Administrative Information

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Collection is open to all researchers.

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Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

Inventory of the Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (II), Mss. 65 B855, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

Gift: 941 items, 11/15/1950.

Biographical/Historical Information

Note: The following subscripts are genealogical citations separating generations within the same family.

A more extensive biography on the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families can be found by accessing the Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Coalter Family
John Coalter 1 (1769-1838), was born in 1769 to parents Michael Coalter and Elizabeth Moore. He held the postion of tutor to the children of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), and Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker (d.1788). A move to Williamsburg, allowed him to receive a law degree from the College of William and Mary under Bp. James Madison and George Wythe. A year later he married Maria Rind, the orphaned daughter of a Williamsburg printer, who had been serving as governess for the Tucker children. Coalter's first two wives died in chilbirth, Maria Rind Coalter in 1792; and Margaret Davenport of Williamsburg in 1795. Ann Frances Bland Tucker (1785-1813), daughter of St. George Tucker, was taken as his third wife in 1802. She later bore him his only three children, Frances Lelia Coalter (1803-1822), Elizabeth Tucker Coalter Bryan (1805-1853), and St. George Tucker Coalter (1809-1839). In 1822, Coalter took his fourth wife, the widow Hannah (Jones) Williamson.

Elizabeth Tucker Coalter 2 (1805-1853), married John Randolph Bryan (godson of John Randolph of Roanoke). They had nine children; John Coalter Bryan (1831-1853), Delia Bryan, (d. 1833), Frances Tucker Bryan (b. 1835), Randolph Bryan (b. 1837), Georgia Screven Bryan (b. 1839), St. George Tucker Bryan (b. 1843), Joseph Bryan (b. 1847), Thomas Forman Bryan (1848-1851), Corbin Braxton Bryan (b. 1852).

St. George Tucker Coalter 2 (1809-1839), married Judith Harrison Tomlin (1808-1859). They had six children; Walker Tomlin Coalter (1830-1831); John Coalter (1831- 1883); Henry Tucker (1833-1870); Ann Frances Bland Coalter (1835-1894), who married Henry Peronneau Brown (1832-1894), in 1858; Virginia Braxton Coalter (b. 1837), who married William. P. Braxton in 1855; and St. George Tucker Coalter (b. 1839), who married Amelia Downy in 1862 and Charlotte (Downy) Terrill in 1868.

Brown Family
Capt. Henry Brown 1 (1760-1841), married Frances Thompson (1775-1822). Their children included Henry Brown, Jr. (1797-1836), who married Eleanor Tucker; Samuel T. Brown, who married Lissie Huger; Locky [Lockie] T. Brown (b. 1827), who married Alexander Irvine; Frances Brown, who married Edwin Robinson; Alice Brown, who married William M. Worthington; and John Thompson Brown (1802-1836), who married Mary E. Willcox.

John Thompson Brown 2 (1802-1836) and Mary Willcox had three children; Henry Peronneau Brown (1832- 1894), who married France Bland Coalter (1835-1894); John Willcox Brown (b. 1833); and Col. John Thompson Brown, II (1835-1864).

Scope and Content Information

Papers, 1791-1920, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families. Includes correspondence, of Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown with Margaret W. Barnes, members of the Braxton family, Henry Peronneau Brown, Fanny T. Bryan, John Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter and members of the Morton family.

Also includes additional correspondences of members of the Brown, Coalter, Braxton, Tomlin and Bryan families including a letter, 29 April 1791, from Maria Rind to John Coalter as well as notes, accounts and newspaper clippings concerning the Brown family.

Arrangement

This collection is organized into 4 series; series 1 contains letters; series 2 contains photographs; series 3 contains various printed material; and series 4 contains newspaper clippings.

The letters in series 1 is arranged alphabetically by author. The rest of the series is arranged chronologically by date.

Related Material

There are two collections within the Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary that Relate to this Collection. They include, the Barnes Family Papers, and the Tucker-Coleman Papers.

Barnes Family Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Barnes Family Papers, 1797-1926, 1818-1875. 247 items. Collection number: Mss. 39.1 B26 Correspondence, chiefly 1820-1875, of Newman Williamson Barnes and his wife Margaret W.(Tomlin) Barnes of Richmond, Virginia and "Greenfield," Culpeper County, Virginia. Letters concern life in Falmouth, Virginia and also concern Fredericksburg, Virginia. Correspondents are members of the Braxton, Coalter, Tomlin and Oliver families.

Tucker-Coleman Papers, Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Tucker-Coleman Papers, 1664-1945, 1770-1907. 30,000 items. Collection number: Mss. 40 T79 Papers, primarily 1770-1907, of the Tucker and Coleman families of Williamsburg, Winchester, Lexington, Staunton and Richmond, including papers of St. George Tucker (1752-1827), Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851), Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), Ann Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter (1779-1813), John Coalter (1769-1838), John Randolph of Roanoke, and Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman (1832-1908) as well as other family members.

Separated Material

Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), Manuscripts and Rare Books Department, Swem Library, College of William and Mary. Brown, Coalter, Tucker Papers (I), 1780-1929. 3,433 items. Collection number: Mss. 65 B85 Papers, 1780-1929, of the Brown, Coalter and Tucker families including the papers of John Coalter (1769- 1838),John Thompson Brown (1802-1836). Among the correspondents are Maria (Rind) Coalter, St. George Tucker, William Munford, Frances Bland (Tucker) Coalter, St. George Tucker Coalter, Frances Bland (Coalter) Brown, the Rev. Moses D. Hoge, and Henry Peronneau Brown.

Index Terms

Family Names:

• Braxton family.
• Brown family.
• Bryant family.
• Coalter family.
• Coulter family.
• Morton family.
• Tomlinson family.
• Tucker family.

Persons:

• Barnes, Margaret W.
• Brown, Frances Bland Coalter, 1835-1894.
• Brown, Henry Peronneau, 1831-1894.
• Bryan, Fanny T.
• Coalter, John, 1769-1838.
• Coalter, Maria Rind, d. 1792.
• Coalter, St. George Tucker, 1809- 1839.

Additional Separated and Related Material