Summary Information

Title: Draper Manuscripts: Robert Patterson Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1758-1855

Creator:

• Patterson, Robert, 1753-1827

Call Number: Draper Mss MM

Quantity: 0.6 c.f. (3 volumes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Library-Archives Division

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

See the catalog entry for information on possible additional materials and shelf locations.

Abstract:

Papers of Robert Patterson, a soldier, magistrate, and legislator from Virginia and Kentucky, and frontier settler and founder of Georgetown and Lexington in Kentucky and Dayton and Cincinnati in Ohio. Included are papers relating to his military and business careers, as well as his personal life.

Note:

This collection is also available as a microfilm publication.

An index to a portion of these papers (1 MM 16-45) is filed in the Draper collection's George Rogers Clark papers (Draper Mss J; 3 J 148-152).

Forms part of the Lyman Copeland Draper Manuscripts. The Draper Manuscripts consist of fifty collections, sometimes referred to as fifty “series,” under the one overarching title. See the Draper Manuscripts Overview, and the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts by Josephine Harper (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1983) for further information.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-draper0mm

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