Draper Manuscripts: George Rogers Clark Papers, 1756-1891

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Series: 13 J (Volume 13)
Scope and Content Note: Mainly Draper notes and correspondence on frontier settlements and Indian troubles with which Clark was associated in the 1763-1774 period. Sites discussed include Ruddell's Station and Martin's Station in Kentucky and Cresap's farm and Donald Robertson's school in Virginia. Extensive extracts from Robertson's account book, 1756-1773, list the fees he received and the families he served as schoolmaster. Biographical materials pertain not only to Robertson (1717-1783) and his descendants, but also to Isaac Anderson, Henry Bird, Michael Cresap, Joseph Hunter, Angus McDonald, William Macomb, John B. Roy, and George and John Ruddle. A copy of Anderson's journal during Archibald Lochry's expedition down the Ohio River in 1781-1782 and extensive genealogical notes on the Rogers and Clark families in England and Scotland are also found in this volume.