Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 18 F
Scope and Content Note: Draper's copies of drafts and notes for unfinished biographies of Molly Brant and Sir William Johnson, written by Dudley Burwell (1800-1876), an attorney in Little Falls, New York, who was a great admirer of “Miss Molly.” Accompanying the copies are letters concerning loans of the original papers to Draper in 1877 and 1883 by the lawyer for the Burwell executors, who were bound by Burwell's will to destroy all of his writings. Burwell's manuscripts contain little on Molly Brant after 1777. The text contains many allusions to her parents, her brother Joseph, her children, and the children of Sir William's first wife.