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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 300 items) |
Abstract | The Brownrigg family of Wicklow County, Ireland; Chowan, Pasquotank, and Hertford counties, N.C.; and Mississippi included Richard Brownrigg (d. 1771) of Ireland; brothers John and Thomas Brownrigg; Thomas's wife, Ruth; their son, Gen. Richard Thomas Brownrigg (b. 1793); and their daughter, Elizabeth Brownrigg, who married the Hon. John L. Bailey. 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 and Pasquotank counties, 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). |
Creator | Brownrigg (Family : Brownrigg, Thomas, 1767-1826). |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English. |
Processed by: SHC Staff
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.
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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.
Back to TopThe 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).
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Personal letters of various members of the Brownrigg family. Included are typed transcriptions of a letterbook, 1784-1794, of John Brownrigg. These letters are from Brownrigg in Ireland and Jamaica, to various relatives in America and Ireland, including his stepfather David Meredith, his mother Sarah Campbell Brownrigg Meredith, his sister Mary Brownrigg Blackstock, his brother Thomas, and his brother-in-law John Hunter. They discuss John Brownrigg's business affairs in North Carolina, the administration of his uncle's estates in Jamaica, the education of his brother Thomas, and other family matters. The transcriptions were made by Richard T. Brownrigg of St. Louis, Mo.; the original book has apparently been lost.
Also included are a few letters, 1807-1811, from Richard Thomas Brownrigg to his father Thomas Brownrigg, written while Richard T. Brownrigg was a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, chiefly concerning his activities at the University; letters of introduction, 1835, for Richard T. Brownrigg from James Iredell of Raleigh to various persons in Alabama and Mississippi; and letters, 1835-1836, to Richard T. Brownrigg from his sister Sarah Brownrigg Sparkman and his brothers-in-law William Sparkman and R. T. Hoskins, describing in detail their families' move by wagon from North Carolina to Mississippi and early experiences in Lowndes County, Miss. There are also a few letters from Richard Thomas Brownrigg of St. Louis, Mo., to his cousin Elizabeth Brownrigg Henderson Cotten, pertaining mostly to genealogical inquiries and the papers he donated to the Southern Historical Collection.
Folder 1 |
1779-1791 |
Folder 2 |
1791-1794 |
Folder 3 |
1807-1835
Digital version: Letter from Richard T. Brownrigg to Thomas Brownrigg, 5 March 1811 |
Folder 4 |
1836, 1846, 1882, and 19th century undated |
Folder 5 |
1944 |
Arrangement: chronological.
Wills, indentures, bills, receipts, promissory notes, and other financial and legal items pertaining to the affairs of various members of the Brownrigg family. Included are the will of Richard Brownrigg, 1771, and typed transcriptions of the wills of Richard Brownrigg's father-in-law, John Campbell, 1777; of David Meredith, stepfather of John and Thomas Brownrigg, 1791; and of Thomas Brownrigg, 1825. Also included are inventories of the estates of Richard Brownrigg and his son John; indentures, bills, and receipts concerning Thomas Brownrigg, including a contract of partnership with Joseph Parker, accounts of Parker and Company, and many items concerning the buying and selling of slaves; items pertaining to Richard T. Brownrigg's brothers-in-law William Sparkman and Charles W. Hoskins; bills and receipts of Mary W. Brownrigg, the widow of Richard T. Brownrigg; and bills and receipts of Dr. John Brownrigg.
Folder 6 |
1736-1796 |
Folder 7 |
1800-1818 |
Folder 8 |
1821-1836 |
Folder 9 |
1840-1850 |
Folder 10 |
1851-1853 |
Folder 11 |
1854-1857 |
Folder 12 |
1858-1862 and undated |
Typed transcription of a genealogical essay, 1886, by Elizabeth Brownrigg Waddell, daughter of General Richard T. Brownrigg; a pamphlet entitled The Genealogy of the "Latham-Hill-Montfort-Littlejohn-McCulloch-Campbell and Brownrigg Families" by W. H. Bailey, a grandson of Thomas Brownrigg; a family tree of the Brownriggs of Wicklow County, Ireland; and "The Brownrigg Family in Cumberland (1550-1800)" by Henry Brownrigg.
Folder 13a |
Genealogical materials |
Folder 13b |
Genealogical materials |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-2226/1 |
Oversize genealogical charts |
Various papers pertaining to members of the Brownrigg family, including diplomas from the Philanthropic Society, University of North Carolina, 1813, awarded to Richard T. Brownrigg; pages from the diary of an unidentified person, describing a trip to Virginia on legal business and later a trip to Washington, D.C., where the writer was entertained by President and Mrs. Tyler; an essay on Wingfield, the estate of Richard Brownrigg, possibly written by Elizabeth Brownrigg Henderson Cotten; and several obituaries of various members of the Brownrigg family, copied in the handwriting of Archibald Henderson, including the obituaries of Major Richard Thomas Brownrigg, d. 1863, and his brother Dr. John Brownrigg, fl. 1835-1865.
Folder 14-15
Folder 14Folder 15 |
Miscellaneous items |
Oversize Paper Folder OPF-2226/2 |
Surveyor's plan of land in Chowan County, N.C., 14 July 1810 |
Folder 16 |
Volumes 1 and 2Volume 1 (12 May-11 July 1835): Travel diary of Richard T. Brownrigg and account of expenses, describing a trip from North Carolina to Columbus, Miss. Volume 2 (25 May-22 July 1836): Travel diary and account of expenses, describing a trip from North Carolina to Mississippi. |
Folder 17 |
Volumes 3 and 4Volume 3 (1848-1852): Account book, mostly pertaining to the estate of General Richard T. Brownrigg. Also included are some accounts of Mary W. Brownrigg. Volume 4 (1853-1858): Account book, consisting mostly of personal accounts of Dr. John Brownrigg. |