Draper's correspondence, 1845-1850, with several antiquarians and historians-John Lynn Crawford, Joseph Doddridge, S.P. Hildreth, and Robert Orr, Jr.-with small collections of papers which they had gathered during their own earlier research on border warfare in the Fort Pitt and Wheeling area.

This volume includes: letters and notes, 1831-1838, by Henry Jolly giving his recollections of the Yellow Creek massacre (1774), the Moravian campaign (1782), Indian attacks on the families of Peter Anderson, David Jolly, Nathan Parr, Thomas Simms (Sims, Symms), and George Turk, and other topics; the unfinished narrative by John Crawford (1772-1831) of Green County, Pennsylvania, which includes genealogical data on the Crawford family and an account of Indian depredations and the Tories in western Pennsylvania from 1770 to 1777; an incomplete narrative by John Stuart (1749-1823) on his participation in military affairs in western Virginia and Pennsylvania from Dunmore's War to 1780 (Other narratives by Stuart are in 1 ZZ and 2 ZZ); a description of Indian attacks in 1782 in the vicinity of Jacob Rice's fort in Washington County, Pennsylvania, from Jacob Leffler.

Letters and interview notes from Robert Orr, Jr. (1786-1876) are accompanied by copies of statements by his father and some of the latter's associates-Alexander Guthrie, Mathew Jack, Ezekiel Lewis, Samuel Murphy, John Sloan, and Robert Walker-all of which pertain to the senior Orr's life, especially his service in 1781 under Archibald Lochry. Scattered through the volume are also numerous or extensive references to Samuel Brady, Joseph Brant, George Rogers Clark, Simon Girty and other members of the Girty family, and the Wetzel family, as well as descriptions of Indian customs and briefer allusions to dozens of other frontier events, places, and persons, both Indian and white, in the period from 1755 to 1795.