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

GROUP C: John Thompson Brown Papers, 1816/1839

Papers concern John Thompson Brown's attendance at Princeton, study of law, and trips to the South and to the West Indies. Includes speeches and correspondence as well as his published writings (newspaper articles, bills and pamphlets). The collection emphasizes his political career in the Virginia House of Delegates including his views on slavery. Also includes architectural plans for a two room house and elevations (1827), drafts of toasts and letters concerning his fight with John Hampden Pleasants. Prominent correspondents include William Segar Archer, James Murray Mason, John Hampden Pleasants, William Cabell Rives, Henry St. George Tucker and John Tyler. Boxes 14 - 19.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), 1790/1929

Henry Saint George Tucker, Winchester, to Saint George T. Coalter, 1828 Box 4, Folder 11

Writes in regard to his instruction in law, as suggested by Elizabeth T. Coalter. He mentions the poor health of his step-brother, John Randolph of Roanoke; and suspects that his brother, Beverley, "will not return to Virginia as a resident." Beverley Tucker, then in Missouri, did return to Williamsburg, and later became Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary. Tucker enclosed his "Introductory Lecture," reprinted from his Commentory on the Laws of Virginia . . . Lectures delivered at the Winchester Law School, pp. 7-14.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), 1790/1929
  3. GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers, 1780/1858
  4. Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, and their families, 1778/1852
  5. Correspondence of Elizabeth Tucker Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, and their families, 1778/1838

Household and personal bills of Captain Henry Brown, 1819/1841

Household, family and personal bills preserved by Henry Brown, an interesting collection of a family illustrating the activities of eight children in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, 1819-1841.

  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

John Coalter Papers, 1774/1987

The series spans genealogical material, introductory material, poems, autographical material and John Coalter's correspondence until the death of his first wife, Maria Rind. The record of the gift of the collection, genealogical charts of the Tucker, Coalter, Tomlin and Brown families, and sundry genealogical notes which form a preface to the collection, are placed at the beginning of this box. The collection begins with 54 poems, the first of which is signed by St. George Tucker. Two signed poems by William Munford are included. The largest group of poems are those exchanged by John Coalter and Maria Rind, his first wife. Others were collected in the family papers until the middle or the latter part of the nineteenth century. The bulk of the material in Box 1 concerns John Coalter: an autobiographical sketch written by him on his 18th birthday, and letters covering the period of his early life from 1787, when he went to live with the St. George Tucker family, until the death of his first wife in 1793. Interesting letters from John Munford, a classmate of Coalter, are included, several of which concern the College of William and Mary and Harvard College. 221 items.

  1. College of William and Mary
  2. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), 1790/1929
  3. GROUP A:  Coalter and Tucker Papers, 1780/1858
  4. John Coalter, 1780/1822

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