Series: 6 Q (Volume 6)
Scope and Content Note: A volume of manuscript transcripts, 1780-1783, entitled “American Manuscripts of the Revolution-Quebec, Montreal, New York, Vermont, et cetera.” The correspondence and British intelligence reports appear to have been copied from British or Canadian archives. The majority of the letters were written by or to Sir Frederick Haldimand, governor of Canada. Other correspondents include Ira and Ethan Allen, Joseph Brant, Sir Guy Carleton, Thomas Chittenden, Sir Henry Clinton, Joseph Fay, George Germain, Baron Wilhelm von Knyphausen, Alexander McKee, and Baron Friedrich A. Riedesel. Many of the records pertain to negotiations concerning Vermont, but others relate to the military situation throughout the northern and western frontiers. There are lists (1782) of American prisoners under Haldimand's jurisdiction, who had been taken in Kentucky, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Draper purchased this volume in 1879, when papers of Thomas Aspinwall, onetime United States consul in London, were sold at auction in Boston.