James Brown II (1698-1739) Papers (MSS 309)
Rhode Island Historical Society
121 Hope StreetProvidence, RI 02906
Tel: 401-273-8107
Fax: 401-751-7930
email: reference@rihs.org
Administrative Information
| ABOUT THE COLLECTION | |
| Acquisition: | The provenance of these papers is unknown. The 1736-1738 letter book was originally cataloged as part of the miscellaneous Rhode Island Manuscripts collection, in volume 8, page 13; it can be assumed that this volume at least arrived before 1880 or so. The other letter book was at the R.I.H.S. in 1929, upon its publication as The Letter Book of James Browne of Providence, Merchant 1735-1738. In the introduction to that volume, John Carter Brown Woods writes that we owe the preservation of James Brown’s papers “to the wise forethought of his youngest son, Moses Brown”. This suggests that this collection arrived as part of the Moses Brown Papers, in 1851, 1914 or 1919. Most, if not all, of this collection was at the R.I.H.S. by 1952, when Hedges published The Browns of Providence Plantations. |
| Processing information: | The John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization at Brown University, in partnership with the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University and the Rhode Island Historical Society, conducted a two year collaborative project starting in1995 to arrange, describe and catalog records relating to the Brown family of Providence, Rhode Island. The Brown Family Papers Project was made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
| ABOUT THE FINDING AID | |
| Author: | Finding aid prepared by Rick Stattler. |
| Encoding: | Finding aid encoded by Mark Chepkwony 2009 June 23 |
| Descriptive rules: | Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) |
