Draper Manuscripts: Frontier Wars Papers, 1754-1885

Container Title
Series: 17 U (Volume 17)
Scope and Content Note

A small volume with two subsections:

1) A pocket notebook kept by Nathan Heald. His entries include a journal of military and naval events in the Great Lakes region during the War of 1812; an autobiography and family record covering his life through January 1822; a record of pension payments received, 1814-1831; lists of United States Army officers in 1813; and a few medicinal memoranda.

2) A few contemporary newspaper articles concerning the War of 1812, clipped and arranged by Draper.