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corvidaedream · 2 years

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in deciphering Daniel Brown's inventory taken by the court in assessing his personal estate after his death in 1785, im obsessed w this local rural blacksmith & militiaman who owned so many pairs of velvet and satinet breeches at the time of his death at 63.

im picturing him just covered in ash and grime from the forge dressed like a macaroni

#messages from the ouija board #sadies day job #im going to talk to ash about all this when they get back from their vacation next week #idk what to make of it theres so much fancy clothes and very little practical clothing #is that normal? are his blacksmithing clothes just such shit like my painting clothes that they didnt make it into the inventory?#theyre all mens clothes too so does that mean his widow (lucys mother abigail)'s clothes are considered her own personal estate & not his?#very fascinated by this #also her eldest sister and her husband are left nothing despite being alive at the time #but her nephew (that couples son) is left a large chunk of the money so what happened there #like thomas ur my favorite grandson but tell ur parents to go fuck themselves #i also wonder if its bc i think mary is technically an illegitimate child bc she was born out of wedlock #they married a month later but she isnt baptized until shes an adult #im very interested in marys story but once again finding 'mary brown' is... slow going #oh mary brown? daughter of daniel brown? heres TWENTY OF THEM

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