Thomas Bolling Robertson - Charles St.-Mémin

CHALK PROFILE PORTRAIT OF THOMAS BOLLING ROBERTSON. by Saint-Mémin, Charles B.J.F. de:

Currentling offered by William Reese Company - Americana (New Haven, CT, U.S.A.) Priced at $22,500.00

 

        17 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches. Drawing, executed on the pink drawing paper typically used by St. Mémin. The profile portrait is mounted on a later sheet of paper in the 19th century (as noted by Miles). Small closed tear through the subject's nose, three longer tears through his face, meeting in his cheek, but with no loss, and expertly conserved by Theresa Fairbanks Harris.A conservation report and before and after photographs are available. In later wood frame with eglomized glass (26 1/4 x 20 3/4 inches) matching the style typically used by St. Mémin. A superb portrait by the well known French- American artist, Charles St.-Mémin, of prominent Virginian and future Secretary, Congressman, Attorney General and Governor of Louisiana, executed in Richmond in 1807.

        Charles St.-Mémin immigrated to the United States from France in 1793, his family having lost its lands and money in the French Revolution. He taught himself the techniques of engraving and drawing in New York, and in 1796 began making profile portraits with a physiognotrace. Over the next fourteen years he travelled throughout the United States, making profile portraits, both original drawings and in the form of small engravings. During this time he executed portraits of many of the leading figures of the day, from Presidents down. Ellen Miles' extensive work on St.-Mémin, published by the National Portrait Gallery, describes every aspect of his career and lists almost a thousand known portraits by him.

        Saint-Mémin spent less than a year in Richmond (1807-1808), but it was an incredibly productive period for him, as he made more than 120 portraits while in the city. At the time of his stay, Richmond was in the midst of the trial of Aaron Burr, and the city was crowded with notables. Saint- Mémin executed the portraits of many of the principals in the trail, including presiding judge John Marshall. Miles observes that "Saint Mémin's Richmond portraits are executed in a broader, looser technique that his earlier work. The chalk strokes are long, bold, and strong, notably in the rendering of the mens' coasts. This slight change in style did not affect the facial profiles, which remain precise and detailed. The change is not surprising, given the large number of portraits Saint-Mémin made in so short a time."

        Thomas Bolling Robertson (1779-1828) was one of the prominent Virginians who sat for a portrait by Saint-Mémin. He was born near Petersburg, graduated from William and Mary and then studied law, being admitted to the bar in 1806. Shortly thereafter, and concurrent with when this portrait , he was appointed by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary for the Territory of Orleans, and moved to New Orleans in 1807, probably very shortly after this portrait was made. He was elected as the first Congressman from Louisiana in 1812 and served until 1818, after which he became the state's third governor, serving from 1820 to 1824. Robertson was also Attorney General of Louisiana and judge of the United States Court for the district of Louisiana. Although virtually all of his adult and professional career was spent in Louisiana when not representing the state in Congress, he returned to Virginia to take the waters at Warm Springs in 1828 and died there, in his native state. Miles traces the provenance of this portrait through at least three generations of Robertson's family. One of Robertson's brothers, in the meantime, became governor of Virginia. A wonderful American portrait, by an artist whose distinctive style was in great demand, of a major figure in early Louisiana. Miles, ST.-MÉMIN (Washington, 1994) 701, and pp.163-171. Norfleet, SAINT-MÉMIN IN VIRGINIA, p.201. R.S. Robertson, "St. Memin Portraits: Thomas Bolling Robertson - Governor of Louisiana," in MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY (1881), pp.297, 428-430, 460. Bookseller Inventory # WRCAM 40621

James Doherty -- Rifle & Gun Maker

Doherty, James D., b. abt. 1812, Ireland, d. ________, rifle & gun maker. The adjacent ad ran in the Petersburg’s papers noting James Doherty as a “practical gun maker, on Bollingbrook Street, in the late 1850’s.

The 1850 Petersburg's census reported: James Doherty age 40, gunsmith; Mary Doherty age 40; M. J. Doherty, age 9, VA; James Doherty, age 14, N.Y.; Mary Doherty, age 6, VA; Ann Doherty, age 2, VA.

James D. Doherty, rifle & gun maker was listed in the 1860 Petersburg’s census, age 48, living in Centre Ward with Margaret, age 47, Ireland; M. Jas. Doherty, 24, New York, machinist; Mary J. Doherty, age 17; Margaret Doherty, age 14; Ann Doherty, age 12; Henry James, age 30, England, gunsmith

Brown, Alexander, merchant

The merchant and banker Alexander Brown (1764-1834) became one of America's first millionaires. He was a leading promoter of the city of Baltimore.

Alexandern Brown, a linen wholesaler who emigrated from Ballymena, Ireland, during the late 1790s, Brown resumed his trade upon arriving in Baltimore, announcing in the Federal Gazette a "most complete assortment of 4-4 and 7-8 Irish linen . . . which will be sold by the box or piece for cash or good acceptance within the city on usual credit." After 1803, however, he abandoned the linen trade, making changes to both the commerical and financial aspects of his business. He began purchasing cotton from an agent in Savannah, Georgia, for export toLiverool, England,and quickly became Balimore's most prosperous cotton merchant.70 In addition to the profits from the cotton trade, Brown also acted as a broker for English bills of exchange in Petersburg, Virginia, and then resold them to importers of English goods in Baltimore who needed ready capital accepable to British firms. As the British pound sterling remained the chief exchange Currency in trans-Atlantic trade during the nineteenth century, the brokerage business produced a steady income. Unlike amny eighteeth-century merchants who gambled on bold adventures that produced either spectacular profits or dreadful loses, Brown avoided speculation and invested his capital in enterprises like cotton and brokerage that promised minimal risk. The new endeavors were profitable and provided a steady income; by 1810, Brown had increased his firm's capital to $121,000.71
Although Brown's achivements were impressive, few merchants processed his commerical acumen. Despite the mercantile community's best efforts, the export tradehad reached a plateau and ceased to be the primary engine of economic growth for the city's economy after 1800.

70. Mark Pringle too Lubbock, Colt, and Co., Feb. 14, 1797, Mark Pringle Letterbook, MS 580, MdHS; Robert and John Oliver to Robert Forster, Jun. 26, 1797, OliverRecords Books, vol. 3, MdHS; and Federal Gazette and Balimore Daily Advertiser, Dec. 20, 1800.
71. Browne, Baltimore in the Nation, 92, and Edwin Perins, Financing Anglo-American Trade: The House of Brown, 1800-1880 (Cambridge, MA, 1975), 19-23.
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Certain Victims of an International Contagion: The Panic of 1797 and the Hard Times of the Late 1790s in Baltimore Author(s): Richard S. Chew Source: Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Winter, 2005), pp. 565-613 Publisher(s): University of Pennsylvania Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Stable.

URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30043365

Seaton, William Wintson, editor of the Republican

William Winston Seaton (1785-1866) journalist, Mayor of Washington D.C., and Lincoln advisor, and Abraham W. Venable (1799-1876) U.S. Congressman and Confederate Congressman from North Carolina. The document is a deposition of Venable in a legal case being heard at Frankfort, Kentucky between Sarah Harris and Abijah Northle, et. al. Venable states that he is a U.S. Congressman from North Carolina, has known Richard H. Mosby of North Carolina for years, and that Mosby is a man of truth and character. The names James Lyon and Robert Nicholas are also mentioned. Given the handwriting, Venable appears to have written a great portion of the first part of the document. Seaton indicates that the deposition was taken in the Library Room of the Capitol. Seaton was raised in Virginia. His mother was a cousin of Patrick Henry. When 18, he became assistant editor of a Richmond paper. He next edited the Petersburg "Republican," but soon purchased the "North Carolina Journal," published at Halifax, N.C., then the capital of N.C. When Raleigh became the capital, he worked with the " Register," edited by Joseph Gales, Sr., whose daughter he married. In 1812 he moved to Washington D.C. and joined the " National Intelligencer," in company with his brother-in-law, Joseph Gales, Jr.. Their partnership lasted until Gale died in 1860. From 1812-20 Seaton and Gales were the exclusive congressional reporters as well as editors of their journal. Their reportings foreshadowed what is today known as the Congressional Record. The Intelligencer was Anti-British, and when the Capital was burned by Admiral Cockburn and his British rabble, Cockburn was especially ired at the Intelligencer and personally helped carry the printing material and library out into the street where it was destroyed. Both Seaton and Gales served as Mayors of Washington D.C. Seaton served as mayor from 1840-52. During his period as mayor, Abraham Lincoln served in the Congress. Lincoln consulted Seaton when he sought to introduce a compromise bill in the House regarding slavery in the District of Columbia that would placate conflicting antislavery and proslavery members of the Whig party. He had Seaton's support. When news leaked out oppossition from all sides broke out and Seaton withdrew his support. The bill was never introduced. Abraham Venable was the nephew of Abraham Bedford Venable, a U.S. Senator. He was born in Virginia, graduated from Hampden-Sidney College in 1816 and studied medicine. He graduated from Princeton College in 1819; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1821 and commenced practice in Prince Edward and Mecklenburg Counties, Va. He moved to North Carolina in 1829 and served as a U.S. Congressman from 1847-53. Later, he was a presidential elector on the Breckinridge and Lane ticket in 1860. He was a delegate from N.C. to the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1861 and was a Confederate Congressman from 1862-64. The document is also docketed and signed by John H. Hann, clerk of the U.S. Court in Kentucky form 1807-51.

Alexander Campbell

Thomas Campbell (July 27, 1777 - June 15, 1844) was a Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry dealing specially with human affairs. He was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became the University of London. In 1799, he wrote 'The Pleasures of Hope' a traditional 18th century survey in heroic couplets. He also produced several stirring patriotic war songs- Ye Mariners of England, The Soldier's Dream, Hohenlinden and in 1801, The Battle of Baltic.A rare 1837 full leather copy of The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, including Theodric, and many other poems not contained in any former edition. Published in Philadelphia by J. Crissy, 1837. Bound in full leather with gilt titles, a marbled page block, 182 pages, plus 38 pages of notes. 7 and a half by 4 and a half inches, with marbled endpapers.Born in Glasgow, Thomas Campbell was the youngest son of Alexander Campbell, of the Campbells of Kirnan, Argyll. His father belonged to a Glasgow firm trading in Petersburg, Virginia, and lost his money in consequence of the American Revolutionary War. Campbell, who was educated at the Glasgow High School and University of Glasgow, won prizes for classics and for verse-writing. He spent the holidays as a tutor in the western Highlands. His poem Glenara and the ballad of Lord Ullin's Daughter owe their origin to a visit to Mull. In May 1797 he went to Edinburgh to attend lectures on law. He supported himself by private teaching and by writing, towards which he was helped by Dr. Robert Anderson, the editor of the British Poets. Among his contemporaries in Edinburgh were Sir Walter Scott, Henry Brougham, Francis Jeffrey, Dr. Thomas Brown, John Leyden and James Grahame. These early days in Edinburgh influenced such works as The Wounded Hussar, The Dirge of Wallace and the Epistle to Three Ladies.In 1799, six months after the publication of the Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge, The Pleasures of Hope was published. It is a rhetorical and didactic poem in the taste of his time, and owed much to the fact that it dealt with topics near to men's hearts, with the French Revolution, the partition of Poland and with negro slavery. Its success was instantaneous, but Campbell was deficient in energy and perseverance and did not follow it up. He went abroad in June 1800 without any very definite aim, visited Gottlieb Friedrich Klopstock at Hamburg, and made his way to Regensburg, which was taken by the French three days after his arrival. He found refuge in a Scottish monastery. Some of his best lyrics, Hohenlinden, Ye Mariners of England and The Soldier's Dream, belong to his German tour. He spent the winter in Altona, where he met an Irish exile, Anthony McCann, whose history suggested The Exile of Erin.He had at that time the intention of writing an epic on Edinburgh to be entitled The Queen of the North. On the outbreak of war between Denmark and England he hurried home, the Battle of the Baltic being drafted soon after. At Edinburgh he was introduced to the first Lord Minto, who took him in the next year to London as occasional secretary. In June 1803 appeared a new edition of the Pleasures of Hope, to which some lyrics were added.In 1803 Campbell married his second cousin, Matilda Sinclair, and settled in London. He was well received in Whig society, especially at Holland House. His prospects, however, were slight when in 1805 he received a government pension of £200. In that year the Campbells removed to Sydenham. Campbell was at this time regularly employed on the Star newspaper, for which he translated the foreign news. In 1809 he published a narrative poem in the Spenserian stanza, Gertrude of Wyoming -- referring to the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania and the Wyoming Valley Massacre -- with which were printed some of his best lyrics. He was slow and fastidious in composition, and the poem suffered from overelaboration. Francis Jeffrey wrote to the author:"Your timidity or fastidiousness, or some other knavish quality, will not let you give your conceptions glowing, and bold, and powerful, as they present themselves; but you must chasten, and refine, and soften them, forsooth, till half their nature and grandeur is chiselled away from them. Believe me, the world will never know how truly you are a great and original poet till you venture to cast before it some of the rough pearls of your fancy."In 1812 he delivered a series of lectures on poetry in London at the Royal Institution; and he was urged by Sir Walter Scott to become a candidate for the chair of literature at Edinburgh University. In 1814 he went to Paris, making there the acquaintance of the elder Schlegel, of Baron Cuvier and others. His pecuniary anxieties were relieved in 1815 by a legacy of £4000. He continued to occupy himself with his Specimens of the British Poets, the design of which had been projected years before. The work was published in 1819. It contains on the whole an admirable selection with short lives of the poets, and prefixed to it an essay on poetry containing much valuable criticism. In 1820 he accepted the editorship of the New Monthly Magazine, and in the same year made another tour in Germany.Four years later appeared his Theodric, a not very successful poem of domestic life. He took an active share in the foundation of the University of London, visiting Berlin to inquire into the German system of education, and making recommendations which were adopted by Lord Brougham. He was elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University (1826-1829) in competition against Sir Walter Scott. Campbell retired from the editorship of the New Monthly Magazine in 1830, and a year later made an unsuccessful venture with The Metropolitan Magazine. He had championed the cause of the Poles in The Pleasures of Hope, and the news of the capture of Warsaw by the Russians in 1831 affected him as if it had been the deepest of personal calamities. "Poland preys on my heart night and day," he wrote in one of his letters, and his sympathy found a practical expression in the foundation in London of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland. In 1834 he travelled to Paris and Algiers, where he wrote his Letters from the South (printed 1837). The small production of Campbell may be partly explained by his domestic calamities. His wife died in 1828. Of his two sons, one died in infancy and the other became insane. His own health suffered, and he gradually withdrew from public life. He died at Boulogne in 1844 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.Campbell's other works include a Life of Mrs Siddons (1842), and a narrative poem, The Pilgrim of Glencoe (1842). See The Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell (3 vols., 1849), edited by William Beattie, M.D.; Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (1860), by Cyrus Redding; The Complete Poetical Works Of Thomas Campbell (1869); The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell (1875), in the Aldine Edition of the British Poets, edited by the Rev. V. Alfred Hill, with a sketch of the poet's life by William Allingham; and the Oxford Edition of the Complete Works of Thomas Campbell (1908), edited by J. Logie Robertson. See also Thomas Campbell in the Unfamous Scots Series, by J.C. Madden, and a selection by Lewis Campbell (1904) for the Golden Treasury Series.

Walden, J. W. -- Image

Tintype of an African American with the photographer's back mark.

“J.W. WALDEN, PHOTOGRAPHER, PETERSBURG, VA.”
Size approximately 3 1/4 x 2 inches.

Offered on Ebay Sept. 2009

Ducey, John -- Stoneware/potter

1869 Invoice Signed by Petersburg Crock Maker John Ducey

Joel Brown's Family

Descendants of Samuel Brown
Generation No. 1
1. SAMUEL1 BROWN was born Abt. 1745, and died October 22, 1808 in Petersburg, Virginia. He married ELIZABETH LNU. She was born Abt. 1748, and died November 04, 1825 in Petersburg, Virginia.
Notes for SAMUEL BROWN: Samuel was a Chesterfield County wheelwright. He was living in Chesterfield County in1780 and remained there until his death in 1808. More About SAMUEL BROWN: Burial: Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, VA. Notes for ELIZABETH LNU (last name unknown): Elizabeth is said by one source to have been a Gill. Burial: Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, VA
Children of SAMUEL BROWN and ELIZABETH LNU are:
2. i. JOEL2 BROWN, b. December 06, 1771, Virginia; d. January 27, 1848, Wake County, NC.
ii. ARCHER BROWN, b. 1776, Chesterfield County, Virginia; d. 1854; m. MARY KING FLISHMAN.
iii. LODWICK BROWN, b. February 25, 1780, Chesterfield County, Virginia; d. May 11, 1862, Petersburg, Virginia. Burial: Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, Virginia
iv. DANIEL BROWN, b. 1783, Virginia. Occupation: 1850, Cabinetmaker in Petersburg, VA
v. JESSE BROWN, b. Abt. 1785, Chesterfield County, Virginia; d. Aft.1828; m. MARY ROWLETT PARTIN, June 23, 1808, Chesterfield County, Virginia.
vi. ALEXANDER BROWN, b. Abt. 1790, Virginia; d. Abt. 1849, Virginia.
vii. MARTHA BROWN, b. Abt. 1790, Probably Chesterfield County, Virginia; m. JAMES Gill, November 30, 1809, Chesterfield County, Virginia; b. Abt. 1790, Virginia.

Generation No. 2
2. JOEL2 BROWN (SAMUEL1) was born December 06, 1771 in Virginia, and died January 27, 1848 in Wake County, NC. He married RETTER Gill September 25, 1794 in Chesterfield, VA. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Thomas Hardie, Methodist, daughter of JOSEPH Gill and PHOEBE LNU. She was born October 09, 1772 in Virginia, and died April 21, 1839 in Raleigh, Wake County, NC. Notes for JOEL BROWN: Joel Brown is shown on the 1810 census of Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia with his wife, 7 children, and 3 slaves. Nearby was his wife's brother-in-law James Selby. Joel's name appears in 1810 on a list of Petersburg, Virginia subscribers to "A Short History of the Methodists iin the United States of America" by Jesse Lee. Joel Brown moved to Raleigh, North Carolina from Petersburg, Virginia on June 16, 1816. Joel was a cabinet and furniture maker in Raleigh and Wake County for 30 years. A chair in the Joel Lane house in Raleigh bears the Petersburg label of Joel Brown. Joel made settees for the NC state senate while it was meeting in Government House in 1831 and chairs for the Wake County courtroom in 1835. Reference "Wake: Capital County of North Carolina." Joel Brown is mentioned in the book "Southern Furniture 1680-1830", published by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. His business in Petersburg was called "Windsor Chair Manufactory." According to the book, Joel was the son of a Chesterfield County wheelwright. Joel's advertisements emphasized his abilities as a maker of coaches and riding chairs; and offered to "turn columns for porticos or porches in the neatest and most approved style." He usually kept a stock of 400 chairs on hand. His Petersburg mark, which can be seen on some of his work was "J.Brown" and is pictured in the book along with a chair that he made. Joel Brown is mentioned in the book "Windsor-chair making in America: from craft shop to consumer" by Nancy Goyne Evans.
Quotes: "Frequently chairmakers properties contained structures and facilities other than the shop and home.....Joel Brown of Raleigh, North Carolina "enjoyed a garden well laid-out, rich and productive."
"Typical is a notice of 1816 for Joel Brown , who reminded patrons at Raleigh, North Carolina, that he stood ready to "paint and ornament old chairs with Gold or ornament them to direction".......Joel Brown also suggested that he "paint and ornament" chairs on site "so as to suit the rooms" they were to furnish."
"Joel Brown made an unusual offer in 1822 at Raleigh, North Carolina. "Gentlemen in the country, who may wish to have their homes painted, and also chairs or Articles in his line, can be supplied, as he will furnish the chairs and take them to a distance of 30 or 40 miles either from Raleigh or Fayetteville, and paint and ornament them at the house of the person ordering them, so as to suit the room and prevent them being injured by carriage over rough roads."

"Joel Brown advertised on September 21, 1804: "4 riding chairs Well finished-with harness, or without."
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An article about Prestwould Plantation in Virginia by Ronald L. Hurst in "Magazine Antiques" for January 1995 mentions Joel Brown: ".....In Petersburg, the Skipwiths patronized several artisans, including the windsor-chair maker Joel Brown, ......."

By 1840, after RETTER died, Joel seems to have been living with his son Henry Jerome Brown in Raleigh.
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The 1850 census of Petersburg, Virginia lists a man named Lodwick Brown, age 70. In the household is a woman named Mary, age 55; children Mary, 17; Elizabeth, 13; Jerome, 10; and Joel, 17. This man is a brother of Joel Brown. More About JOEL BROWN: Occupation: Furniture and cabinet maker; Residence: June 16, 1816, Moved to Raleigh, NC from Petersburg, VA Notes for RETTER GILL: Death Notice in the Raleigh Register in April 1839:"In this city, on Sunday the 21st of April, Mrs. Retter Brown, wife of Mr. Joel Brown, age 66 years."

Children of JOEL BROWN and RETTER Gill are:
i. ELIZAR GILL3 BROWN, b. October 12, 1796; d. September 07, 1834, Petersburg, Virginia; m. NAPIER WILSON, December 20, 1816, Raleigh, Wake County, NC; b. Abt. 1795. Notes for ELIZAR Gill BROWN: Moved to Maury County, Tennessee. Most of her descendants are said to be in that area today.
ii. BENJAMIN BROWN, b. August 14, 1799; d. August 31, 1799, Petersburg, Virginia.
iii. JOSEPH BROWN, b. August 14, 1799; d. May 24, 1800, Petersburg, Virginia.
iv. MALE BROWN, b. July 15, 1803; d. July 15, 1803, Virginia.
v. BOYCE MONROE BROWN, b. March 03, 1807; d. March 15, 1809.
vi. JEROME BROWN, b. March 31, 1809; d. October 19, 1814, Petersburg, Virginia.

3. vii. HENRY JEROME BROWN, b. July 24, 1811, Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia; d. May 12, 1879, Raleigh, North Carolina.

4. viii. ROBERT MONROE BROWN, b. March 07, 1814, Petersburg, Virginia; d. March 01, 1902, Chatham County, NC.

Generation No. 3
3. HENRY JEROME3 BROWN (JOEL2, SAMUEL1) was born July 24, 1811 in Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, and died May 12, 1879 in Raleigh, North Carolina. He married LYDIA LANE. She was born April 30, 1814 in North Carolina, and died November 14, 1898 in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. Notes for HENRY JEROME BROWN: Henry Jerome Brown followed in his father's footsteps as a cabinetmaker; he also made coffins. His business developed into the Brown-Wynne Funerals Homes in 1836 which continues to the present and is the oldest existing business in Raleigh, NC. Reference "Wake: Capital County of North Carolina."
From the website of Brown-Wynn Funeral & Cremation Services: The H. J. Brown Coffin House was founded in Raleigh in 1836 by H. J. Brown. Five generations have left nothing undone to make Brown-Wynne Funeral Home one of the most complete mortuary establishments in the South. Brown-Wynne Funeral Home is North Carolina's oldest funeral home, as well as the oldest continuous business in Raleigh. Founded in 1836, it dates back to when Andrew Jackson was President of the United States. There has always been a strong connection between Brown-Wynne and the city of Raleigh. In 1868, Henry Brown assisted in the transfer of 267 confederate soldiers from the Rock Quarry Cemetery to what is now Oakwood Cemetery. Henry Brown died in 1879, leaving care of the firm to his son, John W. Brown, who also became the first president of the North Carolina Funeral Directors' Association. In 1915, Henry Brown's grandson, Fab Brown, began using motor-driven hearses for funerals. This pattern of continuous progress is a hallmark of the business, and continues today. Brown-Wynne has grown along with Raleigh and the surrounding cities. The original building site was at the corner of Dawson and Morgan Streets. The home moved to the corner of Hargett and Salisbury in 1889, then in 1928 moved again to Hillsborough Street. In 1954, Robert W. Wynne, Jr. built a new home on the corner of St. Mary's and North Street. He also had the foresight to expand to Cary, in 1969, and the Millbrook community, in 1973. In 1991, Brown-Wynne proudly became part of Dignity Network, the largest network of funeral care providers in North America. More About HENRY JEROME BROWN: Burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, Wake County, NC. More About LYDIA LANE: Burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, Wake County, NC

Children of HENRY BROWN and LYDIA LANE are:
i. FRANCIS4 BROWN, b. Abt. 1835, Wake County, North Carolina; m. WILLIAM M. BROWN; b. Abt. 1825.
More About WILLIAM M. BROWN:Occupation: 1880, Printer.

ii. ELIZABETH BROWN, b. Abt. 1837, North Carolina; m. EBENEZER BURNS.
Notes for ELIZABETH BROWN: Undated item in the "Weekly Standard" newpaper of Raleigh, North Carolina: Married In this city, on Thursday morning last, by Rev. L. L. Hendren,Mr. Ebenezer Burns, Commoner in last Legislature from Cabarrus County, to Miss Elizabeth S., second daughter of Mr. H. J. Brown, of this city.
iii. LOVE G. BROWN, b. Abt. 1839, Wake County, North Carolina; d. February 13, 1918, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina; m. RICHARD W. YOUNG, March 22, 1866, Wake County, North Carolina; b. North Carolina; d. Bet. 1872 - 1880, Wake County,North Carolina. More About LOVE G. BROWN:Burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, Wake County, NC
iv. ANN BROWN, b. Abt. 1844, North Carolina.
v. NATHANIEL BROWN, b. June 23, 1844, Wake County,North Carolina; d. February 1901, Wake County,North Carolina.
vi. HENRY BROWN, b. Abt. 1846, North Carolina.
vii. LYDIA JANE BROWN, b. Abt. 1848, North Carolina; d. February 25, 1933, Wake County, North Carolina.
More About LYDIA JANE BROWN:Burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, Wake County, NC
viii. JOHN W. BROWN, b. September 1849, North Carolina; d. 1914, Wake County, North Carolina; m. (1) ISABELLE PORTER, Abt. 1872, Wake County, North Carolina; b. Abt. 1848; d. Bef. 1900, Wake County, North Carolina; m. (2) ELIZABETH LNU, Abt. 1894, Wake County, North Carolina; b. August 1875, North Carolina.
More About JOHN W. BROWN:Burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, Wake County, NC; Occupation: 1880, Undertaker
ix. MARY BROWN, b. Abt. 1853, North Carolina.
x. JOSEPH Gill BROWN, b. November 05, 1854, Wake County,North Carolina; d. January 30, 1927, Wake County,North Carolina; m. ALICE BURKHEAD, 1881, Wake County, North Carolina; b. March 1861, North Carolina. More About JOSEPH Gill BROWN: Occupation: 1880, Bank Teller

4. ROBERT MONROE3 BROWN (JOEL2, SAMUEL1) was born March 07, 1814 in Petersburg, Virginia, and died March 01, 1902 in Chatham County, NC. He married AVERILLAH Virginia HOLLEMAN November 06, 1833 in Raleigh, Wake County, NC, daughter of DAVIS HOLLEMAN and ANNA SUGG. She was born December 25, 1814, and died December 05, 1885 in Chatham County, NC. Notes for ROBERT MONROE BROWN:Robert MONROE Brown apparently was a man who had a lot to say and did not hesitate to say it. The following is the text of a letter he wrote to President Andrew Johnson at the close of the Civil War, from his home in New Hill, Wake County, North Carolina. It appears from the last paragraph that Robert M. is attempting to regain the postmastership of New Hill. The letter was reprinted in the "North Carolina Historical Review."

To His Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United States,
Very Dear Sir,
I hope you will not think a miss of me for droping [sic]you these lines, as I know I do so on the most friendly terms, both privetly [sic] and politically I know you will be somewhat Supprised [sic] when you find out who it is addressing you, as it has been near forty years since we were acquainted, and boys together, though you may have entirely forgotten me, though if you have, I have not forgotten you, and shall never forget our boyhood days, that we so cheerfully spent together, when you lived with uncle Selby, in the City of Raleigh, you are some older than I am, though not many years, I am in my 52nd year, I have had many trials, and trobles [sic] to encounter with Since we were boys together in the City of Raleigh, though the trobles and Sufferings of the last four years, was much greater than all the years of my life before, I thank God that I was with you in Sentiment, politically, and against this Cruel and uncalled for war, you deserve as much credit and Honour, as any one man liveing [sic], and perticuler [sic] so for the great stand takeing [sic] by you against this unholy war, in trying to put it down, and prevent the South from ever geting [sic] in to it, thought unheeded she plunged her Self in to it, over the prays [sic] and beseechings of her many friends, Dreadful,, Dreadful,, day,, it was, when the South commenced this uncalled for war, with the North, what has the South made by the opperation. She has made thousands of widows, and orphans, and made her Self one of the poorest Sett [sic] of people, ever under the Sun, all by her own outrageious [sic] Conduct, and the worst of all is, that the inocent [sic] has to Suffer with the guilty, I thank my God, that that I was against it from first to last, and don [e], and acted, all in my power to prevent it, from the Commencement to the end, so far as I dar[e] to do, and was threatened to be hung, for my sentiments and acts, against the war, I was acting as Postmaster at New Hill for the last 10 years, and I continued to act as Postmaster after it Commenced, in order to Keep my Self out of the army, as I never intended to take up arms against the United States, if I could avoid it and I thank God, that I never have, I Keep my oldest son out for 12 months after the war begun, though they finally got him, he was about 22 years old when they got him, and not quit[e] 12 months before the war closed I had another son that arrived to the age of 17 years, they got after him though I managed to Keep him out, though if it had not of ended as soon as it did they soon would of had him in, so you can assitain [sic] from what I have wrote, some of the trobles [sic] that I have had to encounter with dureing this dredful [sic] conflict, and on the 15th of april last, a potion of the Norther army past my house, and tooke [sic] from me every thing that I had to eat, or nearly so, and distroyed [sic] and, tooke from me many other things, too tedious to mention, yet after they broke me nearly up, I thank God, that they did Come, as nothing but their presence, appeared, Could stop this unholy war, and I was willing for me and my family to suffer, and that greatly for the sake of restoring peace and union wonce [sic] more to our distacted Country I am a man in quit[e] limited circumstances, I own 108 acres of poor land, on which I farm, my other property, is but little, I never was the owner of a slave, and I am glad that I never was, I have a wife and twelve children, two of which are married, the others are with me, it is true I have had a hard time, to live though this desperate war, with my large family of children, and the most of which are Daughters, and also a hard time since the Northern troops past through, as they left me little or nothing to eat, and I had no money to buy with, only the so called Confederate Script, which was no money at all, though we have made out thus far to live in some way, and I feel sure that God will provi'ed some way to sustain my life, & family in the future, the pleasure that I entertain of liveing in peace, and union, in the future bears me up, otherwise I should sink in dispair, may the great God of heaven forever bless our United States of America, and forever unite us more firmly together as a band of brothers, in peace and union, than ever heretofore, and may he bless, bless you for great good in your laudable undertakeing, and may your days be many on earth for the good that you have alredey [sic] don[e] and accomplished, and for the good that you are yet so very competent of accomplishing for the well fare and good of our blessed country, I thank God, that your are the right man, and in the right place. Respectfully your obdt Servant, R. M. Brown

My name is Robert M. Brown, though more commonly called when I and you were boys together in Raleigh (Bob Brown) I am the son of Joel Brown, the old chair maker that lived in Raleigh, at the time you lived there with Uncle Selby, I am Brother to Henry J. Brown who now lives in Raleigh, you and my Brother Henry, Stayed at Uncle Selbys together for Sometime, I have no dou[b]t but what you wil recolect [sic] me very well, I beli[e]ve I should recognize you, if I had the pleasure of seeing you now, I live 22 miles west of Raleigh, in Wake County, as there is no Post office, Keep up at my place now, if you should see cause to Communicate a few lines to me in the way of old acquaintance, you will please address me at Raleigh, N.C. it would be a great pleasure to me to receive a line from one of my boyhood associates and from one that has stood the war storm as you have and have come out more than conquorer [sic].Beli[e]ve me to be your friend privetly [sic], and publickly, and politically, I refer you to his Excellency W. W. Holden Governor of the State of N.C. in refference [sic] to any thing you you should wish to know of me, as he is well acquainted with me in every sence of the word. privetly and polically, and I am willing to admit to any thing that he will say of me.
I am your obedient Servant,with much Respect and Esteem.

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This letter from President Andrew Johnson to Robert Brown was copied from "Wake: Capital County of North Carolina":
Executive Mansion, Washington
September 9, 1865

To Mr. R. M. Brown
New Hill
Wake Co., N.C.
My Dear Sir:
I have received and read your letter of the 1st instant, and thank you for its kind tone, and for the interest you still have in one of your "old boyhood associates."
I regret as much as any can regret, the sad devastation and havoc occasioned by the war, and I trust that now al our people will devote themselves to the pursuit of peace and to cherishing a love for the government which our fathers founded. If they do so, our nation cannot fail to have a growth and grandeur greater than that of any nation that has preceded it in history.
Believe me very truly your friend, ANDREW Johnson
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Robert MONROE Brown lived in New Hill, NC near Holleman's Crossroads from at least 1850 until at least 1872. He owned a general store and was listed as the postmaster in 1850. He operated the New Hill post office for the Confederate government during the Civil War. By the 1870's he had purchased lots in the new town of Sanford, North Carolina and was listed as the postmaster of Sanford in 1873 and 1879 and 1880. He is said to have owned the first hotel in Sanford near the railroad depot. Robert M. Brown is mentioned on the website "Downtown Sanford", North Carolina as one of the "town fathers," "the postmaster and a leading merchant." "The town' businessmen included merchants Lodowick T. Brown....."[Robert M. Brown's son].

Robert M.'s wife Averilar died in 1885; on October 18, 1893 he remarried to Lucy F. Green, in Raleigh, NC. The marriage was apparently not a happy one; they had separated by 1897 and were not living together at the time he died in 1902. In 1900, Lucy was living in Cape Fear Township of Chatham County with a female servant; she was listed as a schoolteacher. In his will, Robert M. attempted to keep her from inheriting any of his estate; however, she contested the will and was awarded a portion of his property.
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This item was submitted to the Raleigh newpaper "The Weekly Standard" by Robert MONROE Brown: Died near New Hill, N.C., 24th December, 1863, Tabitha, eldest daughter of James and Sarah A. Ennis, in the 8th year of her age. She was the pride of her parents, but her innocent spirit hath taken flight to that land where they may meet her again to part no more forever. R. M. B.
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As part of the commemoration of the centennial of Holly Springs Masonic Lodge #115 in 1947, a history of the lodge was written by Roy Shirlen, a past Master of the lodge. Mention is made that in 1851, " Furniture was inexpensive then, for the lodge paid 50 cents for one-half dozen chairs purchased from R. M. Brown."
Robert M. Brown was also a Justice of the Peace of Wake County, North Carolina, as he is listed in the North Carolina marriage bonds as having performed the marriage of Thomas B. Holleman to Sarah C. Parten on July 31, 1856.
In 1870, Robert M. Brown was living in New Hope township of Chatham County, North Carolina. Jerome Brown and his wife Sarah Elizabeth Bridges are living in the next household.
Robert M. Brown, age 86, with his daughter Fannie, age 48, are listed on the 1900 census of Chatham County, in Haywood, Cape Fear Township. R. M. Brown is mistranscribed on Ancestry.com as Robert M. Bryant. Nickname: "Bob";Occupation: Bet. 1873 - 1876, Postmaster, Sanford, NC
More About AVERILLAH Virginia HOLLEMAN:Burial: Gum Springs Baptist Church Cemetery

Children of ROBERT BROWN and AVERILLAH HOLLEMAN are:
i. LEVENIA ANN4 BROWN, b. November 02, 1831, Wake County, NC; d. December 05, 1910, Southern Pines,Moore County, NC; m. RUSSEL MERRITT SUGG, March 05, 1857, Wake County, NC; b. March 01, 1835, Wake County, NC; d. Bet. January - November 1872, Chatham or Wake County, North Carolina. In 1900, according to the Wake County, NC census for that year, Lavinia was living in the household of her nephew Donius (?) Lashley. Also in the household was Lavinia's sister Samantha Lashley. Burial: Gum Springs Baptist Church Cemetery; Residence: 1900, Wake County, North Carolina Notes for RUSSEL MERRITT SUGG:Russell Merritt SUGG and his wife Lavinia Brown SUGG were second cousins; William SUGG and Anna Sims were the great-grandparents of both. R. M. Sugg operated a saw mill in Wake County. Russell Merritt's name appears on a deed involving a school in Chatham County on January 20, 1872. Levenia SUGG sold land in Chatham County on March 14, 1873 and bought another parcel of land the same day. Russell died between these dates.
ii. SAMANTHA ADOLINE RETTER BROWN, b. July 25, 1836, Wake County, North Carolina; d. February 03, 1904; m. WESLEY J. LASHLEY, August 24, 1859, Wake County, NC; b. November 26, 1826, North Carolina. Married Wesley J. Lashley August, 1859 in Wake County, NC.
iii. JOEL MONROE BROWN, b. October 07, 1839, Wake County, North Carolina; d. January 31, 1907, Sanford, North Carolina; m. NANCY JANE THOMAS, December 14, 1865, Wake County, NC; b. October 1851, Chatham County, North Carolina; d. Aft. 1910. Enlisted in Company I, North Carolina 3rd Cavalry Regiment on 12 Feb 1862.
iv. EUGENIA ELMIRA BROWN, b. August 16, 1840, Wake County, North Carolina; d. February 14, 1926, Sanford, North Carolina; m. MALCOLM NICHOLSON, February 24, 1875, Moore County, North Carolina; b. March 06, 1813; d. January 22, 1889, Sanford, North Carolina. Married Malcolm Nicholson February 25, 1875 in Moore County, NC. He was born March 6, 1813 and died 1889 in Sanford, NC.
v. ELZEANN EFFIER BROWN, b. November 14, 1842, Wake County, North Carolina; d. July 20, 1896, Moncure, North Carolina; m. JOHN WILLIAM CRUTCHFIELD, December 14, 1881, NC; b. May 29, 1849; d. June 21, 1921, Moncure, North Carolina.
vi. NARSENIA ADDALAID BROWN, b. May 07, 1845, Wake County, North Carolina; d. January 20, 1934, Moncure, North Carolina; m. JOHN LASTER WALDEN, October 15, 1884; b. December 10, 1825, Moncure, North Carolina; d. June 22, 1906, Moncure, North Carolina.
vii. JEROME DAVIS BROWN, b. May 08, 1847, Wake County, North Carolina; d. December 22, 1920, Chatham County, North Carolina; m. SARAH ELIZABETH BRIDGES, January 13, 1870, Merry Oaks, North Carolina; b. September 1851, Chatham County, North Carolina; d. 1902. Jerome Brown was living in the New Hope township of Chatham County, near his wife's relatives in 1880. In 1920, he was living in the household of his daughter, Ida Brown Harward and her husband Carl Preston Harward. (The census lists the name as Howard.) SARAH ELIZABETH BRIDGES:At the time of the 1900 census of Chatham County, NC, Sarah Elizabeth Brown and her children were living with her father Amos Bridges. She is listed as married and Jerome DAVIS Brown did not die until 1920. Where was Jerome DAVIS Brown in 1900?
viii. ROBERT Johnson BROWN, b. July 11, 1849, Wake County, North Carolina; d. October 24, 1925, Durham County, North Carolina; m. EMILY LASATER, October 04, 1876; b. August 1845, North Carolina; d. June 13, 1902, Durham County, North Carolina. His burial was at Maplewood Cemetery, Durham, North Carolina; Occupation: 1900, Grocer in Durham, NC. More About EMILY LASATER:Burial: Maplewood Cemetery, Durham, North Carolina
ix. AVERILLAR FRANCES BROWN, b. September 19, 1851; d. June 09, 1928, Sanford, North Carolina. More About AVERILLAR FRANCES BROWN:Burial: Gum Springs Baptist Church, Moncure, NC
x. NAPHEW WILSON BROWN, b. March 12, 1856, New Hill, North Carolina; d. October 06, 1930, Sanford, North Carolina; m. MALINDY AVY THOMAS, January 25, 1888, Haywood, North Carolina; b. November 03, 1870, Merry Oaks, North Carolina; d. March 10, 1939, Sanford, North Carolina. More About NAPHEW WILSON BROWN:Burial: Gum Springs Baptist Church Cemetery; Occupation: Carpenter. More About MALINDY AVY THOMAS:Burial: Gum Springs Baptist Church Cemetery
xi. LOVE HASELTINE BROWN, b. October 11, 1858, New Hill, North Carolina; d. July 29, 1943, Sanford, North Carolina; m. JOSEPH M. BURNS, September 30, 1880, Sanford, North Carolina; b. November 17, 1855, Sanford, North Carolina; d. October 04, 1899, Sanford, North Carolina. Notes for LOVE HASELTINE BROWN:Died as a result of an accidental fall. Burial: Cool Springs Baptist Church, Sanford, NC; Occupation: Ran a boarding house on McIver St., Sanford
xii. LUDWICK TUCKER BROWN, b. June 07, 1859, Wake County, North Carolina; d. May 03, 1892, Moore County, North Carolina; m. E. ALLIE Johnson, September 15, 1886, Baltimore, Maryland. Notes for LUDWICK TUCKER BROWN:Postmaster in Sanford, North Carolina 1885 to 1889. Ran a store with J. R. Jones in Sanford.