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Draper Mss G
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Series: 1 G (Volume 1)
: Pamphlets and periodical articles published between 1845 and 1879. Included are biographical accounts of Brant, Red Jacket, Barry St. Leger, and Philip Van Cortlandt; a chapter on Brant's campaigns from 1778 to 1780 from Life and Letters of Richard Cartwright (1876); narratives of the battles of Oriskany and Saratoga and of the siege of Fort Stanwix; a journal of Sullivan's campaign by Tjerck Beckman; histories of the Susquehanna Valley by Charles P. Avery and T.A. Richards; a genealogy of the Frey (Fry, Frye) family by Samuel C. Frey; a description of Brant's home in Burlington, Ontario, by William C. Bryant; and an undated prospectus for a proposed book on the Potawatomi Indians by J.N. Bourassa. Numerous scattered engravings depict Joseph Brant, Peter Gansevoort, Sir William Johnson, W.J. Simcoe Kerr, Barry St. Leger, and Marinus Willett, as well as scenes in the Mohawk and Susquehanna valleys.
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