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 Asking to check on a land patent, a legal case and to purchase a book.

  • » Date: 1825-01-27
  • » Subject: Asking to check on a land patent, a legal case and to purchase a book.
  • » Written By: J. E. Brown
  • » Addressed To: Major James Turk Gleaves Sr
  • » Transcriber: Davy Davis
  • » File # 881

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Wythe C. H. Va
28 Jany. 1825

Paid 18 ½
J.E.B.

Major James T. Gleaves
Richmond
Va

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Wythe C. H. Jany 27, 1825
Dr. Sir,
In October last I delivered to Mr. C. Johnston the papers & necessary to obtain a patent for a Loyal Company’s Survey of 325 acres of Land  As I have not heard from him on the subject since I think it probably that he has in the multiplicity of his business forgotten it, will you be so good as to remind him on the Subject & bring me the patent as I wish to have the land Surveyed this Spring

Will you also ascertain if the record in the case of Barrows devices vs Warner & Hay is filed with the Clk of the Court of Appeals – And if it will not be asking too much of you, I would be very much obliged to you if you would purchase me “Tate’s Digest” & send it by the first opportunity – the price shall be repaid on sight – no news

Respectfully yours
J. E. Brown

Transcriber Notes

This is Judge James Ewell Brown whose house “Cobbler’s Spring” still stands on Pepper’s Ferry Road at the entrance of a modern industrial park, east of Wytheville.  He is the uncle of the famous General J. E. B. Stuart & the man for who Stuart was named.

The transcriber, Davy Davis, also included the following personal note:
“I have a couple of volumes of an epic poem called ‘Orlands Furisos’ translated from Italian into English which belonged to Judge James Ewell Brown and are both signed ‘J. E. Brown’ as in this letter.  I received them from a cousin, Edwin Lacy, when his mother Ellen Crockett Lacy died.  She was the granddaughter of John Brown Kent who inherited the books from his grandfather, the judge.  John Brown Kent married Lucy McGavock my great grandfather Joe McGavock’s sister.  Of course the Judge James Ewell Brown married the Maria Crockett, the daughter of Robert Crockett and Jane Lewis Stuart and the sister of Charles Lewis Crockett, but his other wife, Anne Dabney Stuart, was Gen. J E B Stuart’s aunt.  Joseph F. Kent, father of John Brown Kent married the judge’s daughter Fanny Peyton Brown.  To confuse things a little more, Gen. JEB Stuart’s sister married my great great great grandmother’s brother James Newell Pierce!  One more – JEB’s brother, Dr. John D. Stuart married Joseph F Kent’s sister!!”

Note on Tate’s Digest found at books.google.com in Virginia Law Books by William Hamilton Bryson :
In 1819, the Revised Code of Virginia was adopted.  Four years later, in 1823, Joseph Tate published a digest of statutes in hope that his work would prove useful to the bar.  Entitled “A Digest of the Laws of Virginia, Which Are of a Permanent Character and General Operation; Illustrated by Judicial Decisions: To Which Is Added, An Index of the Names of the Cases in the Virginia Reporters”, Tate digests statutes alphabetically and illustrates their application with footnoted case decisions.  His second edition was published posthumously in 1841.

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