Draper Manuscripts: Daniel Brodhead Papers, 1775-1846

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Series: 3 H (Volume 3)
Scope and Content Note: Manuscript copy of a letterbook containing Brodhead's outgoing correspondence, October 1780-December 1781, during his command at Fort Pitt. The transcript was made by Draper in 1846 from the original volume in possession of one of Brodhead's descendants. Among Brodhead's addressees were Benjamin Biggs, Ephraim Blaine, Samuel Brady, George Rogers Clark, John Clark, John Gibson, John Hackenwelder, Edward Hand, Samuel Huntington, William Irvine, Samuel Irwin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas McKean, James Marshal, Richard Peters, Joseph Reed, David Shepherd, William Shippen, Friedrich W. von Steuben, William Taylor, George Washington, Anthony Wayne, and David Zeisberger.