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To: Lida Howard-Smith
From: John B. Brownlow, 1411 Corcoran St., Washington, D. C.
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                         1411 Corcoran St.
                          Washington, D.C.
                            June 3.
Cousin Lide:
    Inclosed is the document you want and it is very complete.  
On 2 page where your father's name appears space is left after the J. to write 
in full his middle name.  This should always be done with names in these 
applications.  In your own case where you
r name appears on the first as well as 2 page it suffices to write your name 
in full once which it is better to do on the first page.  I have written your 
mother's father's name as James which is my recollection of it.  Your maternal 
grandmother's maiden 
name I did not know and you will supply that.  When I joined the Sons of the 
American Revolution the only reference I gave of the service of James Gaines 
was the "United States Magazine and Democratic Review" because at the 
time (years ago) I could give n
o other. Since then I have seen all the other books cited in your application 
and bought all of them except Elliotts Debates a work in 5 vols. which was 
first printed by order of Congress and which contains all the official 
proceedings of the Thirteen Col
onies ratifying the Constitution.  I suppose you will have you application 
type-written or have what I have written copied by some one who writes better 
hand than you or myself.

    You will be interested when you visit us to see the various books I 
have cited in your application and several not cited which contain the history 
of your Gaines, Pendleton, Strother, and Taylor kinsfolk.  Each family have a 
coat-of-arms so you have thre
e to select from.
                          Yours truly,
                           Jno B Brownlow.

P.S.
    You will see that your application will have to be made in duplicate.  
You had better keep the one I send you for you may hereafter need it to copy 
from.  You might want to furnish a copy to one of your sisters or hereafter 
one of your children might wish to join the Daughters or Sons.
                      J.B.B.
    Capt James Gaines, as you know, died a citizen of Tenn, but it us 
proper, in your application, to refer to him as "of North Carolina" because 
it was as a citizen of N.C. he rendered service in the Revolutionary War.

    You are entitled to membership in the Colonial Dames because of the 
services of Judge Pendleton in Colonial times.