for the birth of her first child,\n Walker Tomlin Coalter.","In October he writes: \"Uncle R. (John\n Randolph of Roanoke) looks dreadfully, is much\n worn away by disease...\" Two weeks later he\n writes describing Randolph's estate and\n personality: \"He is very agreeable indeed and\n entertains me highly with his conversation on\n all subjects...He is a man of the finest and\n nicest feelings I have ever met with...\"","On her husband's financial difficulties.","Writes to his sister about crops, planting,\n and the like.","The two cousins, grandsons of John Coalter,\n are infants; this letter is written by St.\n George Tucker Coalter.","In the January letter, he announces the\n birth of a son, Henry St. George Tucker\n Coalter. From White Sulphur Springs, he writes\n (July 27) that \"the shortness of breath and the\n hacking cough have left me entirely.\"","Her husband is at the Springs; she would\n like to join him but cannot afford it. \"He says\n he never wished for money before, as the want\n of it keeps him from having company...\"","An interesting group of letters describing\n life at several of the medicinal springs which\n were so popular in the 19th century. He\n describes his daily regimen, the meals, the\n baths, other tourists, the costs, and the\n physical characteristics of the resorts.","Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes to her husband\n about family matters while he is at the springs\n for his health.","A continuation of his previous letters,\n including a crude drawing of the buildings and\n grounds of Salt Sulphur Springs.","In November she mentions that Beverley\n Tucker called on way to Williamsburg.","The boys, who are just learning to write,\n add their notes to the letter to their\n grandfather.","Her husband is overworking, and she fears\n for his health.","The brother of Mrs. Judith H. Coalter writes\n to her father-in-law asking help in gaining a\n position with a Richmond company.","He writes about his poor health; mentions\n his uncle, Beverley Tucker.","John Coalter is very much concerned with\n gold mine projects; he now orders St. George\n Tucker Coalter about at his will, and has\n decided that the family shall move closer to\n him. They are dependent on John Coalter\n financially.","Life at the springs, his continuing illness\n and his poverty.","His discouragement as he contemplates the\n move insisted upon by his father: \"after seven\n years we have to begin the world afresh and fix\n and build and lay out and all that -- oh\n thunder - -how I dread and hate it.\"","Regarding the move from Cumberland, New Kent\n County, to St. George's Park, King William\n County, and the difficulty of the move.","John Coalter is very ill, and the new place\n is slow in getting established. Mention of the\n will of John Randolph of Roanoke.","The will of John Randolph of Roanoke, in\n which the good name of St. George Tucker is\n slighted. Henry and Beverley Tucker, sons of\n St. George Tucker are also involved.","Home has not been settled since leaving\n Cumberland. Her husband has finally bought a\n place \"about 2 hundred and 50 acres, very poor,\n with a new house but a very indifferent\n one.\"","Concerning the \"continued illness\" of Judge\n (John) Coalter; offers to be of any help that\n he can. (John Coalter died the day this letter\n was written.)","The correspondence between St. George T.\n Coalter, his wife, his sister Mrs. Elizabeth T.\n Bryan, and her husband John Randolph Bryan, form\n the core of the material in this box. St. George\n Tucker Coalter attempts to establish a new home\n where his late father John Coalter forced him to\n move (St. George Tucker Coalter was never\n financially independent of his father). A doctor's\n prescription, 28 April 1839, for the man who has\n been slowly dying of lung trouble and constant\n fever is: salts to be taken internally, salve\n rubbed on externally, baths at the medicinal\n springs and regular exercise. Four months later\n St. George Tucker Coalter died.","The five surviving children of Mrs. Coalter and\n the nine children of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan add\n to the correspondence as the years go on, for the\n families are very attached to one another and\n there is much visiting back and forth as well as\n letter writing. The letters of the cousins have\n been combined in this collection, so that an\n interesting picture is given of the life of this\n period; see a report of a traveling entertainer\n who visits the great houses (23 February 1847), a\n description of a costume ball at Warner Hall (8\n February 1851) and a list of courses studied at a\n Girl's school (2 February 1852).","There is much discussion of diseases which were\n prevalent: consumption, scarlet fever, typhoid\n fever, cholera, and influenza. 16-year-old John\n Coalter copied out a cholera cure sent by his aunt\n for use by two local doctors (13 July 1849).","The first letter is endorsed by John\n Randolph Bryan. The second was started by St.\n George Tucker Coalter but was completed and\n signed by his wife.","Concerned principally with the rapidly\n deteriorating health of St. George T. Coalter.\n In June he begins a letter that he is unable to\n finish but by November he is again supervising\n the farm activity. The establishment of the new\n farm and the erection of additional buildings\n is a great strain.","Mrs. Coalter wrote the first two letters for\n her husband who was too weak to write, but by\n December he was again active in supervising St.\n George's Park, their new home.","Coalter visits his uncle, Beverley Tucker,\n who has moved back to Williamsburg.","Visiting the family home of Mrs. Coalter\n their son, John, falls down the basement stairs\n and is unconscious for a time. His father\n writes, \"the Doctor bled him and yesterday\n morning we gave him a dose of salts...he is now\n to all appearances as well as ever tho' from\n loss of blood, the shock, the Salts and low\n diet he is a little fainty when he first begins\n to move about in the morning.\" (The child\n survived the ministrations of the doctor!)","A receipt for $100.00 and a demand for\n another $100.00 on shares of stock.","Concerned with the business of a ferry, gold\n mines, and a mill, evidently part of the estate\n left by John Coalter to his two children.","Mr. Coalter has had a relapse, and \"has lost\n all the flesh and muscle he had gained. Yet he\n makes a trip down country in April, only to\n return much worse.","He marks his 30th birthday: \"I can neither\n eat nor sleep nor move about with comfort and\n am so weak from fever...that I can hardly stand\n up or sit down.\"","Letters written to her husband when he is on\n his last trip from home.","A doctor's prescription: salts, used\n internally, salves externally, baths at the Hot\n Springs, and continued exercise.","Announces the birth of a child to Mrs.\n Coalter. St. George Tucker Coalter writes of\n the \"fire in my breast that must soon burn me\n out.\"","News of a young son; congratulates Mrs.\n Bryan on the birth of a daughter. St. George\n Tucker Coalter adds a note in July 4th letter:\n \"I can't make much hand at writing this evening\n but I send you these few words to comfort\n you...my thoughts and prayers are with you may\n the Lord work all things together for our\n good.\" To this Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan has\n added the endorsement, \"The last line I ever\n got from him.\"","After the death of her husband, Mrs. Coalter\n has gone to live with her sister-in-law at\n Eagle Point.","Mrs. Coalter moved from St. George's Park to\n Presley. Her brother, Harrison Tomlin, was\n living with the family and takes the place of a\n father to the children.","Of her poverty and of the need for means to\n educate her children.","The son of Mrs. Coalter writes to his young\n cousin, the son of John Randolph Bryan, at\n Roanoke, a plantation that had been in\n litigation since the death of John Randolph.\n The property was being administered by J. R.\n Bryan, one of the heirs. Young John C. Bryan,\n was one of the chief beneficiaries of the will,\n then being contested.","Announcing the birth of a child.","Preparations are made to send Fanny (Frances\n Bland Coalter) to live with her grandmother and\n to attend school in Fredericksburg. The sale of\n the estate of her late husband took place in\n October.","Enquires about money from the estate of John\n Randolph of Roanoke; her plans to send John and\n Henry Coalter away to school. (St. George\n Tucker Coalter, father of John and Henry, was a\n nephew of John Randolph, and it was expected\n that the Coalter children would inherit\n something from his estate.)","Written from school to his aunt; \"all of the\n boys have to get in school by sunrise and stay\n there until five in the evening.\"","The Bryan place, Eagle Point in Gloucester\n County, is so isolated and the family growing\n so large that a school teacher was kept there\n for the other children. She mentions her\n brothers and sisters, and tells of a traveling\n entertainer: \"De [Delia] and myself went to\n Warner Hall...and there found an Italian\n ventriloquist with a hat on that had little\n bells all around the brim...if he comes to\n Chatham you will probably be deceived by\n him...\"","He tells his sister: \"I reckon this is the\n coldest and most melancholy place in the\n world.\"","Hopes to get a place from the sale of the\n estate. \"Seven years this last Christmas is a\n long time not to have a house to call your\n own.\" Her hopes for the settlement of the\n Randolph estate are not fulfilled.","Congratulates Mrs. Bryan on the birth of a\n son, her 8th child. Mentions shopping trips to\n Richmond and the remodeling of the house, so,\n perhaps, some money may have been received from\n the Randolph estate.","A 9-year old writes of attending a dance at\n Warner Hall and staying until 11 p.m. \"We take\n dancing lesson of 2 hours length every\n Saturday.\"","Consumption and Cholera are discussed as\n well as the final division of the estate. Mrs.\n Coalter still hopes to be able to buy a home of\n her own. Sons John and Henry left in September\n for the University of Virginia where they room\n with their cousins, Jack Coalter and J.\n Braxton. On Christmas Day she mentions \"A\n dreadful affair has lately occurred at the\n University, one young man killed another, both\n intoxicated and from the south; as wicked as\n that is, it takes the \n cold\n blooded yankees to perpetrate the\n refinement of barbarism in \n stewing , and\n boiling...living people...\"","Henry T. Coalter, 16 years old, writes that\n he has had charge of the harvest at the farm\n because the overseer was sick. He has also\n advised the local doctors on Cholera cures:\n \"Mama received your letter by the last post and\n was much obliged to you for the copy you sent\n her of the cure for the Cholera. Since it\n reached here I have copied it twice for\n different doctors who seemed much pleased with\n the proscription (sic).\"","A beautiful description of the Cove and the\n island as seen from the Eagle Point house.","Mrs. Lacy, related through the fourth wife\n of her grandfather, John Coalter, was like an\n older sister to Frances Bland Coalter, and the\n affectionate relationship between the two\n continued for many years.","The Lacy's are preparing to move into\n Ellwood, the former summer home of John\n Coalter.","Letters written before and after a long\n visit. There were ties between the families\n despite the distance between them. Mrs. Coalter\n fears her youngest son, \n Saint\n [George] , has Typhoid fever.","A school friend tells of a visit to Richmond\n to see the relics of Gen. and Mrs.\n Washington.","About life in the great houses of Virginia,\n excursions on river boats, dances, and the\n like. Mentions a fancy ball where everyone\n appeared in a mask and gown, \"You cannot tell a\n man from a woman. They go about in this costume\n for some time and have a dance...one gentleman\n went draped as a lady and no one found him\n out,...one went as a monk in robes and with his\n beads...\"","\"When will your new house, or rather, new\n home be ready for you? (Frances Bland Coalter's\n mother has finally been able to buy a house,\n Stanley.)","Mentions the war threat: \"my anxiety about a\n lasting peace\n and the welfare of my children preys very much\n on my spirits.\"","Announces the birth of a daughter to Mrs.\n Lacy.","Fanny Coalter is attending a school\n conducted by Rev. Moses D. Hoge.","Endorses note from Mrs. Judith H.\n Coalter.","About her daughter, Agnes, and the progress\n on the improvements at Ellwood.","\"Rumors of a great revival at Mr. H.'s\n school have reached us from different quarters\n and report says Jinney and yourself acted a\n conspicuous part.\"","A school friend writes of her textbooks:\n \"Paley's Moral Philosophy, Olinstead's Natural\n Philosophy, Hume's History of England, Conic\n Sections, Thompson's Arithmetic and French\n Studies.\"","Includes a most interesting account of trip\n by boat from Gloucester County, \n via Jamestown,\n to Richmond.","The first letters written by Mrs. Coalter's\n youngest child.","A schoolmate who has left Rev. Mr. Hoge's\n school writes back.","An offer to abate charges so that Fanny B.\n Coalter could remain in school.","Writes that he has stood his examination for\n license to practice law; reports on his\n brothers and sisters.","Fanny has returned to Rev. Hoge's school;\n her friend writes regarding scarlet fever.","This box consists largely of papers collected by\n Frances Bland Coalter between February 1853, when she\n is preparing to leave school, and December 1858, when\n she married Henry Peronneau Brown. Through this\n marriage the Tucker-Coalter line was connected with\n the Brown line; thus, the papers of the two families\n were brought together into one.","The collection gives an interesting picture of the\n life and interests of a young lady of moderate\n circumstances in the mid-l9th century. Of special\n interest are the letters concerning the Rev. Moses D.\n Hoge, whose school in Richmond Fanny Coalter had\n attended. Shortly after she left school, the Rev. Mr.\n Hoge carried on a very romantic correspondence with\n Fanny, although he was a married man with several\n children. The correspondence became more ardent in\n the early months of 1854 and, when Mrs. Hoge wrote\n that her husband had gone to Baltimore to stay with\n his brother who was ill, Fanny followed him there.\n According to the gossip of Mattie and Lizzie Morton,\n she went there to \"entrap him.\" In October it was\n suggested that the brother, William Hoge, was the one\n in whom she was interested. The Rev. Mr. Hoge later\n sought to calm the fervours of his correspondent, as\n shown by his letters of 28 January 1855, 19 June\n 1856, and 19 March 1857.","Fanny B. Coalter did not lack for other suitors,\n however, for she preserved a letter of 17 July 1854,\n a proposal of marriage from Alfred B. Tucker. A year\n later there are reports of her interest in the Brown\n brothers, John Thompson and Peronneau, of Petersburg,\n both of whom were courting her. She finally settled\n on the latter; some acceptances to the marriage\n invitation are included in this box.","Letters of Frances Bland Coalter and her husband\n Henry Peronneau Brown continue in Box 21. The\n intervening boxes contain manuscripts of the Brown\n family, especially Capt. Henry Brown, grandfather of\n Henry Peronneau Brown (Boxes 7-13); the Hon. John\n Thompson Brown, father of Henry Peronneau Brown\n (Boxes 14-19); and Col. John Thompson Brown II,\n brother of Henry Peronneau Brown (Box 20).","Fanny is preparing to leave the school, having\n finished the course.","A schoolmate and Fanny's sister write after she\n leaves school.","Reports that Jack Bryan, oldest son of Mrs.\n Elizabeth T. Bryan is dying at the Coalter home,\n Presley.","After many years of waiting (since the death of\n her husband in 1839) Mrs. Coalter is finally able\n to buy her own place, Stanley. She tells of her\n move and of the illness that put her in bed\n afterward.","The school is closed for the summer, his wife\n and children are away, so he enlivens his solitude\n \"by having a little chat with you...and where I\n always think of you and the delightful morning\n when we enjoyed the scene together...how I cherish\n every memorial of you. \"I greatly enjoyed your\n last brief visit to us and that evening (do you\n remember it?) when the music room being full of\n company we found quiet, and cool breezes in the\n back porch. I have been sitting there tonight.\" (A\n strange letter, indeed, and one which was to cause\n some upset in the heart of Frances Bland Coalter,\n as subsequent correspondence show.)","Written to Mrs. Judith H. Coalter soon after\n she purchased her home, Stanley.","\"This letter cannot hold any news, so I will\n fill it with love...entertaining myself by wishing\n that you could walk into the room and occupy a\n vacant chair hard by .\"I hope to see you\n sometimes...nothing to what I would enjoy were I\n to keep house in a quiet way and have you for my\n guest a week at a time...\"I would like you to\n marry some fine fellow and live in Richmond, only\n I...like you best as you are, except that you are\n too far from me.\"","\"When I woke up yesterday morning and found it\n raining, my spirits fell as low as the mercury for\n I feared you would not come to Hampstead...\"","\"You ask me why it is that I am so partial to\n you--well, the very first time we get a chance to\n have a talk by ourselves I will tell you...When\n shall the opportunity come? There is always so\n much company at your house...\"","He conducts a school: \"I succeeded in six days\n of raising 21 scholars.\" He writes that Henry has\n graduated in Law with distinction.","\"I think from his letter, \n Brother\n [William Hoge] has been much sicker than we\n had any idea of \n Mr. [Moses D.]\n Hoge is going on Thursday to see him and\n will probably remain in Baltimore until he is well\n enough to travel...\"","Addressed to Fanny at Baltimore. Her friend\n writes, \"Cousin Joe says you went to Baltimore\n purposely to see Mr. Hoge.\"","Reports gossip concerning Fanny's Baltimore\n trip.","\"Often when (I am) abroad, you will be in my\n mind and heart. Neither do I want you to get\n married before I return. I am to perform that\n service, you know...\"","Concerning the gossip regarding Fanny and Rev.\n Hoge: \"Surely you could not think me so deceitful\n as to profess to love you and then say that you\n would \n try to entrap a\n gentleman . \n I did not say so .\n I remember saying that if you went to Baltimore\n and were thrown with Mr. Hoge I believed he would\n address you, because I know he admired you very\n sincerely...\"","A proposal of marriage.","A rumor that Frances Bland Coalter is to\n marry.","\"Julia Green was here...when I told her that\n you had gotten a letter from Mr. Hoge she said she\n was so jealous of you that she was ready to\n fight...\"","\"I am going to Baltimore...and I shall see Mr.\n Wm. Hoge! Don't you wish you were going? What\n shall I tell him for you?\"","St. George is now in school at Staunton.","Construction work to be done at the University\n of Virginia.","\"I hope that it will not be long before I have\n the pleasure of seeing you, my dear and constantly\n remembered friend.\"","\"I have heard several times of your engagement\n to Thomas--who has made himself very scarce.\"","Accepts invitation to the marriage of Virginia,\n younger sister of Fanny Coalter.","Now a practicing lawyer, he writes to his aunt\n on business.","To her cousin regarding \"Mr. President\" and\n \"The Vice.\" (This appears to refer to the Brown\n brothers, John Thompson and Henry Peronneau.\n Frances Bland Coalter was to marry the\n latter.)","\"I wish you to be very particular in your\n conversations with \n P[eronneau] not to\n let him have the least idea of the tenor of my\n remarks to you yesterday and at the same time\n manage to convince him that I am not in love with\n you, as I am afraid such is his present\n opinion.\"","Trouble in: finding a teacher for her children;\n \"the Roanoke business\"--(evidently a reference to\n the still unsettled will of John Randolph of\n Roanoke.)","Concerned about the health of Fanny's mother,\n has a horror of those \"distracting springs\" for\n invalids.","The solution to a problem in surveying (this\n may be the \"Thomas\" to whom Frances Bland Coalter\n was rumored to be engaged).","On the death of Mrs. E. T. Bryan, aunt of Fanny\n Bland Coalter.","On the death of Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bryan.","Thanks Fanny for her help at the time of the\n death of Mrs. Bryan, her mother.","Is in charge of the plantation since her\n mother's death; busy making summer clothes for the\n slaves.","Suggests a visit together to \"cousin Horace\n Lacy.\"","P[eronneau]\n Brown and his brother, Thompson, are\n mentioned. (See letters of December 1855,\n Box-folder 6:44-45.)","Writes to ask Mrs. Coalter to stay with his\n daughters during his absence in the south.","Has charge of the large plantation, keeping\n four seamstresses, three spinners and a weaver\n busy.","\"No, my dear Fanny, my affection for you has\n not changed.\"","Regarding Mr. Willcox Brown and his brother\n Peronneau, future husband of Frances Bland\n Coalter.","Invitation to the commencement party at Hampden\n Sidney College.","Accompanying his uncle on a business trip, he\n has visited the main cities of the south and\n attended the opera in New Orleans. \"I must confess\n that I have been rather disappointed in the people\n that live in these rich lands--they are as rough\n as possible...live in log houses and on the very\n poorest fare.\"","\"I suppose your wedding will be postponed\n unless Mr. Brown's recovery is unusually\n rapid.\"","\"The news of your engagement [to Henry P.\n Brown] did not surprise me...how heartily I\n approve of your choice...\"","\"If my letter arrives too late for Miss Fanny\n Coalter, I hope Mrs. Brown will have enough\n affection for the old name to lay claim to\n it.\"","Regrets that he cannot attend the wedding.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","These letters are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This letter is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","These letters are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","This item is undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","These covers are undated but probably received\n before December 7, 1858.","Papers of Henry Brown, a merchant and county official\n include a manuscript map of Guilford C. H., business\n records and correspondence of Brown and Clayton, New\n London, Bedford (now Campbell County), Virginia and\n Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, Virginia. Collection also\n includes papers concerning a lawsuit against Pleasant\n Murphy and estate papers of Daniel Brown and Henry\n Brown's father-in-law John Thompson. There are papers of\n his immediate family including Henry Brown, Jr.","The Brown family papers begin with the letters\n and papers of Capt. Henry Brown (1760-1841),\n successful merchant of Bedford County and\n Lynchburg, who established the family fortune. He\n was the father of John Thompson Brown, Delegate to\n the Virginia Assembly, whose letters and papers\n are collected in the next section (Boxes\n 14-19).","A few letters and receipts pertaining to Henry\n Brown, 1712-1798, the father of Capt. Henry Brown,\n are included. The great bulk of the material,\n however, relates to Capt. Brown, beginning with a\n map of a Revolutionary War battle, 1777, in which\n he was wounded. With his brother, Daniel, he\n opened a general store in Bedford soon after the\n conclusion of the war. A partnership agreement of\n April 1797, which brought James Leftwich into the\n business, is preserved and the bulk of the\n material in this box pertains to the business of\n the store. A good picture of early merchandising\n is given by the accounts, letters relating to\n buying and selling trips, and the court actions\n taken to collect accounts.","Also, starting with folder 60, are 39 items\n relating to the duties of Henry Brown as tax\n collector in the Bedford area in the years 1800 to\n 1803.","\"Your friends here tremble for you and\n apprehend the worst from the dangers that\n encompass you...the deadly rifle, the scalping\n knife, tomahawk...return to us in all\n speed.\"","Endorsed: \"Map of revolutionary battle,\n found 1926 by F. B. Saunders in old papers from\n Ivy Cliff. Capt. Henry Brown, born at Ivy Cliff\n about 1760, was wounded at Guildford C. H.\"","Concerning goods for a retail store.","Endorsed: \"Note Henry Brown, payable 1\n September, 1793.\"","Regarding saddle goods in stock at the\n store.","Writes to his brother concerning tobacco\n prices.","Concerning business affairs a suit for debt,\n purchase of tobacco and a \"Negro wench\" for the\n store, etc. \"P.S. I heard at court they had\n made you a Captain.\"","Includes a list of the new officers of the\n Farmer's Bank in Richmond.","Concerning the division of Negroes, total\n value £815, between Leftwich and the\n Brown brothers.","Regarding loss of West India produce on\n which $5,000.00 was borrowed. Endorsed: \"I fear\n our loss will be considerable.\"","Receipt is for $130.43 to be paid to John\n Roberts on land that Capt. Henry Brown sold to\n William Woodford.","Tobacco sold by Leftwich to a man who was a\n bad risk: \"...we are thrown out of between 20\n and 30 thousand dollars...one fourth of what it\n has taken us 20 years to earn is lost for want\n of prudence.\"","Directions for sending tax collections.","Business records and correspondence of Henry\n Brown and Samuel P. Clayton. After the death of\n his brother Daniel in 1818, Brown entered into a\n partnership with Clayton, his son-in-law. Brown\n survived Clayton, who died in 1832; this box also\n includes papers from 1833 to 1839 made out to\n Henry Brown, surviving partner of Brown and\n Clayton Company.","The accounts of Henry Brown with Hancock and\n Brown, Lynchburg, 1824-1833, are retained as one\n group.","Also retained as a separate group are the\n papers relating to the court suits of Brown and\n Pleasant Murphy. All notes of the period carried a\n 100 percent penalty clause. This resulted in many\n law suits being brought to establish what would\n now be considered exorbitant claims. In one case\n (see entry for March 10, 1823) for a debt of\n $42.05, the debtor surrendered 1 sound filly, 2\n cows, a calf, 2 feather beds, all household and\n kitchen furniture, all plantation utensils, and 6\n hogs!","Captain Henry Brown had many interests in his\n long life apart from the purely commercial\n activities upon which his considerable fortune was\n built. Included in this box are the papers\n relating to his other interests.","Business papers of Henry Brown, not directly\n connected with any of his various business\n enterprises, but concerned principally with court\n suits involving debts to him. Included is an\n interesting case of Mark Anthony, who took the\n oath of an Insolvent Debtor, making out a deed of\n trust of all his property to his creditors (11\n April 1829 and 6 July 1833).","Also includes papers concerned with the suit of\n Henry Brown vs. Nicodemus Leftwich, 1832-1840.\n Brown pays for the attendance of witnesses at the\n court and pays the county Jailor \"for imprisoning\n and releasing\" Leftwich.","Household, family and personal bills preserved\n by Henry Brown, an interesting collection of a\n family illustrating the activities of eight\n children in the second quarter of the nineteenth\n century, 1819-1841.","The personal correspondence of Henry Brown with\n his brothers, Samuel and Daniel, and his children.\n The correspondence between Henry Brown and his son,\n John Thompson Brown, is found in Boxes 14-19.","Also letters from the sons and daughters of\n Samuel, brother of Henry Brown.","In a separate group are collected letters written\n by Edward J. Steptoe, grandson of Henry Brown, from\n West Point Military Academy and from the Indian Wars\n in Florida, where he served after he was\n commissioned.","Purchase of a watch in Winchester; requests 30\n Dollars to repay a debt.","His wife's estate; purchase of a Negro\n girl.","On his return from the Spring; attack of\n \"bilious Cholic;\" his treatment.","Concerning \"the purchase of some land at $20.\n per acre...\"","Beats female slave, using a walking stick, his\n wife using a cowhide whip. The slave's mate\n attempted to protect her with an axe but he was\n subdued, beaten and sent to jail the next day.\n Hopes for peace, unpopularity of the conscription\n law and the whiskey tax.","On her studies: Blair's lectures, piano\n playing, drawing, painting and embroidery.","The husband of Nancy Brown writes:\n \"...Bounaparte is on his way to this country. If\n so I greatly fear we shall go backwards with\n accelerated velocity in all peaceful, literary and\n ornamental pursuits...\"","Advice on a move to the State of Ohio.\n \"Although I like Slavery as little as you or\n anyone else, still...I think it probable that we\n should be as unhappy as we are with them\" (Daniel\n died in 1818. For the next 20 years Henry\n administered his estate for the benefit of his\n wife and children.)","Mary Brown's illness at the Springs (she was to\n die within a year).","The building of his house and the health of his\n family.","The daughter of Samuel Brown, writes to console\n her Uncle on the death of his brothers and his two\n daughters, Mrs. \n Anne [Nancy]\n B. Steptoe and Mrs. \n Mary [Polly]\n B. Clayton .","An uncle of Henry Brown writes, \"My grandson\n wishes to get in to Business in a store...\" (Henry\n Brown, Jr. now has a store in Lynchburg.)","His continued bad health. The death of James\n Leftwich, Capt. Brown's business partner.","Requests assistance in obtaining appointment as\n Clerk of Court at Bedford.","The value of the Deerwood tract.","Begs her father to let her have money to go to\n the inauguration of President Jackson.","On her visit to Washington: \"this is the\n thickest settled neighborhood that I ever was\n in--the neighbors are situated all around, some in\n view and others not more than a quarter of a mile\n from the house...\"","On his visit with his brothers, John Thompson\n Brown, in \"Washington City.\" Description of\n crowded Washington, full of pickpockets and of the\n confusion even in the President's house.","\"...the last day I rode more than thirty miles\n through a dreary wilderness without seeing a\n single house...I am yet travelling alone and have\n come six hundred miles without a single man\n travelling my course...\"","His progress in college.","His progress in repaying a debt to the estate\n of his uncle, Daniel.","Report of workers on the Chesapeake and Ohio\n canal dying from Cholera.","On the death of his maternal grandfather, John\n Thompson.","Leaving for New York to lay in goods.","Hopes for his store despite illness and some\n hostile feeling toward his former partner, Ammon\n Hancock.","On the death of Henry Brown. (Henry Brown, Jr.\n died while he and his wife were on a shopping trip\n for the store.)","On the changing population: \"The people still\n retain the simple manners of the old Scotch-Irish\n and, I may add, much of the intelligence and\n piety. But the restless spirit of emigration is\n taking away our best people and in their place we\n generally get Germans, who commonly are deplorably\n ignorant and will do very little toward supporting\n the Gospel.\"","A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes\n to settle accounts and close the store.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the\n disposal of her house.","To Frances Brown's husband, on the loss of her\n two brothers, \"and such brothers too, in so short\n a time.\" (Henry Brown, Jr. died in June, 1836, and\n his brother, John Thompson Brown, in December of\n that same year.)","On the sale of merchandise and an expected\n loss.","Agrees to furnish Gould B. Raymond, manager of\n the Menagerie Co., lodging for 30 men, 65 horses,\n 1 elephant, 1 camel and 2 ponies.","The inscription on the tomb of her late\n husband, John Thompson Brown.","The widow of Henry Brown, Jr., writes of the\n death of her husband a year ago.","The widow of John Thompson Brown writes\n regarding her three sons.","The executor of an estate demands payment of a\n note on which Henry Brown, Jr. was a cosigner.","The youngest daughter of Henry Brown writes\n about her marriage and the first meeting with her\n new relatives.","On his marriage to Alice Brown.","Her wedding trip to New Orleans.","Her sickness on the way down the river due to\n fresh paint in the boat.","Concerning eventual conversion of Baptists to\n the Presbyterian Church.","\"...I left New Orleans the 28th of March and\n reach \n G[eorge].T[own] .\n The 15th of April...Sam (Brown) was in New Orleans\n the day before I left-he was not married but\n expected to be the 9th of April.\"","\"Last evening our darling Alice made me the\n happy father of a fine boy...\"","Report to his father of his first grades at the\n Academy.","To his grandfather regarding his first term\n marks.","\"The first two years of our course are\n exclusively devoted to Mathematics and French...\"\n Encloses a work sheet and \"Synopsis of the Course\n of Studies at the Military Academy.\"","\"The Congress must get rid of its 'sickly\n sympathy' (with the Indians) or, rely upon it,\n this is a war of years to come.\" Gives a vivid\n description of St. Augustine.","Contrasts the Cherokees in Tennessee with the\n Seminoles of Florida. Describes Savannah in a\n letter enclosed, dated February 16, 1839.","Letters of Henry Brown, Jr., oldest son of Capt.\n Henry Brown; Samuel Thompson Brown, youngest son; and\n other members of the immediate family.","Henry Brown, Jr., who suffered a grave illness in\n 1822 as a result of which he almost lost his\n eyesight, went into the partnership of his father\n with Amman Hancock. In 1835-1836, he opened his own\n store in Lynchburg, but died in May 1836, while on a\n buying trip to New York. Interesting items in this\n part of the collection include a 44 page book of\n mineral and chemical notes (31 July 1826), a 56 page\n diary kept by Henry Brown, Jr. on his trip abroad (24\n July 1831), drafts of letters by Henry Brown, Jr. to\n newspapers regarding horses, and instructions for\n horse care, and the like (13 April 1835-March 1836).\n The will of Henry Brown, Jr. (May-December 1830), and\n his deathbed statement dictated to his wife (May\n 1836), are also included.","The papers of Samuel Thompson Brown include the\n card which announced the opening of his law office in\n Bedford (8 May 1838), records of his marriage in\n Alabama (27 April 1840), and the death of his wife\n within the year (3 April 1841). A letter of 22\n January 1842, mentions the business failures taking\n place in Richmond and Lynchburg, and one of 27 August\n of the same year comments on the national political\n situation which is \"sadly out of joint.\" In a letter\n of 20 September [1845], there is a report of \"the\n thefts which were perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton\n whilst a student at Chapel Hill.\"","\"My eyes appear to have improved gradually.\"\n (His ailment seemed to be at its worst at this\n time, though he continued to suffer from the\n ailment until his death in 1836 at the age of 39\n years.)","A note for $1000.00. At this time he was\n getting started in the store, Hancock and Brown\n Co.","The \"most favorable accounts\" of John Thompson\n Brown from the members of the House of\n Delegates.","Concerning the business of \n Col. [Mark]\n Anthony , in which Henry Brown, Jr. appears\n to be involved.","Mentions the marriage of John Thompson\n Brown.","A letter of introduction for Henry Brown, Jr.,\n for use on his trip to England and the Continent\n in that year.","\"Oh, my dear husband, why was it that I did not\n accompany you?\" (None of these letters reached\n Henry Brown, Jr. on the trip, but followed him\n home).","News from a letter she received from Henry\n Brown, Jr. in England.","Payment of his debts in Lynchburg; hiring out\n of a slave.","\"it's really a sad case for me, to be sick from\n home and away from all that (are) Dear to\n me...\"","This was the store in Lynchburg in which Henry\n Brown was a partner and with which Henry Brown,\n Jr. was associated until he opened his own store\n in 1835.","Brother-in-law, \n Jack [Willcox] ;\n his brother, John's speech on the Petersburg Rail\n Road; and the house that Henry Brown has vacated\n in Lynchburg.","On a debt of Thomas Williams.","Appear to refer to pictures, and may date from\n the time of one of the buying trips that Henry\n Brown, Jr. made with his wife.","After breaking from the partnership of Hancock\n and Brown, he opened his own store.","Concerning the care for his horses, Young\n American Eclipse and Spring Hill, while he is\n away.","Written while she and her husband were on a\n buying trip for the Lynchburg store. In New York\n Henry Brown, Jr. was taken desperately ill and\n died.","Evidently taken down by Mrs. Eleanor C. L.\n Brown during the final days in New York.","An associate of Henry Brown, Jr. in the\n Lynchburg store, was liquidating the stock and\n selling horses in order to settle the estate.","A note regarding the settlement of the Henry\n Brown, Jr. estate.","Written from school, with endorsement by James\n Morrison, schoolmaster.","Signed Eleanor C. L. Brown.","Congratulating S. T. B. on his marriage.","Writes of the aged John Vaughan Willcox, her\n father, with whom she is living and for whom she\n is caring; Samuel T. Brown and his \"youthful\n bride.\"","His extended wedding trip; description of Gen\n Harrison's house.","Consolations upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T.\n Brown.","Condolences upon the death of Mrs. Samuel T.\n Brown.","A letter of consolation.","On the death of W. W. Worthington,\n brother-in-law of Samuel T. Brown. \"Your sister\n Alice is desirous of your attention to the affairs\n of Mr. W. in New Orleans prior to your return to\n Virginia.\"","Recording certain deeds for his son-in-law,\n Samuel T. Brown.","Written to his overseer with whom he has\n quarreled.","On the fees paid by Henry Brown in the Leftwich\n case: \"between twenty and twenty-five dollars for\n my services as an attorney.\" On the thefts\n \"perpetrated by Thomas H. Benton whilst a student\n at Chapel Hill.\"","Concerning the cutting of trees on the property\n of Samuel T. Brown.","A reply to the above letter, Box-Folder\n 13:60.","On a charge of Ammon Hancock against the estate\n of Henry Brown, Jr.","Estimate for the cost of the construction of a\n bridge.","On the property in Mobile, Alabama, purchased\n by Samuel T. Brown.","The sale of a female slave \"with her\n Brood.\"","Papers concern John Thompson Brown's attendance at\n Princeton, study of law, and trips to the South and to\n the West Indies. Includes speeches and correspondence as\n well as his published writings (newspaper articles,\n bills and pamphlets). The collection emphasizes his\n political career in the Virginia House of Delegates\n including his views on slavery. Also includes\n architectural plans for a two room house and elevations\n (1827), drafts of toasts and letters concerning his\n fight with John Hampden Pleasants.","Prominent correspondents include William Segar\n Archer, James Murray Mason, John Hampden Pleasants,\n William Cabell Rives, Henry St. George Tucker and John\n Tyler.","John Thompson Brown (1802-1836) was born at Otter\n Hills, near Bedford, Virginia and was the son of\n Henry Brown (1760-1841). He attended the New London\n Academy, 1816; studied at Princeton, 1817-1820;\n traveled to the South and the West Indies, 1821; and\n studied law with Judge Creed Taylor in Cumberland\n County, Virginia, 1822-1823. He began his law\n practice in Clarksburg, Virginia (later West\n Virginia), in 1824, and represented Harrison County\n in the House of Delegates, 1827-1830. He was a member\n of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of\n 1829-1830. He married Mary E. Willcox June, 1830, and\n moved to Petersburg, where he again was elected to\n the General Assembly, 1831-1836. He was a delegate to\n the national convention of the Republican (now\n Democratic) Party, but died on 20 November 1836, at\n his father's home, Otter Hills, after a brief\n illness.","The first two letters in Box 14 date from the\n period of his attendance at New London Academy; then\n follow the papers relating to Princeton, where he\n matriculated in 1817 at the age of 19. He was placed\n in the Sophomore Class on the basis of an examination\n before the faculty, and received the highest mark\n given at the College, in each of the three years he\n spent at the College. His report sheets show the\n requirements for entrance, lists of courses, and\n contain a resolution passed by the trustees which\n condemned the sharp practices of the merchants in\n town.","Some of the correspondence of John Thompson Brown\n with his brother-in-law Dr. William B. Steptoe in\n this period is interesting for the comments it\n contains on the Missouri question and other matters\n then being debated in the U.S. Senate. The remarks\n made by John Thompson Brown in letters from his\n collegiate period may be compared with his statements\n on the subject of slavery later made on the floor of\n the House of Delegates.","After graduating from Princeton, John Thompson\n Brown traveled to the South, and made a brief trip to\n the West Indies, keeping notes on his impressions.\n Upon his return he took up the study of law with\n Judge Taylor. From this period come interesting\n musings on such subjects as \"the family fireside,\"\n \"youthful recollection,\" \"friendship,\" and \"behavior\n of a lawyer if he is to succeed.\" His license to\n practice law, dated 7 March 1824, is included in the\n collection. He journeyed to Clarksburg, Virginia, to\n set up his law practice, and kept a notebook on the\n trip West which reveal his first impressions of the\n Clarksburg area.","At the end of this box is a scrapbook containing\n some of his published writings, speeches, and\n newspaper articles.","Letter from a schoolboy friend regarding New\n London Academy.","John Thompson Brown's examinations at the New\n London Academy.","\"I have just been examined by the faculty and\n am admitted to the Sophomore Class, which is the\n second in the college.\" His expenses are estimated\n at $200.00 for the first term and $90.00 for the\n second. \"I will pledge myself not to spend one\n cent more than is really necessary.\"","News from home; a rumor that some boys were\n expelled from Chapel Hill for their politics.","Medical advice; a suggested teacher for New\n London Academy (\"Has he energy enough manage\n southern students?\"); the death of Polly [Mrs.\n Mary Brown Clayton], sister of John Thompson\n Brown.","The political upheaval at William and Mary\n College; deputies appointed \"...to fix upon the\n site of the Virginia University.\"","\"My expenses have far exceeded what was\n necessary or what you expect. I now see my error\n and repent...\" Three months later he offers to\n leave school because of his additional debts.\n Later in Baltimore, he is robbed of $200.00. His\n father adds up the year's expenses to a total of\n $670.00.","Behavior, No. 1. distinguished; Industry, No.\n 1. distinguished; Scholarship, No. 1.\n distinguished (1) \"If under the article \n scholarship , a\n student is marked No. 1 distinguished (1), he is\n considered as ranking among the first in his\n class.\" (From printed explanation of the\n report.)","\"Once the busy scene of commercial\n enterprise...now lifeless and inactive.\"\n Concerning Lynchburg.","The University of Virginia is established at\n Charlottesville with an annual appropriation of\n $15,000; news of a threat of slave uprisings in\n Fredericksburg.","Similar reports to that of 1818. Warning is\n added to the September report concerning excessive\n expenditures by students: \"the trustees of the\n college give this notice to the parents and\n guardians of the youth, that they ought to pay no\n debt contracted in this town, which they have not\n specifically authorized.\"","Endorsed: \"Collegians mei consocui.\" He knew\n 162 fellow students.","On the \"present session of Congress.\"","Rumor of a great rebellion that has taken place\n at Princeton; the Missouri question.","A 4th of July oration supporting the idea of\n colonizing the free Negroes in Africa.","\"My father may justly complain of the great\n sums which he has expended on me, but his kindness\n shall not be abused much longer, as I hope to be\n in a situation to support myself.\" Endorsed:\n \"Brother J.--after his return from Princeton went\n South--through the Cherokee Nation [Alabama and\n Georgia] to Pensacola, and on to New\n Orleans--thence to Cuba and returned to U. States\n in the U.S. Frigate 'Hornet,' as a guest of the\n officers. Samuel T. Brown.\"","A gambling scrape he was involved in; asks his\n father's forgiveness.","\"Chancellor Taylor has been of incalculable\n service to me in the study of law.\" (Needham was a\n law school operated by Judge Creed Taylor in\n Cumberland County in the years 1821-1836.)","These are the continuous drafts of a multiple\n of letters. The first section consists of musings\n and youthful recollections; the second is a\n humorous report on a 4th of July oration made in\n Petersburg after his marriage.","Regarding the marriage of Dr. Steptoe.","Musings on Friendship and the wise behavior of\n a lawyer if he is to succeed.","A letter introducing John Thompson Brown when\n he went to Clarksburg to set up practice.","Musings written on a trip through Virginia:\n thoughts on a disappointing love affair; notes on\n \"Crab Orchard\" and the \"Creek Nation\" --the latter\n were to be incorporated into an Independence Day\n address delivered in Petersburg in 1831.","Impressions of Clarksburg; the countryside is\n beautiful and the land very rich, but \"The people\n have no money and are wretchedly poor and\n lazy...\"","His plans to establish himself.","The following newspaper clippings and pamphlets\n are included in a bound scrap book, with\n endorsements and were undoubtedly collected by\n John Thompson Brown himself.","Concerning \"several cases of contempt of\n court, occurring in various parts of the Union,\n in which the punishment inflicted, has been\n made a subject of grievous complaint.\"","Concerning \"...Mr. Jefferson...the\n disclosure of his poverty...\"","Concerning \"The President's message.\"","A Bill authorizing a loan of $6,000.00 on\n the credit of the state, for the construction\n of Turnpike Road from Winchester to Parkersburg\n by way of Clarksburg, being under\n consideration.","\"Sir:--I have read in the \"Intelligencer\" of\n the 9th inst. your communications to the\n Editors of the paper, in which you remark,\n substantially, that the only Candidate to\n represent the town of Petersburg in the General\n Assembly is a stranger to most voters...Not\n doubting that I am the person alluded to...,\"\n signed John Thompson Brown\"","\"The following copy of a Petition to the\n Legislature of Virginia, we insert at the\n request of a number of our Citizens.\"","\"On motion of Mr. Brown of Petersburg, the\n report of the committee on slaves, free Negroes\n and mulattoes, and the amendment of Mr. Preston\n were taken up; when Mr. Brown rose and\n addressed the house as follows:...\"","\"The bill to amend an act authorizing the\n Board of Public Works to subscribe on behalf of\n the Commonwealth, to the stock of the\n Petersburg Rail Road, was read a third time.\n Mr. Brown said...\"","\"Andrew Jackson was unanimously recommended\n to the Citizens of Virginia, as the next\n President. \"Mr. Miller of Powhatan then\n submitted the following\n Resolution...\"(Concerning the Vice-President).\n Mr. Brown of Petersburg, then submitted the\n following by way of substitute for the\n above...\"","The material in this box covers the period 1825 to\n 1829, when John Thompson Brown was resident of\n Clarksburg, Harrison County, Virginia (later West\n Virginia). In this period John Thompson Brown wrote\n some of the \"Letters to the Editor,\" printed in the\n Clarksburg \n Enquirer , contained in\n the scrap book noted above in Box 14. A draft of a\n part of the letter concerning the poverty of Mr.\n Jefferson is to be found in this box (1825).","In July 1826, John Thompson Brown wrote to his\n brother Henry Brown, Jr. of his aim to run for the\n U.S. Congress. In 1827 he was elected to the House of\n Delegates; he was re-elected in 1828 and 1829. This\n box also contains various printed and manuscript\n material touching upon his career in the General\n Assembly.","By the end of 1829, John Thompson Brown had\n established himself in Clarksburg, built a house, and\n planned to buy into a partnership in a store to\n advance his financial position. In a letter of March\n 23, 1829 he mentions his desire to run in the next\n election for the U.S. Congress.","\"...the friends of Old Hickory...hear Adamses\n success spoken of and the probability of Clay's\n being made Secretary of State...\"","Encloses a legal opinion concerning sheriffs,\n which his father apparently requested.","A flowery letter to an old friend from\n Princeton. \"I have acquired some little reputation\n at the bar and a practice that supports me very\n decently.\"","Draft of an address to an investigating group\n (perhaps a grand jury), with endorsement: \"1. Act\n against cutting down trees. 2. Act providing for a\n good and sufficient jail.\"","This is part of a printed letter concerning\n \"Mr. Jefferson the disclosure of his poverty...\"\n over the signature Alexander. (See bound\n scrapbook, the last item in Box 14.)","Desire of John Thompson Brown to run for the\n U.S. Congress or for a seat in the General\n Assembly. Suggests that Henry Brown send $1,000.00\n to help achieve this.","\"I find that there is a serious and, I believe,\n a somewhat general wish to bring me out for the\n Legislature.\"","\"I am a candidate for the Legislature at the\n next election...\"","An announcement of the candidacy of John\n Thompson Brown for the General Assembly. He\n reviews what he considers to be the most important\n problems of the day, and discusses (1) the\n invasion of State sovereignty by the Federal\n program of \"internal development,\" (2) the harm\n done to Southern farmers by import duties, (3) the\n calling of a Constitutional Convention for the\n state of Virginia, (4) the dangers of the\n uncontrolled banking system.","His election to the General Assembly; hope of\n election to the U.S. Congress, and the purchase of\n a four acre lot in town. In the first letter which\n John Thompson Brown wrote from the House of\n Delegates he said \"I have not taken much part in\n the debates of the House and do not expect to do\n so...\"","His ride to Richmond in a coach with other,\n more experienced law-makers, \"having been, as you\n predicted, greatly edified and instructed by a\n coach-full of legislators 'big with the cares of\n state.\"","\"Resolving that members of the House of\n Delegates be requested to unite...in advancing the\n cause of this Society before the General Assembly\n of Virginia.\"","On John Thompson Brown's speech: \"considered\n the most able one that had been delivered in the\n House in 5 years.\"","\"Our Society, in the success of which, you are\n pleased to express so deep an interest, is I\n believe, making sure progress.\"","His legislature activities and speeches. \"I am\n a Jackson man like yourself but not perfectly\n orthodox, as you would say, on the subject of\n States Rights. I published my opinions, pamphlet\n of 30 pages, 12 months ago and will send you a\n copy...\"","A report to his constituents on such matters as\n (1) the state Constitutional Convention, (2) the\n lottery for the Randolph Academy in Clarksburg,\n (3) county elections, (4) the bill abolishing the\n chancery Courts and establishing a Superior Court,\n (5) a Turnpike to their area (defeated by the\n \"Eastern People\"), (6) the proposed Baltimore\n Railroad and (7) the settling of the question of\n land titles in Western Virginia. Included in the\n pamphlet are the full texts of the report of the\n committee on this subject, which he chaired, and\n the bill proposed by the committee.","Comment on the land titles, Chancery court\n bills.","\"Even now I am as comfortably situated as I\n could desire and shall support myself hereafter\n without any further drafts on your\n goodness...\"","Now well situated in his \"mansion,\" he\n discusses his prospects for Congress and of his\n plan to \"offer 2 years hence.\"","Endorsed: \"McConley's System of Sword\n Tactics.\"","Reflections on people met at the Medicinal\n Springs, as contrasted with those of his\n constituency.","In February, he forwards a copy of sheriff's\n commission to his father. During the year he\n borrows $400.00 for payments on his house in\n Clarksburg, and by the end of the year his father\n has agreed to advance enough capital for him to\n become a partner in a mercantile business. Upon\n the conclusion of the 1828-1829 session of the\n General Assembly, he writes that he will be a\n candidate once more, then run for Congress. In the\n letter of March 23rd, he writes that opposition\n has arisen \"on account of some laws we had passed\n last session authorizing the county court to levy\n a tax for repairing roads and, bridges.\" On March\n 23rd he relates his experiences in Washington at\n the inauguration of Jackson: on December 14th he\n predicts that the basis of votes for whites will\n be surrendered in the formation of the new State\n constitution.","Suggests they ride together to Alexandria, then\n go to Richmond by boat.","The Virginia Constitutional Convention: \"I had\n an opportunity of hearing the most distinguished\n members of the body--Mr. Madison and Mr. Marshall\n among the rest...\"","The change which was to occur in the life and\n fortunes of John Thompson Brown in the year 1830 is\n forecast in the first letter of this box, a letter\n received by Mary E. Willcox of Petersburg in\n [December] 1829, in which there is a discussion of\n \"Mr. B.\" Three months later (18 March 1830) in a\n letter to his father, John Thompson Brown announces\n his intention of leaving Clarksburg, and of his need\n for a horse and sulky so that he may arrive in\n Petersburg in a manner which should \"avoid the\n appearance of poverty and destitution.\" The next\n letter in the collection (9 [May] 1830), in draft,\n contains an account of his wedding, a wedding which\n was attended by no members of his immediate\n family.","Subsequent letters tell of the generosity of the\n new father-in-law John V. Willcox in the gift of a\n town house \"provided with servants,\" a draft of\n $1500, and the promise of as much more as he asks (22\n July 1830). Yet the position is not satisfactory and\n because John Thompson Brown feels that he is losing\n his independence, he returns to Clarksburg with the\n intention of resettling there and sending for his\n wife (2 May 1831). During a four week visit to\n Harrison County, he finds his political position has\n declined (7 June 1831), so he returns to Petersburg,\n and is invited to make the Independence Day address\n for the town (8 June 1831). As a result of this\n address (and the good influence of his father-in-law)\n he is nominated to represent the town in the House of\n Delegates, and is elected without opposition (26\n September 1831).","He successfully sponsors a bill in the Assembly\n for the Petersburg Railroad (28 December 1831), is\n appointed Judge of Elections for the Petersburg\n Office of the Bank of Virginia (29 December 1831),\n and is sought as a sponsor of a new newspaper which\n is being established in Richmond (20 October 1831).\n Of particular interest is a letter to his nephew\n outlining his philosophy of life and advising the\n young man on his future (3 October 1831). A report of\n the slave insurrection in Southhampton is described\n in a letter of 26 September 1831.","At the end of this box are collected more than a\n hundred drafts of toasts made by John Thompson\n Brown.","A friend writes regarding \"Mr. B.,\" \"a man of\n boundless pride and diffidence. His attachment was\n cut down in the bud and \n You , my sweetest\n Mary, have hoped whilst he desponded...\"","\"My friends, Webster, Goffard, and others\n believed I could certainly be elected to Congress\n next Spring...I wish to appear at \n P[etersburg] in a\n manner which would probably be expected and to\n avoid the appearance of poverty and destitution .\n Henry is to get me a sulky, horse, etc., and if\n you can spare this additional sum you may hand it\n over to him...\"","\"Our nuptials took place at the time expected\n and I cannot say that there was any other allay to\n my happiness, than that neither you nor any of my\n near relatives were present.\"","On his honeymoon: \"Peronneau Finley travels\n with us, as one of our immediate party. Mr.\n Willcox, Sr., and three of his friends are going\n to N. York to the races. They came with us thus\n far...\" There is much discussion about where they\n will live, but, \"I think it probable we shall\n reside in Petersburg...\"","On his Washington visit: \"we remained a week,\n were introduced to the President, etc., heard some\n interesting debates and saw all the great men of\n the nation...My situation is in all respects\n agreeable.\"","Congratulations on her marriage coupled with\n much advice.","After a visit with his father, he writes: \"I\n have nothing to add on the subject of my future\n arrangements. I shall pursue the course which you\n seemed to approve when we were together.\" He\n writes later that Mr. Willcox has turned over to\n them his town house \"furnished with servants\"; in\n another letter: \"He handed me a check for $1,500\n and said that I should always have as much as I\n wanted...\"","Sends advice to his younger brother and, and\n account of his own situation.","Letters from Harrison County report that \"the\n District needs me badly...but it is too\n late...\"","\"I regret that you have temporarily declined\n public life--for I would not believe you have\n abondoned it altogether.\"","Advice given to a young man summarizing John\n Thompson Brown's own philosophy of life.","On his return to Harrison County, \"I found that\n my position here was to be too dependent...\"","\"At a meeting of the citizens of\n Petersburg...'Resolved, that John Thompson Brown,\n Esq., he appointed Orator of the Day'.\"","The first important public speech of John\n Thompson Brown, in Petersburg, one which appears\n to have established his reputation, and which\n influenced his decision to remain there.","Regarding his Independence Day address; the\n wisdom of his brother's decision to visit\n England.","These are the continuous drafts of multiple\n letters. This draft concerns the second part which\n contains a humorous report on a 4th of July\n oration made in Petersburg after his marriage.","On July 25, he states that his brother has left\n on the packet for Baltimore on the way to\n Liverpool. Concerning his \"reasons of my\n determining not to remove to Harrison.\" On\n September 14 he writes that his wife has given\n birth to a son, who will be named Henry Peronneau,\n \"after you and my friend Peronneau Finley.\"","Henry Brown, Jr. writes of his journey, as a\n result of which \"I become more and more an\n American in feeling and principle...\"","\"I was elected without opposition, after\n announcing my sentiments freely and boldly.\" News\n of an insurrection of Negroes in Southampton,\n \"they killed 55 persons, mainly women and\n children.\"","Gives his opinions on the education of his\n nephew, Edward. He approves strongly of the\n emphasis on science to be found at West Point; on\n going to college among the Yankees: \"I partake in\n some measure of the prejudice against them--but\n think nevertheless that...southern \n fire would be none\n the worse for being somewhat cooled by the\n northern \n frost .\"","A new newspaper is proposed for the city of\n Richmond.","A request for help in covering a $3,000 debt to\n \"sharpers.\"","Describes the quarters he has for his wife and\n son. On the main question of the day he writes: \"I\n think no measure can or ought to be taken now for\n the abolition of slavery...\"","Concerning \"the bill now before the Legislature\n on the subject of our (Rail) Road.\"","Appointment of John Thompson Brown as judge of\n the election for directors of the Bank of Virginia\n in Petersburg.","Includes the following subjects: The Press,\n Lafayette, The Cuase of of Civil and Religious\n Liberty, The Militia Volunteers, Woman, Thomas\n Jefferson, Virginia, The Constitution, The\n Militia, State Rights, President of the United\n States, Our Guests, Benjamin Franklin, The\n Union, (\"Drank 1833.\" ADr.), The Day We\n Celebrate, Washington, and The Army and\n Navy.","Includes the following subjects: The Federal\n Consitiution, Free Press, President of the\n United States, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, Our\n Guests and Woman.","Includes the following subjects: The 4th of\n July, 1776, The Cause of Liberty Throughout the\n World, The Heroes and Statesmen of the\n Revolution, Thomas Jefferson, Lafayette, and\n The Federal Constitution.","Includes the following subject: The Union\n \"(This toast was drank, as a standing toast at\n the Petersburg Republican Celebration of Mr.\n Jefferson's election on the 29th of January,\n 1801).\" Most toast endorsed: \"Offered 1835, not\n adopted.\"","Includes the following subjects: The Day We\n Celebrated, The Memory of Washington, The Army\n and the Navy, Military Spirit, Free Press,\n Popular Suffrage, and National Character.","Includes the following subjects: The Friends\n of Constitutional Restriction, Political\n Toleration, National Character, The State\n Legislature, Virginia Military, Washington,\n Benjamin Franklin, Petersburg, The District of\n Columbia, The Right of Instruction, The Press\n and John Tyler.","The important and exciting national political\n events of the years 1832 and 1833, as they affected\n the people of Virginia, are seen through the eyes of\n John Thompson Brown in the items included in this\n box. A member from Petersburg in the House of\n Delegates of the Virginia Assembly, John Thompson\n Brown was placed in a position of leadership and\n strongly influenced the decisions taken in those\n critical years.","His speech on the abolition of slavery was\n considered so important that Judge Henry St. George\n Tucker and others raised the money to have it printed\n (18 January 1832). He was a member of the Virginia\n delegation to the national convention of the\n Republican Party; his resolution of the\n Vice-Presidential nominee (21-22 May 1832) was the\n one adopted by the Virginia caucus. As Chairman of\n the Finance Committee of the House of Delegates, the\n question of President Jackson's moves against the\n United States Bank was of particular concern to him\n (9 April 1833).","Great excitement was aroused by South Carolina's\n threat of nullification. John Thompson Brown was a\n member of the Committee on Federal Relations, and his\n substitute motion on the question is included in this\n box, as well as his speech on \n The State of the Relations\n between the United States and South Carolina ,\n delivered 5 January 1833, also published in pamphlet\n form.","John Thompson Brown was invited to be a Director\n of the Petersburg Railroad which he declined (7 May\n 1832), and was considered for the position of U.S.\n Senator, although he felt that he was not qualified\n by years or experience (December 1832). An\n interesting report of his meeting with President\n Jackson is included in a letter from John Thompson\n Brown to his wife (23 May 1832).","Also included in this box are letters from John\n Tyler, William Cabell Rives, and William Segar Archer\n (7 February, 3 March 1833).","Two poems, possibly written by John Thompson\n Brown, clipped from a newspaper, signed Julian are\n included at the end of this box.","Writes of the fortunes of the (Petersburg)\n Railroad Bill in the House of Delegates and State\n Senate.","Information regarding Rensselaer School. Samuel\n T. Brown, younger brother of John Thompson Brown,\n appears to have been interested in this\n school.","In this important speech John Thompson Brown\n took up several proposals for the freeing of\n slaves, including that of Thomas Jefferson, as\n submitted to the Legislature by Jefferson\n Randolph, his grandson, and argued against\n each.","\"My speech on abolition has had great \n eclat --a fund has\n been raised for publishing it in pamphlet form for\n general distribution... \n \n Judges [Henry St. George] Tucker and\n Brooke have taken active part in puffing the\n speech.\" He also reports, \"I have carried my\n Railroad Bill...and shall enjoy the credit of\n effecting it by my personal influence.\"","Includes in a \"Postscript\" an answer to a\n statement in \n The Enquirer over\n the signature of \n Jefferson\n [Randolph] . Reference is made to a remark\n made in \n The Wig that his\n argument \"had been far surpassed by the discussion\n of the subject by a stripling . Mr. Brown of\n Petersburg.\" General Assembly. Committee on\n Federal relations. Official Document Nos. 14, 15,\n 16.","Concerning a suggested amendment for the\n Circuit Court Law.","He cannot give his nephew, Edward Steptoe, an\n appointment to West Point because he has used his\n appointment for the session. \"...the Senate is\n involved in the Tariff discussion...The farther I\n have gone into it the more thoroughly have I\n convinced myself of its tyrannical and oppressive\n character.\"","A resolution from the Petersburg Rail Road\n Company to tender thanks for \"the zeal and ability\n with which our Delegate John T. Brown, Esq. and\n our Senator, Wm. Old, Esq. have exerted in\n procuring passage of the said (Rail Road)\n act.\"","This is the resolution presented by John\n Thompson Brown and reported in a newspaper article\n of this date preserved in the scrapbook to be\n found in Box 14.","\"I send you 2 copies of John's speech (on\n Slavery) and a paper with one of Jefferson\n Randolph's in reply to him.\"","Declines appointment as a member of the Board\n of Directors of the Petersburg Railroad.","Notes on the convention of the whole party and\n of the Virginia Caucus. At the latter the\n resolution of John Thompson Brown. was adopted,\n viz. that Virginia's vote should go first to P. P.\n Barbour for Vice- President, and when there was no\n longer a reasonable prospect of his selection, to\n Van Buren.","\"...on last evening we went to the President\n who is in excellent health and fine spirits. Many\n persons here, including some members of Congress\n from Virginia, seem to be much dissatisfied with\n our proceedings at Baltimore...\"","To his youngest brother, attending college,\n regarding the health of Henry, Jr.","On the death of Finley's brother.","The family has traveled south to escape an\n epidemic of Cholera.","In the letter of December 3 he discusses the\n election of U.S. Senators, stating that Mr. Leigh\n is out because of his opposition to President\n Jackson. Among those mentioned for the position\n are \n Judge\n [Henry St. George] Tucker , \n [John] Randolph\n Rives , and himself, though he feels that he\n has neither the years nor the experience for the\n position. President Jackson's message on the U.S.\n Bank is discussed. On nullification he writes: \"It\n will, I fear, be an exciting subject and one of\n engrossing interest...South Carolina is\n unquestionably wrong and \n as long as she remains in\n the Union, must obey its laws...\"","The possibility of his appointment as Senator\n to supply the vacancy left by Mr. Tazewell.","Excitement in Washington caused by the\n President's proclamation on nullification\n debate.","Regarding the removal of deposits from the U.S.\n Bank by the Federal Government.","\"I was rather mortified at making a very poor\n speech [on Federal Relations] in the House\n today...To avoid misrepresentation I shall have to\n write out my speech...\"","Doc. No. 14. \n Report of the Committee on\n Federal Relations Doc. No. 15. \n Mr. Marshall's Substitute\n to the Report... Doc. No. 16. \n Mr. M'dowell's Amendment to\n Mr. Marshall's Substitute,... Opinion on proceedings in South Carolina,\n the proclamation by Andrew Jackson, and \"the\n communication of the governor of this Commonwealth\n on the same subject.\"","After stating his opposition to protective\n tariffs, John Thompson Brown argued that they\n result from \"a perversion of the spirit and intent\n of the Constitution, rather than a violation of\n its literal principles.\"","He compliments the Chief Magistrate of the\n United States on his general policy but disputes\n the Proclamation of the President on other\n grounds, basing his argument on \n The Law of\n Nations by E. de Vattel.","As to the action of South Carolina, he contends\n that there is no possibility of nullification\n under the Constitution, but that the redress of\n the wrong done in the tariff act must come by\n recourse to the Supreme Court, to the \"Co-states\"\n acting in Congress, and if necessary, by an\n amendment to the Constitution.","Compliments John Thompson Brown on his\n resolutions.","\"I was anxious myself that Virginia should\n maintain an impartial and just attitude toward\n both S. Carolina and the President, but far the\n greater part of the Assembly seemed in favour of\n going into one extreme or other . . . whereas I\n thought there was error on both sides...\"","He remarks that \n Edward\n [Steptoe] has been successful in getting his\n appointment to West Point \"obtained (by Mr.\n Archer, the Senator) as a favour to me\" but\n \"without...your letter...the application could\n scarcely have been successful.\"","Appointment of Edward Steptoe to West Point;\n report of the enforcing bill in the President's\n proclamation, and the Tariff Bill.","In July he announces the birth of a son.","On the Force Bill and the Bank of the U.S.","\"On seeimg Miss ____ at Clarksburg,\" and\n \"Julian Abandoning His Muse.\" Possibly written by\n John Thompson Brown about this period.","The letters written by John Thompson Brown during\n portions of the 1833-1834 and the 1834-1835 sessions\n of the General Assembly are found in this box.","The manuscripts begin with letters reporting the\n legislative battle fought and lost against the\n Portsmouth-Norfolk road which John Thompson Brown\n believed would have disastrous effects on the future\n of Petersburg (January 1834). Near the end of the box\n are letters concerning John Thompson Brown's battle\n fought with fists and canes in the halls of the State\n Capitol with a fellow representative John Hampden\n Pleasants (January 1835). The fracas resulted from a\n heated debate on the election of a U.S. Senator. John\n Thompson Brown was one of those mentioned for the\n position of U.S. Senator (December 1834), but his\n youth (28 years) was against him and he did not enjoy\n the rough and tumble of party politics then\n developing.","Also of interest are the draft of a speech\n delivered on the occasion of the death of Lafayette\n (9 July 1834), and two notebooks used by John\n Thompson Brown as Chairman of the Finance Committee\n of the House of Delegates (January 1835).","News that his brother, Samuel, is ill at\n Harvard.","Reports on his progress at the college.","His attempts to defeat the Norfolk rail road in\n the Assembly; family news.","\"All is lost except our honour. The Portsmouth\n Bill [Norfolk railroad] has passed...our town\n [Petersburg] is prostrated...but the ancient\n spirit of our little town, which Mr. Madison\n called the 'cockade of the old Dominion' is not\n dead.\"","A patent for producing domestic salt.","Election of a U.S. Senator, for which he has\n been mentioned; Mr. Leigh's election. At the end\n of February and beginning of March he is kept in\n bed with an illness.","Gives his views of the political situation,\n mentioning the message President Jackson sent to\n Congress with the \"Force Bill,\" the President's\n plans for the Bank of the U.S., and objections to\n Van Buren and \"the N. York system of tactics which\n he will bring with him.\"","Plans for Samuel, John Thompson Brown's\n brother, to start his study of law with him.","Sold bank shares to help his brother go into\n business for himself; gives advice on racing\n horses.","Endorsed: \"To my sons, should they ever read\n it.\"","Report of his progress at the U.S. Military\n Academy.","Draft of a letter sending condolences for the\n death of a sister and congratulations on the birth\n of a son.","His resignation from the U.S. Senate.","\"No subject arouses anybody except the\n senatorial election.\"","He offers to place all his monetary resources\n at the service of his brother in his new business\n venture.","On the 17th he prepared a draft of a letter,\n which he sent on the 20th, giving an account of a\n fight in the halls of the General Assembly between\n himself and John Hampden Pleasants.","A letter of apology for the battle fought in\n the halls of the Virginia Capitol.","An account of his speech which was \"better\n received than anything I have ever made.\"","Points out the importance of this election for\n \"future political events and party combinations in\n the state,\" and defends the incumbent, Mr.\n Leigh.","Prepared for use in the Finance Committee of\n the House of Deputies.","Notes on taxes, license fees, and the like,\n prepared by John Thompson Brown for use on the\n Finance Committee of the House of Delegates.","The closing sessions of the State Legislature of\n 1834-1835 are reported in the letters at the\n beginning of this box. The party spirit runs high in\n Petersburg as the \"Jackson party\" opposes John\n Thompson Brown (March 1835). He is involved in a\n street fight with an opponent in which he receives a\n black eye, but the argument is made up after he wins\n the election (April 1835).","Before the next session of the legislature, John\n Thompson Brown is occupied in collecting more\n material on the question of slavery (August 1835),\n and prepared three long drafts written in opposition\n to the candidacy of Martin Van Buren for President of\n the U.S. Undated drafts of notes on legal cases are\n included at the end of the 1835 section.","Henry Brown, Jr., the brother of John Thompson\n Brown, died in May 1836, while on a buying trip to\n Philadelphia and New York for his Lynchburg store.\n The trip of John Thompson Brown to meet the body of\n his brother, and his activity in settling his\n brother's affairs in Lynchburg are reported in the\n letters included in this box.","At the end of July he takes his family to his\n father's home, Otter Hills, near New London in\n Campbell County, for the funeral sermon of Henry\n Brown, Jr. While there he contracts an illness which\n keeps him there until his death on 26 November\n 1836.","Announces the birth of a son, John Thompson\n Brown II, and tells his brother that he had\n ordered $2800 placed to his account to support the\n store that he had opened.","Political activity in Petersburg.","\"The Jackson party has brought out the most\n popular man in Petersburg against...it is quite\n likely he will beat me.\"","On April 18 he writes, \"I was elected by a\n majority of 37 (13 of which were from Richmond).\"\n There is also a report of a street fight between\n John Thompson Brown and \"a Jackson man.\"","Concerning the chances of Van Buren to carry\n Virginia in the election.","Plans to retire from politics and seek a\n position as Judge of the courts.","He has sent a box of books to help him in his\n law studies, and describes a visit by his old\n friend Peronneau Finley and his family.","Writes to his father about plans to visit\n him.","Family discussion, especially concerned with\n the sisters who were yet to find husbands.","Notice of the election of John Thompson Brown\n as an honorary member of the Jefferson\n Society.","Signed \"Mr. Brown.\"","This series of drafts is in opposition to\n Martin Van Buren, candidate for the President\n of the United States.","Good reports of the new business venture of his\n brother, Henry Brown, Jr.","To his brother, on a buying trip to New York;\n political prospects now look bright, but \"the\n state is lost\" to the Anti-Van Buren forces.","Signed by Wyndham Robertson.","On the trip to accompany his sister-in-law and\n the body of Henry Brown, Jr. back to the family\n home, Otter Hills. Henry Brown, Jr. died while on\n a shopping trip to New York for supplies for his\n Lynchburg store.","The body of Henry Brown, Jr. was taken that\n morning for Virginia.","On the death of her father, Henry Brown Brown,\n Jr.","Taking inventory at the store of his late\n brother; preparing to settle his estate.","Reports on the stocktaking in the store of\n Henry Brown, Jr. On July 19 he wrote that he was\n coming to his father's place on the Sunday next to\n hear his brother's funeral preached. This is the\n last letter from John Thompson Brown to his\n father, for on that visit to Otter Hills he was\n taken with the illness from which he died.","On the disposal of the store inventory; sends a\n piano to her.","Mourning his brother's death, he makes\n arrangements for his own family to join him. (This\n is the last letter written by John Thompson Brown\n preserved in this collection.)","The niece of John Thompson Brown writes to her\n uncle regarding the recent death of her father,\n Henry Brown, Jr.","A Quaker associate of Henry Brown, Jr. writes\n regarding the settling of the store business.","Enclosures: \"A lock of the hair of John\n Thompson Brown, 29 years\"; envelope marked, \"For\n sister Mary from my dear brother John's Grave,\n Nov. 13th, 1845, \n [Mrs.]\n A[lice Brown] Worthington ,\" with clover\n leaves inside.","A resolution in memory of John Thompson\n Brown.","Signed D. M. Bernard, Clerk. Endorsement by\n James MacFarland, Jr., to Mrs. John Thompson\n Brown.","Condolences on the death of her husband.","A resolution that the members wear the usual\n badge of mourning for thirty days in honor of John\n Thompson Brown.","A copy of the unanimous resolution of the House\n of Delegates in memory of John Thompson Brown.","A letter of grief written by Mrs. Brown to her\n father-in-law.","A letter of consolation.","Includes: A dramatic sketch, Kentucky Land\n Laws, Goosawattee Indians, and map of the\n region around Bedford, Virginia","A large folded ink drawing of a building \"taken\n from the Colonade of the Temple of Minerva\n Parthenon at Athens,\" with notes of construction\n details. Ca. 1830.","Papers of John Thompson Brown, Colonel of 1st\n Regiment Virginia Artillery who was killed in action in\n 1864. Included are letters concerning a disagreement\n with William Nelson Pendleton. Papers also include\n correspondence of his son, Henry Peronneau Brown and his\n son's wife Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown as well as\n newspaper clippings concerning Judge John Randolph\n Tucker and the correspondence of Cynthia Beverley Tucker\n Coleman. There are also nineteenth century\n engravings.","This box contains the papers from the period after\n the death of John Thompson Brown, and concern John\n Thompson Brown II, born in 1835, some 18 months\n before the death of his father.","One letter (20 November 1844) lists the courses\n studied by boys at the ages of 9, 11, and 13; a\n travel book gives an interesting picture of Europe (4\n May 1857); and a draft of a letter describes the\n bleedings to which a tourist entering Italy had to\n submit.","John Thompson Brown II was elected Second\n Lieutenant by the members of his company (1 December\n 1859). Also included are notes of speeches made to\n rouse war enthusiasm. The receipt for a saber and\n belt (23 April 1861) mark the beginning of action,\n and other records follow John Thompson Brown II's\n rise to Major, then to Colonel. His request for a\n transfer to a more active field of war and an\n extended argument with his commanding officer, Brig.\n Gen. William Nelson Pendleton, are of interest. The\n box concludes with items which appear to have been on\n the person of Col. John Thompson Brown II, when he\n was killed in action on 6 May 1864.","Lists the courses in school taken by a nine\n year old boy and his two brothers, Wilicox, 11\n years old, and \n P[eronneau] , 13\n years old.","Certifies that John Thompson Brown II was\n elected Second Lieutenant by viva voce vote of the\n members of his company.","References to Douglas and the threat to\n slavery.","Concerns the raid on Harper's Ferry by John\n Brown, 19 October 1859, and the treatment of him\n as a martyr in the North.","\"I greatly fear that the time has passed when\n great questions of State equality are to be\n settled in the Halls of Congress...this settlement\n requires powder and ball...\"","Report on ammunition on hand.","Court Martial action taken for refusal to do\n guard duty, by a trooper under the command of Col.\n John Thompson Brown II.","Request for transfer, with his command, to the\n Division of Gen. D. H. Hills, so that he might be\n more actively engaged.","Concerning the families of the officers.","Concerning a dispute arising between the two\n over John Thompson Brown's command.","Request the return of his report on the battle\n of Chancellorsville so that he might submit it to\n Gen. Stuart.","Papers relating to the oldest son of John Thompson\n Brown, Henry Peronneau Brown, begin with letters\n written by his mother Mrs. Mary E. Brown. She\n expresses concern that her son is more interested in\n affairs other than his studies (1 March 1849). His\n school career is traced briefly through his years at\n the University of Virginia (28 June 1851).","The letters exchanged between Henry Peronneau\n Brown and his fiancee, Frances Baland Coalter, 1858,\n lead into the family correspondence which completes\n this box. (Other letters of Frances Bland Coalter and\n her family are found in Box 6, Coalter and Tucker\n Papers.)","From May, 1861, all letters are concerned with the\n war. Letters written by John Coalter II, to his\n sister Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown in 1878 give a\n graphic picture of the struggle made by a southern\n farmer to re-establish himself after the war.","The widow of John Thompson Brown writes with\n concern about her oldest son, Peronneau, who is\n attending school in South Carolina. He was\n devoting too much time to outdoor affairs of\n college life and not enough to his studies.","Congratulating him on his success at Charleston\n College; a proposed biography of John Thompson\n Brown.","Concerning Henry Peronneau Brown, attending the\n \n University [of Virginia] .","Affectionate letters to her fiance.","In August she writes to console Mrs. Brown on\n the death of her mother, Mrs. Judith H.\n Coalter.","\"We are all as glad, dear Fanny, that your home\n is so lovely and you are so happy...for its\n mountain scenery.\"","Concerning the failing health of their\n mother.","Consolations on the death of Mrs. Coalter.","Concerning the loss of an infant.","The bachelor brother of Mrs. Brown writes that\n his loneliness on an out-of-the-way plantation is\n heading him to the madhouse.","She writes of the ladies making vests and\n shirts for the soldiers. News that the Yankees\n have landed at Hampton; the first of the war\n casualties in the family.","Making clothes for the army: \"1500 yards have\n just been received which we are to turn our\n attention to at once.\"","His house was set afire and cannon are firing\n all about. Comments on \"the tennessee\n company...the roughest men you ever saw...\"","The wife of John Thompson Brown II, is in \"this\n antiquated spot\" because her husband was drilling\n some new troops and sent for her to join him.","Their brother, Henry, is at a camp near\n Williamsburg; the other brother, John, is in\n Richmond.","\"adjoining the lands of Henry Peronneau Brown\n and others.\"","\"I am sorry Henry's name is not in the list of\n exchanged prisoners...\"","Request for someone to serve the Presbyterian\n Church at Tappahannock.","The settlement of the John Randolph estate\n which was in litigation for many years.","Refuses a request for $500 by his nephew;\n recommends that he stop drinking.","Note written on an early \"penny post card.\"","Letters written to his sister as he made a\n start in farming after the end of the war: \"I have\n not the means to buy me a suit of clothes.\" Later\n he added: \"I never was as poor in my life before\n as I am now...I have not spent during the whole\n year on myself more than $10...\"","First mention of Cassie Tucker, who was later\n to marry John Thompson Brown III.","A request for a purchase of a case of \"56 Home\n Remedies.\"","Writes of \n Cassie\n [Tucker] , wife of \n [John]\n Thompson [Brown III] . \"You have introduced\n into your home a very sunbeam.\"","Concerning the death of \n John [Coalter\n II] .","The letters in this box concerning John Thompson\n Brown III, begin with one from his mother, Mrs. Henry\n Peronneau Brown, the former Frances Bland Coalter.\n There are 6 report cards from The University School,\n Petersburg, Virginia (1877-1879). Of interest is a\n pamphlet of \n Resolutions Passed in 1894,\n 1895, and 1896...Denouncing the Bedford High School\n Act.","Many of the letters in the collection are from\n Mrs. Cynthia B. Tucker Coleman to her niece Cassie\n (Mrs. John Thompson Brown III). Letters from the\n children, John Thompson Brown IV, Frances Brown, and\n Henry Peronneau Brown II, are included as well as\n photographs of some members of the family and\n pictures of the family home, Ivy Cliff, Bedford\n County (formerly Otter Hill) the home of Capt. Henry\n Brown, great grandfather of John Thompson Brown\n III.","At the end of the box is a notebook containing\n sermons copied out by Mrs. Henry Peronneau Brown for\n her son John Thompson Brown III.","To her son [John Thompson Brown III] urging him\n to improve his writing and \"to read your Bible and\n say your prayers every day.\"","A description of the London Museum and Zoo.","Some contain letters by John Thompson Brown\n III, when the reports were sent home.","Recommends Bible reading as the antidote for\n \"the very corrupt sentiments which are scattered\n through the classical writers.\"","The recent death of her husband, Dr. Coleman;\n the serious illness of Mrs. Henry Peronneau\n Brown.","During her illness, Mrs. Brown's children are\n in the care of Mrs. Coleman.","A child's letter.","Rejoices that Cassie's health is \"entirely\n restored.\" Bev. Tucker and Braxton Bryan are\n mentioned as attending an assembly of the clergy\n at Jamestown.","\"...make haste and get well enough to come home\n where you are much missed.\"","\"Given to my son June 5, 1890. Let him read it\n carefully and may God have mercy on his soul.\n Amen.\" (Mrs. Frances B. Brown died in September\n 1894.)","This box contains material related to the Brown\n and Tucker families after 1900. Accounts of Cary A.\n Adams are placed at the beginning of the box.","Newspaper clippings, 1913-1915, from Nome, Alaska,\n relate to Judge John Randolph Tucker. Another member\n of the family, Capt. David Tucker Brown, is\n represented by two letters (1918, 1919) written from\n France when he was serving as a member of the\n American Commission to negotiate peace.","At the end of the box are collected seventeen\n undated items concerning unidentified persons.","Endorsed: \"Pres. of Const. Convention,\n 1901-2.\"","Taken from the \n Nome Daily Nugget , \n Nome Democrat and \n Nome Industrial\n Worker .","With the \"American Commission to Negotiate\n Peace.\" There is also mention of John Thompson\n Brown IV, of Wilmington.","(\"From private who served you on the\n memorable 8th of Jany, 1815.\")","An alphabetical list of flowers with the\n characteristics of each expressed\n symbolically."],"separatedmaterial_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003e\n \u003carchref type=\"simple\" href=\"\"\u003eBrown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Manuscripts\n and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary. \n \u003cunittitle\u003eBrown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), \n \u003cunitdate type=\"inclusive\" era=\"ce\" calendar=\"gregorian\"\u003e\n 1791-1920.\u003c/unitdate\u003e\u003c/unittitle\u003e\u003cphysdesc\u003e941 items.\u003c/physdesc\u003e\u003cunitid\u003eCollection number: Mss. 65 B855\u003c/unitid\u003e\u003cabstract\u003ePapers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and\n Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland\n (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the\n Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John\n Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the\n Morton family.\u003c/abstract\u003e\u003c/archref\u003e\n \u003c/p\u003e"],"separatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Separated Material"],"separatedmaterial_tesim":["Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Manuscripts\n and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William\n and Mary. \n Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), \n \n 1791-1920. 941 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 B855 Papers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and\n Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland\n (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the\n Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. 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Tomlin Coalter,","Maria Rind Coalter,","St. George Tucker Coalter,","Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington\n Coleman,","Moses Drury Hoge,","J. M. (James Murray) Mason,","William Munford,","William Nelson Pendleton,","John Hampden Pleasants,","Judith Randolph Randolph,","William C. (William Cabell) Rives,","Lelia Skipwith Carter Tucker,","Henry St. George Tucker,","St. George Tucker,","John Tyler.","Boone, Jennifer\n Kathryn.","Archer, William Segar,\n 1789-1855.","Brown, Frances Bland\n Coalter, 1835-1894.","Brown, Daniel.","Brown, Henry,\n 1797-1836.","Brown, Henry\n Peronneau.","Bryan, Elizabeth Tucker\n Coalter, b. 1805.","Bryan, John Randolph,\n 1806-1887.","Coalter, Frances Bland\n Tucker, 1785-1813.","Coalter, John,\n 1769-1838.","Coalter, Judith H. Tomlin,\n d. 1859.","Coalter, Maria Rind, d.\n 1792.","Coalter, St. George Tucker,\n 1809-1839.","Coleman, Cynthia Beverley\n Tucker Washington, 1832-1908.","Hoge, Moses Drury,\n 1818-1899.","Mason, J. M. 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There is a second diary by Robert C. Thompson, a Confederate soldier, from August 1862 to February 1863. Robert Thompson was a member of a Tennessee unit, imprisoned at Camp Morton, exchanged in September 1862, and spent the remainder of the time covered by the diary with his reorganized company in Mississippi near Vicksburg. 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SEE ALSO Folk medicine.","Rivers and river valleys.","Travel accounts.","No special access restriction applies.","Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.","Diary and account book, 1804-1811, of John Thompson containing accounts of items bought and sold, money owed by and to Thompson, two journeys on the Mississippi River between Nashville, Natchez, and New Orleans, 1804-1805, and numerous remedies for diseases and medical complaints. There is a second diary by Robert C. Thompson, a Confederate soldier, from August 1862 to February 1863. Robert Thompson was a member of a Tennessee unit, imprisoned at Camp Morton, exchanged in September 1862, and spent the remainder of the time covered by the diary with his reorganized company in Mississippi near Vicksburg. 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