Summary Information
Draper Manuscripts: Newspaper Extracts
1748-1840
Draper Mss JJ
0.8 cubic feet (4 volumes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Notebooks containing copies, excerpts, and summaries of articles on Western history compiled by Draper between 1846 and 1848 almost entirely from eighteenth-century newspapers, most of which he found in the Baltimore Library Company and Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, Maryland, and in the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also included are extracts and copies from journals and letters of Conrad Weiser and George Croghan.
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 Out of date and offensive language may be present.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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Scope and Content Note
The topics covered in this series include various military campaigns in the American Revolution, in particular the Battle of Point Pleasant (1774) and Dunmore's Expedition (1774); the development and fall of the state of Franklin; the various campaigns and expeditions of military leaders and heroes from 1774 to 1840; the American Revolution border disputes with the French, Spanish, and English; and hostilities with the Indians, especially the Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Creek.
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: 1 JJ (Volume 1)Five notebooks bound together: 1) Book A contains extracts from the Maryland Gazette, 1752-1759, with numerous items about George Washington's frontier activities in the years 1753-1755. 2) Book B includes extracts, 1756, 1778, including entries on the battle of Point Pleasant in 1774. Among Draper's sources were the Maryland Gazette, 1774-1778; the New York Gazette or Weekly Post Boy, 1771-1773; the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1756-1763; the Pennsylvania Journal, 1767, 1774; and two entitled Virginia Gazette (Purdie and Dixon's and Rind's), 1758-1774. 3) Book C contains entries entirely from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1755-1761, and is devoted primarily to Cherokee affairs. 4) Book D, on the same major topic as Book C, is composed of selections from the Maryland Gazette, 1759-1760. 5) Book E, with entries also from the Maryland Gazette, 1760-1768, contains additional Cherokee material as well as extracts on military and Indian affairs in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio in the 1763-1768 period.
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Series: 2 JJ (Volume 2)Six notebooks bound together: 1) Book A contains extracts from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1761, 1764, dealing chiefly with Cherokee depredations and other affairs on the southwestern frontier. 2) Book B contains entries also from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1764-1771. Topics include expeditions against the Indians led by Henry Bouquet and John Bradstreet; Pontiac, George Croghan, and Thomas Stirling in Illinois; Cherokee affairs; and the Regulators in North Carolina. 3) Book C contains entries from the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1771-1775, and the Maryland Journal, 1773-1776. Some articles relate to the Regulators, others to Dunmore's War (1774) and Richard Henderson's Transylvania purchase (1775). 4) Book D was copied wholly from the Maryland Journal, 1776-1780, and deals chiefly with Cherokee affairs. 5) Book E was devoted primarily to Dunmore's War, with articles copied or abstracted from the Pennsylvania Packet, 1774-1776. 6) Book F contains extracts from the Pennsylvania Packet, 1776-1779, 1785. Entries for the earlier years deal with George Morgan and the Indiana Land Company and with many frontier Indian hostilities and military maneuvers. The 1785 entries all pertain to the Kentucky convention of 1784-1785.
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Series: 3 JJ (Volume 3)Seven notebooks bound together: 1) Book A, transcripts from the Maryland Journal, 1781-1782, is concerned largely with border warfare in the South-particularly the battles of Cowpens, Guilford Court House, and Green Spring; the capture by the Americans of Augusta, Georgia; and the frontier defense of Virginia-and the military leaders of these campaigns. A few entries pertain to the war in New York state, and one contains a British commentary on the patriotism of American women in British-held Charleston, South Carolina. 2) Book B, with entries also from the Maryland Journal, 1782-1785, contains material on William Crawford's defeat; the battle of Blue Licks; the movement for new states in Kentucky and Tennessee, including the State of Franklin; the Tory William Cunningham; and Indian affairs in Kentucky and elsewhere with references to Joseph Brant, Cornplanter, and Josiah Harmar. 3) Book C contains entries entirely from the Pennsylvania Packet, 1785, dealing chiefly with affairs in Kentucky and the State of Franklin. 4) Book D, also from the Pennsylvania Packet, 1785-1787, pertains to a variety of Indian and military affairs in which such men as Josiah Harmar, Thomas Hutchins, Simon Kenton, Benjamin Logan, James Robertson, John Sevier, and Robert Todd were involved. Some selections deal with Chickasaw difficulties and include a speech by Piomingo. 5) Book E is composed of extracts from the Maryland Gazette, 1785-1787, covering a wide range of topics: the move for Kentucky separation from Virginia; Indian hostilities throughout the western frontier; Elijah Clarke and the Creek Indians; George Rogers Clark's Wabash expedition; Joseph Brant's return from England and his attempts at Indian pacification; the visit of Cornplanter and the Crane to Pittsburgh; the State of Franklin; and Spanish influence in the West. 6) Book F containing extracts from the Maryland Journal, 1787-1788, deals with varied subjects, such as relations with the Cherokee and Creek nations; Elijah Clarke; immigration to Kentucky; Indian attacks in Kentucky and Ohio; problems with the Spanish over navigation of the Mississippi River; the collapse of the State of Franklin; and imprisonment of John Sevier. 7) Book G is also composed of notes mainly from the Maryland Journal, 1788-1791. Many pertain to topics and persons noted in previous volumes-Indian hostilities, Elijah Clarke and the Creeks, navigation of the Mississippi, Joseph Brant, John Sevier, but there are also extensive references to Shays's Rebellion (1787) and to Josiah Harmar's campaign (1790). From the Ohio State Journal (November 25, 1825) Draper also included a substantial obituary for Daniel Shays.
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Series: 4 JJ (Volume 4)Seven notebooks bound together: 1) Book A contains notes from the Pittsburg [sic] Gazette, 1825, and other sources, both manuscript and printed, some dated as late as 1840, on miscellaneous topics. The contents include an account of Josiah Harmar's campaign (1790) by David H. Morris; biographical material on the Butler brothers, Richard and Thomas; a sketch of Isaac Shelby written by his son Alfred; copies of letters, 1779-1782, of Benjamin Biggs; and lists of general staff and field officers of the Army of the United States during the Revolution. 2) Book B contains notes on varied topics from three sources: letters and journals, 1748-1758, by and about Conrad Weiser and George Croghan copied from manuscripts in the American Philosophical Society; articles from the Philadelphia General Advertiser, 1792, concerning Arthur St. Clair's defeat (1791) and Samuel Brady's attack on a party of Delaware Indians near a blockhouse on Beaver Creek, Pennsylvania (1791); and selections from the Columbian Magazine, 1786-1791, concerning David Williamson's attack on the Moravian Indians (1782), William Crawford's defeat and death (1782), and John Sevier and the affairs of the State of Franklin. 3) Book C contains notes and articles from the Maryland Journal, 1791. The majority concern St. Clair's campaign and defeat, but there are briefer references to numerous other western persons such as Samuel Brady, Joseph Brant, Richard Butler, John Butterick, Cornplanter, Zachariah Cox, Josiah Harmar, John Harris, Red Jacket, and Adam Stephen. 4) Book D, containing extracts from the Maryland Journal, 1792-1793, includes additional articles on St. Clair's expedition as well as reports on widespread Indian threats and hostilities throughout the western frontiers. 5) Book E, containing extracts from the Maryland Journal, 1793-January, 1794, is concerned with Indian depredations, military preparations for an offensive drive by Anthony Wayne, John Sevier's Hightower campaign against the Cherokees, and George Rogers Clark's proposed expedition against New Orleans and the Spanish settlements in the Mississippi River Valley. 6) Book F, containing entries from the Maryland Journal, February-September, 1794, deals primarily with Wayne's campaign, Clark's projected foray against New Orleans; Kentucky demands for federal protection of the frontiers and enforcement of Mississippi navigation rights; Elijah Clarke's intrigues with the French to mount an expedition against the Spanish in East Florida; and British relations with Joseph Brant and the Six Nations. 7) Book G primarily contains selections from the Maryland Journal, August-December, 1794, with three items from other sources published in January, 1795. Most entries deal with subjects noted in Book F, but there are also articles concerning the Cherokee Indians and the Nickajack campaign.
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