Notes taken by Draper during four periods:

1) interviews gathered in Indiana and Illinois during October 1863 (pages 41-141)

2) notes on Indian affairs, 1770-1774, from Pennsylvania newspapers and on the War of 1812 from Ohio newspapers examined in Cincinnati in September 1864 (pages 142-195)

3) interviews with Simon Girty's daughter, Mrs. Sarah Munger, in Winnebago County, Illinois, in December 1864 (pages 195-230)

4) interviews with Simon Kenton's son William M. Kenton, who visited Draper in Madison in April and June 1865 (pages 231-259).

In addition to biographical and genealogical records and information on the Girty, Kenton, and Munger families, there is also much material on tae Spencer Records family and on Cyrus, Jacob, John, Lewis, and Martin Wetzel, with briefer allusions to many associates and contemporaries of all of these families. Topics range from Dunmore's War in 1774 to the battle at the Raisin River in 1813. An index begun by Draper but never completed precedes the notes.