Additional papers on New York frontier events, 1778. The first three-quarters of the volume are devoted to the massacre at Cherry Valley on November 11, and the final section to the earlier battle of Cobleskill on May 30. Although many names are briefly mentioned, Draper singled out only a few persons and families for biographical investigation, some because of his interest in their military service, others because of Brant's prior associations with them or his intercessions for them during these hostilities. Thus there are groups of annotated correspondence on Ichabod Alden, William H. Ballard, Samuel Clyde, William Hickling, Jonathan Maynard, William Shankland and his wife Catherine, Peter Sitts, William Stacy (Stacey), Peter Warmouth (Warmworth, Wormwood) and his son Matthew, Robert Wells and his son John, and Daniel Whiting.

There are two original vouchers for pay (1777) for Robert Allen and William Curtis for recruiting men for Ichabod Alden's regiment in the Continental Army. From Edward Hand's papers Draper copied a few contemporary letters about the Cherry Valley attack written by Samuel Clyde, Jelles Fonda, Frederick Fisher, James Gordon, Jacob Klock, Goose (Gosen) Van Schaick, and Daniel Whiting. Newspaper clippings give detailed accounts of the Cherry Valley centennial observance (1878).