Principally original manuscripts, 1774-1781. Many pertain to Dunmore's War and its culmination in the battle of Point Pleasant (October 10, 1774). Among these papers are returns for troops commanded by colonels William Fleming (1729-1793) and Andrew Lewis; muster rolls for companies headed by several captains, Thomas Buford, William Hall, Charles Lewis, John Lewis (of Botetourt County, Virginia), Philip Love, Robert McClanahan, John Murray, William Nalle, Henry Pauling, Evan Shelby, and John Stuart; lists of men killed and wounded; six letters of Fleming to his wife Anne (“Nancy”) Christian Fleming and a few other letters by William Christian (Mrs. Fleming's brother), John Madison, and Fleming; Fleming's orderly book and journal, with an index by Draper; and a later reminiscent commentary (1798) about the battle by John Stuart. (See also 1 ZZ and 6 NN for other Stuart narratives.)

Also in this volume are two journals kept by Fleming while he was a commissioner of Virginia to investigate claims in Kentucky, particularly those of George Rogers Clark and the Illinois Regiment. One journal covers Fleming's journey in the winter of 1779-1780 when he visited such settlements as Boonesborough, Bryan's Station, and Harrodsburg; the other was written in the January-April, 1783, period when he traveled to Louisville as well as to numerous other Kentucky stations. Both journals contain his observations on settlements, Indian raids, climate, topography, trees and plants, and wild game animals. In the earlier one he also recorded prices for food, supplies, and services. Other memoranda include notes on Clark's route in 1782 and lists of settlements and mileages from Fort Pitt to the mouth of the Mississippi River and from Richmond to the Falls of the Ohio (Louisville). Both journals are prefaced by indexes by Draper.

Among other manuscripts in this volume are a letter (1776) by William Russell about the battle of Long Island on the Holston River; one (1776) by Matthew Arbuckle about Cornstalk's negotiations with the British and about the capture of the Boone and Callaway girls. Two letters refer to the murder of Cornstalk (1777), and there is a draft by Fleming and William Preston for a message to the Shawnee nation proposing reparations for Cornstalk's death. (A second later draft is in Volume 7 ZZ.) Other letters, 1777-1781, by Christian, Fleming, Patrick Henry, and Preston concern additional problems of frontier defense against Tories and Indians. One letter, 1795, to introduce William Claiborne was signed by William Fleming (1736-1824), judge of the Virginia supreme court of appeals and former delegate to the Continental Congress. A few nineteenth-century letters and clippings relate either to the Point Pleasant battle or to Cornstalk's death.