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Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes

Title: Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes

Lyman Draper's notes, primarily of interviews (1841-1868), with maps and transcriptions from state and county archives, newspapers, and personal manuscripts, concerning the trans-Appalachian West from about 1750 to 1815, with emphasis on Indian-White conflict, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. Includes material on Indian wars, including Dunmore's War, 1774; expeditions against the Cherokee in 1776, 1788, and 1793; Crawford's campaign, 1782; John Logan's Shawnee expedition, 1787; the Great Miami treaty, 1786; the Nickajack campaign, 1794; a battle between the Potawatomi and Stephen Cole's party, 1810; Henry Dodge's expeditions of 1812 and 1814; and Indian attacks and captivities in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Also includes material on the Revolutionary War in Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and the Mohawk Valley, and the battles of Point Pleasant, Monmouth, King's Mountain, and Blue Licks, activities of spies, St. Clair's defeat, and Clark's Illinois campaign. Material on the War of 1812 includes descriptions of the Chicago massacre and battles of Frenchtown, Raisin River, and Thames. Also includes information on early settlement in Missouri and Kentucky, the state of Franklin, Shays' Rebellion, the upper Mississippi River, Prairie du Chien (Wisconsin), the Rock River valley (Illinois and Wisconsin), Indian traders at Milwaukee (circa 1800), and Hugh F. Bell's recollections of game hunting and cooking in Kentucky (circa 1795), with instructions for making a bearskin coat. Persons interviewed include Seneca Indians at the Cattaraugus Reservation (New York); Nathan Boone, son of Daniel Boone, and his wife, Olive Van Bibber Boone; Simon Girty's daughter, Sarah Munger; and Simon Kenton's son, William M. Kenton. Includes excerpts from Benjamin Van Cleve's manuscript biography, from Nathaniel Hart's journal of Anthony Wayne's 1794 campaign, and copies of Wayne papers for 1792-1795. Individuals noted as subject terms below are discussed in the interviews. Also includes information on the Lewis family of Virginia, and on the Musick, Renfroe, Todd, and Wetzel families, and genealogical information for the Boone, Bryan, Callaway, Girty, Kenton, Munger, Sevier, and Van Bibber families, and for the families of John Cuppy, Thomas Dickerson, Silas Hedges, Henry Jolly, and Spencer Records. Maps include Kaskaskia (Illinois), portions of Ohio, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and the Tippecanoe battleground.

ArchivalResource: 3.6 cubic feet (33 volumes)

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Blount, William, 1749-1800. Draper manuscripts: Tennessee papers, 1771-1883.

Title: Draper manuscripts: Tennessee papers, 1771-1883.

Original papers of early Tennessee settlers, their reminiscences, and Draper's correspondence with surviving pioneers and descendants. Draper gathered most of this material for proposed biographies of Joseph Martin, James Robertson, John Sevier, and their comrades. Included are original correspondence; military records; papers on Indian affairs; land surveys; and Draper's correspondence with noted historian J.G.M. Ramsey and descendants of the settlers.

ArchivalResource: 1.4 c.f. (7 volumes)

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Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891,. Draper manuscripts: frontier wars papers, 1754-1885.

Title: Draper manuscripts: frontier wars papers, 1754-1885.

Papers collected and arranged by Lyman Draper preparatory to writing a series of sketches on border warfare. Though the earlier Indian wars are briefly considered, the larger portion of the material deals with wars waged in the Northwest (1788-1795) and with Western operations during the War of 1812. The papers include several significant series of original documents and journals of participants in the campaigns. Present is the manuscript original of General Dearborn's defense against the charges of General Hull in relation to the Detroit surrender; papers of Richard Butler, Josiah Harmar, Absolom Baird, James Winchester, Charles S. Todd, Benjamin Whiteman, Nathan Heald, Joseph Martin, Daniel Smith, and others; and much information on Indian treaties and their negotiation.

ArchivalResource: 5.6 c.f. (24 volumes)

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Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891,. Draper manuscripts: Virginia papers, 1772-1869.

Title: Draper manuscripts: Virginia papers, 1772-1869.

Papers collected by Lyman Draper when he was planning to publish an enlarged and revised edition of Joseph Doddridge's "Notes on the Settlements and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1763-1783." The major topics of discussion center around the development of the region and the American Revolution. Major battles include Dunmore's Expedition, 1774; the Battle of Point Pleasant, 1774; and skirmishes in Valley Forge and Pennsylvania. Defense and relationships with the Shawnee and Cherokee are discussed throughout the various military and family papers. The collection also contains information on many prominent families in the region; major figures include Joseph Doddridge and his family, William Fleming, William Christian, John Stuart, Patrick Henry, William Preston, Thomas Madison, Daniel Smith, John Evan Finley, and Joseph Martin.

ArchivalResource: 3.2 c.f. (16 volumes)

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Elliot family genealogy and related items, ca. 1763 and ca. 1800.

Title: Elliot family genealogy and related items, ca. 1763 and ca. 1800.

Negative photostat copies and typewritten transcripts of a family genealogy of James Elliot (1720-1799), Rockbridge County, Virginia, on the reverse of a letter from Joseph Martin, September 28, 1763, describing the battle at William Manns Mill; and a genealogy of James Elliot (1780-1835), Rockbridge County, Virginia, on the reverse of a diploma from Washington Academy, October 15, 1800.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 c.f. (1 oversize folder)

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Piomingo, Chickasaw chief, fl. 1791. A talk delivered [to] Genl Joseph Martin by Piamingo [sic] chief warrior of the Chickasaw Nation ... for His Excellency Samuel Johnson [i.e. Johnston] ... governor of the state of North Carolina : Long Island of the Holston, [Tenn.], 1789 Sept. 28.

Title: A talk delivered [to] Genl Joseph Martin by Piamingo [sic] chief warrior of the Chickasaw Nation ... for His Excellency Samuel Johnson [i.e. Johnston] ... governor of the state of North Carolina : Long Island of the Holston, [Tenn.], 1789 Sept. 28.

Talk, Sept. 28, 1789, by Piomingo to Joseph Martin, a long-time Cherokee agent, negotiator and signer of the 1783 and 1786 treaties with the Chickasaw, and brigadier general of the North Carolina militia.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 31 cm.

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