Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 4 E
Scope and Content Note: Draper correspondence, interviews, notes, and clippings relating to events between 1790 and 1812. Letters and notes pertain particularly to Brady's scouting and military exploits, 1791-1792; his expedition into Muskingum County and visit to Sandusky, Ohio, in 1792; and his leap at McKee's Rock in 1793. Papers relate also to some of his friends and contemporaries: the capture by Indians in 1791 of Thomas Dick and his first wife Jane McCoy; James Downing, Sr., and his wife Sarah Laughlin; William Faulkner; George Foulks (Foulkes, Fulks); Elizabeth (Mrs. Jacob) Holmes; Joseph and Thomas Moss; Margaret C. (Mrs. Gabriel) Peterson; Thomas Poe; Edward Sherlock and his wife Peggy (later Mrs. William Faulkner); and John Williams. Printed items include an undated prospectus for publication of “General Wayne's Military Guide,” by William Faulkner Chillicothe, Ohio; and an article concerning Captain John McCulloch's foray into Ohio with Wetzel as a scout in 1793.