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Ms. Coll. 1024
ca. 263 items (2 boxes)
Table of contents
Genealogy and family history
Moses Brown (1793-1878) m. Mary Wistar (1807-1842). Mary was
the sister of Caspar Wistar, M.D. (1801-1867) and the daughter
of Thomas Wistar (1764-1851) and Mary Waln Wistar (1765-1844).
Moses and Mary's children were Thomas Wistar Brown (1826-1916),
Moses Brown (1829-1883) and Mary W. Brown (1831-1839).
Moses Brown (1829-1883) m. Mary Waln Wistar (b. 1829), his first
cousin, the daughter of Caspar Wistar, M.D. (1801-1867) and Lydia
Jones Wistar (1804-1878).
Moses Brown (1829-1883) and Mary Wistar Brown (b. 1829) had children:
Wm. Wistar Brown (1856-1857), Thomas Wistar Brown (b. 1857), Moses
Brown (b. 1866) and Mary Waln Wistar Brown (b. 1864).
See: "The Wistar Family. A Genealogy of the Descendants
of Caspar Wistar, emigrant in 1717" compiled by Richard Wistar
Davids (Philadelphia, 1896) [BX7721 W81 D25]; note discrepancy
in death date of Mary W. Brown (1831-1839) in book, ms. account
of her illness and death gives her death date as 1839 not 1841.
Links to images
The following list brings together all of the image links found
throughout this finding aid.
 Page 1 of ALS of Mary Wistar Brown, 7 mo. 3, 1830, to her husband Moses
Brown, who has gone to Dover, N.H. on family and personal business.
Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 (each approx. 107k)
 Page 1 of ALS of Moses Brown, Dover, N.H., 2 mo. 3, 1821, to his brother
Amos, with business advice. Page
2 (each approx. 78k)
 Page 1 of ALS of Moses Brown, Philadelphia, 6 mo. 4, 1838, to his son,
Thomas Wistar Brown, on the occasion of his 13th birthday. Page 2 (each 78k)
Summary of collection
Correspondence, legal, land and estate papers (wills, powers
of attorney, deeds, mortgages, bonds, etc.), account book, ms.
book, and other papers of the Quaker Brown family of Philadelphia
and New Hampshire.
Correspondence includes letters to and from Mary Wistar Brown
(1807-1842) with family and friends discussing health and family
matters; correspondence between Mary Wistar Brown and her husband
Moses Brown while he was visiting his family in Dover, New Hampshire
(1830, 1834); a journal of the final months and last illness of
Mary W. Brown (1831-1839) written by her mother (of particular
interest in illustrating the religious life of a child); account
book of Moses Brown (1793-1878) containing memoranda of wages
paid, etc.; correspondence (1821-1868) of Moses Brown (1793-1878)
with family and friends on family and family dry-goods business,
Society of Friends matters, correspondents include Stephen Grellet
and many others; legal and land papers related to the estates
of Moses Brown (1793-1878) and his son Moses Brown (1829-1883).
Related collections
Related collections include the Thomas
Pym Cope family papers, 1795-1891, Ms. Coll. 1013.
Arrangement and description of collection
Box 1 (9 folders):
- 1-2 - Mary Wistar Brown (1807-1842), letters to and from family
and friends.
- 3-9 - Moses Brown (1793-1878), account book, letters to and
from family and friends.
Box 2 (9 folders):
- 1 - T. Wistar Brown (1826-1916), Haverford College material.
- 2 - Mary W. Brown (1831-1839), account of final illness and
death of daughter, Mary W. Brown written by her mother, Mary
Wistar Brown (1807-1842).
Box 3 - Printed and special materials
Box 4-5 - Estate related papers, 1831-1883, Moses Brown (1793-1878)
and Moses Brown (1829-1883).
Box 6-9 - Land related papers, 1810-1888
Contents of boxes follows:
Box 1
9 folders
- Brown, Mary Wistar (1807-1842)
(ca. 31 items) includes: ALS, 1815-1840 and many not dated.
notes on contents:
- Letters to and from family and friends on family and personal
matters (health concerns, invitations to parties, household
matters, memorial of Elizabeth Armit (Mary Wistar's grandmother,
d. 1802), thoughts for Thomas Wistar Brown (b. 1826) on
various birthdays from his mother, etc.)
- Correspondents include her mother, Mary (Waln) Wistar
(1765-1844), her father Thomas Wistar (1764-1851), Eliza
Kirkbride (later Gurney)
- Brown, Mary Wistar (1807-1842)
(ca. 31 items) ALS, 1825-1834
notes on contents:
- Letters to her husband Moses Brown (29 while he was at
Dover, New Hampshire in 1830 and 1834) on family and personal
matters (see image below)
Page 1 of ALS of Mary Wistar Brown, 7 mo. 3, 1830, to her husband Moses
Brown, who has gone to Dover, N.H. on family and personal
business. Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 (each approx. 107k)
- Account book of Moses Brown (1793-1878), 1826-1847.
(contains memoranda re payment of wages to various persons,
etc.)
- Brown, Moses (1793-1878)
(ca. 26 items) ALS, 1834-1835
notes on contents:
- Letters to his wife, Mary Wistar Brown, while he was in
New England (Moses is visiting the family "homestead"
in Dover, New Hampshire) on personal and family matters
[with note by him "Letters addressed to my precious
wife in 1834 during my absence in N. England. Worthy of
preservation only as affording reminiscences of that trying
period and evidence I think of my dear and tender love for
her. M.B. 9 mo. 2, 1840"]
- Brown, Moses (1793-1878)
(ca. 32 items) ALS (includes his copies), 2 silhouettes, 1821-1866
notes on contents:
- Letters written by him to family and friends on personal
and business matters (includes letters to his son T. Wistar
Brown on the occasion of birthdays (see image below), letters
re plants, letter to J.G. Whittier, drafts of letter to
John M. Whitall in appreciation of his paying off debts
to creditors, etc.)
Page 1 of ALS of Moses Brown, Dover, N.H., 2 mo. 3, 1821, to his brother
Amos, with business advice. Page 2 (each approx. 78k)
Page 1 of ALS of Moses Brown, Philadelphia, 6 mo. 4, 1838, to his son,
Thomas Wistar Brown, on the occasion of his 13th birthday.
Page 2 (each 78k)
- Brown, Moses (1793-1878)
(ca. 29 items) ALS addressed to him, 1821-1868
Correspondents, A-B are:
- Almy, William, ALS, Providence, 4 mo. 4, 1827 re Hicksite
controversy
- Backhouse, Jonathan, ALS, Terre Haute, 3 mo. 9, 1832
- Brown, Amos P. (nephew), ALS, Phila., Feb. 8, 1868
- Brown, David Sands (brother), 6 ALS, 1820-1868
- Brown, David, ALS, 2 mo. 25, 1821
- Brown, Jeremiah (brother), 3 ALS, Phila., 1 mo. 22-2 mo.
8, 1821
- Brown, John [or is it Jeremiah??] (with Mordecai D. Lewis),
10 ALS, Phila., 1821 re business
- Brown, Moses (1738-1836), ALS, Providence, 1st of 6th
mo., 1836 re Memoirs of Anthony Benezet (also typed transcript)
- Brown, Nathaniel H., ALS, [Phila.?], 1 mo. 15, 1868
- Brown, William H. (nephew), ALS, Phila., 8 mo. 2, 1858
- Brown, T. Wistar (son), 3 ALS, Niagara Falls, 6 mo. 12,
14, 1868 and Saratoga Springs, 8 mo. 26, [1868?]
- Brown, Moses (1793-1878)
(ca. 16 items) ALS addressed to him, 1820-1868
Correspondents, C-K are:
- Chase, P. Brown (nephew), ALS, Burlington, 10 mo. 29,
1825
- Cope, Alfred, 3 ALS, 1868
- Cope, M.C., ALS, 5/3/1836 re seeds sent to Moses
- Cox, John, 1 ALS, 1 L, Oxmead, 1845-1846, re his health
(age 92), grapes sent him by Moses
- Evans, Jonathan, ALS, Phila., 10 mo. 29, 1868 re use of
a Meeting house room for a school for poor children
- Grellet, Stephen, 2 ALS, Burlington, 1845-1849, re grapes
from Moses
- G., E.P. [Gurney, Eliza P.?], 2 ALS, n.d., [addressed
to E.W. Wistar] recollections of past times together and
religious reflections
- Gurney, J[oseph] J[ohn], ALS, Phila., n.d., re visit to
Briscoe
- Hacker, Isaiah (brother-in-law?), 2 ALS, Salem, 1820-1821
re family and business
- Howell, Rebecca H. (niece), ALS, 4/22 no year,
- Brown, Moses (1793-1878)
(ca. 26 items) ALS addressed to him, 1821-1868
Correspondents, L-T are:
- Lewis, Mordecai D., ALS, 1 mo. 9, 1821 re business
- Lingerman, J., ALS, Bustletown, Jan. 15, 1868
- Mackie, Dr., ALS, Bordertown, April 13, 1858 re character
of coachman
- Martin, A., ALS, Aug. 26, 1839
- Morris, Elliston P. (cousin), 3 ALS, 1868 re new Meeting
house
- Morris, Samuel (cousin), ALS, Olney, 3 mo. 21, 1868 re
potatoes
- Morris, John T. (nephew), ALS, Phila., 4 mo. 12, 1859
- Morris, James T. (nephew), ALS, Haverford, June 5, 1859
re at College
- Morris, Sarah P. (cousin), AL, 5.24/53 religious poem
and encloses her card
- Purinton, Betsy (cousin), 2 ALS, Providence, 1825-1826
- Ralston, Robert, L re him, Sept. 20, 1833
- Rittenhouse, Charles, ALS, Bloomfield, Balt., Feb. 11,
1859
- Schaeffer, Jos. A., 2 ALS, Germantown, 1868 re painting
- Saunders, William, ALS, Germantown, April, 29, 1858 re
moss in his lawn
- Tudor, Frederick, ALS, Boston, April 8, 1850
- Thompson, Francis, AL, 12 mo. 11, 1826 re declines invitation
- Tasker, Thomas T., ALS, Phila., April 15, 1868
- Snyder[?], Philip, ALS, York, Feb. 25, 1850 re financial
business
- Tyson, Jesse, ALS, Balt., 5 mo. 9, 1868
- Tuttle, Asa, ALS, Dover, 11 mo. 5, 1848
also: 2 ms. re painting house
- Brown, Moses (1793-1878)
(ca. 25 items) ALS chiefly addressed to him, 1831-1868
Correspondents, U-Z are:
- Vaux, George, AL [addressed to Thomas Wistar], 11 mo.
24, no year re invitation to dine
- Vaux, [Wm. S.?], AL and ALS, June 26, 27, 1868 re cicadas
- Wistar, Caspar, 5 ALS, [Phila.], 1834-1838 and n.d.
- Wistar, Elizabeth Waln (sister-in-law), 8 ALS, 1849 and
n.d. [some addressed to Mary Wistar] re family matters
- Wistar, Moses, ALS, Beeslys Point, 7 mo. 21, 1833 re scarlet
fever
- Wistar, Mary (his mother-in-law), 5 ALS, 1839-1842 re
family
- Wistar, Thomas (brother-in-law), ALS, Stanley, 5 mo. 18,
1850 re possibility of some Friends traveling to New England
(reconciliation in Society of Friends)
- Wood, George B., ALS, Phila., May 10, 1831
- Wright, Edward N., ALS, n.d.
Box 2
(9 folders)
- Brown, T. Wistar (1826-1916)
(5 items)
Haverford College material includes:
- 3 ALS from George A. Barton, Bryn Mawr College, to T.
Wistar Brown, 7 mo. 12, 14, 24, 1909 re ms. for "Part
II of the Haverford Library Collection" [of Babylonian
text?]
- "Plan of property of the Corporation of Haverford
College" 1911 (printed)
- "Plan showing proposed golf course for Merion Cricket
Club" 1910 (printed)
- Mary W. Brown (1831-1839)
Ms. book telling of final illness and death of daughter, Mary
W. Brown written by her mother, with recollections of the last
few months of her life (interesting re religious experiences
of a child)
- Printed and special materials
(13 items)
includes:
- notes of birth and death dates of Brown family (2 p.)
- typed excerpts from will of Catharine M. Brown (1888)
- poem for daughter Mary [W. Brown] (d. 1839)
- note of death of Elizabeth Waln (1837)
- notices of funerals for Roberts Vaux, George Vaux, Elizabeth
M. Wistar
- printed circular re Westtown School
- Mass. Circuit Court of Common Pleas document (1821)
- invitation (1845)
- "Proposition for the examination of young persons
in the Holy Scriptures" (printed)
- "Minute on slavery" 1839 (printed)
- "For the golden wedding of John Jay and Rachel P.
Smith" 1871 (printed)
Folders 4-9 contain legal documents as follows:
- Estate related documents
Moses Brown (1793-1878)
Moses Brown (1829-1883)
(4 items)
includes:
- Bond and warrant, Jeremiah Brown and Moses Brown to George
Vaux, Executor, 1831
- Letters of administration and will of Moses Brown, 1878
- Inventory and appraisement of estate of Moses Brown, 1878
(ms. copy)
- Will of Moses Brown, Jr., proved 5 mo. 28, 1883
- Estate related documents
Moses Brown (1793-1878) Executors' accounts
(2 items)
- Estate of Moses Brown, Executors a/c 1878-1883
- Estate of Moses Brown Executors account since June 1,
1883
- Land related documents, 1810-1844
(8 items [found tied together in bundle])
includes:
- Mortgage of Thomas Wistar Brown to Moses Brown, 1810
- Mortgage of Emanuel Rhoads to Dorothea Rhoads, 1844
- Deed, John Brown & wife to Moses Brown, 1834
- Bond and warrant, Moses Brown to Sarah Emlen Cresson,
Executrix &c., 1842
- Mortgage, Jeremiah Brown and Moses Brown to George Vaux,
1831
- Bond & Warrant Moses Brown to Marmaduke C. Cope, 1842
- Mortgage, Moses Brown to Marmaduke C. Cope, 1842
- Jeremiah Brown's memo respecting the deed of store in
Dover, N.H., 1831
- Land related documents, 1842
(3 items)
includes the following found wrapped together:
- Mortgage of Moses Brown to Caspar Wistar, M.D., 1842
- Bond and warrant Moses Brown to Caspar Wistar, M.D., 1842
- Searches vs. Moses Brown, 1842
- Land related documents, 1842-1888
(3 items)
- Mortgage of Moses Brown to Sarah Emlen Cresson Executrix
&c. 1842
- Deed of Thomas Wistar Brown, the younger and others to
Thomas Wistar Brown, 1888
- Deed Mary W.W. Brown, Jr. to the Provident Life and Trust
Company of Philadelphia, 1888 ("copy")
- Land related documents, 1888
(ca. 7 items [all related to estate of Moses Brown (1829-1883)?
and found together in envelope addressed to Moses Brown with
return address of US Consulate at Para, Brazil])
- "Power of attorney, T.W. Brown the younger to the
President for the time being of the Prov. Life & Trust
Co.," 1888
- "Power of attorney, Thomas Wistar Brown, the younger
to the President for the time being of the Provident Life
& Trust Co., of Philadelphia" 1888
- Agreement, Mary Waln Wistar Brown with T. Wistar Brown
for sale of her int. in Real Estate, 1888
- Agreement, Moses Brown and T. Wistar Brown for sale of
his int. in Real Estate, 1888
- papers re Moses Brown's estate, 1888 belonging to T. Wistar
Brown
- Power of attorney, T. Wistar Brown the younger to Moses
Brown, 1888
- letter, Sept. 5, 1888 accompanying the return of deeds
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