Summary Information
Draper Manuscripts: Joseph Brant Miscellanies
1779-1892
Draper Mss G
0.4 c.f. (3 volumes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Printed materials primarily documenting Mohawk leader Joseph Brant's military career, including descriptions of battles at Oriskany, Saratoga, Wyoming, and Minisink, the siege of Ft. Stanwix, and a massacre at Cherry Valley; and Brant's campaign from 1778 to 1780. Also included are biographical sketches of Brant, Red Jacket, Barry St. Leger, and Philip Van Cortlandt; histories of the Susquehanna Valley; and genealogies of the Frey and Brant families.
Descriptions of the volumes are copied from the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts by Josephine Harper. Out of date and offensive language may be present. This collection is also available as a microfilm publication. Forms part of the Lyman Copeland Draper Manuscripts. The fifty series included in the Draper Manuscripts have been cataloged individually. See the Draper Manuscripts Overview, and the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts by Josephine Harper (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1983) for further information. There is a restriction on use to this material; see the Administrative/Restriction
Information portion of this finding aid for details.
English
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Related Material
Draper Mss F: Joseph Brant Papers, 1710-1879.
Administrative/Restriction Information
PHOTOCOPY RESTRICTION: Photocopying originals is not permitted; researchers may copy from
the microfilm available in the Library.
Contents List
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Draper Mss G
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Series: 1 G (Volume 1)
: Pamphlets and periodical articles published between 1845 and 1879. Included are biographical accounts of Brant, Red Jacket, Barry St. Leger, and Philip Van Cortlandt; a chapter on Brant's campaigns from 1778 to 1780 from Life and Letters of Richard Cartwright (1876); narratives of the battles of Oriskany and Saratoga and of the siege of Fort Stanwix; a journal of Sullivan's campaign by Tjerck Beckman; histories of the Susquehanna Valley by Charles P. Avery and T.A. Richards; a genealogy of the Frey (Fry, Frye) family by Samuel C. Frey; a description of Brant's home in Burlington, Ontario, by William C. Bryant; and an undated prospectus for a proposed book on the Potawatomi Indians by J.N. Bourassa. Numerous scattered engravings depict Joseph Brant, Peter Gansevoort, Sir William Johnson, W.J. Simcoe Kerr, Barry St. Leger, and Marinus Willett, as well as scenes in the Mohawk and Susquehanna valleys.
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Series: 2 G (Volume 2)
: Newspaper clippings and a few pamphlets and periodical articles, 1837-1886, pertaining mainly to Brant's career, to the battle and massacre at Wyoming (1778), and to the centennial commemoration of that event (1878). One article (2 G, 108) contains an abridged Joseph Brant family genealogy. Scattered through the volume are illustrations: portraits of Brant and of Steuben Jenkins; scenes in Brantford, Ontario, including the Brant memorial monument and the Mohawk church; a bird's-eye view of Oriskany battlefield; and a large woodcut fancifully depicting the massacre at Wyoming. Commemorating the centennial of this battle are numerous poems and several songs with musical scores.
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Series: 3 G (Volume 3)
: Newspaper clippings, 1877-1892, on the Cherry Valley massacre (1778), General John Sullivan and his New York campaign of 1779, and the battle of Minisink (1779), accompanied by a pamphlet describing the Minisink centennial (1879). Among the clippings are articles; poems; a speech about William Butler; and extracts from journals written in 1779 by three of Sullivan's officers, James Campbell, Adam Hubley, and James Norris. Newspaper drawings and engravings depict Sullivan, Moses Van Campen, Conesus Lake, an Indian council house, and monuments commemorating the battle of Minisink.
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