Draper Manuscripts: Brady and Wetzel Papers, 1757-1891

Container Title
Volume   11
Reel   13
Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 11 E
Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, 1843-1850, mainly incoming letters arranged chronologically by Draper, and also indexed by correspondent and by subject. Similar in character to the material in Volume 10E, these letters pertain principally to Brady, the Wetzels, and their many contemporaries involved in border warfare.

The following names are listed in the subject index, but references vary greatly in the amount of information given on each: John and Nathaniel Beasley, Joseph Beeler, Robert Benham, James Benton, Charles Bilderbock, Henry Bird, Lewis Bonnett, Sr. and Jr., Daniel Boone, Hawkins Boone, Jacob Bowman, William P. Brady, Daniel Brodhead, Basil Brown, John Burkhart, Richard Butler, Stephen Calvin, George Rogers Clark, Edward Cook, William Crawford, Samuel Davis, John Dawson, Vachel and Kinzie Dickerson, Francis Dunlevy, Robert Elliott, John Evans, John Fitch, John Gibson, George and Simon Girty, John Grist, Peter Grove, William Harrod, Silas Hedges, John Hicks, William Hogg, Henry Jolly, Simon Kenton, Ephraim Kibby, John Knight, Peter Lee, William Linn, Archibald Lochry, John McCaddon, Samuel McColloch, Angus and John McDonald, Lachlan McIntosh, Robert McLellan, William McMahon, John Madison, Nathaniel Massie, Isaac Meeks, John Minter, William O'Bannon, James Parrell, Dorsey Pentecost, William Plunkett, Adam and Andrew Poe, Felix Renick, David Rogers, Ezekiel Rose, Samuel Shannon, David Shepherd, Evan and Isaac Shelby, John Slover, Zadock Springer, John Stevenson, Conrad Stoup (Stroop), Lucas Sullivant, Richard Swan, Andrew Swearingen, George Tush, George Vallandigham, Frederick Vernon, John Vincent, Peter Waggoner, Cornelius Washburn, Anthony Wayne, Jacob White, David and John Williamson, and Asa Zane. The material by and about Peter Grove duplicates that found in volumes 7 E and 8 E.

In Draper's index the topic “Indian warfare and other border events” contains mention of numerous family surnames in connection with various Indian depredations; persons not previously mentioned in this volume about whom references can be located through this one topical entry include James Boggs, James Brenton (Brinton), Lewis Clock, John Fitch, Philip Klingensmith and his sons Peter and Gasper, John Madison (d. 1783), Thomas Mills, Peter Spicer, and Simon Uber.