Draper Manuscripts: George Rogers Clark Papers, 1756-1891

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Series: 3 G (Volume 3)
Scope and Content Note: Newspaper clippings, 1877-1892, on the Cherry Valley massacre (1778), General John Sullivan and his New York campaign of 1779, and the battle of Minisink (1779), accompanied by a pamphlet describing the Minisink centennial (1879). Among the clippings are articles; poems; a speech about William Butler; and extracts from journals written in 1779 by three of Sullivan's officers, James Campbell, Adam Hubley, and James Norris. Newspaper drawings and engravings depict Sullivan, Moses Van Campen, Conesus Lake, an Indian council house, and monuments commemorating the battle of Minisink.