A volume composed of four groups of manuscripts primarily of eighteenth-century dates:

1) Correspondence, 1776-1780, on defense of the Greenbrier country. Included are eight letters by John Stuart (Stewart), ten by William Preston, two by William Fleming, and one each by John Cook, James Henderson, and John Van Bibber.

2) One letter, 1776, by William McClanahan, accompanied by correspondence received by Draper and a few pension papers collected by him, all of which pertain to the battle with the Cherokee at Long Island of the Holston (1776). Some references are made to the earlier (1761) fort at that location and to the military services of the brothers Robert and William Edmondson (Edmiston).

3) Robert Dinwiddie papers. Included are one letter (1757) signed by him as royal governor of Virginia; copies of proclamations (1754, 1763) about bounty lands to be granted for military enlistments; a list of men killed, wounded, and missing at James Grant's defeat near Fort Duquesne (1758); an original order issued by William Fleming on the Cherokee expedition of 1761; and a draft of a letter (1763) sent by Fleming probably to Francis Fauquier.

4) Samuel L. Campbell's undated manuscript for his “Memoir” on Indian wars in the West, 1754-1779 (printed in 1847 in Charles Campbell, Introduction to the History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia).