Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 16 F
Scope and Content Note: Papers gathered by Draper on a few of Brant's contemporaries. Included are Draper's copies of genealogical records and family recollections of Daniel Claus transcribed in 1879 from originals in possession of Claus's grandson Warren Claus, followed by correspondence and notes about Alexander and John Harper, Augustine Prevost and the Prevost family, and the Seneca chiefs Cornplanter and Governor Blacksnake. Among these papers are an unfinished manuscript describing the Harper family's experiences in the Revolution in New York and migration to Ohio in 1798 by Mrs. Malvina P. Sherwood, granddaughter of Alexander Harper, and a detailed autobiography of Governor Blacksnake as related to and recorded by Benjamin Williams, about 1845-1846.