April 1, 1840. In the Prudential Committee, Brother
John Brown from Hudson being present, some negotiations were opened in respect
to our Virginia lands.
April 3, 1840. A communication from Brother John
Brown, of Hudson, was presented and read by the Secretary, containing a
proposition to visit, survey, and make the necessary investigation respecting
boundaries, etc., of those lands, for one dollar per day, and a moderate
allowance for necessary expenses; said paper frankly expressing also his design
of viewing the lands, as a preliminary step to locating his family upon them,
should the opening prove a favorable one: whereupon, Voted, that said
proposition be acceded to, and that a commission and needful outfit be
furnished by the Secretary and Treasurer.
July 14, 1840. The report of John Brown, respecting
his agency to Virginia and examination of the Smith donation of land, was read by
the Secretary and deferred.
Aug. 11, 1840. Voted, that the Secretary
address a letter to John Brown, of Hudson, in reference to the Virginia land
agency.
In the records of the Board of Trustees, under date of Aug.
28, 1840, is the following minute: —
"Voted, that the Prudential Committee be authorized
to perfect negotiations, and convey by deed to Brother John Brown, of Hudson,
one thousand acres of our Virginia land on the conditions suggested in the
correspondence which has already transpired between him and the
committee."
SOURCE: Franklin B. Sanborn, The Life and Letters of
John Brown, p. 134-5
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