Series: 8 NN (Volume 8)
Scope and Content Note: Draper correspondence, 1845-1854, chiefly with former western Pennsylvania pioneers and their descendants. Many letters contain recollections or narratives of Indian attacks and of experiences in captivity of several Pennsylvania families or individuals between 1775 and 1795: Charles Clifford and Peter McHard; George and Elizabeth Foulks; Peter Henry and his sister Margaret; Simeon Hoover; Charles Mitchel's family; Andrew Sharp's family; Samuel Sloan and his children John and Nancy; Lawrence Van Buskirk's family; James Whitaker; and inhabitants of Richard Wallace's fort. Also found is an account of the rescue from torture of captive George Woods by the Delaware Indian known as Captain Jacobs. Notable biographical information is given on several other men: William Amberson, Alexander Guthrie, John (“Jack”) Guthrie, Elias Hughes, Samuel Laughlin, James Paull, John Wallace, and James Wilson. Scattered throughout the volume are references to Samuel Brady and to the Brady, Wetzel, and Zane families.