Series:
1 TT (Volume 1)Notebook, 1777-1778, 1781. A series composed of only one slender manuscript volume less than forty pages in length. Although it contains a very few notations in Draper's handwriting, he provided no data on its provenance.
Its major document consists of “Articles of Cartel for the exchange & relief of the Prisoners of war taken in the southern department agreed to at the house of Mr. Alexander Pigree on Pedee, third of May 1781 between Captain Cornwallis on the part of Lieutenant General Earl Cornwallis & Lieutenant Colonel Carrington on the part of Major General Green[e].” The twelve articles are followed by the surnames of American officers who were prisoners of war at Charleston, South Carolina.
Prior to 1781 the volume had been used to record sales of clothing, sewing supplies, wagon repairs, forage, and miscellaneous goods and services primarily for military use. A few entries mention black laborers. Some of these accounts, 1777-1778, were kept by Achilles Foster; others are believed to have been entered by Edmund Clark whose signed memorandum referring to “the new store in Caroline” is found in the volume.
Filed unbound with the notebook is a transcript of a muster roll of Captain Harman Davis's company of South Carolina artillery in 1778, a copy made in 1900 and added to this series by Reuben G. Thwaites.
