Brown, John.
Person
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Frances Packette Todd Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2354
Overview
Correspondence, photographs, post cards, newspapers, pamphlets (regarding typical antebellum and postbellum topics such as slavery, states rights, etc.), official records including the 1793 marriage license for Lund Washington (George Washington's cousin) and Susanna Grayson, a 1732 shipping order for items, including gold and silver, to be transported from Delaware to London, a 1837 document authorizing payment of a navy pension to the children of Lt. John Packette, and memorabilia of a...
Dates:
1800-1985
John Brown (1800-1859) Clippings
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0335
Overview
Clippings and illustrations regarding abolitionist and activist John Brown, who led a raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859, precipitating the American Civil War. Includes: 1) facsimile of a page of the newspaper "Independent Democrat" of Charlestown, Virginia from 10-25-1859 including article giving an account of the raid by John Brown; 2) facsimile of a page of the newspaper "Daily Enquirer" of Richmond, Virginia from 11-21-1859 including copy of Brown's petition for a writ of error in his trial;...
Dates:
1859, 1909
John Brown Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0336
Scope and Contents
Photostat copies of court records from the 13th Judicial Circuit of Virginia, Jefferson County, (W) Va., relating to the trial of John Brown and the others for the raid on Harper's Ferry.
Dates:
1859-1860
John Brown Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1475
Scope and Contents
Letter from Brown's cousin, Luther Humphrey, dated Windham, Portage Co, O. November 12, 1859 extolling Brown's course of action; Brown's reply, dated Charlestown, Jefferson Co, Va., November 19, 1859, in which he upholds the righteousness of his cause.
Dates:
1859
Julia M. Davis, Author, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2826
Overview
Interviews with and reviews of the fiction of Julia Davis, a member of a prominent Harrison County family whose most distinguished member was her father, John W. Davis, the 1924 Democratic Presidential candidate. In the interviews she tells of the influence upon her career of Melville Davisson Post and of the historic activities of her family, particularly before and during the Civil War. Her maternal grandparents, who resided in Jefferson County, observed the trial and execution of John...
Dates:
1980
Logan Osborne Family and Business Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2941
Overview
A ledger and financial records of Logan Osborne (1836-39) also containing the will of Balamm Osborne. The ledger contains accounts of an assortment of general store goods from perishables such as food and candles to durable goods such as tools and carriages. There are Osborne family deeds, land contracts and letters about family matters and debt (1808-89). There are early nineteenth century state bank script from Louisiana, Virginia, and North Carolina. There are land indentures and legal...
Dates:
1761-1982
Thornton Tayloe Perry, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3192
Overview
This microfilm version of the Thornton Tayloe Perry Collection held by the Virginia Historical Society contains historical material collected by Perry over a 30 year period. It concentrates upon western Virginia and West Virginia with particular emphasis upon the lower Shenandoah Valley and Jefferson, Berkeley, and Morgan counties of West Virginia. The microfilm was placed in the West Virginia Collection by the Virginia Historical Society under provisions of a National Historical...
Dates:
1732-1965
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- Charles Town (W. Va.) 5
- Jefferson County. 5
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) 4
- Abolition of slavery 3
- Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) -- History -- John Brown's Raid, 1859 3
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 2
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 2
- Slaves and slavery. 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Banks and banking 1
- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Brooke County (W. Va.) 1
- Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Calhoun County (W. Va.) 1
- Charles Town Independent Democrat 1
- Civil War - Virginia 17th Infantry. 1
- Civil War - Virginia 2nd Cavalry. 1
- Civil War -- War diaries 1
- Civil War -- letters 1
- Civil War -- Confederacy 1
- Civil War battles - Kernstown. 1
- Civil War battles - Piedmont. 1
- Civil War battles. 1
- Crime and criminals. 1
- Diaries - Civil War. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Fayette County (Pa.) 1
- General stores 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) 1
- Hardy County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Land. 1
- Lincoln County (W. Va.) 1
- Logan County. 1
- Marshall County. 1
- Mason County. 1
- Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgan County (W. Va.) 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Richmond (Va.) 1
- Richmond Daily Enquirer 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) 1
- Shepherdstown. 1
- United States -- History -- War of 1812 1
- Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
- Virginia 1
- Volcano (W. Va.) 1
- Wetzel County (W. Va.) 1
- Wirt County (W. Va.) 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1
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