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Series: 27 S (Volume 27)
: A volume entitled “Memorandum Book A,” containing miscellaneous entries on Revolutionary events and participants, including a list of Revolutionary Army generals. Draper compiled this notebook during the early years of his research, 1839-1843. Most data came from published sources, but he recorded a few oral conversations in Ohio and Mississippi concerning Robert Patterson, William Whitley, Benjamin Cleveland, the battle of King's Mountain, the Indian ambush of Robert Edmundson and the Samuel Neely family in 1787, and Shays's Rebellion in Massachusetts. Many of the other entries demonstrate Draper's interest in such men as Andrew Pickens and George Rogers Clark. Numerous other names and episodes are listed in Draper's index at the beginning of the notebook.
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