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James Brown is selling and conveying his shares in the captured ship Ginney (probably a prize of privateers) to Captain Ephrem Perkins. Document says Ginney was taken by the schooners Boston Revenge and Generell Warde. Brown received 12 pounds, 12 shillings. Brown signed his mark with an X. Witnessed by Adam Wellman, Samuel Stevens, and Benjamin Pinden. On verso, the shares are sold again. James Perkins, presumably a relative of Ephrem Perkins, is selling Ephrem's shares in the ship Jenny to Ebenezer Parsons for 13 pounds, 6 shillings, 8 pence. The Perkins sale is dated 27 August 1776 from Ipswich, Massachusetts and is witnessed by Daniel Rogers and Nathaniel Harley.

Arthur B. Patterson was born ca. 1793 in Ireland. He was the son of John Patterson who immigrated to America from Ireland and settled in western Pennsylvania ca. 1799. Arthur married Rebecca Pierce ca. 1816. They lived in ohio and were the parents of seven known children. Descendants lived in Ohio, Texas, Minnesota, Kansas and elsewhwere.

Consists of papers brought together after Rudy's death by the Owensboro, Kentucky law firm Wilson and Wilson, who represented Rudy's friends and lawyer when his sister, Sarah Gray Rudy McNulty, contested his will. Collection includes notes, correspondence, journals and ledgers, depositions, and legal papers. The depositions include Rudy's family and friends in addition to Indiana University Vice President and Treasurer Joseph A. Prominent correspondents include Rudy's mother-in-law Grace Blair, his mother Katherine F. Rudy, his sister Sarah McNulty, and family friends Linda and Charles Boswell.

The Honourable J J Spigelman delivers the Charles Perkins Memorial Oratory 2005; a tribute to the life of the late Charles Perkins.