Series: 21 U (Volume 21)
Scope and Content Note: Appendices prepared by Draper for his projected new edition of Withers's Chronicles. Topics of essays drafted by Draper include: John Peter Slang's adventurous explorations in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys about 1738-1742; Andrew Lewis (1720-1781); John Lewis (1678-1762); Benjamin Borden, Sr. (d. 1742); John McDowell and the first battle with Indians in the Valley of Virginia, 1742; James Patton (1692-1755); a list of officers killed, wounded, or missing in the defeat of James Grant, 1758; the Sandy Creek expedition against the Shawnee, 1756, with sketches of the officers; Alexander McNutt (circa 1726-1811); the captivity of the Robert Renick family, 1757-1765; the undated captivity of Mrs. Archibald Clendennin; and the Indian outbreak (Pontiac's uprising) of 1763. Draper's chapter on the Sandy Creek expedition and its officers includes biographical data on Archibald Alexander, Hugh Allen, Robert Breckinridge, James Dunlap, William Fleming, Peter Hog (Hogg), William Ingles, John McNeil, John Montgomery, Samuel Overton, Richard Pearis, William Preston, David Robinson, and John Smith. Several manuscripts were also copied by Draper for appendices: Charles Lewis's journal, 1755 (of which another copy comprises 18 U); William Preston's journal, 1756, of the Sandy Creek expedition (from the original in 1 QQ); Thomas Morton's fragmentary diary, 1756, on the same expedition; William Preston's register of persons killed, wounded, or captured by Indians in western Virginia, 1754-1758 (from the original in 1 QQ). One printed document, a deposition in 1806 by Mrs. James (McDowell) Greenlee on the settlement of the grant to Borden (Burden) in Augusta County, Virginia, Draper also intended to publish as an appendix.