Series: 14 S (Volume 14)
Scope and Content Note: Selections and extracts from correspondence and petitions and memorials, 1776-1788, in the Virginia archives and from records, 1777-1787, of the Continental Congress in Washington, D.C., all of which Draper examined in October 1860. The Virginia documents (pages 1-101) deal primarily with conditions in Kentucky, particularly the defense of Boonesborough, and with the military career of George Rogers Clark. The Continental Congress records (pages 102-236) emphasize Indian affairs in Kentucky and adjacent areas, particularly the treaty at the Great Miami (1786) and the negotiations preceding it. There are also briefer references to Clark's campaigns, to Joseph Brant anti New York border warfare, to the battle of King's Mountain, and to the problem of Spanish and American interests in navigation of the Mississippi River in the 1780s.