Draper Manuscripts: George Rogers Clark Papers, 1756-1891

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Series: 32 J (Volume 32)
Scope and Content Note: Draper notes, correspondence, and copies of manuscripts and newspaper extracts relating to Clark's life, principally in the years 1782-1784. The majority of the materials deal with the events in 1782-Clark's campaign against the Shawnee on the Miami River and other Indian hostilities in the Kentucky region. Three original manuscripts include a letter by Benjamin Logan (1782); George Wilson's invoice for whiskey furnished to Clark for his men from March to June 1782; and Clark's contract as principal surveyor of Virginia bounty lands (December 1783).