Summary Information

Title: Draper Manuscripts: Daniel Brodhead Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1775-1846

Creator:

• Brodhead, Daniel, 1736-1809

Call Number: Draper Mss H

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (3 volumes)

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:

Papers of Daniel Brodhead, an officer in the Continental Army, who served as an Indian negotiator and as commander of the Western Department, headquartered at Fort Pitt from 1779-1781. Included are correspondence, speeches, and treaty papers, 1775-1781, concerning Indian leaders Big Cat, Captain John Killbuck, Jr., Captain Johnny (also known as Israel), Captain Pipe (Hopocan) and John Montour of the Delaware; Half King (Tanacharison) of the Seneca and Samuel Houston (known as Raven) of the Cherokee; as well as copies of letters from George Washington to Brodhead, and Draper's copy of Brodhead's outgoing correspondence letterbook for 1780-1781.

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 Out of date and offensive language may be present.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-draper00h

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