Summary Information
Draper Manuscripts: Brady and Wetzel Papers
1757-1891
- Brady, Samuel, 1756-1795
- Wetzel, Lewis, 1763-1808
Draper Mss E; Micro 1034
2.2 cubic feet (16 volumes) and 3 reels of microfilm
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Collection, primarily correspondence (1843-1865), concerning Samuel Brady and Lewis Wetzel, who were scouts, spies, and “Indian fighters” in southwestern Pennsylvania and northwestern Virginia during and after the American Revolution.
Descriptions of the volumes are copied from the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts by Josephine Harper. Out of date and offensive language may be present. This collection is also available as a microfilm publication. Forms part of the Lyman Copeland Draper Manuscripts. The fifty series included in the Draper Manuscripts have been cataloged individually. See the Draper Manuscripts Overview, and the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts by Josephine Harper (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1983) for further information. There is a restriction on use to this material; see the Administrative/Restriction
Information portion of this finding aid for details.
English
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Biography/History
Samuel Brady (1756–1795) and Lewis Wetzel (1763–1808) were both born in Pennsylvania and were both scouts, spies, and “Indian fighters” in southwestern Pennsylvania and northwestern Virginia during the Revolution and postwar American Indian Wars. Brady, of Scots-Irish ancestry, enlisted in the Continental Army in 1775 and served in the Northeast until 1778, when he was transferred to Fort Pitt and joined Daniel Brodhead's Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment as captain of scouts. Thereafter he commanded scouts in numerous western campaigns, including Anthony Wayne's expedition in 1792. Wetzel, whose forebears came from Germany or the Netherlands, had experienced Indian captivity (1776) and the first siege of Wheeling (1777) before serving as a scout in expeditions to Ohio in 1780–1781. After the Revolution he was active in the campaigns in the “Old Northwest ” (mostly in the Ohio River region) from 1789 to 1795. His brothers, Martin, Jacob, and John, were also well known “Indian combatants”. Both Brady and Lewis Wetzel were sometimes reputed to have sworn eternal enmity to all Native Americans, Wetzel after his boyhood captivity and Brady after his brother James Bardy in 1778 and his father Captain John Brady in 1779 were killed by Native Americans. “Many traditions and legends of courage, cunning, and audacity developed around the daring deeds of Brady and of the Wetzel family.”
Scope and Content Note
As early as 1843 Draper began to collect and sift biographical data on these men and on many of their relatives and military associates as well. By 1851 a book on the adventures of Brady, “the General Francis Marion of the Pittsburg [sic] region,” and one on the adventures of the Wetzels to “be small, but full of wild incident” ranked in priority only below the planned biography of George Rogers Clark in Draper's master plan for his proposed book publications. Neither book was ever completed. Most materials composing this series were collected between 1843 and 1868, although Draper retained his interest in these men as long as he lived.
The collection includes accounts, muster rolls, receipts, bonds, and other financial, legal, and military records; maps of portions of Pennsylvania and Ohio; sketches of the Delaware chiefs Shingas (also known as Bog Meadow) and Tamaqua (or Tamaque, also known as Beaver or King Beaver), and the Seneca chief Tanacharison (known as Half-King); newspaper clippings, including “Incidents in the early history of the West” from the Beaver (Pennsylvania) Argus, 1855; and articles by S.J. Rea on Brady.
Subjects include defense against the Indians; Indian captivities and attacks, including the Battle of Paoli, Pennsylvania (1777) and attack on Rice's Fort (Pennsylvania) (1782); Seneca and Ojibwa customs, 1800-1810; and frontier biography and genealogy of early Kentucky families, including the Van Swearingen family. Also includes a printed copy of Albigence Waldo's diary, 1777-1778, kept at Valley Forge; directions for boring and joining wooden pipes for use in salt works, by J.B. Boone; a prospectus for “General Wayne's military guide,” by William Faulkner, Chillicothe, Ohio; letters of James W. Biddle to collector Lyman Draper concerning the collection; and Draper's memoranda books, 1858, 1860, including his travel expenditures and arrangements.
NOTE: Descriptions of the volumes in contents list are copied from the Guide to the Draper Manuscripts by Josephine Harper.
Administrative/Restriction Information
PHOTOCOPY RESTRICTION: Photocopying originals is not permitted; researchers may copy from the microfilm available in the Library.
Contents List
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 1 EA volume composed of two sections: first, notes and drafts by Draper; second, original manuscripts, 1757-1822. Draper's memoranda include outlines not only for his work on the adventures of Samuel Brady but also for his proposed sketches on Andrew Lewis, James Robertson, John Sevier, the elder John C. Symmes (1742-1814), and their respective associates. Following these notes is the draft of the introductory chapter for his book on Brady, a chapter which narrates gory Indian atrocities in Pennsylvania during the French and Indian War, with appendices devoted to sketches of Indian leaders in the Upper Ohio, mainly two Delaware chiefs-Shingas, known as the Bog Meadow, and Tamaque, known as the Beaver or King Beaver-and the Oneida chief Tanacharison (spelled by Draper as Senacharison), known as Half King (circa 1700-1754). The assortment of original papers includes letters; receipts; bonds; certificates; muster and payrolls; and other types of business, legal and military records. Military orders (1794) and several other scattered documents bear Brady's signature, and a few records (1797) concerning the settlement of his estate contain signatures of his wife Drusilla. Varied topics occur in the letters. One, with related legal documents by Van Swearingen to William Croghan discussed the lease and sale of two Negroes in 1787. In the same year James Marshel (Marshall) wrote to Benjamin Franklin to describe Indian depredations and the lack of men and ammunition to defend Washington County, Pennsylvania. Indian conflict and border defense were the subjects of letters in 1792: David Shepherd and Anthony Wayne each writing to Absolom Baird, and George McCully to Clement Biddle. Three years later (1795) Levi Morgan reported that two white Kentuckians were stealing and selling Indian horses. Of much later date (1819 and 1822) are letters of James Morrison to Isaac Shelby concerning politics and a public dinner to honor President James Monroe. Directions for boring and joining wooden pipes for use in salt works were given in an undated letter by J.B. Boone. Other correspondents include Richard Campbell, John Gibson, Thomas Hart, John Holder, William Irvine, - Lockwood, Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg, William B. Smith, and William Wikoff. Muster rolls and payrolls list men in the Virginia companies of Uriah Springer and Benjamin Biggs and the Virginia troops discharged at Fort Pitt in 1783, and members of the Pennsylvania company of Robert Stevenson in 1792. A subscription list giving the signatures of persons promising to pay Absolom Baird for the services of Brady and other scouts is also among the 1792 papers. Numerous minor business and legal documents and a few clipped signatures were preserved by Draper because they were signed by several dozen contemporaries of Brady. Among these signers not previously mentioned were James Amberson, Jesse Benton, James Carnihan, James Craig, Baker Ewing, Christopher Greenup, William Hays, Francis Johnston, James Kinkead, Henry Lee, John Logan, John Morgan, John Sanders, Bartlett Searcy, Evan Shelby, James Stevenson, Matthew Talbot, and Richard Taylor; but this is not an all inclusive roster.
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 2 E
: Draper correspondence, notes from newspapers and periodicals, miscellaneous memoranda, and clippings. In addition to references to Brady and to the Wetzels during the Revolution, the papers contain information on many other individuals and their families: William Anderson, John “Jack” Bain, George Baker, Robert Bealle and his wife Elizabeth Stephenson, Daniel Brodhead, Jacob Byerly, George Carpenter, Abraham Crockson, Benjamin and John Cuppy, James Downing, Sr., Silas Hedges, Henry Jolly, Isaac Miller, Adam and Andrew Poe, Mrs. Jenny [Jane] Stoops, Isaac Wagle (Weighley, Weigley), and James Whitaker (Whittaker) and his wife- Elizabeth Foulks (Foulkes, Fulks). Both Mrs. Whitaker and Mrs. Stoops had experienced captivity among the Indians, the former captured with her brother George Foulks (Foulkes, Fulks) by Wyandots in 1776, the latter taken in Pennsylvania in 1780. Clipped articles on Valley Forge include a printed diary, 1777-1778, by Albigence Waldo. Other clippings related to the massacre at Paoli, Pennsylvania, in 1777.
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 3 E
: Draper correspondence, notes, transcripts, and clippings pertaining mainly to contemporaries of Brady in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and to frontier events in the early 1780s. Letters and notes related to John Harrison, to Robert Maxwell, and to William Spencer and his sons James and John. Clippings and other annotations discuss a variety of additional topics: Brady's leap over the Cuyahoga River; Brady's Hill and other landmarks associated with him; the skirmish which Adam and Andrew Poe and John Rankin had with Indians in 1781; Indian hostilities in Washington County, Pennsylvania, 1781-1782, including information on Frank Hupp, John Hupp and his wife Ann, John Jacob Miller, and their families; Mary Mitchell, wife of 1) Samuel McCulloch (d. 1782) and 2) Andrew Woods (d. 1831), and her descendants; and the centennial commemoration (1882) of the siege of Fort Henry at Wheeling, including accounts of the heroism of Elizabeth Zane. One original letter written by Alexander Fowler to Edward Hand in 1780 describes Brady's rescue of Mrs. Jenny [Jane] Stoops from her Indian captors and also includes Fowler's brief comments on American independence and on currency problems.
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 4 E
: Draper correspondence, interviews, notes, and clippings relating to events between 1790 and 1812. Letters and notes pertain particularly to Brady's scouting and military exploits, 1791-1792; his expedition into Muskingum County and visit to Sandusky, Ohio, in 1792; and his leap at McKee's Rock in 1793. Papers relate also to some of his friends and contemporaries: the capture by Indians in 1791 of Thomas Dick and his first wife Jane McCoy; James Downing, Sr., and his wife Sarah Laughlin; William Faulkner; George Foulks (Foulkes, Fulks); Elizabeth (Mrs. Jacob) Holmes; Joseph and Thomas Moss; Margaret C. (Mrs. Gabriel) Peterson; Thomas Poe; Edward Sherlock and his wife Peggy (later Mrs. William Faulkner); and John Williams. Printed items include an undated prospectus for publication of “General Wayne's Military Guide,” by William Faulkner Chillicothe, Ohio; and an article concerning Captain John McCulloch's foray into Ohio with Wetzel as a scout in 1793.
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 5 EDraper correspondence, mainly 1859-1867, with relatives of Brady, Wetzel, and their associates. Correspondents recalled tales and traditions, such as Brady's capture of an Indian boy in western Pennsylvania and his arrangements for the boy's education, and Brady's rescue of Mary (Mrs. William) Wallen in 1784 or 1785. Writers reminisced about their own lives: education in a crude log schoolhouse; an encounter with two escaping Negro slaves; the healing of a sick white child by a captive Indian woman using herbal medicine. Letters refer to many persons and families, including David Boyd; Jacob Colman and his wife, Sarah McColloch sister of John and Samuel McColloch; Joseph L. Finley; David Fouts; Silas Hedges and his sons Isaac and Solomon; Hamilton Karr and his son William; Robert Maxwell; Ebenezer Nye; Jonathan Plumer and his son George R.; John, Moses, and William Riley and the massacre of the latter's family (1792); Philip Six (Sicks) and his brothers Jacob and John; Charles Smith and his sons Charles and John; Thomas Sprott, Jr., and his wife Mary Woodburn; Daniel White and his wife Susan Pettis.
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 6 EDraper correspondence, mainly 1856-1868, and clippings concerning events in the lives of Brady, Lewis and Martin Wetzel, and some of their contemporaries. Substantial groups of letters center about several specific topics: the attack (1782) on Rice's Fort (Pennsylvania); Gabriel, Isaac, and Joseph Walker and the Indian captivity (1782) of Gabriel's children, James, Martha, and Mary; Jacob Crow and his family, with emphasis on the death of John Crow in an Indian ambush (1789) and the massacre of three of the Crow girls (1791); Robert Wallace and the capture and killing of his wife Jane McCoy and several of their children (no date given); Seneca and Chippewa Indian customs and other conditions experienced by settlers near Hudson, Ohio (1800-1810). Several letters and clippings concern place names associated with Brady. Among the many other persons and families mentioned in the papers are: Absolom Baird; William Castleman; Cornplanter; James Downing, Sr.; James Ewing; Albert Gray; James Logan; James McEntire and his nephew John McEntire; William McGregor; Isaac Miller; Richard Patch; Adam and Andrew Poe; James Ramsey; James, John, and Samuel Sproat; and Lewis Tucker. One letter by Draper (1862) is written on a pictorial letterhead giving a panoramic view of Madison, Wisconsin.
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 7 EDraper correspondence, 1855-1868. Opening the volume are letters, 1855-1856, from Samuel J. Rea concerning his research on Brady and the proposals and counterproposals which culminated in Draper's purchase of Rea's papers (Volumes 12E and 13E). Other letters, primarily incoming, deal with a variety of persons and incidents in the lives of the Brady and Wetzel families. There are anecdotes concerning William Estes, Alexander McDowell, and Lewis Wetzel; a narrative about the Bradys based on purported recollections by Peter Grove (Groove); and accounts of the battle on Contina Creek near the Ohio River (1791) in which Lewis Wetzel was a prime participant. Biographical or genealogical material of varying extent may be found on he following: William Bailey, onetime Indian captive; the Baker family-George, John, Henry, Jacob, Martin, Isaac, Elizabeth, and Mary; Daniel and Jack Bean; Joseph Briggs; the Crow family-Frederick, John, Martin, and Peter; John Evans (1738-1834) and his sons John and James; James Marshel; John Mitchell and his son Alexander; David Morgan and his brother Zackwell Morgan, his wife Drusilla Springer, and their sons James, Levi, and Zackwell; Dorsey Pentecost (Penticost); John (b. 1730), James, and William Piper; Van Swearingen; Aquilla Whitaker; Jeremiah Williams; David Williamson; and James Wittens.
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 8 EDraper correspondence, 1844-1861. Filling the first half of the volume are letters, 1846-1860, written by James W. Biddle, Pittsburgh newspaper editor, who was actively interested in Draper's career. The first husband of Biddle's mother had been John Boone (1745-1773), a first cousin of Daniel, and as a much younger man Biddle had been in Green Bay in the period 1816-1819 as a contractor to supply provisions for the troops at Fort Howard. Not only did Biddle aid Draper in his collecting projects; he also enjoyed discussing a wide spectrum of topics. His historical comments dealt not only with Brady but with such other men and events as Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, HarMarch Denny, the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Iroquois Indian Logan and his charge against Michael Cresap, the excavations of Forts Duquesne and Pitt (1854), Judge Charles Reaume in Green Bay, the Black Hawk War, and the writings of Brantz Mayer. Biddle also made numerous allusions to current affairs, including Pennsylvania and national politics, education, literature, and spiritualism (1851), and gave a humorous account of a journey by railroad (1854). Several letters pertain to his role in Draper's purchase of the Rea papers. Miscellaneous letters, 1844-1861, in chronological arrangement fill the Susan Wetzel to Nathan Goodrich and of Christica Wetzel to Jacob Wolf are found in miscellaneous notes by Draper at the close of this volume.
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 9 EDraper correspondence, 1862-1891, mainly incoming letters chronologically arranged. Some were written by members of the Brady and Wetzel families, but in content the majority pertain to other persons and families, including Absolom Baird; Henry Barber; Isaac Barker; John Boreman; Richard Brashear; John Brown (b. 1785); Jacob Byerly; John Crawford and his sons Jefferson, John Lynn, and William Jennings; the Crow family; Abram and John Cuppy; Israel Dodge; James and John Downing; John Edgar; Edward Evans; Johnathan [sic] Evans and his son Ephraim; Samuel Ewalt and his wife Anna; John Franklin (1749-1831) and his wives Lydia Doolittle and Abigail Bidlach and their children; Harmar Greathouse and his sons Daniel, Harmon, Isaac, and Jonathan; Peter Henry; William Ives (d. 1832), his wives Priscilla Israel, Drusilla Brady, and Sarah McCoy, and their descendants; Nicholas McIntyre and his sons Alexander, Isaac, James and John; Thomas Maddin and his son William Israel Maddin; Kinzie Polley; John Simrall (Sumrall); Philip Six (Sicks); Samuel Sprott; William Stoops, and the captivity of his wife Jenny and their son; Richard Taylor; James Wells (1748-1814) and his wife Rachel Brown; and Thomas Woolford (d. 1802). A brief letter (June 1862) by Thomas Sully refers to his efforts to locate a portrait of Cornplanter, and a letter by Mrs. O.G. Foard contains anecdotes about Peter S. Ney. Printed newspaper articles include one on Joseph Worley, with mention of his brother Jacob and Lewis Wetzel; and another describing in romantic style the life of Lydia Boggs, who married first Moses Shepherd and later Daniel Cruger. Copies of several obituaries and references to the marriages of Susan Wetzel to Nathan Goodrich and of Christica Wetzel to Jacob Wolf are found in miscellaneous notes by Draper at the close of this volume.
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 10 ECorrespondence, 1845-1849, principally incoming letters chronologically arranged by Draper, accompanied by a few interviews and other notes. Opening the volume are two indexes by Draper, the first to names of correspondents and persons interviewed, the second to names of persons and events discussed. Most of the papers relate to Brady, Lewis Wetzel, Daniel Brodhead, William Cooke (Cook), William Crawford, Simon Girty, William Thompson, Ebenezer Zane, and to events in western Pennsylvania, northwestern Virginia, and Kentucky from 1774 to 1794, but there are allusions to episodes as early as 1755 and as late as 1815. A few papers of interest were not specifically indexed: a portion of a ballad on William Crawford's campaign (1782) found in a letter (1843) by William Marshall Anderson; a Brodhead family genealogical chart compiled and sent by J. Romeyn Brodhead (1847); an original page of genealogical records for William Cooke's family clipped from the family Bible and two original pages of Cooke's military accounts for 1779-1780 and 1783, donated (1849) by Jacob Cooke. Also furnished by Cooke were statements and narratives gathered from William P. Brady, John Cooke, Robert Lyons, and James Solomon (Salman, Salaman). The many other Brady and Wetzel contemporaries for whom there are fewer references in the index include John Armstrong; Henry Bird; Daniel Boone; Hawkins Boone; John Boyd; Joseph Brant; John Brady; Thomas Bullitt (Bullett); John Caldwell; Robert Callender; George Rogers Clark; John Connolly; Cornplanter; John and Thomas Doyle; Matthew Elliott; George and John Gibson; George, James, and Thomas Girty; Edward Hand; James and William Harrod; William Irvine; John Killbuck, Sr.; William La Mothe; Daniel Leet; William Linn; the Iroquois chief Logan; Benjamin Logan; Alexander Lowry; James and Robert Lyon; Robert Magaw; Robert McClellan; John and Samuel McColloch; Alexander McKee; John McKinley; James Morrison; Dorsey Pentecost; Captain Pipe; Oliver Pollock; William Plunkett; David Rogers; John Rose (Baron Rosenthal); James Ross; David Shepherd; James Smith (of Kentucky); Captain Snake; Joseph Solomon (Salman, Salaman); William Trent; Bethuel Vincent; Bezaleel Wells; the Wetzels (Jacob, John Sr. and Jr., and Martin); White Eyes; David Williamson; and Archibald and George Woods. Draper's notes contain selected entries from the journals of the Continental Congress and from John Sanderson's Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 11 ECorrespondence, 1843-1850, mainly incoming letters arranged chronologically by Draper, and also indexed by correspondent and by subject. Similar in character to the material in Volume 10E, these letters pertain principally to Brady, the Wetzels, and their many contemporaries involved in border warfare. The following names are listed in the subject index, but references vary greatly in the amount of information given on each: John and Nathaniel Beasley, Joseph Beeler, Robert Benham, James Benton, Charles Bilderbock, Henry Bird, Lewis Bonnett, Sr. and Jr., Daniel Boone, Hawkins Boone, Jacob Bowman, William P. Brady, Daniel Brodhead, Basil Brown, John Burkhart, Richard Butler, Stephen Calvin, George Rogers Clark, Edward Cook, William Crawford, Samuel Davis, John Dawson, Vachel and Kinzie Dickerson, Francis Dunlevy, Robert Elliott, John Evans, John Fitch, John Gibson, George and Simon Girty, John Grist, Peter Grove, William Harrod, Silas Hedges, John Hicks, William Hogg, Henry Jolly, Simon Kenton, Ephraim Kibby, John Knight, Peter Lee, William Linn, Archibald Lochry, John McCaddon, Samuel McColloch, Angus and John McDonald, Lachlan McIntosh, Robert McLellan, William McMahon, John Madison, Nathaniel Massie, Isaac Meeks, John Minter, William O'Bannon, James Parrell, Dorsey Pentecost, William Plunkett, Adam and Andrew Poe, Felix Renick, David Rogers, Ezekiel Rose, Samuel Shannon, David Shepherd, Evan and Isaac Shelby, John Slover, Zadock Springer, John Stevenson, Conrad Stoup (Stroop), Lucas Sullivant, Richard Swan, Andrew Swearingen, George Tush, George Vallandigham, Frederick Vernon, John Vincent, Peter Waggoner, Cornelius Washburn, Anthony Wayne, Jacob White, David and John Williamson, and Asa Zane. The material by and about Peter Grove duplicates that found in volumes 7 E and 8 E. In Draper's index the topic “Indian warfare and other border events” contains mention of numerous family surnames in connection with various Indian depredations; persons not previously mentioned in this volume about whom references can be located through this one topical entry include James Boggs, James Brenton (Brinton), Lewis Clock, John Fitch, Philip Klingensmith and his sons Peter and Gasper, John Madison (d. 1783), Thomas Mills, Peter Spicer, and Simon Uber.
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 12 E
: Notebook, 1855, about Samuel Brady and border events in Pennsylvania, compiled by Samuel J. Rea. Introductory material added by Draper includes a succinct statement of the terms of his purchase of Rea's papers on Brady in 1856 followed by Draper's list of informants and his index to the contents of the notebook. The bulk of the notes he described by a chronological table under Brady's name. Unrelated to Brady and found in the closing pages of the notebook are an outline of ancient history and notations on law written by Rea, which appear to predate his research on the noted scout.
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 13 E
: Samuel J. Rea's scrapbook, 1855, containing his twenty-six newspaper articles published in the Beaver (Pennsylvania) Argus. Three constituted a biographical series on Andrew and Adam Poe. A much longer series of twenty-three chapters or installments, entitled “Incidents in the Early History of the West,” was devoted to the history from 1679 to 1806 of the Beaver River region embracing parts of Allegheny, Beaver, and Washington counties, Pennsylvania. Interposed between portions of chapter 20 is a section of Rea's manuscript notes about Brady, including copies of letters and statements Rea had acquired from Draper, Thomas Nicholson, John Shane, William Wilkins, and a few published sources. Annotations by Draper accompany a few of the newspaper clippings. This volume was also purchased by Draper from Rea in 1856.
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 14 E
: A volume composed of two of Draper's small pocket memoranda books. In these Draper jotted down notes on expenditures and travel arrangements for his research trips in 1858 and 1860, data on Brady's life from 1781 to 1795, and miscellany.
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 15 E
: Newspaper and periodical articles, 1818-1889, and two pamphlets, gathered by Draper. Two primary topics are discussed in the articles: Samuel Brady's life and the erection of a monument to John Brady in Muncy, Pennsylvania. One of the pamphlets commemorates the unveiling of this Brady monument in 1879, the other contains a funeral oration given for Hugh Brady in 1851. One biographical article is devoted to William Butler.
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Series: Brady and Wetzel Papers: 16 EScrapbook of newspaper clippings primarily on the Revolution in the West, a volume which Draper compiled and frequently cited in many bibliographical notes as “Scrapbook No. III.” Most of the articles were published in the 1850-1859 decade, but a few are of scattered dates 1840 to 1883. Although a few pertain specifically to Brady, the majority concern an assortment of contemporary persons and events such as Robert Benham, the Shawnee chief Black Fish, the battle of Blue Licks, Daniel and Nathan Boone, Joseph Brant, the Seneca chief Cornplanter, Christopher Gist, James Harrod, Simon Kenton, the Iroquois Logan, James McDonald (b. 1748, and a veteran of the battle of Bunker Hill), Daniel Morgan, Benjamin Netherland, the battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, John Sallings, Susannah Smart, Tecumseh, Benjamin Ulin, Frederick Wadsworth, the battle of Wyoming, Noah Zane, and Zane's Trace. Other articles contain reminiscences (1853) by John Poage about his early settlement in Greenup County, Kentucky; copies of letters from John Armstrong and Daniel Morgan to Richard Butler in 1782-1783 and from Edmund Randolph to Isaac Shelby in 1794; and accounts of historical society activities in Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania in the 1840s and 1850s.
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