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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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Sharp, Benjamin, fl. 1780. Battle of King's Mountain : typescript copy, [ca. 1843].

Title: Battle of King's Mountain : typescript copy, [ca. 1843].

Typed transcript of an article that appearead in "American Pioneer" (vol. 2, p. 66).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (6 leaves)

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Sharp, Benjamin, fl. 1780. Battle of King's Mountain : typescript, [ca. 1843].

Title: Battle of King's Mountain : typescript, [ca. 1843].

Typescript copy of article that appearead in American Pioneer (vol. 2, p. 66).

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (6 leaves)

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Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891,. Draper manuscripts: King's Mountain papers, 1756-1887.

Title: Draper manuscripts: King's Mountain papers, 1756-1887.

Papers about the Battle of King's Mountain, South Carolina, on October 7, 1780, in which some 1,400 frontier troops from Virginia and North Carolina trapped and routed 1,000 Loyalist soldiers and killed their commander, Patrick Ferguson. Besides his own notes and interviews, Draper gathered materials for over 40 years, acquired the papers of several of the prominent officers such as William Campbell, John Sevier, and Isaac Shelby.

ArchivalResource: 3.0 c.f. (19 volumes)

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Rusk, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), 1803-1857. Rusk, Thomas Jefferson, papers, 1824-1859.

Title: Rusk, Thomas Jefferson, papers, 1824-1859.

Collection documents the career of Rusk as a participant in the Texas Revolution, chief justice of the first Texas supreme court, major general in the Indian wars, president of the Convention of 1845, and one of Texas's first two United States senators.

ArchivalResource: 5 ft., 6 in.

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Draper, Lyman Copeland, 1815-1891,. Draper manuscripts : Thomas Sumter papers, 1763-1885.

Title: Draper manuscripts : Thomas Sumter papers, 1763-1885.

Papers about Thomas Sumter, a South Carolina merchant, military officer, and Congressional representative and senator; about the men who served under his command during the American Revolution; and their British and Loyalist opponents. Most of the volumes contain the notes Draper made on his 1871 trip to the South. The notes document the soldiers, their families, events of the period, anecdotes, and personal reminiscences from descendants. Included are notes, correspondence, newspaper and periodical articles, pension statements, interviews, and plans and negotiations with the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Indians.

ArchivalResource: 4.6 c.f. (24 volumes)

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Bones & Carmichael. Artie Chandler collection, 1800-1867.

Title: Artie Chandler collection, 1800-1867.

The collection consists of the following items: 1.) Fragment of a bill dated 1800, to a person not named [Cleveland?] for items purchased by "your son Benjamin" and "for Miss Polly Cleveland (?) your daughter," and an affidavit by William Steele that the above amount of 10-5-8 is due him, sworn to June 15, 1803 before John Taylor (South Carolina, Pendleton Distric) ; 2.) Bill receipted for school expenses for Miss Anna Franklin at Salem Boarding School 1815-1816, owed to Abraham Steiner and paid by Col. Bedney Franklin, May 21, 1816 (Salem Boarding School could not have been Salem Academy in Clarke County because the latter did not open until 1820) ; 3.) Broadside: "Mr. Jefferson's Voice," Extra of The Virginian for April 6, 1829, Lynchburg, and letters from Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816, re: calling a Convention to reform the State Constitution ; 4.) Copy of The Athenian (Athens, Georgia newspaper), vol. IV, no. 38, Tuesday, September 21, 1830, complete issue of 4 pages ; 5.) Bill receipted to Mr. F. Yerbey, from Bones & Carmichael of Augusta, Georgia, dated July 28, 1838 for items for a saw mill ; 6.) Certificate, Confederate States Depository, dated March 24, 1864, stating that L. Franklin has bought $300.00 worth of Confederate Bonds ; 7.) Certificate, Confederate States Depository, dated April 1, 1864, stating that L. Franklin has bought $600.00 worth of Confederate Bonds ; 8.) Copy of the Daily Constitutionalist (Augusta, Georgia newspaper), vol. XXIII, no. 222, complete issue of 4 pages ; 9.) Broadside for the University of Georgia Program for the Sophomore declamation on Monday, August 5, 1867, where there were 19 speeches and 10 musical numbers ; 10.) Broadside of the University of Georgia program for the Commencement held August 7, 1867 ; 11.) Broadside for the Ladies Memorial Association of Athens, Georgia program "A Grand Fair," held to raise funds for the Confederate Memorial (undated, probably 1866 or 1867) ; 12.) Valentine, undated, mailed from Augusta Georgia to Miss M. O. Yerby, care of Mrs. S. H. Yerby, Athens, Georgia (Note: The 1850 census of Clarke County lists the following as members of that Yerby family: Sarah H. Yerby, age 33, female ; Burrell Yerby, age 14, male ; Frances A. Yerby, age 12, female ; Eliza S. Yerby, age 11, female ; Rebecca A. Yerby, age 10, female ; Mary O. Yerby, age 6, female ; Lewis Collins, age 84, male - all were born in Georgia.).

ArchivalResource: 12 items (1.0 linear ft.)

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