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Start Over Collection Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), 1790/1929 Date range 1828

Brown and Clayton business papers and Hancock and Brown business papers, 1810/1839

Business records and correspondence of Henry Brown and Samuel P. Clayton. After the death of his brother Daniel in 1818, Brown entered into a partnership with Clayton, his son-in-law. Brown survived Clayton, who died in 1832; this box also includes papers from 1833 to 1839 made out to Henry Brown, surviving partner of Brown and Clayton Company. The accounts of Henry Brown with Hancock and Brown, Lynchburg, 1824-1833, are retained as one group. Also retained as a separate group are the papers relating to the court suits of Brown and Pleasant Murphy. All notes of the period carried a 100 percent penalty clause. This resulted in many law suits being brought to establish what would now be considered exorbitant claims. In one case (see entry for March 10, 1823) for a debt of $42.05, the debtor surrendered 1 sound filly, 2 cows, a calf, 2 feather beds, all household and kitchen furniture, all plantation utensils, and 6 hogs! 159 items.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), 1790/1929
  3. GROUP B: Captain Henry Brown papers and Brown Family papers, 1774/1848
  4. Captain Henry Brown, 1774/1841

Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), 1790/1929 12.50 Linear Feet

Brown, Coalter, and Tucker Family

Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter, Tucker families including the papers of John Coalter (1769-1838), Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), member of the Virginia House of Delegates.

  1. College of William and Mary

Committee Report, 1827/1828 Box 14, Folder 30

Report of a committee, appointed to enquire into the nature and extent of the evils arising from the present unsettled state of Land Titles on the Western Waters of Virginia

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), 1790/1929
  3. GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers, 1816/1839
  4. Papers of John Thompson Brown, 1812/1832
  5. Published writings and speeches of John Thompson Brown, 1825/1832

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