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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Brownrigg Family Papers #2226, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Richard Thomas Brownrigg of Saint Louis, Mo., in 1940, and from Henry Brownrigg of London, England, in April 2000 (Acc. 98606).

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Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, November 2009 and November 2010

This collection was rehoused under the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Account books.
• Americans--Ireland--History--19th century.
• Brownrigg family.
• Brownrigg, John, fl. 1784-1858.
• Brownrigg, John, fl. 1835-1865.
• Brownrigg, Richard Thomas, 1793-1863.
• Brownrigg, Richard Thomas, b. 1865.
• Brownrigg, Richard, d. 1771.
• Brownrigg, Thomas, 1767-1826.
• Chowan County (N.C.)--History.
• Education--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Fisheries--North Carolina--History.
• Ireland--Description and travel.
• Irish Americans--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Jamaica--Description and travel.
• Lowndes County (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
• Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Mississippi--Description and travel.
• Pasquotank County (N.C.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• Real property--Mississippi--History--19th century.
• Real property--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Southern States--Description and travel.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.

• John Lancaster Bailey Papers (#39)
• Elizabeth Henderson Cotten Papers (#1650)
• Archibald Henderson Papers (#3650)

Richard Brownrigg (1735-1771) was born in Wicklow County, Ireland, and emigrated to America some time before 1760. He settled in Bertie County, N.C., and married Sarah Campbell, daughter of Captain John Campbell. His son John Brownrigg (fl. 1784-1894) spent many years in Dublin, Ireland, with the uncle for whom he had been named; he was the heir to his uncle's estates in Ireland and Jamaica.

Thomas Brownrigg (1767-1826), a younger son of Richard Brownrigg, lived in Pasquotank County, N.C., until the death of his brother John. At that time he moved to the family estate of Wingfield in Chowan County.

General Richard Thomas Brownrigg (1793-1847), oldest son of Thomas Brownrigg, lived at Wingfield until 1836, when he moved to Lowndes County, Miss. He settled near Columbus, as did his sister and brother-in-law, Sarah and William Sparkman. General Brownrigg and his wife, Mary Winifred Hoskins Brownrigg, had seven children. Their oldest son, John Brownrigg (fl. 1835-1865), was a physician in the Columbus area and a surgeon in the Confederate Army.

Richard Thomas Brownrigg (b. 1865), only son of John Brownrigg, was a lawyer in Saint Louis, Mo.

The collection includes correspondence and other papers, mainly 1771-1861, of the Brownrigg family of Chowan County, N.C., and Lowndes County, Miss. Included are deeds, contracts, bills and receipts; copies of family data and wills, including the wills of Richard Brownrigg (1735-1771) and his son Thomas Brownrigg (1767-1826); personal letters concerning health, education in North Carolina, fisheries, travels, and property in Chowan County and Pasquotank County, N.C., and Lowndes County, Miss.; typed transcriptions of John Brownrigg's letters, 1784-1794, written in Ireland and Jamaica; letters, 1807-1811, from Richard Thomas Brownrigg at the University of North Carolina; letters, 1835, written on a wagon caravan journey from North Carolina to Mississippi; journals, 1835 and 1836, written by Richard Thomas Brownrigg on trips from North Carolina to Mississippi; personal account books, 1835-1858, of Richard T. Brownrigg and his son John Brownrigg; and a few letters, 1944, of Richard Thomas Brownrigg (b. 1865).

• Oversize papers (OP-2226/1-11)