I don't know exactly where the records are kept from so long ago.  It could be that it is in the capital of the state in Belem or the records are in the archives in Rio or Sao Paulo.  It could also be that the records have been destroyed.

Here is what I have found in the letters from the microfilm in Maryland.

Para 31st March 1872.  Frederic Pond, Vice Consul Death of Charles M. Broom Died at Tapacura about July 1870 his few affects having been taken charge of by Arch Dobbin. Sent copy to W. B. Broom, Wimsboro?, South Carolina, 24 April 1872. Entered Published.

I don't know exactly where Tapacura is I know that my Vaughan family lived in Piquiatuba which is a few minutes drive from Santarem.

Another letter.

United States Consulate, Para 31st March 1872. Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your dispatch No. 15 requesting information concerning the time and place of the death of Charles M. Broom also his business and disposition made of his property. As he died away from any settlement I can collect no official information concerning his death. About the beginning of 1870 he left a small settlement about the town of Santarem called Itatuba under agreement in company with Arch Dobbin and T.J. Falgin? to build a mill at a fall 12 miles about the said Itatuba and after some time was taken sick with a sort of swamp fever and died about July 1870. As far as I can learn at the time of his death this Dobbin (could this be General Dobbin mentioned in Clem Jennings newspaper article?) owed him about $60.00 and after his burial this Dobbin took from his pockets $20.00 more. His effects consisted of a few worn articles of clothing and a few tools which were taken charge of by the said Arch Dobbin who at the time remarked that Broom owed him much more than the value of these effects. Arch Dobbin has since left the province of the Amazon for Rio de Janeiro. I have the honor to be Sir Your Obedient Servant, Fred Pond U.S. Vice Consul To the Head Second Assistant Secretary of State Washington D.C. end

>Telma

>Are you going to Santarem?

Yes, I will be in Santarem for 2 1/2 days only to see my Vaughan/Jennings cousins.

Regarding the coins I will see what I can do.

>Will you be visiting the archives, court house/s, or grave/s?

I don't know, I will do what time allows me to do.  There is mountain in Piquiatuba where the old confederates had a cemetery.  I was unable to go up there the last time.  I would love to go up and see if there are names and dates and take pictures.

Yes, I believe we did corresponded before.

>Do you descend from a Brazilian Confederate?

Yes, I am a descendant of Dr. Josiah H. Pitts from Nashville, TN.  He served in the Civil War and his father was the Rev. Fountain Elliott Pitts born in KY in 1808.  I am also a descendant of Johnson Vaughan through his first born son James H. Vaughan born in 1814 in Nashville, TN.  We are in the process of having our Vaughan family cemetery in Vaughn's Gap (Percy Warner Blvd.) cleaned up and beautified.

The Jennings were the children of my 3xs great grandmother Elizabeth Britt (1 Jennings, 2 Wilson, 3 Vaughan) from Wilson County, TN.  The Jennings lived at Mt. Juliet, Lebanon, TN.  James Vaughan had land in Silver Spring, Wilson County, TN and he was married three times 1 Mary Oldham, 2 Susan Petway, 3 Elizabeth Britt.  Elizabeth Britt was the sister of the wife of the Rev. Fountain Elliott Pitts.  Her daughter Sarah Vaughan and the grandson of her sister married each other in Brazil.   His name was Fountain E. Pitts also.  Their daughter Thelma Pitts was my grandmother.

Telma