A volume subdivided into three parts:

1) Joseph Martin papers, 1785-1786, kept while Martin, Benjamin Hawkins, and Andrew Pickens were United States commissioners to treat with the southern Indians. This group of Martin's records includes the commissioners' report (June 1785) to Charles Thomson on treaty preparations and journals covering the proceedings of the three treaties of Hopewell negotiated from November 1785, to January 1786, with the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw. Preceding these manuscripts is a note by Draper explaining their provenance and an index he prepared in 1846 to list persons who either spoke during the negotiations or were discussed by the speakers.

2) William Sudduth's autobiographical narrative written in 1840. Sudduth (1765-1845) was a native of Virginia, who journeyed to Kentucky in 1783 and settled at Andrew Hood's station in 1785. In his account he emphasized the campaigns of Benjamin Logan in 1786, of John Edwards in 1791, and of Anthony Wayne in 1794. An index by Draper and letters, 1845-1850 by Sudduth and his son, W.M. Sudduth, accompany the recollections. Another copy of the narrative is in 12 CC.

3) Draper's notebook in which he copied newspaper articles about Josiah Harmar's campaign against the Shawnee in 1790. An index to the material Draper entered on the inside of the front notebook cover.