Draper Manuscripts: Joseph Brant Papers, 1710-1879

Container Title
Volume   15
Reel   17
Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 15 F
Scope and Content Note: Draper correspondence with descendants of some of Brant's associates and with local historians of the Mohawk Valley, followed by Draper's notes and copies taken from the papers of Sir William Johnson and George Clinton in the New York State Library at Albany, and a small group of original letters dated mainly in the 1860s concerning claims of members of Johnson's family to lands in New York state. One section of Draper's correspondence and notes relates to John Norton and his leadership of the Mohawks in the War of 1812.