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Series: 27 J (Volume 27)
: Draper correspondence on several topics and original papers, 1778-1809, of John Girault, an officer in the Illinois Regiment. Girault's documents pertain only to his Virginia military service, 1778-1781, and to his civil and militia offices in the Mississippi Territory, 1794-1809, Among these papers are a list of men in Girault's company, 1778-1779; commissions signed by William C.C. Claiborne, George Rogers Clark, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, Patrick Henry, Winthrop Sargent, John Todd, and Robert Williams; letters (1802-1803) by Claiborne and one by Albert Gallatin (1809); and minutes of a meeting in Natchez protesting the seizure of the American ship Chesapeake by the English ship Leopard in 1807. Two silhouettes of Girault (27 J 84) were furnished by a grandson. Among subjects discussed in Draper's correspondence are the site of Fort Jefferson; the Miami Wea band's fort and village on the Wabash River; Isaac Bowman; and Angus and Archibald Cameron.
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