Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 2 E
Scope and Content Note: Draper correspondence, notes from newspapers and periodicals, miscellaneous memoranda, and clippings. In addition to references to Brady and to the Wetzels during the Revolution, the papers contain information on many other individuals and their families: William Anderson, John “Jack” Bain, George Baker, Robert Bealle and his wife Elizabeth Stephenson, Daniel Brodhead, Jacob Byerly, George Carpenter, Abraham Crockson, Benjamin and John Cuppy, James Downing, Sr., Silas Hedges, Henry Jolly, Isaac Miller, Adam and Andrew Poe, Mrs. Jenny [Jane] Stoops, Isaac Wagle (Weighley, Weigley), and James Whitaker (Whittaker) and his wife- Elizabeth Foulks (Foulkes, Fulks). Both Mrs. Whitaker and Mrs. Stoops had experienced captivity among the Indians, the former captured with her brother George Foulks (Foulkes, Fulks) by Wyandots in 1776, the latter taken in Pennsylvania in 1780. Clipped articles on Valley Forge include a printed diary, 1777-1778, by Albigence Waldo. Other clippings related to the massacre at Paoli, Pennsylvania, in 1777.