Draper's notes, correspondence, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Brant and frontier events, 1780-1783. Three-quarters of the volume are devoted to episodes in 1780, with emphasis on the battle of Stone Arabia and the death of John Brown (October 19), and to the various captivities of Alexander Harper, Jasper Parish, James Pemberton, Charles and Elias Snyder, and J.S. and Tunis Vrooman. Only a few items relate to the battle of the Conashaugh or Raymondskill (April) and to Robert Van Rensselaer's expedition (October), but among these is an original letter (October 19, 1780) written by Van Rensselaer to George Clinton to report a skirmish. Rufus A. Grider provided Draper with original pen drawings of St. Johnsville, Fort Paris, and Fort Plain and two watercolors of the rock monument at the Stone Arabia battlefield.

Papers are quite sparse for topics in 1781-1783: Brant's expedition to Ohio and Kentucky (1781), raids on Little Falls (1782) and Oswego (1783), his attitude toward peace negotiations (1783), and the genesis of his idea for an Indian confederacy. Copies of a few letters by Brant are scattered among the papers; those in 1780 were declarations of his policy toward prisoners, and two in 1783 addressed to Philip Schuyler concerned peace negotiations. In letters or clippings there is brief biographical information about several other participants in some of these events: John Abeel (Abeil, O'Bail), Indian trader and father of the Seneca chief Cornplanter; Samuel Clockstone; St. Leger Cowley; Jacob Glen; Isaac Patchin and his son David; Frederick and Jacob Salmon; Johan Peter Wagner (b. 1722) and his son of the same name (1750-1816).