Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes, 1841-1868

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Series: 4 S (Volume 4)
Scope and Content Note: Notes of interviews recorded in 1850 during a trip in western Pennsylvania and adjacent portions of Ohio and New York; in the latter state Draper spent ten days at Iroquois Indian reservations near Cattaraugus conversing with members of the Seneca tribe. Most of this volume pertains to the history of Indian campaigns, 1755-1794, in which the Iroquois participated or of which they had knowledge. There is considerable biographical notice of Joseph Brant, Samuel Brady, George Rogers Clark, Cornplanter, William Crawford, Sir John Johnson, James Potter, and Red Jacket, with briefer references to many other Iroquois leaders.