Obadiah Brown I (1712-1762) Papers (MSS 315)
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 this collection is unknown. The bulk may have arrived as part of the Moses Brown Papers, as Moses Brown was his nephew, protégé and a major heir of his estate. |
| Processing information: | Processed by Pam Narbeth, 1995. One item, a day book kept by Nicholas Brown & Company for the period 1762- 1789, has been transferred to the Nicholas Brown Collection, MSS 314.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 25 |
| Descriptive rules: | Finding aid based on Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) |
