Series: 25 S (Volume 25)
Scope and Content Note: Mainly interview notes, 1868, from residents of Indiana and Kentucky. In content the emphasis is on the lives of Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, and Tecumseh, but with many brief references to their associates and contemporaries. From family registers Draper copied brief genealogical entries on John Harbeson and his wife Catherine Ingless and on Zackwell Morgan Sr. and his wife Drusilla Springer. From the brother and daughter of Alexander S. Withers Draper obtained biographical information on the author of Chronicles of Border Warfare (1831). In a memorandum dated November 19, 1868 (page 211) Draper commented briefly on his first meaningful encounter with spiritualism. There are also notes made during examination of public records of Jefferson County, Kentucky, and a few newspaper clippings. At the beginning of the volume is Draper's index by chronology and subject.