Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 3 E
Scope and Content Note: Draper correspondence, notes, transcripts, and clippings pertaining mainly to contemporaries of Brady in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and to frontier events in the early 1780s. Letters and notes related to John Harrison, to Robert Maxwell, and to William Spencer and his sons James and John. Clippings and other annotations discuss a variety of additional topics: Brady's leap over the Cuyahoga River; Brady's Hill and other landmarks associated with him; the skirmish which Adam and Andrew Poe and John Rankin had with Indians in 1781; Indian hostilities in Washington County, Pennsylvania, 1781-1782, including information on Frank Hupp, John Hupp and his wife Ann, John Jacob Miller, and their families; Mary Mitchell, wife of 1) Samuel McCulloch (d. 1782) and 2) Andrew Woods (d. 1831), and her descendants; and the centennial commemoration (1882) of the siege of Fort Henry at Wheeling, including accounts of the heroism of Elizabeth Zane. One original letter written by Alexander Fowler to Edward Hand in 1780 describes Brady's rescue of Mrs. Jenny [Jane] Stoops from her Indian captors and also includes Fowler's brief comments on American independence and on currency problems.