- Title Information
- Title
- Rivera, Jacob to Nicholas Brown & Co.
- Subtitle
- March 21, 1770
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Rivera, Jacob
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- creator
- Name:
Corporate
- Name Part
- Nicholas Brown & Co.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text
- recipient
- Genre (aat)
- letters (correspondence)
- Origin Information
- Place
- Place Term:
Code (MARC Country Code)
- riu
- Place Term:
Text
- Newport, RI
- Date Created
(encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
- 1770-03-21
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 p.
- digitalOrigin
- reformatted digital
- Abstract
- In 1770, the College of Rhode Island, what is today Brown University, moved from its original location in Warren, Rhode Island, to its present site in Providence. The first building erected at the new site was the College Edifice, now known as University Hall. Costs of construction were paid for through a public subscription campaign. Wood for the building, some ten thousand board feet, was donated by Lopez and Rivera, a Newport merchant house and one of the colony's leading slave trading firms. In this letter of March 21, 1770, Jacob Rivera reports the delivery of the wood to Nicholas Brown and Company, who were overseeing the construction project.
- Related Item:
Host
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- Title Information
- Title
- University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice
- Identifier:
COLID
- 17
- Identifier:
URI
- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/slaveryandjustice
- Identifier:
Local
(displayLabel="JCB Manuscript ID")
- BFBR 6-7-3/21/70
- Identifier:
METSID
- 1160784240689027
- Access Condition:
rights statement
(href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/")
- No Copyright - United States
- Access Condition:
restriction on access
- Collection is open for research.