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Draper Manuscripts: Newspaper Extracts

Title: Draper Manuscripts: Newspaper Extracts

Notebooks containing copies, excerpts, and summaries of articles on Western history compiled by Draper between 1846 and 1848 almost entirely from eighteenth-century newspapers, most of which he found in the Baltimore Library Company and Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, Maryland, and in the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also included are extracts and copies from journals and letters of Conrad Weiser and George Croghan.

ArchivalResource: 0.8 c.f. (4 volumes)

http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-draper0jj View

Benjamin Gilbert letter book 1780-1783 Gilbert, Benjamin, letter book

Title: Benjamin Gilbert letter book 1780-1783 Gilbert, Benjamin, letter book

The Benjamin Gilbert letter book (219 pages) contains copies of 83 personal letters written by Sergeant Benjamin Gilbert during his service in the Revolutionary War (1780-1783). The letters provide a picture of a junior officer's perspective on the progress of the war.

ArchivalResource: 202 pages (1 volume)

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-1690gil?rgn=main;view=text View

Shays, Daniel, 1747-1825. Receipt, 1786 February 23, Waltham, Mass., to John Bright.

Title: Receipt, 1786 February 23, Waltham, Mass., to John Bright.

Handwritten receipt for two pairs of shoes.

ArchivalResource: 1 ADS ; 8 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52444357 View

Van Schaack family. Papers, 1686-1887.

Title: Papers, 1686-1887.

Correspondence and legal and business papers of Peter Van Schaack and his family. The collection includes letters to and from Egbert Benson, Henry Cruger, James Duane, William Laight, Theodore Sedgwick, Peter Silvester, John Vardill, and many others. The letters deal with such subjects as taxation, the siege of Boston, George Washington, Tories, the Jay Treaty, Shays' Rebellion, and the many prominent people with whom Van Schaack was acquainted, including the Jay family and Gouverneur Morris. There is a large number of letters to and from his brother, Henry Van Schaack (1733-1823). The correspondence contains many political and social opinions regarding America and England before, during, and after the Revolutionary War. Many of the legal documents concern the disputed claims to the Van Rensselaer properties in Claverack and Westenhook, N.Y. Henry Cruger Van Schaack added to the collection more letters from well-known people as well as legal and family papers. These are mostly dated in the mid-19th century, and deal in part with the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, the Berkshire Iron Works, and similar business ventures. The majority of the documents are Indian and Colonial deeds, or those concerning early land disputes such as the New York-Massachusetts boundary dispute.

ArchivalResource: 687 items (6 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122622269 View

David Maydole Matteson papers, 1876-1937 (bulk 1908-1935)

Title: David Maydole Matteson papers, 1876-1937 (bulk 1908-1935)

Historian and educator. Research notes, writings, and correspondence largely concerning Matteson’s research and writings on riots, frontier uprisings, labor strikes, slave revolts, and other civil disturbances in colonial and nineteenth-century America.

ArchivalResource: 21 items; 5 containers; 1.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009236 View

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806. Autograph letter signed : New York, to Gen. Henry Jackson in Boston, 1786 Dec. 17.

Title: Autograph letter signed : New York, to Gen. Henry Jackson in Boston, 1786 Dec. 17.

Discussing the insurgents in Worcester [Shay's rebellion].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (fol.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270596769 View

Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790. Shays' Rebellion papers, 1786-1787.

Title: Shays' Rebellion papers, 1786-1787.

A small collection of letters related to Shays' Rebellion, the armed revolt led by Daniel Shays against the government authority in western and central Mass. between Aug. 1786 and Feb. 1787. The letters communicated between James Bowdoin, the governor of Mass., and the military officers sent to quell the revolt concern the insurgents' attempts to disrupt the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court, the deployment of state and federal troops, and the latest reports on the military situation. Correspondents include Benjamin Lincoln, Nathan Dane, David Cobb, John Brooks, Daniel Shays, John Sullivan, and Theodore Sedgwick.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27637085 View

Shays' Rebellion intelligence report, 1786-1787.

Title: Shays' Rebellion intelligence report, 1786-1787.

Intelligence report by an unknown writer concerning the Shays' Rebellion led by Daniel Shays. Discusses activities in Massachusetts and Vermont. Individuals mentioned include Daniel Shays.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980727 View

David Maydole Matteson papers, 1876-1937 (bulk 1908-1935)

Title: David Maydole Matteson papers, 1876-1937 (bulk 1908-1935)

Historian and educator. Research notes, writings, and correspondence largely concerning Matteson’s research and writings on riots, frontier uprisings, labor strikes, slave revolts, and other civil disturbances in colonial and nineteenth-century America.

ArchivalResource: 21 items; 5 containers; 1.6 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009236 View