Series: 3 CC (Volume 3)
Scope and Content Note: Draper notes and correspondence, mainly 1887-1891, on one of his late interests, the history of the Chenoweth family. In his research Draper placed his emphasis on Richard Chenoweth (d. circa 1801), an associate of George Rogers Clark and one of the settlers at Corn Island at Louisville in 1780, his wife Margaret McCarty Chenoweth, their son Thomas who was captured by Indians in 1787, and the Shawnee massacre at Chenoweth's Station in 1789. Included are copies or summaries of records of claims, 1787-1841, submitted to the Virginia legislature and to Congress for compensation to Richard Chenoweth or his heirs for his service in building Fort Nelson at the Falls of the Ohio (Louisville).