Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 1 F
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Draper correspondence and notes, accompanied by several clipped or transcribed biographical articles about Brant. Opening the volume is a page of fragmentary notes outlining Draper's introduction for his biography.

Several major topics are covered by more detailed notes and letters: Brant's ancestry and his relationship to other eighteenth-century Mohawk chiefs, especially Old Abraham, Little Abraham, Hendrick (known as King Hendrick), and Nicoles (known as Nickus Brant); Brant's boyhood and education prior to 1763; his sister Mary, customarily known as Molly; his third wife Catharine Croghan; and his later protégé, John Norton. A few notes and articles concern the broader subject of Indian education under the auspices of Christian mission schools.

Among the printed articles are several wood engravings: portraits of four chiefs of the Six Nations who visited London in 1710 (accompanied by copies of their pictographic signatures and by a ballad inspired by the event); a portrait of Brant (based on the painting by Romney); and a sketch of the Mohawk church near Brantford, Ontario.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 2 F
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Mainly papers relating to Indian affairs in New York and to Brant's life, 1763-1776. Draper's notes include bibliographical references to the Devil's Hole massacre (1764) and a bibliographical chronology on Mohawk negotiations and military participation in 1776.

Other notes and correspondence give information on several topics: Brant's participation in the war against the Susquehanna Delawares (1764); his residences and other sites associated with him in the Mohawk Valley; his trip to England (1775-1776); American attempts to secure Canada for the patriot cause, including the intelligence mission of John Brown (d. 1780), the siege of Fort St. John (September 1775), and the battle of the Cedars (May 1776) near Montreal.

For a few Americans serving in the Canadian campaign there are biographical or genealogical notes and documents: Ezekiel Brown; John McKinstry, his wife Elizabeth Knox, and their children; Jonathan Maynard and his wife Lois Eaton; Richard Montgomery; Adiel Sherwood (1749-1824); James Wesson; and Benjamin Whitaker. Two clippings discuss Indians in freemasonry.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 3 F
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Mainly notes and correspondence on New York border warfare and Brant's activities during 1777. The majority of the papers, including several poems, pertain to the battle of Oriskany (August 6), in which General Nicholas Herkimer was mortally wounded; many newspaper clippings detail the centennial commemoration in 1877 and the subsequent erection of a memorial monument to Herkimer near the battle site. Other notes and letters relate to a meeting of Brant and Herkimer (June), the battle of Sidney Plains (June), Barry St. Leger's expedition against Fort Stanwix (August), and the capture of the scout John Jenkins (November).

Many names are mentioned in the accounts, but those for whom there is specific biographical or genealogical information include: Ebenezer Cox; John Dusler; Peter J. and William Dyggert (Deichert); John Frey; George, Henry, and Jacob G. Klock; James Mellen (Holliston, Massachusetts, 1753-1834), James Mellen (Hopkinton, Massachusetts, 1739-1812); James Mellen (Hudson, New York, d. 1839); John More and his wife Betsey Taylor; Isaac Paris; and Joseph Wagner. A few notes concern Frederick Follett, who survived wounds and scalping in 1779, and other members of the Follett family.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 4 F
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The first of two volumes of papers on New York frontier events in 1778. Draper's chronological notes on Brant's movements are followed by letters and related materials on particular persons and events all in New York, with the exception of the attack on the Wyoming settlement in Pennsylvania. Topics include: the battle of Cobleskill (May); Indian destruction and massacres at Springfield, Andrustown, and Wyoming (July); German Flats (September); Kyle (Chyle) Settlement, Squalk Settlement, and Cherry Valley (November); the captivities of Jacob Eckler, of Jacob and John Lambert, and of John and Sebastian Shaul; Brant's earlier friendships with the families of Henry Eckler, John Sleeper, and John Tunnicliff and anecdotes about his conduct toward them in 1778.

Scattered through the volume are copies of only a few contemporary letters (1778) on military matters written by Abraham Ten Broeck and Goose Van Schaick to Edward Hand, by Robert Cochran to John Stark, and by Charles Smith to Brant; one excerpt from an anonymous correspondent reported on the retaliatory expedition by William Butler and Pennsylvania troops against the Indian towns of Unadilla and Anaguaga in October.

Papers concerning the battle at Wyoming include collected evidence that Brant was not present, letters about the conduct of the young Tory Parshall Terry Jr., towards his patriot family, reminiscences (1830) of the attack by David Allen with additional commentary by Henry Knapp, and a Dewey family narrative (1868) which tells not only of the escape of Joseph Dewey and part of his family from Wyoming but also of the migration of his sons Joel and Joshua to the Ohio River region and their part in the founding of Belleville, West Virginia, in 1784-1786.

Numerous newspaper clippings (1878) describe the centennial observance of the massacre at Andrustown.

Throughout Draper's correspondence many settlers and their families were mentioned; among those for whom there are varying quantities of biographical or genealogical data are: Jedediah Beach; Benjamin Cory and his wife Mehitable; James Ferguson, his son James, and the latter's wife Jane Young; John Horton and his wife Deborah Terry; John House; Robert Kelly and his son James; Thomas Klumph and his wife Margaret Davis, Gabriel Long; John McKown and his son William; John Reese and his daughter Janey, wife of Gershom Smith; Matthias and Sebastian Shaul; John Sleeper and his son, Jonathan; Peter Staring and his sons George and Peter; Parshall Terry Sr., and his wife Deborah Clark; Jacob Tygart; and the Wasson family: George, his wife Agnes Sullivan, John, and Thomas; and James Young.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 5 F
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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).

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 6 F
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The first of two volumes centered primarily about General John Sullivan's expedition against the Iroquois in New York during the summer of 1779, a campaign which culminated in a defeat of the Indians and Loyalists in the battle of Newtown (August 29).

The first half of Volume 6 F contains a section of chronological and bibliographical notes not only on Sullivan's campaign but also on Brant's movements during the entire year and on the battle of Minisink (treated more fully in volumes 8 F and 9 F); a series of detailed letters by a fellow collector and researcher on Sullivan, John S. Clark of Auburn, New York; a copy of a journal of, the campaign (June 25-August 29) by Richard Cartwright (1759-1815); copies of a few contemporary letters from the Hand papers; copies of pension applications describing the campaign; and miscellaneous clippings, one containing a letter (January, 1779) by Samuel Clyde, another an article about Long Wolf, one of Brant's warriors.

The entire second half of this volume is composed of a manuscript article on the Revolution in New York by Charles P. Avery. Although Brant and Sullivan are treated in detail, Avery also discussed Mohawk tribal and clan organization Indian customs, other Indian leaders such as Red Jacket, and events before and after the Sullivan expedition. Also included is a manuscript poem entitled “The Indian Hunter.” Draper purchased Avery's papers from his sister in 1875-1876.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 7 F
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Miscellaneous papers centered about Sullivan's campaign: letters to Draper, extracts copied from contemporary newspapers and later published sources, copies of a few pension statements, and clippings. One group of letters relates to the family and military service of John Cantine, and another group to Robert Shankland's family, particularly the captivity (1779) of his son Thomas.

One newspaper clipping contains a portion of a diary by Nathaniel Webb written during the campaign. A series of news articles recorded John S. Clark's research on Indians and his retracing of Sullivan's route in 1879 and another group described in prose and poetry the centennial commemoration of the battle of Newtown and the erection of a monument to Sullivan (1879). Among the clippings are small wood engravings or woodcuts depicting Brant, Sullivan, and the Sullivan monument.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 8 F
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The first of two volumes of Draper correspondence primarily about the battle of Minisink (July 22, 1779) and earlier raids led by Brant in the Delaware River area of southeastern New York. More than a third of the letters relate to Brant's attack on the Minisink community on July 20, in which the John (Johannes) Decker home was burned, Decker was wounded, and schoolmaster Jeremiah Van Auken was murdered. A few letters concern a raid in the previous year (1778) on the Peenpack settlement (later named Cuddebackville). The battle of Minisink, a Pyrrhic victory for Brant and his Indians and Tories over the Orange County militia, is the major topic of the remaining papers.

Correspondence, plus a few pension statements and newspaper clippings, contains biographical and genealogical information on families of settlers and on several military men. Among the most prominently discussed in addition to the Decker and Van Auken families are: Daniel, Joseph, and Samuel Harker; John Hathorn; Samuel Meeker; Solomon Middaugh; John Poppino; Benjamin Vail; Anthony Westbrook; and Gabriel Wisner. A manuscript genealogy tracing the ancestry of Moses Phillips, descendant of George Phillips (d. 1664), emigrant from England to Massachusetts in 1630, is among the letters. Many members of the Carpenter, Cuddeback, Van Etten, Van Flett, and Westfall families are also mentioned. Draper's copy of a poem (1836) by Alfred B. Street and a few articles on the Minisink centennial (1879) relate to later commemorations of these events.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 9 F
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Additional Draper correspondence on the battle of Minisink and its participants, supplemented by a few interviews and by many newspaper clippings. Several letters concern Daniel Myers, credited with feats of exceptional marksmanship and bravado during the battle. A larger body of papers-letters to Draper and copies of Revolutionary correspondence-discusses John Wood's military service, his capture during the battle, his subsequent years of captivity, and his eventual release. The majority of persons and surnames listed under Volume 8 F are also mentioned in 9 F.

Other papers of note include copies of two letters by Brant (July 29, 1779, and August 4, 1793), a copy of a long poem penned soon after the battle by Uriah Terry, and an account of the battle based on recollections of Jonathan Bailey (1745-1814). The newspaper clippings were written primarily during the centennial; they include biographical articles on Brant and on several of the heroes among his opponents, and also list names of many of the other soldiers and descendants.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 10 F
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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).

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 11 F
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Draper's bibliographical and chronological notes on Brant's career, 1784-1793, accompanied by correspondence, clippings, and other documentation. Major topics considered are: the Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1784); Brant's second trip to England (1785-1786); his mission to the Indian tribes in the South (1787); his efforts (1792-1793) to negotiate a permanent Indian-white boundary and a peace treaty between the Indians and the United States; his relations with other Indian leaders such as Red Jacket and Cornplanter; his concept and promotion of Indian confederacy; and his residency near the Grand River, Ontario.

Original documents include: a list (1788) of appointments and pensions in the Indian Department of Canada signed by John Johnson and Lord Dorchester (formerly Sir Guy Carleton); two letters (September 10, 1792 and January 23, 1793) by Brant on treaty negotiations and on the land claims of the children of Sir William Johnson and Molly Brant, both addressed to George Clinton; and a record of births and marriages of three of Sir William's daughters, compiled and signed (1796) by one of them, Magdalene Johnson Ferguson. There are also copies of several other letters by Brant, all of which Draper located in private ownership. Draper copied extensively not only from eighteenth-century newspapers, but also from a volume of letters describing a tour of Upper and Lower Canada in 1792 and 1793 by an unnamed Englishman, a volume loaned to Draper by Alpheus Todd, the librarian of the Library of Parliament in Canada.

Newspaper clippings (1850) include another diary in 1793 written by Joshua Hathaway describing his trip from Vermont to the Indian Council at Niagara by way of Montreal and Kingston. A small portrait sketch of Arthur St. Clair illustrates another clipping.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 12 F
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Draper's notes on the later years of Brant's life, 1794-1807, accompanied by papers of Brant and by newspaper clippings about the Brant memorial erected and unveiled in Brantford, Ontario, in 1886.

Two original letters written by Brant (March 15, 1796 and April 18, 1797) discuss land claims and other business, and a third letter (March 6, 1806) was a personal communication to William Claus. Copies of speeches (1796 and 1803) and of Brant correspondence Draper obtained from other collectors and from a Brant relative, Mrs. Kate Kerr. These letters pertain to Brant's interest in land claims in the United States and Canada, to the education of two of his sons at Dartmouth College (the successor to Eleazer Wheelock's school which Brant had attended), and to disagreements over the Mohawk tract on the Grand River and dissatisfaction with Brant's leadership. Among these copies are letters written by Brant to Joseph Chew (1796), William Claus (1802), George Clinton (1799), the Earl of Moira (1802), Thomas Morris (1797), Oliver Phelps (1800-1803), Timothy Pickering (1794), Philip Schuyler (1795), Stephen Van Rensselaer (1800), and James Wheelock (1801-1802); and letters received by Brant from Hendrick Aupaumut (1807), Sir John Johnson (1801), and Robert Liston (1797).

Woodcut sketches of some of the bronze sculptures on the Brant memorial and of Percy Wood, the sculptor, illustrate the newspaper clippings about the monument.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 13 F
Scope and Content Note: Mainly Draper interview notes, correspondence, and copies of documents relating to Joseph and Molly Brant and their descendants. Correspondence, printed circulars bearing a portrait of Brant, and clippings, 1874-1877, at the beginning of the volume describe the proposal for a Brant memorial supported by both Indians and whites and the fund raising efforts in England and Canada. Most of the papers, however, are interview notes and copies of earlier manuscripts obtained by Draper when he visited Brant's grandchildren and descendants of other Mohawk and Tuscarora Indians in September-October, 1879. In content the material contains extensive genealogical data on the Brant family and touches on many facets of Joseph's life as boy and adult. There are also numerous references to members of the Johnson, Hill, and Nelles families.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 14 F
Scope and Content Note: Draper correspondence with and about Brant descendants, written mainly in 1877-1878 before he visited and interviewed them in 1879. The letters contain information not only on Brant and his family but also on Adam Crysler; John Deserontyou; Aaron, David, and Isaac Hill; Abram Nelles; John Norton; and Gilbert Tice.

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.

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.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 17 F
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Mainly correspondence, articles, and newspaper clippings on the Revolution in New York state, which Draper obtained from two New York antiquarians, Charles P. Avery (d. 1872) and Martial R. Hulce.

A group of letters from Mary A. Avery details the negotiations for Draper's purchase of her brother's collection in 1875-1876. Avery's papers, gathered in the 1850s, include recollections (1850) of her Indian captivity in 1773 by Mrs. Jane Strope Whitaker, brief reminiscences of Revolutionary events by Betsy Douglas (whose Indian name was Way-Way), Elisha Forsyth, John Gee, Mrs. Caty McMaster Harris, Abel Hart, Jesse McQuigg, Lawrence Mesereau, Nicholas Slighter, and Jonathan Terry.

Draper exchanged many letters with Hulce and also obtained copies and clippings of Hulce's series of newspaper articles. Among the few papers from other sources is a long contemporary poem on the captivity (1779-1780) of John Hilborn.

In this volume biographical references may also be found on many others, including: Benjamin, Cornelius, and Daniel Cole; Jasper Edwards; John Hilborn; Tom Hill; Cyrus Hotchkiss; the Reverend William Johnston; Bryant Kane; William Lyman; John Montour; Josiah Parks; Tom Quick; Joseph Ross; Sebastian Strope; Parshall Terry Sr. and Jr.; Bezaleel Tyler; and Benjamin, John, and Squire Whitaker.

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.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 19 F
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Mainly Draper miscellaneous correspondence, 1849-1887, in chronological arrangement. Most of the letters concern Draper's search for descendants of New Yorkers who had participated in the Revolution and who had known Brant, and there are numerous examples of Draper's use of the questionnaire as a research tool. Although many persons, places, battles, and skirmishes are mentioned, references frequently have little substance.

There is some data on: Amos Draper; the Draper family of Hopedale, Massachusetts, descended from James Draper (d. 1678); John Harper; the captivity of George House and David Schuyler; Horatio Jones, Jane McCrea, and her brother John; Charles Nukerck; John Poppino and his sons Daniel and William; James Rogers; Benjamin Shoemaker and his son Elijah; and Benjamin Vail. A letter (1878) by A.G. Ellis contains brief recollections and comments about Eleazer Williams, the Oneida who claimed to be the “lost Dauphin.” Preceding the correspondence are copies of birth and baptismal records, 1766-1791, for children of Henry Eckler; and a few notes on eighteenth-century Indian affairs, on Brant, and on the battle of Wyoming, all taken from published sources.

A few Kentucky letters (1847 and undated) addressed to Lewis Collins appear to have been bound into this volume by mistake.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 20 F
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Original manuscripts, 1771-1821, principally pertaining to Indian affairs. More than a dozen letters, most of which were addressed to Edward Hand in October-November, 1778, discuss Indian threats arid the massacre at Cherry Valley. Writers included Samuel Campbell, Samuel Clyde, Frederick Fisher, Jelles and John Fonda, James Gordon, Jacob Klock, John Nukerk, and Daniel Whiting. Written in German is a list detailing Henry Eckler's war losses on his house and farm. A petition (1790) to Congress set forth John Wood's claims for compensation for his Indian captivity in 1779. A small section of correspondence of Philip R. Frey contains a few personal and business letters after 1800; of these an 1807 item (20 F, 61) gives an Englishman's view of President Thomas Jefferson's policy toward Great Britain.

Joseph Brant's correspondence, 1784-1799, primarily with government officials and his copies of proceedings and speeches at Indian councils within this period comprise the majority of the papers. Most of the material concerns the problems involved in the Mohawk title to the Grand River land grant and to Brant's policies for its management and sale, but there are also references to other topics: Brant's peace negotiations in 1792-1793, provisions for a resident clergyman for the Mohawk, a smallpox outbreak and subsequent inoculation of the Indians (1796-1797), and land problems of the Chippewa and Missisauga tribes in Canada. Among the many Indian council papers are a speech (1785) signed by the Mohawk John Deserontyou, and a transcript of a meeting in Detroit (1794) with pictographic signatures of the chiefs present. A few items concern descendants of Sir William Johnson and Molly Brant, including a petition (1793) on their New York land claims and a marriage certificate (1798) for Ann Johnson and Hugh Earl signed by the Anglican clergyman John Stuart. One of Joseph Chew's letters to Brant (1794) commented on the excesses of the French Revolution and the execution of the French king and queen.

Among the writers of letters in this volume who have not yet been mentioned are John Askin (1795), Richard Butler (1787), Israel Chapin (1792), A.S. De Peyster (1784), Henry Du Vernet (1781?), Peter Gansevoort (1782), Frederick Haldimand (1783), John Hathorn (1779), Jehu Hay (1785), Guy Johnson (1772, 1774), John Johnson (1787, 1791, 1796), Henry Knox (1793), Abraham Ten Broeck (1779), and Marinus Willett (1777, 1779). Among the recipients in addition to Brant, Frey, and Hand were Butler, Chapin, [William] Claus, George Clinton, William Croghan, Baron Friedrich A. Riedesel, Peter Russell, and John Graves Simcoe.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 21 F
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Original manuscripts, mainly 1800-1840. In Brant's correspondence, 1800-1806, are his drafts and retained copies of letters to William Claus, Alexander Grant, Robert Kerr, Peter Russell, D.W. Smith, and a few others. Among those writing to Brant were Israel Chapin (1800), John Chew (1802), Claus (1800-1804), J. Humphreys (1803), Hannah Jarvis (1803), and N. Le Favre (1801). Although land problems constitute the major topic in the correspondence, letters exchanged by Brant and Claus (1800-1801), proceedings (1802) of a council held by Mohawk women with Brant and other chiefs, and Claus's speech at a council in 1804 all allude to or discuss problems and misfortunes caused by alcoholism among the Indians. Brant's name appears on a list of temporary appointees and pensioners of the Indian Department of Upper Canada in 1802-1803 signed by John Johnson and Peter Hunter. Very few letters and notes relate to the settlement of Brant's estate.

Seemingly unrelated to Brant is a letter (1813) of Alexander Parker to Thomas Posey concerning a military incident involving Anthony Wayne in 1782. A business receipt (1822) was signed by mark of Red Jacket. Other papers after 1815 consist of family letters and legal records by and about Mrs. Margaret Farley, Mrs. Mary Margaret Kerr Clark, and William Johnson Kerr, descendants of Sir William Johnson and Molly Brant. Undated drafts of letters and speeches to Indian councils, many by Brant, fill the final segment of this volume.

Series: Joseph Brant Papers: 22 F
Scope and Content Note: Three small notebooks bound together. The larger one, kept by Solomon L. Pierce and James McCorry on the Cattaraugus Reservation in Erie County, New York, 1835-1846, contains accounts for furs, supplies, and labor interspersed with notes on religious and secular legends obtained from Governor Blacksnake. Two of Draper's small pocket memoranda books contain an assortment of bibliographical references and notations on some of his inquiries concerning Brant.