Brashear and Lawrence family papers, 1802-1897 [manuscript].

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Brashear and Lawrence family papers, 1802-1897 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22883783

The collection is chiefly correspondence among members of the Brashear, Lawrence, and related Barr, Parker, Clay, Tilton, and Townsend families. Topics include observations while travelling in Ohio, Pennsylvania (especially Pittsburgh), and Mississippi in the 1820s and 1830s; physician Walter Brashear's life in Lexington, Ky., in the 1820s; sugar growing, slavery, and medical care in St. Mary Parish, La.; Louisiana politics, especially in the 1840s; and various aspects of life in the Confederacy. Letters from the Lawrence brothers in New Orleans to their relatives in New York in the 1820s offer observations by Northerners of life in the South. Civil War correspondence and the diary of Henry Effingham Lawrence refer in some detail to military operations and the effects of the war in St. Mary Parish. Correspondence with the Lawrence children at the Louisiana Institute for the Deaf and the Dumb and the Blind at Baton Rouge, the Whipple School at Mystic River, Conn., and the Hellmuth Ladies School at London, Ont., concerns school, social life, and family matters in the 1860s and 1870s.

About 500 items (1.5 linear ft).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7088636

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Related Entities

There are 8 Entities related to this resource.

Miss Bolton's School (Middletown, Conn.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fk0xx0 (corporateBody)

Brashear family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f85tqv (family)

Confederate states of America. Army

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fn4wfh (corporateBody)

The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

Lawrence family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69w9wpq (family)

Whipple School (Mystic River, Conn.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b65109 (corporateBody)

Louisiana Institute for the Deaf and the Dumb and the Blind (Baton Rouge, La.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6008gz6 (corporateBody)

Hellmuth Ladies' College (London, Ont.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63c0qkv (corporateBody)

Brashears family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hn4qgh (family)