Summary Information

Title: Draper Manuscripts: Brady and Wetzel Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1757-1891

Creators:

• Brady, Samuel, 1756-1795
• Wetzel, Lewis, 1763-1808

Call Number: Draper Mss E; Micro 1034

Quantity: 2.2 cubic feet (16 volumes) and 3 reels of microfilm

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

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.

Note:

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 Out of date and offensive language may be present.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.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-draper00e

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