Draper Manuscripts: Draper's Notes, 1841-1868

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Series: 15 S (Volume 15)
Scope and Content Note: Selections, extracts, and notes from Continental Congress records, 1777-1786 (pages 1-76), and from incoming correspondence, circa 1767-1779 (pages 77-232) in the papers of George Washington, copied by Draper in the archives of the State Department in Washington, D.C., in November 1860. In both sections many of the papers pertain to Brant and the Revolution in the Mohawk: Valley, but there is also material on land claims in the early 1770s by Washington, John Connolly, and others; the proposed Ohio colony of Banataria; Richard Henderson's Transylvania purchase; Dunmore's War (1774); Clark's Vincennes expedition (1779); the treaty of the Great Miami (1786); and other military affairs in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Ohio.