Draper Manuscripts: Daniel Boone Papers, 1760-1911

Container Title
Volume   2
Reel   3
Series: Daniel Boone papers: 2 C
Scope and Content Note: Draper correspondence and notes primarily concerning the Boone family's life in Pennsylvania and Daniel's first journeys to Virginia and North Carolina. Among the papers are three original manuscripts: a letter written by Thomas Bullitt to Evan Shelby (1761), a promissory note by John Boone to Myer Josephson (1771), and an undated eighteenth-century petition concerning a proposed division of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, signed by members of the Boone family and more than thirty other residents.